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July 9th 2007, 19:55 CEST by lwf Here is a place for all of you to talk about WoW, Magic, LOTRO, C+, C#, Visual Basic, Pointers, Gardening, Astrology, MeyersBriggs, Gaggle vs. Joker, and Jibble's kinks. |
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<- Previous Page! "I don't like story in games." - Soren Johnson
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Next Page! -> That would've been way awesomer if you'd made it a working link. |
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To be honest, I was thinking about it. I'm still planing to do that huge blinking greasemonkey'd next page. |
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This, among others, is what I would like to get. Oddly enough, they're Dutch, but not for sale in the Dutch store. There's a mess of their stuff in the German store. The fact that this isn't popular here doesn't surprise me. The fact that it is popular in Germany doesn't surprise me either. They have dedicated schlager channel over there for crying out loud. Any game where competence can be measured by the amount of clicks per minute is not a strategy game.
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The Hermes House Band had a huge hit over here with their cover of I Will Survive, but that was in the early 90s. Since then they've managed to disappear so completely from the public eye I bet ninjas were taking notes. So I guess that could explain why you don't find much of their stuff in Dutch stores. "I've always viewed masturbation as a pretty positive thing."
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Speaking of things no one cares about, Dodd is leading a filibuster to stop the telecommunication companies from getting immunity. Harry Reid didn't want to honor his hold, so he's putting his presidential campaign on hold and doing this... I have to say, I'm impressed. Big ups for McBain for sharing this info as I hadn't heard it mentioned anywhere else. Glenn Greenwald does have some coverage, of course. It's a pretty stand up thing to do, imo. "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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I mentioned it in the Midterm thread. This is a pretty important thing, and it's getting very little play in the media. For those who don't want to read through the whole mess, here's as short a rundown as I can provide: 1) Bush and his pals in the NSA demand that the phone companies give them full access to customer activity information without a warrant (extremely illegal). In return, the NSA gives these companies a bunch of cash to set up the server rooms they'll need to conduct this wiretapping. 2) After years of illegal activity, the story finally breaks. Customers become incredibly pissed off and sue the companies for violating their privacy and constitutional rights against unlawful search and seizure. AT&T tries to get several of the cases thrown out on weird "national security" grounds, but a few of the cases have been allowed by judges to proceed. 3) Terrified of what will happen to them if the suits are successful, AT&T funnels money into Congressional coffers. Specifically Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who works on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Bush (presumably annoyed by being proven to be a criminal) starts screaming about how important it is that the phone companies be allowed to break the law so they can catch Osama Bin Laden before he kills YOUR GRANDMOTHER. Rockefeller pushes for a surveillance bill that grants immunity to the telcos. The Judiciary Committee cried bullshit and created their own version without immunity. 4) Dodd threatens to filibuster any bill with that immunity intact. A few other Senators (most notably all of the Democratic Senators who are running for President) say they'll support his filibuster. 5) Reid decided to bring the Intelligence Committee version to the floor despite a hold request from Dodd. Reid has honored hold requests from numerous Republicans. This creates a number of procedural problems that would prevent the immunity from being removed from the bill. So that's where we are. Just a few votes away from transparently granting blanket immunity to corporations for breaking the law at the request of the President. We could fix our energy problem by hooking up the Founding Father's corpses to a generator right about now. Dodd is a goddamn patriot for standing up against this crap, and it says a lot that none of the other Presidential candidates seem to be leaving Iowa to help him. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Fathers'. Bleh. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Jibble (#1607): This is a pretty important thing, and it's getting very little play in the media. Which is one of the primary problems. Good summary, thanks. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
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It's not sexy enough is reality of it. "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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Completely agree. If only they could get Keira Knightley to filibuster... A Democratic Senator filibustering (a real filibuster, not this silent filibuster bullshit we get from the Republicans with the help of Reid) a bill from his own party at this point in time is a big deal. Unfortunately, there's not really a way to punch that up for people who don't get all hot and bothered over Congressional procedures. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Just a few votes away from transparently granting blanket immunity to corporations for breaking the law at the request of the President. I'm not so sure that the companies have done anything illegal actually. Terms of service agreements sure, and disclosure laws sure. But penal laws? I don't think so. I mean technically nothing would prevent AT&T or whoever from eavesdropping and archiving every conversation that takes place on their network, so long as they give proper disclosure about it and rewrite their agreements around it. See Google for example. Anyway, I don't really see the problem with the immunity. The purpose of permitting suits like that is to provide an incentive to large corporations to reform their practices. The negative publicity was probably incentive enough to deter future malfeasance (to the extent it can even be deterred in such situations). |
