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I double checked that statement before I wrote that. I found it in several articles that did not specifically apply it to whistleblowers. Seems a lot of reporters are 'making a point'. Regardless, even only applying to whistleblowers, it is still abusive and quite indicative of an...

Snowden is a patriot and a hero. Our corrupt government only validates his claims by charging him with espionage. This makes the 7th indictment brought under the controversial 1917 Espionage Act from this administration. It had been usedthree times previouslyin the entire history of the...

How to play WoW: Check off one of three roles. Teleport to dungeon. Run into pack of mobs. Whack-a-mole cooldown buttons until mobs die. Click food/water. Wait 20 seconds. Repeat until Boss. At boss, avoid fire. Buy gear with points. How to play EQ: Determine group class makeup...

PC users still have some limited search functionality. You can do searches for items, it just won't tell you who is selling it or for how much or direct you to them. However the search parameter inputs still function, so you can select individual sellers in the drop down and the item shows up...

In my guild, we were parsing damage from the early days. Not much in classic, but in Kunark we parsed enough to know that discing melee were outdamaging wizards even on 32k hp dragons. Of course in Velious using the bane spells, it was easy enough to count the number of spells that landed and...

Well as I was actually grinding AAs a few months ago, I can give you more accurate estimates. 1 AA/hr is about standard. I was doing crazy 7 box AoEing of the caller caves and getting 16 minute AAs in a 5 man group with level 60 characters on eqmac. Doing 6 man PBAoE with everybody in group...

Ykesha and LDoN didn't add AAs though, if I'm not mistaken. I recall some people in my guild not even buying Ykesha. Post-Omens EQ isn't 'early EQ' anymore. Mandatory AAs aren't a problem any more than mandatory levels are a problem. Either way it's a required exp grind. AAs just might...

Six months? EQ's early expacs were about a year apart, not six months. (SoV was like 9 months though) Luclin didn't add new levels either, so you had a full year to make your required AAs after having all of Kunark and Velious to make 60. PoP's 5 levels went by faster than Kunark's. I...

Actually EQ's simple log file allowed for some interesting third party applications. EQ's logging is a good example of something simple that enriched EQ yet is missing from later games, really. Being my guild's MT, I used to parse my guild's damage and type the top damage dealers in guild chat...

Yes, you are right. I thought of the ion drive when I wrote 'we have nothing better' but we still need traditional chemical rockets to take these things out of earth's gravity well, so I just kept it short. In fact the first ion engine we used for a probe was on the Dawn spacecraft that...

Well if you want to pick nits here, I'll clarify. Voyager 1 has the fastestheliocentric recessionspeed of any man-made object. It's a little easier to go fast when you're flying into the sun's gravity well instead of away from it. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away. To get there in 25...

Water desalination and purification, generating fertilizer, and air purification are things we can do already. They just require energy. With the amount of energy required to send the seeds of civilization to another star system, you could just fix home instead. Of course by the time we could...

As I mentioned, there is no resource reason to colonize other stars. There are virtually unlimited resources in the solar system in the form of asteroids. Elements that are rare in the earth's crust are common in asteroids. (gold, platinum, iridium, etc) Escaping political oppression might...

You and Brad vastly overestimate mankind's current technological capabilities and/or underestimate the distances between stars. The fastest vehicle we have ever sent into space, Voyager 1, would take 72,000 years to reach the nearest star. The best idea for an interstellar vehicle that we...

Dyson spheres are ridiculously impractical. For one, it would require more matter than in all of the planets and asteroids in the solar system. And secondly, why build an enormous solar panel when you can just make your own fusion reactors? As for colonizing the entire galaxy, I have to ask...

Rift literally put me to sleep while playing the game. I couldn't wait to stop playing that game after forcing myself to play up to level 20 to give it a chance. I'm still amazed it did as well as it did. (retaining about 40% of its subs after a year) I guess a bug free client and polished UI...

I really want to like this game. I love the shit out of D2 and D3's engine is really nice, so I almost get an urge to play again. The #1 problem (of a long list) I have with this game is the huge fucking chore it is to evaluate and sell drops. I would have probably preferred a more...

The difference with a more traditional trial is not only losing access to the account, but when the trial is over they are faced with a box price + a sub price to continue; that's a pretty steep pay wall. Trials are also rather limited. My model would essentially be an unlimited trial giving...

Yeah but one of the reasons f2p works is because of the zero barrier to entry. Remove the box price and allow free play up to a point and you can gain that advantage while still requiring a subscription to enjoy the full game. This is also important because players who have no clue what might...

