It depends on how public they make this. It sounds like GP tries to be as quiet about it as possible, but if you go around flaunting it you will probably have problems with creepy nerds harassing you.
You guys should look up on Something Awful's Art of Warcraft section about the guy who pretended to be a girl in game during Pre-TBC and all the gold and gifts he got from these people. It's weird how guys react to women in a game.*
I think the only positive thing Blizzard will get from this is less traffic on their official forums.
I can only hope that Blizzard will catch on to the outrage of this. I won't stop playing, but I'll stop using their forums. All of those useful posts I've made in the past will no longer continue to happen, including anything I've said that was inflammatory. The good posts I've made outweigh the ones where I put up bounties on people on my faction, trashed someone, etc.
I'll be posting on Elitist Jerks or some other forum for anything involving my class or endgame content. For discussing realm matters, I just won't post anymore.
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Well, they'll find it very difficult to do that unless they figure out a way to spoof the same name on their credit card.
FYI, you can buy 'Game Time Cards' with cash at every big-box store in the United States.
It also doesn't matter the name on the account doesn't match the name on the credit/debit card. When I was in HS my mom would pay for my account (different last name).
never ONCE has it or should it ever affect your work.
Only of these activites in your spare time affect your workplace activities. If you're up until 3AM trying to down the Lich King and you come into your job stacking boxes groggy and tired, then it does become a problem. No different than any other recreational activity, though.
A lot of the people I know in IT play video games, however a lot of people look down on WOW players because of the negative stereotype. This is why I don't tell people I work with that I play it.
No, I'm a 3 year veteran of Slashdot, and a 2 year veteran of the World of Warcraft forums. In the WoW forums, where every post is linked to a character, people judge others' posts by the quality of their gear rather than just the quality of the posts. On Slashdot, this doesn't happen.
Post as a level 1. If someone disregards you for your post based on your level, odds are they were going to disregard your post because of your gear/arena team rank/guild/etc.
Wonder how long it'll be until someone finally tracks down a troll (in real life) and loots their corpse
I can't find the article, but there was a case of a guy setting someones house on fire over an MMO. If someone can find it and post it that would be great.
Mod me down to 0 since I'm not providing any actual information, please.
My thought: Internet Detectives are going to have a field day with this. Got ganked by a Rogue last night? Search the forums for his character name, find his real name, figure out where he lives, and get him right back with harassing phone calls, pizzas, etc...
Or they...
- Track him down and set his house on fire.
- Find his workplace and tell his boss/coworkers that he's a pedophile/rapist/etc.
- Find their SO and tell them the same as above.
It's sickening the amount of things that could follow through from this action and just one remark. The whole RealID thing is a problem in the first place for transgender folks who don't want others to know their legal names, but all of the above listed reasons.
Hey, if you're browsing at -1, that's your problem, not Slashdot's.
It's a shame that GP was modded down, because he proves a good point like many others who are modded down just because someone with mod points is unhappy with their opinion.
Trolling is a problem here still, and I'll probably be modded as one.
Uh. I'm a bit late on this comment, but hopefully you'll see it. This may be wrong:
Should the cooling system malfunction, the resulting fire would be virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown, putting more than two hundred million residents of this rapidly growing section of North Carolina in extreme peril
Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment? Igor: Of course. Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you? Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on the floor] Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here. Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on a chair] Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [Crosses arms] No. Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in? Igor: And you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry. Igor: [Shrugs] Abby someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who? Igor: Abby Normal. Dr. Frankenstein: [Slightly angry] Abby Normal? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh] Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!
Please. why does this have to be so complicated? A flash drive will do. Maybe a 16GB one which is like $30 US? Keep it in your pocket, and they won't even know you have it. Hell, keep one in each pocket, and you have 32GB of porn coming in the country.
Very true. I was going through security in Guatemala City coming home and my USB drive set off the alarm. I took it out of my pocket and said "oh, forgot to put this through the xray." The guy just said to hand it to him around the detector and go through.
