If a country road ten miles from the nearest house is marked with a 35mph speed limit, my guess is that the road is in remarkably poor condition or is extremely curvy, so going 45mph would be more dangerous.
I'm not saying it'd necessarily get you killed or anything, but in most cases there really is a reason that a road has a particular posted speed limit.
In Russia, some scientists have discovered through selective breeding of foxes that it doesn't take very long for a significant change in an animal population to occur. They managed to obtain domesticated foxes within four decades and 30-some-odd generations. They also discovered that, while selecting solely based on behavioral traits in an attempt to get domesticated foxes, the foxes also developed traits such as unusual splotchy coloring and other dog-like features.
It's also been suggested that splotchy patterns on a lot of domesticated animals (cows, horses, dogs, cats) are the result of physical traits being developed that are genetically linked to domestication.
Professionals in the field of authentication already know that it's a much stronger method of authentication to require two out of three of something you know, something you are, and something you have.
But BoA's new system is just something you know, something else you know, another something you know, and yet another something you know. Unfortunately, teh Intarweb combined with the hardware that home users normally have isn't really suited for doing anything more than this, and even if you did have (say) a smart card reader to use with a bank-issued smart card, there's nothing saying that phishers couldn't haxor your smart card reader and make a copy of it.
I shudder at the thought, but this might actually be a benefit of Trusted Computing - preventing phishers from gaining access to a smart card reader included in a computer.
Actually, the most convincing evidence is that if you log into the game and crank up the gamma, and then crank the gamma on the linked image, you can see that in-game, the background pattern doesn't repeat (at least, not seven or eight times in the window vertically), and the long boxes for each item don't overwrite what's there before - instead, they tint it darker, so even the background inside each item box should be different.
It's clearly not that way in the linked image, so it's decidedly a fake.
That doesn't mean that the problem does or doesn't exist, though.
The legal ramifications are that it may amount to interference with a contract. In fact, poaching another company's employees when those employees have signed contracts preventing them from switching to the competition is a very frequently cited example of contract interference.
One of the requirements for success in a lawsuit for this is that the defendant intentionally induced the third party to violate their contract, which is why "intentionally assisting him" has more to it than the obvious meaning.
They can still probably catch the people abusing the bug for gold. I know that less than a year after EQ came out, the GMs had available an economic report that showed them who had accumulated an unusual amount of money in a short amount of time.
As their machines got faster and they got more hard drive space, they started logging a *lot* more details. I'll go out on a limb and say Blizzard is doing something similar. I don't know how long the bug was being abused, so it's hard to tell whether anyone at Blizzard actually dropped the ball or whether it was just now being abused to the point where it was easily detectable.
I figured since I'm the fifty billionth person in this thread to independently come up with the witty observation that they don't show videos on MTV, I should come up with an even wittier subject line.
But my observation is actually not about MTV, because they actually do show videos on MTV2.
On top of these videos, though, they plaster the following:
A gigantic number in the upper left corner indicating what rank the video is in whatever countdown they're currently doing.
A gigantic scrolling logo in the upper right indicating what countdown it is.
A gigantic two-headed dog logo in the lower right corner to remind you that you're watching MTV2.
And then you'd think that, with the lower left corner free, they could put any remaining helpful information there, right? Bahahaha. You wish. Instead, about halfway through each video, they plaster a huge yellow bar with text indicating the show you're watching: "You're watching Tuesday Huge Fucking Video Overlays 3.0 on MTV2."
And then at the end of the video, they plaster the song title/group/video director/etc. in similar bars in the middle of the screen. This happens roughly a minute before the actual end of the video, because 30 seconds before the end of the video, they cut away to ten minutes of commercials.
One idea for a solution is this: after a concluding a team-match a team could strip their t-shirts, hand them to the other team, and wring the loose water into buckets.
An especially good solution if you're playing co-ed.
Actually, you can get basic spring-loaded airsoft pistols for $25, but you might not have as much fun since they're not semiauto and the slide tends to be on the stiff side since there's a big ol' honkin' spring behind it.
The problem isn't *just* DRM. If an iTMS-style DRM were being discussed for movies, where people have plenty of ability to do what they are legally permitted to do with the media they purchase, I would be much less likely to rail against the content industry.
But the moment the tech companies start talking about "maybe we'll add some DRM functionality to our product to get the content industry on board", the content industry barges in and starts dictating everything that the consumer can't do with their legally-purchased media anymore. That's why DRM is a dirty word now.
