Just buy one used, so Sony doesn't get a dime from you for it?
Maybe wait until it's been hacked, then grab a hackable one from a pawnshop for cheap. Install the hack (even if you never plan on using it) if for no other reason than to mock those bastards.
But that's what makes it funny -- people have trouble even comprehending the idea of something that kinda functions as though it were an organization on the outside, but is instead a largely chaotic swarm people who enter and leave seemingly at random, with no real leadership or formal direction, beyond someone painting a target and inciting the great swarming mobs of the internet to attack it.
Hence the whole "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget." It is an accurate description -- they are a largely nameless and faceless mob of uncountable number (because who is and is not part changes constantly at a whim), and so long as one of their number recalls something, it can be brought out as a "fresh" target again later.
you are missing the core of the hard femininist stance -- if women aren't being involved in an activity in a number equaling or exceeding men, the activity itself or those partaking in it are actively making it a hostile environment for women.
If I were to open a booth labeled "free lemonade" and place a lemonade dispenser and a stack of cups in it, and 5 women but 20 men grabbed a cup, then either I'm actively working against them (despite not interacting with it after setup), or lemonade itself is sexist and needs to be changed.
I had a similar experience in college to the EE student posting above -- there was a single female in my major graduating the same year I did. Female students were given every advantage over male students, preference for admissions, some professors graded written portions of tests more loosely, etc, etc. Half the female freshmen in my major quit after the first semester, which sounds bad until you consider that 2/3 of the male students did (go, go, engineering and comp sci at culling the herd early and heavily). Every female who applied under my major was admitted, and half of them graduated while only 1/3 of men who applied did, it was still a 30:1 male:female ratio.
Short of saying "Having two X chromosomes means you automatically pass courses", I'm not sure what they could have done to make it more friendly to female students.
Which is precisely what will happen. Hell, I won't be surprised if it doesn't set a new standard for being the most pirated PS3 game ever just out of spite.
You're missing the distinction: Warden checks for software identified as being used to cheat on WoW. This is to check for running any software not specifically approved by Sony, having installed (but not necessarily running ATM) any software not specifically approved by Sony, or even having the capacity to install software not approved by Sony.
Effectively, Blizzard blacklists software that specifically interferes with the functioning of their network and game. Sony wants to blacklist any software that they didn't get a cut from, and also wants to blacklist having the capacity to install such software. If they were only checking for modified game data, modified game executables, and LV2 hacks (read, the things that indicate you are running a pirated or hacked game) when playing online, it wouldn't be a problem and actually would be equivalent to Warden. "You have the capacity to install software we aren't getting a cut from and installed an SNES emulator (or whatever your homebrew of choice is) with that capability" is an entirely different beast though.
I'm pretty sure Warden doesn't ban you if you have an FTP server installed (or even running), or have a debugger installed (but not running), or any game that Blizzard doesn't directly profit from. I'm even more sure that it doesn't ban you if you are capable of installing additional software on your PC.
It would be similar, if Warden also banned you for running any software not specifically approved by Blizzard, for having any software not specifically approved by Blizzard installed, or even for having the *capacity* to install software not approved by Blizzard.
I'm all for them verifying game executables and game data for online play, as well as checking for LV2 syscall hacks. A hack or cheat of some kind should probably turn up on the first two of those checks, the latter is necessary for backup managers to function. Cheaters and pirates dealt with. Stop there, whatever unlicensed third party software I want to run on my purchased PS3 should be no one's business but my own so long as that software doesn't interfere with their service in some way.
Who is running unauthorized code one someone else's PS3 again? Is CoD itself that poorly secured that connecting to another player for a game allowed the remote user to run arbitrary code on your console?
What'll be more interesting is when CoD hackers start MAC spoofing and start console permabanning other people's consoles, or the degree to which this could "poison" the second hand market.
...only if it disabled/fried TV cable boxes modified in any way whatsoever without exception, not only those modified for free PPV, and anyone and their brother could send signals over your cable line willy nilly.
You see, there are two things you disregard -- there are PS3 hacks that go out of their way to not be convenient for piracy (you could argue that anything that allows installation of software without coming from a licensed disc or PSN has the potential for piracy, but there's a big jump between that and Backup Manager-enabling stuffs. See 3.55-jb geohot for an example -- piracy is not exactly made easy by geohot's hack in and of itself without further FW patches to enable LV2 syscalls (and thus backup managers).
Realistically, if they just used this to detect modified game data, LV2 patches, and modified game executables for games played on PSN, that would be one thing, but they'll go farther than that.
