you can buy it from someone that is grinding away (or perhaps using exploits) Indeed, cheats are most ubiquitous among gold farmers, because "time is money, friend," and they're obviously in it to make money.
Interestingly enough, the MMOG industry is running into problems where gold farmers are buying new accounts online and then doing a chargeback on whatever credit card they use, which not only stiffs the MMOG company, but nails them with a fee from the credit card company. So, in a sense, the biggest MMOG exploit to date doesn't even happen inside the game.
Unfortunately, FIRE doesn't have the financial resources that the ACLU does, which means they have to rely mostly on bark rather than bite. They are pretty good at sending nastygrams and applying political and media pressure, but if it actually comes to filing a lawsuit and/or providing legal protection for folks who are being oppressed by their academic institutions, their hands are tied.
On the other hand, the ACLU doesn't usually pick up the kinds of cases that FIRE is interested in, because the cases often involve public academic institutions suppressing religious speech and conservative political speech. (Academic institutions in general tend to carry a liberal bias in their administration and faculty, which makes it more likely that conservatives will run afoul of such bias.) While this particular case doesn't involve political speech at all, FIRE has historically been out on their own, and in some cases, they've been criticized for having a political bias even though they really do investigate cases of academic oppression regardless of what viewpoints are being suppressed.
When the exit polls don't jibe with the results (and there is a Diebold evoting machine involved) then the results have probably been tampered with. This is a preposterous conclusion to arrive at, considering the lack of any real evidence to support it. There are quite substantial reasons that exit polling may not match the actual poll numbers that involve problems with the exit polls themselves:
Failure of exit pollers to approach certain people based on appearance, demeanor, gender, etc., when those factors correlate to a significant degree with how one voted
Refusal of some people to participate in exit polling, when that refusal correlates to a significant degree with how they voted
People providing to exit pollers an answer different from how they voted, when the tendency to give a false response correlates to a significant degree with how they actually voted
Obtaining exit poll samples without remaining at the polls throughout the entire day, when the time of day people chose to vote correlates to a significant degree with how they voted
Failure to interpret polling data properly, e.g., attempting to use exit polling data in certain precincts to predict the entire election outcome
Bias or fraud on the part of exit pollers for political purposes
Has anyone done an actual scientific study to determine how much these factors affect exit polls, or are we still relying on anecdotal evidence and media sensationalism to support rumors of this vast X-wing conspiracy?
You only need the infinite heat sink if you need to dissipate infinite power. So, it's okay to have a source of infinite energy, as long as you don't try to use it all at once.
The data is already available at thomas.loc.gov, but it would be nice to have an easier way to examine differences between different versions of bills.
Also, earmarks don't get added "after committee". A committee can't report a bill back to the floor without the committee voting on it, and the voted-upon version is what gets reported back. You might be thinking of conference committees, which are supposed to reconcile the differences between versions of a bill passed by the House and Senate. They do get a bit shady sometimes, since they often include provisions that had been removed earlier in the process and were absent in the versions passed by both the House and Senate, and since the conference members are often hand-picked by leadership for a particular bill to obtain a particular result.
Bah. My plan was going to involve divesting of all clothing altogether. Show up at the airport naked, and you won't have to waste time taking off your shoes.
Global Warming. Increasing gas mileage and alternate energy Voting machine fraud, WMD's, Kennedy, John Lennon, Ghandi, Tim Leary, GM vs. Organic food. Smoking causing or not causing cancer, Marijuana Tesla, Laithwaite, Hutchinson, Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Columbus Perendev, Searl, Cold Fusion, The Earth Being round, String Theory, E8,Quantum Physics , Roswell Jesus, Moses, Noah, The Ark of the covenant, the chalice, Troy, 12/12/2012, the holocaust, revelations. Everybody now! We didn't start the fire....
Actually, WotC decided that other people were making too much money on virtual tabletop software, so they've decided to enter that market themselves. That's part of the whole Gleemax thing, as I understand it. It's quite possible that DirectX will be required.
I don't know if this crystal will be possible to synthesize or not, but it doesn't matter. The schematic alone will be sufficient to cause a feedback loop that will destroy the entire Borg collective.
I didn't have a problem with the combat system in SR 2E/3E though. Yeah, there are more rolls involved in resolving an attack than in a game like D&D, but equally a single attack is more likely to put someone out of the rest of a fight than an attack in D&D is, past the first few levels. I can't think of a lot of SR fights I ever saw that went more than 1-2 rounds of combat. If anything, I think D&D feeling like its fights go faster has more to do with my having played a lot, lot more D&D. I guess I should clarify a bit, then - plain old combat in SR wasn't too bad. The rules were fairly consistent and well-written. We had fits trying to figure out vehicle combat in particular, though. Decking wasn't too bad - you roll dice often enough that you start to figure out the rules fairly quickly - but between decking and astral surveillance, we had a considerable part of each game session that involved individual players doing things on their own. Part of this is probably my fault as the GM, but my players love to plan and plan before actually doing something. That's engineers for you.
