A WoW burning crusade?? What good would that do? No matter how many copies you burn, you still need software keys and accounts and stuff to get them to work. It's not like 1990s warez, you know!
That must be one of the stupidest things I've heard on SlashDot for months, if not years.
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it was also the year after I'd had my short-sightedness diagnosed and spectacled, but the year before I discovered girls and drugs.
Duly noted. Next time I'll be sure to limit my cheap "nobody remembers the 1970s" jokes to either 1975 or 1977, for your benefit. I'll be additionally sure to always append them with "...but not 1976! Hell of a wonderful year, that was." I shall run the necessary search-and-replace operations on all my joke files immediately.
For future reference, and to head further humor-based disappointment off at the pass, how do you feel about airline food?
On no other theme could you just press whatever random buttons you like, and have it do exactly what you need it to do to get to the next part of the plot. So what if you pressed the upper left button to launch a browser last week? This week you'd rather press the middle right one to do it, and it'll damn well launch your browser!
The only downside is the extremely dramatic expression of concentration you need to exhibit while using it.
No, Jack, I don't. It's a violent sport which, through the constant throwing of small but unyielding missiles toward children, and supplying them with large club-like weapons, would only inspire mild-mannered old me to become a crazed bat-wielding psychopath who goes on a rampage through my school.
Im willing to offer up licensed copies of Linux. IF you can provide me with the next killer app.
Haha, you're just making the Linux company rich, you n00b! I just get the 0-day Linux w4r3z off Pirate Bay. They are even patched to get rid of Linux Genuine Advantage, so you'll never get caught!
Ask anyone who was around in 1976, they probably wouldn't count that year as the time of their life in which they were the most lucid and observant of their surroundings.
What happens one day when they're chasing some criminal and they connect your paypass up to his/her movements? The thing can be lost or cloned, and it'll probably be taken as gospel. New York's MTA in particular has been working hard the past decade or two to de-anonymize the use of public transit. They replaced the untraceable coin-type subway/bus tokens with Metrocards, which you either buy from vending machines or booths, both of which enable them to match up that particular card and its movements through the system to at the very least a very clear video image from the camera pointed up your nose, at most the credit card info from whoever bought it. Your Citipass is the next step, that thing's readable by just having you walk past stuff, and it's all quite traceable to you. The legit only way to anonymously take the subway anymore is to find one of those little newsstands that sell pre-packaged Metrocards. The non-legit ways now include cloning things like your Citipass.
Meanwhile, out on the Long Island railroad (also run by the MTA,) you now pay a penalty of $5 or so when you buy a ticket for cash on the train. They want you to use the vending machines or the last few remaining human-staffed station booths instead, with the same resulting traceability. You even get all sorts of bonuses if you let them just mail your tickets to your home and charge your card.
Back in the mid 1990s (this is before the official US state and national do-not-call registries with their legal enforceability) I was really destitute and looking for an excuse to use the phone a lot, so I took a job as a telemarketer for a shady ripoff firm that fleeced old ladies in the name of charity. Their call lists were photocopied phone book pages, and we were told to add everyone who clearly requested no further calls to a seperate do-not-call list. When someone tried to act hip to the scam and said the magic words "take me off your list," we were specifically ordered to check our do-not-call list, and if we found their name/number on it, to remove them from the do-not-call list.
Told you it was shady. I accidentally wasn't hideously evil, so I only lasted a few days in that job before I switched exclusively to prank-calling people until I was caught and fired.
That one's really neat, thanks for the link! Despite my good-natured ribbing in the start of this thread, I am a fan of artistic mashups of all kinds including AMVs. Although there are a lot of bad ones out there, the really creative and technically impressive stuff like this more than makes up for that.
Buy games? I never buy games. It's much easier to hide in the shadows and wait for a passing gamer. Then I sneak up behind him, slit his throat, and shake his lifeless corpse until games and food fall out of his pockets. Afterwards, I sometimes eat the corpse.
The public fansub groups and things have always been generally good at no longer making things available that were legitimately released. I imagine that's what keeps the goodwill up between them and the producers. However, the digital and filesharing stuff seems to spell doom for that sort of thing.
*cue the "memory lane" ripple dissolve effect with harp strumming*
I remember back when fansubs were scratchy Nth-generation videotapes, converted from Japanese videotapes or recordings from television, with subs added via the chunky digital fonts that ancient camcorders used to caption 1980s wedding videos with. Fan groups in colleges and stuff swapped them quietly amongst themselves. It was usually good enough for viewing the story, but only just, and buying the official release would be a huge leap forward quality-wise. Fansubs weren't competing with the official releases then, you still had a reason to buy the real thing. Nowadays, they're often pretty indistinguishable from a file ripped from a brand new DVD, you can download a copy with the a/v quality just as perfect as the original digital Japanese DVD or TV signal.
Unless the toolbar goes off of what you type into the address bar rater than the urls that are actually loaded, would I would consider more likely. Do they say how they do it?
I don't know, but off the top of my head I doubt page-ranking services would count other sites loaded in an IFrame. Otherwise I could create one of those useless domain-squatting pages that just exist to throw ads at people who click or type wrongly, load a bunch of actually useful, respected sites in IFrames, and use all that content to boost my Alexa rank/Google rank whatever else.
