The problem is (as mentioned elsewhere here): What exactly counts as 'competition'?
Just because they're the only two satellite radio stations doesn't mean they can't lose out to ipod+car adapters, or FM radio, or whatever. Maybe they need a monopoly in satellite radio to survive? I'm sure more than a few buyers never bought into either one because they couldn't decide which was best or offered what they wanted more.
Or more likely, that security is so pervasive and commonplace in his life that they just remember him and only had to ask for his badge that first time. I know if I were assigning security I'd keep people in the same areas as much as possible for this reason exactly -- If security knows all the faces that should be there daily, theres much less room for 'unwanted guests' slipping through.
Applying it to the innocent is bad, but even applying it to the guilty isn't that great -- So you cause so much pain that a guy will tell you anything to make you stop. That doesn't mean he'll tell you the truth. Kinda like bullying a kid until he says what you tell him to say. Doesn't mean he actually means it, or isn't just lying to get you to stop.
Having control of DNS also allows you to introduce exploits in places that trust things they shouldn't. For example, software that autoupdates without good keychecking -- You subvert that request and send it whatever it wants.
Plenty of other ways to inject exploits like that once you can hijack DNS, none of them remotely traceable if done right.
I ordered something that was garunteed to be delivered by dec 22nd and didn't come until a few days after christmas. I filed a complaint, mostly just to bitch and maybe get an appology. Whichever $4/hr arab read it thought it hadn't came and filed a free replacement order (nice of them, if it wasnt for the fact that that wasnt my problem) and gave me a link to where i can cancle that order if the new ETA was too long.
So I go to cancle that order and hopefully get my money back, as I have no use for another copy. I do so and then my very next reply from amazon is a form letter about how the order was shipped as soon as i placed the order..so I get to complain yet again, and this time have to act like more of a cock about it.
At that point they gave me a full refund and told me to keep both copies.
So in the end I'd say they treated me fairly, but it was also an example of some real bad customer service at first, and I can see a lot of people not finding that one person that makes it right in the end.
With amazon you can't really correct it during the time of the order like you would in a store, so I think a lot of it comes down to how amazon reacts after the fact. Attitude and wording of the notification is everything, and if they don't do everything short of give you a blowjob via email then they'll be hard pressed to find people willing to pay.
Basically they could have either been really nice and guilted nice people into paying, or really mean and scared stupid people into paying. They went for option #2 and pretty much lost all hope of getting money from everyone else.
Really, any game based on an event with a preset construct of races involved. WW2 games like you said are a good example. Even some of the new instances in WoW make it so Night Elves turn into Humans to fit the storyline of going back in time to save thrall in a part of the game that Elves didn't exist in. What about a basketball game where you can make Kobe Bryant a 5" skinny white guy? Just doesn't fit.
Likewise, how realistic would a game based on a tv show or movie be if you could customize a predefined character? (Nevermind the fact that these games tend to suck anyways)
Incorrect. Your physical copy is likely just a steam cache file and steam installer. Thats what HL2 was from what I heard from my friends in Iraq trying to get it to install without an internet connection-- didn't work out so well.
Personally I think steam is a good idea, just horrible implementation in many ways. With that said, overall I'm glad its in use -- I don't have to keep track of a scratched up CD-R with my hl cdkey on it anymore, I can just download steam and enter in my info and have access to all my games. No more re-downloading 15 patches every time I want to play an old game either.
If Valve ever tries to outright block the play of an old game, I'll just use one of the many workarounds/cracks, but thats a very unlikely situation. More likely would be the typical "conspiracy theory" of valve purposely making old games worse so as to make people play new games instead, but even thats pretty silly considering it makes their fan base not like the game at all. In addition to that, it's also just Valve's M.O; See the counterstrike awp delay, shield, bunnyhop 'fix', even the hostages change they made pre-retail. Or how badly they nerfed conc jumping in tfc compared to tf, how weak pipe bombs became, how overpowered hwguys became, etc. Valve's just good at fucking up established franchises
You don't need dozens of wireless routers eating power and taking space, all you need is a single wireless card being a jackass and advertising SSIDs for networks that don't exist. I don't remember the name, but the software is out there already.
