William Gibson already thought of that idea long ago, in his Sprawl trilogy. I believe it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive, that one of the characters spends all of his time locked up in an abandoned building, trying to find the "shape" of the matrix (aka internet).
As crude as the analogy is, that's roughly the equivlant of saying "Criminals have a right to choose: either they take it up the ass by a 'partner', or they get beaten up and gangraped by lots of people. That's more choice than they have now, so it gives them more freedom."
You're right. Jamming the GPS is a temporary, an ineffective solution. What sort of orbit are those geosynchronous satellites in anyhow? As long as it's a fairly low orbit..heheh..
In regards to the government..the inverse is probably more true: Adults are not allowed to play on "The Slipper Slope" (TM) without child supervision.
Because most of the time, the things legislators come up with are patently stupid even to a child.
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It's gone from being a billion times easier, to a half a billion times easier, to just simply find the person responsible and beat any necessary data out of them with a baseball bat and/or knife. Which is cheaper? Extensive studying of cryptography, thousands of dollars of computers, and an extremely long waiting time in order to brute-force something? Or just buying plane tickets, a blunt object, looking up the person's address on MapQuest, and having Cousin Luigi pay a friendly visit?
And for the full realm of tactical protection, you need to also have a holdout pistol, a combat carbine (AR-15), a long-range rifle (Remington 700), and a nice Mossburg pump 12 ga. And if you're really serious, a good M2HB.50 BMG would probably be ideal for serious home protection. Only problem is, they're already illegal in Kalifornia.
My Colt M1911 Replica has had precisely one feed jam, caused by another user who had never fired a 1911 (probably limp wristing it). I have had zero problems after breaking it in.
My Beretta Storm has had three or four hundred rounds through it, and to my knowledge not a single problem.
Except that you're more likely to have your gun pointed at you than you are to point it at someone else.
I call bullshit. Even if that were true for your average citizen, a police officer may draw his weapon hundreds of times. In an average career, how often does a law enforcement officer face a life-or-death situation? How many such situations occur every year nationwide? A normal firearm of good design, reasonably maintained (ie, you keep it inside the house, and don't run it over with your car more than once or twice a week), will virtually never fail. Ever.
If someone knows you and wants to kill you (ex-lover, family member, etc), it's trivial to pick your front door lock, calmly get your gun, and kill you.
I dunno about you, but I have no ex-lovers or angry family members trying to kill me. However, in the event of a burglary, or when traveling in certain places, or any number of other situations, a gun is an asset, not a threat.
If you have kids, a smart gun is the only way to have a gun in the house anyway. Don't tell me that you're going to unlock your gun cabinet, unlock your ammunition cabinet, and load your firearm while someone is charging at you with a crowbar.
If you're an idiot of a parent, maybe so. It's a relatively recent idea that children are incapable of safely handling firearms, ever. Several famous gun designers had their beginnings as children making primitive firearms for fun. I've known many families whose children grew up safely understanding and appreciating guns. No amount of safety devices can prevent a determined child from getting to a gun; only parenting can stop the child from wanting to play with it. Personally, I would recommend keeping a pistol for defence near the bed, relatively high up off the floor, and not easily visible.
Protect your family. Don't be stupid and macho. Let your television go. Your kids need someone to take care of them.
Guns need not be a threat to your children. Decent parenting, basic firearms safety education, and simple precautions will virtually eliminate any danger of your children harming themselves or others with firearms. But no amount of parenting or education can help you if someone suddenly decides to do you or your family harm.
Police won't touch them. *ANY* firearm with a less than 99% success rate will be refused by any and all law enforcement personnel anywhere in the country. More likely, LE officers would personally want nothing less than 99.99% success rate. Any second-hand piece-of-shit Glock will probably give you an even better reliability rate, assuming no one has tampered with it.
Couldn't they have notified Google first, before going public? Given them time to take action? I don't like the fact that my email is suddenly vulnerable now that everyone and their brother knows how to intercept gmail messages.
