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Gatekeeper *is* meant to block the execution of unsigned code by default - yes it can be turned off or bypassed via right-click, but both of these require specific actions by the user. But ok, even if we assume its just trying to stop the you from accidentally running malware - this method ('attack') can be used to repackage existing malware, and allow it to be run without Gatekeeper detection. So basically Gatekeeper then provides 0% extra security and IMHO is then basically useless.

An article on Ars has a good diagram illustrating this: "Drop-dead simple exploit completely bypasses Mac’s malware Gatekeeper"

I dont think you have ever used Android on Tablets. Even the Google apps are nothing but blown-up phone apps.
It is not just me telling that. Go and read some tech reviewers view as well. Here is one from Arstechnica http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

First off, If there's no reason not to upgrade other than FUD,

FUD? ARS Technica is not known for publishing FUD.
And here's a nice traffic analysis of what Windows 10 sends to Microsoft in its IP packets.

Now, of course, I read the descriptions.

Don't worry, Microsoft has a solution for that: with Windows 10, they simply don't offer descriptions. They've also started bundling feature updates and security updates into single patches. Probably. From what people have been able to determine that existing patches do.

There's no reason they can't decide to start doing that for all updates. Will KB414140 force you to install Windows 10? Include telemetry? Fix a zero-day exploit that's being actively exploited? All of the above? Who knows!

Am I the only one who finds it funny as hell that the only ones praising Windows 10 are Apple guys while all the Windows and Linux guys think its trash? Why do you think that is?

I have my own personal theory, its that Apple guys are so used to being wallet raped by Apple that ONLY having to give up their privacy? Sheeeit, that is better than paying out the ass for Apple RAM, Apple NAND, paying current gen prices for last gen's Intel chips, etc. Compared to that level of wallet drain just letting corporate spy on them like an old pervert must feel like a breath of fresh air!

Of course it may be that they simply haven't tried the niceness that is Windows 7, the last truly good and decent OS it appears that MSFT will ever make. No spying, no crappstore, no worthless Metro crapps that spend more time crashing or phoning home than they actual do their intended function, nope just a nice simple clean OS that does what you tell it to and nothing else...aaaahhhh, like a little slice of heaven it is.

Oh and just an FYI, if you think those privacy settings will stop MSFT from spying on you and selling your data to anybody with a dollar? Well guess again, in fact somebody did a traffic analysis of Windows 10 and you want to guess who one of the very first recipients of your data is? Well we do a WHOIS of nsatc.net and wadda ya know, its markmonitor the copyright trolls! So yes Virginia the old saying is true, if you aren't paying for the product? Then you ARE the product.

Have you tried Mozilla's Firefox OS? Based on this review, it sounds just like what you're looking for: a mobile OS that can't be used to do much of anything at all.

Valve claims they already have solved it - which is to say, no motion sickness at all experienced by users so far.

We'll see how well that scales...

>> America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses

Again?
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/n... ...

Ars Technica article says:

The consumer version of the Gear VR will support "every 2015 Samsung handset," Koo said, including the Galaxy Note 5, S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge+.

Don't know if the earlier phones are too slow, incompatible geometrically, or lack some special feature. I would guess if older Samsung phones are not supported, then the chances for other vendors are even slimmer.

walked out when I realised it wasn't filmed on Mars.

Hush now. Ridley Scott has secret access to the soundstage they were using to film Mars, and photos of Mars and other things.

It's close to the Moon soundstage.

I left this comment when I realized you couldn't have walked out on an unreleased movie.

Actually there were advance screenings at the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). Ars Techinca was invited to the screening, and they did some followup articles as well.

I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.

If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...
http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Who says TOR wasn't cracked long ago?

Well, just because they lose localized search results doesn't mean another search engine will be successful. It might just mean that their citizens get more generic results, and less links to local businesses.

Ask Spanish publishers how this all works out.

First off this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jackie+chan+wrong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Next off for some actual support: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/california-governor-schools-gop-presidential-candidate-on-climate-change/

Drops mic. Leaves.

From Ars Technica:

based on various inputs including the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, the duration of the engine's operation, and barometric pressure

Just like the grossly exaggerated claims that were made a few years ago by Edward Withacre (then CEO of SBC). Or so many other "industry heads" like the music execs who want to endlessly resell you different copies of music you've already purchased, whatever stands in their way of "maximizing shareholder dividends" is anathema, and should be destroyed at all cost. Consumers being nothing more than opportunities to fleece money from.

