From the days of installing "Heroes of Might and Magic 3", and promptly having SecuROM PERMANENTLY turn off my CD Burner...to installing "Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3" and having it TRY and do the exact same thing, 10 years later.
Yeah. DRM has been good to me for quite some time.
The only difference here is that Microsoft is trying to do the same thing with the operating system.
Unless you can get them to understand the basics of security(which means teaching them how to use a decent virus scanner, a firewall, something like Revo Uninstaller and maybe Process Explorer) your fighting a losing battle.
The problem will not be large icons and the magnifier set up, but keeping all the crap, malware, data farming toolbar add-ons and such off the machine. If you cannot keep this stuff off, you will be doing a serious maintenance every six months or so anyways.
With my own mother, I think alot of that crap she ends up with are from simply mis-clicking links, or possibly on notification windows. Hard to configure against stuff like that. You can no-script them to death, but then they have to know enough about it to let the safe stuff through.
I have just resigned myself to cleaning up my mothers machine once a year at the holidays.
Its not just the fact that the persons DNA was extracted from the mosquito, but that it had not yet expelled it as waste. It wasn't digested if it still contained DNA usable for testing.
This means that they had a timeframe from which to work. Where was dude while buggy critter was digesting his blood? No alibi? Hah!
The more I see all this stuff play out, the more I have to admit to myself that at least a small part of the problem is a generational thing.
The people of the previous generation(don't nit-pick, and yes, I realize the generation of which I speak includes my parents) seem to have very different values then my generation, as well as that of my children. I am of the opinion that until a large majority of them pass away, the resistance to change will remain.
But then that can also imply that, at some point, my generation will be the pain-in-the-ass generation.
It is a step in the right direction because it is ELECTRONIC ARTS making the first real statement that DRM did NOT work, and are moving to a delivery method that does not include it.
Is this not what everyone has been asking for?
All seriousness aside, maybe they discovered that the U.K. had a higher percentage of downloads of Spore then any other country and are simply relaying the cost of doing business to the customer.
I assume this means its there...DRM, that is. From the AWOMO terms and conditions...
"The term "Game Software" includes the software included in this game, the associated media, any software associated with the online mode of the game, any printed materials, and any online or electronic documentation, and any and all copies and derivative works of such software and materials."
Possibly a good idea, once I know what I am getting along with the games, but until then, it is a non-starter. If the DRM is unacceptable, the entire scheme is as well.
If you think about it, the numbers are not that surprising.
Just think of how many people have had World of Warcraft accounts jacked with keyloggers. This could simply be a repository for jacked WoW passwords for use by some gold resellers, who also managed to capture all the other data. The email captures are of particular interest as this could be used to keep up to date on password changes made by the OWNER of the accounts even if the keylogger is lost.
When you compare the numbers in TFA to the accountbase of WoW(11 million?), it doesn't sound quite as sinister. Actually, more like something we all knew was happening, just not discussing until somebody looked under a rock and found some of it.
Every time I attempt to visualize the physics involved here, I keep coming back to something that ends up looking like blobs in a LavaLamp.
Many times I have seen a single, ovoid shape slowly spinning in a LavaLamp suddenly, and inexplicably, subdivide by releasing a smaller version of itself, only to continue its isolated spinning, as if nothing had happened. I can only assume that inner fluid dynamics were the trigger, as there never seemed to be another blob nearby that could have precipitated the event.
I stopped reading the questions on the site when I noticed that, for the most part, the majority of questions regarding possible ties to the Governor of Illinois were posted by residents of Texas.
While a good idea in the light of the dawn, by sunset it was apparent that the idea had become a battleground of soapbox preachers.
The first thing I would do if I had one is corrupt the poor thing. Be swearing like a fucking sailor in no time and her volume would gradually get louder and louder until you told her to shut up. And it may not work. Maybe teach her to shoplift. Built-in plausible deniability, dude.
Simply stop giving the people that back this shit your money. Put your money where your mouth is.
