Comment Re:What about security patches? (Score 1) 462
Very few people will visit 'only the bank,' especially if they're just quickly checking email (or whatever), and don't want to have to reboot and log in first to do so.
Very few people will visit 'only the bank,' especially if they're just quickly checking email (or whatever), and don't want to have to reboot and log in first to do so.
The majority of users I have contact with resent having to enter passwords/user-verification at all. With banks they do, often at least, appreciate the value of the process. But they still take every opportunity to minimise the process, so what're these users to do when they can't have Firefox (et al) save their username/passwords?
Personally, I'm thinking they'll go back to using Windows, which can't be reasonably prevented by the institution, without cutting off a large user-base. Still, a nice -and, to me, novel- idea.
Now if they could put the social security number genie back in the bottle. It actually was written in the law not to use it for anything else, we all know how well that worked out.
Are you saying none of the non-law enforcement users of Facebook are supplying false information?
Seems rather fanciful.
Let's see, doing a random dungeon awards 2 emblems of frost the first time you complete it each day. I'm sorry, but 14 emblems of frost won't buy you anything. All gear you can buy with those costs between 30-95 emblems. You will either need to do this a quite a bit longer, or get these though other means (such as doing the end game content with 9 or 24 of your friends).
Oh, I know about frost badges. My mage is in 3/5 T10.
The reason they have this once per day reward for doing the same dungeon, is to help keep a social atmosphere in the game (dungeons are set up to be done by 5 players).
Random dungeons aren't social. At best you get a 'hi' at the start of the dungeon and then it's silent for the rest of the run. Usually I'm gritting my teeth trying to tolerate the incompetence of the random fail DPSers I get.
Wow has set up the model of rewarding skill and dedication, having either will get you good gear, while having both will earn you slightly better gear.
This is true. Maybe it's stopping being the game for me quite so much.
However, I seem to remember LaVey acknowledged that it was exactly that
Having read a lot of LaVey's work when I was younger, most of it was about deciding things for yourself. LaVey's Satanic Bible expressly said you do not need to perform any rituals in order to be a Satanist. It's a bit like Pastafarianism where there are a bunch of "I really rather you didnt's" and few actual "thou shalts". One of the "Thou Shalts" was blind faith, especially about Satanism.
OP doesn't understand the purpose of religion in modern society and was pulling random "hokey" sounding religions out of his arse. Previously religion was about explanation (and control) but today it is more about being social. Thus Wicca, Jedi and what not are more like book clubs or sporting clubs where people with similar ideas, hobbies, likes/dislikes can get together. Even modern Christian/Jewish churches are like this.
I agree with you about the ritual part, but this is part of socialising in general. How many strange rituals go on with hockey or football clubs?
If you're relying on only 15-20 other downloaders to certify something as "clean" and you regularly download warez you probably already have a rootkit on your system and have no idea it's even there.
Well, that's the fun part: most people don't care as long as it doesn't interfere with their life.
Security is always a trade off. In this case, it's being able to do what I actually want to do (you don't want to go raiding with WoW on wine, trust me), as opposed to doing other stuff I could do on Linux but don't want to. When I want to do what Linux is good at, I dual boot or fire up a separate box.
One should always feel shame from mistreating a book.
Holly book!
Oh for fuck sake, if you want to link to statistics, use the NetApp statistics, stop using the bullshit W3Schools statistics (which have a giant disclaimer saying that their statistics are in no way realistic or reliable). NetApp's actually says the Firefox share is 5 times as many as Chrome, but that's not the point.
Add 20 times the quoted figures or more to beat down the enviro-luddites and it's a non-starter.
Pi day is irrational, but at least it's real.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker