Comment Romero is to blame (Score 1) 422
It all began with John Romero trying to make himself out to be a rockstar instead of a game designer.
The fad caught on. Now people realize they are just geeks.
It all began with John Romero trying to make himself out to be a rockstar instead of a game designer.
The fad caught on. Now people realize they are just geeks.
This is just so ridiculous it has to be a frame or a setup.
Read a news article earlier about a guy in the Midwest that went to the post office to pick up a package and got arrested because it was 7lbs. of pot. So now we can mail illegal stuff to people we hate and get them arrested and ruined for life? Also, there's an article on Fark today that links to a newpaper report about a guy who had his wallet stolen, years later is seems a registered sex offender was using his identity. Now the guy is F'ed because the police cannot remove the alias from the real offender because "the concern is that if authorities delete the alias, the criminal could go back to using it again." The guy is now getting arrested for not registering as a sex offender.
Is law enforcement and people in general really this stupid?
Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.
Thank you for saying this. I constantly tell people here that their speed doesn't mean crap if their latency, or real speed, is bad. They look at me like I'm on crack. Packet loss is another issue and it's ruining my Netflix streaming fun.
The feature still seems to be available - so you can set an image if you want, but I guess they won't be providing you with one of their own picked images as a default.
It's been available for several weeks.
Why not everybody?
Well, there's this little pesky document called the Constitution. Banning texting on the road would be about as Constitutional as a federal ban on violence against women..... I am pretty sure that would fall outside the bounds of the Commerce Clause.....
BS! Remember, driving is not a right. It's a privilege. That's how they get around the Bill of Rights when they setup drunk driver roadblocks. Also, if they can pass crap like the Patriot Act, they can pretty much do anything they want until we, the people, fire them.
Aaaaand, that's only private from the general public. Even if you update Facebook only on your own time, with your own equipment, on your own network, there's a chance that your employer can see your full profile anyway... and your mom's profile, and your dog's profile. There have been posts on
Could easily test this with some fake accounts? I've always assumed the same thing as you.
But are they providing information with the intent to facilitate copyright infringement? Intent matters.
In which countries?
More like a GED.
...every video or home theater forum is filled to the brim with complaints about all brands of bluray players and how they wont play many discs or have other showstopper issues. This is a great idea, make them even more unreliable.
DVD quality has been very good the last several years and I am more than happy with it. My bluray player sits gathering dust. I hated waiting for it to load and it ran so hot I was terrified it might cause a fire. The Samsung engineers knew this and set it to power off after 40 minutes of pausing. It annoyed me so much I went out and bought a $60 upscaling DVD player and never looked back.
Suck it bluray, I hope you die a quick death.
Its funny how the Google hype is driving so much talk about something like DNS, a service which probably 95% of non-tech people don't know exists. Most people
wouldn't care about DNS normally, but since its Google it must be something to get excited about. I doubt really that any significant number of people will
switch to using 8.8.8.8, but I worry that if they do, one of the the original goals for DNS will be lost. That its distributed.
Just ask yourself one question, if you don't trust your internet provider enough to do DNS correctly, should you trust them at all?
No, I can't trust my ISP's DNS servers and I know this from experience. Unfortunately, in my area, there are no alternatives.
Now what?
Getting banned by crybabies is why I refuse to play team games anymore. I'll stick with my hour or 2 of QW or Q3 dm a week, thank you. Sure, there is some crying, but the herd mentality is beyond my ability to cope.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
