Played a console game recently? With the exception of Nintendo titles, console games these days seem to be designed for online play. I know that none of the games that my friend had last weekend on his PS3 (mostly war sims and driving games) had a split-screen mode, so we ended up playing hot-seat.
For your leading analogy (and I say this as someone who supports game authors getting paid, hell I worked in the games industry) I'd have to say that a more accurate one is "if you see a street walker, and later beat off while fantasizing about her, do you owe her anything"? Imagine if you will that you have some kind of neural implant that can generate a plausible recreation of her from stored photos.
The fact that less than 100% of pirates would've bought something does not mean you get to pretend that 0% of them would've bought it.
That is not quite what the GPP was arguing. He was saying that HE would never ever buy the game, and that therefore if he downloaded the game it wouldn't be costing the company a sale.
Hm, that would actually work relatively well if people use the same nick for their gmail address as for gaming. I'm just used to WoW where my character name is completely different...:P But yeah, maybe not 100% but with a few educated guesses you could get a fair hit rate.
Hah, such naivete. Giving welfare mom more money does not necessarily mean a better life for her bastard offspring. It means she can get a new TV, dvd player or drugs...
Your cynicism blinds you to the greater issue here - that giving welfare mom more money for sitting on her ass doing nothing is teaching her kids to do the same.
Well, I have yet to see supermarket-type consumer goods fall in price, but maybe that's just the area where I live. The price of petrol here is determined by the Singapore market, in some crazy scheme to stop our local production being shipped overseas* so transport and cold-storage costs are still high (although it's definitely improved, from $1.50/litre this time last year down to $1.20-$1.30 a litre now). Food is still just as expensive if not more so. Housing is expensive unless you're living 40+ kms away from the city center. Our economy (in terms of industry and business) is still in 'oh shit' mode, though, with widespread job losses and operation being scaled back. Does that qualify enough as stagnation?
*...whereas the government could (and should) simply mandate that it not be, it's clearly not in our national interest for foreign owned oil companies to be ripping extra dollars off Australians, but I guess if those in power were smart enough to see that they'd probably have real jobs.
First, stagflation can result when an economy is slowed by an unfavorable supply shock, such as an increase in the price of oil in an oil importing country, which tends to raise prices at the same time that it slows the economy by making production less profitable.
Does that sound familiar? The price of crude oil doubled between 2004 and 2008.
Anecdotally, food and other daily necessities are f**king expensive now compared to 10 years ago, while wages have stayed relatively stagnant. The official inflation figures posted (for Australia) are ~4.5%, but in terms of actual buying power it's much much higher. I earn maybe 1.6x what I earned 8 years ago, but prices for most commodities are up by 2x or more. Despite my higher wage I have less buying power now than I did back then as a graduate. Sometimes it feels like I'm using Monopoly money when I walk out of a supermarket $120 poorer after our weekly shop.
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
Not at all - we still need actors, we just don't need their physical bodies.
The human voice is much more expressive, and much less well synthesised currently, than appearance. As technology advances it will be easier to generate but for now, voice actors are far easier to work with.
Reading the Jesux web page, it's one of those satires that I'm not quite certain is satire. It worries me when that happens. For instance, compare and contrast the Landover Baptist Church website with Chick Publications.
If you had hundreds of pieces of junk mail in your physical mailbox for every actual letter, and you started losing real mail in the flood, then it probably would be illegal. Of course, that would only happen if junk-mail senders could control the brains of your hapless neighbours and form them into an army of junk mail delivery zombies.
How the hell did they get from your L4D handle to your email address? Unless you posted both in the same place and they managed to googlify it and sign you up with a bunch of spam lists.
What software are you talking about? Remote Desktop comes as part of XP and later, and even if it didn't, 5 minutes to download and install RealVNC is hardly "considerable effort". Once you have a remote window session it's as good as being at the console, unless you have to do hardware stuff (reboots, plugging devices in, etc) which require physical presence regardless of OS.
I'll concede that over very low bandwidth lines, Linux has a large advantage because it's designed to be administered from the command prompt. Over an office intranet? Not so much.
I'll have to go to Finland and try it then, I guess. I've tried Fosters in Singapore and in London and in neither place was it something I'd consider 'beer'.
Oh. OK, I get it now - the VM thing. Some guy rents a VM on your server cluster, fiddles the MTR, breaks out of the VM and can mess with other users' VMs, or outright kill them and take full control of the box.
In my (admittedly somewhat brief) experience as a sysadmin, Win2K boxes are just as easy to use remotely as Linux ones are. If the machine breaks you'll need to see it physically, otherwise you use a remote session (whether that be a command prompt, X session or Remote Desktop connection).
This attack still requires root access, so all this says is that if you have an Intel DQ35 motherboard, are running linux and you've already been rooted, then someone could probably install a really sneaky rootkit.
If you've already been rooted, couldn't the attacker install said really sneaky rootkit by using devious hacker commands like 'cp'? Why bother trying to inject code when you can already do whatever you want?
I'd argue that redundancy is an effort to defend against fuckups, not attackers. Even triple redundancy, which is probably the most that's used to defend against faults, is pretty easy to destroy with a coordinated attack if the attackers know the system. Think of the London bombings - three attacks on separate trains within 50 seconds of each other. And this was done by people stupid enough to asplode themselves in order to make a point.
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Played a console game recently? With the exception of Nintendo titles, console games these days seem to be designed for online play. I know that none of the games that my friend had last weekend on his PS3 (mostly war sims and driving games) had a split-screen mode, so we ended up playing hot-seat.
