The beauty of "black" and "white" is that they're two sides of a coin.
As an Asian, I resent that. I don't care about racial issues - I'd be happy if everyone just ignored race; I generally ignore my own already - but why is every racial division between "white" and "black", and Asians, Hispanics, and whatnot just don't seem to exist?
Jack Thompson - Florida lawyer on a personal crusade against video game violence; he says it causes real-world violence. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his craziness/overexcitedness.
Bill Gates - Founder, former CEO, and current Chief Software Architect (or something) of Microsoft. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his overcapitalistic business practices.
Lex Luthor - Superman's archenemy, and thus a good source for imaginary evil viewpoints and real movie quotes. Also a character in Smallville, a TV series about Superman's adolescence.
Steve Ballmer - Current CEO of Microsoft. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views (similar to Bill Gates') and his propensity to throw chairs and dance on stage (both of which have been blown out of proportion, but he should've expected that when he did so).
Darl McBride - Current CEO of SCO, a company in Utah that claims rights to AT&T UNIX (the commercial version). Nobody's entirely sure who owns AT&T UNIX, because it changed hands too many times. Anyway, almost nobody really uses AT&T UNIX anymore; they use the Free versions (BSD UNIX, Linux, etc.), which SCO claims contains their AT&T UNIX code. Anyway, McBride seems to have turned SCO's business strategy into suing Linux companies/users. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his stupid business practices.
Dr. Evil - archenemy of Austin Powers, whose namesake movies are parodies of spy movies such as James Bond's. Therefore Dr. Evil is a parody of honest archenemies. Liked in the Slashdot community because of his views both on one beelion dollars and on sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
John C. Dvorak - computer columnist, currently for PC Magazine. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his propensity to make wildly incorrect predictions.
"Well, I respectfully suggest that the much larger group of people who call themselves "Blacks" get a grip on the extremist, bigoted elements of their community which are currently exacerbating racial tensions (and have always asserted black superiority).
"Until you take some proactive steps to shame and marginalize the Carmicheals, Jacksons, and X's, mainstream Blacks will inevitably be associated with aiding and abetting racism and violence."
Suppose I said that, about 40 years ago. How would you respond?
It's very hard as a moderate Christian either to get people to realize that most of us are moderates or to restrain the fanatics. Someone I know who had seemed to me very anti-Christian saw someone's reasonable but slightly too conservative (IMHO) statement of faith, and she replied, "If all Christians were like that, I wouldn't have such a problem with them." How do we get people to realize that the televangelists are not representative of mainstream Christianity?
Back in 'Nam, you think people were running around with rocket launchers?
Back in 'Nam, you think people respawned? Campers don't matter for real humans. Once they're dead, they really don't care if the person who killed them was there for one day or for five years. The problem with camping (especially spawncamping) is that the offensive team keeps going for the same point - or just tries to defend their spawnpoint - and the game becomes a war of attrition. Most human wars last century were wars of attrition. Most of them haven't been fun. Games are supposed to be fun.
My take here is that having large-scale FPS battles still requires a LAN.
The battle itself won't be large-scale; it'll be several normal FPS battles in one seamless world. Here's a very rough example: Halo's Blood Gulch is obviously a valley inside a larger formation; what if you could fly between gulches? You're only visible from at most two gulches at once, so it's not going to require handling too many players affecting each other at once.
Well, the point was that "dome" by itself - as in the shape - is a pretty non-sequitur password, so he wanted to know why she was using that. Turns out that "dome" stood for two words she had put together. Understandably, she was embarrased to tell the sysadmin what it meant, since she knew he'd understand. She was a web developer, and took the common XHTML "DOM", and added an "e" to it in an effort to make it look cool, but the "e-" prefix had fallen out of style, and using at a suffix was even worse.
My Slashdot password would, yes. (Okay, kinda stupid to post that, but really, who would want to post as me?) But that's just because its an older one.