Unfortunately, the only ways you're ever going to break DRM are (a) with cracking tools, and (b) with legislation. In the absence of those factors, the content industry is only going to tighten its grip on the consumer. Even if you come up with a more consumer-friendly alternative to today's DRM, the control that it fails to grant the content industry is going to prevent them from adopting it, especially since DRM is starting to become entrenched.
All we can really hope for is that the content industry squeezes too hard and causes a political backlash that results in (say) the DMCRA being passed and manufacturers creating hardware that has substantial noninfringing uses.
I'd like a computer that can automatically defeat any and all DRM that it's subjected to, so that I can make legal, unencumbered use of content that I pay for.
Er... I thought of this the instant I hit the submit button, but technically Thief doesn't really have much in the way of traditional character ability development. Your character does have to collect valuables so that you can be more successful in subsequent missions, though.
Both the System Shock series and the Thief series didn't have swords as the most powerful weapons. (Heck, for Thief, the most powerful weapon was your brain. Not the character's brain. Yours.)
I realize that a lot of people view these as FPSes of sorts, but they do meet IGN's definition of RPGs.
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Better yet, make the unregistered machine subnet able to access important security-related sites, like Windows Update and the corporate intranet site with antivirus and antispyware software downloads.
(This is actually done relatively frequently, so I'm definitely not saying anything original here.)
RDA has been only marginally involved with the series since he moved to Los Angeles (the series is shot in Vancouver, BC). I say this even though he was the lead cast member at the time. The writers were somewhat hamstrung by RDA's tendency to phone in his performances as of late, and having him shuffled off to a distant supporting role may restore to them the latitude they need to take the series in a new direction (heh heh, I love that joke). RDA's billing as producer won't have any real impact on the creative process of the show.
I was a bit concerned by Amanda Tapping's relative absence from the season premiere, though. I'm hoping it's just related to her pregnancy and she'll be back in full force later.
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If a country road ten miles from the nearest house is marked with a 35mph speed limit, my guess is that the road is in remarkably poor condition or is extremely curvy, so going 45mph would be more dangerous.
I'm not saying it'd necessarily get you killed or anything, but in most cases there really is a reason that a road has a particular posted speed limit.
Wait, don't get rid of the registration fee before I have a chance to write a brute-force "register everything" script.
If you see in one creature an exceptional trait
In some way bestowed, then ask at once where it suffers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Hyena
Amidst all these people providing helpful hints for getting out of speeding tickets, I'd like to offer one more suggestion:
Don't speed.
my property, its maps, and what it looks like is my business and nobody elses.
Actually, lot survey information, land deeds, USGS maps, maps of public roads, etc., are generally public information.
It's a first-person shooter based on an old paper RPG of the same name from a couple decades ago.
A couple decades ago? Ahh, I guess that explains this.
Well, I was concerned about MitM attacks, but the other person replying to my post says that's not an issue. I'm not sure I understand why, though.
Fry: Welshieeee!!!!!
For thousands of years, people thought the moon was made of cheese.
But then we went there and found out it was made of rock.
We haven't been back since.
Behold the power of Cheese.
In Russia, some scientists have discovered through selective breeding of foxes that it doesn't take very long for a significant change in an animal population to occur. They managed to obtain domesticated foxes within four decades and 30-some-odd generations. They also discovered that, while selecting solely based on behavioral traits in an attempt to get domesticated foxes, the foxes also developed traits such as unusual splotchy coloring and other dog-like features.
It's also been suggested that splotchy patterns on a lot of domesticated animals (cows, horses, dogs, cats) are the result of physical traits being developed that are genetically linked to domestication.
Professionals in the field of authentication already know that it's a much stronger method of authentication to require two out of three of something you know, something you are, and something you have.
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http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/firewall
But BoA's new system is just something you know, something else you know, another something you know, and yet another something you know. Unfortunately, teh Intarweb combined with the hardware that home users normally have isn't really suited for doing anything more than this, and even if you did have (say) a smart card reader to use with a bank-issued smart card, there's nothing saying that phishers couldn't haxor your smart card reader and make a copy of it.
I shudder at the thought, but this might actually be a benefit of Trusted Computing - preventing phishers from gaining access to a smart card reader included in a computer.
Actually, the most convincing evidence is that if you log into the game and crank up the gamma, and then crank the gamma on the linked image, you can see that in-game, the background pattern doesn't repeat (at least, not seven or eight times in the window vertically), and the long boxes for each item don't overwrite what's there before - instead, they tint it darker, so even the background inside each item box should be different.
It's clearly not that way in the linked image, so it's decidedly a fake.
That doesn't mean that the problem does or doesn't exist, though.