Note that you're going to hurt your(and everyone near by)'s signal to noise ratio, and you're going to confuse real clients just as much as you will evil hax0rs-- Try sorting through a few dozen networks on a wifi enabled cellphone for example, probably not fun.
Maybe thats what he's doing and he likes having an open AP as part of his legal defense?
Maybe he just likes sharing his connection because he's paying for it 100% of the time but using it a very small percent of the time, and the chance that someone might be able to get some use out of it is something he likes? You ever travel and not want to pay an insane amount for hotel internet? Or your internet connection dies/doesn't get payed for but you badly need to finish a download/check your email/etc? Wouldn't you be happy if there was an open AP nearby? Yeah. So would other people.
Personally, I keep mine secured just because I don't trust the security of my lan, and I when I tried to keep the wifi on a seperate vlan it didn't work & I didn't have time to debug it. If I ever get the tiem thoguh that is how I'd liek it set up, ideally with Tor running somewhere easily QoS'd for maximum use of my service.
I'm not the parent poster, nor do I own any mac (last one I used involved claris works and the third grade), but I assume he'd want to do it for the same reason people run windows in a VM on windows -- Security and reliability of a sandbox. Testing new software that might hose everything? One disk image revert and you're back to how things were. Running insecure software? Same thing. Developing software that needs to run on multiple environments? Keep multiple versions of OS X (as in patch levels, installed programs/libs, etc) and test them all from one machine.
Thats one of the main selling points of css, really. It fails far more gracefully than any other web standard when not supported. Things won't be where you expect them or look nearly the same, but all the data will still be there and usable. Much 'cleaner' too, which is kind of nice as anyone without css rendering would probably prefer a fluff-less page anyways.
Not to mention you can override a sites css with your own and 'fix'/improve pages however you want. I know when I used a white on black windows scheme I re-schemed a few common sites I visit to match it. Speaking of which: does anyone know of any project for standardizing re-scheming of remote sites? With enough people behind it you could really make sites stop clashing with the rest of your screen and become a lot more usable with nothing more than usercontent.css preferably, or at worst some javascript courtesy of greasemonkey (I say worst as this is a huge performance hit, just arguably worth it for some people)
You can access it as a usb mass storage device. Either after ticking a setting in itunes, or when plugging it in I believe you hold the menu and play/pause buttons at the same time.
You're generally better off letting itunes handle it though, as it does a much better job. Now if only I liked itunes enough to use it for anything other than an interface to my ipod.. (or foo_dop would become stable enough and featurefilled enough to trust it with my ipod)
Blizzards World of Warcraft updater uses bittorrent to quickly distribute the frequent and obese patches to millions of users. I disagree with that statement.
Blizzard undeniably uses bittorrent for the wow updater, yes, but me and all of my friends would argue the "quickly". It's dog slow and unreliable. No, its not a router issue or anything, we all torrent perfectly fine elsewhere (and if we were able to load the torrent in a good client like utorrent, maybe we wouldnt have a problem with this one). In the end a lot of people just close wow's uploader and wait until its up on fileplanet/filefront/etc.
I don't know whos fault it is, but I just had to throw that in there.
Isn't that kind of cheating though? "table layouts are bad, but as long as we just make this act like a table layout we'll be fine"
Not saying I wouldn't end up using it if I could, but it just seems hard to knock table layouts when the ideal solution is making css render something as if its a table.
"If the FBI has a tap on your neighbor's phone, they can't tap your phone and listen to your conversations too just because they happen to be in the neighborhood. "
Considering how easy it would be to plug a cordless phone into your neighbors house, or just run a wire.. It's kind of scary but I could see the fbi justifying tapping a neighborhood like that.
Paying for quality, I guess. Not that I'd pay, but most of what I get is torrents of questionable legality. It also depends on what you want. If you had a really specific fetish and there was a site for it, I could see paying for it rather than having to settle for whats mainstream.
Not to mention the crowd that just doesnt know any better.
note: I didn't mean for that to sound like bragging,it really was just stupid mistake that I learned from, I just wanted to clarify. I'm no ripper or anything.
