oh how original

yeah go cotton! cotton ftw!

iirc US currency is made out of cloth of some sort

Lmao...

Did it look like I got offended? I was surprised that he would bring something like that up in a conversation that had nothing to do with that.

I don't understand why you're trying to find a reason to ameliorate landswimmer's decision to bring up cotton when even he didn't attempt to do so. It was obvious to all parties involved what his intentions were. Instead of continuing to reply in an intelligent manner he fired off an ad hominem.



3 parts cotton 1 part linen, linen is made from flax.

My comment was about Landswimmer losing credibility in a discussion, and then basically pointing at Hober screaming "Nigger!, Nigger!", which Hober replied that essentially, Landswimmer lost and tried to save face by making a subtle racist comment. Anyone who is anyone here knows Hober is black, and surely Landswimmer knew the shit hole he was digging by playing the racist card.

If you read back through all (or just a few) of Landswimmer's posts, everytime he loses, he immediately turns around and accuses the winner of being a troll and only here to piss him off. He then tends to make a comment about peoples' race, mental capabilities, and other things to prove he is the real winner.

I was saying, in accordance to the forum rules, racist comments is a surefire way to piss Bageese/Moderators off. It's part of the:

10: You are not allowed to post topics, posts, content, or links that contain:
promotion of hatred, including hateful comments based on nation, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender orientation, age, physical or mental ability.
sexually explicit content, violently explicit content, pornography
real life threats
personal attacks
real life information about other players or the development team

Why StarSonata 2 is Dead to me.

I have been a fan of StarSonata since August 2005. I have multiple in game accounts with fully leveled characters. But I must now part ways with this game, and here is why, and why you should not only avoid this game but ALL games that follow the same path. It is up to us the consumers to make our requirements known.

I work in the IT field, and pay close attention to news, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that the Summer of Snowden has hit the Tech Community very very hard in the guts. Both as a wake up and as a call to action.

I recently posted on the StarSonata suggestions forum, asking them to please implement some form of client server encryption, in light of the news from the past 7 months a request like this should come as no surprise to anyone. Google, Yahoo, and others have already begun transitioning to HTTPS by default as per the EFF recommendations, as well as the ITEF. So it came as a great surprise to me to find out that less than 24 hours after my post, it was deleted. The title was, "The Cypherpunks were right, encrypt all packets". In this post I stated that I was tired of seeing information transmitted in the clear between my client and the server.

This choice is of course completely up to the developer, they have every right to do this, just as I have every right to not use them, and find someone that follows the Free as in Freedom principle.

It is past time for us the consumers to make it known that we will not accept anything less than secure by default from ALL of our software providers.

Shame on Developers who do not implement SSL/TLS by default.

um im sure it got deleted hooch because it was ridiculous, you do know that SS is an incredibly small game for that?...you can't encrypt game communication because the latency is way too costly, cost wise and processing wise.


if you have this much of a problem with it, then why didn't you quit back then when some guy hacked the database and everyone's account was compromised because julian pissed him off?

and then all of the admins identities were revealed because the guy had full blown access

also you can't grab everyone's password so easily without having access to the building the server is in, that's why it's so hilarious

Encryption is not difficult to implement. Your entire post is now completely invalid.

encryption for what? explain, dont just say its not too difficult or costly

the only thing they would need to encrypt is the acc login system

no, the intent of my statement was "if you're going to continue being an asshole, i'm going to start being one."

it was only AFTER i made it clear that i was willing to be an asshole too, that you finally "caught on" to what i was talking about, and started discussing the actual issue.

you knew what i was getting at, right from the first few posts we had, but instead, you CHOSE to take things out of context, misinterpret their meaning, and refute the strawman that you had made, rather than actually addressing the real issue (which, again, i'd like to point out, you addressed IMMEDIATELY after i called you out for assholery.)

I went and reread the entire thread after reading this post, and I don't see how your accusation holds water... I can see how my second post in this topic would lead you to believe that, but in any post where I directly quoted you I gave actual responses that at least deserved a thought out answer.

You may be talking about the picture of the chess pieces, but I simply used that as an illustration. You made a claim that the general public is usually too (for lack of a better word at present) stupid to deal with certain sensitive information rationally. Then you demanded that the NSA make certain sensitive information public. You contradicted yourself, and the rest of your arguments (which I did not respond to) were a corollary to that main point within your post.

Even in the post where I addressed your explanation of your "asshole" response to me, I directed you to a post that I made in response to Klestiko which said exactly what I wanted to say in response to the actual discussion at hand.

You have no ground to stand on when you tell me I was being an asshole, I stayed on topic the entire time. I still stand by my conviction that some of your assertions are blown out of hand and represent an unrealistic scenario.

There is a reason politicians are vetted, and countering blackmail before it can occur is a major part of that reason.

You basically answered your own question. Encrypting the login system so you can't just setup a packet sniffer on the same network as the server/client. I'm assuming its hosted on Amazon's EC2 as well, which may add its own limitations. I know very little about network programming though.