You see, what I'd do if I had the capability and knowledge to exploit this properly, is I'd try to get a "forced" FW update + worm in place. PS3 rootkit forces execution for FW update, CFW includes geohot+LV2+network worm that attempts to spread itself. Yay for self-banning PS3s spreading their love?
I'm exactly the opposite. I inherited my mother's veins -- tiny spidery things that flatten out when I straighten my arm. Usually when blood is drawn from me it's drawn from the back of my hand. My nephew passes out when he has blood drawn, the next time he's vertical and moving, whether immediately or 15 minutes later.
Oh, it has all manner of nifty benefits. At the same time, I see it as a way to hold your saves hostage -- we can ban you from PSN any time we please (regardless of how the Sony v geohot case goes), and all your saves are on PSN, so unless you want to lose your saves, you'd better not do anything with that hardware you own that we don't explicitly approve of.
At the same time, Sony is finally releasing a FW update for some reason other than pissing off homebrew/pirates.
What they really need to do is implement a "homebrew" signing key and make it publicly available alongside a minimal tool set. Anything signed under the "homebrew" key should display a warning upon installation (baked into the FW) making it clear that the software in question is not licensed by Sony, it is illegal to distribute this application commercially and if you have purchased it you should contact Sony so the author's can be dragged into court, Sony is not responsible for yadayadayada, and officially introduce a variant of geohot's hack -- activate the install package from USB option, but only for "homebrew" signed packages.
Hopefully that the set of people who are primarily after piracy and the set of people who are primarily after homebrew are largely distinct makes the problem much less of a concern. Get the next set of AAA titles to require this new firmware in order to run (as in, introduce some function in the firmware called by these titles so they will not function on 3.41 to drive people away from the dongles, everyone interested in "just homebrew" will have almost certainly updated, and that only leaves Linux as a reason to be doing anything untoward with your PS3 -- reintroduce OtherOS maybe, assuming that the newer models have room in the flash to support it?
You would think, but then you demonstrate knowing nothing about American politics.
Most right voters think the radical left (meaning anyone even slightly left of whichever Republican they favor at the moment) wants to engage in an active campaign to murder babies and thieve your guns so you cannot defend the aforementioned babies from being murdered.
Most left voters think the radical right (meaning anyone even slightly right of whichever Democrat they favor at the moment) is indistinguishable from a fascist corporatist dictator.
Which doesn't mean much, since Sony only really seems to push going after the "good" ones. Remember, geohot has made a big point of "I do not condone piracy and this doesn't let you pirate in and of itself, it merely opens up the console to (access the GFX card in Other OS / Install userland homebrew packages)." I think the single most piracy-enabling thing he's openly done was warn them *not* to patch LV2, which is necessary for easy piracy (as in backup manager, as opposed to decrypting and cracking game executables then resigning them and building installable packages out of that), and even that only really saved a few people from bricking before non-geohot hackers found their way around it.
Without geohot, I wonder how long it will take for a geohot-equivalent CFW to come around though. All I really want is the install package option and to run my emus etc. I neither want nor need the LV2 patching backup manager BS.
If there was anything in the Judge's order that smelled of misconduct to me, it would be that she is hearing the case in the first place rather than in NJ (where geohot is) or somewhere with an actual Sony corporate office at the time the suit was filed.
AFAICT, the whole argument there was that they claimed one of the Does was likely to live in CA, so they had standing to sue in CA. Does that mean that I can simply add an unidentified Doe to any suit I want and move the case to whatever jurisdiction I want to pretend he’s in?
More importantly, does this mean that if that particular Doe is discovered not to be in CA that they have no claim to standing in that jurisdiction and would need to throw the case out and start over in an appropriate locale?
IANAL, so I would love some clarification on this one, because it honestly confuses me.
So, how wealthy do I need to be to get in on the effectively guaranteed returns of algorithmic high frequency trading? I mean, after all, if someone else learns how to make a profit from the activities of my algorithm, I can just demand the trades be reverted and them drug into court for daring to cost their betters money, right?
Didn't at least one of them have positive remarks posted online about their meeting between that night and when she met the other woman?
You see, here's where I have trouble (and it's something I see as an innate issue with the sex crime laws in a lot of places). Prove to me that she withdrew consent during the act, and not that she withdrew consent a few days later when she met the other woman. There is no evidence that the former is true over the latter aside from her own testimony and the words of a woman who could quite possibly be having "buyer's remorse" cannot be grounds on which to punish someone in and of themselves.
