Given the response to this article so far? I'd say that this is proof that Slashdotters are willing to argue over what technology is better than to just accept that people use different technology and move on with their own lives.
Slashdot thanks for taking the flamebait... that's their bread and butter.
If a system is making it possible for you to do a brute for attack for "days" then your system is the problem more than your password.
Sorry, but brute force attacks should throw up a red flag in a way that any well designed system can automatically detect it and shut down the user account. Most already do this in more roundabout fashions such as locking the account after a number of invalid tries or by forcing the user to wait between failed attempts or a combination of both.
Why would congress or the president want to stop this? It's a serious question because I don't understand how any adult in the US today honestly thinks that any of the powers that be have any interest in stopping any of this.
There may be a few well meaning members of the power elite here and there that believe in things like the constitution and the rights of the individual but they're few and far between and the mass media, both left and right leaning, go out of their way to portray these people as loons. Most voters eat it up and ask for seconds.
The two party system has all the trappings of professional studio wrestling where we can divide the elements up into good guy/bad guy. 90% of the voters are little more than cheerleaders at the big high school football game. Those on the fringe are just that, the fringe and activities like this are meant to keep them in check. Who's going to stand in the way when all these elements come together in a surreal version of Survivor played with 300+ million contestants?
So I ask again, why would anyone with the power to stop this want to stop this? They have nothing to lose. The same people on the left who wailed in agony when the PATRIOT Act passed are now tightlipped since that power is now theirs to wield. Even the cheerleaders have shut up about such triflings as human rights in lieu of finally getting what they want out of the system. "Doesn't it serve them nasty right-wingers to finally get a taste of their own medicine? After all, they did it first..." And that kind of finger pointing will allow this to go on for as long as the powers that be can maintain balance. For today it seems like that could be generations of power at their disposal with little effort.
And left-wing/right-wing are an illusion in today's government meant to keep you asleep and fighting against your fellow man.
We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. -1984.
And no number of Facebook memes can stop this beast that we've allowed to come to life.
Most new players focus intently on making a high damage build, choosing high damage classes as main preference, others will discourage new players from trying harder or more nuanced classes, etc.
Well, something I've found on the server that I'm on is that grouping is almost non-existent beyond The Barrow-Downs. At least that's the way it feels. As a solo it doesn't bother me but there isn't a lot of interaction between players in places like Bree. I've had a few group quests that I was going to try to get a group together to complete but it just doesn't seem like anyone works together outside of a kinship maybe.
So in this way being a DPS tank really seems to be the way to go. I guess a n00b wouldn't know that but all the same...
I might be interested in running a support toon if I felt that I could find groups well enough without being attached to an agressive kinship. I just don't play often enough to justify all the nonsense that comes with most "serious" kinships.
Finally. Please, if you're going to leave a game then just leave. Don't stick around bad mouthing it. Don't go onto all the forums to bad mouth it. Don't go onto slashdot to whine about it. JUST LEAVE! This is not a popularity contest where you're required to drag others away with you when you leave. Getting bored and leaving because of that is natural; it's an old game so it is normal for people to leave. Just don't try to drag it down when you do go.
I agree. And to act like there was going to be a clear answer is foolish. It's about as productive as asking which Linux distro people recommend to someone who's sick of Ubuntu.
You know, I was an EQ1 and EQ2 player. Just like LotRO they both had a great feel and look to them. I loved EQ1 but so many people left after EQ2 that it just became depressing to even go on anymore. Even as a solo it was just too barren.
EQ2 started off with a strong game but as soon as the exodus happened when WoW went online so much stuff got dumbed down. It was a shame because it was a great looking game, the zone were big and the play was fun. Today when I see it in a MMORPG I just expect that that's the way everyone went.
Maybe I'll check out EQNext but I still like LotRO to keep playing. I do Free2Play and I have so many Turbine points built up right now that I'll probably never have to pay another nickel again unless they rigged the end game. I'm casual enough about it that I'll probably never reach end game so that might never matter anyhow.
I have solo'd up to level 57 and only used 4 buttons. It seems that a lot of the skills they gave my toon are so limited in scope that they're not worth fussing over. Would I move up the ladder a bit faster if I worked the math and got serious? Probably but so far I don't feel too bad about it all.