Who knows, but if you thought the lines were long now... On most geek laptops, this could take a while.
No, they're just going to have a third booth for you to go to at customs. One for something to declare, one for nothing to declare, and a third for Pornography. The third one will have a line out to the tarmac.
I dunno. Download it? Maybe they want to make sure your porn is on the up-and-up?
Maybe the guy who pushed this rule is actually addicted to porn and wants to create a giant archive of it all, print it out and then roll around in the pages. Who knows? Often these people who are so hellbent on getting rid of "offensive things" turn out to be even more deviant than the ones they are attacking.
Damn, where's the "overinformative" mod when you need it
I was saying that as sarcasm, but if I travel to Australia in the near future I think I will start keeping adult content on my desktop. "What? You don't like SWAP.AVI? Sorry, pal. Here's a bucket."
Patten said if the question was designed to stop child pornography being smuggled into the country then the question should have been asked about "child pornography", without encompassing regular porn.
Because you totally need to bring a hard drive into the country to bring along CP, you can't use those newfangled technologies like encrypted network connections and proxies to get around it.
What a giant circle jerk of pretending they are helping the victims.
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It's pretty interesting that a couple of random phone calls "Mr xxx is a pedophile" would pretty much destroy most people's lives.
Doesn't that underscore a fundamental breakage in our social system?
Mob mentality/the overall hassle of it all/just enough to start rumors can be enough damage.
They don't seem to have this issue
It depends on how public they make this. It sounds like GP tries to be as quiet about it as possible, but if you go around flaunting it you will probably have problems with creepy nerds harassing you.
You guys should look up on Something Awful's Art of Warcraft section about the guy who pretended to be a girl in game during Pre-TBC and all the gold and gifts he got from these people. It's weird how guys react to women in a game.*
* I'd link it, but work blocks it.
I think the only positive thing Blizzard will get from this is less traffic on their official forums.
I can only hope that Blizzard will catch on to the outrage of this. I won't stop playing, but I'll stop using their forums. All of those useful posts I've made in the past will no longer continue to happen, including anything I've said that was inflammatory. The good posts I've made outweigh the ones where I put up bounties on people on my faction, trashed someone, etc.
I'll be posting on Elitist Jerks or some other forum for anything involving my class or endgame content. For discussing realm matters, I just won't post anymore.
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Well, they'll find it very difficult to do that unless they figure out a way to spoof the same name on their credit card.
FYI, you can buy 'Game Time Cards' with cash at every big-box store in the United States.
It also doesn't matter the name on the account doesn't match the name on the credit/debit card. When I was in HS my mom would pay for my account (different last name).
never ONCE has it or should it ever affect your work.
Only of these activites in your spare time affect your workplace activities. If you're up until 3AM trying to down the Lich King and you come into your job stacking boxes groggy and tired, then it does become a problem. No different than any other recreational activity, though.
A lot of the people I know in IT play video games, however a lot of people look down on WOW players because of the negative stereotype. This is why I don't tell people I work with that I play it.
No, I'm a 3 year veteran of Slashdot, and a 2 year veteran of the World of Warcraft forums. In the WoW forums, where every post is linked to a character, people judge others' posts by the quality of their gear rather than just the quality of the posts. On Slashdot, this doesn't happen.
Post as a level 1. If someone disregards you for your post based on your level, odds are they were going to disregard your post because of your gear/arena team rank/guild/etc.
Wonder how long it'll be until someone finally tracks down a troll (in real life) and loots their corpse
I can't find the article, but there was a case of a guy setting someones house on fire over an MMO. If someone can find it and post it that would be great.
Mod me down to 0 since I'm not providing any actual information, please.
My thought: Internet Detectives are going to have a field day with this. Got ganked by a Rogue last night? Search the forums for his character name, find his real name, figure out where he lives, and get him right back with harassing phone calls, pizzas, etc...
Or they...
- Track him down and set his house on fire.