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I think it's pretty clear at this point that they have no intention of stopping what they're doing. I can't blame them, really. Seems they were promised a lot of money in government contracts and assured that they wouldn't get in trouble for it. Just another product of the free market and a total lack of oversight. What this is really about, at the root, is how much power the executive branch wields (and how that power applies to surveillance). I'm guessing the Republicans will solve that riddle (the President has no power!) the next time a Democrat winds up in the White House. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Greenwald is the man. Very reasoned and dispassionate articles with a touch of smarmy irony. Always a good read. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Can someone explain WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with Reid that he'd support Bush on this? It's not 2002 anyone dumbass, you can stop licking the President's balls. |
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Dodd stopped it. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" � "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I was disappointed to find out that they hardly ever have to actually deliver their filibuster any more, it's more like a veto or something now. I was hoping to find a transcript of the speech to check whether the sanity starts to slip after six hours or so of talking. MP3 Of The Week: [Insert now-traditional late message here]
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Dumdeedum (#1617): I was disappointed to find out that they hardly ever have to actually deliver their filibuster any more, it's more like a veto or something now. I was hoping to find a transcript of the speech to check whether the sanity starts to slip after six hours or so of talking. You can watch the speeches they give online, Dodd and Fiengold both did well imo, though I didn't really like Fiengold's suggestions overall, her speech wasn't bad. The biggest thing is that this wasn't a filibuster yet, just a warm up to it or something? "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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There hasn't been a true filibuster (where they stand and talk for 30 hours) because they keep invoking cloture. That's a good tactic, really. Don't force the Republicans to go through all that effort! Much easier to just gut your bills to appease them. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Coming to America! I was exhausted, tired and hungry. I didn't understand the officials' conduct, for they were treating me like a very dangerous criminal. Soon thereafter I was removed from the cubicle and two armed guards placed me up against a wall. A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad, so humiliated and all because I had taken a longer vacation than allowed under the law. "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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That guy is totally a terrorist. Why else would they have treated him like that? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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You totally didn't click the link because it was a girl. A girl from Iceland. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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A reasonably attractive one too. Given that it's her account of what happened it's far from an unbiased source, but it was an interesting read anyway. On the other hand, you haven't had a terrorist attack on US soil for years now so maybe the MP3 Of The Week: Ernie K-Doe - Here Come The Girls.mp3 (?)
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I dunno, Matt. While I don't doubt the story, that's a Daffy-Donk-level of a loony website. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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Ergo (#1624): I dunno, Matt. While I don't doubt the story, that's a Daffy-Donk-level of a loony website. I'm with you on the website...but the story is most likely true. It's not like this is the first reported case of this kind of bullshit. "Thug means never having to say you're sorry." - UTurn
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Auður What kind of letter is that? |
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An Icelandic kind. |
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Everyone in Iceland wears funny hats, so they figured their letters should too. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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My EVE subscription has expired and I didn't even have a long skill in training (which would continue even without active subscription). I liked EVE, but I'm not tempted to go back. Which is sad. The fact is I didn't have much time for EVE, so I still had weak ship and didn't participate in team activities, and sadly found the most amusing thing there was the chat channel. I have 2 missions left from Cybran campaign in SupCom: Forged Alliance and I'm enjoying it, even when my computer sucks hard and 1.5hr mission takes me 4 hours. I'm scared to even try ranked match on GPGnet. I hope I'll spend these free days somewhat useful. Which reminds me, I'm going to send Ray an email if he's alive. |
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I've been playing Lord of the Rings Online. The quests are a bit simplistic, but I like it. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" � "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Coincidentally, someone gave me an install disc for that today and I've been contemplating trying it out. I've just got so many games stacked up already, I fear what a LOTR MMO might do to me. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
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LotRO is pretty good. Didn't hook me for more than a few months, but good. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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If an MMO didn't hook you doesn't that mean that it is, in fact, not good? Any game where competence can be measured by the amount of clicks per minute is not a strategy game.