I must disagree with your definition of Slashdot as a news discussion site. The basis of/. is it's homepage, a short list of recent posts. The number of editors is very small. Slashdot strongly resembles a blog insofar that the primary distinguishing characteristic is that the comments to each post tend to be very numerous. Beyond that, however, I fail to see any fundamental differences between/. and a really fancy blog.
Short answer: no, it doesn't. MA runs things, and there are clauses in the EULA that say, in essence: what happens in the game is up to MA, they have no legal obligation to recompensate you BEYOND WHAT MONEY YOU HAVE DEPOSITED.
I'm a veteran of PE, and I can answer this: it's been tried.
About two years ago or so, a couple of guys (LIQUIDENFORCER and someone else, as I recall) had a smart plan. They'd steal a credit card, max it out into PE, and then screw around with all of the money (taking some of it out later, I believe).
Only catch was, they didn't realize MA tracks all transactions, and keeps logs of damned near everything. Everyone who traded almost anything with those two, had their accounts suspended for a week or two, and all the transactions were, for the most part, reversed. The moneys were returned to MindArk, and MindArk returned the money to the credit card company. I think I was nearly the only person who profited from it, because one of the two happened to give me a dollar's worth of ammo on a whim, as he was walking by.
So in conclusion: No, there's no way in hell that would work. Because everything is kept track of, they'd know immediately where it went to, and stop it. Sorry.
Ok, you've drawn me out. I'm one of the veterans of PE, so I feel obliged to respond briefly here.
Yes, you're right, this was partly an investment. Honestly, even though I've been playing PE for close to three years now, I do not know Deathifier very well at all. Most of the vets know each other, but he tends to keep quiet, though he's been around for a while. However, the second highest bidder, Neverdie, is fairly wealthy and responsible for the bidding going as high has it did. I can say with confidence that HIS reasons were largely the desire to be prominent in the community, and make money.
Will the game stick around? Well, I've been asking that for close to three years now, and somehow it keeps on ticking. I don't foresee it going out anytime soon. Dunno who, how, or why it continues, but it does. Things keep getting added...albeit slowly. There's plenty still in the works, and a fairly decent sized community. What are the odds of the investment paying off? Hard to say...it depends on a number of factors. Will Deathifier likely get the lots? Yeah, most likely. MA is fairly trustworthy in those matters, although based on how houses have been sold in the past, it'll probably take the better part of a year for all of them to be sold. As for the other things, their value has yet to be seen. It's entirely possible that he might wind up recouping his costs 150%. But, who knows?;)
Quite frankly, most high school kids couldn't give a shit. Nothing you can do is going to excite them, and in all honesty it's a waste of time trying. High School is way, way, way too late to get through to students. Middle school is way, way too late. Elementary school is just too late. To make a difference you need to be starting at a young age, the younger the better. Look at the lives of famous scientists and thinkers, and you'll see that virtually all were in a nuturing environment basically from birth, and that many were exposed to things like science before the age of ten.
Original does not necessarily equate to good. Take a kaleidoscope. Every time you move it, the picture changes, so it's always "original". It doesn't mean it isn't a piece of uninteresting crap. Most of the very best films in history have been rather unoriginal in their basic premises and styles: it's their execution that made them great.
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William Gibson already thought of that idea long ago, in his Sprawl trilogy. I believe it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive, that one of the characters spends all of his time locked up in an abandoned building, trying to find the "shape" of the matrix (aka internet).
As crude as the analogy is, that's roughly the equivlant of saying "Criminals have a right to choose: either they take it up the ass by a 'partner', or they get beaten up and gangraped by lots of people. That's more choice than they have now, so it gives them more freedom."
You're right. Jamming the GPS is a temporary, an ineffective solution. What sort of orbit are those geosynchronous satellites in anyhow? As long as it's a fairly low orbit..heheh..
*looks around nervously*
Ankle monitors only say you've left your house. They don't say whether you went downtown to go to the Communist Party political rally.
