Apparently Google and YouTube were willing and able to identify the owner of the username ECOTtotal...
How/why would Google/YouTube have personally identifying information about a user anyway? (Or was the user stupid enough to not anonymize himself before trying this?)
I'll bet this turns out to be the cousin/friend/lover of a TV critic; they have access to advance copies that aren't supposed to get spread around. (Yes, it's happened before.) Something tells me the average Fox employee isn't bright enough to fire up his/her own browser.
If anything is "News for Nerds", it is applications for and scalability of Supercomputers.
However, this guy's blog might have been taken from a couple of high-school stoners. (Supercomputers for weather? Who would have thunk it?) There's really no insight on this blog; there's nothing that the average geek wouldn't be able to rattle off in five seconds without really thinking.
average people can post news and stories, without the funding of a major news corporation.
I know - this blogger is quite "average". However, I don't like wasting my time with "average"; I'm at least an "above-average" kind of guy.
Is there room for politics in gaming, or do you just want to shoot stuff?
Shoot stuff. Sorry.
In real life, I'm a left-leaning SOB, but I completely enjoy smacking people over the head with a hammer and jacking their ambulances in GTA. I also enjoy squashing other cultures under my heel in any number of RTS games and generally being a dick in MMORPGs. Do you know why? Of course you do: it's not real.
Is this new game really political? I'm not sure. Remember in Warcraft III you had all these random "stories" behind why battle 1 is humans vs. humans, battle 2 is humans vs. elves, etc.? I think what this guy's done is similar to that rather than being political.
If you want political treatment, write a sim where you're an arms contractor and you need to pay off your local congresspeople in a legal or at least hidden way. Or, write a sim where you get send to a base in Cuba with no hope for escape, rescue or legal representation. There's plenty of dirt to really dig into without making up crap about spec.ops. vs. spec.ops.
I'm not sure how much aggregation Google news does, but I'd think if they're copying in less than 10% or so of the story and providing a link to the original they'd be safely in the "fair use" arena.
I suspect this has more with newspapers getting annoyed that people are starting to type in "[MyCity] news" in Google more often than looking up their local newspaper's web site. The newspapers also would like to restrict access to their "archives" (which they regard as a pay-to-see resource).
They code in Progress and have decided to convert to a proprietary web GUI (IIS + IE6 + ActiveX) rather than use Progress + Apache + any browser. This means we either abandon Linux, or we are in the market for new accounting software modules (I bet you know which is my preferred choice).
Looks pretty black and white to me.
A) Switch OSs. This makes the users and the company happy and saves the company thousands of dollars compared to...
B) Switch Applications. This makes one whiny IT guy happy and will cost the company thousands of dollars in lost time and effort making the conversion and retraining.
The author is missing several key black characters I remember along the way, some from the 1980's.
MIKE TYSON from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.
The black player from Smash TV. (I don't remember ever fighting over who got to play who.)
MICHAEL JORDAN from Jordan vs. Bird. (Believe me, no one wasn't buying this game to play as Bird.)
JAX from Mortal Kombat.
...it would require an extensive re-working of the current FairPlay system...
I think this may be the EU's point. Maybe of the people on the other side of the pond are starting to look at Apple's music "monopoly" like they viewed Microsoft's OS "monopoly" in the 1990s.
So effing what? Google also accepts ads from pinkos, right-wing nutjobs and presidential candidates.
Hell, because of its volume, it's probably also safe to say Google does business with active sexual predators, drug dealers and serial murderers.
Google's just an average media company, like NBC, not the thought police. Let the market sort it out: if people decide that all the losers Google whores for really are just selling crap, they'll figure it out eventually.
What if TSR had patented "hit points?" Or, "the idea that one hit doesn't kill the player"?
Could you teach computer to run a D&D campaign?
You'd probably have a better shot with English, first. But for Christ's sake, who among us DIDN'T write a dice simulator or treasure generator before hitting the teenage years?
TFA is too pop-uppy for mere mortals to read, so I'm just going to guess. Is the reason that Javascript-based stuff taking over the role Java was supposed to fill ten years ago that Microsoft no longer ships a Java engine but it does ship a Javascript interpreter?
What's deeply troubling -- almost unbelievable -- about [Unix style permissions] is that they've remained virtually the only real control mechanism that a user has over her personal documents today
I wonder if the author's used chmod, chown, etc.? What's the essential difference between Unix style permissions and other permission systems?
there's a drawback to his system: It limits interactions between applications.
It would be nice if we knew if this means copy/paste is broken. (I'm thinking not, but I've been wrong before.)
