So gift-vouchers for services aren't worth anything to you?

Useful post. But why the tinfoil?

Er.. instead of them just buying stuff off the market, to the same effect?
Or are you saying they're breaking their rules to avoid breaking their rules?
And is your 'has happened' actually the one time they did the exact opposite, with legitimate PLEX stocks, to their loss, to foil a playerbase-harming PLEX monopoly attempt?

Tiny bit of context missing there, like what happened to that game admin when CCP caught him, seven *years* ago, and *why* it's never happened since.

You mean represent an insanely deluded client who throws all of their money away at them?
The *lawfirms* would *fight* for that chance!

Swap performance and VM handling, frankly. It's better at not putting things in swap it shouldn't, and quickly getting things off swap it needs. Generally less lumpy if you aren't swimming in memory like I'm not.

I also get the added benefit of instantly switching in and out of the game with virtual desktops, and being able to shut down all unnecessary systems and programs, and SIGSTOP/hibernate large things like firefox so they sink entirely out of memory until I call them back, and I have total scripting and file control over all my addons and logs and things.

Also, crashes won't take out the box, and if things get really gnarly, I log in behind my GUI remotely and shoot things. For some games that are going under due to game corruption, flicking to the CLI, Kill, restart, can get the game back before the server has given up on your connection. WAY faster than Windows.

It's vaguely familiar, but since no two circuits are *truly* identical at the analog layer, *and* change as the temperature changes, people used digital instead where 'mostly 0' is still '0' and 'mostly 1' is still '1' regardless. Otherwise you can't mass produce them.

Of more interest is people using analog-alike bitstreams, where the average number of 1's vs 0's in a random stream is the amplitude of the analog wave. They then blend the input streams together to produce the output stream. I've mostly seen this done by Royal Holloway University to produce neural chips that *don't* need squillions of interconnections - they just blend probability streams. Looks like people are playing with optical ones now too. Why not put a story up about that instead?

Why would the Iranian Cybercafe Army want to blow up Chinese dissidents? Besides, everyone knows it was the Illuminati.

Er, no. A MitM attack is easy against people who don't protect against a MitM attack. If you want to protect yourself, you can. This is Crypto 101.

Instead of trying to win a crypto war against the geeks of Google, China will just walk into a Chinese Google DataCentre, wave a badge, and swipe all the machines for whatever reason they want to pull out of their arse.

They will autopsy and reverse engineer them at their leisure, give the tech to Baidu. and then sue Google for patent infringement of Baidu intellectual property, and win.

I can top that. Imagine being rung at a groggy 3AM by a chap (with an impeccable upperclass English accent) who tells you, in all seriousness, that Elvis is dead and could you do something about it please?

When you recover, try and convince the insistent non-technical gentleman that you have never heard of Elvis and maybe he has the wrong hotline.

If I ever find out who named that system...