I just want to take this moment to say that I loved Gygax but, frankly, he was a prick.
No, I have nothing to add here. Just that he was a prick. He was awesome but he was a prick. I do not care who you are. If you are selling the MC then do not charge $5 to sign it and then refuse to sign anything but it. I remember when he was running around handing out photocopies (maybe mimeographs) at a very early Con. Then he got famous. Prick. The money could have at least gone to something good - they were already selling the book. Nope... Right to his pocket. Prick. I already had a copy and I have his autograph on the original photocopies kicking around here.
Anyhow, 2nd Ed. AD&D was best and I will fight about it. Address available upon request. Also, I am only fighting if I get a sword and you have to be a mage. I might compromise if I can be a paladin and you are a magic user/thief. It has never been about being fair.
Finally, the best roll playing sessions are nights when you barely use a single die. I'll fight about that too. Same conditions. I'd be a ranger but I'd probably hack off something important and belonging to me. Again, fair has nothing to do with it.
I can not speak about them but in my case I have a bunch. They are on two custom metal racks put in by the installer. Each layer has three deep and eight long so, twelve, marine batteries. There are four layers so each has 48 batteries. There are two so there are ninety six batteries. I have a salt-box, envelope, that has the south-eastern side as the long side. It is covered in solar. I have two additional arrays on the lawn. I have one windmill. I have one diesel generator for backup and I still had a live grid connection brought in. It is not cheaper for me. Expense is not why I had it done.
Comments do not get deleted here. Well, unless they are that one comment - do not threaten the president and you should be all set. You can say anything you want. There is no censorship here. We'd notice and we would be very, very angry. To see all comments browse at -1.
A lady in a bikini is not pornography. A lady with a carrot in her ass is pornography. Cite one instance where someone regularly and deliberately put pornography into a company slide and kept their job. Just one instance will do.
I believe in equal rights - not special rights. I think women should get the same pay for the same work. I think they should be offered the same promotions based on the same skillset. Here is the kicker... I think they should have the same obligations that all people have - regardless of gender or gender identification. This is not complicated stuff.
If there were rape in the workplace, as is alleged, then it should be reported and there is not one company that allows a rapist to keep working with their victim so you do not get to claim it is a regular thing or even anything beyond a statistical anomaly IF it ever happened. It is not like we are grabbing someone from the steno pool and yanking them into the server room to have our way with them against their wishes. So yes, bring out those in-work rape statistics. Let's see them and let's see them with company responses included.
I will wait patiently for you to provide those numbers.
I did not look at the picture but I have noticed a trend. It is usually the ugly ones (of either gender) that make themselves gaudy with coloring, makeup, and piercings. I am not entirely sure why that is. They have only made themselves into a gaudy hephalump and drawn the attention that they claim they do not want. This is, obviously, not all of them - just the majority of those I have been exposed to. Either you can code or you can not. If you can not then you do not belong in the field. A purple panda suit does not make you more productive - it makes you a distraction.
That decision actually shocked me. One thing that Microsoft has been pretty consistent about is backwards compatibility. You can still get 16 bit apps to run IIRC. (Not much of a Windows user as of late.) This does not include IE - as I recall that seemed to break something with most every major release until just recently when it went the other way and is actually (supposed to be) one of the better at following standards. I see people complaining and coding pages for Firefox to work properly. Umm... Isn't that one of the reasons we all sent Mozilla a bunch of money way back when? I donated, they put my name in a newspaper as I recall - I forget which one. Anyhow, it was great then but not now. No, I have no idea where I am going with this other than MS is normally good about backwards compatibility. I was kind of surprised when I read that the phone would not be following suit.
