divine.216

Ooo, I'm for it! ASWZ was very special for me too. I can't really spend the time to help make this happen, but I've tried to leave what I've got packaged in a nice way: http://aswz.org/ Also, with the new arena sharing across zones we should get ?go aswz listed there. (If you've been away, a handful of zones are sharing arena lists now; so ?arena can list arenas from other zones.) Lately I've been playing a bit in powerball and like night said I am on ?chat=aswz

So sad. RIP.

More likely it derives from Dylan Thomas: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377 You're right. Shakespeare copied it off of Dylan Thomas and then traveled 300 years back in time to make it look like he wrote it himself. He was very clever that way. Or Shakespeare never wrote it at all, and my prefatory "More likely" was an abundance of tenderness when showing you wrong.

More likely it derives from Dylan Thomas: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377

For those amused by schizophrenic ramblings, this sweetheart spewed even lumpier puke on PB's forum: http://forum.powerballzone.com/viewtopic.php?t=291

aswz is not really live -- nobody has stepped forward to run it. The zone is online, and in principle people can play. But there are no bots, no staff, nothing but the settings and a long-time favorite map for those who want to reminisce. That said, yes it is on a linux server.

The whole damn thing. Not to mention the cost. I am terrified by the prospect of our jaw-dropping national debt. But I'm glad the health care bill passed, it is a social priority for me, and it needed to happen. So while we need to cut spending, I would begin cutting elsewhere.

I disagree. A law requiring the purchase of an item is none of those three. This doesn't require you to purchase anything. You don't have to purchase health insurance, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. You don't have to have children, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. You don't have to buy a house, but you'll pay more taxes if you don't. . . . etc.

SeVeR, I have to disagree. Removing all social safety nets would indeed cause a big uptick in crime, but we still have police and other ways to keep the peace. My reference to "taking all your stuff" was to calm Dr Brain's discontent by offhandedly invoking the social contract (submit to law and, in exchange, we'll enforce it for all). Of course private charities help people, all the time. It's just not clear that a system of private charity completely answers society's need (it didn't back in the day). And I agree with Dr Brain that government welfare displaces a lot of private charity. But this is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, without private charity you eliminate most of the heroic virtue of giving, as Dr Brain laments, by making it coercive. On the other hand, government "charity" is both hampered and protected by all the limits of government activities (equal protection, due process, etc.). A church-based "welfare" program could avoid a lot of bureaucratic knots and paperwork; but like any private charity, the church could also refuse to help people who are irish, gay, black, male, or ugly.

I'm not inclined to argue constitutional theory, but suffice it to say you overstate our procedural protections against impulsive majorities. It is not absolute. And whatever policy disagreements we have over health care reform -- desirable or not -- the implementation falls comfortably within the congressional powers to tax, spend, and regulate commerce. Are you peeved about the individual mandate, insurance company restrictions, or something else? I'm unsure what you're arguing: (1) moral ("it's wrong!"), (2) legal ("law says you can't!"), or (3) sociological ("your tactics, even if moral and legal, won't work!"). Put differently, if we fail to "realize" your theft-distinction between government welfare and private charity, then does that make our efforts to legislate social welfare programs (1) evil, (2) lawless, or (3) just ineffective?

You argue in vague absolutes. Your "rights" (which one's pray tell?) aren't terribly helpful if we (the people) decide not to enforce them for you. If entitlement programs get your panties in a bunch, and you can't get behind helping the poor and the unfortunate, then consider welfare measures to be the cost of preventing the poor from taking all of your stuff. It's the low road to civic virtue.

http://lists.aswz.org/listinfo.cgi/players-aswz.org

Echoing Dr. Brain's point: many of us, when we're not playing, already use ASSS zones as IRC-like chat rooms. I have a chat client (a modified CCC) permanently logged into sub-arenas of PB and ASWZ, connected to selected chat channels. I use it just like IRC. Vanilla ASSS with chatnet enabled, if connected to the biller, will work just fine. To chat on a phone or anywhere else requires new chat clients, not new servers.

Towns aren't printing money, they can't. (And in any case, imo, they shouldn't.) "No state shall ... coin money" - U.S. Const. art. I sec. 10 "The Congress shall have power ... [t]o coin money [and] regulate the value thereof" - U.S. Const. art. I sec. 8 These are local businesses printing play money; Disney Dollars indeed.

