Well said. Your last sentence is a perfect summary to the sane approach to balancing anti-cheat and anti-pirate, and I hope this wisdom gets into the right ears.
programming it to write with a pencil must have been incredibly tough.
Pen-plotter control algorithms were ancient and well-documented 30 years ago when I saw the source code for a hobbiest homebrew version (about 1k lines of assembler) in Byte Magazine (I think... 30 years and all).
to start grinding up to the point of raiding for sweet, sweet epic purple bricks.
Public chat will be full of "L2PYM" (Learn to play your model) taunts and Chuck Norris Lego facts.
Lego gold-colored plastic coin sellers will start spamming.
Griefers will player-kill you and reassemble your bits into something rude and embarrassing. And permanent, since they'll OMGH@x0r the system to glue the parts together that way.
The specific problem BSODs the machine during any boot (effectively bricking it until fixed). Some of the comments talk about replacing files in the System32 directory with backups. Hmm.... coincidence? Could be.
The story would go from "interesting" to "fascinating" if it turned out that the hundreds of municipal PCs got trashed because they were rootkitted while the Microsoft Patch was being installed (apparently, the root cause of this BSOD problem).
On that subject, why do speech impediments like lisping and rhotacism have names that are pretty much impossible for a sufferer to pronounce without triggering the impediment?
"Yeah, my thpeech thewapitht thays I have a lithp and a wotacism."
City 17 is a great place. After all, "It's safer here."
I was told to leave all my luggage at the rail station. I suppose it's logical, and I'm not complaining; Civil Protection is a wonderful security force to work with.
"Sanction" either means permission or punishment. Which is meant is usually clear by context, but... either could be true for the brief sentence you wrote.
Are you saying that it's not really illegal even though the government has punished the convicted monopolist? (i.e., you come across as a fanboi, because not even the government has to power to outlaw us mwahahaha). Or did you mean it's not really illegal if the government gives your monopoly its explicit or tacit permission.
The latter seems more of a reasonable explanation, but OTOH this is/. and "reasonable" doesn't even make it into the Top 10 list of assessment criteria for the utterances found here.
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Since it can not possibly be mistaken for dragonfly bsd, I think it's not a real problem.
Sup dawg, I heard you like Open Source so I put a Dragonfly in your Dragonfly so you can Open Source while you Open Source.
tl;dr
And me without mod points, more's the pity.
Well said. Your last sentence is a perfect summary to the sane approach to balancing anti-cheat and anti-pirate, and I hope this wisdom gets into the right ears.
programming it to write with a pencil must have been incredibly tough.
Pen-plotter control algorithms were ancient and well-documented 30 years ago when I saw the source code for a hobbiest homebrew version (about 1k lines of assembler) in Byte Magazine (I think... 30 years and all).
Allow me to bring you some Kleenexes; your weeping protestation is piteous.
Maybe a couple of aspirins for your headache?
Reality must really piss off language prescriptionists.
Whoosh right back atcha!
Of course, we take for granted that his coax cables are installed in a way so they can be used as fishers ;-))
True. All of this well-intentioned advice goes to hell if the prior installers had stapled the RG-59 to the studs.
Plan B: hire pros to at least pull the Cat 6 cable runs, even if you have the equipment and supreme confidence to terminate the wires yourself.
impedance matching transformers
Aaah... "Network Bridges in Disguise".
In that case, I'll buy Autobot brand gear. I don't think I trust Decepticon gear, largely because of their providing OEM networking gear for Apple.
+1 Inconvenient Truth
Why should they? Lego got there first
Mega Bloks needs to counter by appealing to the Pastafarian market.
Or maybe with Cthulhu milieu sets. I'm sure the Lovecraft literary estate would negotiate a deal.
to start grinding up to the point of raiding for sweet, sweet epic purple bricks.
Public chat will be full of "L2PYM" (Learn to play your model) taunts and Chuck Norris Lego facts.
Lego gold-colored plastic coin sellers will start spamming.
Griefers will player-kill you and reassemble your bits into something rude and embarrassing. And permanent, since they'll OMGH@x0r the system to glue the parts together that way.
I knew some pedanto-troll would say that.
No one cares. "Bricked" means non-responsively broke. Repairable or not.
Get over yourself.
Linky
Unless you're too lazy to click and read, too.
The specific problem BSODs the machine during any boot (effectively bricking it until fixed). Some of the comments talk about replacing files in the System32 directory with backups. Hmm.... coincidence? Could be.
The story would go from "interesting" to "fascinating" if it turned out that the hundreds of municipal PCs got trashed because they were rootkitted while the Microsoft Patch was being installed (apparently, the root cause of this BSOD problem).
Photoshop is only 10 years old. They photoshopped all the pictures to make it look like 20.
And also to give themselves more functional weapons of mass destruction.
and may all your phones be Nokias!!!!
Dear God, I sincerely hope so. Please, please, please....
Better yet, invest in two politicians and make it illegal to make any insurance claim whatsoever. And also mandatory to buy the insurance.
SCHWING! The sweet sweet taste of unobligated windfall!
If you find organic molecules which do not exist on Earth
And you know this with scientific certainty because... you've analyzed every organic molecule on Earth?
That certainly must have taken a long time
FWIW, I don't remember when you stopped by to sample my organic molecules.
On that subject, why do speech impediments like lisping and rhotacism have names that are pretty much impossible for a sufferer to pronounce without triggering the impediment?
"Yeah, my thpeech thewapitht thays I have a lithp and a wotacism."
"Rough consensus and running code"
City 17 is a great place. After all, "It's safer here."
I was told to leave all my luggage at the rail station. I suppose it's logical, and I'm not complaining; Civil Protection is a wonderful security force to work with.
I'm looking forward to the next JobsCast.
Ummm.... your choice of words is unfortunate.
"Sanction" either means permission or punishment. Which is meant is usually clear by context, but... either could be true for the brief sentence you wrote.
Are you saying that it's not really illegal even though the government has punished the convicted monopolist? (i.e., you come across as a fanboi, because not even the government has to power to outlaw us mwahahaha). Or did you mean it's not really illegal if the government gives your monopoly its explicit or tacit permission.
The latter seems more of a reasonable explanation, but OTOH this is /. and "reasonable" doesn't even make it into the Top 10 list of assessment criteria for the utterances found here.
-1 Need Mental Bleach
And I bet if you held a parade within the enclosure, no one could rain on it.
I just hope everyone is wearing space suits. And the cartoon-character baloons are very strong. And have antigravity, since buoyance won't work.
Malcom McDoohanigan, Director of the MiniTrue, and Big Brother and I approve of this technology. DoublePlusGood!
Even more brilliant... collect atmospheric C02 and use it to pump the platform up. When the platform clears, keep pumping that evil C02 into space.
It's the pneumatic space elevator of global warming stopping!