As an aside... So many people that I know are all gung-ho about Windows 10. I do not even have it in a VM yet. Anyhow, they are pretty much all wanting a Surface, a Win 10 phone, and have upgraded their PCs to the new OS. I celebrated Win 10's drop date by installing the new kernel on a few Linux Mint machines as they were the last to get updated here. No, I still have no idea where I am going with this. I am just surprised and I wonder if maybe MS will be taking over a larger share in the mobile department as iOS, Android, and ChromeOS may be losing their 'newness' appeal and that appeal means a lot when it comes to uneducated folks following trends and trying to be hip as a means to bolster their ego. Me? I am Orthodox Linux (mostly) so I can only use Windows for one month out of the year and one weekend a month - just like the reserves.
I have some "insider" friends. I am told he never threw the chairs as is commonly claimed. That is unfortunate, it would be awesome if he had. I am not much of a Microsoft fan, mostly because I am not that dumb and I like a challenge, but even I would think it awesome if he had really been chucking chairs around like a deranged psychopath.
I am reminded of the guys that say, "An armed society is a polite society." Followed by a forum member piping up, "No it isn't." To which I chime in, "So when you see a crazy fucker sporting a pistol at the corner store you feel that is the appropriate time to make jokes about their mother?"
So, yes... A chair throwing Ballmer would be awesome in the same way Godzilla is awesome. RAWR!!!!
I have heard about this Tizen but have not used it. Do not want! If it is 1/10 as bad as claimed (and from reading, it is) it needs to die and the people who are responsible need to... I don't know, but they need to do something to atone. At the very least they need to stop helping.
FWIW (and that is not a whole lot) I had (she passed away in odd circumstances and her husband died of entirely different causes while they were both in the same hospital - very freaky) a friend who was a councilor who specialized in working with sex offenders and she also further specialized in working with youth offenders. She said the same thing - I never called for a citation or asked to see the studies. I always just assumed there were studies as that field has studies that will say anything you want them to say. Well, that is my assumption after having read other psyche studies and abstracts.
Woah... Someone who actually knows what a Libertarian is? On Slashdot???
Why yes, yes I do support roads, police forces, taxes, libraries, public safety nets, and more. Just wait until they find out that I support single-payer health care... The mind, it boggles.
I did not try any AMD products until the K6-2 came out. I had an Acer that it came in, I had purchased it for the house. It was 350 mhz and I OCed it to a bit over 500 mhz and, while a bit warm, it never failed while I owned it. I could get it a bit higher but it was not very stable when I did so. The curious thing is that it came with ME on it and, honestly, ME ran like a champ. I had multi-month uptimes and ran an OpenNap server (then a hub) on it. I think it was one of six computers in the country that ran ME properly.
Are you sure that is true? I mean, yeah, it is stupid - it is damned stupid. However, I have heard things much more stupid than this. If this is the absolute stupidest thing you have ever heard then, frankly, count yourself lucky. I, on the other hand, can think of much stupider things including those who postulated the idea that anarchy could be effective as a world-wide political and economic system. I have heard people propose that pure communism would be effective too. I have heard people say that the government should be spying on us more than they already are doing. I have heard people propose that corporations have nearly unlimited power. I have heard people proclaim that the world's issues were to be solved by allowing areas to effectively eliminate the folks that they did not want living within their communities.
No, my good man or woman, if you have not heard anything worse than this you are either living under a rock, have a very poor judgment, are very naive, or very young. Count yourself lucky because, I almost guarantee that you will hear stupider things in just this one thread if you take the time to read it. Hell, give me a half hour - I will probably say something equally stupid or, perhaps, even more stupid. It is how I roll...
Thank you much. Now to find a way to combine a couple of apps and make it do this on its own. It sounds like an enjoyable project. I can, likely, find OSS to include as a way of saving a bunch of time. Basically, my thinking is more for a single person to use it. They can create a file, such as a plain text, encrypt it, take the resulting file and encrypt that into an AES encrypted RAR file that needs a password.
So, in order to open the file, they will have to know the password for the compressed and encrypted.RAR file. Once they decrypt it they will need a key, I am thinking PGP should suit, and they will need to use that key to decrypt that file - it may even be password protected a second time and it probably would end up being that way by default.