I have a "set" of passwords I use for new sites: part of the password is the same, but part incorporates the name of the site, so even if an unsalted hash gets compromised, I'm still perfectly safe elsewhere, and if a raw password gets compromised, a script won't be able to log me in elsewhere.
(By the way, one of the biggest ways these passwords get compromised is some helpful site e-mailing me my password when I sign up. STFU, automated mailer. I'm already at a big enough risk because you refuse to use HTTPS or at least some challenge-response JS. Are you going to send my password through public SMTP now?)
A human would be able to crack my sequence, but since my password isn't "%hQ)&4æ,¥@r7ø_TheSiteWithTrolls" or anything, it's still brute-forceable with a couple of days of computing followed by half a minute of looking at it, if you're really out to get me.
PS - I have Digg as one of my home pages on Firefox so I do check/read both sites so please no flames about "You don't know what you're talking about since you obviously don't dig Digg!"
You don't know what you're talking about since you're obviously both a Slashdot fanboy and a Digg fanboy!
I think that's a bad way of phrasing it. He's selling low when it's about to go lower, and buying high when it's about to go higher. That's why he was worried about buying high outright - he wanted to make sure the market was consistently increasing the price when he bought it. Since you can't place stock orders based on the derivative of a company's price, that's the best he could do.
The reason is that table of contents and other formatting in Word has a penchant for freaking out after your page count gets really high...
Yeah, I've seen that first hand trying to convert War and Peace from Gutenberg to Microsoft Reader, and hopefully having a nice, paginated table of context. Once you do too many things, Word lags more than correspondence chess.
Actually, a hardware firewall is plenty. This computer has no service packs, whatever firewall came with original XP, and a cheap Belkin router that only forwards a couple of ports through nonstandard numbers. I haven't updated in years. Nothing's happened to it.
The danger is in hooking up your computer directly to the Internet with neither firewall nor NAT - then worms will be able to get to your RPC ports and mess with your system, since the local subnet is part of the public Internet.
Speaking of MySpace, is there a way (short of filling Firefox with FlashBlock, AdBlock, NoScript, KillTheWabbit, or whatever other anti-active-content extensions they have) to view MySpace profiles/information without loading any of the simultaneous nonsense my friends seem to want loading by default? E.g., if I log in, is there an option to disable this? Or is there a relatively complete RSS feed for profiles?
Eatlesbay, for those who don't know, has a Eorgegay Arrisonhay website that's linked under his name. Basically, he sends stories of moderate interest to Slashdot, in hope that his Google rank will increase. Currently, his site is ranked 10th on a Google for [eorgegay arrisonhay]. Two factors contribute to this: first, having the site linked from Slashdot, and second, having the linking page reference Arrisonhay and the Eatlesbay. If you leave any words referencing the Eatlesbay out of your comments, he loses a significant factor in his PageRank.
(Some words in this post have been Pig Latined for that reason.)
Agreed, completely. Since the lyrics are as integral a part of the intellectual property as the music and the recording, when I buy a recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, and part of my cost is royalties to Gilbert and Sullivan, I also have the rights to a copy of Gilbert's lyrics and Sullivan's sheet music.
Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states
No, the EU is a confederation, where each member state retains sovereignty.
the United States (.us)
Why doesn't the US relinquish the TLDs.com,.org, etc.? Those were originally defined as being just US. For the sake of "consistency," US stuff should be under.us. At the least, convert.gov and.mil to.gov.us and.mil.us - why should.gov be the government of just the US?
overall sovreignty split between an overall federal government and several component states
No. The states do not have sovereignty. The states are members of a federal union, which holds all sovereign powers, but through the Constitution, delegates the majority of them to the states. Sovereignty (but not power) rests only with the federal government.
And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language.
Because of politics. Spain is psycho. They've got like three or four different language groups in their "autonomous territories" that all hate each other and are trying either to control the Spanish government or to gain independence. (That's a gross oversimplification, of course, but it suffices for the background why Catalonians don't want to use.es.)
