One of the best reasons as to why Real ID was bad was given by Shmelse ( http://twitter.com/Shmelse ) in response to Blizzard's holy crusader Micah Whipple. As seen here (http://twitter.com/Shmelse/status/18108261999) and quoted verbatim.
@micahwhipple
It's too much to type out on Twitter, so I've made a blog for you, Micah.
Here's what I see:
Sue Smith can't post without everyone knowing she's female. Women in the video games world frequently face harassment; this isn't news.
Timothy Chan and Jose Perez can't post without everyone knowing their ethnicity. It shouldn't come as a shock to you that people of different ethnicities face harassment as well.
Exotic McUniquename can't post without (1) his posts being tied to his name forever through google searches and (2) everyone who reads his posts and disagrees with him digging up information on him. I think you're familiar with this one?
John Smith can post anonymously and without fear of harassment. His name doesn't reveal that he's a vulnerable female. His name doesn't reveal that he's a targeted minority. His name doesn't reveal everything about him with one simple search. He is safe.
John gets to post on your new forums without fear. For Sue and Timothy and Jose and Exotic, well, they can just not post, right? Won't the forums be a much nicer place once all those "different" people are gone?
I totally agree that this would happen if such a system was to be implemented in an environment like Blizzar'd forums.
I was once in a guild where the vent was so racist that new people would instantly quit it. I've seen this happen in just about every guild I've been in. The more hardcore the guild was the more racist the teenage->20something players were. There view towards women were not that great as well.
Now that people are forced to disclose their names, I'm pretty sure guilds would start openly discriminating people based on their race, religion and nationality just based on the names alone. In North America, if you have a "strange name", it's pretty easy to pinpoint exactly what you are IRL. This I think would be the basis for a new form of pretty disgusting discrimination among gamers.
I'm not sure why he didn't run memtest right off. He says he has not run it and was meaning to do it since that happened. I think mostly he wanted to write a story, one that has nothing to do with cosmic rays (btw).
You literally have to be an Internet Olympic hero to delete or remove your Facebook account after these changes. But I found this story/guide, by Mathew Ingram very useful when I removed my facebook presence.
According to John Gruber ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/19/gizmodo-rumors ) , Gizmodo bought this stolen iPhone prototype from the people who "found" it. He considers it to be stolen vs lost, so I wonder how Apple would react to this.
> Does anyone think this clown has actually "cracked" this? Sounds like his other "crack" for the PS3, which was basically not a crack at all.
I'm not sure why you are calling him a clown, he's a respectable hacker that has worked on jail-breaking the iPhone, and enabling access to the locked out 7 SPU's in PS3. If you are eluding to his age, then it's sad.
As someone who has been reading e-books since 1997 (palm et el), I have to say that I absolutely loathe e-Ink displays. The reason is cause, I mostly read in dark or low light conditions, and e-Ink fails here as do normal paper. I find LCD's with low brightness less straining than a Kindle, thus am looking forward to what Apple and possible competition would have to offer.
Apparently they are blocking outgoing access to a port 80 of 4chan, cause they felt there was an attack being generated from the 4chan IP range. The twitter feed is hilarious.
While I've been mildly interested in OnLive, my biggest excitement over this was a confirmation that a streamed remote desktop session with real good responsiveness (say LAN) could be had soon. I even started poking around for similar systems that actually streamed the desktop in 2mbps or similar video stream with interactivity, but alas, it seems like no one is working on this issue.
So, I'm open to suggestions, is there any current existing remote desktop server/client system that actually streams the desktop in the OnLive fashion, or is anyone working on one similar to this? (And I do not mean in the old VNC fashion). I believe such a system is very feasible. Imagine being able to stream your desktop onto thin/mobile devices just like you were on it, being able to play video (at least) would be so much better than the current remote desktop offerings.
In a nutshell, I want this applied to remotely stream desktops with full control ala VNC but similar to OnLive.
How does this stop terrorists who board plans elsewhere and come here (with the thought of blowing up the plane?). These scanners need to be where a terrorist is most likely to board a plane. Thus a push for having them in international airports all over the world would be a much better plan than having them all over the US including tiny domestic airports.
But then it becomes a non-story, and something that should not be commented on, and if you do write a story about it, your whole nation would get black listed. But then again the Israeli organs are harvested off terrorist Palestine people who probably deserved it right? I suppose it's ok for IDF to go around rounding about militants and other terrorist elements, and conviently have them die and be returned to the miltiants parents sans organs. Many of which are exported out to western nations.
I don't see what the big deal is about China, if those are condemned people just like the above terrorists.
They will clearly win Jeopardy by patenting all the words in popular culture and using something like DMCA against all and any opponents... thus enforcing their patent argot.
In no instance should he have spoken to the police officer, in no instance should he have made cyclic arguments with the officer.
From what I understood the OP wanted to make this a big deal possibly for blogging purposes (I've seen this happen with other fellow bloggers). This is what I got from reading the blog entry.
It also states he "jailbroke" phones and expressly lays it out as being a criminal activity.
It's mostly a setup from some other guy eg: "hey this dude knows too much about computers, I think he's got tons of downloads, music, movies and he's jailbreaking all sorts of stuff for people (probably stolen phones too!)... I'm sure all that is illegal!"
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I totally agree that this would happen if such a system was to be implemented in an environment like Blizzar'd forums.
