Frederick Pohl's "The World at the End of Time" deals tangentially with heat death of the universe, and also has superbeings tossing stars at each other. Can't miss it.:)
What I'd really like are "family accounts" -- one library, a limited number of logins accounts that can access it. With parental controls on some of the logins restricting what games they have access to, and preventing them from spending money, etc....
These are actually quite good ideas. Just out of curiosity, have you suggested this to steam support? They might not get around to it tomorrow, but if they add it to their idea list, it might get implemented some day.
I know, this is the idealist in me speaking, I'll silence him now.:)
I especially "love" the hundreds of pixels tall images which tell some very old joke in many poorly drawn comic panels. Reading the same joke few years ago meant reading few lines of text, now it means scrolling through several screens and trying to understand the ugly graphics. Quite sad.
Port forwarding to a private address behind NAT is not the same as allowing traffic to a port at a public address. With NAT, you can only have port X exposed for only one internal device (unless you forward it under different port numbers for different hosts, which is ugly as balls).
"And marketers would love the trackability down to the PC level - sure there's the privacy IP thing, but it's defeated if there's a long-running IP connection still established (unless IPv6 has the ability to inform remote hosts that your IP was changing... which has some very interesting implications). Even so, it's usually a day's worth of tracking and a cookie can be used to bridge between days."
Except that (especially with privacy extensions) it is normal to have several IPv6 addresses on a single interface. So e.g. google will see you connecting from one address, facebook from a different address (within same network prefix, of course), and another google search few minutes later will have yet another source address.
Sure, tracking cookies and all that can help them figure it out, but that problem is already there if your network has DHCP-assigned IPv4 addresses.
Wasn't there a slew of projects to replace Facebook with a distributed privacy model few years ago? Most people were hyped up about Diaspora, but that thing can't even provide a properly working UI yet.
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This troll is still relevant, since it provoked kneejerk replies from people taking it seriously and trying to refute its arguments, even though it is painfully obvious it's just a troll. Good work, thanks for the laughs.:)
Why would someone install Linux on a partition? Just use LVM, and you can change your filesystem layout anytime later, if you decide you need a separate/srv/ftp/pr0n or something.
Fuck you, youtube^Wgoogle, I'm not going to create an account just because someone somewhere thought someone else somewhere else might possibly be sometimes in future be offended by pixels of red color.
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His point, however, is defeated right off the bat by being delivered with silly ad-hominem attacks.
Guys, loose this off-topic subthread already.
Arrest this guy! Or at least mod him funny.
Whoosh, baby, whoosh!
Frederick Pohl's "The World at the End of Time" deals tangentially with heat death of the universe, and also has superbeings tossing stars at each other. Can't miss it. :)
Huh, voice of reason? On an internet forum? How did this happen?
Thank you, sir, thank you!
Well, you can always photoshop such screenshot if you ever need it.
What I'd really like are "family accounts" -- one library, a limited number of logins accounts that can access it. With parental controls on some of the logins restricting what games they have access to, and preventing them from spending money, etc. ...
These are actually quite good ideas. Just out of curiosity, have you suggested this to steam support? They might not get around to it tomorrow, but if they add it to their idea list, it might get implemented some day.
I know, this is the idealist in me speaking, I'll silence him now. :)
They can call the language... wait for it... K++.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
I especially "love" the hundreds of pixels tall images which tell some very old joke in many poorly drawn comic panels. Reading the same joke few years ago meant reading few lines of text, now it means scrolling through several screens and trying to understand the ugly graphics. Quite sad.
Please mod parent funny. :)
The "above intelligence" part is probably what scares big companies off.
Yeah, I am a smug, elitist prick. Sue me.
Maybe he's writing more about beautiful things like fjords, and less about stroking his e-peen.
I see. I will only ever post lolcats. To any forum. Gotcha.
Brb, uploading this to funnyjunk...
"Miranda..."
Unless you want your women like water for your tea...
Personal cloud? Oh, you mean owncloud.org
Port forwarding to a private address behind NAT is not the same as allowing traffic to a port at a public address. With NAT, you can only have port X exposed for only one internal device (unless you forward it under different port numbers for different hosts, which is ugly as balls).
"And marketers would love the trackability down to the PC level - sure there's the privacy IP thing, but it's defeated if there's a long-running IP connection still established (unless IPv6 has the ability to inform remote hosts that your IP was changing... which has some very interesting implications). Even so, it's usually a day's worth of tracking and a cookie can be used to bridge between days."
Except that (especially with privacy extensions) it is normal to have several IPv6 addresses on a single interface. So e.g. google will see you connecting from one address, facebook from a different address (within same network prefix, of course), and another google search few minutes later will have yet another source address.
Sure, tracking cookies and all that can help them figure it out, but that problem is already there if your network has DHCP-assigned IPv4 addresses.
Wasn't there a slew of projects to replace Facebook with a distributed privacy model few years ago? Most people were hyped up about Diaspora, but that thing can't even provide a properly working UI yet.
This troll is still relevant, since it provoked kneejerk replies from people taking it seriously and trying to refute its arguments, even though it is painfully obvious it's just a troll. Good work, thanks for the laughs. :)
Why would someone install Linux on a partition? Just use LVM, and you can change your filesystem layout anytime later, if you decide you need a separate /srv/ftp/pr0n or something.
Wow, you're getting royally screwed (as if you didn't know already). My condolences.
Fuck you, youtube^Wgoogle, I'm not going to create an account just because someone somewhere thought someone else somewhere else might possibly be sometimes in future be offended by pixels of red color.