For your leading analogy (and I say this as someone who supports game authors getting paid, hell I worked in the games industry) I'd have to say that a more accurate one is "if you see a street walker, and later beat off while fantasizing about her, do you owe her anything"? Imagine if you will that you have some kind of neural implant that can generate a plausible recreation of her from stored photos.
The fact that less than 100% of pirates would've bought something does not mean you get to pretend that 0% of them would've bought it.
That is not quite what the GPP was arguing. He was saying that HE would never ever buy the game, and that therefore if he downloaded the game it wouldn't be costing the company a sale.
Hm, that would actually work relatively well if people use the same nick for their gmail address as for gaming. I'm just used to WoW where my character name is completely different... :P But yeah, maybe not 100% but with a few educated guesses you could get a fair hit rate.
Hah, such naivete. Giving welfare mom more money does not necessarily mean a better life for her bastard offspring. It means she can get a new TV, dvd player or drugs...
Your cynicism blinds you to the greater issue here - that giving welfare mom more money for sitting on her ass doing nothing is teaching her kids to do the same.
Well, I have yet to see supermarket-type consumer goods fall in price, but maybe that's just the area where I live. The price of petrol here is determined by the Singapore market, in some crazy scheme to stop our local production being shipped overseas* so transport and cold-storage costs are still high (although it's definitely improved, from $1.50/litre this time last year down to $1.20-$1.30 a litre now). Food is still just as expensive if not more so. Housing is expensive unless you're living 40+ kms away from the city center. Our economy (in terms of industry and business) is still in 'oh shit' mode, though, with widespread job losses and operation being scaled back. Does that qualify enough as stagnation?
...whereas the government could (and should) simply mandate that it not be, it's clearly not in our national interest for foreign owned oil companies to be ripping extra dollars off Australians, but I guess if those in power were smart enough to see that they'd probably have real jobs.
*
First, stagflation can result when an economy is slowed by an unfavorable supply shock, such as an increase in the price of oil in an oil importing country, which tends to raise prices at the same time that it slows the economy by making production less profitable.
Does that sound familiar? The price of crude oil doubled between 2004 and 2008.
Anecdotally, food and other daily necessities are f**king expensive now compared to 10 years ago, while wages have stayed relatively stagnant. The official inflation figures posted (for Australia) are ~4.5%, but in terms of actual buying power it's much much higher. I earn maybe 1.6x what I earned 8 years ago, but prices for most commodities are up by 2x or more. Despite my higher wage I have less buying power now than I did back then as a graduate. Sometimes it feels like I'm using Monopoly money when I walk out of a supermarket $120 poorer after our weekly shop.
Sounds to me like D/D would be diseased druggie, it needs a negation somewhere in there. :)
Sounds like (as with most other nominally 'victimless' crimes) prohibition has caused far more overall harm than simple regulation would have done.
I think there's a natural ceiling on the server market.
Five, or thereabouts?
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
Not at all - we still need actors, we just don't need their physical bodies.
The human voice is much more expressive, and much less well synthesised currently, than appearance. As technology advances it will be easier to generate but for now, voice actors are far easier to work with.
Or maybe we just slashdotted GeoCities.
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Reading the Jesux web page, it's one of those satires that I'm not quite certain is satire. It worries me when that happens. For instance, compare and contrast the Landover Baptist Church website with Chick Publications.
If you had hundreds of pieces of junk mail in your physical mailbox for every actual letter, and you started losing real mail in the flood, then it probably would be illegal. Of course, that would only happen if junk-mail senders could control the brains of your hapless neighbours and form them into an army of junk mail delivery zombies.
Well said. And your sig is awesome.
From their page:
Slopsbox is mailinator.
FTFY.
How the hell did they get from your L4D handle to your email address? Unless you posted both in the same place and they managed to googlify it and sign you up with a bunch of spam lists.
You can make carbon fibre out of burnt carrots.
What software are you talking about? Remote Desktop comes as part of XP and later, and even if it didn't, 5 minutes to download and install RealVNC is hardly "considerable effort". Once you have a remote window session it's as good as being at the console, unless you have to do hardware stuff (reboots, plugging devices in, etc) which require physical presence regardless of OS.
I'll concede that over very low bandwidth lines, Linux has a large advantage because it's designed to be administered from the command prompt. Over an office intranet? Not so much.
Generally I power my acoustic guitar with my fingers, not my p**p.
THAT, my friend, is the true purpose of beer.
There, that's better. :)
Foster's is damn good as well.
I'll have to go to Finland and try it then, I guess. I've tried Fosters in Singapore and in London and in neither place was it something I'd consider 'beer'.
Australian microbrewery beer is awesome.
Oh. OK, I get it now - the VM thing. Some guy rents a VM on your server cluster, fiddles the MTR, breaks out of the VM and can mess with other users' VMs, or outright kill them and take full control of the box.
In my (admittedly somewhat brief) experience as a sysadmin, Win2K boxes are just as easy to use remotely as Linux ones are. If the machine breaks you'll need to see it physically, otherwise you use a remote session (whether that be a command prompt, X session or Remote Desktop connection).
This attack still requires root access, so all this says is that if you have an Intel DQ35 motherboard, are running linux and you've already been rooted, then someone could probably install a really sneaky rootkit.
If you've already been rooted, couldn't the attacker install said really sneaky rootkit by using devious hacker commands like 'cp'? Why bother trying to inject code when you can already do whatever you want?
(Honest question, maybe I missed something.)
I'd argue that redundancy is an effort to defend against fuckups, not attackers. Even triple redundancy, which is probably the most that's used to defend against faults, is pretty easy to destroy with a coordinated attack if the attackers know the system. Think of the London bombings - three attacks on separate trains within 50 seconds of each other. And this was done by people stupid enough to asplode themselves in order to make a point.