A law that in practice says "If you ever sleep with a woman, you have opened yourself up to legal punishment for the rest of your life because she might one day in the future change her mind and decide she didn't consent and her stating so is enough proof to damn you" is itself ridiculous.
The best comparison I could think of would be to compare it to one of the old Gamebooks (like Choose Your Own Adventure, Wizards Warriors & You, or Lone Wolf), but with somewhat fewer branching points and many more illustrations.
Examples are things like the Ace Attorney games, 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, or Disgaea Infinite.
You're missing my point. An economy doesn't "grow" in any sense unless outside wealth is coming in in some form. Manufacturing is typically the means by which that gets moving, hence being "fuel" for jobs (as in the existence of manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, etc, etc promotes and maintains the existence of service jobs). Unless you've got a lot of outsiders coming to you to use your service jobs, service jobs alone can't support an economy. That requires manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, or something that brings outsiders to you to spend money.
That's a big part of why (for places that aren't massive tourist hubs), you have some level of production crop up first, then service jobs build up around it, hence the phrase that manufacturing (really should mean "production" in the broad sense as agriculture, mining, etc also count -- things that bring outside wealth into the economy) are "fuel" for jobs.
Manufacturing does in a way fuel jobs, in that it produces new goods that bring in money external to the local economy. You can't support an economy composed entirely of service personnel unless there's a great outside desire for the service (read: tourist traps, Vegas, and the like). The money incoming from manufacturing however has a greater tendency to come in from outside the local environment, and money flowing into an area rather than circulating around it creates demand for additional services and with them service industry jobs.
You're right -- that's one of the biggest issues my employer has -- we can't get welders work anything. That 8/10 don't pass our weld test doesn't help, either. It's just a 4G 6" S80 position weld already fit and in the positioner for you. It's subject to visual testing and RT. I'd include our starting wages for welders, but they'd seem off since we're in a pretty low cost of living area (that also managed to more or less bypass the real estate bubble entirely, both the inflation and the pop)
It's entirely possible that they discovered...something...but can't explain it. It's also entirely possible that in the understanding it, we might discover something new and useful, maybe even a game changer, like the result of "that moldy bread seems to have killed off my bacteria culture" eventually became.
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Just buy one used, so Sony doesn't get a dime from you for it?
Maybe wait until it's been hacked, then grab a hackable one from a pawnshop for cheap. Install the hack (even if you never plan on using it) if for no other reason than to mock those bastards.
Not only that, but you could claim that their decoding it constituted a "copyright circumvention device". =p
But that's what makes it funny -- people have trouble even comprehending the idea of something that kinda functions as though it were an organization on the outside, but is instead a largely chaotic swarm people who enter and leave seemingly at random, with no real leadership or formal direction, beyond someone painting a target and inciting the great swarming mobs of the internet to attack it.
Hence the whole "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget." It is an accurate description -- they are a largely nameless and faceless mob of uncountable number (because who is and is not part changes constantly at a whim), and so long as one of their number recalls something, it can be brought out as a "fresh" target again later.
you are missing the core of the hard femininist stance -- if women aren't being involved in an activity in a number equaling or exceeding men, the activity itself or those partaking in it are actively making it a hostile environment for women.
If I were to open a booth labeled "free lemonade" and place a lemonade dispenser and a stack of cups in it, and 5 women but 20 men grabbed a cup, then either I'm actively working against them (despite not interacting with it after setup), or lemonade itself is sexist and needs to be changed.
I had a similar experience in college to the EE student posting above -- there was a single female in my major graduating the same year I did. Female students were given every advantage over male students, preference for admissions, some professors graded written portions of tests more loosely, etc, etc. Half the female freshmen in my major quit after the first semester, which sounds bad until you consider that 2/3 of the male students did (go, go, engineering and comp sci at culling the herd early and heavily). Every female who applied under my major was admitted, and half of them graduated while only 1/3 of men who applied did, it was still a 30:1 male:female ratio.
Short of saying "Having two X chromosomes means you automatically pass courses", I'm not sure what they could have done to make it more friendly to female students.
Which is precisely what will happen. Hell, I won't be surprised if it doesn't set a new standard for being the most pirated PS3 game ever just out of spite.
You're missing the distinction: Warden checks for software identified as being used to cheat on WoW. This is to check for running any software not specifically approved by Sony, having installed (but not necessarily running ATM) any software not specifically approved by Sony, or even having the capacity to install software not approved by Sony.