(cross-posted at mgb's forum) chasm from subspace.game.net import Player p = Player("playername", "password", ("zone.aswz.org", 5000)) p.login() p.messenger.send_public_message("hello!") p.set_ship(4) p.messenger.send_remote_message("divine.216", "I'm in a terrier!") # move the ship around and set basic data p.set_ship_data(x=8192,y=8192,energy=1000,bounty=100) # private message everyone in the arena for person in p.arena_player_list.all(): p.messenger.send_private_message(person.id, "I'm about to start turning in circles!") # rotate all the way around for rot in range(40): p.set_ship_data(rotation=rot) sleep(0.5) # sleep for half a second to slow down the turn p.messenger.send_public_message("okay, I'm dizzy now, g'bye!") p.logout()

Keep at it. I don't write software professionally anymore, but coding remains a therapeutic hobby. It can be dazzlingly empowering and fun. Good luck!

A bit pie-in-the-sky ... Billing should be federated, perhaps using DNS. Player names become user@domain. Chat channels become channel@domain. A zone would then refer to for login/messaging. Zones concerned about connecting to tons of billing servers might use a whitelist of trusted domains. BanG becomes a separate anti-cheat service that a zone can use. Perhaps the zone could do some name-mangling to make things prettier in-game. They might designate a home domain whose user names would show without the domain. A zone might setup a whitelist of biller domains and associate each with an abbreviation so instead of "@subspaceonline.com" they become "@ssc". Or the abbreviation might be shown as a prefix e.g. " user".

September had the most posts but the least hits? Doesn't smell right.

People have helped me gather a bunch of old maps. In the next week or so I aim to complete my abortive project of making a nice repository on aswz.org. Sorry for the delay. For now, I've got a large (and still growing) pile of them at http://maps.aswz.org/maps/

The SS dev community does not have anyone with the talent and time to write a suitable replacement. Unless and until this changes, revealing encryption details helps nothing. SS politics are petty, silly, and inherent to social life -- it's the cost of companionship. Deal with it or play offline. More technically, cheating concerns preclude an open client using SS protocol. (Feel free to write a new protocol and interoperate via ASSS.) Whatever the strength (or weakness) of Cont's encryption, it does seem to be doing a workable job. While we might not trust it for much, and indeed some have unraveled it, still, we can enjoy playing the game. Our collective fingers remain crossed. Exposing Cont's encryption details does nothing except roll the dice, once again, and hope that priitk will indulge us with a fix. Sure this situation is less than ideal, but it's better than the real alternative of cheaters overrunning the game, again. To whatever extent the game is thus crippled: please don't trip the cripple -- he won't learn to walk, eventually, he'll just stay down. Instead of removing the fig leaf, why don't you do something constructive? You say the game has gone nowhere. While I disagree, it is in any case not priitk's fault. Existing tools permit a wide range of unexplored ideas. While some may critique priitk's leadership, his absence is most felt on the periphery. He can't be expected to do all the development. Design a map, craft some new game settings, or if you're inclined to code you can always write a bot or a server module. I always enjoy a good shin-kicking, it can be refreshing; and new coders are always welcome here. But please don't pee in our pool.

If you only want to spectate, you don't need to worry about securing anything and you don't have to use udp. You can have asss pump out a tcp stream of all the game action with a slight delay. Buffer and suffer a few seconds of absolute delay in exchange for jitter free and all the blessings of tcp. Then use chatnet as an overlay, completely out of band. This is only a step or two beyond what is already done in the record module ( http://bitbucket.org/grelminar/asss/src/tip/src/funky/record.c ). So one solution is to modify or remake record to spew game data in a digestible format. Then any app, mobile or otherwise, could suck that stream and do any kind of "spectating" without having to bother with SS/Cont protocol. More broadly, asss could keep true game logs in this format and expose a "live stream" for this kind of spectator-consumption, and then, elsewhere, make available the full archive of all game play.

Awesome. I will be there tomorrow at 9pm.

You may be interested in the new server being developed by grelminar & co.: http://www.sscx.net/!@#$%^&*s/

snagging the incoming packets? Ekted can't make any changes to his menures.dll because priitk checksum's it so that invasive code isn't loaded in it's place. This means ekted can't do anything (and he doesn't have any more access to the raw packets for "snagging" than anyone else would.)

Or you can start here then move to here and then get through this... then go to http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html The internet is a wonderful place.