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Well, you've forgotten about the recent economic downturn. I never realized just how bad it was until a friend told me about a cop who was a friend of theirs. It was so pathetic somehow--with his budget, he could no longer afford donuts...:]
It's multi-player Angband. I've forgotten my elvish, but ang = iron & band = prison/fortress or something. It's where Morgoth was in the First Age of Middle Earth (which is where LotR is set).
Don't ask. Someone made something not unlike that--Falcon's Eye:]
Ironically, I still prefer the command line version. It's just so much easier. I *do* need color, though, so I know which h's I should freak out over, rather than which ones are just wimpy dwarves...:] (the other h's are mind flayers & master mind flayers--true, there's one other purple h, the dwarf kings, but they're quite rare so they're not a worry)
What am I doing chasing around all these #'s and b's then?! >>>>
I can understand chasing the b's, but WHY are you chasing the kitchen sinks??? (the #'s, for the rest of you:)
BTW, in case you missed the joke, yes, Nethack includes everything *AND* the kitchen sink (that, so far as we know, is the main reason sinks were added--they're great for identifying rings you don't want, too, but such functions are secondary...:)
Oh, and one piece of advice for the newbie: if you're about to starve on one of the early levels, try praying, and don't eat zombie corpses. ---->
Same goes for all undead (until you have some way of curing sickness at least, like a blessed unicorn horn...:) Of course, when you get the chance, *do* tin those giant zombie corpses (they raise your strength, but can still make you sick, unless tinned).
Wraiths, however, are the exception. Eat ANY Wraith corpse you find--you'll gain one experience level ("unnatural" level gain, via *cubi, potions & wraiths is the *only* way to reach the higher experience levels, basically--even an extinctionist can't make it to lvl 30 without those items:)
I have too & I have to agree that you HAVE to take your time. There's NO way to do it in one sitting (I've tried, it leads to YASD if I don't quit)
However, it can be done in a solid weekend. But don't expect to do much else:] BTW, the spoiler files are your friends. I know so many obscure things about that game now...
Well, the VS can only be so many squares in from the edges--four, I think, but read the spoilers if you care to know. That shrinks down the area a lot. Next, I can't be under a wall. Still, if I have some renewable means of digging (e.g. a pick-axe, though the dig spell works wonders as a wizard with that nice amulet:) I'll gladly use that instead. Now, dig through only the walls to the left & right & run along from right to left, covering all the squares. Once you find the VS, put something on the ground to the side of it (e.g. an iron chain) so you don't lose it, teleport to the stairs & go back up to kill Rodney (do NOT kill him before you find the VS, it's just asking for trouble... you just know that he'll double trouble you right when you've found the VS & will steall all the stuff you need for the invocation...)
As for the trap-detection scrolls, grab the wand of wishing in the castle. You have 6 wishes even if you don't have a blessed ? of charging already--MORE than enough to get what you need. Besides, they're useless on water, anyhow. You should just genocide ; put on a ring of searching & rest for a while.
You can't avoid dying on the first turn to a fire trap, though it's incredibly unlikely. I've only ever hit the 'do not pass go, do not collect 200 zorkmids' message on purpose. Besides, you've put *NOTHING* into such a character, so start over already! It's *much* worse when you have your brains sucked out in Moloch's sanctum:/
BTW, the invocation *IS* available, more or less, from both the Oracle & the messages you get if you mis-used the bell, book & candle. The only caveat is that the bell has to be charged, but that's no biggie, so long as you identified it. Your quest leader tells you that that stupid bell is important, anyhow.
You might find the game more fun if you'd beaten it a few times, though:] It doesn't seem all that fun until you're *finally* running a char who can make it. E.G. that time I found that wand of wishing in the *first* room. So much for Archaeologists being "challenging";] It's *so* much easier wandering about wielding a blessed +2 Grayswandir, wearing +2 SDSM & blessed fireproof +2 boots of speed... =]
The SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism. In other words, they do things like dress up in medieval arms & armour and hold recreations of famous battles. So yes, in some of them, they might pelt each other with (blunted) arrows. There are, however, all sorts of restrictions about how to do it safely (e.g. if an archer gets close enough to someone, they just tell them that they're dead, since you cannot safely shoot someone while that close to them...)
You're right, Kerberos is based on Needham-Schroeder key exchange (see http://www.upenn.edu/computing/pennkey/docs/kerbpr es/siframes.htm), but you might want to double-check that nitpick...
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange for Kerberos V5
Abstract
The Kerberos protocol [RFC1510] currently establishes session keys by the assertion of one party (usually the KDC). This document describes a method for using the Diffie-Hellman algorithm to establish the shared secret between a Kerberos client and application service. For the purposes of this document, the Ticket Granting Service is considered an application service.