My point is more that the current situation wouldn't be much different under either plan. To a point I think it's also my wanting to point out some basic facts about the debate in the eyes of the people who talk about subsidies either way.
It's not a hard point to make or understand but it is often overlooked.
Mission of Burma came out of retirement about 20 years after they broke up. When I got their first studio album after this hiatus I was nervous about it. I almost didn't want to listen to it for fear that what esteem I had for them would be shattered if it was garbage. It turned out great and even for a bunch of aging punks they've still got it where it counts.
On the other hand, we've seen many giants come out of retirement and totally fall on their face. This happens mostly with sports stars, age catches up to everyone. It's sad to see a great athlete limp off into the sunset when they knew well enough to retire on top of their game years ago. I'd hate to see the boys from Python do the same.
If I were betting on it I'd guess that they'll do fairly well but a lot of material will seem like half-baked rehashes of old material. Only time will tell.
Kind of reminds me of the kinds of voices that were shouting down Hertz, Tesla and Marconni about radio... oh well, their opinion doesn't matter in the real world, thankfully.
I never understood why The Ark of the Covenant, The Holy Grail and some Hindu relics are so believable to so many but aliens is just bat shit crazy... especially out of the supposed atheist crowd we have here.
Pretty much the rest of it comes down to creative license in the tradition of pulp fiction which the series does a fantastic job of.
What amazes me is that we can look at a poverty stricken country, like India, and watch them outpace the US in education but still have people claiming that the problem with education is the amount we spend per student.
The problems in America's education is a social problem, not a funding problem.
Touched a nerve? No. Lacked vision? Yes. Skirted my questions? Yes.
I would suggest things like phones (and or phone trees), email mailing lists, SMS text messages, ICQ etc all organized so that professionals who want to be notified of certain events get notified in the most timely and secure (as in reliable and as in no practical joking) way possible...
Why shouldn't Twitter be allowed? Email, SMS and ICQ can't be hacked like Twitter? Tell me why these channels are considered legitimate but Twitter isn't?
I know Tom Reiland as we are fellow members of the same astronomy club and he's the director of the observatory I go to. I was there the night he noticed this but had left early. I was back the next night and got a chance to observe the SN. To the best of my knowledge he didn't use Twitter at any point with this discovery but I will have to ask him and see what he has to say.
Seem like they should be a bit embarrassed to have to have found out about it by Twitter.
Why? I think it's fantastic that there is still a community in a science like this. Isn't the idea behind all of these machines and networks suppose to be exactly what happened here? If not why are we doing it? What would you have us be doing with this technology? Twitter is a great platform for exactly this kind of communication. In the area of supernova, waiting for the IAU to come out with a release would be a waste of time. It is important to get as many eyes and CCDs on this kind of thing as quickly as possible. Damn the whole "I'm a professional, thus I only do things one way" culture.
Instead of belittling professionals for using the tools of the public maybe we'd better spend out time helping these cultures come together. Obviously we have something to gain from both sides. Why shit on one for taking advantage?
Since Facebook users volunteer up the information that pretty much makes it public information.
Seriously, I don't care if you know that I'm at the book store buying a coffee. If I don't want this information to be public I don't post it. Problem solved.
Again, I'd like to go that way too regardless of the old timers bitching up a storm but I think you're fooling yourself by assuming that any great number of 'grandkids' under the age of 30 know the metric system well enough to be able to function with it. I bet you good money that over 90% of kids who learned the metric system in school couldn't tell you a close approximation of liters to a gallon more than 6 months after 'learning' metric. I'd accept any answer between 3.5 and 4 as being close enough.
And yes, I know the idea of them learning metric and abandoning the English system is so they won't have to convert but what I am saying is that most of them know little about the metric system as far as practical application. They might be able to do the math, base 10 is easy, but they have no idea what the measures look like in real life. I bet you fewer could estimate a distance in kilometers with any precision either.
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Given the response to this article so far? I'd say that this is proof that Slashdotters are willing to argue over what technology is better than to just accept that people use different technology and move on with their own lives.
Slashdot thanks for taking the flamebait... that's their bread and butter.
That's good information. Thank you.
If a system is making it possible for you to do a brute for attack for "days" then your system is the problem more than your password.
