For the record, I'm capped (like, my apartment complex doesn't go higher than) 3. And no, I don't live in the middle of nowhere; I live in a city that's in the top 50 in Wikipedia's list of largest US cities. I'd *love* to see 7mbps DSL.
I am extremely saddened that nobody here, in 4 pages of comments, mentioned StarDraft. I probably fooled around with it (and the hacked StarEdit, and StarGraft) almost as much as I actually played Starcraft 1. I miss Camelot Systems...
Bet they'd get sued like no tomorrow if they were around today. That's just depressing.
Important consideration: words often have multiple meanings that are made distinct only through context. Yes, the MIT-type hacker is totally different from the average black hat hacker. But it's obvious which the article meant, in the same way that you can tell that the piracy off Somalia doesn't involve copyright infringement, and the piracy of Windows in Russia doesn't involve boats or guns.
Heck, if you start going around talking about crackers being evil, won't people think you're being racist against Caucasians? (No. Because words have context.)
Or, you know, lie. Granted, it's against the TOS, but since when has that stopped anyone? Say your name is Some Dude, you were born on 1/1/1980, your address is 666 Hell St, and your email's asdf@asdf.com. Congratulations, you now have a facebook account that can do facebook-account-ly stuff, and will never have any problem with privacy ever. Three Dead Trolls got it right: Lie about your income, your age, gender and race. Spell your name incorrectly, so it's harder to trace. We can beat them back with bullshit, we can rub it in their face. We can stick a big ol' monkey wrench right up their data base. Lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie.
I know I'm a bit late, but... I'm not very worried. I use my name everywhere, am not at all secretive about who I am in real life, and I've seen it used by exactly one other person ever (who capitalizes it NemineM, anyway, while I don't capitalize it at all). A human could get from neminem to my real name in about 3 minutes if they were at all competent at googling. So, I clicked that link, entered my username: it thinks approximately 97% of the United States associated with the name. That's some great detective work there.
Best spam evar! (Seriously, that made my day. And they say not to respond to spammers...) Sadly, I have no mod points at this time, so you just get this.
I'd be happy, too, if it asked me. My bank just automatically assumed, when I sent a company elsewhere a thousand bucks, that I didn't actually want to, and canceled the charge. Then they couldn't even uncancel it when I called them (and I had to call them - their website was broken). After uncanceling the charge, I had to personally apologize to the overworked KoL staff, and get them to run the charge through again. I wish my bank was like your bank.
So, the people who are already buying weed illegally, might continue to do so. It might be cheaper, they might enjoy "fighting the man", whatever. But there are a *lot* of people out there who have no interest in fighting the man, and a great deal of interest in not getting caught doing anything illegal, or hanging out in sketchy neighborhoods looking to do illegal things, but who might buy it occasionally if it were merely regulated like alcohol is today.
Related fact: it's currently illegal to sell alcohol to minors. Alcohol sold to a minor looks the same as alcohol sold legally - the only way you can tell the difference is at the point of sale. Yeah, a lot of minors successfully buy alcohol, but a lot of minors also get *caught* trying to buy alcohol. For that matter, a fair number of people get away with murder, too, but we still catch a lot of murderers (especially ones that do it repeatedly).
If I watch tv on my tv, I'm not paying the guys making the content anything ever, either. Why I generally watch it on the internet, and then buy the dvds later (cause at least there they get a *little* bit of my money). If my deciding to watch a show on tv translated to the actors and writers and so on getting anything they weren't getting before, I might consider it.
GameStop. But only if the game was extremely terrible and nobody actually wanted it.
(That said, I used to buy NES games in the range of 2-5 bucks, in the early 90s. Not from a store, though - yard sales were a fantastic way to get console games for stupidly cheap back then. I'm not sure the same is really true anymore, but I also haven't looked at a yard sale in ages. So maybe it is.)
I hadn't (really couldn't care less about the whole tablet thing anyway)... but I think the guy who made the post directly under yours, about half an hour before you, has.:p
I mod for a reasonably big forum. We implemented something similar a couple years ago (1 question randomly out of a list of 6, trivial for a human to figure out, but not for a bot). Before that, we got dozens of spambot posts a *day*. After, we've gotten a few spam posts a year, mostly the sort clearly written by a human (the kind we had to actually *research* to figure out whether it was spam or a misguided legitimate poster.)
