I've never had a single script-kiddie or bot directly bother me in any way.
I've not run into any problems there either. The problems I *have* had are almost exclusively Blizzard's own doing. For instance, it's a royal PITA to own an epic flyer and not be able to even see mobs until you've flown 50 yards past them.
You seem to be speaking for a lot of people there, but unfortunately I know for a fact this statement isn't true. There are plenty of us that would be quite happy to be able to automate the stupid mindless grind that Blizz forces upon its users and calls "gameplay".
Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves for espousing a position they clearly know is wrong. They are software developers for CHRIST'S SAKE!
No, they're a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi. You know, the company that owns Universal Music Group, the sue-happy RIAA member. This kind of behavior is to be expected.
Same here, although mine is a leased dedicated box. In any event, getting RDNS set up for a legitimate mail server that's running anywhere other than your residential ISP account is generally trivial, and VPS accounts on which to run that server aren't expensive at all.
On the other hand if you get off your lazy butt and fix it when your monitoring systems tell you it's broke you've just cost the company a total of say 1 man day, your comp day.
Why the hell should I keep giving him money when I could give it to my own representatives that actually had the backbone to oppose this?
We're not the ones to ask. You should call his office and ask them instead.
I'm not an Obama supporter, and I've felt all along that he was talking a good game, but couldn't back it up when push came to shove. However, I had the hope that I might be wrong about him. I'm truly disappointed to see that he seems more and more to be just a politician that's not able/willing to stand up for anything of import.
I drive a pickup, which is about as bad as it gets in terms of gas mileage. It's a 2002 model, and it has about 68,000 miles on it, which translates to about 4,000 gallons of fuel that it's used thus far. At $4.00/gallon (far above the average cost of gas over the period I've owned it), that's $16,000. I paid about $19,000 for the truck after all was said and done, so even if this new car had *no fuel cost at all*, it still wouldn't break even until after it had been driven 90,000 miles, and again, that's with gas at $4.00/gallon. More realistically, it'd probably be about 150,000 miles or so before break-even. The comparison with my truck is about the most favorable one that can be made on the basis of fuel costs - there's no way this car could pay for itself with fuel savings as compared to something that already gets decent mileage like the Civic you mentioned.
But that's not all. My truck got rear-ended by a car going about 20 mph two years ago, and while the car that struck me suffered thousands of dollars' worth of damage, I got out of it with a bent back bumper that cost about $80 to have pulled straight again. That same strike in one of these VWs almost certainly would have totalled it because, aside from the severe frame damage that likely would have occurred, carbon-fiber bodywork is so horribly expensive to fix, when you can even find someone that can do it competently. Because of that, count on insurance costs being ridiculous for this vehicle. Also, I noticed "air-conditioning" being conspicuously absent from the list of amenities - there appears to be a cool/warm temperature control for vented air on the console, but not much more. I'm sure VW will have good luck selling a $40K vehicle without A/C.
There's a lot more that goes into making a car salable than just great mileage.
End result is you end up with a "car" that's roughtly the mass (and passenger capacity) of an oversize motorcycle
"Oversize" in the motorcycle world would be more along the lines of a Honda Gold Wing, which weighs 400 pounds *more* than this car. The car is closer in weight to a full-size cruiser like a Harley Softail or Yamaha Raider, and even then the car is *still* about 10% lighter.
Quite a while, I'd hope - pretty much all of the court cases that I've read about that touched on the subject ended up treating it as a Fifth Amendment situation, with the end result being that you can't be forced to divulge the passphrases to your keys. I don't know whether any of those cases form precident though.
And even if you do leave prints on the bullet, they're not going to be too useful once the bullet expands, even if you're using fully-jacketed rounds for some ridiculous reason.
And of those guns that aren't made with stainless, they're usually blued, Parkerized, Tennifered, etc. so your question is more than just a minor nit-pick. The finish on practically every gun made is designed specifically to resist corrosion.
No, and he's not going to get convicted of all the charges, nor sentenced to anything near 38 years either. He's not going to "get his entire life ruined" beyond that which he brought upon himself. He *did* commit a "real" crime, multiple times, and a bunch of Slashdotters getting their panties in a bunch about the DA charging him doesn't change that.
Which is why I said "It's one thing to take a principled stand against those rules you disagree with" in the original post. This kid isn't an idealistic rebel fighting against that which he feels is wrong, he's simply a lazy bum trying to get something for nothing.
No, I wouldn't. Don't forget that among the computer-related charges he's also being charged with stealing a key and breaking into the school after hours, so he's already demonstrated a clear criminal/sociopathic trend towards doing whatever he wants in furtherance of his own goals, laws and society be damned. That needs to be broken quickly and some respect for the consequences of such behavior instilled.
Mine would have done the same and then probably come to visit every couple of days to ask how the lesson learnin' was coming along.
The best educational example I ever saw was when I lived in Virgina Beach, and a kid (about 8 or so) got busted at the local 7-11 for trying to lift a pack of gum. His mom came down and talked with the store clerk, then she called the cops herself and had them come down and take him away for a few hours, which they were quite happy to do. Go mom.
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Then you are not a fan of Blizzard, and you should seek out another game to play.
Ah, the presumptiveness continues...
I've never had a single script-kiddie or bot directly bother me in any way.
I've not run into any problems there either. The problems I *have* had are almost exclusively Blizzard's own doing. For instance, it's a royal PITA to own an epic flyer and not be able to even see mobs until you've flown 50 yards past them.
All of blizzards fans appreciate this.
You seem to be speaking for a lot of people there, but unfortunately I know for a fact this statement isn't true. There are plenty of us that would be quite happy to be able to automate the stupid mindless grind that Blizz forces upon its users and calls "gameplay".
Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves for espousing a position they clearly know is wrong. They are software developers for CHRIST'S SAKE!
No, they're a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi. You know, the company that owns Universal Music Group, the sue-happy RIAA member. This kind of behavior is to be expected.
Same here, although mine is a leased dedicated box. In any event, getting RDNS set up for a legitimate mail server that's running anywhere other than your residential ISP account is generally trivial, and VPS accounts on which to run that server aren't expensive at all.
Bulgaria too - every coder I've met from there has been razor-sharp.
On the other hand if you get off your lazy butt and fix it when your monitoring systems tell you it's broke you've just cost the company a total of say 1 man day, your comp day.
Hehe, he said "comp day".
Why the hell should I keep giving him money when I could give it to my own representatives that actually had the backbone to oppose this?
We're not the ones to ask. You should call his office and ask them instead.
I'm not an Obama supporter, and I've felt all along that he was talking a good game, but couldn't back it up when push came to shove. However, I had the hope that I might be wrong about him. I'm truly disappointed to see that he seems more and more to be just a politician that's not able/willing to stand up for anything of import.
I think they meant dollhouses.
As if a Slashdot poster would know anything about intercourse...
Almost all of the energy we use comes from the sun, with nuclear and geothermal being (the) exceptions
:-)
In fairness, nuclear comes from *a* sun, just not ours.
Yes, it's too much. Way too much.
I drive a pickup, which is about as bad as it gets in terms of gas mileage. It's a 2002 model, and it has about 68,000 miles on it, which translates to about 4,000 gallons of fuel that it's used thus far. At $4.00/gallon (far above the average cost of gas over the period I've owned it), that's $16,000. I paid about $19,000 for the truck after all was said and done, so even if this new car had *no fuel cost at all*, it still wouldn't break even until after it had been driven 90,000 miles, and again, that's with gas at $4.00/gallon. More realistically, it'd probably be about 150,000 miles or so before break-even. The comparison with my truck is about the most favorable one that can be made on the basis of fuel costs - there's no way this car could pay for itself with fuel savings as compared to something that already gets decent mileage like the Civic you mentioned.
But that's not all. My truck got rear-ended by a car going about 20 mph two years ago, and while the car that struck me suffered thousands of dollars' worth of damage, I got out of it with a bent back bumper that cost about $80 to have pulled straight again. That same strike in one of these VWs almost certainly would have totalled it because, aside from the severe frame damage that likely would have occurred, carbon-fiber bodywork is so horribly expensive to fix, when you can even find someone that can do it competently. Because of that, count on insurance costs being ridiculous for this vehicle. Also, I noticed "air-conditioning" being conspicuously absent from the list of amenities - there appears to be a cool/warm temperature control for vented air on the console, but not much more. I'm sure VW will have good luck selling a $40K vehicle without A/C.
There's a lot more that goes into making a car salable than just great mileage.
End result is you end up with a "car" that's roughtly the mass (and passenger capacity) of an oversize motorcycle
"Oversize" in the motorcycle world would be more along the lines of a Honda Gold Wing, which weighs 400 pounds *more* than this car. The car is closer in weight to a full-size cruiser like a Harley Softail or Yamaha Raider, and even then the car is *still* about 10% lighter.
Or does nobody remember Andrew Schulman exposing Microsoft's monopolistic abuses with "Undocumented Windows" almost 20 years ago?
Still got my copy on a bookshelf somewhere around here...
What most people don't understand about TCP (and therefore bittorrent etc) and Cable Modems could fill a book.
:-)
Hence the reason one can find books on these subjects.
Quite a while, I'd hope - pretty much all of the court cases that I've read about that touched on the subject ended up treating it as a Fifth Amendment situation, with the end result being that you can't be forced to divulge the passphrases to your keys. I don't know whether any of those cases form precident though.
And even if you do leave prints on the bullet, they're not going to be too useful once the bullet expands, even if you're using fully-jacketed rounds for some ridiculous reason.
And of those guns that aren't made with stainless, they're usually blued, Parkerized, Tennifered, etc. so your question is more than just a minor nit-pick. The finish on practically every gun made is designed specifically to resist corrosion.
Or you could just take the simple precaution of picking up your spent cases if you're using a semi-automatic gun.
No, and he's not going to get convicted of all the charges, nor sentenced to anything near 38 years either. He's not going to "get his entire life ruined" beyond that which he brought upon himself. He *did* commit a "real" crime, multiple times, and a bunch of Slashdotters getting their panties in a bunch about the DA charging him doesn't change that.
Which is why I said "It's one thing to take a principled stand against those rules you disagree with" in the original post. This kid isn't an idealistic rebel fighting against that which he feels is wrong, he's simply a lazy bum trying to get something for nothing.
No, I wouldn't. Don't forget that among the computer-related charges he's also being charged with stealing a key and breaking into the school after hours, so he's already demonstrated a clear criminal/sociopathic trend towards doing whatever he wants in furtherance of his own goals, laws and society be damned. That needs to be broken quickly and some respect for the consequences of such behavior instilled.
I draw the line when a REAL crime is committed.
Like the breaking and entering he is accused of as well?
For those complaining about taxes -- did your taxes magically jump 0.003 percent when this story broke?
Dammit, I was told there would be no math in this thread!
Mine would have done the same and then probably come to visit every couple of days to ask how the lesson learnin' was coming along.
The best educational example I ever saw was when I lived in Virgina Beach, and a kid (about 8 or so) got busted at the local 7-11 for trying to lift a pack of gum. His mom came down and talked with the store clerk, then she called the cops herself and had them come down and take him away for a few hours, which they were quite happy to do. Go mom.