Sorry, but brute force attacks should throw up a red flag in a way that any well designed system can automatically detect it and shut down the user account. Most already do this in more roundabout fashions such as locking the account after a number of invalid tries or by forcing the user to wait between failed attempts or a combination of both.
Why would congress or the president want to stop this? It's a serious question because I don't understand how any adult in the US today honestly thinks that any of the powers that be have any interest in stopping any of this.
There may be a few well meaning members of the power elite here and there that believe in things like the constitution and the rights of the individual but they're few and far between and the mass media, both left and right leaning, go out of their way to portray these people as loons. Most voters eat it up and ask for seconds.
The two party system has all the trappings of professional studio wrestling where we can divide the elements up into good guy/bad guy. 90% of the voters are little more than cheerleaders at the big high school football game. Those on the fringe are just that, the fringe and activities like this are meant to keep them in check. Who's going to stand in the way when all these elements come together in a surreal version of Survivor played with 300+ million contestants?
So I ask again, why would anyone with the power to stop this want to stop this? They have nothing to lose. The same people on the left who wailed in agony when the PATRIOT Act passed are now tightlipped since that power is now theirs to wield. Even the cheerleaders have shut up about such triflings as human rights in lieu of finally getting what they want out of the system. "Doesn't it serve them nasty right-wingers to finally get a taste of their own medicine? After all, they did it first..." And that kind of finger pointing will allow this to go on for as long as the powers that be can maintain balance. For today it seems like that could be generations of power at their disposal with little effort.
And left-wing/right-wing are an illusion in today's government meant to keep you asleep and fighting against your fellow man.
We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. -1984.
And no number of Facebook memes can stop this beast that we've allowed to come to life.
Oh, so he plays Minecraft too?
All government documents should be in a fixed-width font. Anything else is just crazy.
Seeings as where the US produces more than they import today? Yes.
Most new players focus intently on making a high damage build, choosing high damage classes as main preference, others will discourage new players from trying harder or more nuanced classes, etc.
Well, something I've found on the server that I'm on is that grouping is almost non-existent beyond The Barrow-Downs. At least that's the way it feels. As a solo it doesn't bother me but there isn't a lot of interaction between players in places like Bree. I've had a few group quests that I was going to try to get a group together to complete but it just doesn't seem like anyone works together outside of a kinship maybe.
So in this way being a DPS tank really seems to be the way to go. I guess a n00b wouldn't know that but all the same...
I might be interested in running a support toon if I felt that I could find groups well enough without being attached to an agressive kinship. I just don't play often enough to justify all the nonsense that comes with most "serious" kinships.
Finally. Please, if you're going to leave a game then just leave. Don't stick around bad mouthing it. Don't go onto all the forums to bad mouth it. Don't go onto slashdot to whine about it. JUST LEAVE! This is not a popularity contest where you're required to drag others away with you when you leave. Getting bored and leaving because of that is natural; it's an old game so it is normal for people to leave. Just don't try to drag it down when you do go.
I agree. And to act like there was going to be a clear answer is foolish. It's about as productive as asking which Linux distro people recommend to someone who's sick of Ubuntu.
You know, I was an EQ1 and EQ2 player. Just like LotRO they both had a great feel and look to them. I loved EQ1 but so many people left after EQ2 that it just became depressing to even go on anymore. Even as a solo it was just too barren.
EQ2 started off with a strong game but as soon as the exodus happened when WoW went online so much stuff got dumbed down. It was a shame because it was a great looking game, the zone were big and the play was fun. Today when I see it in a MMORPG I just expect that that's the way everyone went.
Maybe I'll check out EQNext but I still like LotRO to keep playing. I do Free2Play and I have so many Turbine points built up right now that I'll probably never have to pay another nickel again unless they rigged the end game. I'm casual enough about it that I'll probably never reach end game so that might never matter anyhow.
I have solo'd up to level 57 and only used 4 buttons. It seems that a lot of the skills they gave my toon are so limited in scope that they're not worth fussing over. Would I move up the ladder a bit faster if I worked the math and got serious? Probably but so far I don't feel too bad about it all.
My point is more that the current situation wouldn't be much different under either plan. To a point I think it's also my wanting to point out some basic facts about the debate in the eyes of the people who talk about subsidies either way.
It's not a hard point to make or understand but it is often overlooked.
They'd neither subsidize solar, or put road-blocks in its way.