...whether the Wii can save the adventure game genre.
Sure, if they start including a C64 emulator. Seriously, "adventure" hasn't been a game genre for what, now, 20 years? (I think it's mostly been replaced by "RPG" or "FPS".)
On increased revenues? Sounds like the company's up a creek. If sales tank next quarter (because they've flooded the market seeking raw sales), I'd look for a loss.
movements in foreign currency rates positively impacted net revenue by $33 million
Um...yeah. Nice accounting trick. So, without that extra $33M, you're saying that EA is now only HALF as profitable as it was last year? ($259M vs. $127M - sell, sell, sell...)
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What's a game if not a "waste of time".
zzz...Is it under $100 yet? No? Wake me up in a couple years, then...zzz
Yippee - like physical and health education continue to have a growing roles in education? No wonder the average American is a moron...
Have we forgotten about Everquest already? It would seem the same story could have been written 4 years ago...
How/why would Google/YouTube have personally identifying information about a user anyway? (Or was the user stupid enough to not anonymize himself before trying this?)
I'll bet this turns out to be the cousin/friend/lover of a TV critic; they have access to advance copies that aren't supposed to get spread around. (Yes, it's happened before.) Something tells me the average Fox employee isn't bright enough to fire up his/her own browser.
However, this guy's blog might have been taken from a couple of high-school stoners. (Supercomputers for weather? Who would have thunk it?) There's really no insight on this blog; there's nothing that the average geek wouldn't be able to rattle off in five seconds without really thinking.
I know - this blogger is quite "average". However, I don't like wasting my time with "average"; I'm at least an "above-average" kind of guy.
Shoot stuff. Sorry.
In real life, I'm a left-leaning SOB, but I completely enjoy smacking people over the head with a hammer and jacking their ambulances in GTA. I also enjoy squashing other cultures under my heel in any number of RTS games and generally being a dick in MMORPGs. Do you know why? Of course you do: it's not real.
Is this new game really political? I'm not sure. Remember in Warcraft III you had all these random "stories" behind why battle 1 is humans vs. humans, battle 2 is humans vs. elves, etc.? I think what this guy's done is similar to that rather than being political.
If you want political treatment, write a sim where you're an arms contractor and you need to pay off your local congresspeople in a legal or at least hidden way. Or, write a sim where you get send to a base in Cuba with no hope for escape, rescue or legal representation. There's plenty of dirt to really dig into without making up crap about spec.ops. vs. spec.ops.
Slow news day, huh?
Can we please have a "no links to random, boring blogs week" on Slashdot?
I'm not sure how much aggregation Google news does, but I'd think if they're copying in less than 10% or so of the story and providing a link to the original they'd be safely in the "fair use" arena.
I suspect this has more with newspapers getting annoyed that people are starting to type in "[MyCity] news" in Google more often than looking up their local newspaper's web site. The newspapers also would like to restrict access to their "archives" (which they regard as a pay-to-see resource).
Looks pretty black and white to me.
A) Switch OSs. This makes the users and the company happy and saves the company thousands of dollars compared to...
B) Switch Applications. This makes one whiny IT guy happy and will cost the company thousands of dollars in lost time and effort making the conversion and retraining.
Looks like "dump Linux" is the smart choice here.
Hey - someone agrees with me on Jax: http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/features/blackh istorymonth/games_3.asp
The author is missing several key black characters I remember along the way, some from the 1980's. MIKE TYSON from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. The black player from Smash TV. (I don't remember ever fighting over who got to play who.) MICHAEL JORDAN from Jordan vs. Bird. (Believe me, no one wasn't buying this game to play as Bird.) JAX from Mortal Kombat.
What's the best Linux utility to get around iTunes DRM? (Just curious.)
So effing what? Google also accepts ads from pinkos, right-wing nutjobs and presidential candidates.
Hell, because of its volume, it's probably also safe to say Google does business with active sexual predators, drug dealers and serial murderers.
Google's just an average media company, like NBC, not the thought police. Let the market sort it out: if people decide that all the losers Google whores for really are just selling crap, they'll figure it out eventually.
Venture capitalists? Did this story fall through a 1999 space-time rift?
(Pud, is that you?)
OK, which one(s) are you sleeping with?
TFA is too pop-uppy for mere mortals to read, so I'm just going to guess. Is the reason that Javascript-based stuff taking over the role Java was supposed to fill ten years ago that Microsoft no longer ships a Java engine but it does ship a Javascript interpreter?
No, that's not it. ACLs aren't unique to Unix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list
Anyone else?
You're not an astronaut, are you?
S -astro06.article
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/244870,CST-NW