perhaps this is beyond the knowledge-level of the average slash-dotter, but all of the quotes talk about Blizzard hashing title-bar info, and at most sending that (though it appears they just send a flag). They're not reading your email addresses or urls... if they wanted to do that, they'd just use the strings. the fact that they're hashing alone tells you they're not stealing your info.
Well, as a student becoming a scientist, surrounded by other students working to become scientists and engineers, I am offended that you believe we "do not have the patience to become scientists/engineers." In reality, I count my fellow students among some of the most determined people I know.
$50,000 is a lot to someone trying to start out in life. Also, it is a very conservative estimate, assuming that the student can or desires to attend a State school, or can get financial aid (there isn't that much out there--America for all its talk about being wonderful and smart and technologically advanced, isn't willing to put its money where its mouth is). At a well-respected private school, college loans can easily cost over $100,000. That doesn't even begin to take into account graduate school, which is rapidly becoming more and more expected of technical people entering the workforce. Being in debt is no way to jump-start ones future.
Its a tricky question: pursue your interests in college and get into debt amounting to a small house, or do something else and be financially secure?
What's really funny is that he's not even Texan. If you're going to run around mispronouncing things and have an accent, you should at least have one from where you're from (Connecticut in Dubya's case).
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perhaps this is beyond the knowledge-level of the average slash-dotter, but all of the quotes talk about Blizzard hashing title-bar info, and at most sending that (though it appears they just send a flag). They're not reading your email addresses or urls... if they wanted to do that, they'd just use the strings. the fact that they're hashing alone tells you they're not stealing your info.
Well, as a student becoming a scientist, surrounded by other students working to become scientists and engineers, I am offended that you believe we "do not have the patience to become scientists/engineers." In reality, I count my fellow students among some of the most determined people I know.
$50,000 is a lot to someone trying to start out in life. Also, it is a very conservative estimate, assuming that the student can or desires to attend a State school, or can get financial aid (there isn't that much out there--America for all its talk about being wonderful and smart and technologically advanced, isn't willing to put its money where its mouth is). At a well-respected private school, college loans can easily cost over $100,000. That doesn't even begin to take into account graduate school, which is rapidly becoming more and more expected of technical people entering the workforce. Being in debt is no way to jump-start ones future.
Its a tricky question: pursue your interests in college and get into debt amounting to a small house, or do something else and be financially secure?
What's really funny is that he's not even Texan. If you're going to run around mispronouncing things and have an accent, you should at least have one from where you're from (Connecticut in Dubya's case).