If you post something at +1 that everyone hates, your post ends up at -1. Net karma: -2
If you post something at +1 that half the moderators think is funny, and half the moderators think is overrated, your post can bounce up and down perpetually, with only the negative votes actually counting toward your karma. If you get 100 mod-ups for being funny and 100 mod-downs for being overrated, net karma: -100.
If you were at the karma cap before, now you're down below most trolls and crapflooders, and can only post twice a day, assuming your IP hasn't been banned.
Considering the number of games where your character is fighting against an evil corporation -- or a future dystopia full of evil corporations -- I don't exactly see a bias toward lower government regulation.
I have seen environmental alarmism in a number of games, as well as some over-the-top examples of pushing multiculturalism, animal liberation, and a few other social causes. Nothing too extreme or preachy though, and certainly less than the biases you can find in movies and typical entertainment TV. More the kind of thing that unintentionally comes from the story creator's own worldview rather than an overt attempt to infuse a political message into the game.
On the other side, it sure seems like most games aren't in favor of gun control!
Yeah, and the game's political agenda already tilts left. You've got the white guilt-inducing natives with smallpox mission, and the mission where you murder 30 zookeepers to free 4 animals and it's considered an act of good.
They coulda tossed gay prostitution in the mix too.
Brilliant comment to make on the day the administration indicts Enron's former CEO. But hey, you've already decided Bush cares more about Enron than about the country, so I'm sure that fact's irrelevant to you.
"OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. herefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts."
Imagine being able to place windows anywhere around your head that you liked, or perhaps all over your room, and then manipulating them by hand rather than by mouse.
Also a little wood ball can come up through a tube and tell you the victim and perpetrator of any murder.
After the dot-com bubble burst, AC/DC were hired as consultants by a number of tech firms. Apparently due to their expertise in getting "back in black".
Why search the literature when you can just patent the wheel? A bunch of lawyers will come around and tell you all about the previous ideas, and you avoid doing even a second of research.
Instead of learning lessons from fiction, how about learning some from real life. Look at the International Space Station. This is the kind of product you are advocating when you advocating internation cooperation in space.
Let's see. Right now it's $5 billion over its US budget. And how many years behind its schedule?
Yeah, and as for the results of international cooperation in space, look at the space station. Late, bloated budget, possibly useless.... cooperation just doesn't work.
Both accusations were very on topic I thought. Captain Crunch's interview was based on his reputation, and that's what he uses to lure teenagers. Fyodor's interview was about security, and illegally violating the security of another's computer is exactly what he is accused of.
Hopefully Slashdot readers saw enough evidence in both cases to realize that these aren't mere trolls. It's true that many trolls get involved in pushing these stories (after all, it's a guaranteed response), but that doesn't mean that there isn't some truth to what is being said.
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Ah yes, the moderation system.
If you post something at +1 that everyone hates, your post ends up at -1. Net karma: -2
If you post something at +1 that half the moderators think is funny, and half the moderators think is overrated, your post can bounce up and down perpetually, with only the negative votes actually counting toward your karma. If you get 100 mod-ups for being funny and 100 mod-downs for being overrated, net karma: -100.
If you were at the karma cap before, now you're down below most trolls and crapflooders, and can only post twice a day, assuming your IP hasn't been banned.
Considering the number of games where your character is fighting against an evil corporation -- or a future dystopia full of evil corporations -- I don't exactly see a bias toward lower government regulation.
I have seen environmental alarmism in a number of games, as well as some over-the-top examples of pushing multiculturalism, animal liberation, and a few other social causes. Nothing too extreme or preachy though, and certainly less than the biases you can find in movies and typical entertainment TV. More the kind of thing that unintentionally comes from the story creator's own worldview rather than an overt attempt to infuse a political message into the game.
On the other side, it sure seems like most games aren't in favor of gun control!
Super Mario Brothers advocates a hardline Stalinist point of view.
Yeah, and the game's political agenda already tilts left. You've got the white guilt-inducing natives with smallpox mission, and the mission where you murder 30 zookeepers to free 4 animals and it's considered an act of good. They coulda tossed gay prostitution in the mix too.
One's special interest is Enron.
Brilliant comment to make on the day the administration indicts Enron's former CEO. But hey, you've already decided Bush cares more about Enron than about the country, so I'm sure that fact's irrelevant to you.
Consensus != Proof See also: flat earth theory, global cooling, spontaneous generation
Sssshhhh.... you might wake up the Chomsky-bots.
never thought i would ever hear anyone describe themselves as a "fat gay nerd" on this site.
Oh c'mon. If there is one site I would pick out as a meeting place for fat gay nerds, slashdot would be it.
This sounds like some other math I read once:
"OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. herefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts."
Probably about as accurate too.
Does this mean the end of their CEO Charles R. Fulweiler's paranoid leftist rants on the company website?
OS/2... 1988-2002. This is shorter than Linux how?
Imagine being able to place windows anywhere around your head that you liked, or perhaps all over your room, and then manipulating them by hand rather than by mouse.
Also a little wood ball can come up through a tube and tell you the victim and perpetrator of any murder.
I don't think that's a popular acronym around here.
If you're into easy listening, I recommend John Zorn.
Linking to personal web pages full of pictures is just cruel.
After the dot-com bubble burst, AC/DC were hired as consultants by a number of tech firms. Apparently due to their expertise in getting "back in black".
Why search the literature when you can just patent the wheel? A bunch of lawyers will come around and tell you all about the previous ideas, and you avoid doing even a second of research.
Why stop at radio stations? How about abandoning all private entities altogether and make everything "public"?
Say, I think I've heard of that idea before...
Instead of learning lessons from fiction, how about learning some from real life. Look at the International Space Station. This is the kind of product you are advocating when you advocating internation cooperation in space. Let's see. Right now it's $5 billion over its US budget. And how many years behind its schedule?
Yeah, and as for the results of international cooperation in space, look at the space station. Late, bloated budget, possibly useless.... cooperation just doesn't work.
I own this thread
Are the drug companies evil this week or not?
The improvement most Slashdot readers would undoubtedly like is lots of links to downloads of pirated anime.
Both accusations were very on topic I thought. Captain Crunch's interview was based on his reputation, and that's what he uses to lure teenagers. Fyodor's interview was about security, and illegally violating the security of another's computer is exactly what he is accused of.
Hopefully Slashdot readers saw enough evidence in both cases to realize that these aren't mere trolls. It's true that many trolls get involved in pushing these stories (after all, it's a guaranteed response), but that doesn't mean that there isn't some truth to what is being said.
Doesn't 'San Mehat' sound like it would be a joke name, like Heywood Jablowme or Hugh G. Rection?
What's San's job at VA, locking the doors whenever he sees the repo man coming?