You run the risk of ruining pen and paper games by increasing the speed in which encounters get dealt with. GMs need time to BS and slow mechanics enable that. I'm sure there are other games where being efficient will detract from the social aspects of the situation. Slot machines are probably one of the best examples of such.
Girlfriend's large purse = blackmarket snacks. Of course, nobody at/. can utilize that market:( A good alternative are cargo pants. The trick is fitting the goods in between all the gadgets.
That's called "upselling". They give you the free federal filing and charge on the state. They could split the state price in half and have you do both at a fairly reasonable fee, but then you might go another route. Feds free, then you "may as well" do your state refund while you're sitting there.
"Free: The Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson has some insight on that idea.
Funny you mention that. I used to hit my systems with 98lite and what have you, but around XP I just deleted the icons and had foxfire/firefox take it's spot. It didn't occur to me to even see if I could uninstall IE from my current W7 system... Something to ponder for later on.
I mentioned it in a previous post, but I'm having some fun with Tinycore linux for that reason. There's practically nothing installed from the get go. A 10meg OS floating around in 2g of laptop RAM is rather fun. Now I just need time to configure it for WINE and see how my games work on it. I wonder how it stacks up against hardened distros for basic security.
Yep, and that's the trick. At the very least OSS models do allow for distros to fix the software they ship themselves. I'd only give a group a pass on that if they can't fix the code themselves. In this case, one might consider Linux, BSD and other OSS based operating systems to be held to a higher standard than the traditional closed source project. It's broken AND you can fix it. Things like that are why some distros make me want to slam my head against a wall. Why are there 20 versions of notepad? Pick one, maintain it and we can install something else ourselves if it suits our needs.
So as we wouldn't count a problem with notepad as a Windows OS issue, so we shouldn't count ones for other OS's non-essential programs.
Not saying you're in this group, but a lot of people around here have no problem counting IE vulnerabilities against Windows.
Actually, I'm with this group. MS made IE "part" of Windows, good choice or not. Any problems it has becomes an OS problem by their own design.
This is one reason I wonder if Tinycore Linux may be one of the more secure flavors out there. A minimal distribution at initial install and you pretty much have to add any sort of functionality beyond hardware setup, the GUI and some basic utilities (thankfully including an application manager/downloader). I love playing with distros, but if you install full gnome/kde suites and such, that's a lot of potential bugs. Open or closed source, a 10Meg distro is probably easier to audit by smaller groups, possibly even by a single person who really loves what they're doing. Not having apps until you install them helps reduce the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" or endless list of new updates you can get with more robust operating systems.
Saying that OSX is less secure due to these vulnerabilities is how MS said that Linux was less secure than windows. These aren't OS vulnerabilities, they're application vulnerabilities (well, for the programs I recognize as a non-Mac person). The OS itself is fine. The trick is, of course, that some of these things are included practically by default. So as we wouldn't count a problem with notepad as a Windows OS issue, so we shouldn't count ones for other OS's non-essential programs.
That's not to say that Mac users have free license to ignore proper security practices. Trojans, poor/shared passwords and not updating their software can leave them as vulnerable, if less targeted, than PC users. Given that one of the problems is with flash (and the fix is as simple as an update), I wonder if there's a good enough of a target out there for hacking Mac WOW players through flash ads hijacks.
Before you flame, I will say that if you're on/. and a Mac lover, I sincerely doubt you're one of the problem kids for updates on most any system you control.
1. Write down the dates of when the bugs were introduced.
2. Write down the dates of when the bugs were discovered/announced.
3. Write down the dates of when the fixes were provided.
Closed source is generally expected (at least at/.) to have long gaps between those three dates. Open source, due to anybody being able to audit the code, is expected to have shorter periods of time between them. Granted, the time period between #1 and #2 can be lengthy for both, but the spans between #2 and #3 is where OSS tends to shine. If one group of coders won't fix a known bug, another will.
That's the theory, at least. Every program has bugs at one point or another. OSS's strength is that it can be fixed by the community/individual rather than having to wait for the originator. Popular projects benefit more from this, but if you really want to, you can always DIY or hire folks if the program is important to you but not everybody else.
Since it's the BSD license, how good does this look for closed source graphics? Just curious. I'm not familiar with what was available from other sources before this.
Yep. Considering that they've been taxing game transactions transparently for years, I guess this is just catching up.
