Early onset of puberty may be related to diet in general, altogether separate from bovine hormones. It's known that obese children typically reach puberty earlier than children of normal weight.
I'd be impressed if they managed to get the thing to be street legal and then got license plates for it.
Police Officer: "Dispatch, I need you to run a plate for me." Dispatch: "Go ahead." Police Officer: "Adam Charlie Robert, Six Three Three Zero. It's a blue 1983 Barca." Dispatch: "Reported stolen 27 January '06." Police Officer: "I'm in pursuit. Send me some backup."
Moments later....
Police Officer: "TC! TC! 10-52! Oh, the humanity!!"
And what about the Christian WoW guilds? Will Blizzard shut them down too?
Straw man. Blizzard has already said that gay-friendly guilds are fine - it's the advertisement in-game of guilds based around RL controversies like sexual orientation, religion, nationality, etc., that is not. They've also said that if guilds wish to recruit based specifically on these qualities (and can do it without disparaging those of differing qualities), they are welcome to use the official guild recruiting forum on their website (an out-of-game resource) to do so.
The letter linked in the OP wasn't actually a motion for summary judgment, but rather a request for a conference at which they would (if necessary) present said motion, which would contain all the requisite legal mumbo jumbo. Most likely, the RIAA will settle for the minimal attorney's fees that have been racked up so far at that conference, and we'll never hear anything about this case again (unfortunately).
There is no official method for incorporating third-party software whatsoever. Blizzard stands in strict opposition to the use of any third-party software for interfering with normal gameplay.
They do, however, have an internal scripting facility and API for the user interface, but it *does not* allow things like teleport hacking - it's solely an API for the UI. There have been some UI mods made that Blizzard has said they aren't too keen on, but they haven't banned anyone for using those UI mods. They do sometimes change the API to disable certain features, though.
isn't a good reason for them to load my machine with what is basically malware.
I'm assuming you're talking about Warden. It's not malware - that's a perversion of the facts cooked up by the WoW!Sharp guys and Greg Hoglund because Warden put their third-party software out of business (literally - they were charging users for it, and had to abandon it due to obvious unmarketability when the developers all got banned). Warden only runs while you're playing WoW, it doesn't report back personally identifiable information, and the user is informed ahead of time that the software is going to run. It's really no more egregious than a virus scanner. If, knowing all that, you still don't like it, your remedy is not to play the game.
Teleport hacking is rampant in WoW, and it's accomplished through the use of third-party programs.
In one case, the problem was bad enough that Blizzard disabled a quest that was being abused to gain massive XP and fairly decent items. The limiting factor in repeating the quest was the travel time between the quest item and the turn-in point, so with a teleport hack, you effectively reduce that time from about 15-20 minutes to 30 seconds. There are also numerous complaints on the official forums about people using teleport hacks to go to mineral nodes while popping them just underneath the terrain, making them invulnerable to attack; as well as people using teleport hacks in one of the battlegrounds to capture all of the battleground nodes before the gates open to let the players into the battleground.
vBulletin includes such a feature, called "Tachy Goes to Coventry". It lets specified users post to the forums all they want, but they're the only ones who ever see their posts. No clue where the name comes from, though.
Somebody tell Maury Povich about this! There are tons of jilted men and women out there just waiting to find out if their spouses cheated on them, and with an MRI lie detector, Maury can find out for sure. Now that's quality television!
I don't think 3RR is automatic, though. If it's obvious that the person doing the edits is the one causing the problem, rather than the one doing the reverts, for example, then the appropriate person gets banned.
It is par for the course to vet, review and approve a federal employees public remarks when they are speaking for their employer. This is not what is happening here. Hansen speech is being restricted because he says things Bush does not like.
Except it is what's happening here. If a federal employee wants to say something that goes along with policy and is speaking as an employee of the government, there's no reason to censor it, because it's merely a restatement of decided policy. If that federal employee wants to say something contrary to policy, he'd better do it on his own time and his own dime. This is the way the government has worked for ages.
