Not only that. In some countries, there is no station at all which will run Example show. And they probably never will because there will be enough trashier shows to run. No local/national DvD store will likely ever run it, thats assuming official DvDs are made. No US station is likely to rerun it either.
There is nothing morally bad about obtaining and watching Example show.
Downloading might be your only chance to see it or rewatch it.
Well, using ad-blockers like this is considered to be taboo behavior in most of forum communities.
I have seen it quite few times, someone had problem with noisy ads, someone else suggests adblock, site admin appears, has long sad speech how adblockers are worst thing ever and bans person suggesting use of adblock and tells person which has problem with ads to deal with it or move on.
There is some pressure NOT to use such tools. And nice people do listen.
This is part of "Make everyone criminal". If not enough people are breaking rules, you invent some more rules that they have to break in order to live comfortably.
It produces fear and guilt and thought fear conformity and obedience (you don't want to stand out and give anyone reason to go harass you because you know there is something to be harassed about). It gives base for bullying inconvenient people: they can use your filled ipod to give you minor bitch slap as well as to do monster process that will ruin you.
Its all about giving your government more tools. The fact that it benefits big media corps is win/win side effect (RIAA is happy and major newspapers/tv channells wont cover this threaty)
Because they are more like glorified chat rooms. Except they are not.
withtout humans, there is just no good gameplay in there, anything interesting is gonna be copy pasted till its dull as hell. Once you look past all those things that designers want to hide...
* Repetition1: L1 killing L1 monster is equivalent of l10 character killing L10 monsters nad L100 character killing L100 monsters. There is nothing interesting, but people dig having bigger numbers. It screwed rpg "character growth" concept. Now everyone thinks that good RPG NEEDS to have levels, at least 50 of them. They would scream like that angry german game kid if there was mmo without power progression.
* Repetition2: Kill 10 of X, bring me 10 of Y. If that is not boring, welcome to traditional bring me 10 of Z which is just laying around. You get theese quests in each MMO. All the time.
* Repetition3: Activate skill 1,2,3 in sequence. rinse and repeat. You cant even do anything else in game, because it would be too hard. Developers make sure that nothing requires thinking, all you have are those skills (which you replace with stronger versions, but they stay eventually the same). Noone can be allowed to fail miserably and repeatedly, so there is no way to fail. Hell, all MMOS have exactly same tactic: tank-nuke-heal.
* Repetition4: Gather X of Y resource, use it to improve skill so that you can gather X of Z resource to improve it further.
For all intents and purposes, all MMOS have gameplay as interesting as if you had progressquest ( http://www.progressquest.com/ ) runing on background while chatting on irc.
One game tried to be different: GW (pointless leveling, nearly no bring me X of Y quests, interesting gameplay where noone is guaranteed to win just because they spent x hours playing, tank-nuke-heal being worst tactis, etc...). Quite few people missed all the dull and dumb things for some reason. They got very vocal about it, and there is no end to them.
From that i realized one thing: Lots people do NOT play to socialize, maybe not event to have fun. They play for e-peen. They require boring, dumb, gameplay, where they can sink hours of their life grinding and end up having virtual persona of celebrity grade. They dont want challenge because that would eventually slow down their grind or make it impossible. They want to feel fetter than someone who plays less that they do or just want to feel good about time they wasted.
"Natural death" is quite usefull if you want to kill someone popular but undesirable... No blades, no blame.
But even worse is... you dont have to kill him at all! Death of mind is good enough and someone with dead mind can be reused... especially if he is popular with undesirable kind of people.
Just imagine how much can specialist at ministry of do with this kind of stuff. Selectivelly disable parts of someone mind... with memory and/or inteligence gone, you have obedient tabula rasa person.
Yeah.... Copyright + Religion... now where did we hear that... could it be: scientology?? Which used Copyright as tool to oppress./facepalm You certainly didn't succeed in making Mormons look any better.
Like whatever you want, videos directly linked from Slashdot (autoplaying, stupid and loud ones especially, not marked NSFW) are not amusing. Not at all.
There are sites for people who like this stuff. On slashdot, something like this should never get through moderation and firehose.
They dont need actually viruses and malware, they just need people (and businesses) to be afraid of them enough to consider them treat.
All you have to give to people is feeling of security and to make them think that you can shield them from any nasty stuff they might have heard on TV. And people are easily scared because they in general know little about computers.