What? They haven't? Old school arcade players bought additional health in Gauntlet. The tax was rolled into the $0.25 purchase price. Continues (which are basically extra lives in a game) are the same thing. I'm sure there are other examples, but the taxman getting a cut on such "microtransactions" is nothing new. They just needed a way to do it with some of the newer setups.
Granted, now the problem is that this may have negative ramifications for the games due to the higher level of multiplayer interaction. Would duping become a crime equivalent to counterfeiting and thus carry big jail time?
It's the parent's fault! They need to be monitoring their kids more. 1984 was 26 years ago, but have we reached that utopia yet? No! Everybody's a terrorist, watch us all!
Voyeur and amateur stuff abounds! How they came up with the names like "National Geographic" still confuses me, though. Ask for that or the "medical journal" sections. Don't forget to wink knowingly.
An IE8 installation would be less of a change if you could minimize any cosmetic differences. Changing them to a Mac would probably be more traumatic to your wallet than anything, and then they'd be absolutely useless since there's no start button on the bottom left hand of the screen (ala Gnome vs KDE).
Now then, give them "speak and spells" and/. might rest a bit better:D (A barely 4 digit replied to me? *honored*).
"Hey, I heard you're running IE6. You know that's there's an alternative that's safer and free? It's called INTERNET EXPLORER NUMBER #(!&#* 8!!!!!"
Forget Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari for this discussion. The people who are running IE6 are either too computer illiterate/phobic to have a clue about alternate browsers or have a specific reason for not upgrading or changing. We can only hope that the folks who won't upgrade get some future cloud OS where the maintaining of security profiles takes place without them. Those that can't upgrade... sorry folks. No PHB killer viruses yet.
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True, but there's a point where you have to say the new thing is too different than what was old to be considered the same.
You run the risk of ruining pen and paper games by increasing the speed in which encounters get dealt with. GMs need time to BS and slow mechanics enable that. I'm sure there are other games where being efficient will detract from the social aspects of the situation. Slot machines are probably one of the best examples of such.
The wig was a good investment.
Girlfriend's large purse = blackmarket snacks. Of course, nobody at /. can utilize that market :( A good alternative are cargo pants. The trick is fitting the goods in between all the gadgets.
I'm glad they're teaching how to set and achieve goals in the correctional system. Maybe they'll let him out early for being such a good example.
At least you'll have the recipe for cream of sum yung gai down pat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eYnDddsic
That's called "upselling". They give you the free federal filing and charge on the state. They could split the state price in half and have you do both at a fairly reasonable fee, but then you might go another route. Feds free, then you "may as well" do your state refund while you're sitting there.
"Free: The Future of a Radical Price" by Chris Anderson has some insight on that idea.
>.> Why did that post as an AC?
Funny you mention that. I used to hit my systems with 98lite and what have you, but around XP I just deleted the icons and had foxfire/firefox take it's spot. It didn't occur to me to even see if I could uninstall IE from my current W7 system...
Something to ponder for later on.
I mentioned it in a previous post, but I'm having some fun with Tinycore linux for that reason. There's practically nothing installed from the get go. A 10meg OS floating around in 2g of laptop RAM is rather fun. Now I just need time to configure it for WINE and see how my games work on it. I wonder how it stacks up against hardened distros for basic security.
Yep, and that's the trick. At the very least OSS models do allow for distros to fix the software they ship themselves. I'd only give a group a pass on that if they can't fix the code themselves. In this case, one might consider Linux, BSD and other OSS based operating systems to be held to a higher standard than the traditional closed source project. It's broken AND you can fix it. Things like that are why some distros make me want to slam my head against a wall. Why are there 20 versions of notepad? Pick one, maintain it and we can install something else ourselves if it suits our needs.
Vi and Emacs would be an exception to that...
So as we wouldn't count a problem with notepad as a Windows OS issue, so we shouldn't count ones for other OS's non-essential programs.
Not saying you're in this group, but a lot of people around here have no problem counting IE vulnerabilities against Windows.
Actually, I'm with this group. MS made IE "part" of Windows, good choice or not. Any problems it has becomes an OS problem by their own design.