In fact, the only difference between this situation and other similar situations is that you don't like Bush and are all too happy to incite FUD against him.
Actually, 3mg is far, far more than what you really need if you want to adjust your time schedule and have several days to do it, or if you have a naturally abnormal sleep pattern (synchronized but delayed, or even free-running) that is currently correct and you want to maintain it.
The idea is that you take a very small dose (0.05-0.5mg) of melatonin a certain number of hours before your natural melatonin release would occur, and this acts to cause your body to think that your natural melatonin release has already begun, meaning that the next night, the natural release will start earlier. You can shift your time schedule in this fashion. Similarly, you can delay your sleep by taking a very small dose after you wake up, so that your body thinks that your natural melatonin release occurred later. Once you get your sleep schedule in the right place, a well-timed very small dose is effective at preventing your natural tendency to advance or delay the onset of sleep.
This method has proven clinically effective even in blind patients, whose retinas release melatonin on a completely free-running schedule because they never receive the light stimulus to suppress melatonin release which synchronizes them with the 24-hour day.
However, a large dose of melatonin (5-10mg) will still be present in the bloodstream well beyond the onset of sleep (if you're trying to advance it), which can cause the melatonin to be present not only during the advancement phase but also during the delay phase, which can cause the effects on your natural sleep schedule to be unpredictable (it advances the natural onset of sleep in some people, delays it in some, and has varying or no effects in others).
By the way, please note that I'm not denying that large doses are effective for use as a sedative for a one-shot get-me-to-sleep-now treatment - I'm just saying that small doses can be effective for manipulating one's sleep schedule in a more delicate manner.
Can anyone point me to a freeware/spyware-free something that will extract video from a.swf? Apparently, embedding your video in a Flash widget is the New Hot Thing on teh Intarweb, which is of course problematic for people who don't use Flash.
How so? I don't see anywhere in the article where a lawyer disagrees with me. In fact, the article does a poor job of wading down into the details behind the (il)legalities of what's being done:
Such sellers are making money from copies of content they purchased. Though on the surface that might seem the same as selling pirated copies of CDs and DVDs, the legalities aren't clear-cut, say experts in digital copyright law.
They completely fail to distinguish between the "first sale" doctrine (they don't even mention it) which allows you to resell a CD you've purchased, and what the iPod guy is doing (he almost certainly didn't buy a separate copy of the 11k+ songs for each iPod he sells).
This really isn't a fair use issue at all. If he were charging to pick up someone's CD collection, transcode them, and load them up onto an iPod, it would be an issue of fair use. If he were doing that except instead of loading each CD individually, he was taking them from a pre-transcoded library, it would be an issue of fair use (though perhaps more shaky, considering past rulings). But this is just plain old copyright infringement, and for profit, no less.
What the OP neglected to mention is that Blizzard already had to take extreme measures to prevent players from other servers from crowding into Medivh to rubberneck. They not only closed character creation on Medivh (and a crapload of other servers), but also ported characters less than level 30 out of the relevant zone in an effort to reduce crowding.
What's unclear from the story as posted is whether the fault here is solely Blizzard's fault or whether players with no affiliation with the Medivh server caused the overcrowding and subsequent crashes.
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Early onset of puberty may be related to diet in general, altogether separate from bovine hormones. It's known that obese children typically reach puberty earlier than children of normal weight.
When did our society define the age at which these acts should first occur?
I think the point is that self-destructive acts aren't ever supposed to occur at all.
I'd be impressed if they managed to get the thing to be street legal and then got license plates for it.
Police Officer: "Dispatch, I need you to run a plate for me."
Dispatch: "Go ahead."
Police Officer: "Adam Charlie Robert, Six Three Three Zero. It's a blue 1983 Barca."
Dispatch: "Reported stolen 27 January '06."
