There are 2 steps to what is called 'hunting' here.
There is the hunting part, then there is the killing part.
As other have pointed out the killing part is no different from raising a cow to be killed for food, and it happens millions of times every day, totally accepted and part of human life.
Then there is the hunting part. You do not have to kill, that is a separate event. In non-fatal hunting lies the 'sport'. And like all sports, you can play with no props (wrestling), you can play with a ball (football/soccer), you can play with a ball and a bat (baseball), or you can even play with a 8 cylinder gasoline powered engine (nascar). What friggin law of sports says tossing in a good drone causes it to no longer be a sport?
What alaska is doing, is forcing their view of what the sport should look like on their population. A typical big government liberal agenda.
Great info. Just as a relevant experiment on topic, let us know what any of those would charge, for support of a linux the same age as XP. Oh, and let us know if they laugh when you ask.
lol. The places you worked at, I managed at. Most Linux types, especially the ones hanging around slashdot, are clueless ideologist. The ones that do know what they are doing are expensive as hell (and I do not blame them).
Let's start with the basics; is Unix/Linux more secure than Windows? If your answer is "yes", you fall in the clueless category. If on the other hand you answer "it depends on how they are setup" you have hope.
Don't tell me I'm clueless, I've hired and fired, in both environments, which is exactly the basis for my position. you?
Well that a business would decide they didn't like having support dropped, so much so that they plan on moving to something unsupported all the time is ludicrous.
Wait until a bank goes to hire linux support employees. As most moves to Linux, I expect this one to last about 26.2 seconds.
Yeah, really, why limit it to commercial version of Unix that suck. I haven't seen any that doesn't suck.
And on topic, so this new server is buggier than the current xerver? How can that be, the current version has to be one of the buggiest pieces of distributed code I have ever seen.
People moved in hordes to RDP as a protocol because X sucks so bad on a LAN. But the desktop will not run on RDP, unless you switch to XFCE. Is it just me, or does XFCE look like something from the 50s?
With all the talk about open source responsiveness to fixing issues, this is state of the art.
So, I looked a little more, maybe it had not been 3 years since I played - but the point remains.
What especially pisses me off about this whole deal is knowing that I have 3 CD keys for half-life. Why? Yeah, friggin banned before by VALVE as well.
They may have gotten better, but there was a time in Mr Newell's past where his company was as bad, if not worse, in banning people without just cause.
Let me retype me post for those who have trouble connecting the dots;
Another large company, with a large game community, falsely banned me for cheating. It had been some time since I played any of their games. I moved to Seattle in 2010, and I do not believe I played any of the games since I moved here.
It is very possible that that companies lack of technical skills was unable to prevent hackers from using MY account, and that is what lead to the ban. And ANY company in a similar position is likely to make the same mistakes.
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noreply@blizzard.com
12/10/13
to me
Greetings,
* * * NOTICE OF ACCOUNT CLOSURE * * *
A user of this account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for Diablo III by the In-Game Support staff of Blizzard Entertainment. This decision was made after a thorough investigation of the situation as a whole. Though we are unable to discuss the outcomes of our investigations due to privacy concerns, rest assured that this incident has been looked into very thoroughly, and the appropriate actions have been taken on all involved accounts.
Account Action: Account Closure
Offense: Unapproved Third Party Software
A third party program is any file or program that is used in addition to the game to gain an unfair advantage. These programs may increase movement speed or teleport heroes from one place to another beyond what is allowed by game design. It also includes any programs that obtain information from the game that is not normally available to the regular player or that transmit or modify any of the game files.
Cheat Programs ("Hacks")
We take action against accounts using hacks when a hero on the account is identified using a hack program. Hacks provide benefits normally not achievable in the game. Such benefits may include: increased speed, teleportation, or running through walls.
Automation Programs ("Bots")
We take action against accounts using automation programs or bots when one or more heroes on the account are identified using a bot to achieve automation.
This Diablo III account has been closed by our staff based on a review of the account and all related policy violations, in accordance with the Terms of Use and our In-Game Policies (http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/300722). Note that any open bids or auctions at the time of the account’s closure have been cancelled. Your open bids will be refunded to your original method of payment. Please allow 5-10 days for processing depending on the availability of your financial institution. Any bids or auctions completed prior to the account’s closure will neither be refunded nor reversed.
Moving forward, this Diablo III account and any Heroes or items associated with the account are no longer accessible. The only way to continue playing Diablo III is to purchase a new license, or to attempt to recover access by appealing account closure. While closure overturns are very unlikely, we advise that customers pursuing an appeal hold off on purchasing a new Diablo III license until the appeal process has completed. If you add a new Diablo III license, a new account will overwrite your old, without any prior Heroes or items from the closed account.