The TripMaster Money formula: 1. Quote from the article 2. Add a one or two-line inane comment 3. Flip a coin to decide whether or not to use that fu*king anime smile 4. Post a link to another site because obviously the great TMM *always* knows about other links (aka Google) 5. Wait for the boot-licking monions to come in and mindlessly click "Informative" when they see the author without even looking at the post itself 6. ??? 7. Karma!!!
Well, since you seem to have figured out the formula, why don't you try it? Slashdot needs more TripMaster Monkeys. If you avoid "quoting from the article," you're rarely on topic. And you may consider your opinions "genuine insight," but most people don't want to hear your unrelated rants.
I was going to mention Porrasturvat (a fun game, I can attest), in much the same manner, until I realized someone else had. That information is relevant to the article. I didn't even notice that the poster was TMM until you pointed it out.
TripMaster Monkey only has name recognition because of his sig. Pick a couple of other good Slashdotters and "stalk" them for a few days - they'll be modded as high as TMM. And have you looked at his comment history? He too has plenty of comments left at 2.
And yes, I have mod points, but since the Porrasturvat post was already at 5, I wasn't going to mod it. (Actually, I probably wouldn't mod anything that's just a relevant link past 4.) If you have excellent karma, you'll get mod points often enough that you can counteract the TMM effect - not by downmodding him, but by looking for other insightful posts.
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I doubt anyone over 15 edits Wikipedia.
Hey, I'm 16, and I still contribute to it.
The beauty of "black" and "white" is that they're two sides of a coin.
As an Asian, I resent that. I don't care about racial issues - I'd be happy if everyone just ignored race; I generally ignore my own already - but why is every racial division between "white" and "black", and Asians, Hispanics, and whatnot just don't seem to exist?
Hm.
Jack Thompson - Florida lawyer on a personal crusade against video game violence; he says it causes real-world violence. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his craziness/overexcitedness.
Bill Gates - Founder, former CEO, and current Chief Software Architect (or something) of Microsoft. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his overcapitalistic business practices.
Lex Luthor - Superman's archenemy, and thus a good source for imaginary evil viewpoints and real movie quotes. Also a character in Smallville, a TV series about Superman's adolescence.
Steve Ballmer - Current CEO of Microsoft. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views (similar to Bill Gates') and his propensity to throw chairs and dance on stage (both of which have been blown out of proportion, but he should've expected that when he did so).
Darl McBride - Current CEO of SCO, a company in Utah that claims rights to AT&T UNIX (the commercial version). Nobody's entirely sure who owns AT&T UNIX, because it changed hands too many times. Anyway, almost nobody really uses AT&T UNIX anymore; they use the Free versions (BSD UNIX, Linux, etc.), which SCO claims contains their AT&T UNIX code. Anyway, McBride seems to have turned SCO's business strategy into suing Linux companies/users. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his stupid business practices.
Dr. Evil - archenemy of Austin Powers, whose namesake movies are parodies of spy movies such as James Bond's. Therefore Dr. Evil is a parody of honest archenemies. Liked in the Slashdot community because of his views both on one beelion dollars and on sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
John C. Dvorak - computer columnist, currently for PC Magazine. Disliked in the Slashdot community both because of his views and his propensity to make wildly incorrect predictions.
Jack Thompson is a douche, but threatening to torture and kill him just reinforces his ideas that violent games make people violent.
Yeah, really. Someone please kill that kid before he causes too many problems.
"Well, I respectfully suggest that the much larger group of people who call themselves "Blacks" get a grip on the extremist, bigoted elements of their community which are currently exacerbating racial tensions (and have always asserted black superiority).
"Until you take some proactive steps to shame and marginalize the Carmicheals, Jacksons, and X's, mainstream Blacks will inevitably be associated with aiding and abetting racism and violence."
Suppose I said that, about 40 years ago. How would you respond?
