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Comment Re:Oh no (Score 1) 68

This is the same mentality that keeps millions of smtp servers using unencrypted plain-text. I really don't think adding basic encryption should be seen as such an extravagant request. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't take security seriously and they are in charge of some pretty major corporations and popular products.

That's why you have PGP/Gnupg and the like. Besides, who has time to read someone else's mails? I barely have time to read my own!

Except its not. Even Firefox allows non-anonymous browsing (uses username/passwords) and IE can do uploads. For 99.9% of FTP users, the FTP client is the browser.

Blasphemy to be honest. Browsers are for por^H^H^Hbrowsing, get an FTP client for massive downloads. Soon you'll be asking for mail servers to allow you to send more than 5M attachments. Who do you think you are? Mooo

Comment Re:trying to imagine... (Score 1) 833

*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

I'm kidding, but you bring up a very serious point that I've witnessed over and over again. Someone at Blizzard did not think this one through at all.

I think the only positive thing Blizzard will get from this is less traffic on their official forums.

Somewhere a network engineer is claiming a victory. The forums are much more stable and the bandwidth costs have gone down. Hooray!

Network engineers don't do servers. They do care about bandwidth, true, but take my word for it, I'm happier when I have a reason to shutdown a customer's cunnection than just not having traffic. No traffic - > no customers -> no paycheck. We like customers that don't have problems and pay their bill ontime.

Comment Re:trying to imagine... (Score 1) 833

The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. People are less likely to act like an asshole if they don't have anonymity to hide behind. The only people who will be idiots any more are those who are idiots already.

I'm not in the business of acting like an idiot on any given forum although I am sometimes inclined to troll. My problem is that I do NOT want a page full of WoW forum links on a Google search for my name.

In that case, either:

1) Don't be a jack-ass on the Blizzard forums.

2) Don't use the Blizzard forums.

I'll probably do the latter.

Comment Re:Spelling? (Score 1) 494

It would be interesting to see if you preferentially dropped the letters that are typed by your non-writing hand. Perhaps your brain is assuming that the other hand will supply those letters, but you're only writing with one.

I honestly didn't think of that. Unfortunately I can't even check now since I had to do some handwriting lately and my hand got used to it again :) But when I make handwriting mistakes (the ones previously mentioned) it just feels like a delay in writing compared to where my brain is in composing the phrase.

You got me thinking though.

Comment Re:Spelling? (Score 1) 494

My spelling is about the same, but I found myself "eating" letters when I write something on a piece of paper after not writing anything for some time. Thing is I'm used to typing and my brain expects the same output per amount of time (or at least that's the explanation I came up with) as when typing. What annoys me (and annoys my mom a lot more) is the fact that I used to have nice handwriting with even height letters, even spacing between words. That requires practice. My handwriting looks just awful now compared to what it was 10 years ago.

But you are right about the quality, goes down when your read crap.

Comment Re:Beam me up Scotty!! (Score 1) 171

No. Women visiting slashdot is still a theory.

I figure I'd be assaulted by a bunch of "asl pls/pics" requests if I said I was a woman. Oh well... guess I'll go tell my mom she's been lying to me all my life and she totally ruined everything. Thank you Slashdot!

I'll go spend my mod points elsewhere now, you made bunny cry.

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