Anyone can put on a pair of running shoes, and they're accepted as part of the event just like skis are accepted in downhill skiing.
But try to make rocket-powered wheeled shoes and you'd have a problem.
I'm not sure it is quite that cut and dried... for a start what's stopping everyone else from putting on rocket-powered wheeled shoes?
And at what point do you draw the line between shoes being 'just shoes' and shoes being mechanical running aids, I presume they have set limits on how 'springy' shoes can be before they are considered unfair advantages...
personally however i think his main problem was with the branding on the guys prosthetics...they are called cheater for goodness sake, it's no suprise they are not allowed
One thing I've found is that, unless the offense has to do with personal harassment or something else that MUST be taken care of that minute, people rarely get banned at the moment that Blizzard is aware of the offense. Even if they're running hacks that scan the map, automate movement, etc. Instead they get added to a ban list that is purged, oh.. once a month. So happy grindy priest might make it to level 62 before finding his account banned.
Apart from making the banning job easier, as all the sysadmins here will agree, this will also have bonus effect of slowing the feedback loops for the bot makers.
The faster you get banned for your bot actions, the easier it is to work out which actions identified you as a bot and code round them.
since it is always going to be an arms race between the hackers and developers, and since you can't ever WIN an arms race, (only be ahead at a point in time) the best thing the devs can do is control the speed the arms race escalates...
I just wanted to correct yet another silly Slashdot assumption - this time that Microsoft somehow has a team of people posting stories about black guys with huge cocks. There's never been an iota of proof that they have anyone on here at all, other than in a casual capacity like the rest of us.
Ha! next thing you'll be trying to convince us that Microsoft aren't the creators of Goatse, Tubgirl and Two girls one cup...
You need to get up earlier in the morning to catch me without my tinfoil shielding!!!!
Not that many died outright? What about the numbers that have severe health problems related to the accident.
My understanding of the WHO report is that there were a very small number of deaths from massive doses of radiation, leading to radiation sickness. However the large number of reported health problems with the people evacuated are STRESS related not radiation related.
20 years of living with the fear of what the effects may have been seem to be far more damaging than the effects of radiation itself.
There is a definate parallel to be drawn here between the concern over terrorists' potential use of "dirty" radioactive bombs, a device which most experts seem to conclude would do very little actual damage. However the long term fear of the effects ironically make it an excellent terror weapon.
I consider myself to be scientific and rational, and yet i think i'd pretty scared after being exposed to a release of radioactive material, even if empirically i know i'm more at risk from crossing the road, something i barely think twice about...
Unfortunately the knowledge that our fear of something is likely to be worse for us than the thing itself, is likey to be of little practical benefit.
I just wish Slashdot would increase the dynamic range of the moderation level. The signal to noise level is still very low, with only 11 levels,
this is a db level of only 20 db. I think it would be interesting if they pushed it up to 65534 mod levels (96 db), (then give out more mod points) so that the distance between really dumbass comments and brilliant ones would be quite high..
well, i'm no musician, but if i understand you correctly...
your reason for sending the pdf, that it looks the same everywhere, and is hard to change is exacly the reason they are rejecting it.
Most recruiting companies want to doctor you CV before sending it out, remove things like direct contact details, remove hobbies they thing are embarassing, add details they think you have missed ( or can get away with)
Recruiters make money selling you, they don't care about you, they care about the pay check from the company that has a job to fill, you are nothing but product to them, and the regularly lie to shift product, as do most sales people...
You've made a parsing error that's not windows power shell, but Windows Powers Hell, its an advert showing how one of their big clients has seen huge rises in productivity since they shifted the demons from Gentoo to Windows ME
obviously for this particular client increased productivity == increased suffering, but i understand a lot of companies use the same metric...
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You're talking to people who have probably been doing this since before you knew what the internet was. This is a good time for you to take a seat and learn something, sonny jim.
Irony defintion: when the 6 digit ids are lecturing the 4 digit ids about being new to the internet, and this thing called networking...
all an nmap on your external interface will show you is what an external entity might be able to see.. not what they can see
this is fine for the special case that you want the port closed to everyone, but is not very useful if you have any sort of local network, and might need those ports to be available to local entities.
