That said, I do applaud the policy of banning modded consoles from the PSN (and hence from the online components of PS3 games). The big attraction of console online multiplayer for me (and I suspect for quite a few others) is that playing on a locked-down system does reduce (albeit perhaps not eliminate) the scope for cheats outside of the exploitation of game-specific glitches.
Yes and no.
Yes, I think they should come down hard on cheaters. But PC games manage to do that without locking down the hardware. They build it into the game itself, and make sure the game isn't doing things it shouldn't do.
I want to hack up my PS3, but have no intention of pirating anything. I want to be able to properly back up my Guitar Hero and Rock Band avatars that I spent hours creating, but can't because Sony says 'no'. I want to have a better way of transferring video, music and photos to/from the PS3, but am stuck with Sony's underwhelming tools. I would love to have some "for the love of it" people develop features that Sony can't or won't-- like cross-game chat, or changing the font of the main menu. (You know, really hard things...)
I could do that with a modified PS3-- but then I lose access to the PSN. Ostensibly, it would be to prevent me from pirating or cheating-- neither of which I would be doing.
Actually, given his play style, I'd say he hits the Reply button, starts typing his comment while reading TFA at the same time, so that by the end of his comment, it's perfectly accurate and on-topic
I have to say I like this, not more, but in a different way than gmail's "+" technique. It provides an additional layer of security.
It's trivial for someone to strip the +whatever from a gmail address, and they still have your normal account. They can spam it, or worse, attempt to break into it (as we saw what happened with recent database leaks)
But you cannot log intoHotmail with someotheralias@hotmail.com. So even if someone matches your email address and password together, they cannot log into your account. In fact, what MS should do is pop up a warning dialog of some sorts if someone tries. "Warning: Someone tried to log into your account using the throw away address 'xyx'. They [did/didn't] have your correct password."
Slashdot: Stop fucking around with basic HTML elements! The above has an OL in it. Okay, all you user style people, time for another entry in the "red pen" edition of Slashdot css:
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Not that people need proof or anything to sue these days, but...
I would have had (at least) one phone with it's battery out (or dead, or both)
Another phone with all it's services turned off, and the phone turned off.
Another phone with all it's services turned off, and the phone left on
Another with it's services on, and the phone off
Another with it's services on, and the phone on
I would then take a second group of all the above phones, and a few times a day, send them a phone call (unanswered) and a text message (unread).
(For the sake of cost efficiency, you could use just one phone in all the above states, it'd just take longer)
Ideally, the phones that are off or dead should have no consumption, those that are on or have services running should have more. There's a non-zero chance the off-but-not-dead are in a "vampire" state, and will still draw a trickle of data.
This isn't much different from Chrome autoupdating or Firefox blacklisting certain extensions.
It wouldn't be-- if Firefox removed the optional "Check for Updates" setting, changed your hosts.txt file and router's routing table, added no new features with the update, and would only show cached, offline pages until you submitted to the update.
So except for nearly everything being different, it's exactly the same.
Dear GOP, the above advice-- plain and simple, do not do it.
You know all that personalize junk mail you get (both e and otherwise)? You know all those personalized phone calls you get from marketers? You know all those "glad to meet you" greetings you get from salespeople?
You know how they all reek of being fake, slightly creepy, and utterly unbelievable?
Yeah, that is exactly the vibes you will be saying to any potential date with a canned response. It comes across screamingly loud and clear. It is excruciatingly obvious that you've just hit her with a Control-C. (Even more so given that many women have friends on these sites, and they will mock you once they both get the same "personalized" letter).
The only thing such a stunt will net you is being put into "that" pile. A generic cattle call that says "You are nothing more than an abstract score to me" will make a deep an lasting first impression-- just not the one you're hoping for.
And yes, I met my wife via a social site. We still get a laugh out of the poorly written, pasted chat-ups she gets that start with "I loved reading your profile...". =)
I will actually detest this, because I know their copyright fears will get in the way of my legal enjoyment.
Just this week, I tried to play a game I purchased from the PSN. It has no online interactions. Yet, because I haven't installed the latest firmware, it refuses to let me play. Same would happen if my internet was down.
Next I finally got around to remembering to backup my saved games. I tried to do Guitar Hero first. I've put several dozen hours into creating custom avatars for friends and family. Guess what-- due to "copyright concerns" or some crap like that, the playstation refuses to backup the file to a USB device.
All that because I refuse to beta-test Sony's latest firmware, or because they're afraid I'll-- do something?-- with my Guitar Hero saved games.
If my saved games end up "in the cloud", I can 100% guarantee that at some point, they will be lost, or I will be denied access to them, and will not be allowed to back them up locally.
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Given that you spend forever in line waiting to get to their security checkpoints, I'd say they're already "of the future"
Seems that there's some ways of mushing up Win98 to get FF3 working:
Bugzilla discussion
Yeah, and they only compounded it with their stupid advice. Broken phones don't need fixing, it just means you aren't holding it right.
Yes and no.
