I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I think you have stumbled on what the entire point of this service would be - denyability.
If say half the profiles on the site are auto generated and half are people cheating on their spouses, then the cheaters don't have to worry nearly so much about getting caught; they can always claim that they never used the site, their profile was just auto generated.
Sure it would make it a little hard to hook up with a real person, but for some this would probably be worth it.
I am working for France Telecom/Orange in a service directly involved with this problem, and I can assure you that this throttling is not true. Actually, we had the same problem with Youtube, and at the same time other ISP had the same issue though they resolved it faster than us... Which lead to just apologizes: yes FT/Orange is not the cutting-edge ISP and Telco it used to be; but No we are not doing it on purpose.
There are so many parents who believed (the media interpretation of) the first study that they kept their kids from getting vaccinated. As a result, it has been more common to see childhood illnesses which had been virtual eradicated with the help of vaccination, particularly measles, as well as some other more dangerous diseases. Lives have been put at risk because this guy gambled (correctly) that new parents are easy to freak out and take advantage of. Now there is the daunting task of convincing those same parents, who aren't going to want to admit they were basically taken in a huge scam and put their kids at risk because they were dumb, which means a large number of people are going to convince themselves the retraction is a scam/conspiracy/etc and that the original study was right.
Is there a degree of felony high enough to cover this?
Yeah, I agree, Saddam should really have asked for their consent before he ass-raped the entire nation.
sort of like how the USA asks permission before it ass-rapes other countries and currently is in the inappropriate touching stage (TSA) with all it's citizens?
'kit' is a well known and old term for 'stuff'. A kit bag was what (may be still is) military used for their personal stuff - razor etc.
In any case, this reminds me of the story about the guy working at the factory who was seen taking wheelbarrows of trash from the premises day after day. Security could not figure out what was going on. Finally confronted the man, who eventually confessed to stealing wheelbarrows...
Needs a big screen, like a laptop screen 1280x720 minimum.
I don't need to play games on it. Not hard demanding 3D games. board games, etc, would be fine. but playing the latest version of crysis? got a computer for that.
I want something I can use to view mags, webpages, read ebooks, watch vids, and probably do a little web browsing.
I don't want a computer, and i don't want a smartphone, have those. Have portal video game consoles also.
how many all in one devices do we really need? Why do you need a tablet that does what a smartphone can do, when you'll never replace the smartphone with the bigger tablet?
The dangerous bacteria are the ones that are adapted to human bodies -- or close enough bodies that it's only a small jump to humans. There are many, many viruses and bacteria that infect mammals but are incapable of reproducing inside our bodies. Antarctic under-ice lake bacteria? No chance.
Trains have them, sleeper cars. There's even double story trains, so i don't see why there wouldn't be double story sleeper cars.
seriously stupid fucking idea, unless sweden has really crappy ground to build foundations on. but then, putting all the weight on a couple of points is probably better, i'm sure.
When they started rerunning the old episodes in Australia a few years back I really enjoyed them. The acting wasn't real good, the fight scenes (fist fights etc) were so bad they were funny, and the strings holding up the dalek's spaceship were visible and it rocked side to side, but I still really enjoyed them.
I never understood this. The acting in Doctor Who has always been good.
Look at other "sci=fi" stuff released by teh BBC and you'll understand my point.
You want bad acting? rewatch Blake's 7 I had fond memories of that show during the 80's and found the acting to be so horrible when i watched it again recently that I couldn't believe i missed it the first time. But Doctor Who episodes? Nope, i rewatch them ever few years and don't have a problem with the acting at all.
So the article was devoid of anything of particular interest other than some jargon. The jargon, on the other hand, led to fascinating little technique about reconstructing the color of the grayscale image from "chroma dots". The actual method was discovered by a BBC engineer, and you can read more about it here: colour-recovery.wikispaces.com.
I'm an EA employee. I used to work at BioWare. There's my disclosure.
I'm not allowed to talk very much about the game, for obvious reasons. I AM allowed to disclose that I was part of an internal beta late last year. (At least, at the time I was in it, I was allowed to disclose that. Hopefully that hasn't changed.)
Everyone that I know that was playing it was playing it addictively. We all loved it. The storyline that WE got to play was impressively well put together; I felt more at the center of that universe than I ever have in WoW (and I'm playing Cataclysm again, just so you know. I also think it's great).