People are scared and they get AVs (or careless and they wouldnt get AV even if there was billion of virii), so you fight for market share rather than install.
And your only feature you are ging to sell to those people is confidence of unpenetrable shield.
So yeah, AV companies do want perception of threat high and actually threat low. Thats when they make most money.
Every reall threat costs them money, Every imaginary threat makes them money.
Well, MMO developers are the same all around the world.
For example Guild Wars had several serious issues (Duping, Map travel anywhere cheat (several versions), Bypassing some 4 hour instance (at that time) to get straight to boss, Even ability to enforce other player disconnect.)
What did they do when this was reported? Nothing. Zilch. CR Sneaked around it.
Duping went for 6 months. The only thing that made them actually fix it was post on major fansites detailing exploit.
Their reaction? Kneejerk, yessire, they banned people who reported it, and banned people who confirmed it not to be hoax (by making video of duping some vendor trash). They fixed issue overnight.
Same with other exploits: Official bug reports were ignored and exploits were only fixed when big disclosure (aka, unignorable monster threads) happened.
Really, what kind of MMO dev ignores duping going on for months? Hmm... am i wearing tinfoil hat in here?
Big deal is medics they are dealing with: if dead person is worth up to 250 000 $, how hard would you really work to keep them alive?
Hell, some could have idea of killing of healthy (aka, only minor issue like broken leg) patients to get body with top quality organs (people who get organ-preserving damage done to body like broken legs are generally healthy+active life types with bodies in good shape.). And medic can easily get untraceable kill. Embolism is bitch.
And imagine if common thugs could cash you in too... you would be walking quater million for them. Some kill for 100$, its quite imaginable them to kill for much, much more.
What is your point? That people ignorant to one thing don't care about it and people schooled in it overestimate its importance? Guess that succeeded. If not here is my take:
There is problem with buying "DualMegaCore 10GHZ" equivalent of housing. Or pretty much anything other important.
If you buy new tech toy (they are that, just toys) and it gets broke, you replace it with newer toy and it hardly effects your life.
If go into new house technology, you have to stick with with for 40+ years. If you chose brand new tech you risk greatly running into problems. Its definitely not great thing to find out that you floor heating system gets broken and that you spend several times worth value of conventional system replacing/fixing it. Considering that house building leaves ordinary person short of funds, they would have to live with broken technology for some time. That is not really that great. If you chose wrong structual elements you wont even be able to inhabit it.
There is just no telling what happens in 5, 10, 20 years, unless you see example of it that old or believe marketer (which is not smart). And you need to know that.
Great example is heating: With conventional radiators, you can plug anything that produces heat and it will work. New technological gizmo that does same thing will force you to dedicate yourself to it, and thats not worth it.
Computers don't need to last that long, ofc, but upgrading to new version just for sake of having new version is wrong, deeply wrong. If nothing, it is waste of money and can cause serious business problems. Why waste money on something that can only produce problems?
Well, cutting US undersea cables is splendid idea.
You can hurt their economy BIG way, and you dont have to come even close to them, all you need is sub or ship and knowledge of cable locations. Neither is very hard to come by.
Investment of few mil$ dollars, results priceless.
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Not only that. In some countries, there is no station at all which will run Example show. And they probably never will because there will be enough trashier shows to run. No local/national DvD store will likely ever run it, thats assuming official DvDs are made. No US station is likely to rerun it either.
There is nothing morally bad about obtaining and watching Example show.
Downloading might be your only chance to see it or rewatch it.
Sir, can you explain us why you have 2/3rd of your drive encrypted?
Can you give us key to take a look?
No? Too bad. Let us persecute you a bit.
Sorry, but encryption is NOT an option.
Being smartass wont help you either. Disk failure tale is not gonna hold water and missing substantial disk space is highly suspicious.
They also added something like this to Guild Wars (from which Lotro borrowed it, btw.)
It kinda sucked and is indirectly responsible for sorry state it's PvE is in nowadays.
Well, you'd better hurry tell this to Dexter...
Its actually good thing they did this.
Great way to influence public opinion against them and convince even usually non-caring people that something evil was going on.
Now if only major news picked this up and made big deal out of it...
In related new, we have already invented everything there was to invent.
Well, using ad-blockers like this is considered to be taboo behavior in most of forum communities.