The legal ramifications are that it may amount to interference with a contract. In fact, poaching another company's employees when those employees have signed contracts preventing them from switching to the competition is a very frequently cited example of contract interference.
One of the requirements for success in a lawsuit for this is that the defendant intentionally induced the third party to violate their contract, which is why "intentionally assisting him" has more to it than the obvious meaning.
They can still probably catch the people abusing the bug for gold. I know that less than a year after EQ came out, the GMs had available an economic report that showed them who had accumulated an unusual amount of money in a short amount of time.
;)
As their machines got faster and they got more hard drive space, they started logging a *lot* more details. I'll go out on a limb and say Blizzard is doing something similar. I don't know how long the bug was being abused, so it's hard to tell whether anyone at Blizzard actually dropped the ball or whether it was just now being abused to the point where it was easily detectable.
In any case, they certainly know about it now
Sorry, but it actually does have something to do with Pimental, as the author of the study you quoted and Pimental have collaborated on this paper:
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http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/patzek/therm
But my observation is actually not about MTV, because they actually do show videos on MTV2.
On top of these videos, though, they plaster the following:
- A gigantic number in the upper left corner indicating what rank the video is in whatever countdown they're currently doing.
- A gigantic scrolling logo in the upper right indicating what countdown it is.
- A gigantic two-headed dog logo in the lower right corner to remind you that you're watching MTV2.
And then you'd think that, with the lower left corner free, they could put any remaining helpful information there, right? Bahahaha. You wish. Instead, about halfway through each video, they plaster a huge yellow bar with text indicating the show you're watching: "You're watching Tuesday Huge Fucking Video Overlays 3.0 on MTV2."And then at the end of the video, they plaster the song title/group/video director/etc. in similar bars in the middle of the screen. This happens roughly a minute before the actual end of the video, because 30 seconds before the end of the video, they cut away to ten minutes of commercials.
One idea for a solution is this: after a concluding a team-match a team could strip their t-shirts, hand them to the other team, and wring the loose water into buckets.
An especially good solution if you're playing co-ed.
Actually, you can get basic spring-loaded airsoft pistols for $25, but you might not have as much fun since they're not semiauto and the slide tends to be on the stiff side since there's a big ol' honkin' spring behind it.
Uh... safety... goggles?
The problem isn't *just* DRM. If an iTMS-style DRM were being discussed for movies, where people have plenty of ability to do what they are legally permitted to do with the media they purchase, I would be much less likely to rail against the content industry.
But the moment the tech companies start talking about "maybe we'll add some DRM functionality to our product to get the content industry on board", the content industry barges in and starts dictating everything that the consumer can't do with their legally-purchased media anymore. That's why DRM is a dirty word now.
Unfortunately, the only ways you're ever going to break DRM are (a) with cracking tools, and (b) with legislation. In the absence of those factors, the content industry is only going to tighten its grip on the consumer. Even if you come up with a more consumer-friendly alternative to today's DRM, the control that it fails to grant the content industry is going to prevent them from adopting it, especially since DRM is starting to become entrenched.
All we can really hope for is that the content industry squeezes too hard and causes a political backlash that results in (say) the DMCRA being passed and manufacturers creating hardware that has substantial noninfringing uses.
I'd like a computer that can automatically defeat any and all DRM that it's subjected to, so that I can make legal, unencumbered use of content that I pay for.
Er... I thought of this the instant I hit the submit button, but technically Thief doesn't really have much in the way of traditional character ability development. Your character does have to collect valuables so that you can be more successful in subsequent missions, though.
Both the System Shock series and the Thief series didn't have swords as the most powerful weapons. (Heck, for Thief, the most powerful weapon was your brain. Not the character's brain. Yours.)
I realize that a lot of people view these as FPSes of sorts, but they do meet IGN's definition of RPGs.
Better yet, make the unregistered machine subnet able to access important security-related sites, like Windows Update and the corporate intranet site with antivirus and antispyware software downloads.
(This is actually done relatively frequently, so I'm definitely not saying anything original here.)
RDA has been only marginally involved with the series since he moved to Los Angeles (the series is shot in Vancouver, BC). I say this even though he was the lead cast member at the time. The writers were somewhat hamstrung by RDA's tendency to phone in his performances as of late, and having him shuffled off to a distant supporting role may restore to them the latitude they need to take the series in a new direction (heh heh, I love that joke). RDA's billing as producer won't have any real impact on the creative process of the show.
I was a bit concerned by Amanda Tapping's relative absence from the season premiere, though. I'm hoping it's just related to her pregnancy and she'll be back in full force later.