I also despise cash shops. I'm terrified Sony will fuck up a good game by implementing one into EQN. Exp potions are pay to win, period. Being one of the first to the level cap often grants players advantages in terms of lack of competition for camps/resources, and PvP wise it certainly...

So how long did those fungusbeast glands last you guys anyway

There was a reason why exp penalties existed to begin with. Warriors were garbage until Kunark proc weapons + disc defensive, and even after those I'd still rather have a knight for a tank for all non-raid content. Hybrids and large races were more powerful and paid for it with exp penalties...

His namecoin pump worked and made me 20% on top of my investment. Of course I am playing around with all of 1 BTC for this so I gain or lose little. I just wanted to see what would happen. If his scheme is to buy in before announcing then sell instead of spiking the price upward then I would...

I bought in a day after his recent namecoin announcement and made money, but today's TRC pump has been a waste of time and money for me. Actually it looked as if Fontas lost money himself, since he put up a 500 BTC buy order at 0.0053 which was partially filled, then dumped the price down to...

I bought in again at 96 two days ago. It already went back up to $115 this morning. Fontas doing a TRC pump and dump in 5-6 hours or so. (22:10 UTC)

Made 20% profit from his namecoin pump today and was asleep when he did it. I just set some sell limit orders at different price points a couple of days ago and sold the remainder for about as much as I paid for them after the dump.

And I'm done. Was getting serious SGU flashbacks with episodes being played out with emo music. Why is good writing so uncommon anyway

I doubt ASICs will have much affect on bitcoin prices, really. The rate at which coins are created will remain the same. Buyers won't care how they are created. I also made the mistake of not buying a GPU to mine with back in 2011 because even back then, it was barely worth the trouble-- IF...

I'm not thinking that they came to invade like independence day (although the Volge don't look like the 'lets get along' type) but otherwise mundane technology can be easily weaponized. I would expect them to bring along small spacecraft and other kinds of flying vehicles. I would expect them...

It really is painfully obvious what little effort they put into it. I mean the idea that a species which mastered interstellar travel would face ANY resistance from modern day humans is LAUGHABLE on its face. If Europeans could wipe out 90% of the Native Americans just by stopping by and...

I think that bitcoin protecting sellers is a huge selling point. If sellers aren't eating the fraud, then they can offer lower prices. Certain sellers in particular would absolutely love no chargebacks, such as virtual goods merchants. It's also easier to integrate bitcoin into storefront...

A crash just means it's a good time to buy in, which I did. I was going to buy litecoins since BTC was so high, but the crash allowed me to buy into BTC. Sellers can't seem to break through the 2+ million dollar $50 wall so far. Even at litecoin's current $1.50, I still mine at a rate of...

Short litecoin mining guide. Even at current prices, litecoin is more profitable mining with GPUs. 1. Buy one or more voltage unlocked ATI video card(s). 7950 for the most khash/watt. nVidia cards don't mine well at all. 2. Install the AMD APP SDK 3. Sign up at a mining pool or use...

Well I'm certainly guilty of bringing up EQ in other game threads, but I only do so because I consider EQ classic to be the best MMORPG ever released, and I see modern games as a step backwards gameplay wise. I'm not the only one who thinks this, which is why people keep bringing EQ up. You...

You're right, those are big problems right now, but they are so easily fixed. Mtgox is the biggest right now because it's simply the best exchange. When people handle this much money, they want to give it to the most reputable sites. As bitcoin gets bigger, you'll start seeing more...

Bitcoin DOES have intrinsic value though-- as a service. It's free to transfer funds to anyone, anywhere. The world shares it, so if your country blows up, bitcoin will remain about as stable as it normally is. (which will get better over time) It's fast. It's convenient. It's private. No...

Other exchanges had a massive sell-off while gox is down. btceBTC was down to $55 and btceLTC was down to $1. Killin' me that I can't buy in right now. Bitcoin needs an easy way to buy in, badly. Whoever figures that out will get rich.

How are you guys buying your coins? It seems the old Dwolla -> MtGox way is now full of delays and sending ridiculous amounts of identification. I expected this to get easier with time, not harder. And here I was all ready to buy in after my ridiculously long 5 day bank transfer to Dwolla...

If I'm reading this right, some dude set up a buy order for 9073 coins at $212.12. That's a 2 million dollar buy order.

I can only repeat what I've read as this stuff is over my head, but supposedly FPGAs and ASICs will at least be far less effective miners. Litecoin was supposed to be the CPU friendly coin when it was developed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?to...502#msg1256502...