I have seen it quite few times, someone had problem with noisy ads, someone else suggests adblock, site admin appears, has long sad speech how adblockers are worst thing ever and bans person suggesting use of adblock and tells person which has problem with ads to deal with it or move on.
There is some pressure NOT to use such tools. And nice people do listen.
I think you don't get it.
This is part of "Make everyone criminal". If not enough people are breaking rules, you invent some more rules that they have to break in order to live comfortably.
It produces fear and guilt and thought fear conformity and obedience (you don't want to stand out and give anyone reason to go harass you because you know there is something to be harassed about). It gives base for bullying inconvenient people: they can use your filled ipod to give you minor bitch slap as well as to do monster process that will ruin you.
Its all about giving your government more tools. The fact that it benefits big media corps is win/win side effect (RIAA is happy and major newspapers/tv channells wont cover this threaty)
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1) FRANK@SHOEMAKER@WOULD@CALL@THIS@NOISE
2) ?
3) profit
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING
Because they are more like glorified chat rooms. Except they are not.
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...). Quite few people missed all the dull and dumb things for some reason. They got very vocal about it, and there is no end to them.
withtout humans, there is just no good gameplay in there, anything interesting is gonna be copy pasted till its dull as hell. Once you look past all those things that designers want to hide
* Repetition1: L1 killing L1 monster is equivalent of l10 character killing L10 monsters nad L100 character killing L100 monsters. There is nothing interesting, but people dig having bigger numbers. It screwed rpg "character growth" concept. Now everyone thinks that good RPG NEEDS to have levels, at least 50 of them. They would scream like that angry german game kid if there was mmo without power progression.
* Repetition2: Kill 10 of X, bring me 10 of Y. If that is not boring, welcome to traditional bring me 10 of Z which is just laying around. You get theese quests in each MMO. All the time.
* Repetition3: Activate skill 1,2,3 in sequence. rinse and repeat. You cant even do anything else in game, because it would be too hard. Developers make sure that nothing requires thinking, all you have are those skills (which you replace with stronger versions, but they stay eventually the same). Noone can be allowed to fail miserably and repeatedly, so there is no way to fail. Hell, all MMOS have exactly same tactic: tank-nuke-heal.
* Repetition4: Gather X of Y resource, use it to improve skill so that you can gather X of Z resource to improve it further.
For all intents and purposes, all MMOS have gameplay as interesting as if you had progressquest ( http://www.progressquest.com/ ) runing on background while chatting on irc.
One game tried to be different: GW (pointless leveling, nearly no bring me X of Y quests, interesting gameplay where noone is guaranteed to win just because they spent x hours playing, tank-nuke-heal being worst tactis, etc
From that i realized one thing: Lots people do NOT play to socialize, maybe not event to have fun. They play for e-peen. They require boring, dumb, gameplay, where they can sink hours of their life grinding and end up having virtual persona of celebrity grade. They dont want challenge because that would eventually slow down their grind or make it impossible. They want to feel fetter than someone who plays less that they do or just want to feel good about time they wasted.
"Natural death" is quite usefull if you want to kill someone popular but undesirable ... No blades, no blame.
... you dont have to kill him at all! Death of mind is good enough and someone with dead mind can be reused ... especially if he is popular with undesirable kind of people.
... with memory and/or inteligence gone, you have obedient tabula rasa person.
But even worse is
Just imagine how much can specialist at ministry of do with this kind of stuff. Selectivelly disable parts of someone mind
I think it is obvious. Just make bi-monthly "What new SF/F book do you recommend"
I am sure a LOT of people would find that useful. (hint: not a sarcasm)
Tapping large geek pool of shashdot should be enough to get good recommendations.
Other than that, geeky literature majoring friends are great source of recommendations, i suggest making one!
Yeah. ... Copyright + Religion ... now where did we hear that ... could it be: scientology?? Which used Copyright as tool to oppress. /facepalm You certainly didn't succeed in making Mormons look any better.
Like whatever you want, videos directly linked from Slashdot (autoplaying, stupid and loud ones especially, not marked NSFW) are not amusing. Not at all.
There are sites for people who like this stuff. On slashdot, something like this should never get through moderation and firehose.
But quality is pointless.
Bad product with huge sales = lots of income = business doing good.
So yeah, Vista ain't disaster. Strictly speaking it *is* huge success.