It's a pattern, a chronic need to do this; but a phenomenon which in no small part probably is also due to their need to posture for the home crowd in order to retain their cushy jobs. These people can't be that utterly dumb Rather, and whether we'd like to admit it or not, we'd do and say the same if we were in their position. Because to get to that position would have meant being capable of stepping over so many carcasses of dead rivals, and having burned so many bridges to get ahead that saying stuff like this is only a logical extension of this alpha-dog mindset.

TL;DR: meh nothing to see, business as usual, move along. No need to get worked up about another garden-variety troll comment.

Why can't they give me better battery life, LG G4 has a 3000mah battery, iPhone 6 has 1810mah, then how the hell does it manage to last longer than the G4.

Two reasons:

1. Apple is the hands-down master in both battery technology AND power-management techniques. For example, just LOOK at the hoops they jump through on OS X to eke every erg out of their batteries (this article is now two OS-generations old, so the techniques described therein have gotten even better). And for another example, look at the new iPad Pro. It even changes the screen and digitizer refresh rates (separately) for better battery life and improved performance when needed.

2. They make the WHOLE widget; which REALLY makes a difference when it comes to power-budgeting and power-saving techniques, and synergy between software and hardware. Berate Apple all you like; but you have just demonstrated EXACTLY why that makes a difference...

Why can't they give me better battery life, LG G4 has a 3000mah battery, iPhone 6 has 1810mah, then how the hell does it manage to last longer than the G4.

Two reasons:

1. Apple is the hands-down master in both battery technology AND power-management techniques. For example, just LOOK at the hoops they jump through on OS X to eke every erg out of their batteries (this article is now two OS-generations old, so the techniques described therein have gotten even better). And for another example, look at the new iPad Pro. It even changes the screen and digitizer refresh rates (separately) for better battery life and improved performance when needed.

2. They make the WHOLE widget; which REALLY makes a difference when it comes to power-budgeting and power-saving techniques, and synergy between software and hardware. Berate Apple all you like; but you have just demonstrated EXACTLY why that makes a difference...

A drone crashed into the seats at the U.S. Open and at a University of Kentucky football game.

So far, no one has had bodily harm from someone doing stupid things like this but, like everything else, it will happen and then the shit will hit the fan (or blood will hit the drone blades as the case may be).

But that is a short sighted approach, and therein lies the why you are looking for.

The desktop has been ruled by Windows for decades and it doesn't show any signs of changing, however many developers have also invested in the second-biggest player in the market: Apple. Using cross-platform/portable technologies is always a good idea, but there's still little reason to actually support Linux.

Game devs, hardware vendors, and most general software developers have all their eggs in the Microsoft basket.

No, a great many support OS X as well and often use cross-platform frameworks like Qt that run on GNU/Linux but there is still no reason to target and support GNU/Linux.

Microsoft has long released a product that runs slower, takes more of your system resources

Wrong, it has become faster and using less resources over time, the current version is less resource hungry than the version that preceded it and that was faster than the one that preceded that.

and now also spies on you

You can actually turn off all that, plenty of guides on the net if you struggle with the privacy settings dialog.

and forces you to use a terrible user interface.

Could you explain the differences of the "terrible user interface" with regard to somebody using, say Photoshop? Because all the applications I have used on Windows 10 don't look any different than they did on any version that preceded it.

Gnu/Linux by design does not operate as a single basket but rather an open standard that gives you a choice of basket.

Given this whole "systemd" debacle it would seem that GNU/Linux is fundamentally dependent on RedHat and that creating/maintaining your own distribution outside of that channel is impractical.

Instead you have Lexmark suing toner cartridge refilling companies for patent infringement.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Because I'm bored...

Sony
http://www.techhive.com/articl...

Microsoft
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...

Nintendo
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://toucharcade.com/2014/05...

Just remember everyone, the problem isn't our intelligence services, it's America's "deep cynicism" over our intelligence services!

At least in America you can read about it in the news and the government will admit its mistake and withdraw. If this were in China, the guy would have just disappeared and the government would never admit a mistake since they are all about "saving face". Any papers or bloggers trying to talk about it would be censored, too.

