What I'm guaranteeing is that it's over-hyped bullshit the media is feeding you. I can train an ACTUAL monkey to cut your brake lines with an $8 pair of bolt cutters. But that doesn't have the word "computer" or "hacker" in it so it doesn't make the front page of CNN.
Daringfireball for a laugh. You should seriously be cautious of any site without comments. Most of his content doesn't stand up to even mild criticism.
It's scary how much more faith most of you put in some random IT department than the engineers at cloud providers. For everyone hacked provider using the cloud are 10 that had their own internal systems hacked.
Have you ever met anyone who worked in corporate IT? As someone who works in corporate IT let me tell you, 99% of them are idiots. And that's being polite. Your data isn't any safer in their hands than Google's.
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Sorry, I thought that was so obvious it didn't need explaining.
We can make this very simple: the problem is foods with a high glycemic load.
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I never mentioned any complex carbs, so I don't see how I could be conflating simple sugars and complex carbs.
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Yup. Hardly any difference. But HFCS55 sure sounds scarier than 'table sugar". Everyone knows at this point that our problem isn't with fats, it's with carbs.
'When [managers] say they are suggesting you do something, it's not really a suggestion â" it is an order disguised as a suggestion. Plain-speaking is a lost art at big companies and corporate double talk is the name of the game.'
It's brainstorming. I do this all the time. Employee presents a problem, I say "well I'd probably do X". Now you can either go do X or go "well I was thinking of doing Y, what about that?". Then we can have a discussion about it. Keep in mind that when you ask your manager a question, his job is to make decisions and to do it quickly.
Yeah it makes it a lot harder to play with friends. But most people played at least a couple classes. And since honorbuddy got popular I have (i think) 14 level 100s. I'd have to count to be sure, I have one of every class plus 3 druids and 2 shaman. And it's so easy to gear up a class now that you can really play anything you want. They've also instituted a system that makes it easy to find arena groups and I've had some good sessions playing with random people I've found that way.
You clearly don't play WoW or know anything about the bot, what it did, or how it was used. You're assuming people used it to automate "boring, repetitive" parts of the game. This is true for about 2% of it's use. Most people used it for high end raiding (combat routines), battlegrounds and arena PvP. They used it because it played the game better than them. It did what most people consider the fun part for them.
First let's specify what bot we're all talking about: Honorbuddy.
BGs was only one part of it. High end guilds were raiding using the combat routines. A number of progression guilds broke up entirely because 90% of their roster is banned. It was also being used in arenas (look up "Gladiator Suite" on the honorbuddy forums). People were playing literally in gladiator range (2700+ arena rating) using the bot. It had perfect DPS rotations, CC'd, used cooldowns correctly and could perfectly kick any cast. It was also being used to farm professions (herb, mining, etc) and pretty much any other aspect of the game. Personally, I leveled one of every class to 100, including multiples of some classes (for arena purposes, so I could play with less skilled friends without affecting my rating).
We had five people in our guild banned for botting with Honorbuddy. Every single one of them bought a new copy of the game and started leveling again. Most purchased a new copy on Thursday/Friday and I know of at least one that is already back to level 100 (took him 15 hours of/played). Blizzard is going to make so much fucking money off this ban. Not to mention people had to buy WoW tokens (gold) to buy their heirlooms and they will have to pay to merge the accounts together in 6 months.
Arena is still great, played a ton over the weekend. I've never found another game that has the same level of complexity or requires the same level of coordination between partners than WoW arena. We mostly played KFC (arms warrior / bm hunter / resto druid). Let me tell you the state of arena now vs 4-5 years ago, insanely different. The level of competition is in another league completely. For reference I was a ~2400 rated player in WotLK.
Of the people who play that I know, every single one of them bought a new copy of the game and leveled from 90 to 100 over the weekend. Some even bought gold from Blizzard (via their WoW Tokens). This was a huge cash influx for them. And in 6 months when the accounts get unbanned, they'll make all the money for people paying to merge the accounts back together to avoid paying two monthly fees.
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Do you appreciate the irony of that post? So it's just around you then I suppose?
Oh right, because if I do anything other than what they arbitrarily define as "a regular user" at home, I have "no life". Got it.
Slashdot isn't composed of "regular users" (believe it or not).
This article is a joke. What is a "regular user" and why would slashdot care, when none of us are "regular users" ?
Bill Gates said KB, actually. And the other posters were obviously joking.
What I'm guaranteeing is that it's over-hyped bullshit the media is feeding you. I can train an ACTUAL monkey to cut your brake lines with an $8 pair of bolt cutters. But that doesn't have the word "computer" or "hacker" in it so it doesn't make the front page of CNN.
