Your cell phone company can do this. When my wife's phone was stolen, they gave me a complete list of the numbers that had been called and the street that the user was currently driving down while talking. This was like 3 years ago. It just so happened that the phone was in a really bad part of town and all of the people they were talking to had Russian last names. I decided against tracking the phone down myself:-P
It may be that the existing article is pretty bad, but isn't that better than nothing? You can probably get a decent idea of what the event is about, and in most cases that's all that is necessary. If it's a popular subject, the article will eventually be polished up and turned into something.
"All the new instances are level 60 instances, and that's not fair to people who are just starting-- they deserve new content too."
That doesn't make any sense at all. If they were just starting, the old content would be new to them. The old content is actually pretty freaking amazing, too.
You're comparing computer problems with people who are starving to death. It's not like there isn't enough food or resources in the world to take care of everyone, it's a matter of getting it to the people in need. Charities like the Gates Foundation are making a huge difference for some people. Your argument is stupid.
This is a terrible idea. We don't want to give the govornment any more control than they already have over the Internet. When they're paying the bill, they say what goes. Keep it private. We don't want any more censorship.
- Why use custom widgets? Does Windows not include a scrollbar widget?
You can scroll through your search results here (all of them) without changing pages. I'm not pro-MS, but I would love to see Google do the same thing in the near future. It looks like it would be really useful, if it worked.
Why is the custom scrollbar completely broken? Why does the scrollbar not indicate how far through the search results I am? Why can I not drag it easily?
This is completely different. The Hotmail hack allowed anyone to view anyone else's Hotmail account, with nothing more than a username. The Gmail hack allowed someone with access to another person's web traffic or hard drive to get access to their Gmail account. If you give them that much, you might as well give them your password as well, just for convenience' sake.
2. Article I Section II establishes the disparate value of free whites and "all other persons":
"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."
Aside from excluding Native Americans from the census (they weren't and in many cases still aren't citizens of the USA) it seems that they were just giving a break to states with a high population of slaves. It doesn't mention race. The point is, free black people seem to be given the same value here as whites. Not that it has anything to do with the main topic...
Computers don't think. We developed the most efficient interface for communicating what we needed. Just because other people aren't interested in efficiency doesn't mean that our way isn't better.
Cedega doesn't work for many of the games that have a 4/5 functionality rating in the transgaming compatiblility websites. Every year I read the hype, load a newer distro, fight my way through installing video drivers, install the latest Cedega/Point2Play and spend 20 hours banging my head against the brick wall before going back to Windoze.
I'm no photo expert, which I suppose is the point of this article. I'm also no Microsoft fan. But I do have Office XP on my desktop at work, and I use Microsoft Picture Manager to touch up my pictures. For just brightening and resizing photos, it's remarkably easy to use. The hardest part is getting Picture Manager to locate your photo. You can select a group of pictures and auto-correct for brightness, and it actually makes dark pictures viewable. I remember spending half an hour learning how to make a picture look decent in Photoshop. You can select a group of pictures and auto-resize, compress, and email to a friend. I'm sure it's got lousy "features" as well, but for my extremely simple needs, it's adequate. In fact, I'm ashamed to admit that it's quite handy.
On the contrary. I have a house, a wife and two kids to feed and take care of, and I applaud you for being determined giving them top priority. That means standing firm when management keeps asking for more.
I'm pretty sure he's not actually planning to spend that time with your wife. If he is, YOU should be concerned!
>>As a privacy safeguard, no single person or agency will be able to access all contents of a file.
>And so what if one malicious worker has exclusive rights to view several hundred children? It doesn't matter if they have access to the whole database or not, even a "small pecentage" could be several hundred or thousand children. This is a pedaphile's ultimate dream.
I think this is a stupid idea as well, but the wording here obviously has to do with a single child's file, not a single database file. You don't need to take things out of context and make it sound worse than it is. It's bad enough already, without that.
"Brinks won't call the police first. If so, they'd be shutdown by the city due to fines for excessive false alarms. Brinks sends a car to your house with a non-police security officer. If that officer decides that the police are needed, then Brinks calls the police."
We made the mistake of going with a low bid for the security system at my small business. The alarm went off several times in the middle of the night for various reasons as they worked the bugs out of the system. Each time, the alarm company called the police. The police eventually told us that they would start charging us around $350 per incident to roll a car to our facility for a false positive. We told the alarm company to call me instead.
No fines for the alarm company, no fines for us, just fair warning that they would have to start charging us to check our building when the alarm went off in the middle of the night because our cheap infrared sensors couldn't tell the difference between a person and an air conditioning system turning on.
Why do people insist on making things up just to look insightful on slashdot.
I remember when I first discovered how to bomb someone's sector with genesis torpedos. Oh, the drama! I was 12 years old at the time. Humorus at that age to have 30-40 year old people threatening to find you and kill you IRL over a game. Unfortunately, the other corporation all had $500 "lifer" accounts. The sysop restored backups and suspended my access to the game.
