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[Hentaispider]

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That would assume I'M not the GM. As well as assuming I'm not willing to ruin the entire session arguing my case (which amounts to: It is, it is, it is, it is, ad nauseum). How long do you think until the other players are saying 'just let him do it' ?

If your players will start arguing that they should be allowed to just make up rules(or that rule 0 doesn't apply), then you have bigger problems than what magic missile can or can't target and you should probably just tell the problem player to get the fuck out. Here's a link to a definition of object:

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Note that things that have no substance(like darkness), are not objects.

 

[Termite]

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Spider, I understand you're trying to make a point, but I feel the need to point to your sig.

 

[super_slicer]

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Good luck doing that IRL with people you've played with for a decade or more. Besides GM that can't bend the rules (or their interpretation of them) for some pointless fun isn't much of a GM.

Granted, if you're actually trying to challenge your players with a setup like that (IDFK) it becomes an entirely different situation.

 

[XSI]

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D&D/PF isn't the best system to challenge your players in if they have a wizard or sorceror

They have answers for everything, and if they don't then they'll have a dimension door or similar spell to get far away

 

[Cappy]

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Really speaking in situations like that the GM is the arbiter of truth, if you're thrashing back once he's laid down a judgement and won't stop arguing it even if there's no possibility of consensus that just makes you a bad player. A good GM at some point on the other hand has to set boundaries that they are comfortable with and decide what they are.

 

[Dragontear]

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TLDR; Conservatives have made massive gains in the number of council seats, at the cost of Labour and Liberal Democrats, UKIP has lost all but one seats, with SNP in scotland making fewer than expected gains.

Meanwhile in EU, Jean-Claude Juncker, Head of the EU Commission has stated that 'English, as a language, is losing its importance' while speaking in english.

Well timed, and shows yet again why one might feel skeptical about any positive contributions by the man regarding diplomacy.

 

[Aurani]

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Raise the jolly roger, Nyaa is apparently back up again with seemingly all old torrents available for downloading and working fine from what I've seen.
It's apparently hosted in Slovenia now and the site can be reached at

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[XSI]

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How long until anti-piracy advocates all them "nya-sis", in reference to the nazis?

 

[autizboyz]

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Looks like cyber war is about to begin, as my country said the threat is about to happend tommorow. And here i am sufing on the internet searching for hentai game .

 

[Pervy]

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Cyber war. Expectation: Ghost in the shell
reality: Nigerian Prince 2.0

 

[Yoshiiki]

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"Hey, how about we put backdoors in everything?"
"That's a great idea, John!"
- few years later
"Hey, John, shouldn't we change our passwords from "write your password here" to something else?"
"Naah"
Suddenly, Wikileaks.
Meanwhile, in Russia:
"Hey, how about we put ransomware in everything using backdoors made by [those] guys?"
"That's a great idea, Ivan!"
Meanwhile, in China:
"Hey, how about we put ransomware in everything using backdoors made by [those] guys?"
"That's a great idea, Wang!"

I simplified it a little

 

[Pervy]

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I don't want Wang putting his ransomeware into my backdoor, nuues!

 

[XSI]

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This is what happens when the government/NSA demands backdoors to all computers
It gets out and ransomware uses it

But I can assure you that nobody will care to yell at the government to make this stuff illegal and force these loopholes closed, give it 20 years and we will have the same problem with a new backdoor
Possibly sooner, Intel chips have a similar backdoor installed in the hardware itself. And that will be a huge disaster when the specifics on that one gets leaked or discovered. You can't patch the hardware out.

 

[Byzantine2014]

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Hm, so not opening emails for a while...

Would it be possible to isolate or firewall vulnerable hardware, XSI? Difficult to still use effectively, but better than having an infected computer.

 

[autizboyz]

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. High tech stuff so if you don't want to get headache don't open it .

 

[Hentaispider]

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Hm, so not opening emails for a while...

Would it be possible to isolate or firewall vulnerable hardware, XSI? Difficult to still use effectively, but better than having an infected computer.

This particular piece of malware appears to use port 445, so a firewall configured to block connections to that port(or simply disabling any services using that port) would stop you from being infected by simply being in the same network as another infected machine, assuming you're not connecting to the internet directly(if you DO connect to the internet, that opens up a multitude of other attack vectors). But if you start disabling access to shared drives and don't connect to the internet, well, that certainly restricts the benefits of being in the network in the first place. Mind you, blocking connections to port 445 would only stop THIS particular malware. As far as I'm aware, there's no technical reason why an infection couldn't occur using any other port.

Properly set up firewall and other protection measures(using only up-to-date software, IDS, real-time malware scanner, etc.) will stop some infections, but the only guaranteed way to stop a machine from being infected is to not connect it to the internet in any way or form.

 

[Pervy]

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the only guaranteed way to stop a machine from being infected is to not connect it to the internet in any way or form.

Next up, Hentaispiders surefire malware removal technique:

 

[Yoshiiki]

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Keep that hammer in the shed.

Only precise, surgical cuts can help here.

 

[super_slicer]

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Could just ghost/clone your machine weekly... might be hefty if you're trying to save ALL your data, but you shouldn't have a problem getting your OS back from ransomware.

 

[XSI]

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Hm, so not opening emails for a while...

Would it be possible to isolate or firewall vulnerable hardware, XSI? Difficult to still use effectively, but better than having an infected computer.

As far as I know, no known ways to block it except just not being connected to the internet at all. If your hardware is compromised, you're not going to be able to block it with software most of the time.