I think I might bust out CodeLite (I have been toying with the IDE, getting used to its tools, layout, and work space) and grab a couple of app sources from GitHub or SourceForge. Then I can wrap them (hopefully) and turn it into a single application that makes it easy for non-geeks to use. Exchanging the password(s) should be fairly easy and, I suspect, it would mean it was much more difficult to be seen by spying eyes. I could see it coming in handy.
When I was first thinking about it, I was considering it for use with stenography encrypted images where messages are encoded in the image source. Having pondered it, over a couple of months now, I have since thought that it may have uses outside of stenography and folks might be interested in that.
I do not see this as a project that will need much maintaining. Just a simple alpha, a beta, and a single point release and it should be pretty good. I might even be inclined to do it in Java so that it *should* work on every major OS out there. I am not fluent in Java but I know my way around. I could use the practice and it might be nice to familiarize myself with the Eclipse Java IDE.
Finally, thank you again. My attempt to Google did not reveal any applications out there that already do this. I am unable to be certain because I am not sure what keywords I would need to use. Another part of me pondered its validity as a web service. I am not sure I want the responsibility for such. I am retired, happily, and do not want to be beholden to anyone and an online service would, most certainly, mean a greater level of attention was needed.
That is about the same ratio as Einstein faced before some astronomers were able to capture an eclipse on film. Consensus does not make science. I suspect you are one of those people who finds studies that they do not agree with and discounts their findings because they do not feel right to you. Leave the science to the scientists. You are not capable of understanding.
Note: I am not saying AGW is not happening. In fact, what I have said offers no opinion on that. Sorry but, honestly, I am not skilled enough to opine on its veracity. I suspect, strongly, that you are not either. The difference is that one of us is honest.
I am a math geek. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a crypto-geek. I do have a dumb question...
Is it possible, and I will try to explain as well as I can, to have an encrypted file that, when decrypted, becomes an actual encrypted file which requires a password to open? I realize that may be a strange way to think about it.
Let's say that I have a file, a plain text file, and I put it into a password protected.zip file. That new file, the.zip, would then be encrypted, as a whole, into a new file - say file.tar.bz. Now, to open it, you would need to have the shared key PLUS you would need to know the password to the encrypted.zip file.
I understand that this has nothing to do with TLS and would be wholly impractical for browsing. However, the talk of encryption made me wonder about this and I have been pondering this for a couple of years now. It means it would be something you have and something you know.
I can think of many ways to share the needed password/pass-phrase securely (for certain definitions of securely). Say, five books in a certain order on a bookshelf and calling with a series of numbers which determine with pages and words are used to make up the pass-phrase. A call could be as simple as, "Number 3, 27, 5, 18, number 7, 14, 32, 8. Confirm?" Which would be book number 5, chapter 3, 27th page, fifth and eighteenth words and book seven, chapter fourteen, thirty second and eighth word would be the password. This does not help if there is someone physically present.
Anyhow, there may be some need to change the file type at the recipient's end because decrypting the file.tar.bz file will not necessarily mean that the file has the appropriate.zip extension but, well, that is pretty trivial.
What am I missing? This, obviously, has absolutely no value in the real world for almost every single person on the planet. I could see it being useful for TLAs or those who are trying to subvert their government (for a variety of reasons which may be good or bad).
It is digital. I am not taking it apart anyhow. My doctor's scale says I weigh the same. His is digital too. I do not see the analog scales so often these days.
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I just want to take this moment to say that I loved Gygax but, frankly, he was a prick.
No, I have nothing to add here. Just that he was a prick. He was awesome but he was a prick. I do not care who you are. If you are selling the MC then do not charge $5 to sign it and then refuse to sign anything but it. I remember when he was running around handing out photocopies (maybe mimeographs) at a very early Con. Then he got famous. Prick. The money could have at least gone to something good - they were already selling the book. Nope... Right to his pocket. Prick. I already had a copy and I have his autograph on the original photocopies kicking around here.