The fact that it is bad product and some people passionately dislike it does not make it any less successful.
> but I believe that you need some inkling of reality to achieve any sense of excitement and drama.
Anime shows shown us that you don't really need realistic settings to achieve either. What you need is gripping story and good characters.
Exactly right, except you forgot one thing:
They dont need actually viruses and malware, they just need people (and businesses) to be afraid of them enough to consider them treat.
All you have to give to people is feeling of security and to make them think that you can shield them from any nasty stuff they might have heard on TV. And people are easily scared because they in general know little about computers.
People are scared and they get AVs (or careless and they wouldnt get AV even if there was billion of virii), so you fight for market share rather than install.
And your only feature you are ging to sell to those people is confidence of unpenetrable shield.
So yeah, AV companies do want perception of threat high and actually threat low. Thats when they make most money.
Every reall threat costs them money, Every imaginary threat makes them money.
Well, MMO developers are the same all around the world.
... am i wearing tinfoil hat in here?
For example Guild Wars had several serious issues (Duping, Map travel anywhere cheat (several versions), Bypassing some 4 hour instance (at that time) to get straight to boss, Even ability to enforce other player disconnect.)
What did they do when this was reported? Nothing. Zilch. CR Sneaked around it.
Duping went for 6 months. The only thing that made them actually fix it was post on major fansites detailing exploit.
Their reaction? Kneejerk, yessire, they banned people who reported it, and banned people who confirmed it not to be hoax (by making video of duping some vendor trash). They fixed issue overnight.
Same with other exploits: Official bug reports were ignored and exploits were only fixed when big disclosure (aka, unignorable monster threads) happened.
Really, what kind of MMO dev ignores duping going on for months? Hmm
As long as you know reliability scope of test, i.e. that it gives false positives and never false negatives, test is worth it.
... logic is great tool if used correctly.
Simple test like this could be very effective at bringing up potential problems which can be investigated and verified by more accurate tests.
Also, you can use lots of such "unreliable" tests to build reliable model
Big deal is medics they are dealing with: if dead person is worth up to 250 000 $, how hard would you really work to keep them alive?
... you would be walking quater million for them. Some kill for 100$, its quite imaginable them to kill for much, much more.
Hell, some could have idea of killing of healthy (aka, only minor issue like broken leg) patients to get body with top quality organs (people who get organ-preserving damage done to body like broken legs are generally healthy+active life types with bodies in good shape.). And medic can easily get untraceable kill. Embolism is bitch.
And imagine if common thugs could cash you in too
What is your point? That people ignorant to one thing don't care about it and people schooled in it overestimate its importance? Guess that succeeded. If not here is my take:
There is problem with buying "DualMegaCore 10GHZ" equivalent of housing. Or pretty much anything other important.
If you buy new tech toy (they are that, just toys) and it gets broke, you replace it with newer toy and it hardly effects your life.
If go into new house technology, you have to stick with with for 40+ years. If you chose brand new tech you risk greatly running into problems. Its definitely not great thing to find out that you floor heating system gets broken and that you spend several times worth value of conventional system replacing/fixing it. Considering that house building leaves ordinary person short of funds, they would have to live with broken technology for some time. That is not really that great. If you chose wrong structual elements you wont even be able to inhabit it.
There is just no telling what happens in 5, 10, 20 years, unless you see example of it that old or believe marketer (which is not smart). And you need to know that.
Great example is heating: With conventional radiators, you can plug anything that produces heat and it will work. New technological gizmo that does same thing will force you to dedicate yourself to it, and thats not worth it.
Computers don't need to last that long, ofc, but upgrading to new version just for sake of having new version is wrong, deeply wrong. If nothing, it is waste of money and can cause serious business problems. Why waste money on something that can only produce problems?
Well, cutting US undersea cables is splendid idea.
You can hurt their economy BIG way, and you dont have to come even close to them, all you need is sub or ship and knowledge of cable locations. Neither is very hard to come by.
Investment of few mil$ dollars, results priceless.
Chaptha: Piloting (hehehe)
Only quite crappy (and pointless) blogs use such sites as major source of material to write about. Nothing important to worry about.
Only real question is, how will knol prevent inheritance of wikipedias "cult" society?
Rating system and such is ripe for that kind of abuse, like: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/ & http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/
Wouldn't simply stooping to use that library get them out of hook?