Well, the effectiveness of this "intentional leak" can be measured in my response. I was going to buy the game. Now I am not.

I liked how the leaky person took no effort to hide himself from the screen glare induced reflection making him pretty easily identifiable. I hope he didn't work directly for blizzard...

Leaking IP is bad behavior too.

D.

However what is at issue here is what if you walk up to your neighbor and say "Hey don't you think maybe you should have a door on that house? Someone could get in you know..." He then sends you the bill for the door, lock, security bars, and exterior gate.

D.

I like the mission statement of the Pirate Party. I will be watching this favorably. I expect their philosophy and full plank would flow in logical progression from their already stated goals. If it is well thought out it will not philosophically contradict itself (like the parties that currently exist do - repeatedly). If that is the case, this is a party that might contain individuals for whom I could vote.

I think it is time there was a party in the United States that ran under a unified philosophical approach instead of broad spectrum polling data in their target demographic markets.

Will it happen? Only time will tell. The Hegel/Marx spiral continues to march toward inexorable disintegration.

=-Donovon

Pick some conventions that fit your interests and head there. Make contacts and follow up. Never know what could happen.

=-D-=

To think that a mad scientist from the bayou could build a personal army of crocodile-men! We should be thankful this representative has the bigger picture in mind!

This is way more important than better levees and surf breaks!

}0.o{

Imagine the ire of an entire new species at the implications of that.

D

This begs to wonder what precisely they are planning to do with all that underutilized IP they are amassing...

--D

I think they are headed the wrong direction with this.

Evolutionary theory is vastly unimportant compared to a lack of Scientific Method. I see the requirement of showing weaknesses in Darwinian Evolution as forcing the employment of Scientific Method on difficult, emotion laden, and controversial issues. Beating the method into young impressionable skulls is far more important than whether they believe in creation by amoeba or creation by God. Teach them to think, don't tell them what to believe.

Just IMO.

-D

Maybe I'm getting old, but we used to use a nifty thing called uuencode back in the usenet days.
You can send any file you like via a text-only medium.
I don't know of any implementation that will automatically decode it and post to a blog for you, but
I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to create with the proper skill set...
or a buddy on the other side to decode and post it for you.

Have a safe and productive journey!

=-D

I once had a customer call and inform me that his monitor must be infected with a virus, because every computer in his office he plugged the monitor into became infected.

Despite all assurances to the contrary I was unable to convince him of the (more likely correct) alternative explanations.

=-D