Dying doesn't bring joy to gamers. Full ACK. I played CounterStrike in the past for quite some time, never enjoyed dying and never saw someone enjoying it. This really makes you wonder what kind of meaningless research is performed there as it's either complete non-sense or the testing group consisted completely of no real gamers.
Godwin's law. 10 yards back, redo the whole play. So we get a confirmation of Chameus' corollary again, i.e. an online comparison involving Nazis/Hitler leads to a discussion about Godwin's law.
> Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
Probably a significant majority of German politicians will not have a problem with that...
...but I do not see some sort of market here that is willing to pay the implementation/deployment of DNSSEC. It is exactly the same reason imho that a lot of proprietary software products are inherently insecure (probably everyone can think of some here...); the company would not derive any profit from securing them better as their average user does not care. On the other hand the whole story makes me think of IPv6 somehow (nice in theory but practically not generally needed/too expensive). So I'm really interested whether we will see any implementations of this.
they are just extracting the maximum money from the customers that are willing to pay (cf. Apple) and will lower the prices afterwards to meet the mass market.
Sounds good and similar to the strategy that Apple is deploying IMO. First price the products at a very high price that only a small fraction of the consumers will pay and gradually lower it to somewhat above average prices over the long run. Thus they extract as much money from the market as possible (or at least more than by entering the market at a lower price directly). This simplifying explanation probably ignores the fact that some people will choose from an alternative if the wanted product is overpriced for too long but as Microsoft is still offering standard versions for less money this should not be a problem at all.
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LOL - for ppl who don't want to click the link, it's really part of their license agreement!
> Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them. Probably a significant majority of German politicians will not have a problem with that...
We should see flying penises at the beginning of 2008 -- if the researchers succeed.
...but I do not see some sort of market here that is willing to pay the implementation/deployment of DNSSEC. It is exactly the same reason imho that a lot of proprietary software products are inherently insecure (probably everyone can think of some here...); the company would not derive any profit from securing them better as their average user does not care. On the other hand the whole story makes me think of IPv6 somehow (nice in theory but practically not generally needed/too expensive). So I'm really interested whether we will see any implementations of this.
they are just extracting the maximum money from the customers that are willing to pay (cf. Apple) and will lower the prices afterwards to meet the mass market.
Sounds good and similar to the strategy that Apple is deploying IMO. First price the products at a very high price that only a small fraction of the consumers will pay and gradually lower it to somewhat above average prices over the long run. Thus they extract as much money from the market as possible (or at least more than by entering the market at a lower price directly). This simplifying explanation probably ignores the fact that some people will choose from an alternative if the wanted product is overpriced for too long but as Microsoft is still offering standard versions for less money this should not be a problem at all.
...welcome our new Scandinavian overlords.