Ive played violent video games all my life, and despite my urge to pull someone from a car and beat them with a tire iron ( i live in LA), I haven't because of this thing called law, and a tad bit of moral principal I suppose.
The thing (as someone mentioned above), at least here in the states, I can see things just as violent from turning on the evening news! Ever notice how news doesn't have an MA-17 rating?
And whats with banning it? There is a rating on the damn box. If a parent buys it for their child, then they are a bad parent (shame on them.), but it is their child and they can raise them as they see fit. If a store sells it to a child and the PARENT is upset, then do something to the company. I'm positive most retail game chains have some sort of strong policy against selling adult content to minors.
So lets think "of the children." Whats better for them play a video game or letting them watch REAL people get brutally slayed on television every night?
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I think you could cut through calls a lot faster if you hired a set of good PC techs. Instead a lot of companies hire people with little to no skill and you sit on the phone while you hear them typing your problem into Google or something.
The worst is when you call into Dell and you have a hard drive that is clunking like a 1987 civic and you have to walk through all the possible fixes before they go, "It sounds like you have a bad hard drive." Really? Is that what the smoke and burning electronics smell is?
Me: Hi, my hard drive crashed, the disk is making a clunking noise, I need to get my hard drive replaced
Them: Are you sure your PC is plugged in
Me: Its on, its making a banging noise
Them: Did you try rebooting?
Me: What, yes er, no, its smoking, rebooting won't help.
Them: Did you try re-installing windows?
Me: I run Linux
Them: Ok, get your windows disk and put it in the CD Drive
Me: What? I need to get the disk replaced
Them: We need to try all possible scenarios to fix the disk before we can send a replacement
I have actually heard that line multiple times from Dell. Which translates too, "Im sorry, we have to waste your time just in case you are wrong"
Screw you poor people!!! I've got a quarter million thats been burning a hole in my pocket... Ive totally been waiting for something like this to waste it on.
Don't be a dumb ass with your email address. I have had the same gmail account for over a year now, and I have received no spam to date.
The key is to not pick a ridiculously simple email address like your firstName@domain.com or cooldude@domain.com and pick something a little less scriptable, then on top of that, never sign up for web pages with your 'real' address. Only give it to PEOPLE that you want to contact you. Also using something like the name+filter@domain.com that Gmail offers is a great help in figuring out who does give your info away if you do receive spam.
I have a feeling that the majority of the companies that 'respect' our privacy and email addresses in reality don't give a cold hard shit about either.
If there was such thing as a time machine does anyone believe that you would be able to travel back in time to a point where the machine didn't exist?
What I always found interesting was the idea that the machine itself travels through time or does it move the person within through time? If it was simply moving the person, then the machine would have to exist in the destination time to receive the "person." Right?
I tried a bunch of different words for a bunch of the different images. It only accepted what seemed logical. I assume there is probably a database table with the image and a serialized hash of acceptable words that match it.
I saw a site the other day that used a captcha.... except it was (when I visited) just a picture of a dog. Underneath it it said, "what is this?" and had a text field to type in what it was.
I typed in "dog" hit submit and it worked. I signed out, went back to the sign up page and got a picture of a lexus. I typed in "lexus" and it worked. I was curious if it would have worked if I typed in the actual model, or "car" or "sedan." So I refreshed the page continually through about 200 picture and I never got back to the Lexus, but I did get back to the dog. So this time I typed in "greyhound" and it worked.
To me that seemed like a cool captcha, its so open ended and seems to be extremely difficult (given enough images) for a machine to know what to say, but accepts enough "correct" answers that a person should have no problem.
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Jesus just told me this is total bullshit.
Haha.
Ive played violent video games all my life, and despite my urge to pull someone from a car and beat them with a tire iron ( i live in LA), I haven't because of this thing called law, and a tad bit of moral principal I suppose.
The thing (as someone mentioned above), at least here in the states, I can see things just as violent from turning on the evening news! Ever notice how news doesn't have an MA-17 rating?
And whats with banning it? There is a rating on the damn box. If a parent buys it for their child, then they are a bad parent (shame on them.), but it is their child and they can raise them as they see fit. If a store sells it to a child and the PARENT is upset, then do something to the company. I'm positive most retail game chains have some sort of strong policy against selling adult content to minors.