At least in D&D, there aren't that many special rules. There are a few combat actions (grappling, bull rush, etc.) and special abilities (turn undead) that sometimes make you take an extra look at the rules if you don't use them that often, but in general, everything is well-documented (especially in 3.5th compared to 3rd edition) and doesn't result in rule conflicts very often.
The rules were cryptic, battles took forever For those very reasons, my players cheered with joy when I wiped their Shadowrun party and we switched back to D&D.
Still, I loved the game setting. I haven't looked at the Shadowrun 4th Edition rules to see if they're any more consistent or comprehensible, but I don't think I can fool my group into picking it up a second time;)
My response has been simply to ignore the "over teh intarweb" feature of Netflix. When I first signed up, that service wasn't offered yet, and my prices haven't increased due to them introducing it, so I feel like I'm still getting my money's worth.
Maybe to screw over the MPAA, I should start ripping every Netflix DVD I get. Netflix would still get paid, and I'd never have to consider buying a movie that was barely worth renting in the first place.
Actually, I blame the problem squarely on the lack of motivation that financial institutions feel when it comes to preventing fraud. They can suck it up as a cost of doing business, but poor shmucks like us can end up dying a few years sooner because of the stress involved in fixing one's credit history.
Instant credit without true identity verification is the problem here. Social security numbers and other PII are worth stealing because credit is so easy to obtain, including in someone else's name. Come up with a way to verify people's identity before extending credit to them, and you make that information (closer to) worthless.
the deceptive server name, 192.168.112.2O7.net That's the sort of obfuscation we've repeatedly come to expect from purveyors of malware, although normally, malware purveyors take up tactics that target the laymasses rather than the sort of folks who know what the 192.168.0.0/16 subnet is for.
It's almost guaranteed that Adobe was trying to hide something here (to state the obvious). I suppose there's always the possibility that somebody thought they were being playfully clever, but if so, it was done with the same poor judgment one uses if one jokingly tells the TSA guy, "Don't worry, I won't blow the plane up, I promise!"
"Distress"? I say, whine more, noob. Why should he get a windfall, even if Christie's was pulling a scam?
But yes, his monetary damages of $6000 should be reimbursed if the item was indeed a fake.
If the item had been sold for $5000 instead of $6000, though, he could have filed this case in small claims court and gotten his just compensation a lot faster. He could have even ended up on TV because of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Interestingly enough, the MMOG industry is running into problems where gold farmers are buying new accounts online and then doing a chargeback on whatever credit card they use, which not only stiffs the MMOG company, but nails them with a fee from the credit card company. So, in a sense, the biggest MMOG exploit to date doesn't even happen inside the game.
No kidding. People have been laughing at Uranus for years. It's no wonder that astronomers worldwide don't want to repeat that mistake.
If this ultracapacitor can discharge its energy at a rate of 1.21 jigawatts, it's no wonder Lockheed's interested.
Unfortunately, FIRE doesn't have the financial resources that the ACLU does, which means they have to rely mostly on bark rather than bite. They are pretty good at sending nastygrams and applying political and media pressure, but if it actually comes to filing a lawsuit and/or providing legal protection for folks who are being oppressed by their academic institutions, their hands are tied.
On the other hand, the ACLU doesn't usually pick up the kinds of cases that FIRE is interested in, because the cases often involve public academic institutions suppressing religious speech and conservative political speech. (Academic institutions in general tend to carry a liberal bias in their administration and faculty, which makes it more likely that conservatives will run afoul of such bias.) While this particular case doesn't involve political speech at all, FIRE has historically been out on their own, and in some cases, they've been criticized for having a political bias even though they really do investigate cases of academic oppression regardless of what viewpoints are being suppressed.
Last I checked, I'm a person, and I want REAL ID (at least in the form proposed: sans RFID).
Additionally, the astronomers' significant others are annoyed at them for ruining the coffee table by not putting Eincoasters under their Einsteins.