Yes, I think they should come down hard on cheaters. But PC games manage to do that without locking down the hardware. They build it into the game itself, and make sure the game isn't doing things it shouldn't do.
I want to hack up my PS3, but have no intention of pirating anything. I want to be able to properly back up my Guitar Hero and Rock Band avatars that I spent hours creating, but can't because Sony says 'no'. I want to have a better way of transferring video, music and photos to/from the PS3, but am stuck with Sony's underwhelming tools. I would love to have some "for the love of it" people develop features that Sony can't or won't-- like cross-game chat, or changing the font of the main menu. (You know, really hard things...)
I could do that with a modified PS3-- but then I lose access to the PSN. Ostensibly, it would be to prevent me from pirating or cheating-- neither of which I would be doing.
Actually, given his play style, I'd say he hits the Reply button, starts typing his comment while reading TFA at the same time, so that by the end of his comment, it's perfectly accurate and on-topic
Sidenote: Slashdot's css has fucked up OL. Another entry for my user style. Great job, Slashdot. Great job.
Stylish plugin for FF + this user style fixes it:
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The world's knowledge is 250 exabytes.
(Checks my own comment)
Wait, now it'll be 250 exabytes + 61 bytes.
(checks again)
Wait, now it'll be 250 exabytes + 61 bytes + 48 bytes.
(checks again)
Wait...
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard... because mind spat the hot coffee back on me. Please send new keyboard to the burn ward, or my lawyer's office.
I heard he said it on Oprah, and she kicked him off the show, and the audience applauded.
It isn't the lowness of it. The poster just really, really likes the number 56.
PS: Once the bloatware chokes out the PC over time, most people will just go an buy a new PC, which means more money for us. So, there you go.
They broke the <i> tag.
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One of the many "newstyle" fuckups. You need a user style to fix this (and to actually emphasis quotes):
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I have to say I like this, not more, but in a different way than gmail's "+" technique. It provides an additional layer of security.
It's trivial for someone to strip the +whatever from a gmail address, and they still have your normal account. They can spam it, or worse, attempt to break into it (as we saw what happened with recent database leaks)
But you cannot log intoHotmail with someotheralias@hotmail.com. So even if someone matches your email address and password together, they cannot log into your account. In fact, what MS should do is pop up a warning dialog of some sorts if someone tries. "Warning: Someone tried to log into your account using the throw away address 'xyx'. They [did/didn't] have your correct password."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYizoh_r6D0
FF 3.6.13, using D1 discussion system. Both UL and OL are set to list-style: none.
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"Lawyer leaves iPhone in other pants for a week, gets $20 bill, can't comprehend background services, sues."
Not that people need proof or anything to sue these days, but...
I would then take a second group of all the above phones, and a few times a day, send them a phone call (unanswered) and a text message (unread).
(For the sake of cost efficiency, you could use just one phone in all the above states, it'd just take longer)
Ideally, the phones that are off or dead should have no consumption, those that are on or have services running should have more. There's a non-zero chance the off-but-not-dead are in a "vampire" state, and will still draw a trickle of data.
It wouldn't be-- if Firefox removed the optional "Check for Updates" setting, changed your hosts.txt file and router's routing table, added no new features with the update, and would only show cached, offline pages until you submitted to the update.
So except for nearly everything being different, it's exactly the same.
No. Not ever. By definition.
Buy an IPv6 router. Or a time machine. Or an IPv6 time machine.
You know all that personalize junk mail you get (both e and otherwise)? You know all those personalized phone calls you get from marketers? You know all those "glad to meet you" greetings you get from salespeople?
You know how they all reek of being fake, slightly creepy, and utterly unbelievable?
Yeah, that is exactly the vibes you will be saying to any potential date with a canned response. It comes across screamingly loud and clear. It is excruciatingly obvious that you've just hit her with a Control-C. (Even more so given that many women have friends on these sites, and they will mock you once they both get the same "personalized" letter).
The only thing such a stunt will net you is being put into "that" pile. A generic cattle call that says "You are nothing more than an abstract score to me" will make a deep an lasting first impression-- just not the one you're hoping for.
And yes, I met my wife via a social site. We still get a laugh out of the poorly written, pasted chat-ups she gets that start with "I loved reading your profile...". =)
No, you're right. I had meant to say "in Sony's cloud", specifically.
Just this week, I tried to play a game I purchased from the PSN. It has no online interactions. Yet, because I haven't installed the latest firmware, it refuses to let me play. Same would happen if my internet was down.
Next I finally got around to remembering to backup my saved games. I tried to do Guitar Hero first. I've put several dozen hours into creating custom avatars for friends and family. Guess what-- due to "copyright concerns" or some crap like that, the playstation refuses to backup the file to a USB device.
All that because I refuse to beta-test Sony's latest firmware, or because they're afraid I'll-- do something?-- with my Guitar Hero saved games.
If my saved games end up "in the cloud", I can 100% guarantee that at some point, they will be lost, or I will be denied access to them, and will not be allowed to back them up locally.