Police Officer: "I'm in pursuit. Send me some backup."
Moments later....
Police Officer: "TC! TC! 10-52! Oh, the humanity!!"
The straw man is the claim that Blizzard is banning these guilds, which, while it would be a much easier thing to decry, isn't actually true.
And what about the Christian WoW guilds? Will Blizzard shut them down too?
Straw man. Blizzard has already said that gay-friendly guilds are fine - it's the advertisement in-game of guilds based around RL controversies like sexual orientation, religion, nationality, etc., that is not. They've also said that if guilds wish to recruit based specifically on these qualities (and can do it without disparaging those of differing qualities), they are welcome to use the official guild recruiting forum on their website (an out-of-game resource) to do so.
The letter linked in the OP wasn't actually a motion for summary judgment, but rather a request for a conference at which they would (if necessary) present said motion, which would contain all the requisite legal mumbo jumbo. Most likely, the RIAA will settle for the minimal attorney's fees that have been racked up so far at that conference, and we'll never hear anything about this case again (unfortunately).
Well, I had a lawyer but it caught a virus and it crashed, so I switched to Linux.
I hear the Open Briefs movement is really picking up steam these days.
They want Jewish people who were pissed about Episode 1 to join in.
And here I thought being pissed off about Episode 1 was something that transcended racial and ethnic boundaries.
There is no official method for incorporating third-party software whatsoever. Blizzard stands in strict opposition to the use of any third-party software for interfering with normal gameplay.
They do, however, have an internal scripting facility and API for the user interface, but it *does not* allow things like teleport hacking - it's solely an API for the UI. There have been some UI mods made that Blizzard has said they aren't too keen on, but they haven't banned anyone for using those UI mods. They do sometimes change the API to disable certain features, though.
isn't a good reason for them to load my machine with what is basically malware.
I'm assuming you're talking about Warden. It's not malware - that's a perversion of the facts cooked up by the WoW!Sharp guys and Greg Hoglund because Warden put their third-party software out of business (literally - they were charging users for it, and had to abandon it due to obvious unmarketability when the developers all got banned). Warden only runs while you're playing WoW, it doesn't report back personally identifiable information, and the user is informed ahead of time that the software is going to run. It's really no more egregious than a virus scanner. If, knowing all that, you still don't like it, your remedy is not to play the game.
Teleport hacking is rampant in WoW, and it's accomplished through the use of third-party programs.
In one case, the problem was bad enough that Blizzard disabled a quest that was being abused to gain massive XP and fairly decent items. The limiting factor in repeating the quest was the travel time between the quest item and the turn-in point, so with a teleport hack, you effectively reduce that time from about 15-20 minutes to 30 seconds. There are also numerous complaints on the official forums about people using teleport hacks to go to mineral nodes while popping them just underneath the terrain, making them invulnerable to attack; as well as people using teleport hacks in one of the battlegrounds to capture all of the battleground nodes before the gates open to let the players into the battleground.
Makes me wonder what they are hiding.
Er, the game. From cheaters.
vBulletin includes such a feature, called "Tachy Goes to Coventry". It lets specified users post to the forums all they want, but they're the only ones who ever see their posts. No clue where the name comes from, though.
Somebody tell Maury Povich about this! There are tons of jilted men and women out there just waiting to find out if their spouses cheated on them, and with an MRI lie detector, Maury can find out for sure. Now that's quality television!
I don't think 3RR is automatic, though. If it's obvious that the person doing the edits is the one causing the problem, rather than the one doing the reverts, for example, then the appropriate person gets banned.
It is par for the course to vet, review and approve a federal employees public remarks when they are speaking for their employer. This is not what is happening here. Hansen speech is being restricted because he says things Bush does not like.
Except it is what's happening here. If a federal employee wants to say something that goes along with policy and is speaking as an employee of the government, there's no reason to censor it, because it's merely a restatement of decided policy. If that federal employee wants to say something contrary to policy, he'd better do it on his own time and his own dime. This is the way the government has worked for ages.
