One of them did something I thought very odd, though. He played on Battle.net, but only ever by himself. He didn't trade items, either. I couldn't fathom why anyone would do that, considering the palpable negative effects the added latency and the occasional full-on desync had on the game itself.
Loot, which isn't always identical offline and online.
Ahhh... a keen observation! I wouldn't go so far as to say he was aware of that, though. I don't recall hearing a reason that made sense when I asked "why?" some years ago.:P
I bought Diablo II and played it in single player and on a LAN exclusively.
My friends and I did the same, at least initially, but once I got onto Battle.net, I played online exclusively. The rest of them did the same once they got internet access at home.
One of them did something I thought very odd, though. He played on Battle.net, but only ever by himself. He didn't trade items, either. I couldn't fathom why anyone would do that, considering the palpable negative effects the added latency and the occasional full-on desync had on the game itself.
[nostalgia] To this day, I really, really miss hacking that game. I hereby give a shout out to anyone who recognizes these names or hacks: Herzog Zwei, Thohell, Very_Superior (though a jerk he mostly was), BootyJu1ce, EvilCheese (very, very brilliant hacker), Oxide (who I was told was a twerp), the Chest Hack (0x44, how we hardly knew ye), "The Matrix" (and anyone who liked the Ith War Pike I made on USEast), and (quite possibly the funniest exploit ever) Imbue Scanning. [/nostalgia]
It is highly unlikely that a court will support the free speech view, of course--but it is a logically valid interpretation.
I have to agree with the intent of folks arguing the "free speech" angle, only insofar as that this really shouldn't be an issue with which law enforcement or the courts should waste their time.
For as long as I can remember, and indeed especially so today, you are responsible for your own security with respect to what comes in and out of that connection provided to you, usually as a paid service, by an entity not under the auspices of Federal, state, or local government (yes, wiretaps, ha-ha). It is those entities that, in the event that you feel the need to "reach out" to the other side of the connection to take care of an issue, that should deal with the problem.
In short, ISPs should mitigate grievances between their own subscribers when the grievance is explicitly that of TCP/IP traffic volume, rather than its content.
DDoS = Handled by folks who own AS numbers and control BGP routing policies.
Bank Fraud = Handled by those who own guns and enforce legal policies.
Now, SHOULD the "target" of a DDoS feel the need to express "damages" from the event... well, that's what lawsuits are for. We don't have a shortage of lawyers in this country.
Yes, it might not make sense to you to pay the cost of an SUV's fill-up. And indeed you might not have an SUV for that very reason. But some people have decided that it is worth it -- and those are the people who drive those "mommy SUVs" that you're talking about.
You deserve to be modded up.
I drive a 99 Corolla, and I get about 30 MPG. Great for driving to and from work, which is 10 or 20 miles, twice daily.
But driving around town or with two or more other people would definitely be nicer (read: worth it) in an SUV. They're larger, comfier, and have amenities to match. If I had an excuse to own more than one vehicle I could almost guarantee you that, whether for utility like a pickup truck or for comfort and capacity like an SUV, it definitely wouldn't get 30 MPG.
I have seen two movies in 3D, and will never see another. I had eye strain and a headache for several hours after
I've seen a few of them myself, because for some reason I kept going back thinking that I might like it on a better movie... or something like that. After seeing Avatar, I won't go back to another 3D showing but not because it gives me a headache or makes me uncomfortable (though it does, to an extent), but because the false focusing and perspective cause me to miss things.
It's one thing to watch a film: you stare at the screen for two or three hours straight, letting your eyes and ears get lost in the sights and sounds while your brain works on understanding the characters and the story. With 3D, I inadvertently spend so much time thinking about what I'm supposed to be looking at that I miss visual or plot elements.
The ONLY difference is you don't consider it a betrayal for your spouse to go out with other people, as long as they let you know.
That's a good guess, but I don't think it's accurate. It is NOT that "he trusts her to keep him informed about her extramarital sexual interactions" nor that people in such a position simply don't have a "negative" view of such activity.
ElectricTurtle is right, in that it's about trust. The thing to trust, however, is that each partner trusts that their relationship is not defined by sexual exclusivity. Each partner trusts that the other's role in the relationship that they mutually enjoy is also neither defined by nor negatively affected by sexual encounters with other people.