Any disputes or questions concerning this account action can only be addressed by Account Administration. To learn more about how Account Administration is able to assist you, and how to contact them via online ticket, please visit us at http://us.battle.net/support/e.... We will be unable to investigate account actions over the phone - an online ticket is the only way to contact Account Administration.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to fully enjoy their time spent on Battle.net. Thank you in advance for respecting our position.
Thank goodness not all readers are as fucking stupid as you, and understood what I was saying:) I keep forgetting to write at kindergarten level for some of you. It is so hard connected dots, I know, right?
How does some clowns hacking of my account, make me look ignorant?
Do you you honestly think battle.net is hackproof? And you think I am ignorant?
And for those of you who can not infer simple concepts, I used the words 'The vendor has come to a flawed conclusion' to indicate I knew they were not the same as valve. Sorry I did not take the time to spell it out for some of you (again, I'm the ignorant one (rolling eyes/).
I recently got banned from battlecraft (or whatever it is called) for cheating. That includes, warcraft, diablo, starcraft, others?
But here is the thing; I have not even logged on to play any of those games in over 3 years.
The vendor has come to a flawed conclusion I cheated, and prevented me from playing games I have spent hundreds of dollars for.
Mr Newell, I suggest that some, if not most of your apparent cheaters, are due to YOUR companies lack of technical skill. Stop punishing the innocent for that.
Watch the video - "companies hire first kids because of their experience." That is a good example lie. No company is going to hire into robotics, a kid with just a high school diploma.
To be competitive you MUST lie about your costs, and your mentor MUST do the majority of the work. The kids are only there for appearance, sponsored by the mommies and daddies with the most money.
And face it, today's STEM mentors think hardware is all that is needed, they are totally clueless about software. An LED blinking arduino is sure to be the best robotics can offer. It is why none of the DARPA entries had any kind of resemblance to a decent software development environment (not needed). Any idiot knows you don't need modern software, or things like debuggers, or source control systems that make sense. And good old terminal based editors are still the best you can get! Seriously, STEM disgusts me. It is people finding way to take more corporate welfare pretending it is helpful to kids that deserve it.
People are finding back door in open software on a daily basis. Wait until stories start coming out about hardware backdoors that have been coerced. In any case, get a clue.
Actually all I had to do was change your first line, swap IIS and apache, and then it made sense.
You offer no facts as to why one is better than the other, other than "me and my friends think so".
Look, if you want to talk popularity, talk desktop share, use real numbers. Then explain why something with 1/100 the popularity is even in the conversation.
Otherwise admit that either one has some points over the other, neither is perfect, and admit that 'number of installs' is probably about as meaningless to a 'technical abilities' discussion as you can get.
As a hobbyist flying 'drones' I immediately think about a hobbyist drone, that discovered a company pouring pigs blood into a river.
The end result? Well yeah, that company lost its ass, but it is now a crime for anyone else to discover such with a drone. Protect the corporations, at all costs!
I saw a big change happen in the industry, while I was briefly at Microsoft.
My manager, and Microsoft in general was more about delivering a positive message, as opposed to having a positive message to deliver.
The problem with that is, if you encourage everyone to do it, they eventually begin doing it even to the company and not just the customers.
"How is that new version of windows going?"
"It's going great!!"
And we all know now, it was terrible, horrible, full of in fighting, self promotion, bad decisions.
"How is that new web site that all America will use, and a presidency depends on?"
"It's going great!!"
See the pattern here?
You really want passionate developers? You are an idiot if you do. As a boss, I did not want surprises, and to me the worse thing in the world a company could do was sell something that was broke. Companies today do not seem to share that philosophy. Consumers tolerate crap and beg for more. So, I guess it really is not just the companies to blame.
I started Eve this week. I tried to cancel this week.
What a horrible game. inconsistent user interface, out of date (if any) documentation. Terribly inadequate tutorials, of which there are two ways to get there, and partly but not fully the same.
I am unable to cancel since the web logon requires a character name I no longer have since I uninstalled the POS.
Seriously, why would so many people put up with something so poorly done? Pretty pictures?
Slashdot Mirror
There are 2 steps to what is called 'hunting' here.
There is the hunting part, then there is the killing part.
As other have pointed out the killing part is no different from raising a cow to be killed for food, and it happens millions of times every day, totally accepted and part of human life.
