I've had three posts on the BBC's 606 sports forum removed today for mentioning the name of the unspoken one. In one of my posts, I named him as "the player we cannot mention" and that was removed too.
How am I, Joe Public, meant to know which football player the story is about? I could list all 800 English Premier League players and be breaking the law. It's unbelievably illogical. If I, a minion of the almighty government, had access to the court injunction, I could refrain from guessing names and I would stop talking about them.
Or the government could start policing my internet thoughts...
I've been guilty of steering threads by using all five (yes, I only get five) mod points on the first post, and the following child posts. It's gaming the system and gaming the other users with mod points - they blindly mod up if they see a post that's been modded previously. I know it's wrong but I've been here a long time and I don't care.
I have five mod points today. I promise I'll do good with them.
Some of the nastier players already spend thousands to be better than everyone else. They have the ultimate weapons and transport. I've even witnessed a web-base MMO where one of the player actively canvased the dev team to create one off weapons for $1,000. They would have no problem paying for each swear word; it would be another ego-boosting feature.
"I have paid for my swear words. Hear me fucking roar"
I beleive one of my pieces of 'work' was included on the disk. I remember looking for it on the original Domesday machine, which was probably in the Natural History Museum.
The USB stuff is painless on W7. The user needs to know something is happening, anyway, or he'll just keep pulling it in and out.
AV updates - I see none of them. MSE doesn't nag me at all. I was even happy with the defaults.
Win updates - once a month, and I normally read the updates and click "yes". I imagine most users skip the reading part or have them install automagically.
I'm actually a bit disappointed that there's nothing to fix or play with in W7. W98 took a bit of knowledge and skill to keep it running smoothly and sometimes that was fun. The learning was fun, anyway.
I love this sort of post; spewing text from start to finish. I know I'll part with my cash after reading an advert of this nature. The amount of effort displayed in the advert will equal the amount of effort I'll receive in supply and customer service, and that means you have a sale!
Please spew some more numbers in my direction. I can't get enough of them.
These hardware solutions are preferable, unless you're just a bloke with a brand new Windows 7 laptop and it's the only device in the house using the internet.
It does all kinds of funky graphs. The options are plentiful. You can set usage alerts. The logs are detailed enough; all user accounts, all networked PCs, .
It's the new an improved white that's whiter than white. Three shades of white higher than the previous white. So white, you can use it as a coastal beacon warn off passing ships.
Oh, and they added magnesium oxide or aluminium oxide to the plastic, possibly.
We used to do that. We called the forum section "Fuckwit Central". Us admins let off stream in there - trolling the trolls - and the trolls seemed at home for a while. Some would promise everything then beg and it was laughable. Then we got hacked. Twice. It wasn't so funny then. Damn phpBB...
Dupe accounts weren't so hard to spot. Always the same ISP, same browser, same password, no profile, default settings for everything.
Slashdot Mirror
...Microsoft Script Editor.
You know, even being forced to use it wasn't so bad... for small jobs... in the corporate environment.
That was about 8 years ago too.
JS has tools.
Every time I punch a child, I make a large donation to the NSPCC.
Why do other people think they can punch children for free?
(Do not take personally. I could have picked any post to reply to. I am making a point, not an admission)
I've had three posts on the BBC's 606 sports forum removed today for mentioning the name of the unspoken one. In one of my posts, I named him as "the player we cannot mention" and that was removed too.
How am I, Joe Public, meant to know which football player the story is about? I could list all 800 English Premier League players and be breaking the law. It's unbelievably illogical. If I, a minion of the almighty government, had access to the court injunction, I could refrain from guessing names and I would stop talking about them.
Or the government could start policing my internet thoughts...
Plenty of info on Wikipedia too. I'm glad they stuck to their promise and didn't censor.
Ryan Giggs gagging order
The comments about him being skint are laughable. He plays for Man Utd - one of the richest teams in the world.
England's worst kept secret.
Same in the UK but every lorry driver I've ever spoke to says these can be hacked and worked around.
Exercise for the reader: google tachograph hacks
It's funny because it's true!
Only it's not, like you say.
