Why bother voting Palin? You know there's a Democrat in the white house RIGHT THIS SECOND right? And the Democrats have had control of house, senate, and white house within the last few years, and they most certainly didn't finally fight this TSA nonsense- in fact, in the 80s, they were in favor of something like this.
Can't blame Bush anymore. Guess you'll have to accept that they are all corrupt control freaks, eh? Both major parties are opposed to freedom, privacy, and any amount of self determination. I understand that once you pick Red or Blue you want to assign all the Bad Things to the Other Color, but it's just not that simple.
The stupidest part about all this seems to be that the devs of both major Linux UIs are constantly redesigning their software for a hypothetical group of users that very likely does not exist- and in doing so are shitting on their actual users by constant frustrating redesigns that disempower users. Why do you think someone is USING Linux to begin with? There's several reasons. None of them are "wants a new GUI every 2 years, that takes away usability".
These clowns are hurting the community. They might argue that it's better, or more intuitive, or more appealing to a bunch of people who will never know what a "linux" is, but at the end of the day, if their arguments were not empty, then all this new stuff would be but one of a few ways to configure a GNOME or KDE, instead of the ONLY way. They could even make it default. Hell, at this point, even Windows 7 can have the same start menu as Windows 95 with like four clicks. If they were serious about helping the community instead of stroking their peen, the old UIs would be fully supported and able to be switched to from within the GUI.
1)- If you go to the websites you link, what you get is a very narrow subset of items. In WoW, each item has stats that are the same as other items with its name- there's a finite list of them, pretty much. Here's a list of all the items that are "current" in WoW right now (older items are really weak) that you can wear: http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=qu=4;minle=353#0-2+1
See how that's over 2000 items?
Now here's the list of "bind on equip" items. These are the items you can freely trade, or acquire with gold.
So while you can buy gold or buy items from these websites, you can't really buy MUCH- most of the items have to actually come from:
-Earning valor or justice points from defeating powerful monsters. -Earning honor or conquest points from defeating enemy players. -When a monster dies, you can "loot" him- but these items can only be assigned to people who helped in the killing of the monster, not people who didn't help.
2- It's against the rules. Linking to that website is a lot like saying that you can buy weed, so what's the big deal? if you purchase something from that website and get reported for it, your whole account can be locked by Blizzard, deleted for violating their policy. Meanwhile, the suppliers such as the one you linked to are constantly having to stay fluid because at any time Blizzard might catch up with them (they normally ban in waves).
So right now, WoW is a world with very very very very little permeability to real world money. You can convert cash to gold easily enough, but you can't really power your character up with that gold, and when you can, it's not by much, and when you do, it is against the rules. What we are seeing in this announcement is something much different.
This would probably kill WoW. It's a good thing that they will never do anything like it there.
That's really not fair. When I go out to take pictures, I use a digital SLR. It's not top of the line, but it was damned close a couple years back, and it takes excellent pictures.
But, do you think I have that with me now, at Starbucks, over lunch? Hell no. But I do have my phone.
I doubt very much Kodak could have made tiny little pocket cameras in the 70s, 80s, or even 90s that would get the same market penetration as a smartphone, because the camera is just one of many features. We like to go fast, but I'm not always in a car. Same thing.
An "encrytped hard drive" or an "encrypted file" are both the same thing: a very very large number. When the government took possession of the medium that stores that number, they then permanently know it. It's a series of 1s and 0s, and they have it for sure, definitely, it can never be altered. So whatever procedure you have in mind is like saying, what if the number 8 simply decays in September. It doesn't make any sense.
Exactly this. A gun can be used for many things, as can a router. But if you are supplying a known assassin with tech support about how best to pick off preschoolers, you have crossed the line from supplying a product into aiding and abetting a crime. Almost all guns are NOT used for crimes, ever. The same is true of routers- but NOT of routers sold to China to help setup their oppressive firewall.
This isn't like, a suspected terrorist, or someone held without rights or a trial, this is the admitted boss of a terrorist organization, who gloated when he killed civilians.
A yard is convenient, but so is a meter. However, a foot is better than them both. Feet are GREAT units, just the right size.
One degree F is far superior to one degree C- it measures a smaller chunk of temperature, and has meaning at more understandable ranges.