Do you pass judgment on others with whom you're not sexually involved with based on their sexual activity? Was Anthony Weiner somehow less capable as a legislator overnight because we suddenly knew more about who and how he liked to fuck? Would you consider your son a liar, or perhaps a traitor, for waiting for years to tell you that he's gay?
Perspective on something that, for many, is strictly and inexorably overflowing with emotion is very difficult to instill in the average person. Discussing sex (or anything really... politics is a good example) with someone who has a radically opposing view (or views) isn't exactly an easy task.
It's easy to continue a semi-rant on this, but I suppose the bottom line is that it's really silly to consider your spouse a traitor for seeking or achieving sexual fulfillment. The real betrayal is a spouse that lies when saying "I love you."
Either the bible is a body of laws to follow in which you must follow it all, or the bible is not a body of laws to follow in which don't follow the laws in it.
I fail to see the requirement for imposing the inability of different people to interpret a work of literature differently. I suppose that you've read the Bible yourself and interpreted it to say that "every word [of it] is immutable truth," and that all others must agree with only this viewpoint?
It's one thing to "pick and choose" what you find convenient, but quite frankly I find the combination of "pursuit of happiness" and "love thy neighbor" to mean that legislating against or denying marriage of same-sex couples [in the USA] is irrefutably wrong. If you consider me a hypocrite for not also finding precisely the opposite....
To frown upon people for "picking and choosing" from a work as vast and varied as the Bible doesn't really make sense anyway. Would you frown upon someone for going to a buffet but not eating a full serving of everything?
Two men or women in love with each other, are also to be stoned to death?
Don't be silly. I just read the Leviticus passage, and I tell you surely: It's just the men that have sex with other men! Clearly, even the Lord has a soft spot for lesbians....or is just obsessed with making rules about cock as a method of ensuring that dick jokes would be funny until the end of days.
They finally cashed in on the hype and jokes.With enough hype, you can sell a shitload of copies before people realise it's shit. Hell, you can probably make more money that way than if you'd develop a good game.
While that's a fantastic point, they probably could have made even more money by outsourcing development to Valve on an undetermined timeframe with 50% profit sharing or something.
Nothing like the best game dev houses having an infinite amount of time to create a classic to actually make it not suck:P
Bitcoins are more like gold, except that instead of mining them, you "mint" them.
That's completely inaccurate, they truly are "mined," and not "minted."
The block chain that tracks and holds all bitcoins in place to their respective wallets is just that: a chain. Starting with the first block, you can cryptographically verify that every coin that has been mined or transferred up to the current point in time was done so by respecting the rules of the network. Those rules stipulate that there will only ever be 21 million coins, and coins have to be mined in a way that conforms to the rules, one of which is that traceability forward from the first block.
As such, the very first block, along with the rules of the network, stipulate that those 21 million coins WILL be mined as a matter of course, following individually verifiable mathematics. In effect, the first block is what "minted" all those coins. Every block that follows is mathematical proof of "where" those coins are.
Interesting. Where does the 0.7% come from? You're paying transaction fees even though you don't really need to?
He's probably using MtGox to accept and then sell those bitcoins at market rates. MtGox transactions carry a 0.65% transaction fee for buying or selling BTC.
Could you imagine Lady Gaga being responsible for your bank account?
Oh God yes! If she can do for my bank account what she's done for her own...
Seriously though... I remember that in high school, I was more "infamous" than "popular." Most of my friends were, though, so I guess that counted for something. I suppose I was a little bit of the inverse of the simple "unwillingness to conform," though: I simply wasn't any good at it.
I came off as intelligent, usually smart, and occasionally insightful, and by and large, the classroom as a whole tended to be a vicariously enjoyable environment. The grade books, however, were a different story, and I got expelled for being late to school. Twice.
It's rather pathetic that school administration would rather you not show up at all than be late. And we're talking late by seconds or minutes. I had a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around that one, because I was in school to learn. Silly me.:P
Windows doesn't by default but a quick one-time command fixes that.
Windows 7 actually does autoconfig by the MAC address, but spins off temporary addresses from that one every time it reconfigures to a network. The average Windows box on an IPv6 network will usually take 4 addresses, one link-local fe80, one autoconfigured address from the subnet/mac, and two more for "temporary" use. You can, however, address the box by any of those addresses, but it will bind to one of the temporary ones by default.