MY 2g was in a single shotglass, mixed with water. Spread throughout the day I guess 2g wouldn't be as bad, but even then I'd say you're still closer to 1g or less.
You'll know you ingested too much caffiene when everything appears a little bit brighter(light sensitivity). I'd advise injesting vommiting right then cause in the next few hours comes cold sweats, naussia, having to pee like a race horse, some vommiting, and just some general discomfort.
I took around 2 grams of caffiene once (important lesson: when dealing with chemicals, don't just eye stuff, buy what you need to accurately measure).
Horribly unpleasent night, pretty shitty day after, and a general aversion to caffiene for a while..but really, the dangers of caffiene OD is really overstated. I'd certainly not recommend anyone OD, and it can be fatal if you REALLY overdo it, but to get to that point you will likely start experiencing seriously unpleasent side effects long before you get near fatal dosages.
Unless you're taking the caffiene raw like I was, it isn't easy to even drink/eat enough caffinated products to get anywhere near the DangerZone(tm). YMMV of course.
Your sexual preference shouldn't be a factor in sucking dick out of gratitude. If you actually was attracted to him and wanted to suck his dick anyways, the fact that he broke some DRM doesn't really change anything.
F.Y.I: I appreciate his efforts, but wouldn't suck his dick over it.
Because then if someone is only missing a 16mb chunk its a lot easier to get. It's also makes it possible to split the transfer between multiple sources.
Note that the intent is for how it is spread originally (a network of FTP sites) and by the time it gets to bittorrent most of that is irrelevant, but you still shouldn't share an unpacked release because it's downright rude -- It makes it more possible to tamper with releases (you break the.sfv that can be verified in many places online), and it makes it so if someone downloaded half the rars off FTP and a few more off emule, they can still complete the rest from bittorrent.
The only downside is it's about as legal as buying burned cds out of some russian guy's van. You're paying, but it isn't going anywhere near the artists or record companies, and they're not licensed for distribution.
It's not principle, it's practice. I remember reading a story a while back about two girls, one 17 and the other 18 I believe. Took some pictures that I guess were too revealing, posted them on myspace. Both were tried as adults for some charge that amounts to trafficing child porn.
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The problem is (as mentioned elsewhere here): What exactly counts as 'competition'?
Just because they're the only two satellite radio stations doesn't mean they can't lose out to ipod+car adapters, or FM radio, or whatever. Maybe they need a monopoly in satellite radio to survive? I'm sure more than a few buyers never bought into either one because they couldn't decide which was best or offered what they wanted more.
Or more likely, that security is so pervasive and commonplace in his life that they just remember him and only had to ask for his badge that first time. I know if I were assigning security I'd keep people in the same areas as much as possible for this reason exactly -- If security knows all the faces that should be there daily, theres much less room for 'unwanted guests' slipping through.
Applying it to the innocent is bad, but even applying it to the guilty isn't that great -- So you cause so much pain that a guy will tell you anything to make you stop. That doesn't mean he'll tell you the truth. Kinda like bullying a kid until he says what you tell him to say. Doesn't mean he actually means it, or isn't just lying to get you to stop.
Having control of DNS also allows you to introduce exploits in places that trust things they shouldn't. For example, software that autoupdates without good keychecking -- You subvert that request and send it whatever it wants.
Plenty of other ways to inject exploits like that once you can hijack DNS, none of them remotely traceable if done right.
I ordered something that was garunteed to be delivered by dec 22nd and didn't come until a few days after christmas. I filed a complaint, mostly just to bitch and maybe get an appology. Whichever $4/hr arab read it thought it hadn't came and filed a free replacement order (nice of them, if it wasnt for the fact that that wasnt my problem) and gave me a link to where i can cancle that order if the new ETA was too long.
So I go to cancle that order and hopefully get my money back, as I have no use for another copy. I do so and then my very next reply from amazon is a form letter about how the order was shipped as soon as i placed the order..so I get to complain yet again, and this time have to act like more of a cock about it.
At that point they gave me a full refund and told me to keep both copies.
So in the end I'd say they treated me fairly, but it was also an example of some real bad customer service at first, and I can see a lot of people not finding that one person that makes it right in the end.