Before I purchase any product, I look it up on the web and see if it has DRM, if it does, I don't purchase it. When my ISP starts filtering my connection(throttling is one thing, censorship is something entirely different), I will disconnect. When I cannot look up DRM on products because I no longer use the Internet, I'll just have to assume its there.
On a serious note, could they possibly just gimble-mount the cable itself so that it can twist with the climber? The whole shebang, from top to bottom, would be spinning, but is that really a problem?
Maybe that could be taken advantage of to provide artificial gravity at the cable-end station?
"Sometimes, these can be a real pain to cancel once authorized."
Amen. I had to cancel my bank account to do so. I had Verizon accessing it when I told them in WRITING that they were no longer authorized to do so. Their response? Try to access bank account again, then charge me an "insufficient funds" fee when they realized it no longer existed.
I do ALL my bill-paying with paper now. Fuck em if it costs THEM more, the other option was ZERO security on my BANK account.
Maybe Theodore Kaczynski wasn't so far off base, after all.
While blowing people up is bad, they guy was angry over precisely this kind of shit.
He honestly felt that he was in danger because of technology, or to be more precise, the effects of technology in the hands of greedy bastards that think their dollars are more important then our freedoms.
Just a matter of time before someone else starts blowing shit up. (...and no, I do not mean me, so get your hand off the telephone)
"...so it's easier for the virus to reappear as shingles in adults who had chicken pox as children."
Funny you mention that.
I had chickenpox as a child as well as an outbreak of shingles about 3 years ago. It also, a year later, progressed into an outbreak that attacked the trigeminal nerve in my face. Felt like someone was squeezing my left eyeball, extracting all the teeth on the left side of my face and was performing a frontal lobotomy on me, without anesthetics. More pain then I have ever felt, and I have felt monumental pain before(I have plenty of stainless steel in me to prove it). I also suspect it is the root cause of a digestive problem I have(one leg of the feedback loop the stomach uses is nervous, the other hormonal).
My question is this.
Is the fact that I am rarely externally exposed to the virus in its wild form(due to everyone being vaccinated these days) the cause, or is the initial exposure still at cause?
Could it be possible that vaccinations are making things worse for people that acquire the virus naturally?
I intentionally let my kids play in the dirt, macking down on mouthfulls of the stuff if they chose, so that they would have a natural resistance to bacteria(seems to have worked, all growed up and healthy). Could our use of vaccinations be affecting us in a negative manner the same way never being exposed to germs would certainly put one at a disadvantage, once exposed later in life?
I was just relating this post to my wife when she said "I wonder, if all that is true, if it is possible the vaccinations we all receive for chickenpox might actually be the root cause of all these diseases".
Then I made another realization. Many of these diseases seem to be more prevalent then they have been in the past, that is to say that a higher percentage of the population are afflicted with these conditions then they used to be. Could the increase in these diseases correspond to the increases in vaccinating the public?
Holy smokes. Are we inadvertently introducing a weakness to all these other diseases?
Thanks NSA, for giving us the irrefutable evidence that, indeed, Microsoft is DIRECTLY involved in spying on America.
Spend your dollars wisely, America. Getting(and keeping) Microsoft OFF your computer, entirely, now directly equates to keeping the NSA off it as well.
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...All holding signs that simply say "Fuck You".
Get this nonsense over with and get it in a courtroom, and out of the hands of idiots.
There are now signs at airports(at least SeaTac) informing passengers that electronic devices may be searched for copyright violating material.
Granted, it appeared to be for foreign passengers, but it is still a step in the wrong direction.
..."Advertising".
From the days of installing "Heroes of Might and Magic 3", and promptly having SecuROM PERMANENTLY turn off my CD Burner...to installing "Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3" and having it TRY and do the exact same thing, 10 years later.
Yeah. DRM has been good to me for quite some time.
The only difference here is that Microsoft is trying to do the same thing with the operating system.
Does it remove, or add, more control of my machine?
If it adds to my current XP2 configuration, fine, I'll CONSIDER it as a replacement on this machine when XP finally goes belly up.
If it REMOVES any control of my machine, in any way, then it is just another Vista, in my mind.