So lets think "of the children." Whats better for them play a video game or letting them watch REAL people get brutally slayed on television every night?
OMG! I agree, books R so gay.
For god sakes, its a fanny pack, not a hip pack... get with it.
cargo pants, carpenter pants, and any other pants with random pockets are fucking retarded. buy regular pants.
Support national "Wear a Fuck TShirt" Day. Its July 7th. Wear a TShirt that says fuck and go to public places. "Fuck the FCC" is a popular one.
Sweet Dude!
This Internets thing is completely useless.
I think you could cut through calls a lot faster if you hired a set of good PC techs. Instead a lot of companies hire people with little to no skill and you sit on the phone while you hear them typing your problem into Google or something.
The worst is when you call into Dell and you have a hard drive that is clunking like a 1987 civic and you have to walk through all the possible fixes before they go, "It sounds like you have a bad hard drive." Really? Is that what the smoke and burning electronics smell is?
Me: Hi, my hard drive crashed, the disk is making a clunking noise, I need to get my hard drive replaced
Them: Are you sure your PC is plugged in
Me: Its on, its making a banging noise
Them: Did you try rebooting?
Me: What, yes er, no, its smoking, rebooting won't help.
Them: Did you try re-installing windows?
Me: I run Linux
Them: Ok, get your windows disk and put it in the CD Drive
Me: What? I need to get the disk replaced
Them: We need to try all possible scenarios to fix the disk before we can send a replacement
I have actually heard that line multiple times from Dell. Which translates too, "Im sorry, we have to waste your time just in case you are wrong"
Hmmm, computer failure may be tied to solar panels eh? Looks like I was right (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238383&cid=19 499739)... Space is too dark for solar panels to work!
Sarcasm generally equals funny.
Its dark in space, good luck with solar energy.
Solar energy is a complete waste. What the hell are you going to do with the space station now at night?
Screw you poor people!!! I've got a quarter million thats been burning a hole in my pocket... Ive totally been waiting for something like this to waste it on.
Yes! Oh, and screw you too good causes.
Troll!? What!?!? Come on... Was it too soon?
Whats the buffer time for making jokes about dead people?
Back in my day we had to read thread after thread of dusty old farts reminiscing.
Don't be a dumb ass with your email address. I have had the same gmail account for over a year now, and I have received no spam to date.
The key is to not pick a ridiculously simple email address like your firstName@domain.com or cooldude@domain.com and pick something a little less scriptable, then on top of that, never sign up for web pages with your 'real' address. Only give it to PEOPLE that you want to contact you. Also using something like the name+filter@domain.com that Gmail offers is a great help in figuring out who does give your info away if you do receive spam.
I have a feeling that the majority of the companies that 'respect' our privacy and email addresses in reality don't give a cold hard shit about either.
Right on! How dare the parent provide us with an opinion and information, FIE ON HIM FIE FIE FIE!
Good ridance... Long Live Bill Nye!
...lazy middle class intellectual...
If there was such thing as a time machine does anyone believe that you would be able to travel back in time to a point where the machine didn't exist?
What I always found interesting was the idea that the machine itself travels through time or does it move the person within through time? If it was simply moving the person, then the machine would have to exist in the destination time to receive the "person." Right?
Yeah I cycled through 200+ images and didn't try to put it an illogical word
I tried a bunch of different words for a bunch of the different images. It only accepted what seemed logical. I assume there is probably a database table with the image and a serialized hash of acceptable words that match it.
I saw a site the other day that used a captcha.... except it was (when I visited) just a picture of a dog. Underneath it it said, "what is this?" and had a text field to type in what it was.
I typed in "dog" hit submit and it worked. I signed out, went back to the sign up page and got a picture of a lexus. I typed in "lexus" and it worked. I was curious if it would have worked if I typed in the actual model, or "car" or "sedan." So I refreshed the page continually through about 200 picture and I never got back to the Lexus, but I did get back to the dog. So this time I typed in "greyhound" and it worked.
To me that seemed like a cool captcha, its so open ended and seems to be extremely difficult (given enough images) for a machine to know what to say, but accepts enough "correct" answers that a person should have no problem.