Yes, this only works because our forum isn't big enough to special-case in bot code, but really, if each unique forum had their own method of signing up, with their own not-a-bot questions that couldn't be guessed automatically... I expect almost *all* forums would be "low-profile".
I like your idea, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Also your service.
While we're at it, perhaps we could also then send those reports to Nielson? You know, if that happened, it might convince me to actually pay for cable, if I thought my opinions on what shows shouldn't be canceled (*cough*Dollhouse*cough*) would actually be taken into account if I watched them on tv, more than if I watched them illegally.
Possibly because the answer to every question on the survey is 1, and they can't prove otherwise? Click, click, click, click, click, click. Survey done!
I'm not sure why anyone would pay 2 bucks to get around commercials for a show, as opposed to... paying the same 2 bucks to iTunes, to *own* a copy of the show. Or, you know, just torrenting it.
> Firefox was also plagued by memory leaks and general "heaviness" at its beginning and still, to some degree, has those problems today.
Yeah... it really does. I still use Firefox for my day-to-day browsing, cause I'm used to it. I like the look and feel (cause I'm used to it), plus there are a couple things I really need Greasemonkey for (and Chrome's GM support isn't 0, but it's not perfect, either). But anytime I actually care about the speed of browser rendering, I open up Chrome (notably, one not-real-time browser game where buffs are measured in real time, so the faster you can load pages, the more things you can kill in the 10 minutes you have a particular buff for). If Chrome supported Greasemonkey and a few other addons I use 100%, I'd probably ditch Firefox completely.
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No. A couple days too early for Halloween, too (this news is... pretty scary.)
Though really, it's scary either way you look at it; they're both horribly evil companies, just in different ways.
For the record, I'm capped (like, my apartment complex doesn't go higher than) 3. And no, I don't live in the middle of nowhere; I live in a city that's in the top 50 in Wikipedia's list of largest US cities. I'd *love* to see 7mbps DSL.
I'm pretty sure we've already found that one; it's called "Earth". Same with the Pocahontas planet.
I'm still waiting for the Manta's Gift planet, though.
Wait, you can buy a social life now? Where do you shop for those, I'm interested.
I am extremely saddened that nobody here, in 4 pages of comments, mentioned StarDraft. I probably fooled around with it (and the hacked StarEdit, and StarGraft) almost as much as I actually played Starcraft 1. I miss Camelot Systems...
Bet they'd get sued like no tomorrow if they were around today. That's just depressing.
Important consideration: words often have multiple meanings that are made distinct only through context. Yes, the MIT-type hacker is totally different from the average black hat hacker. But it's obvious which the article meant, in the same way that you can tell that the piracy off Somalia doesn't involve copyright infringement, and the piracy of Windows in Russia doesn't involve boats or guns.
Heck, if you start going around talking about crackers being evil, won't people think you're being racist against Caucasians? (No. Because words have context.)
Or, you know, lie. Granted, it's against the TOS, but since when has that stopped anyone? Say your name is Some Dude, you were born on 1/1/1980, your address is 666 Hell St, and your email's asdf@asdf.com. Congratulations, you now have a facebook account that can do facebook-account-ly stuff, and will never have any problem with privacy ever. Three Dead Trolls got it right:
Lie about your income, your age, gender and race.
Spell your name incorrectly, so it's harder to trace.
We can beat them back with bullshit, we can rub it in their face.
We can stick a big ol' monkey wrench right up their data base.
Lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie.
I know I'm a bit late, but... I'm not very worried. I use my name everywhere, am not at all secretive about who I am in real life, and I've seen it used by exactly one other person ever (who capitalizes it NemineM, anyway, while I don't capitalize it at all). A human could get from neminem to my real name in about 3 minutes if they were at all competent at googling. So, I clicked that link, entered my username: it thinks approximately 97% of the United States associated with the name. That's some great detective work there.
> "25lbs, most of it in small wires that are not worth digging out."
Unless you're a rabbit.
Great, now I have that fracking cover back in my head. You know how long it took to get that thing out, the first time?
Best spam evar! (Seriously, that made my day. And they say not to respond to spammers...) Sadly, I have no mod points at this time, so you just get this.
Or he just had something else he needed to do first, but responding with a picture of laughing girls was in his list of things to get done.