I keep seeing benchmarking, eye-candy comparisons, etc, etc, but no real discussion of embedded DRM schemes, hidden processes, etc.
It is the stuff that I cannot see on my monitor that concerns me the most when considering a OS.
Unless you can get them to understand the basics of security(which means teaching them how to use a decent virus scanner, a firewall, something like Revo Uninstaller and maybe Process Explorer) your fighting a losing battle.
The problem will not be large icons and the magnifier set up, but keeping all the crap, malware, data farming toolbar add-ons and such off the machine. If you cannot keep this stuff off, you will be doing a serious maintenance every six months or so anyways.
With my own mother, I think alot of that crap she ends up with are from simply mis-clicking links, or possibly on notification windows. Hard to configure against stuff like that. You can no-script them to death, but then they have to know enough about it to let the safe stuff through.
I have just resigned myself to cleaning up my mothers machine once a year at the holidays.
Its not just the fact that the persons DNA was extracted from the mosquito, but that it had not yet expelled it as waste. It wasn't digested if it still contained DNA usable for testing.
This means that they had a timeframe from which to work. Where was dude while buggy critter was digesting his blood? No alibi? Hah!
The more I see all this stuff play out, the more I have to admit to myself that at least a small part of the problem is a generational thing.
The people of the previous generation(don't nit-pick, and yes, I realize the generation of which I speak includes my parents) seem to have very different values then my generation, as well as that of my children. I am of the opinion that until a large majority of them pass away, the resistance to change will remain.
But then that can also imply that, at some point, my generation will be the pain-in-the-ass generation.
It is a step in the right direction because it is ELECTRONIC ARTS making the first real statement that DRM did NOT work, and are moving to a delivery method that does not include it.
Is this not what everyone has been asking for?
All seriousness aside, maybe they discovered that the U.K. had a higher percentage of downloads of Spore then any other country and are simply relaying the cost of doing business to the customer.
"The only problem? Their conversion rate seems to be $1 per 1, somewhat less favorable than the current exchange rate, which is roughly $1.40 per 1. "
Man, this is a huge step in the right direction and this all you can fucking think of?
I assume this means its there...DRM, that is. From the AWOMO terms and conditions...
"The term "Game Software" includes the software included in this game, the associated media, any software associated with the online mode of the game, any printed materials, and any online or electronic documentation, and any and all copies and derivative works of such software and materials."
Possibly a good idea, once I know what I am getting along with the games, but until then, it is a non-starter. If the DRM is unacceptable, the entire scheme is as well.
If you think about it, the numbers are not that surprising.
Just think of how many people have had World of Warcraft accounts jacked with keyloggers. This could simply be a repository for jacked WoW passwords for use by some gold resellers, who also managed to capture all the other data. The email captures are of particular interest as this could be used to keep up to date on password changes made by the OWNER of the accounts even if the keylogger is lost.
When you compare the numbers in TFA to the accountbase of WoW(11 million?), it doesn't sound quite as sinister. Actually, more like something we all knew was happening, just not discussing until somebody looked under a rock and found some of it.
Step 1: Create and heavily market new technology to public as a profitable venture
Step 2: Make use of technology ILLEGAL
Step 3: Fill privately owned/operated prisons with resulting miscreants OR...
Optional Step 4: Use resulting abuse(illegality) as validation to extort money from general populace
This model fits with the whole Media/DRM crap and now seems to be used for purposes other then making money.
Every time I attempt to visualize the physics involved here, I keep coming back to something that ends up looking like blobs in a LavaLamp.
Many times I have seen a single, ovoid shape slowly spinning in a LavaLamp suddenly, and inexplicably, subdivide by releasing a smaller version of itself, only to continue its isolated spinning, as if nothing had happened. I can only assume that inner fluid dynamics were the trigger, as there never seemed to be another blob nearby that could have precipitated the event.
I stopped reading the questions on the site when I noticed that, for the most part, the majority of questions regarding possible ties to the Governor of Illinois were posted by residents of Texas.