[excerpted from -- http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/I-D/draf t-ie tf-cat-kerb-dh-key-exchange-00.txt ]
For a minute, I almost wondered if the actual cryptosystem had been broken, but then I realized that this is only the implementation of it. There's a *big* difference...
Fortunately, all we have to do is download a patch, which is much better than having to find something other than Diffie-Hellman key exchange...:]
I should hope they would be. At least if they were *required* to disclose all the terms to the judges, there would be some oversight. On the other hand, it would deny the public any chance for oversight & I think we deserve some after all the tricks they've pulled before...
The problem is that they're circumventing the restrictions imposed on them. How are we supposed to know if they have non-discriminatory license terms if we have to sign an NDA just to see those terms? If they were discriminatory, we then couldn't tell anyone...
There's nothing to stop them from giving different terms to differnt folks in secret (remember those OEM licenses?) and simply bypassing the law.
It's TOTALLY wrong, IMO. There just isn't a good excuse for this; it makes them look like they're covering something up (and it wouldn't be the first time, according to the findings of fact in this case!)
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It means 'platinum pieces', just as GP means 'gold pieces' in almost every RPG.
My count says it's 13 non-Disnified to 25 Disnified works. OTOH, I'm almost certainly mistaken about some, since I can't quite remember which ones were actually adapted by Disney, so take this with a grain of salt...
OTOH, I *know* that there have been many adaptations of most of those works, including ones by people other than Disney, so...
I think there's a tropical flower that does something like that. It has a huge blossom that smells like rotting meat. I can't remember if it eats the flies or is pollenated by them, though... I think it may just get pollenated by them.
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If they start measuring a CPU by its wattage, wouldn't that make most lightbulbs "smarter" since I have plenty of 100W light bulbs? :]
:]
Yeah, yeah, I know. It's marketing, it's not *supposed* to make sense
Yeah, when I read it, I thought that someone had grown a 3rd eye or something :]
Until I realized that they meant the *OTHER* evolution...
That couldn't ever be a real /. poll.
The last option has to be:
d) The second coming of Cowboy Neal.
You pirate! Everyone knows those are illegal DMCA circumvention devices!
Wireless keyboards have other security issues. Read up on the discussion that took place about this on SecurityFocus: http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/173944
Well, you've forgotten about the recent economic downturn. I never realized just how bad it was until a friend told me about a cop who was a friend of theirs. It was so pathetic somehow--with his budget, he could no longer afford donuts... :]
Bleh, you just weren't prepared for that depth yet. It CAN be done... I myself have ascended a Valkyrie, a Wizard, an Archaeologist & two Healers... :]
It's multi-player Angband. I've forgotten my elvish, but ang = iron & band = prison/fortress or something. It's where Morgoth was in the First Age of Middle Earth (which is where LotR is set).
Don't ask. Someone made something not unlike that--Falcon's Eye :]
... :] (the other h's are mind flayers & master mind flayers--true, there's one other purple h, the dwarf kings, but they're quite rare so they're not a worry)
Ironically, I still prefer the command line version. It's just so much easier. I *do* need color, though, so I know which h's I should freak out over, rather than which ones are just wimpy dwarves
What am I doing chasing around all these #'s and b's then?!
:)
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I can understand chasing the b's, but WHY are you chasing the kitchen sinks??? (the #'s, for the rest of you
BTW, in case you missed the joke, yes, Nethack includes everything *AND* the kitchen sink (that, so far as we know, is the main reason sinks were added--they're great for identifying rings you don't want, too, but such functions are secondary...
Oh, and one piece of advice for the newbie: if you're about to starve on one of the early levels, try praying, and don't eat zombie corpses.
:) Of course, when you get the chance, *do* tin those giant zombie corpses (they raise your strength, but can still make you sick, unless tinned).
:)
---->
Same goes for all undead (until you have some way of curing sickness at least, like a blessed unicorn horn...
Wraiths, however, are the exception. Eat ANY Wraith corpse you find--you'll gain one experience level ("unnatural" level gain, via *cubi, potions & wraiths is the *only* way to reach the higher experience levels, basically--even an extinctionist can't make it to lvl 30 without those items
I have too & I have to agree that you HAVE to take your time. There's NO way to do it in one sitting (I've tried, it leads to YASD if I don't quit)
:] BTW, the spoiler files are your friends. I know so many obscure things about that game now...