Anyhow, 2nd Ed. AD&D was best and I will fight about it. Address available upon request. Also, I am only fighting if I get a sword and you have to be a mage. I might compromise if I can be a paladin and you are a magic user/thief. It has never been about being fair.
Finally, the best roll playing sessions are nights when you barely use a single die. I'll fight about that too. Same conditions. I'd be a ranger but I'd probably hack off something important and belonging to me. Again, fair has nothing to do with it.
I really prefer Weiss and Hickman. I really like their collaborations. They stand well on their own, as well.
I have not enjoyed much since WoTC bought it from TSR.
I can not speak about them but in my case I have a bunch. They are on two custom metal racks put in by the installer. Each layer has three deep and eight long so, twelve, marine batteries. There are four layers so each has 48 batteries. There are two so there are ninety six batteries. I have a salt-box, envelope, that has the south-eastern side as the long side. It is covered in solar. I have two additional arrays on the lawn. I have one windmill. I have one diesel generator for backup and I still had a live grid connection brought in. It is not cheaper for me. Expense is not why I had it done.
Comments do not get deleted here. Well, unless they are that one comment - do not threaten the president and you should be all set. You can say anything you want. There is no censorship here. We'd notice and we would be very, very angry. To see all comments browse at -1.
I hope Junior is doing well... Has he been keeping up on his parkour lessons?
A lady in a bikini is not pornography. A lady with a carrot in her ass is pornography. Cite one instance where someone regularly and deliberately put pornography into a company slide and kept their job. Just one instance will do.
I believe in equal rights - not special rights. I think women should get the same pay for the same work. I think they should be offered the same promotions based on the same skillset. Here is the kicker... I think they should have the same obligations that all people have - regardless of gender or gender identification. This is not complicated stuff.
If there were rape in the workplace, as is alleged, then it should be reported and there is not one company that allows a rapist to keep working with their victim so you do not get to claim it is a regular thing or even anything beyond a statistical anomaly IF it ever happened. It is not like we are grabbing someone from the steno pool and yanking them into the server room to have our way with them against their wishes. So yes, bring out those in-work rape statistics. Let's see them and let's see them with company responses included.
I will wait patiently for you to provide those numbers.
I know, I am bad for wanting equality. Damn...
I did not look at the picture but I have noticed a trend. It is usually the ugly ones (of either gender) that make themselves gaudy with coloring, makeup, and piercings. I am not entirely sure why that is. They have only made themselves into a gaudy hephalump and drawn the attention that they claim they do not want. This is, obviously, not all of them - just the majority of those I have been exposed to. Either you can code or you can not. If you can not then you do not belong in the field. A purple panda suit does not make you more productive - it makes you a distraction.
Well, it is about feminists... /s
That decision actually shocked me. One thing that Microsoft has been pretty consistent about is backwards compatibility. You can still get 16 bit apps to run IIRC. (Not much of a Windows user as of late.) This does not include IE - as I recall that seemed to break something with most every major release until just recently when it went the other way and is actually (supposed to be) one of the better at following standards. I see people complaining and coding pages for Firefox to work properly. Umm... Isn't that one of the reasons we all sent Mozilla a bunch of money way back when? I donated, they put my name in a newspaper as I recall - I forget which one. Anyhow, it was great then but not now. No, I have no idea where I am going with this other than MS is normally good about backwards compatibility. I was kind of surprised when I read that the phone would not be following suit.
As an aside... So many people that I know are all gung-ho about Windows 10. I do not even have it in a VM yet. Anyhow, they are pretty much all wanting a Surface, a Win 10 phone, and have upgraded their PCs to the new OS. I celebrated Win 10's drop date by installing the new kernel on a few Linux Mint machines as they were the last to get updated here. No, I still have no idea where I am going with this. I am just surprised and I wonder if maybe MS will be taking over a larger share in the mobile department as iOS, Android, and ChromeOS may be losing their 'newness' appeal and that appeal means a lot when it comes to uneducated folks following trends and trying to be hip as a means to bolster their ego. Me? I am Orthodox Linux (mostly) so I can only use Windows for one month out of the year and one weekend a month - just like the reserves.