With amazon you can't really correct it during the time of the order like you would in a store, so I think a lot of it comes down to how amazon reacts after the fact. Attitude and wording of the notification is everything, and if they don't do everything short of give you a blowjob via email then they'll be hard pressed to find people willing to pay.
Basically they could have either been really nice and guilted nice people into paying, or really mean and scared stupid people into paying. They went for option #2 and pretty much lost all hope of getting money from everyone else.
Really, any game based on an event with a preset construct of races involved. WW2 games like you said are a good example.
Even some of the new instances in WoW make it so Night Elves turn into Humans to fit the storyline of going back in time to save thrall in a part of the game that Elves didn't exist in.
What about a basketball game where you can make Kobe Bryant a 5" skinny white guy? Just doesn't fit.
Likewise, how realistic would a game based on a tv show or movie be if you could customize a predefined character? (Nevermind the fact that these games tend to suck anyways)
Incorrect. Your physical copy is likely just a steam cache file and steam installer. Thats what HL2 was from what I heard from my friends in Iraq trying to get it to install without an internet connection-- didn't work out so well.
Personally I think steam is a good idea, just horrible implementation in many ways. With that said, overall I'm glad its in use -- I don't have to keep track of a scratched up CD-R with my hl cdkey on it anymore, I can just download steam and enter in my info and have access to all my games. No more re-downloading 15 patches every time I want to play an old game either.
If Valve ever tries to outright block the play of an old game, I'll just use one of the many workarounds/cracks, but thats a very unlikely situation. More likely would be the typical "conspiracy theory" of valve purposely making old games worse so as to make people play new games instead, but even thats pretty silly considering it makes their fan base not like the game at all. In addition to that, it's also just Valve's M.O; See the counterstrike awp delay, shield, bunnyhop 'fix', even the hostages change they made pre-retail. Or how badly they nerfed conc jumping in tfc compared to tf, how weak pipe bombs became, how overpowered hwguys became, etc. Valve's just good at fucking up established franchises
You don't need dozens of wireless routers eating power and taking space, all you need is a single wireless card being a jackass and advertising SSIDs for networks that don't exist. I don't remember the name, but the software is out there already.
Note that you're going to hurt your(and everyone near by)'s signal to noise ratio, and you're going to confuse real clients just as much as you will evil hax0rs-- Try sorting through a few dozen networks on a wifi enabled cellphone for example, probably not fun.
Maybe thats what he's doing and he likes having an open AP as part of his legal defense?
Maybe he just likes sharing his connection because he's paying for it 100% of the time but using it a very small percent of the time, and the chance that someone might be able to get some use out of it is something he likes?
You ever travel and not want to pay an insane amount for hotel internet? Or your internet connection dies/doesn't get payed for but you badly need to finish a download/check your email/etc? Wouldn't you be happy if there was an open AP nearby? Yeah. So would other people.
Personally, I keep mine secured just because I don't trust the security of my lan, and I when I tried to keep the wifi on a seperate vlan it didn't work & I didn't have time to debug it. If I ever get the tiem thoguh that is how I'd liek it set up, ideally with Tor running somewhere easily QoS'd for maximum use of my service.
I'm not the parent poster, nor do I own any mac (last one I used involved claris works and the third grade), but I assume he'd want to do it for the same reason people run windows in a VM on windows -- Security and reliability of a sandbox.
Testing new software that might hose everything? One disk image revert and you're back to how things were.
Running insecure software? Same thing.
Developing software that needs to run on multiple environments? Keep multiple versions of OS X (as in patch levels, installed programs/libs, etc) and test them all from one machine.
Thats one of the main selling points of css, really. It fails far more gracefully than any other web standard when not supported. Things won't be where you expect them or look nearly the same, but all the data will still be there and usable. Much 'cleaner' too, which is kind of nice as anyone without css rendering would probably prefer a fluff-less page anyways.
Not to mention you can override a sites css with your own and 'fix'/improve pages however you want. I know when I used a white on black windows scheme I re-schemed a few common sites I visit to match it.
