The "NSFW" thing has always been a courtesy on the part of the poster, and in those cases it works because you can read the warning about the link before clicking.
Do we really want to just start trusting links and clicking whatever because the invisible tags will surely protect us from doing something we shouldn't at work?
Because this is Slashdot, and in this post-Columbine world Netcraft confirms that I for one welcome our Soviet Russian old joke overlords, you insensitive clod.
You've got to check out my hot new encryption scheme, I call it Rotational Oscillating Telecode no. 13. Fill your tubes with this stuff and I personally guarantee it foolproof against criminals and terrorists and journalists in every single test performed in my personal data-protection laboratory (my basement) with highly alert and cunning test subjects (my cats.)
To all my other fellow WordPress nuts out there, please take the necessary precautions before submitting your site to Slashdot with "download my free" anything.
Additionally, just stick said freebie in a torrent to change all the panicked "Fucksocks, I'm Slashdotted!" screams into happy "Woo and Yay, I'm Slashdotted!" chirps.
That's standard procedure. News outlets have ready-made obituaries on file for pretty much any notable celebrity or public figure beyond a certain age. When someone dies, they dust off the obit, check it for any major need of updates, fill in the age and details, and print it.
Of course, if your playing the Sims and killing your characters perhaps your playing the wrong game - might I suggest GTA, Dead Rising or Manhunt?
I think a large part of the fun of killing off Sims is the fact that it's not really what the game is for. It appeals to the rebellious types, the ones who always tried to shoot the dog instead of the ducks in "Duck Hunt," typed swear words into their old text adventures, or tried to drive the course backwards in "Pole Position" just to see what would happen.
In something like "GTA," killing the other characters is just another expected part of the game. In "Manhunt," it's damn near the whole point of the game. But it doesn't have the same appeal as when you think you just might be experimenting with aspects of a game that its mainstream players don't, or that the programmers might not have even been prepared for.
It's right up there with "Hot Coffee." The mod wasn't necessarily popular because the crude polygonal dry-humping was all that appealing in itself, but because it was a way to get soemthing out of your copy of "San Andreas" that the next guy wasn't, and see more of your game than the company expected.
If they released an official "47 new ways to kill your Sims Torture Pack," where it really was the focus of the game, it just might not be as appealing as it was.
Didn't Paypal have some sort of rule against funding pr0n? I seem to remember that being the reason the Jennicam girl gave for shutting her site down way back whenever.
As anyone who went to Toys R Us back in the "World of Nintendo" NES/SNES days knows, that's why they make displays that simply reset themselves every so often, via a timer switch on the power outlet. My friends and I used to hang out in the store, annoy the staff, play the demo consoles, and base Tetris/Sonic/Mario/whatever battles on how far one could get before the automatic reset.
Why would they suddenly build specially-crippled consoles now? It doesn't really make much sense fom any standpoint I can see.
Ever hear of a portable drive? Ipod? Laptop with Wireless?
In any case, I have a feeling the days when you can whip out a chunky old videocassette to demo anything are seriously numbered. In many trades already, doing so could get you laughed out of the room as if you brought a can of Super-8 film.
Maybe the OP is just trying to justify an unusually strong love for warm cash. I could definitely see the appeal of leaving the house on a cold Winter morning, wallet full of crisp, warm bills... now that's a Hot Pocket!
(Bishop is at a door with an electronic lock.) Bishop: Anybody remember how to defeat an electronic keypad? Mother: This might help. An old buddy of mine who was in Desert Storm sent it to me. 'Course, he was on the other side. Bishop: Come on. There's got to be a way around these things. (He listens intently to instructions via his earpiece.)
All right, all right... This might work... Yeah. Yeah... Right. Okay. I'll give it a shot. (He kicks the door in.)
Yes even though it is now technically open to "anyone", the privacy controls on there allow you to lock your profile down to the point so that only those you know or trust can access it even to individual sections (i.e. photos/personal details etc). I feel far more secure using that than MySpace, where its either all or nothing (in fact its like that with all the other social sites that I have used as well).
Sure, that'll limit it to only the people you trust... or that happen to work at Facebook... or that discover some present or future vulnerability in Facebook's system... or shoulder-surf one of your trusted few while they're logged in.. or obtain one of your trusted friends' passwords through any of the standard innumerable technological or social engineering methods.
If it's on the Internet, it is not reliably private in any way, shape, or form, from the most popular MySpace or Facebook down to the tiny Linux box I hooked up two hours ago behind a pro-grade firewall.
"Hackers 2" is the bootleg title of that movie since it leaked onto the fileshares way back when. I blame the same idiot who renames every song parody mp3 to "Weird Al" regardless of how much it obviously isn't Weird Al. However, the movie was never actually "Hackers 2" and has nothing to do with the original "Hackers" movie at all. None of the same people or companies were even involved at all in the two films' production, so they couldn't have called it "Hackers 2" even if they wanted to.