- Failure of exit pollers to approach certain people based on appearance, demeanor, gender, etc., when those factors correlate to a significant degree with how one voted
- Refusal of some people to participate in exit polling, when that refusal correlates to a significant degree with how they voted
- People providing to exit pollers an answer different from how they voted, when the tendency to give a false response correlates to a significant degree with how they actually voted
- Obtaining exit poll samples without remaining at the polls throughout the entire day, when the time of day people chose to vote correlates to a significant degree with how they voted
- Failure to interpret polling data properly, e.g., attempting to use exit polling data in certain precincts to predict the entire election outcome
- Bias or fraud on the part of exit pollers for political purposes
Has anyone done an actual scientific study to determine how much these factors affect exit polls, or are we still relying on anecdotal evidence and media sensationalism to support rumors of this vast X-wing conspiracy?You only need the infinite heat sink if you need to dissipate infinite power. So, it's okay to have a source of infinite energy, as long as you don't try to use it all at once.
The data is already available at thomas.loc.gov, but it would be nice to have an easier way to examine differences between different versions of bills.
Also, earmarks don't get added "after committee". A committee can't report a bill back to the floor without the committee voting on it, and the voted-upon version is what gets reported back. You might be thinking of conference committees, which are supposed to reconcile the differences between versions of a bill passed by the House and Senate. They do get a bit shady sometimes, since they often include provisions that had been removed earlier in the process and were absent in the versions passed by both the House and Senate, and since the conference members are often hand-picked by leadership for a particular bill to obtain a particular result.
Bah. My plan was going to involve divesting of all clothing altogether. Show up at the airport naked, and you won't have to waste time taking off your shoes.
Increasing gas mileage and alternate energy
Voting machine fraud, WMD's, Kennedy, John Lennon, Ghandi, Tim Leary,
GM vs. Organic food. Smoking causing or not causing cancer, Marijuana
Tesla, Laithwaite, Hutchinson, Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Columbus
Perendev, Searl, Cold Fusion, The Earth Being round, String Theory, E8,Quantum Physics , Roswell
Jesus, Moses, Noah, The Ark of the covenant, the chalice, Troy, 12/12/2012, the holocaust, revelations. Everybody now! We didn't start the fire....
This "two way" standard is really only one way: straight from our pockets to the cable companies and the content cabal.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=retailer/support/news25b
Actually, WotC decided that other people were making too much money on virtual tabletop software, so they've decided to enter that market themselves. That's part of the whole Gleemax thing, as I understand it. It's quite possible that DirectX will be required.
I don't know if this crystal will be possible to synthesize or not, but it doesn't matter. The schematic alone will be sufficient to cause a feedback loop that will destroy the entire Borg collective.
Currently, the only thing that works is the ability to spawn more overlords. It's a good thing that's the most important part of the game.
At least in D&D, there aren't that many special rules. There are a few combat actions (grappling, bull rush, etc.) and special abilities (turn undead) that sometimes make you take an extra look at the rules if you don't use them that often, but in general, everything is well-documented (especially in 3.5th compared to 3rd edition) and doesn't result in rule conflicts very often.
Still, I loved the game setting. I haven't looked at the Shadowrun 4th Edition rules to see if they're any more consistent or comprehensible, but I don't think I can fool my group into picking it up a second time
My response has been simply to ignore the "over teh intarweb" feature of Netflix. When I first signed up, that service wasn't offered yet, and my prices haven't increased due to them introducing it, so I feel like I'm still getting my money's worth.
Maybe to screw over the MPAA, I should start ripping every Netflix DVD I get. Netflix would still get paid, and I'd never have to consider buying a movie that was barely worth renting in the first place.
Also, the in-flight movie will be Armageddon. Headphone rental is five dollars.
Actually, I blame the problem squarely on the lack of motivation that financial institutions feel when it comes to preventing fraud. They can suck it up as a cost of doing business, but poor shmucks like us can end up dying a few years sooner because of the stress involved in fixing one's credit history.
Instant credit without true identity verification is the problem here. Social security numbers and other PII are worth stealing because credit is so easy to obtain, including in someone else's name. Come up with a way to verify people's identity before extending credit to them, and you make that information (closer to) worthless.
It's almost guaranteed that Adobe was trying to hide something here (to state the obvious). I suppose there's always the possibility that somebody thought they were being playfully clever, but if so, it was done with the same poor judgment one uses if one jokingly tells the TSA guy, "Don't worry, I won't blow the plane up, I promise!"
Actually, I prefer the People's Court instead of watching that old battleaxe yell at men for having a Y chromosome.
"Distress"? I say, whine more, noob. Why should he get a windfall, even if Christie's was pulling a scam?
But yes, his monetary damages of $6000 should be reimbursed if the item was indeed a fake.
If the item had been sold for $5000 instead of $6000, though, he could have filed this case in small claims court and gotten his just compensation a lot faster. He could have even ended up on TV because of it.