It's very hard as a moderate Christian either to get people to realize that most of us are moderates or to restrain the fanatics. Someone I know who had seemed to me very anti-Christian saw someone's reasonable but slightly too conservative (IMHO) statement of faith, and she replied, "If all Christians were like that, I wouldn't have such a problem with them." How do we get people to realize that the televangelists are not representative of mainstream Christianity?
Back in 'Nam, you think people were running around with rocket launchers?
Back in 'Nam, you think people respawned? Campers don't matter for real humans. Once they're dead, they really don't care if the person who killed them was there for one day or for five years. The problem with camping (especially spawncamping) is that the offensive team keeps going for the same point - or just tries to defend their spawnpoint - and the game becomes a war of attrition. Most human wars last century were wars of attrition. Most of them haven't been fun. Games are supposed to be fun.
My take here is that having large-scale FPS battles still requires a LAN.
The battle itself won't be large-scale; it'll be several normal FPS battles in one seamless world. Here's a very rough example: Halo's Blood Gulch is obviously a valley inside a larger formation; what if you could fly between gulches? You're only visible from at most two gulches at once, so it's not going to require handling too many players affecting each other at once.
Well, the point was that "dome" by itself - as in the shape - is a pretty non-sequitur password, so he wanted to know why she was using that. Turns out that "dome" stood for two words she had put together. Understandably, she was embarrased to tell the sysadmin what it meant, since she knew he'd understand. She was a web developer, and took the common XHTML "DOM", and added an "e" to it in an effort to make it look cool, but the "e-" prefix had fallen out of style, and using at a suffix was even worse.
My Slashdot password would, yes. (Okay, kinda stupid to post that, but really, who would want to post as me?) But that's just because its an older one.
I have a "set" of passwords I use for new sites: part of the password is the same, but part incorporates the name of the site, so even if an unsalted hash gets compromised, I'm still perfectly safe elsewhere, and if a raw password gets compromised, a script won't be able to log me in elsewhere.
(By the way, one of the biggest ways these passwords get compromised is some helpful site e-mailing me my password when I sign up. STFU, automated mailer. I'm already at a big enough risk because you refuse to use HTTPS or at least some challenge-response JS. Are you going to send my password through public SMTP now?)
A human would be able to crack my sequence, but since my password isn't "%hQ)&4æ,¥@r7ø_TheSiteWithTrolls" or anything, it's still brute-forceable with a couple of days of computing followed by half a minute of looking at it, if you're really out to get me.
PS - I have Digg as one of my home pages on Firefox so I do check/read both sites so please no flames about "You don't know what you're talking about since you obviously don't dig Digg!"
:-)
You don't know what you're talking about since you're obviously both a Slashdot fanboy and a Digg fanboy!
Choose a side, traitor!
Selling low and buying high, eh?
You must be the guy that manages my 401K...
I think that's a bad way of phrasing it. He's selling low when it's about to go lower, and buying high when it's about to go higher. That's why he was worried about buying high outright - he wanted to make sure the market was consistently increasing the price when he bought it. Since you can't place stock orders based on the derivative of a company's price, that's the best he could do.
He was holding down the shift key.
Then it is his fault. He violated the DMCA.
The reason is that table of contents and other formatting in Word has a penchant for freaking out after your page count gets really high...
Yeah, I've seen that first hand trying to convert War and Peace from Gutenberg to Microsoft Reader, and hopefully having a nice, paginated table of context. Once you do too many things, Word lags more than correspondence chess.
Actually, a hardware firewall is plenty. This computer has no service packs, whatever firewall came with original XP, and a cheap Belkin router that only forwards a couple of ports through nonstandard numbers. I haven't updated in years. Nothing's happened to it.
The danger is in hooking up your computer directly to the Internet with neither firewall nor NAT - then worms will be able to get to your RPC ports and mess with your system, since the local subnet is part of the public Internet.
Speaking of MySpace, is there a way (short of filling Firefox with FlashBlock, AdBlock, NoScript, KillTheWabbit, or whatever other anti-active-content extensions they have) to view MySpace profiles/information without loading any of the simultaneous nonsense my friends seem to want loading by default? E.g., if I log in, is there an option to disable this? Or is there a relatively complete RSS feed for profiles?
