There are a few MMOs that have implemented similar bot checks. Every once in a while, you get a question in chat from their bot-checking NPC. "What is 9 plus 4", and similarly easy questions. If you don't answer the question, you get kicked off.
Once I was playing FF XI and while fishing several multiple choice questions popped on my screen in a dialog style box and I had to click on the answer else get kicked off line. I figured while fishing I triggered some sort of checking system.
I do all my bank work using the drive-up ATM and online banking. Once I went to deposit my check using the ATM as I have for the past 8 years, I put my card in, punched in my pin and the system just froze up. I sat there waiting for a good 2 minutes and nothing, wouldn't even spit my card back out. So I drove around and went in and told someone in the bank. The lady went to check out the maching and when got back she said it had rebooted and that my card was ejected and sitting there waiting to be removed. I was somewhat shocked. She then said that it has happened before and the system runs Microsoft Windows XP.
Those international businesses should have employees on hand that speak French if they wish to do business in France. If anything it should be up to the business holding the meeting on what language should be spoken. They may want to speak English or Russian to please the client more, but a law forcing private businesses to speak the national language is just stupid.
If you come into my house I expect you to not smoke and speak English. I don't have to accommodate you and allow smoking and to speak some other language I don't understand.
I personally wouldn't blame EQ1 for the fault of someone dropping out of college 2 weeks before graduating. That is the fault of the person not having his/her head on straight in the first place. An MMO is no different then anything else people do in life for leisure, as anything can be taken to far if you don't know where to draw the line and keep control.
In the poor voice quality cases I have looked at, most if not all were with outbound voice quality. This was the case with my sister.
Also it was not with ever Comcast customer but a hit and miss with them, Every time someone would complain about voice quality the first thing I would ask is, "Do you have Comcast cable internet?" and they said yes.
Lets quickly put out a system. It doesn't need to be real fancy, just have lots of games. In a year we will have a new system with some new hardware and all those suckers that bought one will sell it and buy another one. Then a year from then put out another system with some more small upgrades to start the cycle over again. This is better then putting out one great system to start that is ahead of its time. </sarcasm>
I work for a VoIP provider and of all our customers, only the people using Comcast have voice brake-up. All other broadband including myself (charter) have perfect quality. It's sad when we get blamed for this when in fact its not our problem. I was on the phone with Comcast many times over just to get them to clear the problem up so my sister could have good VoIP quality. It still has problems here and there but at least its good now for the most part.
BTW, This has gotten worse ever since Comcast started offering VoIP.
Add some threaded (or better threaded) support... I'm sick of one tab loading something like a Flickr.com page and while its loading I'm looking at other tabs and unable to scroll up and down the page...
I would rather have companies hosting such websites to shutdown the site. If they refuse to then shut that providers backbones off till the site is down, or just have the backbones block traffic to and from that websites IP address anyways. If its in a country that won't listen then simply turn that country into an Intranet. It won't have access to the Internet outside of its borders.
There are laws here against "hate crimes" however it seems no one wants to apply them to people standing in the streets shouting "death to this or that country" or "death to this person" because its "freedom of speech". Bull crap I say. I'm all for civil liberties however survival is more important at times like this.
So does this mean that computers can be made and sold this cheap and the company still makes money? Either the computer is a total POS or computers can be made cheap now.
If the buyer has the money then sell him the product for more. Sounds like the $5,000 hammer the US government buys.
I agree... Nothing would make me happier then seeing the world no longer need oil. Then the middle east will see who needs who when their #1 income is gone.
I have had more then 8% downtime since I switched to business, but I believe that it has something to do with the long run my coax makes from the breakout to the home office.
This could very well be so.. I have Charter at home and my cable modem use to sit upstairs in my computer room. It would just randomly drop connection then other days it would be fine. So I moved my cable modem to the basement where the coax came into my house, put a 2 way splitter there removing about 75-100 foot of coax. I then just ran a CAT 5 up through the floor. No more random drops and also my Quake 3 (Yes I still play that online) pings dropped from 65 to 30ms. I was like "WOH"
We are chopping down the rain forest and now we will be harvesting the algae from the oceans. Some say the oceans produce more oxygen the the rain forest. Who knows. Some environmentalist will also complain about this. Just wait.
Toll for giving my opinion? wow.. Seems someone wants to silence me like the select few that want to silence Talk Radio through means like the Fairness Doctrine.
Thats why I have an extra cartridge and won't change it will I start seeing light streaks in my printouts. I can always reprint the page(s) that didn't come out.
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There are a few MMOs that have implemented similar bot checks. Every once in a while, you get a question in chat from their bot-checking NPC. "What is 9 plus 4", and similarly easy questions. If you don't answer the question, you get kicked off.
Once I was playing FF XI and while fishing several multiple choice questions popped on my screen in a dialog style box and I had to click on the answer else get kicked off line. I figured while fishing I triggered some sort of checking system.
I do. If I had seen one of these I would have avoided it because it has "CNN" somewhere in it.