Effectively, Blizzard blacklists software that specifically interferes with the functioning of their network and game. Sony wants to blacklist any software that they didn't get a cut from, and also wants to blacklist having the capacity to install such software. If they were only checking for modified game data, modified game executables, and LV2 hacks (read, the things that indicate you are running a pirated or hacked game) when playing online, it wouldn't be a problem and actually would be equivalent to Warden. "You have the capacity to install software we aren't getting a cut from and installed an SNES emulator (or whatever your homebrew of choice is) with that capability" is an entirely different beast though.
I'm pretty sure Warden doesn't ban you if you have an FTP server installed (or even running), or have a debugger installed (but not running), or any game that Blizzard doesn't directly profit from. I'm even more sure that it doesn't ban you if you are capable of installing additional software on your PC.
It would be similar, if Warden also banned you for running any software not specifically approved by Blizzard, for having any software not specifically approved by Blizzard installed, or even for having the *capacity* to install software not approved by Blizzard.
I'm all for them verifying game executables and game data for online play, as well as checking for LV2 syscall hacks. A hack or cheat of some kind should probably turn up on the first two of those checks, the latter is necessary for backup managers to function. Cheaters and pirates dealt with. Stop there, whatever unlicensed third party software I want to run on my purchased PS3 should be no one's business but my own so long as that software doesn't interfere with their service in some way.
Who is running unauthorized code one someone else's PS3 again? Is CoD itself that poorly secured that connecting to another player for a game allowed the remote user to run arbitrary code on your console?
What'll be more interesting is when CoD hackers start MAC spoofing and start console permabanning other people's consoles, or the degree to which this could "poison" the second hand market.
Oops, forgt th other disregarded thing -- Sony aren't the only party reasonably able to send a signal to your PS3.
...only if it disabled/fried TV cable boxes modified in any way whatsoever without exception, not only those modified for free PPV, and anyone and their brother could send signals over your cable line willy nilly.
You see, there are two things you disregard -- there are PS3 hacks that go out of their way to not be convenient for piracy (you could argue that anything that allows installation of software without coming from a licensed disc or PSN has the potential for piracy, but there's a big jump between that and Backup Manager-enabling stuffs. See 3.55-jb geohot for an example -- piracy is not exactly made easy by geohot's hack in and of itself without further FW patches to enable LV2 syscalls (and thus backup managers).
Realistically, if they just used this to detect modified game data, LV2 patches, and modified game executables for games played on PSN, that would be one thing, but they'll go farther than that.
You see, what I'd do if I had the capability and knowledge to exploit this properly, is I'd try to get a "forced" FW update + worm in place. PS3 rootkit forces execution for FW update, CFW includes geohot+LV2+network worm that attempts to spread itself. Yay for self-banning PS3s spreading their love?
I'm exactly the opposite. I inherited my mother's veins -- tiny spidery things that flatten out when I straighten my arm. Usually when blood is drawn from me it's drawn from the back of my hand. My nephew passes out when he has blood drawn, the next time he's vertical and moving, whether immediately or 15 minutes later.
Oh, it has all manner of nifty benefits. At the same time, I see it as a way to hold your saves hostage -- we can ban you from PSN any time we please (regardless of how the Sony v geohot case goes), and all your saves are on PSN, so unless you want to lose your saves, you'd better not do anything with that hardware you own that we don't explicitly approve of.
At the same time, Sony is finally releasing a FW update for some reason other than pissing off homebrew/pirates.
What they really need to do is implement a "homebrew" signing key and make it publicly available alongside a minimal tool set. Anything signed under the "homebrew" key should display a warning upon installation (baked into the FW) making it clear that the software in question is not licensed by Sony, it is illegal to distribute this application commercially and if you have purchased it you should contact Sony so the author's can be dragged into court, Sony is not responsible for yadayadayada, and officially introduce a variant of geohot's hack -- activate the install package from USB option, but only for "homebrew" signed packages.
Hopefully that the set of people who are primarily after piracy and the set of people who are primarily after homebrew are largely distinct makes the problem much less of a concern. Get the next set of AAA titles to require this new firmware in order to run (as in, introduce some function in the firmware called by these titles so they will not function on 3.41 to drive people away from the dongles, everyone interested in "just homebrew" will have almost certainly updated, and that only leaves Linux as a reason to be doing anything untoward with your PS3 -- reintroduce OtherOS maybe, assuming that the newer models have room in the flash to support it?
You would think, but then you demonstrate knowing nothing about American politics.
Most right voters think the radical left (meaning anyone even slightly left of whichever Republican they favor at the moment) wants to engage in an active campaign to murder babies and thieve your guns so you cannot defend the aforementioned babies from being murdered.