I suppose one of the things that I like the most about IPv6, though, is that even if your DHCP goes down, your clients are still fully addressable because of the router advertisements for the subnet. And then, even if your router goes down, your link-local addresses continue to function. The best part of it all, though, is that in a normal situation, all of those addresses will work, instead of just the address assigned to the computer by the "stateliest" addressing scheme available to it:)
When I'm assigning IP addresses to a hundred workstations and servers, I find it far easier to enter 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, etc.,
With a username like ThinkDifferently, I'm chuckling a bit at the irony here...
If you're manually assigning v6 IPs to anything other than a server or router, you're wasting your time. Give things names, and let DNS do the work for you;)
I really like having DHCP distribute fixed IP addresses and my DNS server to know which IP is what. It's really easier to remember gimli instead of 192.168.2.55 or so. The whole IPv6 autoconfig may work, but it unnerves me that it takes away my control.
That's the fun thing about ipv6. The addresses are fixed, because they're generated from the MAC address. You can actually take a computer's MAC, coupled with your subnet's prefix, and determine its IPv6 address before you even plug it in! Autoconfig also generates additional addresses to use by default (at least on Windows), but that's simply an anonymizing feature.
DHCP also can be configured for v6, but instead of managing IPs like a scarce resource, you simply don't have to if you don't want to... though you certainly can. By default, it's just a handy way to inform hosts about things like DNS and other "local subnet" configuration settings. Finally, if you're using dynamic DNS registration, like Active Directory clients do, all of your current domain names will still "Just Work" as well.
Double check your firewall policies, and just make sure that you have good edge security. Being able to ping a machine that's behind your home router directly, from a different network, is quite a rewarding feeling after years upon years of mapping ports manually because no one EVER seemed to get uPnP just quite right...:P
If I understand the process correctly (unlikely), the control rods dampen the reaction and keep things generally under control in the reactor?
They do, and at Fukushima, they did.
The problem at Fukushima wasn't with the reactor core. The problem was with the spent fuel. Nuclear fuel gives off the majority of its heat at the moment of the reaction, but once it's spent, neutron emissions from the fuel continue to react at a very slow rate for several days after the initial "firing" of the fuel; about 6 or 7 percent thereof. It's *that* heat that was a problem at Fukushima.
Why exactly do we still trust Comodo as a CA, when the like of cacert.org [cacert.org] cannot meet the "requirements" to be added as a CA in Mozilla products?
I accept BTCs as payement for freelance development.
Care to tell us where to contact you? I hang out in #bitcoin-otc on freenode several days a week. I'm interested in hiring a developer who'll accept BTC for a small web project. Some coding and consulting.
[/offtopic:P]
Having everything I want locally saves me time searching the internet for it
Agreed.
Perhaps I'm the odd man out, but I do like going over my media collection (which is automatically sorted) and just trimming the fluff everyone once in a while. Making sure files are named right, getting all the movie trailers, filling in a gap where I'm missing a season, and so on.
It's not really that it's a compulsion, but more of a hobby. I like having a movie and TV show collection, and the fact that I can have a digital one sitting on a RAID array increases the usability and coolness factors.
Organize TV Shows with Sickbeard. Organize movies with either Media Center Master or MyMovies. Better stuff for movies undoubtedly exists, but I'm not too sure what it would be.
Also, if you want your computer to surprise you with new content and you're not afraid of complex config files, give FlexGet a try.
Finding time to watch all of it.... that's the real kicker:D
There's still a performance hit for SSL. Solutions for that include load balancers with dedicated hardware SSL support.
Back when Usenet providers starting offering full SSL transfers, I remember reading that one of the reasons they were charging more for it (at the time) was because SSL transfers saw a 400% increase in required CPU power on the back end.
Nowadays though, SSL seems to come by default in most offerings I've seen.
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One of them did something I thought very odd, though. He played on Battle.net, but only ever by himself. He didn't trade items, either. I couldn't fathom why anyone would do that, considering the palpable negative effects the added latency and the occasional full-on desync had on the game itself.
Loot, which isn't always identical offline and online.