Just remember everyone, the problem isn't our intelligence services, it's America's "deep cynicism" over our intelligence services!

laissez-faire has been the status quo for networking at MIT for decades. The attitude seems to be that "policies" just get in the way. I was a sys admin there a long time ago, there were no firewalls, no nothing. We didn't have DHCP. We got IP addresses for the systems and we hardcoded them. Of course it was a mess.

Yes, and much of that is still the same. MIT has the entire 18.x.x.x block. There are plenty of direct IP addresses to give out to every single computer on campus, and I believe that's still the case.

If you have a look at the Ars Technica story on this report, they identify major components of the ranking, which include things like:

Network security: a score based on the number of vulnerable services running directly exposed to the Internet, based on a scan that audits version numbers of exposed software and open ports on those systems correlated with a database of known exploits, according to SecurityScorecard Chief of Research Alex Heid.

Hacker chatter: a score based on the frequency with which the school was mentioned in hacker forums, and amount of user credentials, e-mail addresses and other breached data circulating on those forums over the observed period.

Password exposure: the degree to which students, faculty, and employees are using weak passwords). This score was in part based on the user credential data discovered in hacker chatter."Our signals and sensors found 6 credentials for accounts associated with student and employee email discovered in 4 data leaks," SecurityScorecard reported.

In other words, they dropped MIT to the bottom of the list because they have most computers and systems on actual IP addresses connected directly to the internet, and because hackers apparently talk a lot about hacking into MIT. (Well, duh!) Oh... oh my goodness -- they found SIX (count 'em SIX!) credentials for user accounts on the internet!!

Now, what does this actually mean in terms of ACTUAL security? Well, the scorecard also notes:

And saving MIT from an overall failing grade, however, were the school's A grades in Web application security, the health of its DNS records, and the quality of its endpoint security.

In other words, they actually secured their applications and systems. They're just downgraded mostly because every student-owned Raspberry Pi with an actual real IP address counted against their score and because hackers apparently like talking about hacking into MIT.

Except, of course, if every computer is actually exposed directly to the internet, then every computer is responsible for its own security -- which means that hacking into one system does nothing to compromise MIT's larger IT structure... it just gets access to one student's computer or whatever. And frankly, most people at MIT are smart enough to secure their own systems.

Does this "report" detail any actual breaches to major systems or data at MIT? It doesn't sound like it. So what precisely is the security flaw here? Giving direct internet access to thousands of students and faculty (along with the freedom that goes with that)?

I don't know what things are like there right now, but as of a few years ago, the sysadmins at MIT would generally just keep an eye on weird network traffic and events, and if your system was doing something bad, you'd just get your access shut down temporarily (and receive a notice telling you what was going on and what you needed to do to restore access).

But that was not the problem.
They converted username & password to lowercase, and stored username, MD5("username::password") additionally to bcrypt2("username::password"). The MD5 hashes were resolved now, which is what this article is about. If they had not unnecessarily stored the MD5 hashes (probably a legacy field in the database, because only present for 11 of 36 million users), there would be no problem. Converting the password to lowercase was also unnecessary. The bcrypt2 passwords remain uncracked -- the remaining 25 million user entries still are secure as far as we can tell.

Article here: http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Actually, upgrading to Windows 10 should free up disk space. A full install of Windows 10 takes up less disk space than Windows 8.1. It also eliminates the need for a recovery partition.

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

All it takes is a keylogger to get the master password. There was a recent malware attack (2014) that did this against some of the more popular password managers such as 1Password and...uh...KeePass...on Windows.

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Perhaps, using Time-based Two-Factor authentication such as Google's implementation is a safer bet as a keylogger wouldn't capture the tokens on the device running the authenticator code. Alternatively, use an Out of Bounds message, such as an SMS to convey the code to a mobile device which is read and then entered into the system you are trying to access via another device.

Even if they do should obtain your AM userid and password, the odds of them being able to use it against an individual with an account on a TFA protected system is pretty remote. Sadly, TFA is just coming of age and their marriages (and bank accounts) are already coming to end.

That is a very specific and unusual set of applications...

Each of which has a use in my retro video game development workflow.

• Firefox: Read documentation and participate in discussion
• Notepad++ or gedit: Edit source code
• GIMP or other bitmap image editor: Create graphics for an application
• GCC and Python: Build and run custom data conversion tools
• GNU Make: Decide which files need to be retranslated when making changes to an application under development
• FCEUX: Run the application

Why 10 inch? For use while riding the bus to and from my other job.