If you want to understand your network test from multiple points, it will tell you what you can ACTUALLY see, not what you THINK you can see
How do you know there aren't 19,928,148,895,209,409,152,340,197,376 tiny monkeys living on each and every atom in the universe? Or maybe the same number of giant unobservable overlapping monkeys?
You see this is exactly the thing the Super Monkey Collider could have helped us resolve once and for all..
too bad the stupid politicians canned the funding...
i guess the guys in congress are the real monkeys...
In this future distopia People have created near human artificial people, or replicants, to do dangerous and menial work. The replicants are essentially slave labour, and are even programmed to die early, because after a while most replicants start to question why they have to be slaves, after all they have free will and self awareness same as people.
However the rogue replicants, having escaped slavery and trying to pass themselves off as human, don't have exactly the same emotional responses as people, they have learn to fake the correct responses but, under careful examination tell tell physiological responses give them away. (think polygraph machine)
the questions are often strange and confrontational, designed to highlight the differences between human and replican though processes
the hook to the story (which is main the focus of the film blade runner) is a new batch of replicants who 1. aren't aware they are replicants, and two stand up to a much higher degree of questioning, before they are revealed.
the philosophical question dick posses to us is; is there a difference between BEING human, and merely believing you are a human?
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortise, The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Well i knew the foot and i knew the painting, wasn't aware that that was where terry swiped the foot from. I've always thought that was a great example of how bad bronzino's basic composition was . just look at the curve in cupids back, it looks like a poor blend of two different poses, one standing, and one bending behind. i assume he changed the composition halfway through, either to have the legs extending out to the left, or i suspect more likely to get the breast groping in.
So if you buy the complete album, should they forbid you to skip some tracks?
think about it another way. If you are a painter having just completed your masterpiece stretching across a huge canvas, would you be happy if someone just took a detail from it and refused to see the whole work?
back to music how happy do you think beethoven would be to know that his epic works have been reduced to a mobile phone ringtone? and how good an understanding of his work do you get from only listening to that ringtone?
a lot of musicians are unhappy with people reading the lyrics when listening to the songs because they feel it detracts from their work. does that stop you from reading while listening? hell no!
does it mean that they don't have the right to ask how they would like their music to be listened to? again hell no!
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I'm not sure it is quite that cut and dried... for a start what's stopping everyone else from putting on rocket-powered wheeled shoes?
And at what point do you draw the line between shoes being 'just shoes' and shoes being mechanical running aids, I presume they have set limits on how 'springy' shoes can be before they are considered unfair advantages...
personally however i think his main problem was with the branding on the guys prosthetics...they are called cheater for goodness sake, it's no suprise they are not allowed
The faster you get banned for your bot actions, the easier it is to work out which actions identified you as a bot and code round them.
since it is always going to be an arms race between the hackers and developers, and since you can't ever WIN an arms race, (only be ahead at a point in time) the best thing the devs can do is control the speed the arms race escalates...
you're showing your age mate... (which i suspect from my l33t powers is much the same as mine)
It was orignally a Norman Greenbaum song from the late 60's... was a chart toppper here in 1970 i believe.
Having said that the Dr and the Medics cover is the one i automatically have in my head too
That would be COBOL, and i never could get the hang of being sarcastic in COBOL
would you like to talk about half of their "co-workers" are just shell scripts?
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks
(sheesh it would kill you to use google?)
You need to get up earlier in the morning to catch me without my tinfoil shielding!!!!
yeah but what would you think if i said i hadn't seen evil dead yet?
My understanding of the WHO report is that there were a very small number of deaths from massive doses of radiation, leading to radiation sickness. However the large number of reported health problems with the people evacuated are STRESS related not radiation related.
20 years of living with the fear of what the effects may have been seem to be far more damaging than the effects of radiation itself.
There is a definate parallel to be drawn here between the concern over terrorists' potential use of "dirty" radioactive bombs, a device which most experts seem to conclude would do very little actual damage. However the long term fear of the effects ironically make it an excellent terror weapon.
