The F2P game "Path of Exile" (similar to Diablo) does everything on the server and it causes so many problems that you need to avoid certain character skills that are more prone to causing desync issues between server and client. They even include a chat command that will sync you with the server which most people have macro'd to a key on their keyboard or mouse it's so prevalent.
You've already explained a big chunk of the issue right there. There are many poorly written games. PoE is one of them. That doesn't mean you can't write a similar game well.
The whitelist feature isn't the issue here. You have always been able to whitelist sites in the "Custom Filter > Exceptions." The issue here is the addition of a built in whitelist subscription to a list controlled by the developers.
My university had similarly bad security practices. Although not accessible as plain text, the social security number was used when you wanted to change personal information.
For example to reset your university email account you needed the last three digits of the ssn and your date of birth. In my case, the school somehow never got my ssn so my ssn in this case was just "0". So theoretically if anyone wanted to change my password they just needed to use "yyyymmdd0" to access it.
It isn't quite as simple as saying that forging produces a stronger part since a monocrystalline casting of a turbine blade would be stronger than a forged polycrystalline one.
For most materials monocrystalline casting is still science fiction. And as much as I've studied the subject, metals are used so much because they have good strength properties at relatively high temperatures. These glass metals turn liquid at relatively low temperature. So I have to say that it's not simple as you say. I'd anyhow be more worried about oriented strength of forged parts. And internal stresses. And funny material folding that sometimes happens in badly designed die forging.
My point was that x isn't always better than y. And in the case of turbine blades, monocrystalline is the way they are made.
On the topic of forged turbine blades, the oriented strength of the resultant blade _is_ the advantage of using forging over conventional casting for a polycrystalline blade. Since the load on a turbine blade is mostly axial it makes no sense to not have favorable grain orientation to maximize strength in the axial direction. As a result, turbine blades are forged such that the grain orientation and size is elongated and coarse. This minimizes grain boundary area perpendicular to the load direction and thus minimizes creep at the high operating temperatures of a gas turbine.
Thanks for the insight! My original message was just me not understanding your real point. I'm usually little allergic to an attitude like "you can't understand this high magic!", but in this case I must apologize my misunderstanding.
I guess I shouldn't have used such a strong word like "causes this" since the article was more about the force field and not the source of the ionized air.
The point is that if the tape spool can create such a strong field then there is more than likely a visible light being created at the interface of the spool and tape caused by the charged atmospheric nitrogen which releases a photon when leaving the excited state.
I'm sure they don't care about people who just loaded up the home page. They are more than likely after the IPs that downloaded the files that are posted on the site (maybe they will try to tie them back to IPs used to acces PSN?)
Edit: Someone made a change.org petition
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/lenovo-canada-please-h...