I'd be happy, too, if it asked me. My bank just automatically assumed, when I sent a company elsewhere a thousand bucks, that I didn't actually want to, and canceled the charge. Then they couldn't even uncancel it when I called them (and I had to call them - their website was broken). After uncanceling the charge, I had to personally apologize to the overworked KoL staff, and get them to run the charge through again. I wish my bank was like your bank.
Casino gambling *is* a game of chance, though. It's just a game designed to be lost.
In that way, it's sort of like the game. Which I just lost.
So, the people who are already buying weed illegally, might continue to do so. It might be cheaper, they might enjoy "fighting the man", whatever. But there are a *lot* of people out there who have no interest in fighting the man, and a great deal of interest in not getting caught doing anything illegal, or hanging out in sketchy neighborhoods looking to do illegal things, but who might buy it occasionally if it were merely regulated like alcohol is today.
Related fact: it's currently illegal to sell alcohol to minors. Alcohol sold to a minor looks the same as alcohol sold legally - the only way you can tell the difference is at the point of sale. Yeah, a lot of minors successfully buy alcohol, but a lot of minors also get *caught* trying to buy alcohol. For that matter, a fair number of people get away with murder, too, but we still catch a lot of murderers (especially ones that do it repeatedly).
If I watch tv on my tv, I'm not paying the guys making the content anything ever, either. Why I generally watch it on the internet, and then buy the dvds later (cause at least there they get a *little* bit of my money). If my deciding to watch a show on tv translated to the actors and writers and so on getting anything they weren't getting before, I might consider it.
GameStop. But only if the game was extremely terrible and nobody actually wanted it.
(That said, I used to buy NES games in the range of 2-5 bucks, in the early 90s. Not from a store, though - yard sales were a fantastic way to get console games for stupidly cheap back then. I'm not sure the same is really true anymore, but I also haven't looked at a yard sale in ages. So maybe it is.)
In other news, "html tags to text" clearly doesn't mean what I thought it did. What I get for not hitting preview.
At least you're not "Alter Relationship". Seems like everyone likes to pretend to be that guy.
I hadn't (really couldn't care less about the whole tablet thing anyway)... but I think the guy who made the post directly under yours, about half an hour before you, has. :p
I mod for a reasonably big forum. We implemented something similar a couple years ago (1 question randomly out of a list of 6, trivial for a human to figure out, but not for a bot). Before that, we got dozens of spambot posts a *day*. After, we've gotten a few spam posts a year, mostly the sort clearly written by a human (the kind we had to actually *research* to figure out whether it was spam or a misguided legitimate poster.)
Yes, this only works because our forum isn't big enough to special-case in bot code, but really, if each unique forum had their own method of signing up, with their own not-a-bot questions that couldn't be guessed automatically... I expect almost *all* forums would be "low-profile".
I like your idea, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Also your service.
While we're at it, perhaps we could also then send those reports to Nielson? You know, if that happened, it might convince me to actually pay for cable, if I thought my opinions on what shows shouldn't be canceled (*cough*Dollhouse*cough*) would actually be taken into account if I watched them on tv, more than if I watched them illegally.
Possibly because the answer to every question on the survey is 1, and they can't prove otherwise? Click, click, click, click, click, click. Survey done!
I'm not sure why anyone would pay 2 bucks to get around commercials for a show, as opposed to... paying the same 2 bucks to iTunes, to *own* a copy of the show. Or, you know, just torrenting it.
Alright, I'm confused as to why this article seems to have 0 comments, so I figure I'll try posting and see if that gives me a clue.
Also cause I felt the need to link to the Doctor Who episode that did this a couple years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sontaran_Stratagem
> Firefox was also plagued by memory leaks and general "heaviness" at its beginning and still, to some degree, has those problems today. Yeah... it really does. I still use Firefox for my day-to-day browsing, cause I'm used to it. I like the look and feel (cause I'm used to it), plus there are a couple things I really need Greasemonkey for (and Chrome's GM support isn't 0, but it's not perfect, either). But anytime I actually care about the speed of browser rendering, I open up Chrome (notably, one not-real-time browser game where buffs are measured in real time, so the faster you can load pages, the more things you can kill in the 10 minutes you have a particular buff for). If Chrome supported Greasemonkey and a few other addons I use 100%, I'd probably ditch Firefox completely.