This attitude just drives me insane. If you aren't smart enough to find a reputable source to download things from, you should not be on The Internets, sir. The computer you purchased for $2500 from Gateway does not say "Fisher Price" on the side.
The solution to the spyware/malware problem is twofold. The browser needs to be foolproof in that a malicious website will not be able to install something without the user being notified that, yes, they're allowing something to run on their computer. But 99% of the problem is just plain stupidity on the part of the user. If you go to the porno site that says "You must install our plugin in order to get xxx videos of Britney Spears!!!11!!" and actually click "accept", you deserve to have your computer melted down.
The spyware problem won't go away until the OS takes away our freedom (this is a bad thing, don't do it) or the users get smarter. It doesn't matter if you have to put in the root password to install things. Sure, it would help, but for the most part people know that they're doing something they shouldn't do, and they do it anyway.
I hate to break it to you, but when you do repetitive things IRL, the same sort of stuff happens. I'll be driving home from 10 hours of snowboarding and start judging different hills and drifts alongside the road for the right approach or whatever... I've never tried to hit one (I'm still here, aren't I?) but I suppose if I was tired enough or if my brain wasn't functioning correctly, the urge is there, it could happen.
Definte challenging. World of Warcraft is easy in the sense that you don't need to check the guide online in order to complete the quests. I can't speak for EQ, but in Dark Age of Camelot, quests often consited of spending 2 hours on a horse which lead up to a 2 minute fight. Or finding a mob that rarely spawns and is hard to see. Or finding a 100x100 space in a 65,000x65,000 unit zone with the hint "it's in the northwest section". That sort of thing is retarded. If I wanted to do that I'd have my wife throw my car keys out in the middle of the field next to my house evey morning, and then send me after them blindfolded. In World of Warcraft, quests are fun. The hard part is, as Dragoon412 put it, getting the folks in your group to do the right thing. That's the best challenge, imo. It shouldn't be difficult to make your character do what you're envisioning. The hard part should be cooperation, and devising a strategy for whatever it is you're facing.
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Your cell phone company can do this. When my wife's phone was stolen, they gave me a complete list of the numbers that had been called and the street that the user was currently driving down while talking. This was like 3 years ago. It just so happened that the phone was in a really bad part of town and all of the people they were talking to had Russian last names. I decided against tracking the phone down myself :-P
It may be that the existing article is pretty bad, but isn't that better than nothing? You can probably get a decent idea of what the event is about, and in most cases that's all that is necessary. If it's a popular subject, the article will eventually be polished up and turned into something.
"All the new instances are level 60 instances, and that's not fair to people who are just starting-- they deserve new content too."
That doesn't make any sense at all. If they were just starting, the old content would be new to them. The old content is actually pretty freaking amazing, too.
You're comparing computer problems with people who are starving to death. It's not like there isn't enough food or resources in the world to take care of everyone, it's a matter of getting it to the people in need. Charities like the Gates Foundation are making a huge difference for some people. Your argument is stupid.
Your sig is missing the all important "one", as in "ZOMGWTFPWNKKTHNXBIBI!!!!111one!!!"
This is a terrible idea. We don't want to give the govornment any more control than they already have over the Internet. When they're paying the bill, they say what goes. Keep it private. We don't want any more censorship.
You can scroll through your search results here (all of them) without changing pages. I'm not pro-MS, but I would love to see Google do the same thing in the near future. It looks like it would be really useful, if it worked.
Why is the custom scrollbar completely broken? Why does the scrollbar not indicate how far through the search results I am? Why can I not drag it easily?
Maybe in Google's version it will actually work.
This is completely different. The Hotmail hack allowed anyone to view anyone else's Hotmail account, with nothing more than a username. The Gmail hack allowed someone with access to another person's web traffic or hard drive to get access to their Gmail account. If you give them that much, you might as well give them your password as well, just for convenience' sake.
2. Article I Section II establishes the disparate value of free whites and "all other persons":
"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."
Aside from excluding Native Americans from the census (they weren't and in many cases still aren't citizens of the USA) it seems that they were just giving a break to states with a high population of slaves. It doesn't mention race. The point is, free black people seem to be given the same value here as whites. Not that it has anything to do with the main topic...
Computers don't think. We developed the most efficient interface for communicating what we needed. Just because other people aren't interested in efficiency doesn't mean that our way isn't better.
Cedega doesn't work for many of the games that have a 4/5 functionality rating in the transgaming compatiblility websites. Every year I read the hype, load a newer distro, fight my way through installing video drivers, install the latest Cedega/Point2Play and spend 20 hours banging my head against the brick wall before going back to Windoze.
It's not a good solution for gamers yet.
