Drake42 - Slashdot User

Comment Use unfuddle.com (Score 4, Informative) 221

by Drake42 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:44AM (#40629237) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects?

I am not associated with them, nor employed by them. But I've used them for many projects now and been generally happy with the result.

Comment Re:42 thanks (Score 1) 72

by Drake42 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:25PM (#36244180) Attached to: Happy Towel Day!

My user name included! And my slashdot user number is 4074!

Comment Climate Change Deniers (Score 3, Insightful) 363

by Drake42 on Friday May 20, 2011 @04:35PM (#36196102) Attached to: Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected

Why is it that the scientists can detect an ozone hole, provide a fix, show that the fix solved the problem, and then be LOUDLY IGNORED by the liars in congress.

Oh. The CFL manufacturers had less money than the oil people. Sorry. I forgot...

Comment Bring Back The Fairness Doctorine (Score -1, Flamebait) 336

by Drake42 on Monday May 16, 2011 @02:05PM (#36142868) Attached to: Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency

It's the only way. When we had it, politics was more civil and more responsive. Since it's been gone, there's nothing but a greed-fest in public discourse. Who cares if it's a lie if you get ratings? With the Fairness Doctrine in place, the liar gets an immediate shellacking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

Comment GLaDOS, not SkyNet! (Score 1) 274

by Drake42 on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @05:15PM (#35874348) Attached to: Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack

Right day. Wrong evil AI. Come on people!!!

Comment Re:while of course this is fud (Score 3, Insightful) 195

by Drake42 on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:34PM (#28299713) Attached to: Is China Creating the World's Largest Botnet Army?

TRUST NO ONE!

DO NOT TRUST THE CHINESE! (But eat their food, wear their clothes, use their electronics)
DO NOT TRUST THE USA! (But obey their laws, enjoy their movies, work for their money)
DO NOT TRUST THE IRANIANS (But ignore their democratic progress and ignore their people's work for peace)

Here's the real answer:
DO NOT TRUST YOURSELF, because you're an idiot.

Distrust is for the weak. Optimistic skepticism and honest effort are for the strong.

Comment Re:A Hard Lesson Learned (Score 1) 143

by Drake42 on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @01:22PM (#26972889) Attached to: Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC

I send you a heaping spoonful of good luck. You're the only person that actually looked into what was going on and reported on it. You also changed my view of the situation with facts not rants.

More power to you.

Mythic GM Talks Warhammer Launch, Banning Gold Sellers 251

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @06:20PM from the ban-early-and-often dept.

Gamasutra has an interview with Mark Jacobs, GM and co-founder of Mythic, about the recent launch of Warhammer Online. He talks about handling the heavy demands on the servers, and how the launch is going better than the opening of Dark Age of Camelot (during which "somebody parked a truck on our internet"). Jacobs also blogged about the glee with which he and his team have been banning gold spammers: "We don't wait and let them stay in the game and ban them en-masse, my guys ban their useless, time-consuming butts right away. We have a strike team whose sole job it is to get these guys off our servers as quickly as possible. This weekend, we unveiled a new wrinkle in the fight against them, the public ban message. Players on our Phoenix Throne server have been treated to special messages when a gold seller/spammer is banned. I've given them a wide leash to come up with creative messages to tell the entire community who has been banned and we keep it within the Warhammer universe."

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