However, it can be done in a solid weekend. But don't expect to do much else
Well, the VS can only be so many squares in from the edges--four, I think, but read the spoilers if you care to know. That shrinks down the area a lot. Next, I can't be under a wall. Still, if I have some renewable means of digging (e.g. a pick-axe, though the dig spell works wonders as a wizard with that nice amulet :) I'll gladly use that instead. Now, dig through only the walls to the left & right & run along from right to left, covering all the squares. Once you find the VS, put something on the ground to the side of it (e.g. an iron chain) so you don't lose it, teleport to the stairs & go back up to kill Rodney (do NOT kill him before you find the VS, it's just asking for trouble... you just know that he'll double trouble you right when you've found the VS & will steall all the stuff you need for the invocation...)
:/
:] It doesn't seem all that fun until you're *finally* running a char who can make it. E.G. that time I found that wand of wishing in the *first* room. So much for Archaeologists being "challenging" ;] It's *so* much easier wandering about wielding a blessed +2 Grayswandir, wearing +2 SDSM & blessed fireproof +2 boots of speed... =]
As for the trap-detection scrolls, grab the wand of wishing in the castle. You have 6 wishes even if you don't have a blessed ? of charging already--MORE than enough to get what you need. Besides, they're useless on water, anyhow. You should just genocide ; put on a ring of searching & rest for a while.
You can't avoid dying on the first turn to a fire trap, though it's incredibly unlikely. I've only ever hit the 'do not pass go, do not collect 200 zorkmids' message on purpose. Besides, you've put *NOTHING* into such a character, so start over already! It's *much* worse when you have your brains sucked out in Moloch's sanctum
BTW, the invocation *IS* available, more or less, from both the Oracle & the messages you get if you mis-used the bell, book & candle. The only caveat is that the bell has to be charged, but that's no biggie, so long as you identified it. Your quest leader tells you that that stupid bell is important, anyhow.
You might find the game more fun if you'd beaten it a few times, though
They're called "natural monopolies," IIRC.
The SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism. In other words, they do things like dress up in medieval arms & armour and hold recreations of famous battles. So yes, in some of them, they might pelt each other with (blunted) arrows. There are, however, all sorts of restrictions about how to do it safely (e.g. if an archer gets close enough to someone, they just tell them that they're dead, since you cannot safely shoot someone while that close to them...)
Worse, where's the DUCT TAPE? How's he supposed to fix/invent things without his roll??? :]
Heck and they even make McGuyver-inspired flat-rolls of it you can stick in your pocket now--they're quite useful, too!
BTW, I'm well aware that it's only a draft.
You're right, Kerberos is based on Needham-Schroeder key exchange (see http://www.upenn.edu/computing/pennkey/docs/kerbpr es/siframes.htm), but you might want to double-check that nitpick...
f t-ie tf-cat-kerb-dh-key-exchange-00.txt ]
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange for Kerberos V5
Abstract
The Kerberos protocol [RFC1510] currently establishes session keys by the assertion of one party (usually the KDC). This document describes a method for using the Diffie-Hellman algorithm to establish the shared secret between a Kerberos client and application service. For the purposes of this document, the Ticket Granting Service is considered an application service.
[excerpted from --
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/I-D/dra
For a minute, I almost wondered if the actual cryptosystem had been broken, but then I realized that this is only the implementation of it. There's a *big* difference...
:]
Fortunately, all we have to do is download a patch, which is much better than having to find something other than Diffie-Hellman key exchange...
A signed hash can be separated from an image, while this type of watermarking cannot.
>>>>>
There must be some way to separate it from the image, as the technique is also supposed to be *reversable*
I'm not sure just what they're up to, though, the article isn't very detailed...
I should hope they would be. At least if they were *required* to disclose all the terms to the judges, there would be some oversight. On the other hand, it would deny the public any chance for oversight & I think we deserve some after all the tricks they've pulled before...
The problem is that they're circumventing the restrictions imposed on them. How are we supposed to know if they have non-discriminatory license terms if we have to sign an NDA just to see those terms? If they were discriminatory, we then couldn't tell anyone...
There's nothing to stop them from giving different terms to differnt folks in secret (remember those OEM licenses?) and simply bypassing the law.
It's TOTALLY wrong, IMO. There just isn't a good excuse for this; it makes them look like they're covering something up (and it wouldn't be the first time, according to the findings of fact in this case!)
It means 'platinum pieces', just as GP means 'gold pieces' in almost every RPG.
My count says it's 13 non-Disnified to 25 Disnified works. OTOH, I'm almost certainly mistaken about some, since I can't quite remember which ones were actually adapted by Disney, so take this with a grain of salt...
OTOH, I *know* that there have been many adaptations of most of those works, including ones by people other than Disney, so...
I think there's a tropical flower that does something like that. It has a huge blossom that smells like rotting meat. I can't remember if it eats the flies or is pollenated by them, though... I think it may just get pollenated by them.