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I mine at WeMineLTC.com. It's a great pool; low fees, three servers (west coast, east coast, eu), and a slick website.

Regarding TOR's resource model, I have to disagree. It's just another gimmick to try and put interaction back into the game that was lost with out of combat resource regen. What these gimmicks do is make your next action a response to the user interface instead of your opponent's actions...

I find it astonishing how terrified this nation is, to be so afraid of such non-threats like terrorism and hacking. We give up privacy, give up liberties, spend trillions, send thousands of soldiers to die to supposedly protect ourselves from a threat that kills less people per year than...

That doesn't solve the 'problem' at all. The decision-making of resource use is still removed, as players just end up button mashing fireball until they run out of mana, then AFKing until combat is over. If mana pools are large enough to not be exhausted before all the mobs die, then the...

I have multiple high level characters on both servers. Some of my best EQ memories are on these servers, and very recent. Classic EQ is my all time favorite game, by a mile. Nostalgia has little to do with it.

Litecoin mining has been competitive with Bitcoin for a long time now. I'm about 65 coins mined since I got my card 3 months ago, which is $170 at today's price. If I stopped mining right now my card would pay for itself if the price goes back up to $4.5. Although ASICs are hurting GPU mining...

Judge throws out "state secrets" defense in light of NSA leaks

New article at The Guardian today detailing what 'direct access' means for one company: Microsoft. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...tion-user-data Highlights: Time to switch toJitsi.

I've always been one of the 'it's the gameplay, not the graphics' people, but... uhg. Definitely a negative. I don't have anything against cartoon graphics, but I've had my fill of them with WoW, and I don't want to be reminded of the game that hurt the genre so badly. I also long for more...

I hate to say it, but in many zones I would prefer p99's pathing to eqmac's. Unrest is a great example. Eqmac has all sorts of quirks; one of which is that mobs will warp on top of you if they can't path to you, or even if they can. If I run around mobs in circles too tightly for example...

Also recall that many of these controversial powers were SUPPOSED to be temporary, but they of course keep getting extended. Like nobody could see that coming. I think Obama just gets away with his lies and hypocrisy because A) People just like him as a person, they don't think Obama is...

William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, and Thomas Drake blew the whistle on the NSA's Trailblazer project, another domestic spying program, in 2002. Obama's administration indicted Thomas Drake under the espionage act in 2010. John Kiriakou blew the whistle on the use of waterboarding in 2007...

1) the deeper they go down the hole, the more it motivates more whistleblowers 2) good 3) of course most people won't, but at least now they have a chance, and the privacy minded current events aware individuals can opt-out

Snowden's revelations will do the following: 1) Slow the expansion of the surveillance state with the worry about it being exposed ever more present and by allowing Intelligence Committee senators to bring up the subject in more detail publicly 2) Hopefully remove the supreme court's excuse...

Yeah whatever. Just like Manning's leaks were supposed to get people killed, and then it didn't happen. There is no way to whistleblow with zero collateral damage. I would argue the positives far outweigh the negatives in both Manning's and Snowden's cases, but either way it's nearly...

They have to have the data in their possession and examine it to know that it is foreign or not. The entire objective of the PRISM program is to remove the need to request (demand) the data from providers and just wholesale examine everything, looking for target identifiers and storing foreign...

So we agree, the NSA is incompetent. One wonders why they go to the trouble of developing things like Security-Enhanced Linux and then not use them. The most 'outrageous' claims were in the PRISM slides, which you and a_skeleton_03 dismiss entirely because they are presentation slides and not...

Manning had Top Secret clearance, even if his leaks had no top secret documents in them. But hey, lets throw the book at him anyway. Microsoft Windows started offering built-in encryption in Windows 2000 Professional (Encrypting File System) and full disk encryption (bitlocker) since Windows...

Uh yes? Recall Bradley Manning, the at-the-time unstable 22 year old recently demoted private first class? Or am I supposed to believe he was also a master hacker who 'fabricated digital keys' while he was lip synching to Lady Gaga? Alexander's 'fabricating digital keys' comment sounded...

VPNs that log use aren't useless; they are used to secure wifi connections and access sites like hulu from out of country and whatnot. Everybody should insist on using a no logging provider though, even if you don't pirate. Gox's US account was frozen because they didn't register as a money...

I was ready to be outraged over that, but it just seems to be the credit card companies continuing their denial of service to copyright infringing sites. Media companies have made arrangements with credit card processors to deny services to certain web sites, and it is very effective and...