Most left voters think the radical right (meaning anyone even slightly right of whichever Democrat they favor at the moment) is indistinguishable from a fascist corporatist dictator.
Which doesn't mean much, since Sony only really seems to push going after the "good" ones. Remember, geohot has made a big point of "I do not condone piracy and this doesn't let you pirate in and of itself, it merely opens up the console to (access the GFX card in Other OS / Install userland homebrew packages)." I think the single most piracy-enabling thing he's openly done was warn them *not* to patch LV2, which is necessary for easy piracy (as in backup manager, as opposed to decrypting and cracking game executables then resigning them and building installable packages out of that), and even that only really saved a few people from bricking before non-geohot hackers found their way around it.
Without geohot, I wonder how long it will take for a geohot-equivalent CFW to come around though. All I really want is the install package option and to run my emus etc. I neither want nor need the LV2 patching backup manager BS.
If there was anything in the Judge's order that smelled of misconduct to me, it would be that she is hearing the case in the first place rather than in NJ (where geohot is) or somewhere with an actual Sony corporate office at the time the suit was filed.
AFAICT, the whole argument there was that they claimed one of the Does was likely to live in CA, so they had standing to sue in CA. Does that mean that I can simply add an unidentified Doe to any suit I want and move the case to whatever jurisdiction I want to pretend he’s in?
More importantly, does this mean that if that particular Doe is discovered not to be in CA that they have no claim to standing in that jurisdiction and would need to throw the case out and start over in an appropriate locale?
IANAL, so I would love some clarification on this one, because it honestly confuses me.
So, how wealthy do I need to be to get in on the effectively guaranteed returns of algorithmic high frequency trading? I mean, after all, if someone else learns how to make a profit from the activities of my algorithm, I can just demand the trades be reverted and them drug into court for daring to cost their betters money, right?
Err, isn't that what OP was doing? Assuming simple greed?
Didn't at least one of them have positive remarks posted online about their meeting between that night and when she met the other woman?
You see, here's where I have trouble (and it's something I see as an innate issue with the sex crime laws in a lot of places). Prove to me that she withdrew consent during the act, and not that she withdrew consent a few days later when she met the other woman. There is no evidence that the former is true over the latter aside from her own testimony and the words of a woman who could quite possibly be having "buyer's remorse" cannot be grounds on which to punish someone in and of themselves.
A law that in practice says "If you ever sleep with a woman, you have opened yourself up to legal punishment for the rest of your life because she might one day in the future change her mind and decide she didn't consent and her stating so is enough proof to damn you" is itself ridiculous.
The best comparison I could think of would be to compare it to one of the old Gamebooks (like Choose Your Own Adventure, Wizards Warriors & You, or Lone Wolf), but with somewhat fewer branching points and many more illustrations.
Examples are things like the Ace Attorney games, 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, or Disgaea Infinite.
You're missing my point. An economy doesn't "grow" in any sense unless outside wealth is coming in in some form. Manufacturing is typically the means by which that gets moving, hence being "fuel" for jobs (as in the existence of manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, etc, etc promotes and maintains the existence of service jobs). Unless you've got a lot of outsiders coming to you to use your service jobs, service jobs alone can't support an economy. That requires manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, or something that brings outsiders to you to spend money.
That's a big part of why (for places that aren't massive tourist hubs), you have some level of production crop up first, then service jobs build up around it, hence the phrase that manufacturing (really should mean "production" in the broad sense as agriculture, mining, etc also count -- things that bring outside wealth into the economy) are "fuel" for jobs.
Manufacturing does in a way fuel jobs, in that it produces new goods that bring in money external to the local economy. You can't support an economy composed entirely of service personnel unless there's a great outside desire for the service (read: tourist traps, Vegas, and the like). The money incoming from manufacturing however has a greater tendency to come in from outside the local environment, and money flowing into an area rather than circulating around it creates demand for additional services and with them service industry jobs.
You're right -- that's one of the biggest issues my employer has -- we can't get welders work anything. That 8/10 don't pass our weld test doesn't help, either. It's just a 4G 6" S80 position weld already fit and in the positioner for you. It's subject to visual testing and RT. I'd include our starting wages for welders, but they'd seem off since we're in a pretty low cost of living area (that also managed to more or less bypass the real estate bubble entirely, both the inflation and the pop)
It's entirely possible that they discovered...something...but can't explain it. It's also entirely possible that in the understanding it, we might discover something new and useful, maybe even a game changer, like the result of "that moldy bread seems to have killed off my bacteria culture" eventually became.