I'm no photo expert, which I suppose is the point of this article. I'm also no Microsoft fan. But I do have Office XP on my desktop at work, and I use Microsoft Picture Manager to touch up my pictures. For just brightening and resizing photos, it's remarkably easy to use. The hardest part is getting Picture Manager to locate your photo. You can select a group of pictures and auto-correct for brightness, and it actually makes dark pictures viewable. I remember spending half an hour learning how to make a picture look decent in Photoshop. You can select a group of pictures and auto-resize, compress, and email to a friend. I'm sure it's got lousy "features" as well, but for my extremely simple needs, it's adequate. In fact, I'm ashamed to admit that it's quite handy.
On the contrary. I have a house, a wife and two kids to feed and take care of, and I applaud you for being determined giving them top priority. That means standing firm when management keeps asking for more.
I'm pretty sure he's not actually planning to spend that time with your wife. If he is, YOU should be concerned!
>>As a privacy safeguard, no single person or agency will be able to access all contents of a file.
>And so what if one malicious worker has exclusive rights to view several hundred children? It doesn't matter if they have access to the whole database or not, even a "small pecentage" could be several hundred or thousand children. This is a pedaphile's ultimate dream.
I think this is a stupid idea as well, but the wording here obviously has to do with a single child's file, not a single database file. You don't need to take things out of context and make it sound worse than it is. It's bad enough already, without that.
"Brinks won't call the police first. If so, they'd be shutdown by the city due to fines for excessive false alarms. Brinks sends a car to your house with a non-police security officer. If that officer decides that the police are needed, then Brinks calls the police."
We made the mistake of going with a low bid for the security system at my small business. The alarm went off several times in the middle of the night for various reasons as they worked the bugs out of the system. Each time, the alarm company called the police. The police eventually told us that they would start charging us around $350 per incident to roll a car to our facility for a false positive. We told the alarm company to call me instead.
No fines for the alarm company, no fines for us, just fair warning that they would have to start charging us to check our building when the alarm went off in the middle of the night because our cheap infrared sensors couldn't tell the difference between a person and an air conditioning system turning on.
Why do people insist on making things up just to look insightful on slashdot.
I remember when I first discovered how to bomb someone's sector with genesis torpedos. Oh, the drama! I was 12 years old at the time. Humorus at that age to have 30-40 year old people threatening to find you and kill you IRL over a game. Unfortunately, the other corporation all had $500 "lifer" accounts. The sysop restored backups and suspended my access to the game.
Actually, it was Telix. Not Telex. And I still miss it.
Note to Slashdot editors: Slashdot.org is NOT the site to check when looking for new stories.
I didn't learn english by hearing. But by reading
I'm pretty sure that should be a comma, not a period. Learn the language, noob!
How could they! Somebody must think of the children.
This attitude just drives me insane. If you aren't smart enough to find a reputable source to download things from, you should not be on The Internets, sir. The computer you purchased for $2500 from Gateway does not say "Fisher Price" on the side.
The solution to the spyware/malware problem is twofold. The browser needs to be foolproof in that a malicious website will not be able to install something without the user being notified that, yes, they're allowing something to run on their computer. But 99% of the problem is just plain stupidity on the part of the user. If you go to the porno site that says "You must install our plugin in order to get xxx videos of Britney Spears!!!11!!" and actually click "accept", you deserve to have your computer melted down.
The spyware problem won't go away until the OS takes away our freedom (this is a bad thing, don't do it) or the users get smarter. It doesn't matter if you have to put in the root password to install things. Sure, it would help, but for the most part people know that they're doing something they shouldn't do, and they do it anyway.
game over.
Let me get this straight. You're posting on slashdot and insinuating that people don't really need porn, and you expect to be taken seriously?
I hate to break it to you, but when you do repetitive things IRL, the same sort of stuff happens. I'll be driving home from 10 hours of snowboarding and start judging different hills and drifts alongside the road for the right approach or whatever... I've never tried to hit one (I'm still here, aren't I?) but I suppose if I was tired enough or if my brain wasn't functioning correctly, the urge is there, it could happen.
It's not just gaming, it's whatever you do.
Definte challenging. World of Warcraft is easy in the sense that you don't need to check the guide online in order to complete the quests. I can't speak for EQ, but in Dark Age of Camelot, quests often consited of spending 2 hours on a horse which lead up to a 2 minute fight. Or finding a mob that rarely spawns and is hard to see. Or finding a 100x100 space in a 65,000x65,000 unit zone with the hint "it's in the northwest section". That sort of thing is retarded. If I wanted to do that I'd have my wife throw my car keys out in the middle of the field next to my house evey morning, and then send me after them blindfolded. In World of Warcraft, quests are fun. The hard part is, as Dragoon412 put it, getting the folks in your group to do the right thing. That's the best challenge, imo. It shouldn't be difficult to make your character do what you're envisioning. The hard part should be cooperation, and devising a strategy for whatever it is you're facing.