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Can someone explain what EVE is? And explain it like I don't know anything about it (and I don't). Wikipedia, etc. don't cut it and I still don't understand what EVE is and why people like it. Thanks a lot!
EVE is a MMORPG, where people fly around a galaxy (this one: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png ), in spaceships. Unlike WoW, there are no player classes (warrior, shaman, mage, etc), there are just different spaceships you can fly. You can't jump into any spaceship you want right off the bat though, you have to spend skill points in order to have the skill "Pilot spaceships of type X". Also,…
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You could easily be a Night Elf's World of Earthcraft avatar on some server blade in some cooler universe than ours.
As you probably are aware, this is not entirely unlikely: http://www.simulation-argument.com/ An interesting read by world-renown philosopher Nick Bostrom.
I am going to wrote allmy papers like this, "Either some ridiculously unlikely scenario will never be reached, or some other unfalsifiable scenario is true."
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1) All sudo commands show up in the logs. You can put the logs on another server, possibly a server where only the head of IT has sudo privileges, possibly one that automatically replicates to other sites. Seeing a "sudo su", "sudo bash", or "sudo -s" in the logs could get you reprimanded, and if there's a security breach it could make you a suspect. 2) You can disable sudo -s, sudo su, and sudo bash. Maybe the peopl…
Isn't 'sudo vi' already game over? :sp /bin/vi ... :wq
Yes, I wasn't very clear when I said the following...
> Okay, so you're a good admin and disabled that.
What I mean is that you disable "sudo vi" access, and allow "sudoedit" access. Suddenly you only have write access to certain files. But which files? These people need to administer the server, but at the same time you want to prevent them from creating a backdoor, or at least you want to know about it if they do.
/etc/crontab is just an obvious example. Maybe you can get suborn a filter somewhere that runs as root, or poison the environment variables of a legitimate script.
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#144It's interesting to comprehend the amount of lives a hack like this will positively affect. How many will pick up a book, or go for a walk, now that they no longer have their go-to fix of virtual reality. How many WOW addicts will have time to think "never again" and follow through. Equivalent to all the cigarettes in the world vanishing for a few hours? Possibly. And equally as effective I say.
Please allow me to correct your mistaken impression that WoW players are all addicts that have no lives and no hobbies that impress other people: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/nordrassil/Spink/advan... is my main WoW toon (already level capped for the current just-released expansion and raiding), with weeks of /played time. http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/2444699-jane is the last couple of years worth o…
How do you play for 5 minutes? Don't you have to fight big complicated battles with lots of people at a scheduled time?
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#145It's interesting to comprehend the amount of lives a hack like this will positively affect. How many will pick up a book, or go for a walk, now that they no longer have their go-to fix of virtual reality. How many WOW addicts will have time to think "never again" and follow through. Equivalent to all the cigarettes in the world vanishing for a few hours? Possibly. And equally as effective I say.
I just finished Carl Jung's The Undiscovered Self whilst comparing and contrasting his thoughts on spirituality to Nietzsche's scathing criticism of christianity's moral code leading to a slave mentality. Oh, and I hit level 60 on my Monk on Wow. Stereotypes are fun, aren't they?
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I think it's impossibly difficult to argue that wasting time playing WoW is fundamentally worse than, say, watching football.
If someone watches football as obsessively as folks play WoW then I'd agree. But if your child falls over and needs attention you can get up and deal with it without "letting down your group/team/guild". I know of multiple cases of child neglect by players... indeed, my wife and I gave up WoW cold turkey when we realized one of our twins had a fever and we hadn't noticed for several hours because we were so engrossed…
/posting from my kid's room while she falls asleep.
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If someone watches football as obsessively as folks play WoW then I'd agree. But if your child falls over and needs attention you can get up and deal with it without "letting down your group/team/guild". I know of multiple cases of child neglect by players... indeed, my wife and I gave up WoW cold turkey when we realized one of our twins had a fever and we hadn't noticed for several hours because we were so engrossed…
That is true of most team based activities. I think the difference with online games is kind of like working from home. Other people living with you may expect you to be present whereas really what you are doing is similar to being on a sports team. No one expects you to be present to do other things while out on the sporting field in the middle of a match. Granted the time invested is likely a little different.
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#148> Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms 1. Wait -- was I just teleported into my favorite South Park episode? 2. I can't wait to see the civil lawsuits for psychological injury against the perpetrator of this outrage. 3. Don't these people do nightly backups? It's not as though WOW isn't an important cybernetic resource meriting industry best practices.
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Can someone explain what EVE is? And explain it like I don't know anything about it (and I don't). Wikipedia, etc. don't cut it and I still don't understand what EVE is and why people like it. Thanks a lot!
EVE is a spreadsheets with a chat. Why people like it? Because everything else is so much simpler and dull (except elves in armored bikinis of course). It's like comparing Lego Mindstorms to a Barby game set. The latter is way more popular though :) , just like WoW and Lineage vs EVE.
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#150I think that there's something kind of fascinating and romantic about the idea that an entire world and the ongoing social affairs of thousands of people can fit on a single server blade in the middle of nowhere.
This hack is eerily reminiscent of Morpheus coming to free the minds of all the people trapped in the matrix...