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Then how do you solve the problem? Let everyone light stuff off.

Today, I'm fighting C.

The masses aren't the main problem. It's the gold farming companies that have thousands of bots running at any given time. They aren't worried about how "safe" it is to bot. They are only worried about their profits. If their programs break every update, they will have a much more difficult time obtaining whatever material they need to make a profit. Also, catching every one of their accounts and every account that has ever interacted with their accounts will be a major setback.

The simple solution is that Jagex needs to introduce bot-breaking updates frequently. They can: 1. Download and use available botting programs to profile them 2. Develop new content and observe how the bots react. 3. Roll out new content days after a server reset and get all botters in one fell swoop. 4. Rinse and repeat, until the masses know it is no longer safe to bot.

More people go to my old high school... By the way, that's where I put my marker. Street view to see Indiana's largest high school by student enrollment. :mrgreen:

I'm not sure we disagree?

Well, the Catholic Church doesn't charge a membership fee. The way they were founded is another difference. This is probably better suited to another thread. Back on topic: Age would be more interesting, less controversial. Home country too. I feel like those define a person more than their ethnicity.

That actually got me interested and i decided to read a few pages. Seems it's hating on the Democrat Party in America :P I didn't really read more than 8 pages of it and decided to go back to my regular reading. Seemed interesting though :) Yeah, Ann Coulter doesn't like liberals. She does a lot of research though. Even though much of the book has a lot of left bashing, it does present some interesting French Revolution vs. American Revolution history lessons. If you can get that far or just read that part, you'll be a better person for knowing it.

Sorry about the bump, but more stuff is going down. Apparently these guns have found their way back into Arizona. [hide=New Article] from: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/weapons-linked-to-controversial-atf-strategy-found-in-valley-crimes [/hide] I'd like to see whoever had this boneheaded idea, and whoever implemented it at the top level to be fired, and then tried as a criminal. "'It made no sense to us either, it was just what we were ordered to do, and every time we questioned that order there was punitive action,' Phoenix Special Agent John Dodson testified."

Some people still believe in ridiculous things and it is classed as a religion. It isn't in most of the world. I refuse to see it as a religion. It is a cult, full stop. I actually find it offensive to be recognised next to religions. But it has over 10,000 followers - estimates at number of Scientologists are never lower than 50,000 - and so it is a religion. Cults are only cults if they have under 10,000 followers, full stop. Just because you or I find it foolish doesn't mean that listing it as a religion - nothing more than an obective truth - is "offensive". The issue I take with scientology is that L. Ron Hubbard is quoted as saying "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." Scientology is not organic, its synthetic. To an atheist this might be difficult to comprehend, but when the creator of your religion is quoted as saying "The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them," you don't have a religion, you have a gimmick.

I'd wager that with the new clan citadels construction will become popular.

High five, everyone!

:sad: More sour skittles, tripsis? :P

True, but Hitler brought Germany out of depression and also effectively gave the world the modern production line, yet I don't hear you going on about how you don't care that he waged war as he was a good national leader. And by "far richer," that's a pretty easy target when you're sitting on 41.5 billion barrels of oil. If he was as good as you say, you'd expect his country to be like the UAE.

Last night, I wanted to have a drop party. After listing everything and the quantity I want to drop on paper, I find a relatively empty world. This is where the headache began. First off, if you deposit noted or stack-able items, they drop as notes or stack-able items. This makes it difficult to fill up the chest with goat type items - you have to walk back and forth between the bank in fally to fill up the chest, making it more likely that some random punk will pull the lever. Secondly, the interface to deposit items is clumsy. You're only able to deposit 8 items at a time, so if you want to drop your entire inventory you'll have to deposit at least 4 times. Finally, once I had everything I wanted to drop, it still didn't work properly. I pulled the lever for a balloon bonanza, and after all the balloons fell, the majority of my items were still in the chest! One other thing that annoyed me (but I completely understand) was that there isn't an option for a public party - where bankers announce the drop and offer players free teleports. Pre-free trade, I enjoyed being able to draw 100's of people in for a slight chance of 1m. Not so much anymore :sad:

The way he described a "percent match" leads me to believe his algorithm was simple... something along the lines of it stripped the comments out of the programs, obfuscated the code, then diffed it against what everyone else turned it. Could even be simpler with bracket matching. It doesn't have to be perfect, just close enough to highlight similar ones.

I don't approve of the ICC, but I don't agree with you.

