OMG! I wanted to get the link in, but I read through the rest of the email:
At the time of the suspension I was playing WoW on Linux. I was training my weapon skills because I recently turned to level 60. I had programmed the switching of weapons (I use Wardrobe for that) to my programmable keyboard and was fighting a low-level healing mob to upgrade all my weapon skills to 300. As you might very well know, this takes hours, and while I was training my different weapon skills by pressing the macro keys and healing myself every now and then, I watched some movies on my TV, because fighting a level 25 healing mob doesn't require much attention if you're a level 60 priest.
It's not a matter of WINE, he was fucking botting! He took his programmable keyboard and built macros for fighting mobs and then left it unattendend.
When you a grinding, if a GM suspects botting they will whisper you looking for you to respond. If you don't respond within a reasonable amount of time you get nailed for botting.
They have stated repeatedly that programmable keyboards like the Logitech one violate the EULA for WoW. While the current iteration of hacks -- sending the keyboard the mana/HP, are benign, the possibilty exists for there to be future mods that become harmful to the game or allow for some form of hacking.
Replying to myself replying to myself, just to say I'm not crazy, and that it looks like people bumped it back up, and, well, woa! Still no karma tho. Slashdot users speaking the truth FTW!~!
p.s. the css looks kinda good! woo hoo
So, I totally expected this comment to be -1'd into the floor. But to my surprise, the comment actually rocketed to +5 with a Karma+1, and 4 points of Informative/Insightful allong with a -1 Flamebait.
The:5 stayed for awhile until.. DUN DUN DUN!!! A/. editor got a little upset with my post.
Check it out now. Karma bonus is gone. Flamebait , strangely enough, is also gone. Now try to make sense of a +2 post that has a 30% Int / 20% Insightful / 20% informative. Explain THAT math to me.
Nice to see how thick the skin is guys. Way to metamod.
So I'm going to be modded as flamebait here but um, honestly, "This Rocks"? My first reaction is, ABOUT GODAMNED TIME?
I mean, couldn't they have found any time in the past 8 years of triple posting the same article, not performing any due diligence regarding fact checking, etc... to fucking fix their html???
Thanks Rob Malda et all, welcome to the 21st century!
".com Pundits" like Om Malik still startle me with how they manage to think they are relevant. I have to wonder if submissions like this are PR agents for Om. He writes some pithy obvious sort of column every few months and gets a few hyperlinks for it, yet to read his bio it sounds like he is a god of the.com industry. *shakes head*
And with that, the final raping of your childhood memories of Star Wars is now nearly at hand. Grab your wallet, grab your glasses, and grab your ankles.. May is coming sooner than you think!
What time do you have to react? Like if you act now as opposed to two weeks you'll make back your money? Unless you sent the money through a very trusting (read, you do a lot of business with) bank that has some sort of angel stop-payment plan.. you are S O L.
Where is the contract? Whose laws govern it?
You went with a company outside of your country to do a deal..
Why didn't you test what you got first and then pay for it...
I smell FUD... no details here, is this just an anti outsourcing fable?
I have nothing terribly insightful to add (been a long day), and as much as I wanted to leave this thread alone (too many trolls trying to bait me), I needed to say how insightful I found your post to me. thanks. I fear it's folks like us who need to communicate this to the DNC, as I'm not sure they're able to figure it out on their own. Unless this is all a ruse in order to make 2008 really big....?!?
mods go ahead and mod this, I didnt have anyway to contact snopes privately.
All other things aside, Kerry should have torn apart Bush on the military issue alone; it is simply amazing that a decorated Vietnam soldier had to take that kind of abuse from a coward and drunk like Bush.
Exactly. EXACTLY. How the hell did a draft dodger end up owning the military service issue? I totally blame the campaign. Clinton/Gore had a "war room" of people ready to respond every day to the shitstorm. Where the hell was the campaign this time? How many campaign managers did Kerry go through, was it only two? I think it might have been three.
I'll admit my colors here and say I was a Wesley Clark man. Come on, FOUR STAR GENERAL, RENAISSANCE THINKER (i.e. willing to READ and THINK about new ideas), from **ARKANSAS** with a good religious up bringing? That was a campaign I would've loved to see. I have no doubts properly campaigned that could have been a 60 / 40 split for Clark easy.
