I'm far from unsuspecting, but I narrowly avoided a big female taking my ear off only a couple of months ago. I don't go camping or walking in the national park near my parents' house without my bearspike and/or a bottle of vinegar now.
You can't know anyone in rural Australia. My brother built himself a gun cabinet when he was sixteen and it's already half-full, yet I wouldn't call him a nut.
So why is it bent on blocking pornography, which (as far as I can see) is only dangerous in a religious context? Isn't sex just one of many everyday biological functions to an atheist?
I don't understand these alleged Christians' obsession with force and control. Forcing your own will upon someone else is the very antithesis of Christianity.
When I was a kid, my parents had a 'red button' called a leather belt. It was much harder to hack.
Harder to hack, my arse! When this happened to me, I used to modify the client (my bottom) by increasing the resistance (extra underpants) and return a spoofed result to the server.
At least you can keep those patches. I cached the patch the Bioshock installer downloaded and tried everything I could think of to force the installer to use it instead of redownloading it, but it wouldn't have it.
BTW, ten megabytes is NOT trivial when downloaded at 6KB/s, which is what happens to a lot of Australian ADSL customers' connections when the monthly quota is exceeded.
Until recently I viewed the vitriol spewed by anti-DRM zealots with mild suprise. I'd never really felt it was all that bad. Then I bought and installed Bioshock. CD keys and mild disc protection I can live with, but those PLUS activation PLUS forcing a 10MB patch download every single time the game is installed took my breath away. After a few hours trying to install it under Wine I was ready to put my foot through my screen.
THAT ruined Bioshock for me. Spoilers I don't really mind.
XFCE is nice, but I think Fluxbox is nicer still, especially when used with XFCE apps. It loads in less than a second but still manages to look rather nice with transparency and stuff. The best bit though, aside from its fleety-nimbleness, is that it allows user-definable, chained keyboard shortcuts (I have {Alt+x, Alt+z} mapped to 'screen -Rd', for example). It's freaking awesome.
I apologise for evangelizing, but I just love it so damn much.
i suggest microsoft take a page from our founding fathers, and adopt a more "innocent until proven guilty" attitude
That's exactly what Microsoft have done here. This is just a reminder that they may be a victim of piracy, and only if their license has been examined and found to be invalid. Users aren't being punished, they're just being alerted that their operating system isn't licensed.
Actually, I'm positively certain that I read somewhere on the Steam site (in the knowledge base, perhaps) that they plan release to patches for all the Steam games if they ever go out of business so they can still be used. Or something to that effect.
I tried to find the exact place, but no luck. Perhaps I'm delusional.
I think most people would prefer to have the entire diary available to download in one lump sum rather than having bits and pieces rationed out at intervals. I know I certainly would.
I think it's wonderful that they're publishing them, but imho the format is idiotic.
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Or, will it be a nice painless hypoxia in a small aircraft?
Death by suffocation is supposed to be agony.
I want to go like Mr Orwell wanted - sudden and violent. Motorbike is my mode of choice.
I'm far from unsuspecting, but I narrowly avoided a big female taking my ear off only a couple of months ago. I don't go camping or walking in the national park near my parents' house without my bearspike and/or a bottle of vinegar now.
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(This sentence is the one with which I defeat the lameness filter.)
You can't know anyone in rural Australia. My brother built himself a gun cabinet when he was sixteen and it's already half-full, yet I wouldn't call him a nut.
They probably hired poor people do do it for them.
$25m seems an entirely adequate reward for circumventing reCAPTCHA.
This is particularly good news for me, because I can only eat foods that have been etched with a laser. Goodbye scurvy!
No, I believe Vista's EULA limits magnification to 3000X.
That's why you should browse at > 0 unless you're moderating.
So why is it bent on blocking pornography, which (as far as I can see) is only dangerous in a religious context? Isn't sex just one of many everyday biological functions to an atheist?
That was brilliant. Thankyou.
I apologise if my comment was overly obvious. It's only recently become apparent to me.
I don't understand these alleged Christians' obsession with force and control. Forcing your own will upon someone else is the very antithesis of Christianity.
When I was a kid, my parents had a 'red button' called a leather belt. It was much harder to hack.
Harder to hack, my arse! When this happened to me, I used to modify the client (my bottom) by increasing the resistance (extra underpants) and return a spoofed result to the server.
At least you can keep those patches. I cached the patch the Bioshock installer downloaded and tried everything I could think of to force the installer to use it instead of redownloading it, but it wouldn't have it.
BTW, ten megabytes is NOT trivial when downloaded at 6KB/s, which is what happens to a lot of Australian ADSL customers' connections when the monthly quota is exceeded.
Until recently I viewed the vitriol spewed by anti-DRM zealots with mild suprise. I'd never really felt it was all that bad. Then I bought and installed Bioshock. CD keys and mild disc protection I can live with, but those PLUS activation PLUS forcing a 10MB patch download every single time the game is installed took my breath away. After a few hours trying to install it under Wine I was ready to put my foot through my screen.
THAT ruined Bioshock for me. Spoilers I don't really mind.
XFCE is nice, but I think Fluxbox is nicer still, especially when used with XFCE apps. It loads in less than a second but still manages to look rather nice with transparency and stuff. The best bit though, aside from its fleety-nimbleness, is that it allows user-definable, chained keyboard shortcuts (I have {Alt+x, Alt+z} mapped to 'screen -Rd', for example). It's freaking awesome.
I apologise for evangelizing, but I just love it so damn much.
I thought the slogan was was "Nobody doesn't like molten boron", not "Nobody does it like molten boron".
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For the lulls (in actual news).
!?<term> executes the first matching statement in bash history
user@host:~$ !?Album /mnt/usb/Music/Artist/Album/
xmms2 radd
Come to think of it, I'm surprised Google haven't already added graphs and stats and crap to GMail the way they have with Search History.
Maybe it's just a matter of time before something like this appears in the Labs.
That's exactly what Microsoft have done here. This is just a reminder that they may be a victim of piracy, and only if their license has been examined and found to be invalid.
Users aren't being punished, they're just being alerted that their operating system isn't licensed.
.. hurry up and release a PC version (which plays plays nice with wine).
I have a little pile of cash set aside ready to cram furiously into my computer's floppy drive as soon as it's released.
Actually, I'm positively certain that I read somewhere on the Steam site (in the knowledge base, perhaps) that they plan release to patches for all the Steam games if they ever go out of business so they can still be used. Or something to that effect.
I tried to find the exact place, but no luck. Perhaps I'm delusional.
I think most people would prefer to have the entire diary available to download in one lump sum rather than having bits and pieces rationed out at intervals. I know I certainly would.
I think it's wonderful that they're publishing them, but imho the format is idiotic.