That won't help if Valve is scanning the operating system DNS resolver cache.
For Windows, the DNS lookup part of the network stack retains all positive DNS results (i.e., a lookup worked) for 24 hours, and all negative returns (i.e., lookup failed because of a mistyped FQDN, for instance) for 15 minutes.
That's below the level of the privacy tools of the browsers. No application can override that. (Only administrative/network management tools like "ipconfig" (for Windows)).
Valve would probably register "bad evul hack-n-cheat browsing" if you did nothing more than "nslookup" the addresses of the "bad evul hack-n-cheat" web servers, even if you never fired up a browser.
You could suggest that it's still scarcity, but defining scarcity on an individual or even local level is a bit strange given the fairly globally connected world we live in.
Because no one with a brain believes the propaganda ^w premise that underlies the apparent contradiction. Anyone the press might report to who would believe such a report already knows. Anyone the press might report to which doesn't already know wouldn't believe.
In other words, it's not news.
More importantly, it wouldn't push up circulation/sales/page views/ad impressions/other all-important sales metrics.
A hyper sonic cruise missile coming directly or almost direct at you would be presenting mainly leading edges and therefore shielded areas.
No ship would target any incoming missile targeted at itself. That's why carriers deploy with large support fleets of anti-aircraft destroyers: they target missiles attacking each other ships, because those afford an opportunity at an off-angle (rather than head-on) engagement.
Besides, high-density lasers don't just heat a target, they flash-heat the contact area and induce a vapor or plasma explosion and a contact shockwave back in the target. That should be enough to wreck the aerodynamic stability of a fast mover.
Are you saying they're responsible for Slashdot Beta?
Dear God. It all makes sense. The GCHQ and NSA and assorted DoD ne'er-do-wells have replaced our coffee with Beta. And I bet they're surprised we noticed.
(Look, it certainly sounds all paranoid and nonsensical, but it makes as much sense as Dice thinking Beta was actually an improvement. More sense, really. I'd say that the odds-on favorite explanation for Beta was lulzsec taking full advantage of Slashdot's famously creaky security and defacing the hell out of it, except that even lulzsec has better taste than Beta.)
Well, excuse me, I have to head for the restroom. I feel a pretty good-sized Beta coming on that I need to take care of.
The phrase this brings to mind is "race to the bottom".
"Hey, our tech support and warranty policies don't have to be any better than the other guys'."
And the entire marketplace becomes a refuse-strewn wasteland littered with engineered-obsolescence hardware and unmaintainable firmware, populated by a few "privateering" souls who'll offer cheap contracted support by bootlegging patches and updates. (At least, until they get captured and hanged.)
Dear God, I hate what the enterprise channel has become. I'm glad I'm not a sysadmin or system manager now.
About the only bright spot is that there's much less rape and pillage in the Linux server space, if you can live with fairly vanilla commodity hardware or self-support for your chosen OS install.
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Then you won't have to worry because you won't have time to play your game...
Nah. You've just changed the game you're playing.
XD
I'm not sure how you win "iptables", but I'm not real sure how you win a lot of the games out there, so it's probably similar.
Mind you, it's less checking if you visited a site and more if your computer accessed a proscribed host.
The use of the emphasized phrase with a straight face is exactly what's wrong with this methodology.
It's the Internet. Sane societies don't have "proscribed hosts".
Your suggested answer is "Roll your own DNS resolver?"
That's pretty hardcore. While you're at it, maybe the app should just poke the network drivers directly and bypass the OS's network stack.
More to the point, I've seen no evidence that browsers do their own DNS resolution. Do you have any?
That won't help if Valve is scanning the operating system DNS resolver cache.
For Windows, the DNS lookup part of the network stack retains all positive DNS results (i.e., a lookup worked) for 24 hours, and all negative returns (i.e., lookup failed because of a mistyped FQDN, for instance) for 15 minutes.
That's below the level of the privacy tools of the browsers. No application can override that. (Only administrative/network management tools like "ipconfig" (for Windows)).
Valve would probably register "bad evul hack-n-cheat browsing" if you did nothing more than "nslookup" the addresses of the "bad evul hack-n-cheat" web servers, even if you never fired up a browser.