Well, sure:) thanks for asking, but I mean, it's on the internet, go nuts with it. If you posted a a link back to the source that would be cool... and er, maybe spell check it.. LOL:)
Democrats may start taking back red states when you stop viewing them as morons who are beneath you.
Ah, but you imply an elitism that I did not put into my post. I am talking realistically, stop the guy next to you in the grocery store, engage him in a conversation about CentCom's strategies in Iraq, see if this conversation can last 5 minutes. It's not that the person is stupid, far from it, he is smart enough to know he doesn't -want- to hear about it, it's all corrupt anyway, and he just wants to buy his burritos.
He (or she) is not a moron, but at the same time, he is not a good "get" for the current style of Democratic campaigning. People don't want to hear what's wrong (say, Dukakis '88), they want to hear everything's going to be "all right."
Why is it so many people think that if you're not on their side you don't understand the issues at hand? Do you think that everyone who voted for Bush is either a gimp or a masochist? Get real.
I was not blindly guessing, the 8 Bush voters I spoke to yesterday at different times of the day 1) did not know what the clear skies act was, had not heard of it even, and 2) knew that "north korea" was bad but did not know why. After the third person responded this way I started tracking it, trying to stay as neutral sounding as I could when I asked. They were all polite conversations, just sad ones.
You make a good point that the whole "intellectual elite" attitude has to go, but you see, that was my point as well, we are together in this.
I can't find the right word. Annoyed? Depressed? Flustered? None of them carry the meaning for me.
This was not Bush's election to win. This was Kerry's election to lose. And man, did he lose.
When will the democratic party realize that they need to get in the game, play it tough? America doesn't want a smarty pants North Eastener with a fake politican smile a mile wide. America obviously responds to the aw shucks grin, the not too einstein but firmly resolved mindset.
When will we realize that whining about problems won't work when the majority of the population doesn't want to think about problems? They want a bed time story, and someone to turn the light on and off for them.
When will the democrats grow a fucking backbone and nominate a real candidate? I swear this makes me think of the axiom that, at heart, democrats are goths. They love losing, and lamenting about losing.
Kerry's campaign was self destructing a week before it won Iowa. I don't think they ever got a campaign together that worked. There was no clear delivery, no clear ideology, NO RESPONSE to the clear Republican attacks. When Kerry won the primary I was flabbergasted. I figured we probably wouldn't win then, but I held out hope, I stood on street corners, I called people, I campaigned.
A 4 million popular vote for an administration that admits no wrong, that has no coherent diplomatic policy, that has no coherent domestic policy. Why? Because 9/11 changed everything? Because we needed to "kick some ass abroad"? These are the responses I get from Bush voters. They don't even know what the Clear Skies act is. They're not familiar with North Korea. We have to find a way to dumb ourselves down into simple ideology. Easy digestible soundbites. It sounds ridiculous but I see no other way -- 1992 was "The Economy, Stupid", nothing else has worked. People don't want to think about problems, they want to eat McD's and watch Joey.
Don't get me wrong, I admire the guy, I'm glad there's true entrepenuers (read: morning wood all day long) guys like him... but come on... try and read between the lines a little! Don't be another mindless hype blowhard!
[disclaimer: i work for a major fortune 500 company with a large, 50+ distributed node WAN]
Everytime there's a big ass Windows vulnerabilty, there are security emails and IT manager emails basically saying "heads up, check your shit." But let's say somebody doesnt check his shit, and a site ends up infected. The WAN group watches the network, especially during times like this, and nodes are just dropped off routing from the rest of the network until they get their act back together.
I realize the article is talking more about the pains of these nasty new infections that mutilate machines, but the old saying works -- a good offense is a great defense. Assign local managers responsibility for the server boxen at their node, he/she should be keeping the machines patched, but when that fails, close the node off the network before it can damage anywhere else.
Of course the major server boxen have their own layer of network between them and the rest of the WAN, so they can be isolated if the worm is already rampant on the network. Doesn't hurt to access list transmission ports, either, icmp, tftp, foo...