Ahhh... a keen observation! I wouldn't go so far as to say he was aware of that, though. I don't recall hearing a reason that made sense when I asked "why?" some years ago. :P
I bought Diablo II and played it in single player and on a LAN exclusively.
My friends and I did the same, at least initially, but once I got onto Battle.net, I played online exclusively. The rest of them did the same once they got internet access at home.
One of them did something I thought very odd, though. He played on Battle.net, but only ever by himself. He didn't trade items, either. I couldn't fathom why anyone would do that, considering the palpable negative effects the added latency and the occasional full-on desync had on the game itself.
[nostalgia]
To this day, I really, really miss hacking that game. I hereby give a shout out to anyone who recognizes these names or hacks: Herzog Zwei, Thohell, Very_Superior (though a jerk he mostly was), BootyJu1ce, EvilCheese (very, very brilliant hacker), Oxide (who I was told was a twerp), the Chest Hack (0x44, how we hardly knew ye), "The Matrix" (and anyone who liked the Ith War Pike I made on USEast), and (quite possibly the funniest exploit ever) Imbue Scanning.
[/nostalgia]
That game made me loathe dialup internet.
It is highly unlikely that a court will support the free speech view, of course--but it is a logically valid interpretation.
I have to agree with the intent of folks arguing the "free speech" angle, only insofar as that this really shouldn't be an issue with which law enforcement or the courts should waste their time.
For as long as I can remember, and indeed especially so today, you are responsible for your own security with respect to what comes in and out of that connection provided to you, usually as a paid service, by an entity not under the auspices of Federal, state, or local government (yes, wiretaps, ha-ha). It is those entities that, in the event that you feel the need to "reach out" to the other side of the connection to take care of an issue, that should deal with the problem.
In short, ISPs should mitigate grievances between their own subscribers when the grievance is explicitly that of TCP/IP traffic volume, rather than its content.
Now, SHOULD the "target" of a DDoS feel the need to express "damages" from the event... well, that's what lawsuits are for. We don't have a shortage of lawyers in this country.
You give people way too much credit. Most people barely pay attention to the numbers on the pump.
Judging by the fact that you're nearly forced to pay for gas with plastic these days and usually need a loan for a vehicle, he's not the only one.
Yes, it might not make sense to you to pay the cost of an SUV's fill-up. And indeed you might not have an SUV for that very reason. But some people have decided that it is worth it -- and those are the people who drive those "mommy SUVs" that you're talking about.
You deserve to be modded up.
I drive a 99 Corolla, and I get about 30 MPG. Great for driving to and from work, which is 10 or 20 miles, twice daily.
But driving around town or with two or more other people would definitely be nicer (read: worth it) in an SUV. They're larger, comfier, and have amenities to match. If I had an excuse to own more than one vehicle I could almost guarantee you that, whether for utility like a pickup truck or for comfort and capacity like an SUV, it definitely wouldn't get 30 MPG.
I have seen two movies in 3D, and will never see another. I had eye strain and a headache for several hours after
I've seen a few of them myself, because for some reason I kept going back thinking that I might like it on a better movie... or something like that. After seeing Avatar, I won't go back to another 3D showing but not because it gives me a headache or makes me uncomfortable (though it does, to an extent), but because the false focusing and perspective cause me to miss things.
It's one thing to watch a film: you stare at the screen for two or three hours straight, letting your eyes and ears get lost in the sights and sounds while your brain works on understanding the characters and the story. With 3D, I inadvertently spend so much time thinking about what I'm supposed to be looking at that I miss visual or plot elements.
Just my two cents, of course.
The ONLY difference is you don't consider it a betrayal for your spouse to go out with other people, as long as they let you know.
That's a good guess, but I don't think it's accurate. It is NOT that "he trusts her to keep him informed about her extramarital sexual interactions" nor that people in such a position simply don't have a "negative" view of such activity.
ElectricTurtle is right, in that it's about trust. The thing to trust, however, is that each partner trusts that their relationship is not defined by sexual exclusivity. Each partner trusts that the other's role in the relationship that they mutually enjoy is also neither defined by nor negatively affected by sexual encounters with other people.
Do you pass judgment on others with whom you're not sexually involved with based on their sexual activity? Was Anthony Weiner somehow less capable as a legislator overnight because we suddenly knew more about who and how he liked to fuck? Would you consider your son a liar, or perhaps a traitor, for waiting for years to tell you that he's gay?
