1) I didn't see my friend keep having problems with his pre-installed vista laptop 2) my other friend didn't do anything but complain about his vista desktop
That's the most retarded thing I have read today. Of course it matters if you're running in a root account or not. Anything could get installed on your system then you're:
1) getting a police on your doorstep because they want to know why you are:
a) hosting kiddie porn
b) DDOSing a US army base
c) Downloading Software/Music/Movies 2) losing bandwidth to people that are using your computers for servers which could cost you hundreds of dollars in going over limits 3) getting your passwords stolen via a key logger which will then dig into your email, etc
Copy protection isn't suppose to stop hackers from stealing the games, it's suppose the slow them down long enough for the first few weeks to sales to pass which are extremely important to a game. A good example off the top of my head is the delay between Doom 3 being sold in the US and in the UK.
It was downloaded in the UK on bit torrent over 3 million times or something before it even came out in England, are you (not parent) seriously telling me these people weren't going to buy it when it came out if there wasn't a free download? Bullshit!
The problem is the slashdot crowd complains constantly about the copy protection yet most people here say "I downloaded and played it but would never have bought it". Hypocrisy!
Steam is fine from a copy protection point of view, it's when they start disabling accounts of those who bought their game in Thailand to get it cheaper where I draw the line.
Some consumers who purchased Valve's Orange Box from vendors located outside of their home country--mainly in an attempt to save on cheaper products--have recently reported that their otherwise legally-obtained games have since been deactivated by Valve's Steam software for territory violation. Talking with Shacknews, Valve's Doug Lombardi now says that the Steam software is merely carrying out this function by design. "Valve uses Steam for territory control to make sure products authorized for use in certain territories are not being distributed and used outside of those territories," said Lombardi.
"In this case, a Thai website was selling retail box product keys for Thailand to people outside of Thailand. Since those keys are only for use in Thailand, people who purchased product keys from the Thai website are not able to use those product keys in other territories." So are users who bought the game outside of their own country completely out of luck? It appears so, as Lombardi recommends purchasing a legal copy from a local shop in order to keep playing. "Some of these users have subsequently purchased a legal copy after realizing the issue and were having difficulty removing the illegitimate keys from their Steam accounts," added Lombardi. "Anyone having this problem should contact Steam Support to have the Thai key removed from their Steam account."
This really sucks for me as I travel to and from Thailand all the time. What do they expect? I buy the orange box in every damn country?!
Everyone is too focused on political scaremongering, everyone else is too afraid to come out with anything unpopular in case they're called an "oil company sell out" by the idiot global warming mob and lose their jobs.
It's a good idea but the problem is that you first have to come up with a useful patch which is then going to move its way up the branches before it hits Linus's kernel tree. By the time it gets there it's probably been reviewed quite a few times by different people.
Also patches get rejected all the time, even useful ones because they aren't up to standard.
wow that's fucking stupid, an MRI is operated by a specialist and has nothing to do with a notation language. What's the point of UML if only one guy on the team understands it.
Slashdot Mirror
Not ready for desktop.
I'd believe you if
1) I didn't see my friend keep having problems with his pre-installed vista laptop
2) my other friend didn't do anything but complain about his vista desktop
That's the most retarded thing I have read today. Of course it matters if you're running in a root account or not. Anything could get installed on your system then you're:
1) getting a police on your doorstep because they want to know why you are:
a) hosting kiddie porn
b) DDOSing a US army base
c) Downloading Software/Music/Movies
2) losing bandwidth to people that are using your computers for servers which could cost you hundreds of dollars in going over limits
3) getting your passwords stolen via a key logger which will then dig into your email, etc
lol
fm6 is a cock eater
With Google's browser sync you had to encrypt your data with a key before sending it off unreadable to Google. Stop your BS scaremongering.
lamer
winner!
Got one thanks.
Just to waste your time and piss you off, haha.
I saw this post on the main page and instantly knew they'd be a Reiser joke. In fact, that's all I came here for, cya!
You're just pissy because you want the last word. You're one of those people that has to go on and on till the other person stops posting.
lol, whatever dude. Go have your flamewar with someone else.
Then you shouldn't have people from work replying to your thread, to me that's equally bad as what twitter does.
PS: I didn't mean this to be a "be all end all solution", I realise any system has flaws but slashdot is ridiculously open to this crap.
Restrict replying as a different user to your own thread by IP.
Copy protection isn't suppose to stop hackers from stealing the games, it's suppose the slow them down long enough for the first few weeks to sales to pass which are extremely important to a game. A good example off the top of my head is the delay between Doom 3 being sold in the US and in the UK.
It was downloaded in the UK on bit torrent over 3 million times or something before it even came out in England, are you (not parent) seriously telling me these people weren't going to buy it when it came out if there wasn't a free download? Bullshit!
The problem is the slashdot crowd complains constantly about the copy protection yet most people here say "I downloaded and played it but would never have bought it". Hypocrisy!
This really sucks for me as I travel to and from Thailand all the time. What do they expect? I buy the orange box in every damn country?!
Since all the family including Nina ran off back to Russia I doubt they'd care.
Everyone is too focused on political scaremongering, everyone else is too afraid to come out with anything unpopular in case they're called an "oil company sell out" by the idiot global warming mob and lose their jobs.
A study from 1984? Gimme a break, the internet and it's pornography haven wasn't even there yet.
Come back with something more recent then that crap.
This is a country where the most popular entertainment is watching a TV program where people in a house are recorded 24 hours a day.
I doubt people here care that much.
So what. It's still lying to say it can make itself, when it quite obviously can't.
It's a good idea but the problem is that you first have to come up with a useful patch which is then going to move its way up the branches before it hits Linus's kernel tree. By the time it gets there it's probably been reviewed quite a few times by different people.
Also patches get rejected all the time, even useful ones because they aren't up to standard.
wow that's fucking stupid, an MRI is operated by a specialist and has nothing to do with a notation language. What's the point of UML if only one guy on the team understands it.