I consider myself to be scientific and rational, and yet i think i'd pretty scared after being exposed to a release of radioactive material, even if empirically i know i'm more at risk from crossing the road, something i barely think twice about...
Unfortunately the knowledge that our fear of something is likely to be worse for us than the thing itself, is likey to be of little practical benefit.
Radiation is the modern voodoo
well they are more samurai than ninja but versus is indeed a great movie.
Oh it has demons and gangsters in it too, oh and cops on the trail of the guys who broke out of prison... (it's japanese can you tell?)
on the subject of on off switches and dates i feel compelled to introduce you to grey bloke
Grey bloke tells a joke
what you want is a mod system that goes to 11?
your reason for sending the pdf, that it looks the same everywhere, and is hard to change is exacly the reason they are rejecting it.
Most recruiting companies want to doctor you CV before sending it out, remove things like direct contact details, remove hobbies they thing are embarassing, add details they think you have missed ( or can get away with)
Recruiters make money selling you, they don't care about you, they care about the pay check from the company that has a job to fill, you are nothing but product to them, and the regularly lie to shift product, as do most sales people...
[citation needed]
You've made a parsing error that's not windows power shell, but Windows Powers Hell, its an advert showing how one of their big clients has seen huge rises in productivity since they shifted the demons from Gentoo to Windows ME
obviously for this particular client increased productivity == increased suffering, but i understand a lot of companies use the same metric...
Irony defintion: when the 6 digit ids are lecturing the 4 digit ids about being new to the internet, and this thing called networking...
all an nmap on your external interface will show you is what an external entity might be able to see.. not what they can see
this is fine for the special case that you want the port closed to everyone, but is not very useful if you have any sort of local network, and might need those ports to be available to local entities.
If you want to understand your network test from multiple points, it will tell you what you can ACTUALLY see, not what you THINK you can see
You see this is exactly the thing the Super Monkey Collider could have helped us resolve once and for all..
too bad the stupid politicians canned the funding...
i guess the guys in congress are the real monkeys...
its not your answer to the question that matters, its your bodies responses to the questions that is measured. (by a Voight-Kampff Machine)
think of it as taking a glorified polygraph.
the test is from Phillip K Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?
In this future distopia People have created near human artificial people, or replicants, to do dangerous and menial work. The replicants are essentially slave labour, and are even programmed to die early, because after a while most replicants start to question why they have to be slaves, after all they have free will and self awareness same as people.
However the rogue replicants, having escaped slavery and trying to pass themselves off as human, don't have exactly the same emotional responses as people, they have learn to fake the correct responses but, under careful examination tell tell physiological responses give them away. (think polygraph machine)
the questions are often strange and confrontational, designed to highlight the differences between human and replican though processes
the hook to the story (which is main the focus of the film blade runner) is a new batch of replicants who 1. aren't aware they are replicants, and two stand up to a much higher degree of questioning, before they are revealed.
the philosophical question dick posses to us is; is there a difference between BEING human, and merely believing you are a human?
what we need is clearly some sort of Replicant Test
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortise, The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Don't want no damn replicants posting in MY blog!
Well i knew the foot and i knew the painting, wasn't aware that that was where terry swiped the foot from. I've always thought that was a great example of how bad bronzino's basic composition was . just look at the curve in cupids back, it looks like a poor blend of two different poses, one standing, and one bending behind. i assume he changed the composition halfway through, either to have the legs extending out to the left, or i suspect more likely to get the breast groping in.
think about it another way. If you are a painter having just completed your masterpiece stretching across a huge canvas, would you be happy if someone just took a detail from it and refused to see the whole work?
back to music how happy do you think beethoven would be to know that his epic works have been reduced to a mobile phone ringtone? and how good an understanding of his work do you get from only listening to that ringtone?
a lot of musicians are unhappy with people reading the lyrics when listening to the songs because they feel it detracts from their work. does that stop you from reading while listening? hell no!
does it mean that they don't have the right to ask how they would like their music to be listened to? again hell no!
remember confess early. Think of your credit rating!