While a good idea in the light of the dawn, by sunset it was apparent that the idea had become a battleground of soapbox preachers.
The first thing I would do if I had one is corrupt the poor thing. Be swearing like a fucking sailor in no time and her volume would gradually get louder and louder until you told her to shut up. And it may not work. Maybe teach her to shoplift. Built-in plausible deniability, dude.
But kinda of hard to swallow.
Simply stop giving the people that back this shit your money. Put your money where your mouth is.
Before I purchase any product, I look it up on the web and see if it has DRM, if it does, I don't purchase it. When my ISP starts filtering my connection(throttling is one thing, censorship is something entirely different), I will disconnect. When I cannot look up DRM on products because I no longer use the Internet, I'll just have to assume its there.
Why pay for it when it doesn't work anymore?
Bingo.
Sounds like an attempt to put all the new, nifty "Terrorism Mitigation" laws into use for something they were never intended to be used for.
Well, maybe I am wrong about the intent thing....
On a serious note, could they possibly just gimble-mount the cable itself so that it can twist with the climber? The whole shebang, from top to bottom, would be spinning, but is that really a problem?
Maybe that could be taken advantage of to provide artificial gravity at the cable-end station?
Just put two climbers on there and flip one over to counter the twist of the other!
Simple as pie!
Sheesh, they should give me a job.
"Sometimes, these can be a real pain to cancel once authorized."
Amen. I had to cancel my bank account to do so. I had Verizon accessing it when I told them in WRITING that they were no longer authorized to do so. Their response? Try to access bank account again, then charge me an "insufficient funds" fee when they realized it no longer existed.
I do ALL my bill-paying with paper now. Fuck em if it costs THEM more, the other option was ZERO security on my BANK account.
Maybe Theodore Kaczynski wasn't so far off base, after all.
While blowing people up is bad, they guy was angry over precisely this kind of shit.
He honestly felt that he was in danger because of technology, or to be more precise, the effects of technology in the hands of greedy bastards that think their dollars are more important then our freedoms.
Just a matter of time before someone else starts blowing shit up. (...and no, I do not mean me, so get your hand off the telephone)
"...so it's easier for the virus to reappear as shingles in adults who had chicken pox as children."
Funny you mention that.
I had chickenpox as a child as well as an outbreak of shingles about 3 years ago. It also, a year later, progressed into an outbreak that attacked the trigeminal nerve in my face. Felt like someone was squeezing my left eyeball, extracting all the teeth on the left side of my face and was performing a frontal lobotomy on me, without anesthetics. More pain then I have ever felt, and I have felt monumental pain before(I have plenty of stainless steel in me to prove it). I also suspect it is the root cause of a digestive problem I have(one leg of the feedback loop the stomach uses is nervous, the other hormonal).
My question is this.
Is the fact that I am rarely externally exposed to the virus in its wild form(due to everyone being vaccinated these days) the cause, or is the initial exposure still at cause?
Could it be possible that vaccinations are making things worse for people that acquire the virus naturally?
I intentionally let my kids play in the dirt, macking down on mouthfulls of the stuff if they chose, so that they would have a natural resistance to bacteria(seems to have worked, all growed up and healthy). Could our use of vaccinations be affecting us in a negative manner the same way never being exposed to germs would certainly put one at a disadvantage, once exposed later in life?
I was just relating this post to my wife when she said "I wonder, if all that is true, if it is possible the vaccinations we all receive for chickenpox might actually be the root cause of all these diseases".
Then I made another realization. Many of these diseases seem to be more prevalent then they have been in the past, that is to say that a higher percentage of the population are afflicted with these conditions then they used to be. Could the increase in these diseases correspond to the increases in vaccinating the public?
Holy smokes. Are we inadvertently introducing a weakness to all these other diseases?
Thanks NSA, for giving us the irrefutable evidence that, indeed, Microsoft is DIRECTLY involved in spying on America.
Spend your dollars wisely, America. Getting(and keeping) Microsoft OFF your computer, entirely, now directly equates to keeping the NSA off it as well.