I've been guilty of steering threads by using all five (yes, I only get five) mod points on the first post, and the following child posts. It's gaming the system and gaming the other users with mod points - they blindly mod up if they see a post that's been modded previously. I know it's wrong but I've been here a long time and I don't care.
I have five mod points today. I promise I'll do good with them.
Only in our day it called ICQ, not AIM.
GOML.
Some of the nastier players already spend thousands to be better than everyone else. They have the ultimate weapons and transport. I've even witnessed a web-base MMO where one of the player actively canvased the dev team to create one off weapons for $1,000. They would have no problem paying for each swear word; it would be another ego-boosting feature.
"I have paid for my swear words. Hear me fucking roar"
It's an international company with many offices around the world.
The sooner the Yanks realise they're not the centre of the universe, the sooner some progress will be made.
I beleive one of my pieces of 'work' was included on the disk. I remember looking for it on the original Domesday machine, which was probably in the Natural History Museum.
Now if only I could remember what I wrote.
The USB stuff is painless on W7. The user needs to know something is happening, anyway, or he'll just keep pulling it in and out.
AV updates - I see none of them. MSE doesn't nag me at all. I was even happy with the defaults.
Win updates - once a month, and I normally read the updates and click "yes". I imagine most users skip the reading part or have them install automagically.
I'm actually a bit disappointed that there's nothing to fix or play with in W7. W98 took a bit of knowledge and skill to keep it running smoothly and sometimes that was fun. The learning was fun, anyway.
Google should update their W98 to W7.
That's unfair. I saw the film.
Sly got all his good buddies together. Had a few brandies. Had a few more brandies and decided they would make a film.
"We have $3m to spend on special effects." said Sly, "That's three big explosions!"
And then they filmed it.
What good movie doesn't have three big explosions?
1/6 of the screen here.
;p
The blank areas are probably full of adverts.
Next week on Slashdot:
New lemon orchard used to power city.
Clever academics have found a way to harness the power of a standard lemon with an old copper penny and some scrap zinc. Could this scale?
I know it'll fail. You know it'll fail. The game designers know it'll fail.
Is there no value in showing that farming is not as easy as playing a computer game?
I love this sort of post; spewing text from start to finish. I know I'll part with my cash after reading an advert of this nature. The amount of effort displayed in the advert will equal the amount of effort I'll receive in supply and customer service, and that means you have a sale!
Please spew some more numbers in my direction. I can't get enough of them.
You should switch back. It's almost like it was 5 years ago.
I know others switch of JS too.
Where have the polls gone too? I used to enjoy them.
Thanks! I do feel superior because of my purchasing habits!
I am slightly concerned about my Xbox Live account - it's only a matter of time, ay?
These hardware solutions are preferable, unless you're just a bloke with a brand new Windows 7 laptop and it's the only device in the house using the internet.
NetWorx - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/
It does all kinds of funky graphs. The options are plentiful. You can set usage alerts. The logs are detailed enough; all user accounts, all networked PCs, .
Just a happy user. Sorry for not being geeky!
You haven't watched enough Star Trek. :)
Virgin Media's new SuperHub does this too. The old routers were Netgear under the hood, so I assume this one is too.
I haven't seen a throttling option either.
NB: if any of you here get one, turn off the IP Flood protection shit (whatever that it?). Too many connections and the DNS fails to return addresses.
I've lived here for nearly 40 years and didn't know either. It's not something you'd hear in everyday conversation. Don't feel bad.
It's the new an improved white that's whiter than white. Three shades of white higher than the previous white. So white, you can use it as a coastal beacon warn off passing ships.
Oh, and they added magnesium oxide or aluminium oxide to the plastic, possibly.
We used to do that. We called the forum section "Fuckwit Central". Us admins let off stream in there - trolling the trolls - and the trolls seemed at home for a while. Some would promise everything then beg and it was laughable. Then we got hacked. Twice. It wasn't so funny then. Damn phpBB...
Dupe accounts weren't so hard to spot. Always the same ISP, same browser, same password, no profile, default settings for everything.
Reminds me of a chat I had with my father about knife crime in the UK. He's an old retired police officer, if that makes any difference.
His final say on the matter was full old man, get-off-my-lawn statement.
-- We didn't have knife crime in my days... We had knuckle dusters and coshes.