What would you call it when referring to Libertarians an "inbred morons?" That seems like flamebait to me.
That said, there are genuine reasons that people are against the new health care reform. It's not political brainwashing (same could be said of its supporters). Personally, I like some of the aspects of what's in the bill, but not the whole package. And some of the stuff I don't agree with is a deal breaker for me. Those are my opinions I've come to through my own research and conclusions, not from being brainwashed by the political elite.
I imagine trying to circumvent IT policies isn't winning anyone over in a corporate setting. It's probably doing the opposite. Crazy as it sounds, those IT restrictions are there for a reason, and we don't want people installing and running their own software.
Thanks, was curious about it after this article in June. I was skeptical about that article at the time (still am), but Comcast does has have a track record for stupid networking moves.
Does anyone know which method they're using to intercept the DNS? There was an article on here a few months back about them redirecting all port 53 traffic to their servers ('testing in a small market' or something). Other cases usually just configure the nameservers issued via DHCP to respond for NX records with their A for search pages.
I ask because if they're redirecting all port 53 traffic, using your own servers (or anyone else's) won't do you much good. Also, it's legality is questionable.
Except this particular ad was during a loading screen. And after the loading was finished, you were still stuck watching another 10 seconds of an advertisement video before it would let you play. In game advertising that adds some realism is nice, but this type of advertising is abusive. Especially since you paid for the game, and it's interfering with your ability to play it.
Given the circumstances of his capture, I'd go with that one. According to the local news, he went to the CTA office and asked if there was a reward for returning a stolen CTA radio.
I disagree that the college didn't do anything to help her find a job. FTFA:
Thompson said she has fulfilled her end of the job-search bargain, peppering companies listed on Monroe's e-recruiting site with cover letters, résumés and phone calls. But no more than two employers have responded to her outreach, and those leads have borne no fruit.
So it's not as if everyone sat back and didn't do anything, and it's not like she didn't get any job interviews through the program... she just didn't get the jobs.
And if you had doubts about the "self entitlement" claims (also, FTFA):
Her complaint adds, "The office of career advancement information technology counselor did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call their graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement. They have not tried hard enough to help me."
According to her, the college should be riding companies to call her back when she sent off résumés's. That's not even a reasonable assumption to make. If all of your students pepper those companies like she did, they'd have to call and try to get the employers to call *every student* back. The found job leads, the offered them to all students. The rest is up to her to get the job.
Depends. I play somewhat regularly on the Xbox (I know the PC has one more patch than we do). While they did fix alot of stuff, they still have randomness to a degree (ie, tank/witch placement based on health and percent through level). The best example is NM3. Sometimes, one team will get the tank in the warehouse (set fire, run backwards, no damage), while the other team will get just in the sewer (no fire, no back pedaling back up the ladder). And the health and weapons are still random.
Then you have the score switching bug that was introduced when they started having the winning team be survivors first (if you are in the lead, sometimes, it will swap team scores and you will be losing starting the next round).
Hell, I would never do L4D, since the randomness of the level between teams can easily make or break your game. Location of tanks/witches can vary enough to screw one team pretty good, random placement of the tier 2 weapons, the number of pills/med kits, placements of items (very obscure rooms to the most obvious places).
Ah yes, auto spelling correction. A feature I had to disable because it kept telling me I intended to type "cat orgies" and not "categories" whenever I had a typo.
Honestly, they butchered it. The only things the game and the poem have in common is they both take place in Hell, and they both have a guy named Dante. The game looks more like "God of War: Kratos Goes to Hell." They used some of the descriptions of Hell from the poem for concept, but I'm fairly certain I don't remember the part where Dante tears a bloody path through Hell with a giant scythe killing everything to save his love.
But I was actually arguing that owning a copy of the book (digital or otherwise) shouldn't considered a service provided by Amazon that is turned off. That was the OP's argument since the EULA says they can stop offering a service at the drop of a hat. I don't consider them accessing my device and deleting purchased files as 'disabling a service,' it's removing my property, not someone's stolen property that I have.