Perspective on something that, for many, is strictly and inexorably overflowing with emotion is very difficult to instill in the average person. Discussing sex (or anything really... politics is a good example) with someone who has a radically opposing view (or views) isn't exactly an easy task.
It's easy to continue a semi-rant on this, but I suppose the bottom line is that it's really silly to consider your spouse a traitor for seeking or achieving sexual fulfillment. The real betrayal is a spouse that lies when saying "I love you."
Either the bible is a body of laws to follow in which you must follow it all, or the bible is not a body of laws to follow in which don't follow the laws in it.
I fail to see the requirement for imposing the inability of different people to interpret a work of literature differently. I suppose that you've read the Bible yourself and interpreted it to say that "every word [of it] is immutable truth," and that all others must agree with only this viewpoint?
It's one thing to "pick and choose" what you find convenient, but quite frankly I find the combination of "pursuit of happiness" and "love thy neighbor" to mean that legislating against or denying marriage of same-sex couples [in the USA] is irrefutably wrong. If you consider me a hypocrite for not also finding precisely the opposite....
To frown upon people for "picking and choosing" from a work as vast and varied as the Bible doesn't really make sense anyway. Would you frown upon someone for going to a buffet but not eating a full serving of everything?
Two men or women in love with each other, are also to be stoned to death?
Don't be silly. I just read the Leviticus passage, and I tell you surely: It's just the men that have sex with other men! Clearly, even the Lord has a soft spot for lesbians....or is just obsessed with making rules about cock as a method of ensuring that dick jokes would be funny until the end of days.
They finally cashed in on the hype and jokes.With enough hype, you can sell a shitload of copies before people realise it's shit. Hell, you can probably make more money that way than if you'd develop a good game.
While that's a fantastic point, they probably could have made even more money by outsourcing development to Valve on an undetermined timeframe with 50% profit sharing or something.
:P
Nothing like the best game dev houses having an infinite amount of time to create a classic to actually make it not suck
...But seriously...
:-(
Could you possibly rewrite that in a copy/pasteable SQL Injection format? My ISP blocks port 25 outbound
Bitcoins are more like gold, except that instead of mining them, you "mint" them.
That's completely inaccurate, they truly are "mined," and not "minted."
The block chain that tracks and holds all bitcoins in place to their respective wallets is just that: a chain. Starting with the first block, you can cryptographically verify that every coin that has been mined or transferred up to the current point in time was done so by respecting the rules of the network. Those rules stipulate that there will only ever be 21 million coins, and coins have to be mined in a way that conforms to the rules, one of which is that traceability forward from the first block.
As such, the very first block, along with the rules of the network, stipulate that those 21 million coins WILL be mined as a matter of course, following individually verifiable mathematics. In effect, the first block is what "minted" all those coins. Every block that follows is mathematical proof of "where" those coins are.
Interesting. Where does the 0.7% come from? You're paying transaction fees even though you don't really need to?
He's probably using MtGox to accept and then sell those bitcoins at market rates. MtGox transactions carry a 0.65% transaction fee for buying or selling BTC.
:)
Round up, 0.7%
Could you imagine Lady Gaga being responsible for your bank account?
Oh God yes! If she can do for my bank account what she's done for her own...
:P
Seriously though... I remember that in high school, I was more "infamous" than "popular." Most of my friends were, though, so I guess that counted for something. I suppose I was a little bit of the inverse of the simple "unwillingness to conform," though: I simply wasn't any good at it.
I came off as intelligent, usually smart, and occasionally insightful, and by and large, the classroom as a whole tended to be a vicariously enjoyable environment. The grade books, however, were a different story, and I got expelled for being late to school. Twice.
It's rather pathetic that school administration would rather you not show up at all than be late. And we're talking late by seconds or minutes. I had a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around that one, because I was in school to learn. Silly me.
Windows doesn't by default but a quick one-time command fixes that.
Windows 7 actually does autoconfig by the MAC address, but spins off temporary addresses from that one every time it reconfigures to a network. The average Windows box on an IPv6 network will usually take 4 addresses, one link-local fe80, one autoconfigured address from the subnet/mac, and two more for "temporary" use. You can, however, address the box by any of those addresses, but it will bind to one of the temporary ones by default.