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A WoW burning crusade?? What good would that do? No matter how many copies you burn, you still need software keys and accounts and stuff to get them to work. It's not like 1990s warez, you know!
For future reference, and to head further humor-based disappointment off at the pass, how do you feel about airline food?
On no other theme could you just press whatever random buttons you like, and have it do exactly what you need it to do to get to the next part of the plot. So what if you pressed the upper left button to launch a browser last week? This week you'd rather press the middle right one to do it, and it'll damn well launch your browser!
The only downside is the extremely dramatic expression of concentration you need to exhibit while using it.
It could be worse.
"You want to play hardball...?
No, Jack, I don't. It's a violent sport which, through the constant throwing of small but unyielding missiles toward children, and supplying them with large club-like weapons, would only inspire mild-mannered old me to become a crazed bat-wielding psychopath who goes on a rampage through my school.
Masaharu Morimoto would pwn those n00bs, though he has been accused of wallhacking traditional Japanese cuisine.
This article was in (I think) last month's issue of the EGM print mag.
Ask anyone who was around in 1976, they probably wouldn't count that year as the time of their life in which they were the most lucid and observant of their surroundings.
Apparently depressed board members have been playing goodbye.wav on a loop to lift their spirits.
What happens one day when they're chasing some criminal and they connect your paypass up to his/her movements? The thing can be lost or cloned, and it'll probably be taken as gospel. New York's MTA in particular has been working hard the past decade or two to de-anonymize the use of public transit. They replaced the untraceable coin-type subway/bus tokens with Metrocards, which you either buy from vending machines or booths, both of which enable them to match up that particular card and its movements through the system to at the very least a very clear video image from the camera pointed up your nose, at most the credit card info from whoever bought it. Your Citipass is the next step, that thing's readable by just having you walk past stuff, and it's all quite traceable to you. The legit only way to anonymously take the subway anymore is to find one of those little newsstands that sell pre-packaged Metrocards. The non-legit ways now include cloning things like your Citipass.
Meanwhile, out on the Long Island railroad (also run by the MTA,) you now pay a penalty of $5 or so when you buy a ticket for cash on the train. They want you to use the vending machines or the last few remaining human-staffed station booths instead, with the same resulting traceability. You even get all sorts of bonuses if you let them just mail your tickets to your home and charge your card.
Back in the mid 1990s (this is before the official US state and national do-not-call registries with their legal enforceability) I was really destitute and looking for an excuse to use the phone a lot, so I took a job as a telemarketer for a shady ripoff firm that fleeced old ladies in the name of charity. Their call lists were photocopied phone book pages, and we were told to add everyone who clearly requested no further calls to a seperate do-not-call list. When someone tried to act hip to the scam and said the magic words "take me off your list," we were specifically ordered to check our do-not-call list, and if we found their name/number on it, to remove them from the do-not-call list.
Told you it was shady. I accidentally wasn't hideously evil, so I only lasted a few days in that job before I switched exclusively to prank-calling people until I was caught and fired.
Every time I try to get a raiding party together, a bunch of them log off right after my pre-raid pep-talk!
That one's really neat, thanks for the link! Despite my good-natured ribbing in the start of this thread, I am a fan of artistic mashups of all kinds including AMVs. Although there are a lot of bad ones out there, the really creative and technically impressive stuff like this more than makes up for that.
Buy games? I never buy games. It's much easier to hide in the shadows and wait for a passing gamer. Then I sneak up behind him, slit his throat, and shake his lifeless corpse until games and food fall out of his pockets. Afterwards, I sometimes eat the corpse.
Hideo Kojima
The public fansub groups and things have always been generally good at no longer making things available that were legitimately released. I imagine that's what keeps the goodwill up between them and the producers. However, the digital and filesharing stuff seems to spell doom for that sort of thing.
*cue the "memory lane" ripple dissolve effect with harp strumming*
I remember back when fansubs were scratchy Nth-generation videotapes, converted from Japanese videotapes or recordings from television, with subs added via the chunky digital fonts that ancient camcorders used to caption 1980s wedding videos with. Fan groups in colleges and stuff swapped them quietly amongst themselves. It was usually good enough for viewing the story, but only just, and buying the official release would be a huge leap forward quality-wise. Fansubs weren't competing with the official releases then, you still had a reason to buy the real thing. Nowadays, they're often pretty indistinguishable from a file ripped from a brand new DVD, you can download a copy with the a/v quality just as perfect as the original digital Japanese DVD or TV signal.
How will the world get its homemade music videos that make anime characters look like they're swooning to Evanescence or singing Rammstein, now?
We've already got lots of little Halo movies which, I suspect, are far better than anything Hollywood could do with it.
Reading through this has totally made my morning. I love you, Slashdot! Group hug! ^_^
If these guys go steampunk and start living in sphinxes, try your best to ignore the air-raid sirens they ring. Trust me on this.
Many thanks for your input!
Hah, sorry for going overboard there. It's just misuse of the "all natural" label is a big pet peeve of mine.
I am an active Wikipedia contributor, and I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. It's probably my biggest complaint about a site I otherwise like.
Drama. It's the scientific law all plot devices must follow.