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Hm, that site is now "Overloaded". Apart from Slashdot, Hacker News and Reddit, is there now a Raymond-Chen effect? The idea is indeed similar to hellbanning. Jeff Atwood's article from last year makes...
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In a game I play the consequence of non-negotiated modding is out-of-sync rather than an effective cheat. (Out-of-sync is the result of one client doing something and the other client saying what the...
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Is there any Windows documentation on translucent froodads? They sound like an awesome feature that I'd like to use in my next shell extension, but the only MSDN search result is for this page.
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"then everybody laughs at you and you earn the IRONY badge. (At least until somebody comes up with a mod that removes the IRONY badge.)" Or until hipsters decide it's cool to be ironic by getting the...
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One term you didn't define that I didn't know either that I will define now that I've figured it out: J-tag is apparently a type of console mod. Bannable offense to use it online. Also avatars that...
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Also a "forced-name change" (FNC) I presume is done when a gamer tag is inappropriate and the user must pick a different one.
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One of the best things I've seen in a long time was the Reddit thread where people banned from Guidwars 2 could ask about / argue about why they got banned, and arena.net would respond with why -...
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> Validating existence on bind doesn't really buy you much anyway, because the server might go down after the bind succeeds but before the EnumObjects call, so clients have to be prepared anyway...
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When I was in college I ran a student BBS on the campus VAX 6420 system. We had a multiplayer text-based game called Galactic Trader (this was 1992). A couple enterprising students at the time...
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The same idea would work great in bike racing - allow any and all kinds of doping. Would be fun to watch for one race or two...
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re: Rogue feature: Docking a folder at the edge of the screen
I am one of the very few people who used the feature on purpose, and loved it. I did not whine when it went away though, as I understood it was a very niche features that easily could have caused more...
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The same idea would work great on the internet, too -- spammers can only send email to other spammers, trolls can only post to other trolls, ... Just a few implementation details to work out and then...
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That's an absolutely fantastic idea. I've felt the same way about PEDs in sports, too. Just like we used to have the old distinction between "amateur" and "professional", you could now have "clean"...
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I wonder if there's an AppVerifier Shim/Check to catch such violations. I can envision one - mark thread as "should return quickly" before entering BindToObject implementation, and fail the check if it...
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They had something similar running at dirty.ru, where all the banned users were sent to the Leprosorium where they had no rules and elected their own mod every week to govern the chaos. And if that mod...
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The problem is that msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb775059(v=vs.85).aspx doesn't give much guidance in this direction to implementers.
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THe MAZZTer: JTAG is an IEEE debugging standard for embedded hardware; it's useful for much more than just cheating in console games.
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Ref: [Glass houses are great places to throw stones. -Raymond] Is it permissible to create a Window with a window procedure of DefWindowProc, or am I being too literal?
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What is froodad? Can't find translation.
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