I have some "insider" friends. I am told he never threw the chairs as is commonly claimed. That is unfortunate, it would be awesome if he had. I am not much of a Microsoft fan, mostly because I am not that dumb and I like a challenge, but even I would think it awesome if he had really been chucking chairs around like a deranged psychopath.
I am reminded of the guys that say, "An armed society is a polite society."
Followed by a forum member piping up, "No it isn't."
To which I chime in, "So when you see a crazy fucker sporting a pistol at the corner store you feel that is the appropriate time to make jokes about their mother?"
So, yes... A chair throwing Ballmer would be awesome in the same way Godzilla is awesome. RAWR!!!!
I have heard about this Tizen but have not used it. Do not want! If it is 1/10 as bad as claimed (and from reading, it is) it needs to die and the people who are responsible need to... I don't know, but they need to do something to atone. At the very least they need to stop helping.
There's a bug in your code.
while !robot.IsVandalised() {
community.ExpressMosquitoOutrageAtHumanity()
if robot.NeedsRepair() {
community.Repair(robot)
} // do nothing
}
Now there is a bug in your code.
A good gaming session, even within d20 games, requires little or no dice rolling.
FWIW (and that is not a whole lot) I had (she passed away in odd circumstances and her husband died of entirely different causes while they were both in the same hospital - very freaky) a friend who was a councilor who specialized in working with sex offenders and she also further specialized in working with youth offenders. She said the same thing - I never called for a citation or asked to see the studies. I always just assumed there were studies as that field has studies that will say anything you want them to say. Well, that is my assumption after having read other psyche studies and abstracts.
Woah... Someone who actually knows what a Libertarian is? On Slashdot???
Why yes, yes I do support roads, police forces, taxes, libraries, public safety nets, and more. Just wait until they find out that I support single-payer health care... The mind, it boggles.
I am not sure if that was intentional but it is practically begging for:
Your coworkers are all cows. Moo says the coworkers. Moo! Mooooo! You coworker cows!
I did not try any AMD products until the K6-2 came out. I had an Acer that it came in, I had purchased it for the house. It was 350 mhz and I OCed it to a bit over 500 mhz and, while a bit warm, it never failed while I owned it. I could get it a bit higher but it was not very stable when I did so. The curious thing is that it came with ME on it and, honestly, ME ran like a champ. I had multi-month uptimes and ran an OpenNap server (then a hub) on it. I think it was one of six computers in the country that ran ME properly.
Are you sure that is true? I mean, yeah, it is stupid - it is damned stupid. However, I have heard things much more stupid than this. If this is the absolute stupidest thing you have ever heard then, frankly, count yourself lucky. I, on the other hand, can think of much stupider things including those who postulated the idea that anarchy could be effective as a world-wide political and economic system. I have heard people propose that pure communism would be effective too. I have heard people say that the government should be spying on us more than they already are doing. I have heard people propose that corporations have nearly unlimited power. I have heard people proclaim that the world's issues were to be solved by allowing areas to effectively eliminate the folks that they did not want living within their communities.
No, my good man or woman, if you have not heard anything worse than this you are either living under a rock, have a very poor judgment, are very naive, or very young. Count yourself lucky because, I almost guarantee that you will hear stupider things in just this one thread if you take the time to read it. Hell, give me a half hour - I will probably say something equally stupid or, perhaps, even more stupid. It is how I roll...
Thank you much. Now to find a way to combine a couple of apps and make it do this on its own. It sounds like an enjoyable project. I can, likely, find OSS to include as a way of saving a bunch of time. Basically, my thinking is more for a single person to use it. They can create a file, such as a plain text, encrypt it, take the resulting file and encrypt that into an AES encrypted RAR file that needs a password.