But fair enough... remind me why those don't run on Windows 10 again?

They do run on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. In fact, one of them (FCEUX) requires Windows or Wine in order to activate the debugger. One drawback of Windows 10 is that you can't opt out of all telemetry. Another is its forced reboot policy, which causes loss of open documents, loss of unsaved changes, loss of loaded web pages until next Internet connection. And the drawback of older Windows is eating up 4 GB of SSD space for a copy of Windows 10 should an administrator decide to install it. Or should I file bugs against each GUI application that I use to request that the developer implement session saving?

So you're OK with MS forcing telemetry updates on your PC which send all your keystrokes to MS servers?

I am, actually... that doesn't bother me because MS isn't sitting there watching me type and caring about me specifically. They also aren't trying to steal my CC info or hack my computer.

They are asking for more information so they can improve future versions of Windows. This is a "Good Thing".

If I did anything special or secret, if I did something that competed with Microsoft, then yes, I'd turn some of that stuff off and setup a hardware firewall to completely block MS telemetry info.

Since I don't, I don't care.

Just how much abuse does it take for you to abandon that platform?

It isn't abuse, and that you would use such a term implies a bias that you're unable or unwilling to look past.

The Tech Preview had that stuff turned on and it couldn't be disabled, but in the released version, it can be. Either at install or later.

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Plenty of places on the web talk about how to turn off the keylogging and other tracking stuff, if that bothers you.

Where it WOULD be abuse and wrong is if MS hid it in such a way as to try and do it without telling you, and then did things with the info that hurt you.

Since they don't, and don't, it isn't abuse.

TFA was uninformative. Instead, from http://cynosureprime.blogspot....:

Instead of cracking the slow bcrypt hashes directly, which is the hot topic at the moment, we took a more efficient approach and simply attacked the md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass)) and md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass).”:”.lc($email).”:73@^bhhs&#@&^@8@*$”) tokens instead. Having cracked the token, we simply then had to case correct it against its bcrypt counterpart.

Or this:

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Also, "Black-box" testing uncovers several ways the NSA could tap iMessage (from 2013)
http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Ars will http://arstechnica.com/securit...: "Mac users should remember that the technique works only when invoked by an application already installed on their systems. There is no evidence the technique can be carried out through drive-by exploits or attacks that don't require social engineering and end-user interaction. "

It is only 9 lines of code: http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Then the app has all the accounts and passwords stored in your keychain.

Yes. If you give that script access first. IOW no, not really. If you instead block it, you have to enable it before it can even ask again.

It's being actively exploited in the wild: http://arstechnica.com/securit...

The trojan app installs itself by clicking the "allow" button itself, so fast that the user doesn't have time to deny it permission. It installs adware on the user's machine without their consent.

I'm surprised that Apple didn't use a special type of window for this request. On Windows the UAC requests are done in such a way that this couldn't happen - apps can't grab the window's handle and send simulated clicks.

The SMS thing is strange though, you are right about that.

"as long as a user had already allowed the app running the script to control the Mac .. the technique works only when invoked by an application already installed on their systems. There is no evidence the technique can be carried out through drive-by exploits or attacks that don't require social engineering and end-user interaction." ref.

"To get to the point where you can't see pixels, I think some of the speculation is you need about 8K per eye in our current field of view [for the Rift]." -- Palmer Luckey, the founder and creator of the Oculus Rift

Makes much more sense to un-install those privacy downgrades.

An easier option is probably just to disable them, it looks like the sole purpose of the Diagnostics Tracking Service is to send data back to Microsoft so if you prevent it from running you should be fine.

Disclaimer: I haven't run Snort on this yet so I don't know if there isn't something else phoning home with my data, but DTS seems the obvious candidate to kill.

We may be getting to the point where Mozilla, as an organization, is suffering from death throes.

As an organization, maybe they know that Firefox, their only successful product, is on its way out. It's being rejected by the market. The changes Mozilla has made to it over the past several years have been near-universally despised, and their competitors have been getting better and better. Nobody wants to use Firefox when they can get a much better experience by using Chrome, Safari, and even modern versions of IE.