A better analogy is Amazon breaking into your home, stealing the book from you, and leaving a check for $10 (or whatever) in its place. This isn't even close to accepting stolen goods, it's an argument of distribution rights, and what happens when someone distributes something they weren't supposed to. More like buying a Ford from a non-authorized dealer and Ford has exclusive sales rights with another dealer.
the teacher saying: "If you don't put away that fucking cell phone during class, I'll confiscate it and you can get it after school again!"
Where the hell did you go to school!?
But seriously, the teachers I know say that, and they do confiscate phones. Except you can't pick up your own phone after the first offense, your parents have to come get it.
Your analogy is a bit extreme, since the Kindle still works. This is more akin to breaking into your house and stealing it from you, leaving a $10 refund in it's place. Still a bad thing, but not as extreme as destroying everything around the property.
Well, if the CA software respected the null as the end of the string, they wouldn't have issues the certificate to badguy.com. They would've just seen badguy.com attempting to get a certificate for PayPal.com.
I'm not even sure if you're allowed to legislate what a website must do if it's not in your own country. Maybe things are different in the EU? (I'm an American.. and yea, I know that statement smacks of irony given where I live) Usually the approach attempting censoring the net for your citizens is to filter at your own border.
I always thought it would be a good idea to pony up something for the gamerscore (even if it was just MS points, like 100 points for every 1000 or something).
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We do it once a week. Jay Leno puts it on his show, and America laughs at how stupid we are.
What would you call it when referring to Libertarians an "inbred morons?" That seems like flamebait to me.
That said, there are genuine reasons that people are against the new health care reform. It's not political brainwashing (same could be said of its supporters). Personally, I like some of the aspects of what's in the bill, but not the whole package. And some of the stuff I don't agree with is a deal breaker for me. Those are my opinions I've come to through my own research and conclusions, not from being brainwashed by the political elite.
I imagine trying to circumvent IT policies isn't winning anyone over in a corporate setting. It's probably doing the opposite. Crazy as it sounds, those IT restrictions are there for a reason, and we don't want people installing and running their own software.
Thanks, was curious about it after this article in June. I was skeptical about that article at the time (still am), but Comcast does has have a track record for stupid networking moves.
Does anyone know which method they're using to intercept the DNS? There was an article on here a few months back about them redirecting all port 53 traffic to their servers ('testing in a small market' or something). Other cases usually just configure the nameservers issued via DHCP to respond for NX records with their A for search pages.
I ask because if they're redirecting all port 53 traffic, using your own servers (or anyone else's) won't do you much good. Also, it's legality is questionable.
Except this particular ad was during a loading screen. And after the loading was finished, you were still stuck watching another 10 seconds of an advertisement video before it would let you play. In game advertising that adds some realism is nice, but this type of advertising is abusive. Especially since you paid for the game, and it's interfering with your ability to play it.
Sure this flies in the face of hypothetical fair use
I think the "fair use" claim goes out the window as soon as you start producing these for the sole purpose of selling to others.
I'm leaning on the side of stupid.
Given the circumstances of his capture, I'd go with that one. According to the local news, he went to the CTA office and asked if there was a reward for returning a stolen CTA radio.
Thompson said she has fulfilled her end of the job-search bargain, peppering companies listed on Monroe's e-recruiting site with cover letters, résumés and phone calls. But no more than two employers have responded to her outreach, and those leads have borne no fruit.
So it's not as if everyone sat back and didn't do anything, and it's not like she didn't get any job interviews through the program... she just didn't get the jobs.
And if you had doubts about the "self entitlement" claims (also, FTFA):
Her complaint adds, "The office of career advancement information technology counselor did not make sure their Monroe e-recruiting clients call their graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement. They have not tried hard enough to help me."
According to her, the college should be riding companies to call her back when she sent off résumés's. That's not even a reasonable assumption to make. If all of your students pepper those companies like she did, they'd have to call and try to get the employers to call *every student* back. The found job leads, the offered them to all students. The rest is up to her to get the job.