IANAL, but if I understand correctly, either party of a two-way communication can generally make them public unless it's declared private by some sort of legal notice (terms of use, legal disclaimers in the sigs, or something.) Since Attrition is a publicly available website, and maintainer of all those public Infosec mailing lists, it's probably not legally reasonable for this guy to assume his emails would be kept private. After all, he didn't even have any real idea who the person was he contacted, much less have a nondisclosure agreement with him.
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Heh, good point. That site is actually SFW, though the pin-up calendar it's selling probably wouldn't be.
The "NSFW" thing has always been a courtesy on the part of the poster, and in those cases it works because you can read the warning about the link before clicking.
Do we really want to just start trusting links and clicking whatever because the invisible tags will surely protect us from doing something we shouldn't at work?
Because this is Slashdot, and in this post-Columbine world Netcraft confirms that I for one welcome our Soviet Russian old joke overlords, you insensitive clod.
Wont somebody think of the... oh, wait.
I may as well mention Cyber Nations, although the Google Earth component is little more than window dressing.
You've got to check out my hot new encryption scheme, I call it Rotational Oscillating Telecode no. 13. Fill your tubes with this stuff and I personally guarantee it foolproof against criminals and terrorists and journalists in every single test performed in my personal data-protection laboratory (my basement) with highly alert and cunning test subjects (my cats.)
Bidding starts at $47 Million.
To all my other fellow WordPress nuts out there, please take the necessary precautions before submitting your site to Slashdot with "download my free" anything.
Additionally, just stick said freebie in a torrent to change all the panicked "Fucksocks, I'm Slashdotted!" screams into happy "Woo and Yay, I'm Slashdotted!" chirps.
That's standard procedure. News outlets have ready-made obituaries on file for pretty much any notable celebrity or public figure beyond a certain age. When someone dies, they dust off the obit, check it for any major need of updates, fill in the age and details, and print it.
In something like "GTA," killing the other characters is just another expected part of the game. In "Manhunt," it's damn near the whole point of the game. But it doesn't have the same appeal as when you think you just might be experimenting with aspects of a game that its mainstream players don't, or that the programmers might not have even been prepared for.
It's right up there with "Hot Coffee." The mod wasn't necessarily popular because the crude polygonal dry-humping was all that appealing in itself, but because it was a way to get soemthing out of your copy of "San Andreas" that the next guy wasn't, and see more of your game than the company expected.
If they released an official "47 new ways to kill your Sims Torture Pack," where it really was the focus of the game, it just might not be as appealing as it was.
Is The Plague working for Microsoft now?
Very good point.
As anyone who went to Toys R Us back in the "World of Nintendo" NES/SNES days knows, that's why they make displays that simply reset themselves every so often, via a timer switch on the power outlet. My friends and I used to hang out in the store, annoy the staff, play the demo consoles, and base Tetris/Sonic/Mario/whatever battles on how far one could get before the automatic reset. Why would they suddenly build specially-crippled consoles now? It doesn't really make much sense fom any standpoint I can see.
If an operating system is released, and there's no hardware around to run it, does it make a sound?
Ever hear of a portable drive? Ipod? Laptop with Wireless?
In any case, I have a feeling the days when you can whip out a chunky old videocassette to demo anything are seriously numbered. In many trades already, doing so could get you laughed out of the room as if you brought a can of Super-8 film.
Maybe the OP is just trying to justify an unusually strong love for warm cash. I could definitely see the appeal of leaving the house on a cold Winter morning, wallet full of crisp, warm bills... now that's a Hot Pocket!
I eagerly await the Java phone port of Bonzi Buddy.
Yes.
(Bishop is at a door with an electronic lock.)
Bishop: Anybody remember how to defeat an electronic keypad?
Mother: This might help. An old buddy of mine who was in Desert Storm sent it to me. 'Course, he was on the other side.
Bishop: Come on. There's got to be a way around these things.
(He listens intently to instructions via his earpiece.)
All right, all right... This might work... Yeah. Yeah... Right. Okay. I'll give it a shot.
(He kicks the door in.)
If it's on the Internet, it is not reliably private in any way, shape, or form, from the most popular MySpace or Facebook down to the tiny Linux box I hooked up two hours ago behind a pro-grade firewall.
"Hackers 2" is the bootleg title of that movie since it leaked onto the fileshares way back when. I blame the same idiot who renames every song parody mp3 to "Weird Al" regardless of how much it obviously isn't Weird Al. However, the movie was never actually "Hackers 2" and has nothing to do with the original "Hackers" movie at all. None of the same people or companies were even involved at all in the two films' production, so they couldn't have called it "Hackers 2" even if they wanted to.
IANAL, but if I understand correctly, either party of a two-way communication can generally make them public unless it's declared private by some sort of legal notice (terms of use, legal disclaimers in the sigs, or something.) Since Attrition is a publicly available website, and maintainer of all those public Infosec mailing lists, it's probably not legally reasonable for this guy to assume his emails would be kept private. After all, he didn't even have any real idea who the person was he contacted, much less have a nondisclosure agreement with him.