- Find his workplace and tell his boss/coworkers that he's a pedophile/rapist/etc.
- Find their SO and tell them the same as above.
It's sickening the amount of things that could follow through from this action and just one remark. The whole RealID thing is a problem in the first place for transgender folks who don't want others to know their legal names, but all of the above listed reasons.
No trolls here.
Hey, if you're browsing at -1, that's your problem, not Slashdot's.
It's a shame that GP was modded down, because he proves a good point like many others who are modded down just because someone with mod points is unhappy with their opinion.
Trolling is a problem here still, and I'll probably be modded as one.
We're talking about Prince, not Frank Zappa.
inSSIDer does as well if you use Vista/7. NetStumbler doesn't run that well on 7 or Vista in my experience. Maybe it's changed recently.
Uh. I'm a bit late on this comment, but hopefully you'll see it. This may be wrong:
Should the cooling system malfunction, the resulting fire would be virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown, putting more than two hundred million residents of this rapidly growing section of North Carolina in extreme peril
That's pretty densely populated...
Even better, I found a youtube clip of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOe_4mgmyyA
Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment?
Igor: Of course.
Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you?
Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on the floor]
Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here.
Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on a chair]
Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [Crosses arms] No.
Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
Igor: [Shrugs] Abby someone.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frankenstein: [Slightly angry] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. [He and Dr. Frankenstein laugh]
Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying... [Stands] that I put an abnormal brain... [Puts hand on Igor's hump] into a 7 and a half foot long... 54- inch wide... [Grabs Igor by throat] GORILLA?!?!?! [Strangling Igor] IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?!
I checked "Disable Advertising", why doesn't it carry over to the articles?
Because Idle CSS is shit. Remove the "idle." from the URL and it comes up with the normal CSS.
Also, you should keep ads enabled. Unless if they are particularly annoying, keeping ads enabled will support Slashdot and keep them alive.
Time to go patent "Hello World" and get rich!
Please. why does this have to be so complicated? A flash drive will do. Maybe a 16GB one which is like $30 US? Keep it in your pocket, and they won't even know you have it. Hell, keep one in each pocket, and you have 32GB of porn coming in the country.
Very true. I was going through security in Guatemala City coming home and my USB drive set off the alarm. I took it out of my pocket and said "oh, forgot to put this through the xray." The guy just said to hand it to him around the detector and go through.
No problem.
Have you not been reading in the past few years since Stephen Conroy assumed office? He's been spearheading all of these censorship efforts.
Well, I hope the guards are really desensitized because once they search my laptop they will most likely vomit.
They should be desensitized after viewing everyone with the scanners that reveal the really gross bodies.
Or aroused... *shudder*
Who knows, but if you thought the lines were long now... On most geek laptops, this could take a while.
No, they're just going to have a third booth for you to go to at customs. One for something to declare, one for nothing to declare, and a third for Pornography. The third one will have a line out to the tarmac.
What can they do if they find it?
I dunno. Download it? Maybe they want to make sure your porn is on the up-and-up?
Maybe the guy who pushed this rule is actually addicted to porn and wants to create a giant archive of it all, print it out and then roll around in the pages. Who knows? Often these people who are so hellbent on getting rid of "offensive things" turn out to be even more deviant than the ones they are attacking.
Damn, where's the "overinformative" mod when you need it
I was saying that as sarcasm, but if I travel to Australia in the near future I think I will start keeping adult content on my desktop. "What? You don't like SWAP.AVI? Sorry, pal. Here's a bucket."
Is porn illegal in Australia now?
Nope. FTFA:
Patten said if the question was designed to stop child pornography being smuggled into the country then the question should have been asked about "child pornography", without encompassing regular porn.
Because you totally need to bring a hard drive into the country to bring along CP, you can't use those newfangled technologies like encrypted network connections and proxies to get around it.
What a giant circle jerk of pretending they are helping the victims.
Well, I hope the guards are really desensitized because once they search my laptop they will most likely vomit.