Ew, furry alert :/

j/k, this is cool stuff lol

One of the good things about science is that even if a new (fundamental) idea is hard to get accepted, at least you know that *eventually* it'll make it into the paradigm... since in time more and more people will 'discover' the same truths as yourself (if it's correct and supported by experimentation etc).

The same cannot be said for getting new moralities or updates ways of thinking added into a religion or other doctrine of societal behaviour.. since many such human-borne mindvirus botnets have internal checksum tests that attempt to reject access to the network from nodes that have defective/altered installations - or attempt a reinstall with factory defaults.

Experts Exchange doesn't have their useful content (answers) actually concealed - you just have to scroll down past 2 pages of ads and categories and voila, there it is. At least, this has been the case the dozen or so times I've searched for something and clicked through to them from Google so far this year, and I don't use any agent switcher or any other funky stuff (just NoScript and latest FF, if they obscure it through javascript then that'd be why).

I always get a chuckle when people complain about them, since as far as I can tell, they're being defeated by a scrollbar :D

No, I was going on information from Portugese members of the MMORPGs I used to play.

Citizens of several countries (Poland, Portugal, Brazil, Philippines, a few others) tended to be quite nationalistic in-game and tagged their nicks with BR, pl, etc, so it made them easier to identify, and though perhaps I'm wrong about Portugal certainly the BR/PH often mentioned they were playing in groups rather than at home.

This made it more interesting when people got ripped off, of course, since it meant the targets were very concentrated - infect or hard-hack one machine, get 50 accounts.. from what I hear heads did roll (figuratively) ;)

I have an excellent write-up of a 'hack-back' we performed against a pissant who installed keyloggers on some comps at the local nerd hangout to do just this (steal MMORPG accs) a few years back - I'll post it sometime if it's appropriate :)

At first I thought, "No, wait, maybe he's talking about computer ownership in Japan..." but I see that's not statistically different from US/Aus either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users (there's no direct computer ownership listing)

On a side note, there are certainly several countries where many people who have access to computers and the net don't have their OWN computers; making use of large 'net cafe' industries instead - Brazil, Portugal and the Phillipines, for instance. This would play havoc with the idea of restricting the syncing of ONE device to only ONE computer, and requiring a device to be wiped if it syncs with another comp, a la Apple.

PrefBar allows you to change your user-agent, you may be able to use it to impersonate a GoogleBot (they seem to be indexed by google so it's worth a shot). I can't test it just now as I have 58 tabs open and some of them have large flash videos loaded, but this may be just the thing to facilitate your tripe-viewing in future. :)

Are you claiming to be a better tool?

So you're already a convert? Let it all out, brother! ;)

"Corn?? When the hell did we have corn?? ... Bugger, out of paper towels!"

How long have you known you're autistic?

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Disclaimer: I have ass-burgers, so I'm allowed to make relevant puns. You know, like Chris Rock can make jokes about those of his melanin-endowed persuasion being delinquent and a drain on society, or wops and lebs can make awesome shows like Pizza . :D

Yeah, sheesh.. #373 is the ability to select "scrambled" or "sunny side up" for your Hero's breakfast before hitting the road. o.O

From TFA, it looks as if the study is conducted as a meta-analysis of game reviews, which are often conducted in a very short space of time, so the likelihood of picking up on bugs or experiencing the effects of cheats is undoubtedly much lower than a 'real' player would face. This is especially so in the case of games where the major bugs/hacks aren't discovered or widely exploited until AFTER the game has been reviewed, grown a large membership, etc. I have been involved in several MMORPGs where the in-game economy has been exploited (through newly-discovered bugs) in a matter of weeks or even days, to the point of uselessness, a year or more after the games inception. In some of these, the bugs were known and being abused for long periods of time by people who actually made real money off the game, they just kept it to themselves for as long as they could, but as soon as a noob discovered it or it was leaked, it was a free-for-all. Incidentally, one of the most popular of these had dodgy graphics even when it was first released, but boasts hundreds of thousands of fanatical players.. Despite all the bugs and garbage you have to put up with, there's a great community around most MMORPGs.

Maybe since everyone has to deal with the same shitty glitches it helps bring them together? lol.

Or you could look at it another way - once the game is no longer being hyped by advertisers, most of those who remain will be real fans of the game (and thus usually people who don't need help or beg for sh*t etc), or people introduced to the game by those already fans (thus won't be needing help from you either), or those doing the same thing as you (who I guess would at least *tend* to be more intelligent, though of course not all bargain hunters are Einstein).. So theoretically it can be a positive.

Jeez!! You must really be in a posh part of town - around here things in bins are free. O.o

Okay, a few points [note: I'm not any of the ACs here, I'm a Pseudonymous Coward instead ;)].

Firstly, I have heard the word 'nigger' used to refer to white/brown/black/yellow/blue people (yeah, those smurfs on welfare!).

nigga, niggah etc. al.(noun)1.describes an ignorant, uneducated, foolish individual regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
2. endearing term between two or more individual to describe a friendship or bond.
1. Shut up, you nigger
2. Chris, you my nigga. - Urban Dictionary (definition #4)

Secondly, most people who call themselves 'black' are brown. Yes, BROWN. As in, what you get if you use the HTML color code 'brown' (produces #802A2A). I have met many brown people but only several people who were truly black - and they were Sudanese, not 'African-American' - which is also a BS term ("Oh, you have dual citizenship? May I see your passport?") - but I'll stop that rant right there.

Third, his statement was posed in the form of "A is B", and seemingly you took it upon yourself to extrapolate "All B's are A" from it, which is a logical fallacy. I would personally discount his implication that "All A's are B", but your objection appears to reject the notion that "Some B's are A", which is most definitely a true assertion which makes your outright rejection obviously incorrect.

Finally, what the frack does this have to do with online gaming? If I knew there were a bunch of brown-o-phobes in a particular server, I would join up with a decidedly over-tanned avatar just to laugh at their reactions when they get pwned by a pseudonigger. Idiots with ridiculous bigotries are fun to abuse :)

Only those groups? Why not go all the way? :)