The imperial units were developed to be easily perceptible and user friendly. The SI units were developed for accuracy and ease of conversion. The general idea that American=dumb just doesn't hold water- these units are better for any times you don't need to convert.
How will these domains be distributed? What constitutes porn? Obviously google.xxx and ford.xxx and microsoft.xxx will be bought up quickly just to prevent a squatter from photoshopping Bill Gates humping a goat as a whole domain, but what about, say, the rest of us?
I would like an XXX domain for the hell of it, and I wouldn't put any porn on it. I'm just some random guy- I'm sure plenty of people would feel that way.
Anything that monitors my car will not sit well with me. Oh wait, or anyone at all.
My captcha is "pitiful". How appropriate.
Anyway, any rep who votes for this gets thrown out on his ear. This is just the noise the politicians make when they want to distract the politically minded.
I love all these idiotic comments that Facebook MUST be right because they are successful. Would you stand up for an evil dictator with the same brevity? Well, he's in charge and all who opposed him are in anonymous graves SO HE MUST BE RIGHT!!1!1
These are good points. That facebook snookered everyone about privacy and is headed by a cocksure asshole who doesn't care about HIS privacy (possibly BECAUSE he is privileged) doesn't make it right just because all the lies about privacy, all the broken promises, still haven't acted to sink facebook in any way.
But he's rich herpderp doesn't stop you from critiquing, say, George Bush, does it? Or is it just that the Bushes aren't rich *enough*?
I actually agree with this. While eHow still has plenty of poorly written articles, there is a lot of good knowledge there, and some of the articles have been helpful to me. I know then I see eHow I open it in a new tab, not because I think it'll be the end of my search, but because I'll get something out of it.
When I click on experts-exchange, it's an accident, and all my time on there is wasted.
If I have a technical question, I don't want a website to come up that has no useful content. It's useless to have the answer blurred out with a "pay me and I'll tell you" piece of shit blargerblurg in front. I don't want that in my search results, it's less than useless, because I had to waste time with it. The answer is naturally available on some REAL forum elsewhere, or in MAN pages, or otherwise discussed by someone at some time, in some place. The last thing I need is for some jackhole to try to monetize it by shoving their paywall horseshit all over google.
Do you remember when they took away the ability to have a fucking URL bar? You couldn't browse your own fucking disk.
Now this. Why the FUCK would I not want to minimize? What I need to generate like 16 fucking desktops every time I want a blank one?
The real question is, why? And the answer is, as usual, that they are full of themselves. As per normal, there won't be some actual fucking GUI to fix the GUI, you'll have to at MINIMUM edit an oddly named text file, but much more likely you'll have to set some bizarro-world setting. Just one more fucking thing to undo about your new Linux distroes.
Wherein the user first overwrites the file with junk, then deletes the file.
I had a sysadmin years ago who had undelete ability while no one else did, and you couldn't "empty the bin". Once we found that out, we were sort of surprised. A quick batch file overwrote every file with a large mess of garbage, then deleted it.
So now your smart users are punished, and your stupid ones thrive. Unless someone on your staff wants to maybe abuse them sometime, should they be foolish enough to put personal information on the drive "temporarily".
This guy sang in front of kids, then modified that video to appear as if he was saying vulgar things instead. Somehow, this ludicrously construes child abuse or some nonsense. Ok, whatever.
Here's the missing puzzle piece... what if someone ELSE had taken his video, redubbed it, and posted it like that?
Lesson: if you want to do what this guy did, make sure that the redub is posted by a different user that isn't traceable. Apparently this 'crime' only happens if you are both the person who sings to high school kids with permission of the school AND the person who makes the humorous redub later- just don't be BOTH of those people (traceably) and you should be fine.
In the meantime, of course, this is an absurd travesty of the legal system.
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GNOME and KDE are already working on ensuring no one wants to use Linux desktop :P
Why bother voting Palin? You know there's a Democrat in the white house RIGHT THIS SECOND right? And the Democrats have had control of house, senate, and white house within the last few years, and they most certainly didn't finally fight this TSA nonsense- in fact, in the 80s, they were in favor of something like this.