Most of those required physical access to the car. If I have physical access to any car I can hack it. Can we stop with the alarmist bullshit please?
Ebooks should be free with the purchase of the physical book.
The best part is when no one signs up, they'll tell the FCC there's no demand for fiber.
That is very dated, a lot has changed since 2012. Our imports are down significantly in 2014, lowest levels since 1985.
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Daringfireball for a laugh. You should seriously be cautious of any site without comments. Most of his content doesn't stand up to even mild criticism.
there isn't one cable anywhere you could unplug that would take them both offline.
I didn't say they were invulnerable. Calm down.
My DNS servers are on the same subnet and there isn't one cable anywhere you could unplug that would take them both offline.
It's scary how much more faith most of you put in some random IT department than the engineers at cloud providers. For everyone hacked provider using the cloud are 10 that had their own internal systems hacked.
Have you ever met anyone who worked in corporate IT? As someone who works in corporate IT let me tell you, 99% of them are idiots. And that's being polite. Your data isn't any safer in their hands than Google's.
Sorry, I thought that was so obvious it didn't need explaining.
We can make this very simple: the problem is foods with a high glycemic load.
I never mentioned any complex carbs, so I don't see how I could be conflating simple sugars and complex carbs.
Yup. Hardly any difference. But HFCS55 sure sounds scarier than 'table sugar". Everyone knows at this point that our problem isn't with fats, it's with carbs.
'When [managers] say they are suggesting you do something, it's not really a suggestion â" it is an order disguised as a suggestion. Plain-speaking is a lost art at big companies and corporate double talk is the name of the game.'
It's brainstorming. I do this all the time. Employee presents a problem, I say "well I'd probably do X". Now you can either go do X or go "well I was thinking of doing Y, what about that?". Then we can have a discussion about it. Keep in mind that when you ask your manager a question, his job is to make decisions and to do it quickly.
Yeah it makes it a lot harder to play with friends. But most people played at least a couple classes. And since honorbuddy got popular I have (i think) 14 level 100s. I'd have to count to be sure, I have one of every class plus 3 druids and 2 shaman. And it's so easy to gear up a class now that you can really play anything you want. They've also instituted a system that makes it easy to find arena groups and I've had some good sessions playing with random people I've found that way.
Play on a PvE server and you cannot be killed by another player unless you choose to engage in PvP. There are dozens of them.
You clearly don't play WoW or know anything about the bot, what it did, or how it was used. You're assuming people used it to automate "boring, repetitive" parts of the game. This is true for about 2% of it's use. Most people used it for high end raiding (combat routines), battlegrounds and arena PvP. They used it because it played the game better than them. It did what most people consider the fun part for them.
First let's specify what bot we're all talking about: Honorbuddy.
BGs was only one part of it. High end guilds were raiding using the combat routines. A number of progression guilds broke up entirely because 90% of their roster is banned. It was also being used in arenas (look up "Gladiator Suite" on the honorbuddy forums). People were playing literally in gladiator range (2700+ arena rating) using the bot. It had perfect DPS rotations, CC'd, used cooldowns correctly and could perfectly kick any cast. It was also being used to farm professions (herb, mining, etc) and pretty much any other aspect of the game. Personally, I leveled one of every class to 100, including multiples of some classes (for arena purposes, so I could play with less skilled friends without affecting my rating).
Blizzard has never sold max level characters. They sell level 90 character boosts for $60. You still have to level from 90 to 100 to reach max level.
We had five people in our guild banned for botting with Honorbuddy. Every single one of them bought a new copy of the game and started leveling again. Most purchased a new copy on Thursday/Friday and I know of at least one that is already back to level 100 (took him 15 hours of /played). Blizzard is going to make so much fucking money off this ban. Not to mention people had to buy WoW tokens (gold) to buy their heirlooms and they will have to pay to merge the accounts together in 6 months.
Arena is still great, played a ton over the weekend. I've never found another game that has the same level of complexity or requires the same level of coordination between partners than WoW arena. We mostly played KFC (arms warrior / bm hunter / resto druid). Let me tell you the state of arena now vs 4-5 years ago, insanely different. The level of competition is in another league completely. For reference I was a ~2400 rated player in WotLK.
Of the people who play that I know, every single one of them bought a new copy of the game and leveled from 90 to 100 over the weekend. Some even bought gold from Blizzard (via their WoW Tokens). This was a huge cash influx for them. And in 6 months when the accounts get unbanned, they'll make all the money for people paying to merge the accounts back together to avoid paying two monthly fees.