Do not say the word Eatlesbay on the page, or it'll increase his page rank even more.
Yeah, thanks for mentioning the website name three times in an effort to warn people about his increasing PageRank.
Do not say the word Eatlesbay-Eatlesbay!
Eatlesbay, for those who don't know, has a Eorgegay Arrisonhay website that's linked under his name. Basically, he sends stories of moderate interest to Slashdot, in hope that his Google rank will increase. Currently, his site is ranked 10th on a Google for [eorgegay arrisonhay]. Two factors contribute to this: first, having the site linked from Slashdot, and second, having the linking page reference Arrisonhay and the Eatlesbay. If you leave any words referencing the Eatlesbay out of your comments, he loses a significant factor in his PageRank.
(Some words in this post have been Pig Latined for that reason.)
Agreed, completely. Since the lyrics are as integral a part of the intellectual property as the music and the recording, when I buy a recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, and part of my cost is royalties to Gilbert and Sullivan, I also have the rights to a copy of Gilbert's lyrics and Sullivan's sheet music.
The fact that you couldn't grasp those limited lyrics (4 words total) while listening to the song says a lot.
This, coming from someone who can't count to five...
Is that the URL? It resolves to 10.0.1.128, a private (LAN) IP address. So is the virus still active?
Since the European Union (.eu) is a federation of states
.com, .org, etc.? Those were originally defined as being just US. For the sake of "consistency," US stuff should be under .us. At the least, convert .gov and .mil to .gov.us and .mil.us - why should .gov be the government of just the US?
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No, the EU is a confederation, where each member state retains sovereignty.
the United States (.us)
Why doesn't the US relinquish the TLDs
overall sovreignty split between an overall federal government and several component states
No. The states do not have sovereignty. The states are members of a federal union, which holds all sovereign powers, but through the Constitution, delegates the majority of them to the states. Sovereignty (but not power) rests only with the federal government.
And ICANN has granted a top level domain for speakers of the Catalonian language.
Because of politics. Spain is psycho. They've got like three or four different language groups in their "autonomous territories" that all hate each other and are trying either to control the Spanish government or to gain independence. (That's a gross oversimplification, of course, but it suffices for the background why Catalonians don't want to use
worried that the Man would steal his secretz
Actually, Caesar was the Man, no pun intended. He was worried that lesser people would steal his secrets.
The TripMaster Money formula:
1. Quote from the article
2. Add a one or two-line inane comment
3. Flip a coin to decide whether or not to use that fu*king anime smile
4. Post a link to another site because obviously the great TMM *always* knows about other links (aka Google)
5. Wait for the boot-licking monions to come in and mindlessly click "Informative" when they see the author without even looking at the post itself
6. ???
7. Karma!!!
Well, since you seem to have figured out the formula, why don't you try it? Slashdot needs more TripMaster Monkeys. If you avoid "quoting from the article," you're rarely on topic. And you may consider your opinions "genuine insight," but most people don't want to hear your unrelated rants.
I was going to mention Porrasturvat (a fun game, I can attest), in much the same manner, until I realized someone else had. That information is relevant to the article. I didn't even notice that the poster was TMM until you pointed it out.
TripMaster Monkey only has name recognition because of his sig. Pick a couple of other good Slashdotters and "stalk" them for a few days - they'll be modded as high as TMM. And have you looked at his comment history? He too has plenty of comments left at 2.
And yes, I have mod points, but since the Porrasturvat post was already at 5, I wasn't going to mod it. (Actually, I probably wouldn't mod anything that's just a relevant link past 4.) If you have excellent karma, you'll get mod points often enough that you can counteract the TMM effect - not by downmodding him, but by looking for other insightful posts.
And I'm not afraid of giving my username.
~Geoffrey
As long as the former pilots don't start complaining about the rat race....