Fans don't like their shit to be messed with. It doesnt make sense, but time travel is supposed to be something that only happens in the future. By screwing with the timeline, there's the impression that this isn't the same reality that leads up to what's been seen in other serii. Of course, that's why I didnt like Voyager or First Contact.. I'm a continuuity fetishist.
All that said, I think it has potential. I liked last night's episode, a lot. More stories like that are good, while stories about time travel and borg and YetAnotherPrisonStory are dull.
I think the main problem is that it's not the Style of Old Trek or New Trek, and Voyager sucked ass.
You haven't seen TNG at all? Voyager borg looked different enough from the borg as they first appeared. Hey- WAIT! What was the plot of First Contact again? Was it the crew of the enterprise making first contact with an alien species which had just developed warp travel? Yeah, that must have been it. Certainly the advanced borg showing up fifty years prior to the "Enterprise" events was due to some uhh.. nope, no excuses. You're just stupid.
Please note that I'm not calling you stupid for not knowing StarTrek trivia, I'm calling you stupid for accepting them in First Contact but not accepting them on the NXQRLP-whateverthehellthenumberis. If they have them show up twice, that's going too far, but for Borg to not even try messing with Federation history again would be stupid. (Hm, we just barely failed. Let's never try again!)
As far as your personal files being up-for-grabs, wouldnt it be nice of us if we defaulted to "leave it alone" instead of "party at 3992 LaVista Drive for a 300meter radius!"? Having no protection is just stupid, it's not an explicite invitation to do whatever you want.
I'm not saying as a mark of security, but as a thing which can default to true without bothering anybody. There's no standard way of saying "This connection is only meant for authorized users" In reality, it should be illegal to tap in to a network that doesn't have something specifically saying "This is for everybody"
Just because you leave your door open doesnt mean that anybody should just be able to walk in. Everyone here seems to care nothing for protecting the ignorant. We don't have to do anything to protect them, we don't have to go out of our way to do so at all, but how hard would it be to come up with some standard which says "This is an open network, and it's okay to tap into it"?
Anyone who disagrees with things that I say is a fuckhead.
There's a few unused bits in every tcp packet, "room for developement" and all.. let's just have one of those bits say "This connection is meant to be public"
If you, personally, are blocking them, that's all fine and dandy. Unfortunatly, you do not control the internet. Not everyone who gets blocked as a result of this Trojan will deserve it.
I already don't buy MS products. Sure, things should be secure to begin with, but are we really going to say "If it has a blatant security flaw, it doesnt count as hacking."?
Okay, I guess you're some kind of magical super-genius with the ability to block only invidividual connections, for only the ammount of time that particular user is using that particular connection. Nevermind, I guess all the reports of thousands of innocent people being blocked when a spammer forwards through a mail server on the same subnet were just completely false, made-up bullshit, and that this whole issue is obviously (thanks you for pointing it out) completely one-sided and no one ever gets hurt who isn't actively spamming or actively supporting spammers.
Anything that lets you search should support Regexps Anything that displays data should allow you to search Basically, absolutely everything should support regexp search, even if it doesnt make any fucking sense to do so.
Problem: the ways regular expressions work aren't anywhere near standard from program to program. Even a minor syntax change like "In this one, you need to put a slash before parens in order to make the parens special" vs "in this one, you need to put a slash before parens or else it is treated special" completely blows the whole thing
But no need for you to do anything, just tell google to start supporting regexps, get a site up which petitions them or something. At least near-matches, jeeze.. "Boob" should get all results for "Boobs", "Boobies", "Boobzilla", etc.. damnit!
If you disagree with the above statements for any reason whatsoever, you are completely wrong.
It is an insult that typing in a URL can be considered "hacking", while sending bogus data to an unknowingly open machine in order to get it to do things which it was never intended to do is not.
You are a moron. Don't submit stories anymore. Don't post anymore. Don't talk anymore. Don't let your presence be known, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Other posts have already expressed the why & how you are an idiot quite clearly, and I don't wish to be redundant. However, I just wish to make it quite clear to you that you are a complete fucking moron. If anything you said was not idiotic, you would STILL be an idiot, because you would be saying that someone figured out a trick to free energy and all you could come up with as a use was vibrating cell-phones(LOLOMG!!!!!!!!SHUTUP)
If the Store ever even advertises a rebate price, don't buy that item. If that was really the price, the store can fill out the rebates themselves. I have sent in ~10 rebates in my life. I have received: Zero.