Wait, wait, wait.
Who dragged geometry into this?
If you have the good sense to see the meta-story, it's unchanged: "Americans are dumb".
But I know that subtext is pretty much lost on a large portion of the borderline-Aspie /. population, so I can understand your position.
Maybe by someone looking to short the stock?
Maybe a "hit" taken out by disgruntled Ohio auto dealers?
As others have pointed out, garages are full of flammable stuff. Fire could have originated anywhere.
You must be new here.
You could suggest that it's still scarcity, but defining scarcity on an individual or even local level is a bit strange given the fairly globally connected world we live in.
You mean... a scarcity which is not natural? Artificial scarcity?
People are poor because other people can be, and want to be, rich, at the expense of other people if necessary.
There will never be any such thing as a "post scarcity" economy until humans stop being humans.
To paraphrase whomever put words in the mouth of Stalin, "Stupidity has a malice all its own."
In other words, to quote Douglas Adams:
Because no one with a brain believes the propaganda ^w premise that underlies the apparent contradiction. Anyone the press might report to who would believe such a report already knows. Anyone the press might report to which doesn't already know wouldn't believe.
In other words, it's not news.
More importantly, it wouldn't push up circulation/sales/page views/ad impressions/other all-important sales metrics.
This is Slashdot! <kick>
We never started wearing deodorant.
A hyper sonic cruise missile coming directly or almost direct at you would be presenting mainly leading edges and therefore shielded areas.
No ship would target any incoming missile targeted at itself. That's why carriers deploy with large support fleets of anti-aircraft destroyers: they target missiles attacking each other ships, because those afford an opportunity at an off-angle (rather than head-on) engagement.
Besides, high-density lasers don't just heat a target, they flash-heat the contact area and induce a vapor or plasma explosion and a contact shockwave back in the target. That should be enough to wreck the aerodynamic stability of a fast mover.
Nope. The next step... the ultimate sanction in censorship... will the deployment of SlashBeta as the only content platform available to Turks.
A crime against all humanity. That's Beta.
You forgot to Fuck Beta.
No, it's not optional.
Are you saying they're responsible for Slashdot Beta?
Dear God. It all makes sense. The GCHQ and NSA and assorted DoD ne'er-do-wells have replaced our coffee with Beta. And I bet they're surprised we noticed.
(Look, it certainly sounds all paranoid and nonsensical, but it makes as much sense as Dice thinking Beta was actually an improvement. More sense, really. I'd say that the odds-on favorite explanation for Beta was lulzsec taking full advantage of Slashdot's famously creaky security and defacing the hell out of it, except that even lulzsec has better taste than Beta.)
Well, excuse me, I have to head for the restroom. I feel a pretty good-sized Beta coming on that I need to take care of.
Beta makes "complete homemade ass" look awesome in comparison.
There is no pork chop big enough, juicy enough, or tasty enough to tie around this ugly kid's neck to make the dogs play with him.
Beta would be better off with a 9mm hole in the back of the head and a shallow grave.
Also, fuck beta.
And now I have a new signature. Thanks!
I try to restrict myself to one futile gesture per day.
And since I'm at work, I've already burned through my entire 2014 allocation.
So, no.
It's the British Isles. Nowhere is any significant distance from anywhere else.
"In England, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time."
The phrase this brings to mind is "race to the bottom".
"Hey, our tech support and warranty policies don't have to be any better than the other guys'."
And the entire marketplace becomes a refuse-strewn wasteland littered with engineered-obsolescence hardware and unmaintainable firmware, populated by a few "privateering" souls who'll offer cheap contracted support by bootlegging patches and updates. (At least, until they get captured and hanged.)
Dear God, I hate what the enterprise channel has become. I'm glad I'm not a sysadmin or system manager now.
About the only bright spot is that there's much less rape and pillage in the Linux server space, if you can live with fairly vanilla commodity hardware or self-support for your chosen OS install.
And I thought you were so nice and polite.
I guess you were spying, but politely.
and postmodern spiritualism.
"We'll be happy to conduct a social media seance and allow you to contact your dearly departed. But first we'll need all that personal information."
No, wait, polarization massively sucks!