Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
You can't lock out 3rd party replacement parts for cars, or void your warranty because of it, and no vehicle manufacturer is a monopoly. Why do consoles play by different rules?
I can't create a car that artificially locks out 3rd party replacement parts and upgrades... why should Microsoft be able to create a gaming box that does the same thing?
The difference between Linux and FreeBSD is that Linux is intentionally designed to have flexibility. Does Ubuntu have 4 wireless stacks? Does Fedora? Or did they choose one and start working with it? You're comparing apples to oranges... Linux as a kernel is just a base for distro's to build off of, to choose what parts and settings they want. FreeBSD, you get it their way, or take the highway. I'm not saying FreeBSD isn't good, but it's not as flexible.
How in the hell is this insightful? Show me a clear, universal definition of a species and I'll take your "But this is micro and not macro evolution!" bullshit as a valid argument.
Ever done the doorway trick? Stand in a doorway, and push your arms outward against the frame fairly hard for a minute. Then step out of the doorway and relax your arms. They'll raise all by themselves. Is it magic, or is it your muscles still working? Your perceptions and your feelings and your body itself can deceive you. Don't trust it without other testable evidence corroborating it. Same thing goes for "feeling" God.
WHY DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH BEING ONLINE? All of those actions that happened to your brother fall under intimidation and harassment laws already in place... why not use those? This law is not a good idea. There is NOTHING special about being a jackass online. It's the same as being a jackass anywhere else. It needs no special legislation that can be abused.
Blackjack isn't competitive, though. It's between you and the house. Other players have almost nothing to do with it, other than what cards they're dealt and draw. There is no strategy against them. What is the house's motivation to make a ladder?
Sometimes good enough is just that. People are used to restarting their computers and getting random blue screens. If a restart fixes it, they generally don't care. And that's fine by me. I don't use my machine for super-high precision work where a few bits flipped will cause massively different results. Nor do 99% of people. Why pay the extra 10% more when less than 1% actually might have a use for it?
Also note that it's one of 40 images. Who knows how many total images are in the database? That can really slow down any brute-force attacks, and that's assuming they have a user name to start with. It's also a mouse click instead of a keylogger entry, so basic text keyloggers will still only give an attacker a 1/40 chance of being able to log into your account. It's not perfect, but it's significantly better than a simple extra character.
It wouldn't be as findable as a fingerprint, though. It would be very hard to tie you to a location by lifting prints, only to a previous place you've been fingerprinted.
Meh... as a parent, I still don't trust the ESRB any more than I do the MPAA ratings. They both have a very strong slant to make violence rated relatively less and sex rated much higher. Just look at the Hot Coffee fiasco... hidden CONSENSUAL sex makes it so the rating should be higher than mowing down innocent pedestrians with your vehicle and participating in gang wars?
Seconded. I used to play the original UT for hours in college. It stopped being fun when everyone started having bots and shit. Hell, people are even hacking Mario Kart for the Wii any more... online play just isn't any fun. And the games that do control it are the war simulation games like CoD and such, which bore me to tears. Any game that has a "crawl" option for the character is single-player only, if that.
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Well, at least there's Japan...
Rolling the window down is not the same as a vent window. Seriously... it changes the dynamics quite a bit. Kids these days...
Apple changed iTunes to start looking for that. They didn't look for the USB identifier before the Pre started syncing.
You can't lock out 3rd party replacement parts for cars, or void your warranty because of it, and no vehicle manufacturer is a monopoly. Why do consoles play by different rules?
I can't create a car that artificially locks out 3rd party replacement parts and upgrades... why should Microsoft be able to create a gaming box that does the same thing?
The difference between Linux and FreeBSD is that Linux is intentionally designed to have flexibility. Does Ubuntu have 4 wireless stacks? Does Fedora? Or did they choose one and start working with it? You're comparing apples to oranges... Linux as a kernel is just a base for distro's to build off of, to choose what parts and settings they want. FreeBSD, you get it their way, or take the highway. I'm not saying FreeBSD isn't good, but it's not as flexible.
How in the hell is this insightful? Show me a clear, universal definition of a species and I'll take your "But this is micro and not macro evolution!" bullshit as a valid argument.
Hell, why not just watch evolution in action in Australia
Ever done the doorway trick? Stand in a doorway, and push your arms outward against the frame fairly hard for a minute. Then step out of the doorway and relax your arms. They'll raise all by themselves. Is it magic, or is it your muscles still working? Your perceptions and your feelings and your body itself can deceive you. Don't trust it without other testable evidence corroborating it. Same thing goes for "feeling" God.
"Nifty" quality? Is that somewhere below "r0x0r5" and a bit above "meh"?
So... slander and libel are somehow twice as bad online as they are otherwise? And we need a special law for this? Why?
WHY DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH BEING ONLINE? All of those actions that happened to your brother fall under intimidation and harassment laws already in place... why not use those? This law is not a good idea. There is NOTHING special about being a jackass online. It's the same as being a jackass anywhere else. It needs no special legislation that can be abused.
Blackjack isn't competitive, though. It's between you and the house. Other players have almost nothing to do with it, other than what cards they're dealt and draw. There is no strategy against them. What is the house's motivation to make a ladder?
I assume this kitten is the winner? Or am I old and not up on the new shock sites?
*disclaimer: I haven't tested the link, being at work and all. I have no idea if it still works.
As long as they haven't figured out the brown note, we're all safe
Nerdy chicks who don't know (or don't care) that they're hot are the best.
You prefer, or you're just stuck with it? Though I do suppose NPC's can't bitch about dishes not being done...
A lie. Just like the cake was.
Sometimes good enough is just that. People are used to restarting their computers and getting random blue screens. If a restart fixes it, they generally don't care. And that's fine by me. I don't use my machine for super-high precision work where a few bits flipped will cause massively different results. Nor do 99% of people. Why pay the extra 10% more when less than 1% actually might have a use for it?
Also note that it's one of 40 images. Who knows how many total images are in the database? That can really slow down any brute-force attacks, and that's assuming they have a user name to start with. It's also a mouse click instead of a keylogger entry, so basic text keyloggers will still only give an attacker a 1/40 chance of being able to log into your account. It's not perfect, but it's significantly better than a simple extra character.
Stop espousing the views of our founding fathers and toe the line of the government. "of the people, by the people, for the people" my ass.
It wouldn't be as findable as a fingerprint, though. It would be very hard to tie you to a location by lifting prints, only to a previous place you've been fingerprinted.
Meh... as a parent, I still don't trust the ESRB any more than I do the MPAA ratings. They both have a very strong slant to make violence rated relatively less and sex rated much higher. Just look at the Hot Coffee fiasco... hidden CONSENSUAL sex makes it so the rating should be higher than mowing down innocent pedestrians with your vehicle and participating in gang wars?
Seconded. I used to play the original UT for hours in college. It stopped being fun when everyone started having bots and shit. Hell, people are even hacking Mario Kart for the Wii any more... online play just isn't any fun. And the games that do control it are the war simulation games like CoD and such, which bore me to tears. Any game that has a "crawl" option for the character is single-player only, if that.