So, in order to open the file, they will have to know the password for the compressed and encrypted .RAR file. Once they decrypt it they will need a key, I am thinking PGP should suit, and they will need to use that key to decrypt that file - it may even be password protected a second time and it probably would end up being that way by default.
I think I might bust out CodeLite (I have been toying with the IDE, getting used to its tools, layout, and work space) and grab a couple of app sources from GitHub or SourceForge. Then I can wrap them (hopefully) and turn it into a single application that makes it easy for non-geeks to use. Exchanging the password(s) should be fairly easy and, I suspect, it would mean it was much more difficult to be seen by spying eyes. I could see it coming in handy.
When I was first thinking about it, I was considering it for use with stenography encrypted images where messages are encoded in the image source. Having pondered it, over a couple of months now, I have since thought that it may have uses outside of stenography and folks might be interested in that.
I do not see this as a project that will need much maintaining. Just a simple alpha, a beta, and a single point release and it should be pretty good. I might even be inclined to do it in Java so that it *should* work on every major OS out there. I am not fluent in Java but I know my way around. I could use the practice and it might be nice to familiarize myself with the Eclipse Java IDE.
Finally, thank you again. My attempt to Google did not reveal any applications out there that already do this. I am unable to be certain because I am not sure what keywords I would need to use. Another part of me pondered its validity as a web service. I am not sure I want the responsibility for such. I am retired, happily, and do not want to be beholden to anyone and an online service would, most certainly, mean a greater level of attention was needed.
You know, we do not really get any oil from the Middle East, right?
That is about the same ratio as Einstein faced before some astronomers were able to capture an eclipse on film. Consensus does not make science. I suspect you are one of those people who finds studies that they do not agree with and discounts their findings because they do not feel right to you. Leave the science to the scientists. You are not capable of understanding.
Note: I am not saying AGW is not happening. In fact, what I have said offers no opinion on that. Sorry but, honestly, I am not skilled enough to opine on its veracity. I suspect, strongly, that you are not either. The difference is that one of us is honest.
Now that sounds like a Genuine Advantage!®
I am a math geek. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a crypto-geek. I do have a dumb question...
Is it possible, and I will try to explain as well as I can, to have an encrypted file that, when decrypted, becomes an actual encrypted file which requires a password to open? I realize that may be a strange way to think about it.
Let's say that I have a file, a plain text file, and I put it into a password protected .zip file. That new file, the .zip, would then be encrypted, as a whole, into a new file - say file.tar.bz. Now, to open it, you would need to have the shared key PLUS you would need to know the password to the encrypted .zip file.
I understand that this has nothing to do with TLS and would be wholly impractical for browsing. However, the talk of encryption made me wonder about this and I have been pondering this for a couple of years now. It means it would be something you have and something you know.
I can think of many ways to share the needed password/pass-phrase securely (for certain definitions of securely). Say, five books in a certain order on a bookshelf and calling with a series of numbers which determine with pages and words are used to make up the pass-phrase. A call could be as simple as, "Number 3, 27, 5, 18, number 7, 14, 32, 8. Confirm?" Which would be book number 5, chapter 3, 27th page, fifth and eighteenth words and book seven, chapter fourteen, thirty second and eighth word would be the password. This does not help if there is someone physically present.
Anyhow, there may be some need to change the file type at the recipient's end because decrypting the file.tar.bz file will not necessarily mean that the file has the appropriate .zip extension but, well, that is pretty trivial.
What am I missing? This, obviously, has absolutely no value in the real world for almost every single person on the planet. I could see it being useful for TLAs or those who are trying to subvert their government (for a variety of reasons which may be good or bad).
It is digital. I am not taking it apart anyhow. My doctor's scale says I weigh the same. His is digital too. I do not see the analog scales so often these days.