How about enforcing fines, penalties, and heck jailtime for all the fuckhead spammers (both V.AGRA and Register.com) who abuse the whois registry data? Or who want to charge you $10 to "protect your privacy" on top of your $10 registration per month? It's a shell game. I wish we still lived in some magical utopian internet bubble where only good geeks(tm) were on the net, but fact is we're up to our elbows in fuckheads and if I have to put in (555) because I don't want to be telemarketed.. well.. do something about the fuckheads and I'll put a good number in.
Mmm... now that's a mature reply.. "Congressmen, it's a principle of fuckheads. Take that to the floor!"
And I own the most popular portable music player, so um, how do they expect to entice me to switch? Like Real did with their half priced songs? ****a please.
I haven't even up(down)graded to WMP 9 yet, it's so sticky with DRM issues.
Yeahhhh, Hi there, so uh, SysAdmin Appreciation Day, huh? That's just great. Great... Yeah. Listen, the VP of Finance just called me, and his daughter's laptop is giving her some weird message, could you get that fixed today at lunch? Yeah.. that would be great, thanks.
I'm all well and good with them hacking a way into the OS to play stuff thru the iPod audio chip.
But what I want to know is have they hacked the display! Will I get to see my all time favorite hits like
Rebuffering...
and Cannot find stream
and Would you like to upgrade to Real 9?
a businessman who guided a digital music on demand distribution (OD2) and download service to success.
Durrr... I dig Peter Gabriel, and I dig this concept, but, uh, success? Can we have any stats to back that up?
In January, it seemed like the store had varying rights per label, delivering only Windows Media songs. Varying DRM'd files with fine print? Ok, I guess people were buying into it when they introduced that penny per streaming song thing.
Outside of that I've seen no press releases or 3rd party sites talking about OD2 as a "success". Are we qualifying it by the fact that they're still here after 6 months? The submission just feels weird to me.. I couldn't even find any stats thru google.
(again, I dig Mr. Gabriel, and I appreciate him and Mr. Eno coming up with a new concept. It's nice for iTunes to have competition.. but I need to see some numbers to endear a service with only DRM'd WM9 files servicing 3-4 countries of the EU as a "success". Even the BBC calls them a success with no numbers!)
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When you a grinding, if a GM suspects botting they will whisper you looking for you to respond. If you don't respond within a reasonable amount of time you get nailed for botting.
Yawn..
Source:w ow-interface-customization&t=330798&tmp=1#post3307 98
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=
Replying to myself replying to myself, just to say I'm not crazy, and that it looks like people bumped it back up, and, well, woa! Still no karma tho. Slashdot users speaking the truth FTW!~! p.s. the css looks kinda good! woo hoo
HA HA! OH my god this couldn't be funnier...
:5 stayed for awhile until.. DUN DUN DUN!!! A /. editor got a little upset with my post.
So, I totally expected this comment to be -1'd into the floor. But to my surprise, the comment actually rocketed to +5 with a Karma+1, and 4 points of Informative/Insightful allong with a -1 Flamebait.
The
Check it out now. Karma bonus is gone. Flamebait , strangely enough, is also gone. Now try to make sense of a +2 post that has a 30% Int / 20% Insightful / 20% informative. Explain THAT math to me.
Nice to see how thick the skin is guys. Way to metamod.
So I'm going to be modded as flamebait here but um, honestly, "This Rocks"? My first reaction is, ABOUT GODAMNED TIME?
I mean, couldn't they have found any time in the past 8 years of triple posting the same article, not performing any due diligence regarding fact checking, etc... to fucking fix their html???
Thanks Rob Malda et all, welcome to the 21st century!
Mod me down, but you know it's true.
".com Pundits" like Om Malik still startle me with how they manage to think they are relevant. I have to wonder if submissions like this are PR agents for Om. He writes some pithy obvious sort of column every few months and gets a few hyperlinks for it, yet to read his bio it sounds like he is a god of the
And with that, the final raping of your childhood memories of Star Wars is now nearly at hand. Grab your wallet, grab your glasses, and grab your ankles.. May is coming sooner than you think!