While this may be true, the fact of the matter is that killing all subsidies in the field of energy would kill solar.
I know how you feel but you could be wrong.
Mission of Burma came out of retirement about 20 years after they broke up. When I got their first studio album after this hiatus I was nervous about it. I almost didn't want to listen to it for fear that what esteem I had for them would be shattered if it was garbage. It turned out great and even for a bunch of aging punks they've still got it where it counts.
On the other hand, we've seen many giants come out of retirement and totally fall on their face. This happens mostly with sports stars, age catches up to everyone. It's sad to see a great athlete limp off into the sunset when they knew well enough to retire on top of their game years ago. I'd hate to see the boys from Python do the same.
If I were betting on it I'd guess that they'll do fairly well but a lot of material will seem like half-baked rehashes of old material. Only time will tell.
Kind of reminds me of the kinds of voices that were shouting down Hertz, Tesla and Marconni about radio... oh well, their opinion doesn't matter in the real world, thankfully.
I never understood why The Ark of the Covenant, The Holy Grail and some Hindu relics are so believable to so many but aliens is just bat shit crazy... especially out of the supposed atheist crowd we have here.
Pretty much the rest of it comes down to creative license in the tradition of pulp fiction which the series does a fantastic job of.
At that instant, US citizen's protected rights are constitutionally violated again by a deliberate government action.
FTFY.
Steam has been up and running for years...
Oh, I see the problem...
Incidentally when Steam is fully transitioned to Linux it will have an effect on prevalence of MS in the home, too.
You're living in a fantasy land.
You should use hard drive platters as mirrors, much better visual quality.
What amazes me is that we can look at a poverty stricken country, like India, and watch them outpace the US in education but still have people claiming that the problem with education is the amount we spend per student.
The problems in America's education is a social problem, not a funding problem.
Coolio's a bitch. Straight up!
Touched a nerve? No. Lacked vision? Yes. Skirted my questions? Yes.
I would suggest things like phones (and or phone trees), email mailing lists, SMS text messages, ICQ etc all organized so that professionals who want to be notified of certain events get notified in the most timely and secure (as in reliable and as in no practical joking) way possible...
Why shouldn't Twitter be allowed? Email, SMS and ICQ can't be hacked like Twitter? Tell me why these channels are considered legitimate but Twitter isn't?
I know Tom Reiland as we are fellow members of the same astronomy club and he's the director of the observatory I go to. I was there the night he noticed this but had left early. I was back the next night and got a chance to observe the SN. To the best of my knowledge he didn't use Twitter at any point with this discovery but I will have to ask him and see what he has to say.
Seem like they should be a bit embarrassed to have to have found out about it by Twitter.
Why? I think it's fantastic that there is still a community in a science like this. Isn't the idea behind all of these machines and networks suppose to be exactly what happened here? If not why are we doing it? What would you have us be doing with this technology? Twitter is a great platform for exactly this kind of communication. In the area of supernova, waiting for the IAU to come out with a release would be a waste of time. It is important to get as many eyes and CCDs on this kind of thing as quickly as possible. Damn the whole "I'm a professional, thus I only do things one way" culture.
Instead of belittling professionals for using the tools of the public maybe we'd better spend out time helping these cultures come together. Obviously we have something to gain from both sides. Why shit on one for taking advantage?
Since Facebook users volunteer up the information that pretty much makes it public information.
Seriously, I don't care if you know that I'm at the book store buying a coffee. If I don't want this information to be public I don't post it. Problem solved.
Again, I'd like to go that way too regardless of the old timers bitching up a storm but I think you're fooling yourself by assuming that any great number of 'grandkids' under the age of 30 know the metric system well enough to be able to function with it. I bet you good money that over 90% of kids who learned the metric system in school couldn't tell you a close approximation of liters to a gallon more than 6 months after 'learning' metric. I'd accept any answer between 3.5 and 4 as being close enough.
And yes, I know the idea of them learning metric and abandoning the English system is so they won't have to convert but what I am saying is that most of them know little about the metric system as far as practical application. They might be able to do the math, base 10 is easy, but they have no idea what the measures look like in real life. I bet you fewer could estimate a distance in kilometers with any precision either.
How so? Seriously, I'm interested why Imperial is better for carpentry only.