I do all my bank work using the drive-up ATM and online banking. Once I went to deposit my check using the ATM as I have for the past 8 years, I put my card in, punched in my pin and the system just froze up. I sat there waiting for a good 2 minutes and nothing, wouldn't even spit my card back out. So I drove around and went in and told someone in the bank. The lady went to check out the maching and when got back she said it had rebooted and that my card was ejected and sitting there waiting to be removed. I was somewhat shocked. She then said that it has happened before and the system runs Microsoft Windows XP.
put them on the people that look suspicious like 9 year olds and the little old lady with a walking cane.
Those international businesses should have employees on hand that speak French if they wish to do business in France. If anything it should be up to the business holding the meeting on what language should be spoken. They may want to speak English or Russian to please the client more, but a law forcing private businesses to speak the national language is just stupid.
If you come into my house I expect you to not smoke and speak English. I don't have to accommodate you and allow smoking and to speak some other language I don't understand.
I personally wouldn't blame EQ1 for the fault of someone dropping out of college 2 weeks before graduating. That is the fault of the person not having his/her head on straight in the first place. An MMO is no different then anything else people do in life for leisure, as anything can be taken to far if you don't know where to draw the line and keep control.
Reminds me of the people that jump on the iPhone boat and now are getting screwed over.. First the price was cut and now a 3G version coming out.
Maybe the person being shot is a hemophiliac. Chance is just as great of bleeding to death.
Soon having pillow fights will be considered torture.
I get these only though FTP on my personal server and all the web servers I manage all the time. Only difference is the IP's are ALWAYS from China.
In the poor voice quality cases I have looked at, most if not all were with outbound voice quality. This was the case with my sister.
Also it was not with ever Comcast customer but a hit and miss with them, Every time someone would complain about voice quality the first thing I would ask is, "Do you have Comcast cable internet?" and they said yes.
Lets quickly put out a system. It doesn't need to be real fancy, just have lots of games. In a year we will have a new system with some new hardware and all those suckers that bought one will sell it and buy another one. Then a year from then put out another system with some more small upgrades to start the cycle over again. This is better then putting out one great system to start that is ahead of its time.
</sarcasm>
I work for a VoIP provider and of all our customers, only the people using Comcast have voice brake-up. All other broadband including myself (charter) have perfect quality. It's sad when we get blamed for this when in fact its not our problem. I was on the phone with Comcast many times over just to get them to clear the problem up so my sister could have good VoIP quality. It still has problems here and there but at least its good now for the most part.
BTW, This has gotten worse ever since Comcast started offering VoIP.
I didn't need 100+ people to tell me that you had to sign-up when getting the free disk.. Thats why I never bothered to get one for my parents.
Its the same for those free credit report ads that run every 15 minutes. You get the free one but at the same time are signing up for a service.
Add some threaded (or better threaded) support... I'm sick of one tab loading something like a Flickr.com page and while its loading I'm looking at other tabs and unable to scroll up and down the page...
I would rather have companies hosting such websites to shutdown the site. If they refuse to then shut that providers backbones off till the site is down, or just have the backbones block traffic to and from that websites IP address anyways. If its in a country that won't listen then simply turn that country into an Intranet. It won't have access to the Internet outside of its borders.
There are laws here against "hate crimes" however it seems no one wants to apply them to people standing in the streets shouting "death to this or that country" or "death to this person" because its "freedom of speech". Bull crap I say. I'm all for civil liberties however survival is more important at times like this.
Thats ok with me. I'm not in any hurry to get into Mexico.. I'm also pretty sure American's aren't trying to sneak out into Mexico either.
So does this mean that computers can be made and sold this cheap and the company still makes money? Either the computer is a total POS or computers can be made cheap now.
If the buyer has the money then sell him the product for more. Sounds like the $5,000 hammer the US government buys.
I agree... Nothing would make me happier then seeing the world no longer need oil. Then the middle east will see who needs who when their #1 income is gone.
This could very well be so.. I have Charter at home and my cable modem use to sit upstairs in my computer room. It would just randomly drop connection then other days it would be fine. So I moved my cable modem to the basement where the coax came into my house, put a 2 way splitter there removing about 75-100 foot of coax. I then just ran a CAT 5 up through the floor. No more random drops and also my Quake 3 (Yes I still play that online) pings dropped from 65 to 30ms. I was like "WOH"
We are chopping down the rain forest and now we will be harvesting the algae from the oceans. Some say the oceans produce more oxygen the the rain forest. Who knows. Some environmentalist will also complain about this. Just wait.
Domain Name: GMAIL.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com/
Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-apr-2006
Creation Date: 13-aug-1995
Expiration Date: 12-aug-2014
Not sure how valid that is but to me it looks like it was taken in 1995 or at least first registered then..
Toll for giving my opinion? wow.. Seems someone wants to silence me like the select few that want to silence Talk Radio through means like the Fairness Doctrine.
I'm guessing this is for the valid legal citizens and green card holders only. Illegals should not be protected by the Constitution.
Thats why I have an extra cartridge and won't change it will I start seeing light streaks in my printouts. I can always reprint the page(s) that didn't come out.
Don't forget ports 22, udp 1026 and udp 1027 (Windows Messenger service SPAM)
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 5764K packets, 1421M bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
8543 4419K kiddies udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:1027
8834 4598K kiddies udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:1026
Chain kiddies (22 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
21226 9270K REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Thats over 33 days and my server is rather quiet, nothing much running on it.