One of Snowden's revelations was that we were hacking China as much or possibly more. Iran started up their hacking program as a response to our stuxnet attack. Cyberwar is just the latest boogeyman for the military industrial complex. The threat is overblown and the threat that is there is...

There is a big difference between seeking evidence of wrongdoing that he already knew was going on, and going there not knowing what he would find just to obtain more classified information to release to the public for... what? lulz? I don't much care how the lawyers weasel their way around...

Kerry's response to the bugging was amusing. 'It's not unusual, everybody does it!' 1) just because something is commonly done, doesn't make it right, and 2) not everybody does it. You think Luxembourg bugs embassies? England and the US have a history of clandestine...

New players: check out post #3 in this thread for some cash farming ideas. I just added probably the best farming spot (shades in shadeweaver's) to the list. Hopefully the estimated prices haven't dropped too much since I last played in February.

I'm somewhat amazed (ok not really) that both the NSA and the diplomats are so incompetent when it comes to their own security. OpenVPN on a private fully disk encrypted laptop is cheap, effective, and not very difficult to set up and use. Internet cafes? lol. My router firmware bundles in...

That's just it, they can't decrypt it. At least not yet. That's why they are storing it all, so they can decrypt it later when (if) technology allows for it. The public adopting mass encryption would be like a DDoS against the NSA. At some point it becomes impractical to just build more...

They have no way to know what kind of data it is when I tunnel it through a VPN. I originally got the VPN to avoid those extortion civil suits, but now that is becoming the secondary benefit. If enough people encrypted all of their data, it would make many of the NSA's domestic spying...

Now I feel even better for encrypting all my p2p downloads. A mere $40/year for unlimited use VPN, payable via bitcoin so you give them no personal information. Connect to the Switzerland node because of their privacy laws. Performance is great. When I don't torrent over that, it's SSL/TLS...

Ironically Snowden the whistleblower becomes an example of why this conspiracy is unrealistic. It's just such a leap above the worst I've seen done from this government. If they started making a habit of doing that level of evil, it'd get out sooner rather than later. Being a liberal though...

Well I'll be devil's advocate again and say that the Manhatten Project was rather successful. Of course the elite class back then wasn't nearly as stupid. Also the number of people involved in murdering a single journalist could be pretty small. It's not as if the entire government would be...

Here's a guess: Hastings was meeting his source in the middle of the night, notices he was being followed by the FBI who wanted to know his source, he gunned it to try and lose them, and lost control at high speed.

Drive-by-wire steering is a very new thing though; cars with that are just coming out this summer. So unless the supposed assassins used a very sophisticated device, they would have had to of settled for hacking the electronic throttle control, and merely speed the car up and hoped he would...

I'll play devil's advocate here and mention that the yottabytes claim is almost certainly false. You would need literally billions harddrives to have enough storage for one yottabyte. I googled a lot of articles mentioning the yottabyte claim, but it's simple math. So unless they have area-51...

I didn't mean that Snowden would face the exact same abuses and in a military trial, I meant that he could expect harsh treatment and abuse of the law in a more general sense from an angry administration as Manning did. Both of these guys are competing for biggest leaker ever, after all...

We have Manning's case as an example of what would happen to Snowden. "The Rules for Courts Martial (RCM) 707 states that under normal circumstances the accused should be brought to trial within 120 days of charges having been brought."It took them over 1,000 days to start his trial after...

Neither China, Russia, or Cuba are his ultimate destination. Ecuador is a democratic republic with a popular president. Their official currency is actually the USD. Snowden also made past statements of preferring asylum in Iceland. Basically his options are limited because most countries...

So if Snowden is a traitor-- a spy giving secrets to our enemies, namely China and Russia-- then why should we expect them to give Snowden up? To give their spy back? Why would they send that message to all their other agents? It's ridiculous to want it both ways. So by trumping up charges...

The ACLU does God's work. They remind me that some lawyers are heroes and not all scumbags, like the soulless sociopaths in Obama's DoJ that abuse the law and bully people to suicide by threatening 3+ decades of prison for a victimless crime, just so they can make examples of people and further...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...ng?INTCMP=SRCH Cops could solve more crimes if they could ignore the 4th amendment and enter any home they wanted to at any time; that doesn't mean it's a good idea to repeal it. In a police state, you trade fear of crime and terrorism for fear of the...