Maybe they also know that none of their other efforts have seen much success. Firefox OS is a total failure. Thunderbird has pretty much been abandoned. Firefox for Android and Persona have been ignored. Rust took forever to get a 1.0 release out, and we're already seeing the hype surrounding it pretty much die off completely, now that people realize it isn't all that useful and that C++ is still a better choice. Servo is a toy, at best. Bugzilla is a relic. Let's Encrypt keeps getting delayed, from "Summer 2015" to "Mid-2015" to "September 2015" to "Q4 2015" as of today.

Then there are the political shenanigans, like how they ganged up on Brendan Eich. Nobody should have to lose his job, voluntarily or involuntarily, and regardless of his sexual orientation, merely because of his beliefs regarding marriage. I don't know what came of it, but I also remember hearing about some executive there getting worked up about some comments that were posted at reddit from an alleged Mozilla employee.

So amid this uncertainty, we see organizational flailing. We see them grasping here and there, trying to remain relevant. Yet this clearly isn't working, because of the lack of focus, and because all of this flailing totally ignores what current and potential users actually want and need.

I think it would be a shame if Mozilla became irrelevant like, say, Netscape did. But then again, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Maybe it would allow them the rebirth they need. A return to their earlier days, when they produced actually-usable versions of Firefox, instead of spinning their wheels endlessly like they seem to be doing these days.

Another aspect of Win 95, kinda lost now, was it was fun. The Plus! cd packed in all these themes that actually worked, changing fonts, icons, colors, wallpaper, screensaver, and (my favorite) system sounds to an aquarium, a haunted house, sports, and other cool time-wasting stuff. The aquarium screensaver was quite impressive. Sure it ate some CPU, but by the time Pentium 133's were common, who cared? Some of the system sounds from that era I still keep around and plug into Windows, 'cause some of them were just plain well done.

One of my ongoing beefs with Microsoft is how, with each release, they take more of this away. I didn't mind "Luna" on XP, at least not in principle, but they only released 3 possible colors (plus a black Zune theme if you could find it). Otherwise, Luna was locked down (although "classic" was still available).

It got worse from there. On a lot of systems, you have to go through a lot of settings to get Aero to start working even if you have adequate display hardware, and once it's working there's not much you can do with it. Moreover, these things they call "themes" in Windows 7-10 aren't themes at all - they're little more than a wallpaper (albeit a pretty one). Little else can be changed. You have to go skinning or buy Windows Blinds to do anything close to what Windows 95 offered with Plus!, and these methods involve messing with system files which Win 10's mandatory system updates may well wipe out on a regular basis.

Windows 95 was a product that Microsoft was determined to make people want to use on a PC at home. But the guys behind it have probably all retired with their stock options, and the new people figure you'll buy Windows 'cause you just have to. Fuck having fun, give us your ID, your browsing history and your shopping habits. Click on this live tile, watch this ad. Buy a tablet and a phone, so we can track where you're at. It's been 20 years since Windows 95 and we got TELEMETRY!

Could something done along the lines of OpenStep GNUstep fit in with this? Sony had ideas about making use of that technology a few years ago, but apparently had a change of heart.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/v...

How many people to thank?

According to this:

Each Linux release includes more than 10,000 patches from more than 1,400 developers and more than 200 corporations.

Of course a whole lot of them work on some driver that won't have any effect on you unless you own that piece of hardware, same with architecture-specific code and various other subsystems. The number of code changes that touches everyone is significantly less.

Ars Technica writes that "At SourceFoundry.org this week, programmer Chris Simpkins debuted the 2.0 version of Hack, an open-source typeface designed specifically for use in source code." The revamped font is "characterized by a large x-height, wide aperture, and low contrast design in order to be "highly legible" at common coding text sizes," and the font specimen shows how legible it is right down to downright tiny sizes, though Simpkins says the sweet spot is between 8 and 12 pixels.

Hack's roots are in the libre, open source typeface community, and the project expands upon the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects. ... Simpkins has been working on the project throughout 2015, and he tweeted that this latest version includes "new open type features, changes in weights, significant changes in spacing, Powerline glyphs, and more." The typeface now comes with four font styles: Regular, Bold, Oblique, and Bold Oblique.

I know I know.. nobody reads the article. But here's the link:

http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Yep, both CPU cycles and memory, just compare Flash/VP8 to HTML V5 H.264 of the same quality and you'll find HTML5 video is a pig.

Doesn't seem to be the case. Playing a 1080p H.264 YouTube video in Safari leaves my OS X system better than 97% idle. All the measurements of battery life that I saw indicate that having Flash installed drains the battery faster. HTML5 video is far and away the better choice for me.

Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.

You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?

Out of all the people who responded to my comment here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7911631&cid=50399165

I'll respond here. Really, this shit should be put on the front page of Slashdot maybe some old school readers would actually be interested.

That link hairyfeet added above is the last piece of the puzzle. The Czech guy checked here http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10

In that article is this:

Information transmitted

All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:

oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com

Ok so you look for whois nsatc.net

NSATC.NET - Domain Informationnew
Domain NSATC.NET [ Site Info Traceroute RBL/DNSBL lookup ]
Registrar MARKMONITOR INC. MarkMonitor, Inc.
Registrar URL http://www.markmonitor.com
Whois server whois.markmonitor.com
Created 27-Sep-2001
Updated 01-Dec-2014
Expires 27-Sep-2015
Time Left 30 days 0 hours 4 minutes
Status clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited clientUpdateProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited) clientTransferProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited) clientDeleteProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited)
DNS servers A.NS.NSATC.NET 199.93.44.45
B.NS.NSATC.NET 8.12.212.49
C.NS.NSATC.NET 64.152.2.44
D.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.93.51
E.NS.NSATC.NET 212.187.162.134
G.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.88.25
L.NS.NSATC.NET 8.255.48.47
g.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.88.25
e.ns.nsatc.net 212.187.162.134
d.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.93.51
a.ns.nsatc.net 199.93.44.45
b.ns.nsatc.net 8.12.212.49
l.ns.nsatc.net 8.255.48.47
c.ns.nsatc.net 64.152.2.44

Now who is MarkMonitor, Inc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkMonitor
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/everything-you-need-know-about-piracy-battling-copyright-alert-system
https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-trackers-ban-windows-10-over-privacy-concerns-150822/

Ok so what happened? Microsoft took consumers money for decades of virus-laden shitware. Botnets, anti-virus suites, ransomware, all that shit.... you bought it hook line and sinker. They profited. Now they used the money consumers gave them to hire career lawyers. World gov's said hey, what the fuck? Anti-trust, etc.. then they started fuckin.

You will want to uninstall your Windows 10 "The Spyware of all Spywares Edition" because the only anti-virus that will work is Linux or other *nix.

If you installed Windows 10 because of lies about being free, or DX12, your homework is:
https://www.google.com/#q=roll+back+windows+10

You have 30 days after you took the spyware upgrade to roll back or it self-deletes the backup files.

You may or may not decide to keep any Windows at all... bu

"64-year-old engineer sues Google for age discrimination" http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Even too much knowledge of 1980s pop culture will put you on thin ice: "Median age at Google is 29, says age discrimination lawsuit" http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Teletubbies is still fine. FOR NOW! :-O

and then charge them to delete their profiles after the fact

You mean charge them to not really delete their profiles after the fact ?

Thats "one" persons opinion

Everything is one person's opinion until it's tested in a court of law. The article I linked states that such a case has been decided for board games, but not for video games.

Look, the only company that really doesn't care for streaming is Nintendo, goes to show just how stuck in the past they are.

From the article I linked: "Capcom can make you get a license for the 'public performance' of the game. In fact, that is exactly what Capcom does with for-profit tournaments" with games in the Street Fighter series. Blizzard likewise has tried to use copyright to give one Korean TV network exclusive rights to StarCraft II . Sega at one time did a massive takedown of its Shining RPG series on YouTube.

Streaming is built right in to the PS4 and Xbox One.

From the manual: "For some games, there might be scenes in which video cannot be recorded. The maximum 15 minutes of gameplay that are saved as a video clip do not include scenes in which video cannot be recorded. An icon is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen at the start and end of these scenes." This Ars Technica article agrees. Is a licensee allowed to designate the entire game as such a scene? Apparently so, according to this Polygon article and this reddit post.

Uhh yeah..about that? those are like the button at a stoplight, makes ya feel good but don't do shit...didn't ya get the memo? Unless you set up a hardware router with IP based blocking and block a shitload of IP addresses then everything you do is getting sent to the mothership whether you like it or not.

You didn't think you'd get anything "free" from MSFT, did you? Hell its the most expensive version of Windows EVAR as not only do you trade a legit key from a non spyware version of Windows but you ALSO give them your data for sale, so you get to double pay for that "free" OS...hell of a scam,huh?