In regards to the government..the inverse is probably more true: Adults are not allowed to play on "The Slipper Slope" (TM) without child supervision.
Because most of the time, the things legislators come up with are patently stupid even to a child.
It's gone from being a billion times easier, to a half a billion times easier, to just simply find the person responsible and beat any necessary data out of them with a baseball bat and/or knife. Which is cheaper? Extensive studying of cryptography, thousands of dollars of computers, and an extremely long waiting time in order to brute-force something? Or just buying plane tickets, a blunt object, looking up the person's address on MapQuest, and having Cousin Luigi pay a friendly visit?
Don't wait. Buy it now, before it's too late.
.50 BMG would probably be ideal for serious home protection. Only problem is, they're already illegal in Kalifornia.
And for the full realm of tactical protection, you need to also have a holdout pistol, a combat carbine (AR-15), a long-range rifle (Remington 700), and a nice Mossburg pump 12 ga. And if you're really serious, a good M2HB
I'm not so sure this is a good thing. In any case, it's truly the end of an era. So long, farewell.
Now when you get that phone call shouting "FP!" you'll never really know where it came from.
when all of his supporters act incredibly elitist, saying things like you are, that Republicans are bible thumping rednecks
Lastly, grouping people like that makes you look less intelligent.
Indeed it does!
I dunno, it's not very comfortable to date non-carbon lifeforms. Chafing, and all, y'know.
In return for sharp 200dpi text I'd gladly leave behind cartoonish GUI "features" and even make do with greyscale pr0ns.
Maybe *YOU* would.. *shudder*
Freak! Monochromatophile! Prevert!
Or with part of your hand missing.
My Colt M1911 Replica has had precisely one feed jam, caused by another user who had never fired a 1911 (probably limp wristing it). I have had zero problems after breaking it in.
My Beretta Storm has had three or four hundred rounds through it, and to my knowledge not a single problem.
Except that you're more likely to have your gun pointed at you than you are to point it at someone else.
I call bullshit. Even if that were true for your average citizen, a police officer may draw his weapon hundreds of times. In an average career, how often does a law enforcement officer face a life-or-death situation? How many such situations occur every year nationwide? A normal firearm of good design, reasonably maintained (ie, you keep it inside the house, and don't run it over with your car more than once or twice a week), will virtually never fail. Ever.
If someone knows you and wants to kill you (ex-lover, family member, etc), it's trivial to pick your front door lock, calmly get your gun, and kill you.
I dunno about you, but I have no ex-lovers or angry family members trying to kill me. However, in the event of a burglary, or when traveling in certain places, or any number of other situations, a gun is an asset, not a threat.
If you have kids, a smart gun is the only way to have a gun in the house anyway. Don't tell me that you're going to unlock your gun cabinet, unlock your ammunition cabinet, and load your firearm while someone is charging at you with a crowbar.
If you're an idiot of a parent, maybe so. It's a relatively recent idea that children are incapable of safely handling firearms, ever. Several famous gun designers had their beginnings as children making primitive firearms for fun. I've known many families whose children grew up safely understanding and appreciating guns. No amount of safety devices can prevent a determined child from getting to a gun; only parenting can stop the child from wanting to play with it. Personally, I would recommend keeping a pistol for defence near the bed, relatively high up off the floor, and not easily visible.
Protect your family. Don't be stupid and macho. Let your television go. Your kids need someone to take care of them.
Guns need not be a threat to your children. Decent parenting, basic firearms safety education, and simple precautions will virtually eliminate any danger of your children harming themselves or others with firearms. But no amount of parenting or education can help you if someone suddenly decides to do you or your family harm.
Police won't touch them. *ANY* firearm with a less than 99% success rate will be refused by any and all law enforcement personnel anywhere in the country. More likely, LE officers would personally want nothing less than 99.99% success rate. Any second-hand piece-of-shit Glock will probably give you an even better reliability rate, assuming no one has tampered with it.
