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  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I could speculate.....if the crackers got ahold of info on credit card numbers and a list of names, but didn't have a way of linking which name had which card, they might have a bot charge $33.12 to your account, $33.13 to the next one, $33.14 to the next, and so on, and then see whose account got which charge.  (Totally off the cuff and posdibly not well explained....)

    They'd also compare against other lists gathered at other security breaches....

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, Scotty said:

    In the case of bot protection, it may be a "better safe than sorry" measure because one can never be sure that someone won't come up with some method of snagging personal info from those pages.

    Any page that deals with finances, there's a chance of getting credit card info...

  8. Posted

    32 minutes ago, ChronosCat said:

    Personally, I'm interpreting her to have developed very wide chest and hips; in my interpretation her back isn't bent particularly unnaturally, though it might not be a comfortable position to stand in for long. However if you assume more normal chest and hip proportions it does look like she's practically folded in half (though in that case, I would expect her upper abs and lower chest to be sticking out more in front).

    I think it's a bit of both.  I think Rhea is arching her back some but she is also very hourglassy with almost no waist between hips and a widening back  Fv5 Greg has this same thing going but it's not as noticeable because of his pose vs. Rhea's.  Look at just the back-foot side of Greg and you'll see it.

  9. Posted

    On 5/30/2018 at 11:59 PM, ssokolow said:

    It also didn't help that Hitler started micro-managing his generals as the war went on, and he wasn't as good at it as they were:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK419Nlp8eU

    I am told trained fighters hate fighting untrained fighters because you never know what they're going to do.  I tend to think Hitler's successes were partly by him being untrained.  But as he came to believe his own press and as he became more deluded he became less conversant with his limits or the limits of the forces under his command.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    Not just that. If it sees that a location listed in the boot order doesn't exist, it *removes* that location. Then on a later boot if that location exists again, it decides on its own where to place the location in the boot order - it can't just use the old location, because that information is completely lost.

    In an era of ubiquitous removable drives of at least three kinds (CD/DVD, spinning disks and SSDs, and flash drives), does this make ANY sense?

    This is a case of fixing something that wasn't broken.  We could set a hard and fast boot order in older BIOSes and it would simply use that.  Someone had to make a case for updating this behavior and convince other people that it was a good idea.

    Another edge case is the occasionally annoying moments where a system attempts to boot from the flash drive instead of the hard drive.  The solution (pull the flash drive out of the USB port) must have seemed too strenuous or counter-intuitive...

  11. Posted

    Pardon the tech....

    Most UEFI PC BIOSes "helpfully" change their boot order without asking.  the average user shouldn't care that much but in a lab environment it's annoying as hades. 

    For my own convenience I want all my machines to boot from optical disk (Cd/DVD/BD rom) first.  It makes disk formats and mass OS installs simpler and quicker.   Old BIOSes?  No problem.  I tell the BIOS to boot from the disk first, that's exactly what it is going to do.  Every time.  Makes sense right? 

    That's too simpleminded for a UEFI BIOS.  It knows better.  If it sees a new UEFI-format hard drive if feels compelled to alter its boot order without asking for permission or telling anyone, to make the hard drive boot first, which is what I DO NOT want.  I can reset the boot order of course but UEFI is constantly looking for a reason to pounce and put the hard drive on top again.  There's no way to turn this behaviour off, because of course it's clearly superior behavior.  Why would anyone want anything different?

    I suppose there's an edge case or two this helps.  A moderately skilled user installs windows from a disk.  The BIOS then automagically gets the disk out of her or his way if they forget to pull the disk out of the drive after starting the install.  But most windows disks come with with a "hit any key" prompt to re-enter the install environment and otherwise go on to boot the .hard disk anyway, so why again?  Very annoying.  Very much slows the process down.

  12. Posted

    Just now, hkmaly said:

    But he doesn't KNOW that yet. He presumably doesn't even know about RHODA yet.

    Arthur should know anything Ed Verres knows.  I think between the boar incident and Grace and Rhoda tutoring each other that there's a very good chance Ed Verres knows Rhoda was marked.  Not as sure about Rhoda awakening. 

  13. Posted

    1 minute ago, hkmaly said:

    Someone should tell Arthur that he has deadline. Although I suppose he would operate knowing the risk someone like Kitty appears already.

    Especially since Pandora was going out of her way to create cases like Kitty's....

  14. Posted

    14 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Link? Or is that not public?

    Actually, it was already implied at reddit ... but if the wording is better it would still be useful.

    EDIT: I see ... so the same wording. And note that she may NOT awakened yet due to not being summer yet.

    Kitty's awakening is bearing down on the EGS world like a mack truck....  :)

  16. Posted

    41 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Yes, the question why he knows such spell may interesting, but he clearly implied he knows it.

    I realize this.  I was pointing to "why" not to question that Magus would know a F->M spell but to suggest there might be a practical reason.  *His* gender change spell might have a time limit also.   I didn't really make my point clear, sorry....

  17. Posted

    2 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Which could be funny but not fair. Magus's spell would be permanent, while Ellen's ... well, FV5 is designed to last month so it would probably take him some time to get rid of it, but still.

    Why would Magus need to know a F->M spell if he were permanently male after one casting?  Aside from story convenience of course...

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    Seriously. The Pharaoh is actually right, there has been a lot of that going around. There was a particularly sad case in Denmark back in the late sixties where some con artist convinced a large number of families that the world was ending and that their only hope was to escape with friendly alien UFOs at New Year's Eve. So they sold everything they owned, trusted him with the money, and well, the world was still there after New Year's Eve but the con artist was long gone.

    That's the ugly dark side to claiming end of the world.  that some vulnerable people get defrauded badly.

    It's all fun and games until someone loses their retirement savings.

  20. Posted

    12 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Indeed. When radio broadcasters named Harold Camping predict that the world will end on May 22, 2011, one should not pay too much attention to them. I know I didn't.

    Someone predicted what when?

    I like the Kirk quote from Star Trek VI, "We haven't run out of history just yet."

  21. Posted

    23 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    Yeah. But I think Ellen will give him a truly epic talking to sometime in the future. One thing I am hugely relieved about is that he didn't try to transform Ellen without her consent before fleeing.

    That could have resulted in Ellen returning the favor...

  22. Posted

    6 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    It's all moot. Those who see Magus as an unbeatable demigod will merely invent reasons why Ellen will be automatically flattened anyway. If they are that much in love with their own headcanon, they can keep it. I personally just don't believe it.

    Magus vs. not-Tengue  SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY!!! 

    IN A NO-HOLDS-BARRED GRUDGE MATCH TO SEE WHO REALLY IT THE MOST AMBIGUOUSLY OVERPOWERED!

    SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAY!!! 

  25. Posted

    35 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    That was in fact part of what I counted. Cessation of breath and pulse may usually be considered a reliable indicator of death. As to detection of blood circulation, well, a pulse is usually a requirement for it.

    "he's dead, Jim."