Speaking of which: does anyone know of any project for standardizing re-scheming of remote sites? With enough people behind it you could really make sites stop clashing with the rest of your screen and become a lot more usable with nothing more than usercontent.css preferably, or at worst some javascript courtesy of greasemonkey (I say worst as this is a huge performance hit, just arguably worth it for some people)
You can access it as a usb mass storage device. Either after ticking a setting in itunes, or when plugging it in I believe you hold the menu and play/pause buttons at the same time.
You're generally better off letting itunes handle it though, as it does a much better job. Now if only I liked itunes enough to use it for anything other than an interface to my ipod.. (or foo_dop would become stable enough and featurefilled enough to trust it with my ipod)
Blizzard undeniably uses bittorrent for the wow updater, yes, but me and all of my friends would argue the "quickly". It's dog slow and unreliable. No, its not a router issue or anything, we all torrent perfectly fine elsewhere (and if we were able to load the torrent in a good client like utorrent, maybe we wouldnt have a problem with this one). In the end a lot of people just close wow's uploader and wait until its up on fileplanet/filefront/etc.
I don't know whos fault it is, but I just had to throw that in there.
Isn't that kind of cheating though? "table layouts are bad, but as long as we just make this act like a table layout we'll be fine"
Not saying I wouldn't end up using it if I could, but it just seems hard to knock table layouts when the ideal solution is making css render something as if its a table.
"If the FBI has a tap on your neighbor's phone, they can't tap your phone and listen to your conversations too just because they happen to be in the neighborhood.
"
Considering how easy it would be to plug a cordless phone into your neighbors house, or just run a wire.. It's kind of scary but I could see the fbi justifying tapping a neighborhood like that.
Paying for quality, I guess. Not that I'd pay, but most of what I get is torrents of questionable legality.
It also depends on what you want. If you had a really specific fetish and there was a site for it, I could see paying for it rather than having to settle for whats mainstream.
Not to mention the crowd that just doesnt know any better.
note: I didn't mean for that to sound like bragging,it really was just stupid mistake that I learned from, I just wanted to clarify. I'm no ripper or anything.
MY 2g was in a single shotglass, mixed with water. Spread throughout the day I guess 2g wouldn't be as bad, but even then I'd say you're still closer to 1g or less.
You'll know you ingested too much caffiene when everything appears a little bit brighter(light sensitivity). I'd advise injesting vommiting right then cause in the next few hours comes cold sweats, naussia, having to pee like a race horse, some vommiting, and just some general discomfort.
I took around 2 grams of caffiene once (important lesson: when dealing with chemicals, don't just eye stuff, buy what you need to accurately measure).
Horribly unpleasent night, pretty shitty day after, and a general aversion to caffiene for a while..but really, the dangers of caffiene OD is really overstated. I'd certainly not recommend anyone OD, and it can be fatal if you REALLY overdo it, but to get to that point you will likely start experiencing seriously unpleasent side effects long before you get near fatal dosages.
Unless you're taking the caffiene raw like I was, it isn't easy to even drink/eat enough caffinated products to get anywhere near the DangerZone(tm). YMMV of course.
Your sexual preference shouldn't be a factor in sucking dick out of gratitude. If you actually was attracted to him and wanted to suck his dick anyways, the fact that he broke some DRM doesn't really change anything.
F.Y.I: I appreciate his efforts, but wouldn't suck his dick over it.
Because then if someone is only missing a 16mb chunk its a lot easier to get. It's also makes it possible to split the transfer between multiple sources.
.sfv that can be verified in many places online), and it makes it so if someone downloaded half the rars off FTP and a few more off emule, they can still complete the rest from bittorrent.
Note that the intent is for how it is spread originally (a network of FTP sites) and by the time it gets to bittorrent most of that is irrelevant, but you still shouldn't share an unpacked release because it's downright rude -- It makes it more possible to tamper with releases (you break the
The only downside is it's about as legal as buying burned cds out of some russian guy's van. You're paying, but it isn't going anywhere near the artists or record companies, and they're not licensed for distribution.
It's not principle, it's practice. I remember reading a story a while back about two girls, one 17 and the other 18 I believe. Took some pictures that I guess were too revealing, posted them on myspace. Both were tried as adults for some charge that amounts to trafficing child porn.