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Comment Re:All this (Score 2, Interesting) 100

forcemodels to keel/green is standard practice perhaps moreso in quakelive.

Its not exactly cheating if 95% of the players do it, and the other 5% are constantly being told about it/to do it, partially because its high speed and anything that isn't bright green is easy to miss, and this is not a forgiving game especially at the high levels.

Don't know of any working fps based techniques, but this game is full of techniques that make it easy to learn, nigh on impossible to master, its like chess with railguns,rocket launchers and strafe jumping.

Comment Re:UPS's (Score 1) 250

He must be because all the other fuses are ceramic or glass containing a specific thickness wire made from some sort of conductive material that will melt at a given amount of current..

The melting bit is optional if you don't mind being killed by your toaster.

Comment Re:After a month of daily use... (Score 1) 911

I hope you're not seriously even thinking about comparing iphone games, to pc/xbox/ps3 games? The cheap arse Wii games maybe, the xbox live arcade games, sure.. But not full dvd titles for the big three hardcore gaming platforms. People buy apple i* for the same reason they buy acer/lenovo/hp/dell desktops, because its simple, and they're not really required to think about anything more than which model they want. Apple's slick marketing doesn't hurt either. I think most geeks are anti-apple because they fear that the high end hardware and pc architecture that they rely on do to do the things only they know how to, could be displaced by ultra simplified locked down fisher price computing hardware.

Comment Oracle is just one member of this prestigous club. (Score 1) 202

Just as a note, nortel systems have been pulling this shit for years. You practically need a service contract to access anything more than sales brochures. It's a farcical waste of time and money. A lot of people in the phone industry either avoid nortel, charge thier clients through the roof (if they think they'll get away with it, or install pirated firmware updates etc.

Comment Re:I give sites a true password (Score 1) 309

When my mail server had a db engine for virtual users, i used this method (a simple php script to add a new alias, and store a comment for it (usually the web site url and name).

Now i just use hash:/etc/postfix/valiases for virtual_alias_maps and use vim to change things.

Seems a fair bit for efficient. especially since I've created bash one liners to modify them.

Also used to use grey listing, but it ended up losing me too much email that was from sites that sent it directly from a scripting language rather than from a proper mta, but still was important enough, and you can never find out what server and/or domain the mail will be coming from to whitelist it.

Now i use spamassassin, razor, pyzor and dovecot seive to keep spam out of the way.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 981

Honestly my response to those parents would be, perhaps the problem is that your community is so exclusive in its social requirements of a member that you have to be deaf to be a part of it, even if you can both hear and know sign language.

I'm not saying that the rest of the world at large is completely in acceptance of people with disabilities (and i know people with disabilities dislike this word, as i have one myself), but as a generalisation the level of humanity and social acceptance from the pulic is constantly rising, and at a point now, where in my opinion it needs little improvement.

Disability is a crucial part of evolutionary variance, without change of all kinds the human species cannot continue. Evolution is like a poker game, and the human race has been changing the rules (some would call it cheating) ever since neanderthal tied a rock to a stick to make an axe, why stop now?

There will always be individuals who are intolerant of difference, they are obviously either lacking the willpower to to overcome their biologic impulses or are socially uneducated

This is despite our genetic programming built over hundreds and thousands of years to cast out those that could weaken the species as a whole.

This is imho evidenced by watching how young children who've yet to be taught social norms and etiquette react to strong visible difference or impairment

/rant

Comment Re:sigh (Score 1) 252

"copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet...iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system."

The important part is what isn't said. The ruling didn't say that there was no obligation to police a certain part of the net for copyright violations, just that the ISP wasn't responsible for BitTorrent and thus wasn't obligated to police that part of the net.

i would also add that blaming on bittorrent isn't a true statement either. bittorrent is the plumbing, not an illegal technology.

The result of this proceeding will disappoint the applicants. The evidence establishes that copyright infringement of the applicants’ films is occurring on a large scale, and I infer that such infringements are occurring worldwide. However, such fact does not necessitate or compel, and can never necessitate or compel, a finding of authorisation, merely because it is felt that ‘something must be done’ to stop the infringements. An ISP such as iiNet provides a legitimate communication facility which is neither intended nor designed to infringe copyright. It is only by means of the application of the BitTorrent system that copyright infringements are enabled, although it must be recognised that the BitTorrent system can be used for legitimate purposes as well. iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user chooses to make use of that system to bring about copyright infringement.

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