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I think I can sort of see where you're coming from, as far as a security standpoint, it could potentially be vulnerable to manipulation. I appreciate the input as its something I hadn't originally thought about

So far I have 48 submissions. I know it might be a challenge, but if I could get it up to 100, would make it a lot better. The results are definitely interesting so far

if I worked for the FBI then we're all in trouble cause I suck at my job XD

already fixed it

I've created a very short survey just to see what the demographics, age ranges, and types of people that play on the server are. No personal information is collected, however I do ask for your username from here just so that I can prevent multiple submissions from the same person. Once I have enough submissions I'll publish the results in a separate thread. You don't have to participate in the survey, but I think it could be interesting to see what the results are Owl Gaming Playerbase survey

Script Suggestion What would be the name of the script(s)?- Bank of Los Santos website What kind of script(s) are you suggesting?- General What is the suggestion?- create a website (not in game) that would allow you to view recent bank transactions for your character, as well as transfer funds directly to another account. What are the advantages?- If you are ordering something from any of the vehicle factions, or the cargo factions, say for whatever reason you can't get in game, having an online site that can be accessed in your web browser would make things a lot easier. I can't imagine it would be too difficult to script, but I could be wrong. What are the disadvantages?- One advantage I could see is if you have multiple people trying to perform transactions on the website, or even just accessing the website, it could increase server load to an unmanageable level. One way to mitigate this would to only allow a certain number of concurrent connections at a time. Also, possibly it could cause lag if you try to conduct a bunch of transactions one after the other. A way to mitigate that would be to only allow one transaction every 15 minutes. Do you have any resources to support our scripters in making said suggestion?- I do not no How would you go about implementing this idea?- One thought I have is using whatever script is used to show your characters bank account on the owlgaming website, and polling the recent transaction history and adding it to a new tab on the site. You could also take some methods from that script to work out the script for performing account transfers

Well, after 4 years..... sorry, 4 amazing years, I decided it was time to take that next step with the love of my life. When you find someone you have so much in common with, its easy to see why some people fall really hard. Don't know how many people here believe in fate, or a higher power, but I no longer have any doubt. Let me explain why. I'm not what you would call a maverick when it comes to the fairer sex. I've only ever had 2 girlfriends, and the first one didn't end up so well. Then I met the most incredible woman you could ever meet. We have so many of the same interests, but even scarier though, was how many times we crossed paths in our lives, and had no idea. We went to the same elementary school and had no idea, went to the same high school and never knew it. Then I started at the Community Living London support program, and she caught my eye. As I have *ahem* confidence issues, I decided to ask one of the staff if they knew if she had a boyfriend. At the time, she did. But that didn't deter me, because when we were together that day in the program, I could sense something between us. Honestly I wasn't sure what it was, but something told me to not give up. A year later, I learned that things didn't work out between her and her previous boyfriend. I knew it was now or never. So I asked her if she wanted to go to the movies. Now here we are, 4 years later, and I couldn't imagine being with anyone else, or being without her for that matter. I believe from my very core that someone up there wanted us to be together. Theres no other way to explain it. So, on April 18th, 2019, I asked her if she'd marry me. I didn't really have to wait for the answer, because I knew it would be a resounding yes. I know she won't see this post, but I'm just to happy not to share this with all of you, because even though we've never met, and I've had my differences with some of you, I consider each and every person on here a friend. After 4 years, here we are. Starting our life together, not knowing what this world has in store for us.

I kinda see what you mean. And it especially rings true if one character has built up a reputation of being a shit disturber (even if everything they do is completely in character, and they actuallly have purpose behind it), people tend to get annoyed by this and either don't want to play with any other characters on your account, or they may decide to target your other characters. I've never had this happen to me, and to be honest I haven't actually seen it happen to people, but I can imagine that people would get pissed off/annoyed enough to do that. Just because one character is a bit of a tool doesn't mean thats how they carry themselves on their other characters

just wanted to toss my two cents in here as well. apparently the CPQL perms are fucked according to @Vubstersmurf and that could be why they are behind on the security officer permits. seems like a lot of forum perms are buggered up

In such a case, you would have planned in advance to hold them for this long. A simple FT or UAT contact providing them with the logs of said planning would probably be acceptable to extend the timeframe to that date. I think one of the main issues with the current rules (and mind you I've never been in a kidnapping situation from the victims side, nor the perpetrators side), could be a lack of proper planning. While I definately see your point about needing to keep them until a specific time and/or date, you would obviously have planned for that before kidnapping them. I kind of support this suggestion, but with the addition that "exceptions can be made if logs are provided with valid planning and reason behind the extended captivity". If someone kidnaps someone just for the sake of kidnapping them, thats not really fair to the victim. I think much like CK's, it couldn't hurt to provide admins with proper reasoning if you want to keep them longer than a set date

Name: T.Cassidy Comment: I agree, they were a great presence in journalism, and since their departure there has been a noticable lack of decent news articles. Hopefully the community can pull together to keep the citizens informed. If Sparta News can contribute to that, we're going to do our best

Written by: T.Cassidy At approximately 5:00PM on Saturday February 16th 2019, members of the Los Santos Fire Department, Los Santos Police Department, as well as members of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, responded to the area of Pacific Ave, just east of the Bureau of Transportation Services for a report of a vehicle explosion. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered a single vehicle fully involved that had exploded. At this time, it is unknown whether the was anyone inside the vehicle at the time of the incident. A request for a statement at the scene was declined by LSPD. We will update the article when information becomes available ----- Have a Story you wish to share with the Community? Want to be featured by Sparta Media? Email us at: [email protected]

We all know what bitcoin is. Its a virtual currency that is not regulated by any central bank, and provides some level of anonymity. Because of the fact it is not regulated, a lot of governments are against it, as they contend it is the perfect market for laundering money that is proceeds of crime. While it does have that ability, and Charlie Shem was convicted of money laundering in the first major criminal case involving bitcoin, it can also be said that fully regulated banks can be vehicles for money laundering. Charlie Shem was convicted because he sold bitcoins to a guy, who then sold them in an exchange to people who used them on the infamous Silk Road marketplace. The governments argument was he knew who he was selling them to, and that the end recepient would be using them in the purchase of illegal narcotics. Heres how this happens every day with a regular bank. Someone withdraws money from their account, then buys a radio off a friend. That friend then decides to purchased a gram of cocain from your local friendly neighborhood crack house. Is what the bank doing any different than Mr. Shem? and if not, why have half the banks around the world not been shut down? just in case you are interested: https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/

So I'm having some problems booting up my Windows 7 Professional system. Last night we had a "brown out" (for those who don't know, a brown out is a reduction in or restriction on the availability of electrical power in a particular area), and ever since then, my PC has been stuck in a boot loop. It gets to the Starting Windows logo, gets to the part where it should let me log in, but instead it says "preparing to configure windows. please do not turn off your computer", hangs on that for about 2 minutes, then reboots itself. I've tried booting into all the different versions of safe mode with no luck. same with "last known good configuration", the only thing I can actually get up is "Repair your computer", but as its using the recovery partition, I can't access the main file system to even try to disable windows update. Any suggestions or ideas?