In fact, the only difference between this situation and other similar situations is that you don't like Bush and are all too happy to incite FUD against him.
AMANDA's larger successor, called IceCube,
Also seen in such blockbuster hits as Boyz n the Nucleus, Three Quarks, and xXx: State of the Quantum.
Actually, 3mg is far, far more than what you really need if you want to adjust your time schedule and have several days to do it, or if you have a naturally abnormal sleep pattern (synchronized but delayed, or even free-running) that is currently correct and you want to maintain it.
9 1.asp for more information.
The idea is that you take a very small dose (0.05-0.5mg) of melatonin a certain number of hours before your natural melatonin release would occur, and this acts to cause your body to think that your natural melatonin release has already begun, meaning that the next night, the natural release will start earlier. You can shift your time schedule in this fashion. Similarly, you can delay your sleep by taking a very small dose after you wake up, so that your body thinks that your natural melatonin release occurred later. Once you get your sleep schedule in the right place, a well-timed very small dose is effective at preventing your natural tendency to advance or delay the onset of sleep.
This method has proven clinically effective even in blind patients, whose retinas release melatonin on a completely free-running schedule because they never receive the light stimulus to suppress melatonin release which synchronizes them with the 24-hour day.
However, a large dose of melatonin (5-10mg) will still be present in the bloodstream well beyond the onset of sleep (if you're trying to advance it), which can cause the melatonin to be present not only during the advancement phase but also during the delay phase, which can cause the effects on your natural sleep schedule to be unpredictable (it advances the natural onset of sleep in some people, delays it in some, and has varying or no effects in others).
See http://www.dialogues-cns.org/brochures/19/htm/19_
By the way, please note that I'm not denying that large doses are effective for use as a sedative for a one-shot get-me-to-sleep-now treatment - I'm just saying that small doses can be effective for manipulating one's sleep schedule in a more delicate manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_dance
And it's free, too!
The point here is to get kids to do aerobic exercise. Sitting on a bench waiting for your turn at the plate just doesn't get your heart pumping.
Can anyone point me to a freeware/spyware-free something that will extract video from a .swf? Apparently, embedding your video in a Flash widget is the New Hot Thing on teh Intarweb, which is of course problematic for people who don't use Flash.
How so? I don't see anywhere in the article where a lawyer disagrees with me. In fact, the article does a poor job of wading down into the details behind the (il)legalities of what's being done:
Such sellers are making money from copies of content they purchased. Though on the surface that might seem the same as selling pirated copies of CDs and DVDs, the legalities aren't clear-cut, say experts in digital copyright law.
They completely fail to distinguish between the "first sale" doctrine (they don't even mention it) which allows you to resell a CD you've purchased, and what the iPod guy is doing (he almost certainly didn't buy a separate copy of the 11k+ songs for each iPod he sells).
This really isn't a fair use issue at all. If he were charging to pick up someone's CD collection, transcode them, and load them up onto an iPod, it would be an issue of fair use. If he were doing that except instead of loading each CD individually, he was taking them from a pre-transcoded library, it would be an issue of fair use (though perhaps more shaky, considering past rulings). But this is just plain old copyright infringement, and for profit, no less.
What the OP neglected to mention is that Blizzard already had to take extreme measures to prevent players from other servers from crowding into Medivh to rubberneck. They not only closed character creation on Medivh (and a crapload of other servers), but also ported characters less than level 30 out of the relevant zone in an effort to reduce crowding.
What's unclear from the story as posted is whether the fault here is solely Blizzard's fault or whether players with no affiliation with the Medivh server caused the overcrowding and subsequent crashes.
Well, apparently even Roland hasn't noticed the nofollow attrib, so it should be no surprise that lots of other Slashdotters haven't either.
I think Horowitz has his work cut out for him, if that's his goal.