This 'review' is pretty vague, and betas are betas. I can't promise the game will be great, and there's obviously a massive bias for me to say that it will be, but I was really sad when the beta completed. The first 6 hours of WoW are just you running around killing small, nearly defenceless animals; the first 6 hours of MY ToR experience was so much more. I really wish I could reveal everything that went on; it was really rich, engaging storytelling, with interesting conversations and dialogue. I don't remember skipping over any of the dialogue – spoken dialogue, of course –even once. Most of the time in WoW, I just click through as quickly as possible and read the quest text only if I really obviously become stuck. (Cataclysm's introduction of forced cutscenes in the beginner areas actually makes things a lot better.)
Seriously, give the game a chance. Beating up on it before you play it and based entirely off of the experiences of one person that played a few levels is hardly the way to judge an entire MMO.
Being that you are an EA employee, you think you'd understand that when stuff gets hyped up, people will also start discussing possible flaws also.
Bioware's SW MMO has been hyped up since it was announced. All I've heard is how great it's going to be (which is funny, because the stand alone games weren't that great, okay, decent stories, but okay), a wow killer, etc.
So suck it up. Game is probably going to suck and you know it. don't get offended though, use what you learn here to stop hyping stuff up.
I'll swear, MMO dev's are the stupidest MOFU's in the world.
Nothing will take down WoW. It's one of a kind.
You want to make a MMORPG that does good? don't try to be a WoW beater. You won't do it, and you fail and suck in the process.
Be your own original idea. stick to it, make sure the play works.
Pick a niche and go with it.
I do NOT like WoW. I'm sure the game is fine, but playing something that most everyone else plays does NOT appeal to me. I am not like everyone else, nor do I enjoy the things that apparently everyone else (or the media) thinks is cool.
I like challenges in my MMO's, I like to play in a world that seems sort of real, without having a bunch of little kids running around saying everything's gay, when they do NOT understand the meaning of the word gay.
I play MMO to have fun, to get away from RL, and please, playing the same game most everyone else is, is not getting away from shit.
Actually, there is probably 1 game that could take on WoW for popularity, and that would be a Pokemon MMORPG. But no, they are too stupid to make a new pokemon game (so far, all the releases are reworked earlier games), let along capitalize on something that could actually be fun and work.
Having too much of a history (Star Wars, Star Trek) is going to fail as a MMORPG because you won't be able to please the fans, and also get new peeps into it.
anyways, I don't care. the corporations have stopped caring about making what fans want and have been expecting everyone to pay for the crappy shit they are putting out. so fuck them.
you want my money, why don't you figure out what your market really is.
I'm sure, everyone that is a Floyd fan already owns the CD's and have ripped them already to the digital format (free of drm!) already.
I sort of find it funny some old artists resist the digital downloads, because if they take too long, peeps are going to get them anyways, and not need to buy them if they ever give the okay.
Floyd are whores, Gilmour is a whore - Waters is out whoring his whore ass doing the Wall again and again, which he retained the rights to in his lawsuit over the Floyd name....
I doubt that Sony will learn anything from this, and after our family owning a PS2 and 3, the next console I buy will be Xbox...I had no idea a company could be dysfunctional enough to make me regret not buying a MS product.
Yes, buy an Xbox 360 which never had linux, nor the ability to play Xbox games ('cept via xbox live).
Bitch all you want about sony, but you have a PS3 now that can play homebrew and let you use linux better then when linux was supported.
Xbox 360? Unless your lucky enough to find a jtag'able 360 (you won't, unless you pay big bucks), your stuck with a dvd firmware hack that will let you play backup games. No homebew, just piracy.
So, you think you'd really be happy with an Xbox 360 instead?
Oh, I forgot the fact that the PS3 can play bluray. Xbox 360? HD-DVD if you find the expansion for it. lol
I own two cel phone jammers. I have been trapped in too many inescapable situations (bus, train, lines, etc) with somebody having a loud and/or annoying conversation near me that even my headphones cannot drown out. I jam their cel phone signal and shut them the hell up. And I feel good about it, too. I'm like a secret superhero to everyone else within earshot.