Depends. I play somewhat regularly on the Xbox (I know the PC has one more patch than we do). While they did fix alot of stuff, they still have randomness to a degree (ie, tank/witch placement based on health and percent through level). The best example is NM3. Sometimes, one team will get the tank in the warehouse (set fire, run backwards, no damage), while the other team will get just in the sewer (no fire, no back pedaling back up the ladder). And the health and weapons are still random.
Then you have the score switching bug that was introduced when they started having the winning team be survivors first (if you are in the lead, sometimes, it will swap team scores and you will be losing starting the next round).
Hell, I would never do L4D, since the randomness of the level between teams can easily make or break your game. Location of tanks/witches can vary enough to screw one team pretty good, random placement of the tier 2 weapons, the number of pills/med kits, placements of items (very obscure rooms to the most obvious places).
I think some variety of loophole will end up in any bill
Well, yea! It's not polite to put in stuff explicitly saying "except for my campaign donors and lobbyists" these days.
VoIP is also a big one. The FCC investigated Comcast back in January for degrading competitors' VoIP while pushing their own service (which was not degraded). http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/012109-fcc-comcast-voip-management.html
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Ah yes, auto spelling correction. A feature I had to disable because it kept telling me I intended to type "cat orgies" and not "categories" whenever I had a typo.
Honestly, they butchered it. The only things the game and the poem have in common is they both take place in Hell, and they both have a guy named Dante. The game looks more like "God of War: Kratos Goes to Hell." They used some of the descriptions of Hell from the poem for concept, but I'm fairly certain I don't remember the part where Dante tears a bloody path through Hell with a giant scythe killing everything to save his love.
But I was actually arguing that owning a copy of the book (digital or otherwise) shouldn't considered a service provided by Amazon that is turned off. That was the OP's argument since the EULA says they can stop offering a service at the drop of a hat. I don't consider them accessing my device and deleting purchased files as 'disabling a service,' it's removing my property, not someone's stolen property that I have.
A better analogy is Amazon breaking into your home, stealing the book from you, and leaving a check for $10 (or whatever) in its place. This isn't even close to accepting stolen goods, it's an argument of distribution rights, and what happens when someone distributes something they weren't supposed to. More like buying a Ford from a non-authorized dealer and Ford has exclusive sales rights with another dealer.
the teacher saying: "If you don't put away that fucking cell phone during class, I'll confiscate it and you can get it after school again!"
Where the hell did you go to school!?
But seriously, the teachers I know say that, and they do confiscate phones. Except you can't pick up your own phone after the first offense, your parents have to come get it.
Except owning a copy doesn't constitute a service. It's ownership, goods were transferred (those goods being a file).
Your analogy is a bit extreme, since the Kindle still works. This is more akin to breaking into your house and stealing it from you, leaving a $10 refund in it's place. Still a bad thing, but not as extreme as destroying everything around the property.
It's the newer, faster Slashdotter of the future! You're lucky we even read the title.
Well, if the CA software respected the null as the end of the string, they wouldn't have issues the certificate to badguy.com. They would've just seen badguy.com attempting to get a certificate for PayPal.com.
I'm not even sure if you're allowed to legislate what a website must do if it's not in your own country. Maybe things are different in the EU? (I'm an American.. and yea, I know that statement smacks of irony given where I live) Usually the approach attempting censoring the net for your citizens is to filter at your own border.
[...] you can't translate gamerscore into any tangible, real world achievements.
For a while, MS was toying around with the idea if rewarding you for increasing your gamerscore.
http://xbox.about.com/b/2007/02/07/microsoft-announces-gamerscore-rewards.htm
I always thought it would be a good idea to pony up something for the gamerscore (even if it was just MS points, like 100 points for every 1000 or something).
He's talking about certificate authentication/verification, not user account authentication.
Why respond professionally to something that is clearly a scam?
If it ever escalates, you'd be taken more seriously if you wrote a professional response instead of a furious f-bomb filled letter.