And once you've sent your rebate, guess what? You can't even prove that you ever actually bought it, let alone that you sent off for a rebate. It doesnt matter if there's some honest rebates out there- the system is set up like fraud, no way to check, no way to prove, and no system in place making sure that they are real. At least when you give your CC# on the internet, you can check your bill.
At least his OpenGL/works/. I hate all your people who can get their video cards to work properly! Just because you read success stories from people with the exact setup~ just because you don't get any error messages~ just because it works on windows~ just because god loves you~ well it's still not going to work, k?
Yet another cool-looking thing which I can get easily in windows and love, I can't get in Linux >_
Everybody seems to remember the outer limits episode, but nobody else remembers that it was making him look like a freak? He wasn't so advanced that he was shunned by society, the nanos had only/biological/ enhancements. They were just dumb machines and didnt care about social implications- from a biological standpoint, it might be a good idea to be completely covered in a fleshy, mucus-covered netting, but from a social perspective you may not. If I recall correctly, he did himself in with a big microwave or something like that.
I always see the "up-to" speed advertised based not on how good the product is, but how bad the competing product has the potential to be. That has annoyed me, and I really think they should be forced to change that part: "Our service can be up to 50 times faster!" vs "Your old service could be 50 times slower!"
I still have a 1kbps modem which I/could/ be using. By their logic that makes the service I'm getting even better- "Up to 300 times faster!!"
You can't possibly give a garanteed minimum speed, though. Such a number would be meaningless to a network.
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Fans don't like their shit to be messed with. It doesnt make sense, but time travel is supposed to be something that only happens in the future. By screwing with the timeline, there's the impression that this isn't the same reality that leads up to what's been seen in other serii. Of course, that's why I didnt like Voyager or First Contact..
I'm a continuuity fetishist.
All that said, I think it has potential. I liked last night's episode, a lot. More stories like that are good, while stories about time travel and borg and YetAnotherPrisonStory are dull.
I think the main problem is that it's not the Style of Old Trek or New Trek, and Voyager sucked ass.
You haven't seen TNG at all? Voyager borg looked different enough from the borg as they first appeared. Hey- WAIT! What was the plot of First Contact again? Was it the crew of the enterprise making first contact with an alien species which had just developed warp travel? Yeah, that must have been it. Certainly the advanced borg showing up fifty years prior to the "Enterprise" events was due to some uhh.. nope, no excuses. You're just stupid.
Please note that I'm not calling you stupid for not knowing StarTrek trivia, I'm calling you stupid for accepting them in First Contact but not accepting them on the NXQRLP-whateverthehellthenumberis. If they have them show up twice, that's going too far, but for Borg to not even try messing with Federation history again would be stupid. (Hm, we just barely failed. Let's never try again!)
And then there's those who donate to the EFF and don't do anything.
Complaining to the right people is doing more than donation.
As far as your personal files being up-for-grabs, wouldnt it be nice of us if we defaulted to "leave it alone" instead of "party at 3992 LaVista Drive for a 300meter radius!"?
Having no protection is just stupid, it's not an explicite invitation to do whatever you want.
I'm not saying as a mark of security, but as a thing which can default to true without bothering anybody. There's no standard way of saying "This connection is only meant for authorized users"
In reality, it should be illegal to tap in to a network that doesn't have something specifically saying "This is for everybody"
Just because you leave your door open doesnt mean that anybody should just be able to walk in. Everyone here seems to care nothing for protecting the ignorant. We don't have to do anything to protect them, we don't have to go out of our way to do so at all, but how hard would it be to come up with some standard which says "This is an open network, and it's okay to tap into it"?
Anyone who disagrees with things that I say is a fuckhead.
There's a few unused bits in every tcp packet, "room for developement" and all.. let's just have one of those bits say "This connection is meant to be public"
If you, personally, are blocking them, that's all fine and dandy. Unfortunatly, you do not control the internet.
Not everyone who gets blocked as a result of this Trojan will deserve it.
I already don't buy MS products. Sure, things should be secure to begin with, but are we really going to say "If it has a blatant security flaw, it doesnt count as hacking."?