This is one reason I wonder if Tinycore Linux may be one of the more secure flavors out there. A minimal distribution at initial install and you pretty much have to add any sort of functionality beyond hardware setup, the GUI and some basic utilities (thankfully including an application manager/downloader). I love playing with distros, but if you install full gnome/kde suites and such, that's a lot of potential bugs. Open or closed source, a 10Meg distro is probably easier to audit by smaller groups, possibly even by a single person who really loves what they're doing. Not having apps until you install them helps reduce the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" or endless list of new updates you can get with more robust operating systems.
Saying that OSX is less secure due to these vulnerabilities is how MS said that Linux was less secure than windows. These aren't OS vulnerabilities, they're application vulnerabilities (well, for the programs I recognize as a non-Mac person). The OS itself is fine. The trick is, of course, that some of these things are included practically by default. So as we wouldn't count a problem with notepad as a Windows OS issue, so we shouldn't count ones for other OS's non-essential programs.
/. and a Mac lover, I sincerely doubt you're one of the problem kids for updates on most any system you control.
That's not to say that Mac users have free license to ignore proper security practices. Trojans, poor/shared passwords and not updating their software can leave them as vulnerable, if less targeted, than PC users. Given that one of the problems is with flash (and the fix is as simple as an update), I wonder if there's a good enough of a target out there for hacking Mac WOW players through flash ads hijacks.
Before you flame, I will say that if you're on
The general theory is like this.
/.) to have long gaps between those three dates. Open source, due to anybody being able to audit the code, is expected to have shorter periods of time between them. Granted, the time period between #1 and #2 can be lengthy for both, but the spans between #2 and #3 is where OSS tends to shine. If one group of coders won't fix a known bug, another will.
1. Write down the dates of when the bugs were introduced.
2. Write down the dates of when the bugs were discovered/announced.
3. Write down the dates of when the fixes were provided.
Closed source is generally expected (at least at
That's the theory, at least. Every program has bugs at one point or another. OSS's strength is that it can be fixed by the community/individual rather than having to wait for the originator. Popular projects benefit more from this, but if you really want to, you can always DIY or hire folks if the program is important to you but not everybody else.
Since it's the BSD license, how good does this look for closed source graphics? Just curious. I'm not familiar with what was available from other sources before this.
So it's not Windows vs Linux security, but a Closed vs Opens source security discussion.
Somebody gave me an "informative" mod point. I think you deserve it more.
Yep. Considering that they've been taxing game transactions transparently for years, I guess this is just catching up.
What? They haven't? Old school arcade players bought additional health in Gauntlet. The tax was rolled into the $0.25 purchase price. Continues (which are basically extra lives in a game) are the same thing. I'm sure there are other examples, but the taxman getting a cut on such "microtransactions" is nothing new. They just needed a way to do it with some of the newer setups.
Granted, now the problem is that this may have negative ramifications for the games due to the higher level of multiplayer interaction. Would duping become a crime equivalent to counterfeiting and thus carry big jail time?
It's the parent's fault! They need to be monitoring their kids more. 1984 was 26 years ago, but have we reached that utopia yet? No! Everybody's a terrorist, watch us all!
And back to the porn. *fap* *fap* *fap*
Voyeur and amateur stuff abounds! How they came up with the names like "National Geographic" still confuses me, though. Ask for that or the "medical journal" sections. Don't forget to wink knowingly.
I certainly agree. I figured I covered that under the part about those that had specific reasons to not upgrade.
Of course, then there are always people like this...
An IE8 installation would be less of a change if you could minimize any cosmetic differences. Changing them to a Mac would probably be more traumatic to your wallet than anything, and then they'd be absolutely useless since there's no start button on the bottom left hand of the screen (ala Gnome vs KDE).
/. might rest a bit better :D (A barely 4 digit replied to me? *honored*).
Now then, give them "speak and spells" and
"Hey, I heard you're running IE6. You know that's there's an alternative that's safer and free? It's called INTERNET EXPLORER NUMBER #(!&#* 8!!!!!"
Forget Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari for this discussion. The people who are running IE6 are either too computer illiterate/phobic to have a clue about alternate browsers or have a specific reason for not upgrading or changing. We can only hope that the folks who won't upgrade get some future cloud OS where the maintaining of security profiles takes place without them. Those that can't upgrade... sorry folks. No PHB killer viruses yet.
Yep, that was mentioned in the link. Of course, I want to see what the AC says (assuming they check back).