What time do you have to react? Like if you act now as opposed to two weeks you'll make back your money? Unless you sent the money through a very trusting (read, you do a lot of business with) bank that has some sort of angel stop-payment plan.. you are S O L.
Where is the contract? Whose laws govern it?
You went with a company outside of your country to do a deal..
Why didn't you test what you got first and then pay for it...
I smell FUD... no details here, is this just an anti outsourcing fable?
*slumps*
Firefox: What are you trying to tell me, that I can block pop-ups? Morpheus: I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to. :)
funny
I have nothing terribly insightful to add (been a long day), and as much as I wanted to leave this thread alone (too many trolls trying to bait me), I needed to say how insightful I found your post to me.
thanks. I fear it's folks like us who need to communicate this to the DNC, as I'm not sure they're able to figure it out on their own. Unless this is all a ruse in order to make 2008 really big....?!?
mods go ahead and mod this, I didnt have anyway to contact snopes privately.
Exactly. EXACTLY. How the hell did a draft dodger end up owning the military service issue? I totally blame the campaign. Clinton/Gore had a "war room" of people ready to respond every day to the shitstorm. Where the hell was the campaign this time? How many campaign managers did Kerry go through, was it only two? I think it might have been three.
I'll admit my colors here and say I was a Wesley Clark man. Come on, FOUR STAR GENERAL, RENAISSANCE THINKER (i.e. willing to READ and THINK about new ideas), from **ARKANSAS** with a good religious up bringing? That was a campaign I would've loved to see. I have no doubts properly campaigned that could have been a 60 / 40 split for Clark easy.
Well, sure :) thanks for asking, but I mean, it's on the internet, go nuts with it. If you posted a a link back to the source that would be cool... and er, maybe spell check it.. LOL :)
Ah, but you imply an elitism that I did not put into my post. I am talking realistically, stop the guy next to you in the grocery store, engage him in a conversation about CentCom's strategies in Iraq, see if this conversation can last 5 minutes. It's not that the person is stupid, far from it, he is smart enough to know he doesn't -want- to hear about it, it's all corrupt anyway, and he just wants to buy his burritos.
He (or she) is not a moron, but at the same time, he is not a good "get" for the current style of Democratic campaigning. People don't want to hear what's wrong (say, Dukakis '88), they want to hear everything's going to be "all right."
Hello Anonymous Coward,
Why is it so many people think that if you're not on their side you don't understand the issues at hand? Do you think that everyone who voted for Bush is either a gimp or a masochist? Get real.
I was not blindly guessing, the 8 Bush voters I spoke to yesterday at different times of the day 1) did not know what the clear skies act was, had not heard of it even, and 2) knew that "north korea" was bad but did not know why. After the third person responded this way I started tracking it, trying to stay as neutral sounding as I could when I asked. They were all polite conversations, just sad ones.
You make a good point that the whole "intellectual elite" attitude has to go, but you see, that was my point as well, we are together in this.
I can't find the right word. Annoyed? Depressed? Flustered? None of them carry the meaning for me.
This was not Bush's election to win. This was Kerry's election to lose. And man, did he lose.
When will the democratic party realize that they need to get in the game, play it tough? America doesn't want a smarty pants North Eastener with a fake politican smile a mile wide. America obviously responds to the aw shucks grin, the not too einstein but firmly resolved mindset.
When will we realize that whining about problems won't work when the majority of the population doesn't want to think about problems? They want a bed time story, and someone to turn the light on and off for them.
When will the democrats grow a fucking backbone and nominate a real candidate? I swear this makes me think of the axiom that, at heart, democrats are goths. They love losing, and lamenting about losing.
Kerry's campaign was self destructing a week before it won Iowa. I don't think they ever got a campaign together that worked. There was no clear delivery, no clear ideology, NO RESPONSE to the clear Republican attacks. When Kerry won the primary I was flabbergasted. I figured we probably wouldn't win then, but I held out hope, I stood on street corners, I called people, I campaigned.