I use a P20B jammer, which seems to jam most ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon phones. It isn't 100% effective - Cricket and MetroPCS seem to to completely immune, not sure about Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel doesn't exist in my area. I recommend it for just about everybody.* If anyone knows of a jammer that ALSO works on those other carriers, I'd love to know about it.
* May not be legal in your jurisdiction.
I have to say, your pretty rude.
I own a mp3 player. I use it to drown out conversations, peeps on cell phones, teenagers who think that the whole bus cares about the convo they are having with the kid sitting next to them, so on. I don't step on anyone's rights listening to my mp3 player, I don't keep people from making or receiving calls.
While I understand the usefulness of a cell phone jammer, I can't see using it because you find peeps on cell phone's annoying. Grow a backbone, learn to ignore, or get a mp3 player.
Ya, i'll get off your lawn, you probably about to let an emp loose anyways.
More efficiently, upload the names of as many congressional lobbyists as you can find. I suspect US senators and representatives are immune (or at least have a Secret Service escort who can wave them through), but if a thousand lobbyists found themselves unable to fly, the change will happen in a matter of months.
It might work better to flag close relatives of congresspeople. Outside the immediate family so they won't reasonably have access to that Secret Service escort, but close enough to be in close contact.
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I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I think you have stumbled on what the entire point of this service would be - denyability.
If say half the profiles on the site are auto generated and half are people cheating on their spouses, then the cheaters don't have to worry nearly so much about getting caught; they can always claim that they never used the site, their profile was just auto generated.
Sure it would make it a little hard to hook up with a real person, but for some this would probably be worth it.
So it's just like craigslist personals?
Yes, and lets sue car manu's for making cars that can kill people.
Or gun makers since guns kill people.
Or the president, since he's, well, in charge.
I'm suing slashdot for these crappy articles.
Seriously, wtf is wrong here? I know it's sunday, but is this really news?
I am working for France Telecom/Orange in a service directly involved with this problem, and I can assure you that this throttling is not true. ... Which lead to just apologizes: yes FT/Orange is not the cutting-edge ISP and Telco it used to be; but No we are not doing it on purpose.
Actually, we had the same problem with Youtube, and at the same time other ISP had the same issue though they resolved it faster than us
Sure you aren't.
There are so many parents who believed (the media interpretation of) the first study that they kept their kids from getting vaccinated. As a result, it has been more common to see childhood illnesses which had been virtual eradicated with the help of vaccination, particularly measles, as well as some other more dangerous diseases. Lives have been put at risk because this guy gambled (correctly) that new parents are easy to freak out and take advantage of. Now there is the daunting task of convincing those same parents, who aren't going to want to admit they were basically taken in a huge scam and put their kids at risk because they were dumb, which means a large number of people are going to convince themselves the retraction is a scam/conspiracy/etc and that the original study was right.
Is there a degree of felony high enough to cover this?
Which religion are you talking about there?
Yeah, I agree, Saddam should really have asked for their consent before he ass-raped the entire nation.
sort of like how the USA asks permission before it ass-rapes other countries and currently is in the inappropriate touching stage (TSA) with all it's citizens?
'kit' is a well known and old term for 'stuff'. A kit bag was what (may be still is) military used for their personal stuff - razor etc.
In any case, this reminds me of the story about the guy working at the factory who was seen taking wheelbarrows of trash from the premises day after day. Security could not figure out what was going on. Finally confronted the man, who eventually confessed to stealing wheelbarrows...
Sorry, it's not that well known anymore. gramps.
... does not need 3G, or 4G just wifi.
Needs a big screen, like a laptop screen 1280x720 minimum.
I don't need to play games on it. Not hard demanding 3D games. board games, etc, would be fine. but playing the latest version of crysis? got a computer for that.
I want something I can use to view mags, webpages, read ebooks, watch vids, and probably do a little web browsing.
I don't want a computer, and i don't want a smartphone, have those. Have portal video game consoles also.
how many all in one devices do we really need? Why do you need a tablet that does what a smartphone can do, when you'll never replace the smartphone with the bigger tablet?
...
The dangerous bacteria are the ones that are adapted to human bodies -- or close enough bodies that it's only a small jump to humans. There are many, many viruses and bacteria that infect mammals but are incapable of reproducing inside our bodies. Antarctic under-ice lake bacteria? No chance.