Can't blame Bush anymore. Guess you'll have to accept that they are all corrupt control freaks, eh? Both major parties are opposed to freedom, privacy, and any amount of self determination. I understand that once you pick Red or Blue you want to assign all the Bad Things to the Other Color, but it's just not that simple.
Those aren't arbitrary, they are carefully selected to be parallel. Which was his point- almost all lines in 2D would intersect.
The stupidest part about all this seems to be that the devs of both major Linux UIs are constantly redesigning their software for a hypothetical group of users that very likely does not exist- and in doing so are shitting on their actual users by constant frustrating redesigns that disempower users. Why do you think someone is USING Linux to begin with? There's several reasons. None of them are "wants a new GUI every 2 years, that takes away usability".
These clowns are hurting the community. They might argue that it's better, or more intuitive, or more appealing to a bunch of people who will never know what a "linux" is, but at the end of the day, if their arguments were not empty, then all this new stuff would be but one of a few ways to configure a GNOME or KDE, instead of the ONLY way. They could even make it default. Hell, at this point, even Windows 7 can have the same start menu as Windows 95 with like four clicks. If they were serious about helping the community instead of stroking their peen, the old UIs would be fully supported and able to be switched to from within the GUI.
No, that's trendy.
This is pretty shocking. I hope very much that they get it reversed.
1)- If you go to the websites you link, what you get is a very narrow subset of items. In WoW, each item has stats that are the same as other items with its name- there's a finite list of them, pretty much. Here's a list of all the items that are "current" in WoW right now (older items are really weak) that you can wear:
http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=qu=4;minle=353#0-2+1
See how that's over 2000 items?
Now here's the list of "bind on equip" items. These are the items you can freely trade, or acquire with gold.
http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=qu=4;minle=353;cr=3;crs=1;crv=0
Less than 200.
So while you can buy gold or buy items from these websites, you can't really buy MUCH- most of the items have to actually come from:
-Earning valor or justice points from defeating powerful monsters.
-Earning honor or conquest points from defeating enemy players.
-When a monster dies, you can "loot" him- but these items can only be assigned to people who helped in the killing of the monster, not people who didn't help.
2- It's against the rules. Linking to that website is a lot like saying that you can buy weed, so what's the big deal? if you purchase something from that website and get reported for it, your whole account can be locked by Blizzard, deleted for violating their policy. Meanwhile, the suppliers such as the one you linked to are constantly having to stay fluid because at any time Blizzard might catch up with them (they normally ban in waves).
So right now, WoW is a world with very very very very little permeability to real world money. You can convert cash to gold easily enough, but you can't really power your character up with that gold, and when you can, it's not by much, and when you do, it is against the rules. What we are seeing in this announcement is something much different.
This would probably kill WoW. It's a good thing that they will never do anything like it there.
That's really not fair. When I go out to take pictures, I use a digital SLR. It's not top of the line, but it was damned close a couple years back, and it takes excellent pictures.
But, do you think I have that with me now, at Starbucks, over lunch? Hell no. But I do have my phone.
I doubt very much Kodak could have made tiny little pocket cameras in the 70s, 80s, or even 90s that would get the same market penetration as a smartphone, because the camera is just one of many features. We like to go fast, but I'm not always in a car. Same thing.
It is very likely that no such resources exist within the grasp of man.
Encryption is so hard that it cannot be bruteforced.
What you describe is not possible in any way.
An "encrytped hard drive" or an "encrypted file" are both the same thing: a very very large number. When the government took possession of the medium that stores that number, they then permanently know it. It's a series of 1s and 0s, and they have it for sure, definitely, it can never be altered. So whatever procedure you have in mind is like saying, what if the number 8 simply decays in September. It doesn't make any sense.
Soylent brown is made of... eww...
Exactly this. A gun can be used for many things, as can a router. But if you are supplying a known assassin with tech support about how best to pick off preschoolers, you have crossed the line from supplying a product into aiding and abetting a crime. Almost all guns are NOT used for crimes, ever. The same is true of routers- but NOT of routers sold to China to help setup their oppressive firewall.
That's the big difference here.
Do you need to go to war to round up a terrorist?
This isn't like, a suspected terrorist, or someone held without rights or a trial, this is the admitted boss of a terrorist organization, who gloated when he killed civilians.