Oh shit!
Couldn't they have notified Google first, before going public? Given them time to take action? I don't like the fact that my email is suddenly vulnerable now that everyone and their brother knows how to intercept gmail messages.
And you don't want to know about Monday..
I must disagree with your definition of Slashdot as a news discussion site. The basis of /. is it's homepage, a short list of recent posts. The number of editors is very small. Slashdot strongly resembles a blog insofar that the primary distinguishing characteristic is that the comments to each post tend to be very numerous. Beyond that, however, I fail to see any fundamental differences between /. and a really fancy blog.
I'm a veteran of PE.
Short answer: no, it doesn't. MA runs things, and there are clauses in the EULA that say, in essence: what happens in the game is up to MA, they have no legal obligation to recompensate you BEYOND WHAT MONEY YOU HAVE DEPOSITED.
I'm a veteran of PE.
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;)
I deposited $75, total. Actually, I only deposited it on a whim to see if it would change my loots (it didn't
I could sell everything on my accounts right now, and be guaranteed of almost $2,000 USD.
So tell me, how am I stupid here?
I'm a veteran of PE, and I can answer this: it's been tried.
About two years ago or so, a couple of guys (LIQUIDENFORCER and someone else, as I recall) had a smart plan. They'd steal a credit card, max it out into PE, and then screw around with all of the money (taking some of it out later, I believe).
Only catch was, they didn't realize MA tracks all transactions, and keeps logs of damned near everything. Everyone who traded almost anything with those two, had their accounts suspended for a week or two, and all the transactions were, for the most part, reversed. The moneys were returned to MindArk, and MindArk returned the money to the credit card company. I think I was nearly the only person who profited from it, because one of the two happened to give me a dollar's worth of ammo on a whim, as he was walking by.
So in conclusion: No, there's no way in hell that would work. Because everything is kept track of, they'd know immediately where it went to, and stop it. Sorry.
Ok, you've drawn me out. I'm one of the veterans of PE, so I feel obliged to respond briefly here.
;)
Yes, you're right, this was partly an investment. Honestly, even though I've been playing PE for close to three years now, I do not know Deathifier very well at all. Most of the vets know each other, but he tends to keep quiet, though he's been around for a while. However, the second highest bidder, Neverdie, is fairly wealthy and responsible for the bidding going as high has it did. I can say with confidence that HIS reasons were largely the desire to be prominent in the community, and make money.
Will the game stick around? Well, I've been asking that for close to three years now, and somehow it keeps on ticking. I don't foresee it going out anytime soon. Dunno who, how, or why it continues, but it does. Things keep getting added...albeit slowly. There's plenty still in the works, and a fairly decent sized community. What are the odds of the investment paying off? Hard to say...it depends on a number of factors. Will Deathifier likely get the lots? Yeah, most likely. MA is fairly trustworthy in those matters, although based on how houses have been sold in the past, it'll probably take the better part of a year for all of them to be sold. As for the other things, their value has yet to be seen. It's entirely possible that he might wind up recouping his costs 150%. But, who knows?
Quite frankly, most high school kids couldn't give a shit. Nothing you can do is going to excite them, and in all honesty it's a waste of time trying. High School is way, way, way too late to get through to students. Middle school is way, way too late. Elementary school is just too late. To make a difference you need to be starting at a young age, the younger the better. Look at the lives of famous scientists and thinkers, and you'll see that virtually all were in a nuturing environment basically from birth, and that many were exposed to things like science before the age of ten.
Mucho bien. We'll look into this immediately. Gracias, amigo!
-Your Friends to the South
Original does not necessarily equate to good. Take a kaleidoscope. Every time you move it, the picture changes, so it's always "original". It doesn't mean it isn't a piece of uninteresting crap. Most of the very best films in history have been rather unoriginal in their basic premises and styles: it's their execution that made them great.
What makes you so certain your brain needs that much bandwidth? :P