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Smart And Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's concise guide to finding the best technical talent, 2007, Apress, page 72: That said, we try to be considerate of nonnative speakers who are nonetheless excellent communicators: leaving out articles in charming Eastern European way, or starting every paragraph with “So” in the charming Pacific Northwestian way, is not a showstopper. See, Ergo? My English is charming! Anyway, I purchased another 30-day EVE time code - I needed some motivation to read e-books. |
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So, mine is to. |
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So, that guy is full of shit. But he is right about the "so" thing. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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So? "I don't like story in games." - Soren Johnson
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So he is only half-empty (or half-full) of shit, I guess? |
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His bug tracking software is pretty nice. Joel Sposky's that is. (We use it at work) |^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||__
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Oh really Greg? Awesome. We're trying to implement it into our workflow, and it's been mostly happy days. Have you guys done anything with the API? It seems to us that the workflow could do with a couple custom tools to make certain kinds of submissions easier, but idunno if that's something you guys've looked into? "I'm not even angry / I'm being so sincere right now."
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Nah, we don't exactly have the time or inclination to go mucking around with the stuff that we bought. I think someone added some custom resolutions, but that's about as much as we've tweaked it. |^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||__
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Oh. Is it strictly programmers who use it or do you have management, artists or other wacky types that has to use it as well? Much of the reason I speak of customizing stuff is because it's not quite streamlined enough for non-programmers. "I'm not even angry / I'm being so sincere right now."
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The tech support people use it, too. We have roughly 10 people that work at my company. For the most part 6 people definitely use it, half tech support/QA, half developers. I couldn't tell you if the offsite developers even know it exists. |^^^^^^^^^^^^ |||__
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Most of Joel Spolsky's essays are gold. |
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True. I've finished that book, pretty good read even when I'm nowhere near the programmer hiring market. But then again, a lot of its content was more or less published on his web site. |
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#1612 by G-Man Just a few votes away from transparently granting blanket immunity to corporations for breaking the law at the request of the President. I'm not so sure that the companies have done anything illegal actually. Terms of service agreements sure, and disclosure laws sure. But penal laws? I don't think so. I mean technically nothing would prevent AT&T or whoever from eavesdropping and archiving every conversation that takes place on their network, so long as they give proper disclosure about it and rewrite their agreements around it. See Google for example. Anyway, I don't really see the problem with the immunity. The purpose of permitting suits like that is to provide an incentive to large corporations to reform their practices. The negative publicity was probably incentive enough to deter future malfeasance (to the extent it can even be deterred in such situations). I think the difference here is doing it at the behest of the government and forwarding that information to them. Can you tell me specifically how FISA does not cover that? Do the terms of service have some explicit or implicit waiver of fourth amendment rights? Could such terms of service with a private entity even be enforced? "Why would I wanna read the book? All I'm saying is, I see a game every day. I watch baseball every day. I have a better understanding about why things happen than the computer, because the computer only tells you what you put in it. I could make that computer say what I wanted it to say, if I put the right things in there. ... The computer is only as good as what you put in it. How do you think we got Enron?"
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They aren't a state actor. I'm reasonably sure that current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence would honor a blanket waiver of Fourth Amendment rights in a contract of adhesion with a common carrier, so long as it was properly disclosed. See airplanes and trains etc. The boundaries of the Fourth Amendment are the public's reasonable expectation of privacy which is a highly mutable thing. See the Overton window etc. |
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My eyes glazed over when I read that. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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Yeah, it's like when I tell a cow-orker that their printer problems are caused by "interactions beyond the ion limit" or some such made-up bullshit. I can say "see Fisker's study at Yale in 1959" and it's the same as saying, "buh buh buh buh." It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
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What do you expect? I'm busy. Maybe later I'll give you a long essay with links and whatnot. |
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