I was once in a guild where the vent was so racist that new people would instantly quit it. I've seen this happen in just about every guild I've been in. The more hardcore the guild was the more racist the teenage->20something players were. There view towards women were not that great as well.
Now that people are forced to disclose their names, I'm pretty sure guilds would start openly discriminating people based on their race, religion and nationality just based on the names alone. In North America, if you have a "strange name", it's pretty easy to pinpoint exactly what you are IRL. This I think would be the basis for a new form of pretty disgusting discrimination among gamers.
I'm not sure why he didn't run memtest right off. He says he has not run it and was meaning to do it since that happened. I think mostly he wanted to write a story, one that has nothing to do with cosmic rays (btw).
You literally have to be an Internet Olympic hero to delete or remove your Facebook account after these changes. But I found this story/guide, by Mathew Ingram very useful when I removed my facebook presence.
http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them/
Even if you are not logged into facebook, due to instant personalization, many websites that partner with fb can track you.
According to John Gruber ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/19/gizmodo-rumors ) , Gizmodo bought this stolen iPhone prototype from the people who "found" it. He considers it to be stolen vs lost, so I wonder how Apple would react to this.
> Does anyone think this clown has actually "cracked" this? Sounds like his other "crack" for the PS3, which was basically not a crack at all.
I'm not sure why you are calling him a clown, he's a respectable hacker that has worked on jail-breaking the iPhone, and enabling access to the locked out 7 SPU's in PS3. If you are eluding to his age, then it's sad.
Here read more about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
If you thought that was crazy, see something recent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0&NR
1. Do No Evil.
2. ??
3. World Domination.
We all knew given the naming of iPad, that they had no women in their marketing/strategic decision making (all that synergy stuff) dept.
As someone who has been reading e-books since 1997 (palm et el), I have to say that I absolutely loathe e-Ink displays. The reason is cause, I mostly read in dark or low light conditions, and e-Ink fails here as do normal paper. I find LCD's with low brightness less straining than a Kindle, thus am looking forward to what Apple and possible competition would have to offer.
Wrong thread... my bad.
Here is his twitter feed.
http://twitter.com/JNels
Apparently they are blocking outgoing access to a port 80 of 4chan, cause they felt there was an attack being generated from the 4chan IP range. The twitter feed is hilarious.
While I've been mildly interested in OnLive, my biggest excitement over this was a confirmation that a streamed remote desktop session with real good responsiveness (say LAN) could be had soon. I even started poking around for similar systems that actually streamed the desktop in 2mbps or similar video stream with interactivity, but alas, it seems like no one is working on this issue.
So, I'm open to suggestions, is there any current existing remote desktop server/client system that actually streams the desktop in the OnLive fashion, or is anyone working on one similar to this? (And I do not mean in the old VNC fashion). I believe such a system is very feasible. Imagine being able to stream your desktop onto thin/mobile devices just like you were on it, being able to play video (at least) would be so much better than the current remote desktop offerings.
In a nutshell, I want this applied to remotely stream desktops with full control ala VNC but similar to OnLive.
How does this stop terrorists who board plans elsewhere and come here (with the thought of blowing up the plane?). These scanners need to be where a terrorist is most likely to board a plane. Thus a push for having them in international airports all over the world would be a much better plan than having them all over the US including tiny domestic airports.
He is pretty bad at wow too.
Look at his Armory.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bladefist&n=Rastlynn
Also it happens only in France.
At first they reported it was due to heat, but I have the same phone in Arizona and never heard of that happening here.
But then it becomes a non-story, and something that should not be commented on, and if you do write a story about it, your whole nation would get black listed. But then again the Israeli organs are harvested off terrorist Palestine people who probably deserved it right? I suppose it's ok for IDF to go around rounding about militants and other terrorist elements, and conviently have them die and be returned to the miltiants parents sans organs. Many of which are exported out to western nations.
I don't see what the big deal is about China, if those are condemned people just like the above terrorists.
Good idea,
In addition, I suggest everyone write in binary so images and media can be preserved as well.
Use autopager and adblock together.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
I'm sorry but Australia is 2480 miles wide.
300 million km would be about 187 mega miles or about 75,000 Australia wide.
I'm still waiting for my last pigeon or else I'd have responded faster.
They will clearly win Jeopardy by patenting all the words in popular culture and using something like DMCA against all and any opponents... thus enforcing their patent argot.
Arguing with rent-a-cops, and making a major scene out of something that needed no scene.
Talking to cops. This is the worst thing the OP guy did. He should have instead followed this very good lesson.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
In no instance should he have spoken to the police officer, in no instance should he have made cyclic arguments with the officer.
From what I understood the OP wanted to make this a big deal possibly for blogging purposes (I've seen this happen with other fellow bloggers). This is what I got from reading the blog entry.
It also states he "jailbroke" phones and expressly lays it out as being a criminal activity.
It's mostly a setup from some other guy eg: "hey this dude knows too much about computers, I think he's got tons of downloads, music, movies and he's jailbreaking all sorts of stuff for people (probably stolen phones too!) ... I'm sure all that is illegal!"
It's a mix of Microsoft Vista and XP with support tools (apps).
Eg: http://www.bc.edu/offices/help/meta-elements/doc/articles/html/TR-mselearning.shtml