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My first reaction is that it's about time.After that, I get doubts. How are they going to control these hackers? The government's going to have to constantly keep them happy and satisfy them, otherwise they could do some serious damage. Not to mention that someone could infiltrate the unit and do plenty of damage before being found out. I mean, what are they going to be using hackers for? Investigations? That'd be a giant violation of privacy. Other countries? Again, that'd be overtly hostile, and we don't need that right now. I don't think it's going to be overly helpful, but we do need to prepare for the future, and that future includes hackers as one of the most damaging weapons in any country's arsenal. Because, you know, computers are going to take over a lot of the roles that humans play very soon.

My math teacher let us celebrate Pi day... we brought in tons of pies (pumpkin, apple, blueberry, etc), Pi stuff (such as books, t-shirts, mugs, everything!), and any random interesting math stuff, really. It was great- we essentially got the period off to talk to friends and screw around in the name of pi.

Well, some of the programs I use most are:MSWordFirefoxIE (though not nearly as much as FF)AIM (more than MSN or YIM)Limewire PROAshampoo WinOptimizer Suite 2 ---- Both of these areDachshund Integrator ---- Windows optimizers/cleanup utilities.Windows Media PlayerC&C Generals (Yes, it's fun. Strains my gfx card, though.)Favorites? Hard to say... probably:Dachshund Integrator (yes, it's extremely useful.)Ashampoo WinOptimizer Suite 2Starcraft Brood War (old, yes, but still fun)AIMAd-AwareFirefoxCouple of other games, too, but that'd be redundant.

Yeah, same here. I don't mind google ads as much as other ones, because Google actually tries to make them semi-relevant and relatively unobtrusive as opposed to those flashy "Shoot the Clown" or whatever ads you see a lot today. And I'm not opposed to ads, partially because I'm guessing I'll have to rely on them as a source of support for my site eventually.I'm running Mozilla Firefox, and I can see your adlinks just fine, though it took me awhile to find them, webguide. Maybe jipman just wasn't looking hard enough...

In response to Majestic, I think the scientific community basically accepts it as fact, but for religious reasons, within the United States we have to say it's a theory. ;; Christians would be kind of annoyed if we started saying that Creationism, one of their basic tenets, is false. I mean, wouldn't you be kind of worried if science threatened some of your Buddhist beliefs? Especially that whole cycle of samsara, with birth and rebirth.It might be annoying at times, but at least within the US, we have to put up with some extremist Christians... ;;

Yeah, I almost got hit with this virus. Some random person I've talked to in the past sent me a message saying "OMG this is cute! <insert link here>". Fortunately, saying OMG was completely out of character for them, so I asked them about it, and they explained. o_O;; That, and I clicked on it, and when it asked me to download it, I noticed it was an .exe file, so I cancelled immediately.Well, I'd say a nice combination of Firefox, ZoneAlarm, and either Norton or McAffe Antivirus will do the trick at stopping and containing infections. I've had all three on my computer for awhile, and nothing's gotten through. At least, nothing that I've noticed... >_>

Honestly, even if it were from the FBI, I wouldn't open it. I'd check up some of my sources in D.C. and run like crap towards the Canadian border. XDB'yeah, that is pretty sad. People are falling for this enough that it calls for a general warning? O_o Kinda like the Nigerian nobility bank scam, only it uses fear instead of greed.

I just noticed something; you used both "he" and "she" to describe God. Intentional? O_o Interesting interpretation of the bible... yes, many of the things in the bible are there to prevent us from destroying ourselves, and they might have rephrased the big bang to sound more mystical. It's certaintly more accurate, in my opinion, than believing that the Bible is to be taken completely literally. There are just some things in the Bible that you know have to be metaphorical...

Valentine's Day? For me, it symbolizes a day in which I can make ...comments... to my female friends and get away with it. No, not those comments, perfectly innocent ones. >_> And I wouldn't normally have the courage to make those comments, so I guess it provides some form of encouragement for me. Plus, I can make someone I like feel special on that day by asking to do something with them that day. ;;>_> So yeah, it's a nice opportunity for me.

Yes, Katamari Damacy is crazy fun. Gets old after awhile, though.Anyone played Kuon? O_o It's in the horror genre, so I wouldn't expect anyone to really have played it...Oh, and you forgot DDR-*is shot* XP

;;>_> Almost all of my geek friends play WoW, and I feel left out, 'cause my laptop and my desktop both lack the 512 MB RAM required to play it. ;_; I would buy it, but I can't play it...But yeah, Runescape gets old. Fast. Unless you're a member, in which case you have endless fun in the form of logging on to a non-members world and pointing and laughing at non-members.

As stated before by so many, the permanent damage concept would be interesting. However, you should be able to also repair damage done by others, depending on what kind of damage they've done. ;;>_> And, well, not having safe zones would be interesting to watch and play in, but it might frustrate players trying to maintain law and order. Just something for you to ponder.Yes, I'd love to beta this game. So what're you planning to program this in? And will this be a SWG-type thing? O_o

One of the shining points in DarkBattle, in my opinion, is the specialized ship and defense classes- each ship can only target up to two different classes of ships and/or defenses, and each defensive structure can only target up to two different classes of ships.I think this makes for a much more strategic game, and encourages more balanced building, as opposed to massing one type of ship and rushing someone else with it. If you don't pay attention to ship classes, you might just end up destroying your fleet needlessly!Oh, and the concept of EMP (which disables ships), ship agility, weapon tracking, and EMP resistance are also intriguing factors in the game which add to its playability. I mean, what's the use of massing capital ships when their guns are too slow to hit a tiny little fighter, eh? ;;

Ah, I think I see what you're trying to get at. People can pretend to be something they're not in a cybercommunity, and decieve others; therefore, the chance that you're being fed a shadow of the real person increases, eh? That does make sense, but I believe that people tend to at least give hints of their actual personalities when interacting with someone they believe is a human being. It's not as if you can radically change what your subconscious is composed of just because you're talking to someone you will have no physical interaction with. If you take long enough to try to get to know who someone is over the net, you will eventually uncover their true personality. As for the people who don't want to take that long, well, that's just a part of their personality that they're revealing to the person on the other end of the line. Yes, I can see how it'd provide a form of therapy. I have, on more than one occasion, considered doing just what you proposed- creating an alter ego and venting a little anger on someone who is being particularly frustrating. However, I don't believe I've ever done this, and I suppose that's another clue as to my personality. I agree somewhat with your argument that cybercommunities provide for a much higher risk of Plato's shadows becoming real, but I also believe that, given sufficient time and effort, any illusion on the other person's part will be dispelled. I mean, it's not as if people are that clever. They always make mistakes, and you just have to look for these mistakes in searching for the shadows on the wall.

Thanks for the link to Gmail drive; I had no idea something like this existed, though I've manually emailed myself files before for storage. ;;>_> So yeah, thanks. I've got about 300 Gmail accounts, so... yeah... ;;>_>