No war required.
A yard is convenient, but so is a meter. However, a foot is better than them both. Feet are GREAT units, just the right size.
One degree F is far superior to one degree C- it measures a smaller chunk of temperature, and has meaning at more understandable ranges.
The imperial units were developed to be easily perceptible and user friendly. The SI units were developed for accuracy and ease of conversion. The general idea that American=dumb just doesn't hold water- these units are better for any times you don't need to convert.
How will these domains be distributed? What constitutes porn? Obviously google.xxx and ford.xxx and microsoft.xxx will be bought up quickly just to prevent a squatter from photoshopping Bill Gates humping a goat as a whole domain, but what about, say, the rest of us?
I would like an XXX domain for the hell of it, and I wouldn't put any porn on it. I'm just some random guy- I'm sure plenty of people would feel that way.
Anything that monitors my car will not sit well with me.
Oh wait, or anyone at all.
My captcha is "pitiful". How appropriate.
Anyway, any rep who votes for this gets thrown out on his ear. This is just the noise the politicians make when they want to distract the politically minded.
I love all these idiotic comments that Facebook MUST be right because they are successful. Would you stand up for an evil dictator with the same brevity? Well, he's in charge and all who opposed him are in anonymous graves SO HE MUST BE RIGHT!!1!1
These are good points. That facebook snookered everyone about privacy and is headed by a cocksure asshole who doesn't care about HIS privacy (possibly BECAUSE he is privileged) doesn't make it right just because all the lies about privacy, all the broken promises, still haven't acted to sink facebook in any way.
But he's rich herpderp doesn't stop you from critiquing, say, George Bush, does it? Or is it just that the Bushes aren't rich *enough*?
I actually agree with this. While eHow still has plenty of poorly written articles, there is a lot of good knowledge there, and some of the articles have been helpful to me. I know then I see eHow I open it in a new tab, not because I think it'll be the end of my search, but because I'll get something out of it.
When I click on experts-exchange, it's an accident, and all my time on there is wasted.
If I have a technical question, I don't want a website to come up that has no useful content. It's useless to have the answer blurred out with a "pay me and I'll tell you" piece of shit blargerblurg in front. I don't want that in my search results, it's less than useless, because I had to waste time with it. The answer is naturally available on some REAL forum elsewhere, or in MAN pages, or otherwise discussed by someone at some time, in some place. The last thing I need is for some jackhole to try to monetize it by shoving their paywall horseshit all over google.
You mean, underneath the massive popup that you have to enable scripting on such a super sketchy website?
Or the part where you are extorted for information?
No, that site has been wrecking my productivity since its inception. Blocking it will only make things better.
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Do you remember when they took away the ability to have a fucking URL bar? You couldn't browse your own fucking disk.
Now this. Why the FUCK would I not want to minimize? What I need to generate like 16 fucking desktops every time I want a blank one?
The real question is, why? And the answer is, as usual, that they are full of themselves. As per normal, there won't be some actual fucking GUI to fix the GUI, you'll have to at MINIMUM edit an oddly named text file, but much more likely you'll have to set some bizarro-world setting. Just one more fucking thing to undo about your new Linux distroes.
Piece of shit devs.
Wherein the user first overwrites the file with junk, then deletes the file.
I had a sysadmin years ago who had undelete ability while no one else did, and you couldn't "empty the bin". Once we found that out, we were sort of surprised. A quick batch file overwrote every file with a large mess of garbage, then deleted it.
So now your smart users are punished, and your stupid ones thrive. Unless someone on your staff wants to maybe abuse them sometime, should they be foolish enough to put personal information on the drive "temporarily".
This guy sang in front of kids, then modified that video to appear as if he was saying vulgar things instead. Somehow, this ludicrously construes child abuse or some nonsense. Ok, whatever.
Here's the missing puzzle piece... what if someone ELSE had taken his video, redubbed it, and posted it like that?
Lesson: if you want to do what this guy did, make sure that the redub is posted by a different user that isn't traceable. Apparently this 'crime' only happens if you are both the person who sings to high school kids with permission of the school AND the person who makes the humorous redub later- just don't be BOTH of those people (traceably) and you should be fine.
In the meantime, of course, this is an absurd travesty of the legal system.