Then there is the hunting part. You do not have to kill, that is a separate event. In non-fatal hunting lies the 'sport'. And like all sports, you can play with no props (wrestling), you can play with a ball (football/soccer), you can play with a ball and a bat (baseball), or you can even play with a 8 cylinder gasoline powered engine (nascar). What friggin law of sports says tossing in a good drone causes it to no longer be a sport?
What alaska is doing, is forcing their view of what the sport should look like on their population. A typical big government liberal agenda.
Great info. Just as a relevant experiment on topic, let us know what any of those would charge, for support of a linux the same age as XP. Oh, and let us know if they laugh when you ask.
Agree. You are never going to stop the agencies. Any attempt is a waist of effort. PGP is as good as any, might as well work to improve it.
lol. The places you worked at, I managed at. Most Linux types, especially the ones hanging around slashdot, are clueless ideologist. The ones that do know what they are doing are expensive as hell (and I do not blame them).
Let's start with the basics; is Unix/Linux more secure than Windows? If your answer is "yes", you fall in the clueless category. If on the other hand you answer "it depends on how they are setup" you have hope.
Don't tell me I'm clueless, I've hired and fired, in both environments, which is exactly the basis for my position. you?
Well that a business would decide they didn't like having support dropped, so much so that they plan on moving to something unsupported all the time is ludicrous.
Wait until a bank goes to hire linux support employees. As most moves to Linux, I expect this one to last about 26.2 seconds.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+is+sl...
gvim, lol. seriously dude, I do NOT want to argue with you.
Yeah, really, why limit it to commercial version of Unix that suck. I haven't seen any that doesn't suck.
And on topic, so this new server is buggier than the current xerver? How can that be, the current version has to be one of the buggiest pieces of distributed code I have ever seen.
People moved in hordes to RDP as a protocol because X sucks so bad on a LAN. But the desktop will not run on RDP, unless you switch to XFCE. Is it just me, or does XFCE look like something from the 50s?
With all the talk about open source responsiveness to fixing issues, this is state of the art.
Oh, in case I forgot to mention it, informative person, double, make that triple fuck off
So, I looked a little more, maybe it had not been 3 years since I played - but the point remains.
What especially pisses me off about this whole deal is knowing that I have 3 CD keys for half-life. Why? Yeah, friggin banned before by VALVE as well.
They may have gotten better, but there was a time in Mr Newell's past where his company was as bad, if not worse, in banning people without just cause.
Let me retype me post for those who have trouble connecting the dots;
/---
noreply@blizzard.com
Another large company, with a large game community, falsely banned me for cheating. It had been some time since I played any of their games. I moved to Seattle in 2010, and I do not believe I played any of the games since I moved here.
It is very possible that that companies lack of technical skills was unable to prevent hackers from using MY account, and that is what lead to the ban. And ANY company in a similar position is likely to make the same mistakes.
12/10/13
to me
Greetings,
* * * NOTICE OF ACCOUNT CLOSURE * * *
A user of this account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for Diablo III by the In-Game Support staff of Blizzard Entertainment. This decision was made after a thorough investigation of the situation as a whole. Though we are unable to discuss the outcomes of our investigations due to privacy concerns, rest assured that this incident has been looked into very thoroughly, and the appropriate actions have been taken on all involved accounts.
Account Action: Account Closure
Offense: Unapproved Third Party Software
A third party program is any file or program that is used in addition to the game to gain an unfair advantage. These programs may increase movement speed or teleport heroes from one place to another beyond what is allowed by game design. It also includes any programs that obtain information from the game that is not normally available to the regular player or that transmit or modify any of the game files.
Cheat Programs ("Hacks")
We take action against accounts using hacks when a hero on the account is identified using a hack program. Hacks provide benefits normally not achievable in the game. Such benefits may include: increased speed, teleportation, or running through walls.
Automation Programs ("Bots")
We take action against accounts using automation programs or bots when one or more heroes on the account are identified using a bot to achieve automation.
This Diablo III account has been closed by our staff based on a review of the account and all related policy violations, in accordance with the Terms of Use and our In-Game Policies (http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/300722). Note that any open bids or auctions at the time of the account’s closure have been cancelled. Your open bids will be refunded to your original method of payment. Please allow 5-10 days for processing depending on the availability of your financial institution. Any bids or auctions completed prior to the account’s closure will neither be refunded nor reversed.
Moving forward, this Diablo III account and any Heroes or items associated with the account are no longer accessible. The only way to continue playing Diablo III is to purchase a new license, or to attempt to recover access by appealing account closure. While closure overturns are very unlikely, we advise that customers pursuing an appeal hold off on purchasing a new Diablo III license until the appeal process has completed. If you add a new Diablo III license, a new account will overwrite your old, without any prior Heroes or items from the closed account.