A 4 million popular vote for an administration that admits no wrong, that has no coherent diplomatic policy, that has no coherent domestic policy. Why? Because 9/11 changed everything? Because we needed to "kick some ass abroad"? These are the responses I get from Bush voters. They don't even know what the Clear Skies act is. They're not familiar with North Korea. We have to find a way to dumb ourselves down into simple ideology. Easy digestible soundbites. It sounds ridiculous but I see no other way -- 1992 was "The Economy, Stupid", nothing else has worked. People don't want to think about problems, they want to eat McD's and watch Joey.
I'm so... frustrated.
So, uh, it's the same price as a Mini, right?
And the same kind of storage, right?
And it doesn't have iTunes, right?
And it's got those 80's style recessed buttons for navigation, right? 80's style gray looks like, too.
So, the addition of an FM Tuner (i like) makes it a killer?
Has someone been drinking the Richard Branson cappucino?
Don't get me wrong, I admire the guy, I'm glad there's true entrepenuers (read: morning wood all day long) guys like him... but come on... try and read between the lines a little! Don't be another mindless hype blowhard!
[disclaimer: i work for a major fortune 500 company with a large, 50+ distributed node WAN]
Everytime there's a big ass Windows vulnerabilty, there are security emails and IT manager emails basically saying "heads up, check your shit." But let's say somebody doesnt check his shit, and a site ends up infected. The WAN group watches the network, especially during times like this, and nodes are just dropped off routing from the rest of the network until they get their act back together.
I realize the article is talking more about the pains of these nasty new infections that mutilate machines, but the old saying works -- a good offense is a great defense. Assign local managers responsibility for the server boxen at their node, he/she should be keeping the machines patched, but when that fails, close the node off the network before it can damage anywhere else.
Of course the major server boxen have their own layer of network between them and the rest of the WAN, so they can be isolated if the worm is already rampant on the network. Doesn't hurt to access list transmission ports, either, icmp, tftp, foo...
Mr. fuckhead here didn't preview his comment sufficiently, c/month/year :-p
And no, I don't think I should have to pay for a protection racket..
How about enforcing fines, penalties, and heck jailtime for all the fuckhead spammers (both V.AGRA and Register.com) who abuse the whois registry data? Or who want to charge you $10 to "protect your privacy" on top of your $10 registration per month? It's a shell game. I wish we still lived in some magical utopian internet bubble where only good geeks(tm) were on the net, but fact is we're up to our elbows in fuckheads and if I have to put in (555) because I don't want to be telemarketed.. well.. do something about the fuckheads and I'll put a good number in.
Mmm... now that's a mature reply.. "Congressmen, it's a principle of fuckheads. Take that to the floor!"
Uh...durrr... what's secret about your soon to be slashdotted photos? And if they don't get hosed, which marketing agency do you work for?
And I own the most popular portable music player, so um, how do they expect to entice me to switch? Like Real did with their half priced songs? ****a please.
I haven't even up(down)graded to WMP 9 yet, it's so sticky with DRM issues.
Yeahhhh, Hi there, so uh, SysAdmin Appreciation Day, huh? That's just great. Great... Yeah. Listen, the VP of Finance just called me, and his daughter's laptop is giving her some weird message, could you get that fixed today at lunch? Yeah.. that would be great, thanks.
Rebuffering...
and
Cannot find stream
and
Would you like to upgrade to Real 9?
Yay! Thank you! You found a metric! Woohoo! I'm such a nerd for statistics
Durrr... I dig Peter Gabriel, and I dig this concept, but, uh, success? Can we have any stats to back that up?
In January, it seemed like the store had varying rights per label, delivering only Windows Media songs. Varying DRM'd files with fine print? Ok, I guess people were buying into it when they introduced that penny per streaming song thing.
Outside of that I've seen no press releases or 3rd party sites talking about OD2 as a "success". Are we qualifying it by the fact that they're still here after 6 months? The submission just feels weird to me.. I couldn't even find any stats thru google.
(again, I dig Mr. Gabriel, and I appreciate him and Mr. Eno coming up with a new concept. It's nice for iTunes to have competition.. but I need to see some numbers to endear a service with only DRM'd WM9 files servicing 3-4 countries of the EU as a "success". Even the BBC calls them a success with no numbers!)