I don't know. Don't care either, he's not being a jerk about it. :shades:

One more story to share that I couldn't tie in the article nicely, this one was more recent at my university. Pretty much most engineering majors have to take a class in programming. The languages of choice are Matlab, and then C. Since there are so many students taking this class (probably about 600-800 at once under one professor), everything has to be standardized to be fair. In order to do that, assignments are standardized (i.e. everyone get the same assignments). The professor also tends to reuse assignments. You can see the problem here. You have a large volume of students year after year taking the same class and doing the same assignments. The first day of class, the professor warns everyone that they have algorithms put in place to detect cheating, and your best bet is to do the assignments yourself (where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, JaGEx's macro "detection" software). Anyhow, the professor warns everyone and continually repeats it throughout the first week - if you cheat, you will be caught, you will fail the course, you will be sent to the dean of students with a recommendation that they kick you out. Some students take it seriously, others are skeptical. Still others shrug it off, thinking that there's no way they can tell. When the C programming section of the course starts again, the professor warns everyone once again. If you cheat, you will be caught, you will be kicked out of school. At this point in time, no one has yet to be kicked out, so the cheaters were probably laughing it off. It wasn't until our second programming assignment was graded that a strange thing happened. About 10% of the lecture hall was strangely absent. The professor then went on to make an announcement, and told us that about 50 students were flunked from the course on the grounds of cheating, and that nearly every one of them were going to be kicked out of the university. The professor wasn't bluffing, he did have software in place to catch cheaters, and he did catch them. You may be thinking this wasn't a scenario that directly affected me - but you'd be wrong. As it turns out, that professor graded to a curve, and all these students that were dismissed weren't counted into the curve. That meant that the 5% of the students that were likely to flunk the course anyway, and the other 5% that were likely to do par were out as well. That made it all the more difficult to rise against the rest of the class (those that knew what they were doing). So yeah, heads up. If a computer science professor tells you they have software that detects cheating, they probably do.

It gave normal runecrafting xp I believe. So you could just buy essence from the banker then rc and repeat for massive xp rates per hour. I think it was closer to 100-1000xp per essence, which is why people were gaining 99 in as little as 20 minutes. Basically, one of RuneScape's hardest skill was turned into the easiest skill. Bunches of people gaining 99 RC doesn't really effect others, other than the fact that Jagex had to roll back their game, and everyone lost about 6 hours of play.

As promised another story relating to ethics (that didn't fit too well into my article). Consider this a bonus (I have another story later after this) :thumbup: . A long time ago, a few neighborhood kids and I were hanging out (probably trading Yu-gi-oh cards or Pokemon). The subject of "worse grades ever" came up, so we each told stories about the class that we did the worst in. One of the neighbors said he only failed a class once, so we had him explain the reasons why. He said that year his class had to do a big research project, where the teacher broke everyone into groups. The groups were to meet out of school to work on the projects, relating to different animals the teacher assigned. Part of the deal was that the class had to learn how to correctly cite their sources in MLA format, and learn to use the library and its encyclopedias correctly. He said that his group completely forgot about the project, until the teacher warned them that it was due the next day. That night, they met at one of their member's houses to work on the project. After gathering all kinds of resources, and after many distractions, it was late. With the project due the next day and the group getting nowhere, one of them volunteered saying, "I'll finish this project. You guys go home and get some sleep. Don't worry, I'll take care of it." The next day they turned in their project. About a week later, they were called in to the Principal's office along with each of their parents. The teacher had their report, along with an encyclopedia. Apparently the one member, in his frustration, had copied the article about their animal verbatim from the encyclopedia. He took care of it, and they failed. Moral of this story: when someone says "Don't worry, I'll take care of it," you should be very worried.

Seriously you guys, any fixed width is where it's at.

I have a 4 year old brother. Speaking from direct experience, kids don't know what the "truth" is and can't distinguish between truths and lies. The opposite of knowing truth and lies does not mean automatically lies, it means deferring to something else (in this case, selfishness or "mine"). I'm using the phrase "isn't natural" to mean "artificial." A society which requires everyone to play along to get along won't work unless everyone plays along. As the study shows, humans are capitalists by nature; and as we know, socialism doesn't work unless everyone behaves selflessly. Capitalism may not be perfect, but it certainly doesn't go against our nature. In the case of communal toys, there isn't much you can do (especially in the case of favoritism, like the jerk is the teacher's pet). In the case of capitalism, if a jerk tried to hog your toy you'd have the option of defending it. EDIT: Your youtube voice should read the Federalist Papers.

1. Grab Easter carrot or air staff and full armour. 2. Lure Scorpions near the guy that notes fish in Karamja 3. ??? 4. Profit.