Maybe he's thinking of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom
I call prior art when I had a crush on this girl who blew me off.
But did she swallow?
Fun (but somewhat disturbing) fact--
Some species of dolphin have prehensile penises, and have been shown to pick up and manipulate objects using their genital slits.
(Star shoots over head while jingle plays)
"The more you know!"
And the japanese haven't made porn about it yet?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9203799/Intel_Sandy_Bridge_s_Insider_is_not_DRM
Claims that Sandy Bridge Insider isn't DRM.
.... Wouldn't we be better off for it?
This concept is hit upon all the time in movies. Matrix is one.
would we be better not knowing reality because nonreality is better?
No.
You can live being ignorant, but I can't. Of course, i can accept what happens with that knowledge.
Plus isn't this M.O. of religions? And look how they have screwed up the world.
I'd rather be unhappy knowing the truth, then live in happiness because of a lie.
But that is me. Your morals & mileage will vary.
Trains have them, sleeper cars. There's even double story trains, so i don't see why there wouldn't be double story sleeper cars.
seriously stupid fucking idea, unless sweden has really crappy ground to build foundations on. but then, putting all the weight on a couple of points is probably better, i'm sure.
I liked Peri's accent. So enticing. So sensual. So.... sexy.
Do all America women talk like that? Because if they do, I'm packing my bags and heading across the pond!
Why yes, all British born (and living in britian) American women sound just like that.
When they started rerunning the old episodes in Australia a few years back I really enjoyed them. The acting wasn't real good, the fight scenes (fist fights etc) were so bad they were funny, and the strings holding up the dalek's spaceship were visible and it rocked side to side, but I still really enjoyed them.
I never understood this. The acting in Doctor Who has always been good.
Look at other "sci=fi" stuff released by teh BBC and you'll understand my point.
You want bad acting? rewatch Blake's 7 I had fond memories of that show during the 80's and found the acting to be so horrible when i watched it again recently that I couldn't believe i missed it the first time. But Doctor Who episodes? Nope, i rewatch them ever few years and don't have a problem with the acting at all.
So the article was devoid of anything of particular interest other than some jargon. The jargon, on the other hand, led to fascinating little technique about reconstructing the color of the grayscale image from "chroma dots". The actual method was discovered by a BBC engineer, and you can read more about it here: colour-recovery.wikispaces.com.
http://colour-recovery.wikispaces.com/
a link tends to work better.
I'm an EA employee. I used to work at BioWare. There's my disclosure.
I'm not allowed to talk very much about the game, for obvious reasons. I AM allowed to disclose that I was part of an internal beta late last year. (At least, at the time I was in it, I was allowed to disclose that. Hopefully that hasn't changed.)
Everyone that I know that was playing it was playing it addictively. We all loved it. The storyline that WE got to play was impressively well put together; I felt more at the center of that universe than I ever have in WoW (and I'm playing Cataclysm again, just so you know. I also think it's great).
This 'review' is pretty vague, and betas are betas. I can't promise the game will be great, and there's obviously a massive bias for me to say that it will be, but I was really sad when the beta completed. The first 6 hours of WoW are just you running around killing small, nearly defenceless animals; the first 6 hours of MY ToR experience was so much more. I really wish I could reveal everything that went on; it was really rich, engaging storytelling, with interesting conversations and dialogue. I don't remember skipping over any of the dialogue – spoken dialogue, of course –even once. Most of the time in WoW, I just click through as quickly as possible and read the quest text only if I really obviously become stuck. (Cataclysm's introduction of forced cutscenes in the beginner areas actually makes things a lot better.)
Seriously, give the game a chance. Beating up on it before you play it and based entirely off of the experiences of one person that played a few levels is hardly the way to judge an entire MMO.
Being that you are an EA employee, you think you'd understand that when stuff gets hyped up, people will also start discussing possible flaws also.
Bioware's SW MMO has been hyped up since it was announced. All I've heard is how great it's going to be (which is funny, because the stand alone games weren't that great, okay, decent stories, but okay), a wow killer, etc.
So suck it up. Game is probably going to suck and you know it. don't get offended though, use what you learn here to stop hyping stuff up.
I'll swear, MMO dev's are the stupidest MOFU's in the world.