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Okay, I guess you're some kind of magical super-genius with the ability to block only invidividual connections, for only the ammount of time that particular user is using that particular connection. Nevermind, I guess all the reports of thousands of innocent people being blocked when a spammer forwards through a mail server on the same subnet were just completely false, made-up bullshit, and that this whole issue is obviously (thanks you for pointing it out) completely one-sided and no one ever gets hurt who isn't actively spamming or actively supporting spammers.
Thick Sarcasm exists to be used.
Anything that lets you search should support Regexps
Anything that displays data should allow you to search
Basically, absolutely everything should support regexp search, even if it doesnt make any fucking sense to do so.
Problem: the ways regular expressions work aren't anywhere near standard from program to program. Even a minor syntax change like "In this one, you need to put a slash before parens in order to make the parens special" vs "in this one, you need to put a slash before parens or else it is treated special" completely blows the whole thing
But no need for you to do anything, just tell google to start supporting regexps, get a site up which petitions them or something. At least near-matches, jeeze.. "Boob" should get all results for "Boobs", "Boobies", "Boobzilla", etc.. damnit!
If you disagree with the above statements for any reason whatsoever, you are completely wrong.
This is more to say "Not everyone who gets blocked deserves it"
Prove me wrong.
It is an insult that typing in a URL can be considered "hacking", while sending bogus data to an unknowingly open machine in order to get it to do things which it was never intended to do is not.
now, if HTML had some decent layout controls, maybe...
But it would never dare do such a thing
You're absolutely right! It doesn't instantly flash to the scene from "The Time Machine" when the moon broke apart!
Hitting the moon with a bunker buster is not dissimilar in scale to hitting the Earth with a low-yeild nuclear device. And we've done that bunches.
This is just what we need as our first contact with the moon people!
You are a moron. Don't submit stories anymore. Don't post anymore. Don't talk anymore. Don't let your presence be known, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Other posts have already expressed the why & how you are an idiot quite clearly, and I don't wish to be redundant. However, I just wish to make it quite clear to you that you are a complete fucking moron. If anything you said was not idiotic, you would STILL be an idiot, because you would be saying that someone figured out a trick to free energy and all you could come up with as a use was vibrating cell-phones(LOLOMG!!!!!!!!SHUTUP)
Lost my whole fucking post
I haven't played Quake3 since the leaked alpha!
If the Store ever even advertises a rebate price, don't buy that item. If that was really the price, the store can fill out the rebates themselves.
I have sent in ~10 rebates in my life.
I have received: Zero.
And once you've sent your rebate, guess what? You can't even prove that you ever actually bought it, let alone that you sent off for a rebate.
It doesnt matter if there's some honest rebates out there- the system is set up like fraud, no way to check, no way to prove, and no system in place making sure that they are real.
At least when you give your CC# on the internet, you can check your bill.
At least his OpenGL /works/.
I hate all your people who can get their video cards to work properly!
Just because you read success stories from people with the exact setup~ just because you don't get any error messages~ just because it works on windows~ just because god loves you~ well it's still not going to work, k?
Yet another cool-looking thing which I can get easily in windows and love, I can't get in Linux >_
Everybody seems to remember the outer limits episode, but nobody else remembers that it was making him look like a freak? /biological/ enhancements. They were just dumb machines and didnt care about social implications- from a biological standpoint, it might be a good idea to be completely covered in a fleshy, mucus-covered netting, but from a social perspective you may not.
He wasn't so advanced that he was shunned by society, the nanos had only
If I recall correctly, he did himself in with a big microwave or something like that.
HAHAHAYOUARESOSHUTTHEFUCKUP!!!
Seriously, do so.
This isn't troll. A troll-post just tries to ruin it for everybody. Try and claim that against me here.
I always see the "up-to" speed advertised based not on how good the product is, but how bad the competing product has the potential to be. That has annoyed me, and I really think they should be forced to change that part:
/could/ be using. By their logic that makes the service I'm getting even better- "Up to 300 times faster!!"
"Our service can be up to 50 times faster!"
vs
"Your old service could be 50 times slower!"
I still have a 1kbps modem which I
You can't possibly give a garanteed minimum speed, though. Such a number would be meaningless to a network.
SHUT UP. We don't care, you are a fuckhole, etc. DIE.