Any disputes or questions concerning this account action can only be addressed by Account Administration. To learn more about how Account Administration is able to assist you, and how to contact them via online ticket, please visit us at http://us.battle.net/support/e.... We will be unable to investigate account actions over the phone - an online ticket is the only way to contact Account Administration.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to fully enjoy their time spent on Battle.net. Thank you in advance for respecting our position.
Regards,
Blizzard Entertainment
Diablo III Customer Support
http://battle.net/support
Thank goodness not all readers are as fucking stupid as you, and understood what I was saying :) I keep forgetting to write at kindergarten level for some of you. It is so hard connected dots, I know, right?
fuck off
How does some clowns hacking of my account, make me look ignorant?
Do you you honestly think battle.net is hackproof? And you think I am ignorant?
And for those of you who can not infer simple concepts, I used the words 'The vendor has come to a flawed conclusion' to indicate I knew they were not the same as valve. Sorry I did not take the time to spell it out for some of you (again, I'm the ignorant one (rolling eyes/).
I recently got banned from battlecraft (or whatever it is called) for cheating. That includes, warcraft, diablo, starcraft, others?
But here is the thing; I have not even logged on to play any of those games in over 3 years.
The vendor has come to a flawed conclusion I cheated, and prevented me from playing games I have spent hundreds of dollars for.
Mr Newell, I suggest that some, if not most of your apparent cheaters, are due to YOUR companies lack of technical skill. Stop punishing the innocent for that.
Secure OpenSource
is how to cheat and how to lie.
Watch the video - "companies hire first kids because of their experience." That is a good example lie. No company is going to hire into robotics, a kid with just a high school diploma.
To be competitive you MUST lie about your costs, and your mentor MUST do the majority of the work. The kids are only there for appearance, sponsored by the mommies and daddies with the most money.
And face it, today's STEM mentors think hardware is all that is needed, they are totally clueless about software. An LED blinking arduino is sure to be the best robotics can offer. It is why none of the DARPA entries had any kind of resemblance to a decent software development environment (not needed). Any idiot knows you don't need modern software, or things like debuggers, or source control systems that make sense. And good old terminal based editors are still the best you can get! Seriously, STEM disgusts me. It is people finding way to take more corporate welfare pretending it is helpful to kids that deserve it.
People are finding back door in open software on a daily basis. Wait until stories start coming out about hardware backdoors that have been coerced. In any case, get a clue.
Me too.
I specifically notice the change from MS bashing articles to stuff actually interesting. Maybe slashdot has finally grown into something useful.
Please, I'm tired of being dragged down with boat anchors.
Insightful?
Yeah as insightful as recognizing half the users would be thrilled to be using an 029.
Actually all I had to do was change your first line, swap IIS and apache, and then it made sense.
You offer no facts as to why one is better than the other, other than "me and my friends think so".
Look, if you want to talk popularity, talk desktop share, use real numbers. Then explain why something with 1/100 the popularity is even in the conversation.
Otherwise admit that either one has some points over the other, neither is perfect, and admit that 'number of installs' is probably about as meaningless to a 'technical abilities' discussion as you can get.
unrelated to the topic, but I agree 100%.
As a hobbyist flying 'drones' I immediately think about a hobbyist drone, that discovered a company pouring pigs blood into a river.
The end result? Well yeah, that company lost its ass, but it is now a crime for anyone else to discover such with a drone. Protect the corporations, at all costs!
Humanity be damned!
I saw a big change happen in the industry, while I was briefly at Microsoft.
My manager, and Microsoft in general was more about delivering a positive message, as opposed to having a positive message to deliver.
The problem with that is, if you encourage everyone to do it, they eventually begin doing it even to the company and not just the customers.
"How is that new version of windows going?"
"It's going great!!"
And we all know now, it was terrible, horrible, full of in fighting, self promotion, bad decisions.
"How is that new web site that all America will use, and a presidency depends on?"
"It's going great!!"
See the pattern here?
You really want passionate developers? You are an idiot if you do. As a boss, I did not want surprises, and to me the worse thing in the world a company could do was sell something that was broke. Companies today do not seem to share that philosophy. Consumers tolerate crap and beg for more. So, I guess it really is not just the companies to blame.
I started Eve this week. I tried to cancel this week.
What a horrible game. inconsistent user interface, out of date (if any) documentation. Terribly inadequate tutorials, of which there are two ways to get there, and partly but not fully the same.
I am unable to cancel since the web logon requires a character name I no longer have since I uninstalled the POS.
Seriously, why would so many people put up with something so poorly done? Pretty pictures?
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