:)
I suppose one of the things that I like the most about IPv6, though, is that even if your DHCP goes down, your clients are still fully addressable because of the router advertisements for the subnet. And then, even if your router goes down, your link-local addresses continue to function. The best part of it all, though, is that in a normal situation, all of those addresses will work, instead of just the address assigned to the computer by the "stateliest" addressing scheme available to it
When I'm assigning IP addresses to a hundred workstations and servers, I find it far easier to enter 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, etc.,
With a username like ThinkDifferently, I'm chuckling a bit at the irony here...
;)
If you're manually assigning v6 IPs to anything other than a server or router, you're wasting your time. Give things names, and let DNS do the work for you
I really like having DHCP distribute fixed IP addresses and my DNS server to know which IP is what. It's really easier to remember gimli instead of 192.168.2.55 or so. The whole IPv6 autoconfig may work, but it unnerves me that it takes away my control.
That's the fun thing about ipv6. The addresses are fixed, because they're generated from the MAC address. You can actually take a computer's MAC, coupled with your subnet's prefix, and determine its IPv6 address before you even plug it in! Autoconfig also generates additional addresses to use by default (at least on Windows), but that's simply an anonymizing feature.
:P
DHCP also can be configured for v6, but instead of managing IPs like a scarce resource, you simply don't have to if you don't want to... though you certainly can. By default, it's just a handy way to inform hosts about things like DNS and other "local subnet" configuration settings. Finally, if you're using dynamic DNS registration, like Active Directory clients do, all of your current domain names will still "Just Work" as well.
Double check your firewall policies, and just make sure that you have good edge security. Being able to ping a machine that's behind your home router directly, from a different network, is quite a rewarding feeling after years upon years of mapping ports manually because no one EVER seemed to get uPnP just quite right...
Your post just made me shudder at the thought of a world with "Half-Life 2008," "Half-Life 2010," and "Half-Life 2011."
But if it's a half-life, why do the numbers keep going up?
Can I get a +5 funny please.
I sure hope so.
Can I get a +2 Troll?
If I understand the process correctly (unlikely), the control rods dampen the reaction and keep things generally under control in the reactor?
They do, and at Fukushima, they did.
The problem at Fukushima wasn't with the reactor core. The problem was with the spent fuel. Nuclear fuel gives off the majority of its heat at the moment of the reaction, but once it's spent, neutron emissions from the fuel continue to react at a very slow rate for several days after the initial "firing" of the fuel; about 6 or 7 percent thereof. It's *that* heat that was a problem at Fukushima.
This video provides a good explanation.
Why exactly do we still trust Comodo as a CA, when the like of cacert.org [cacert.org] cannot meet the "requirements" to be added as a CA in Mozilla products?
$urely, you can't be $eriou$.
I accept BTCs as payement for freelance development.
Care to tell us where to contact you? I hang out in #bitcoin-otc on freenode several days a week. I'm interested in hiring a developer who'll accept BTC for a small web project. Some coding and consulting. [/offtopic :P]
Extra Crispy or Original?
At the rate we're running out of oil, they'd likely be grilled instead.
Having everything I want locally saves me time searching the internet for it
Agreed.
:D
Perhaps I'm the odd man out, but I do like going over my media collection (which is automatically sorted) and just trimming the fluff everyone once in a while. Making sure files are named right, getting all the movie trailers, filling in a gap where I'm missing a season, and so on.
It's not really that it's a compulsion, but more of a hobby. I like having a movie and TV show collection, and the fact that I can have a digital one sitting on a RAID array increases the usability and coolness factors.
Organize TV Shows with Sickbeard. Organize movies with either Media Center Master or MyMovies. Better stuff for movies undoubtedly exists, but I'm not too sure what it would be.
Also, if you want your computer to surprise you with new content and you're not afraid of complex config files, give FlexGet a try.
Finding time to watch all of it.... that's the real kicker
There's still a performance hit for SSL. Solutions for that include load balancers with dedicated hardware SSL support.
Back when Usenet providers starting offering full SSL transfers, I remember reading that one of the reasons they were charging more for it (at the time) was because SSL transfers saw a 400% increase in required CPU power on the back end.
Nowadays though, SSL seems to come by default in most offerings I've seen.