Nothing will take down WoW. It's one of a kind.
You want to make a MMORPG that does good? don't try to be a WoW beater. You won't do it, and you fail and suck in the process.
Be your own original idea. stick to it, make sure the play works.
Pick a niche and go with it.
I do NOT like WoW. I'm sure the game is fine, but playing something that most everyone else plays does NOT appeal to me. I am not like everyone else, nor do I enjoy the things that apparently everyone else (or the media) thinks is cool.
I like challenges in my MMO's, I like to play in a world that seems sort of real, without having a bunch of little kids running around saying everything's gay, when they do NOT understand the meaning of the word gay.
I play MMO to have fun, to get away from RL, and please, playing the same game most everyone else is, is not getting away from shit.
Actually, there is probably 1 game that could take on WoW for popularity, and that would be a Pokemon MMORPG. But no, they are too stupid to make a new pokemon game (so far, all the releases are reworked earlier games), let along capitalize on something that could actually be fun and work.
Having too much of a history (Star Wars, Star Trek) is going to fail as a MMORPG because you won't be able to please the fans, and also get new peeps into it.
anyways, I don't care. the corporations have stopped caring about making what fans want and have been expecting everyone to pay for the crappy shit they are putting out. so fuck them.
you want my money, why don't you figure out what your market really is.
I'm sure, everyone that is a Floyd fan already owns the CD's and have ripped them already to the digital format (free of drm!) already.
I sort of find it funny some old artists resist the digital downloads, because if they take too long, peeps are going to get them anyways, and not need to buy them if they ever give the okay.
Floyd are whores, Gilmour is a whore - Waters is out whoring his whore ass doing the Wall again and again, which he retained the rights to in his lawsuit over the Floyd name....
Which one is Pink?
I remember when 640k was enough...
in some countries, ISPs do actually do this.
Like in the United States of America?
I'm shocked, I really am.
...
I doubt that Sony will learn anything from this, and after our family owning a PS2 and 3, the next console I buy will be Xbox...I had no idea a company could be dysfunctional enough to make me regret not buying a MS product.
Yes, buy an Xbox 360 which never had linux, nor the ability to play Xbox games ('cept via xbox live).
Bitch all you want about sony, but you have a PS3 now that can play homebrew and let you use linux better then when linux was supported.
Xbox 360? Unless your lucky enough to find a jtag'able 360 (you won't, unless you pay big bucks), your stuck with a dvd firmware hack that will let you play backup games. No homebew, just piracy.
So, you think you'd really be happy with an Xbox 360 instead?
Oh, I forgot the fact that the PS3 can play bluray. Xbox 360? HD-DVD if you find the expansion for it. lol
I own two cel phone jammers. I have been trapped in too many inescapable situations (bus, train, lines, etc) with somebody having a loud and/or annoying conversation near me that even my headphones cannot drown out. I jam their cel phone signal and shut them the hell up. And I feel good about it, too. I'm like a secret superhero to everyone else within earshot.
I use a P20B jammer, which seems to jam most ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon phones. It isn't 100% effective - Cricket and MetroPCS seem to to completely immune, not sure about Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel doesn't exist in my area. I recommend it for just about everybody.* If anyone knows of a jammer that ALSO works on those other carriers, I'd love to know about it.
* May not be legal in your jurisdiction.
I have to say, your pretty rude.
I own a mp3 player. I use it to drown out conversations, peeps on cell phones, teenagers who think that the whole bus cares about the convo they are having with the kid sitting next to them, so on. I don't step on anyone's rights listening to my mp3 player, I don't keep people from making or receiving calls.
While I understand the usefulness of a cell phone jammer, I can't see using it because you find peeps on cell phone's annoying. Grow a backbone, learn to ignore, or get a mp3 player.
Ya, i'll get off your lawn, you probably about to let an emp loose anyways.
More efficiently, upload the names of as many congressional lobbyists as you can find. I suspect US senators and representatives are immune (or at least have a Secret Service escort who can wave them through), but if a thousand lobbyists found themselves unable to fly, the change will happen in a matter of months.
It might work better to flag close relatives of congresspeople. Outside the immediate family so they won't reasonably have access to that Secret Service escort, but close enough to be in close contact.
I like how you think.