Not legal in many jurisdictions, and not enforceable. Check into your local laws, but most countries are sane about that kind of thing: specifically you cannot preemptively sign away your copyright on things you haven't even created yet.
Legal or not, enforceable or not, Nintendo can afford more lawyers than you.
You can make BigMac sauce at home. Mix ketchup and mayonnaise in equal quantities, then leave in an open container on a shelf for a week and a half.
N.B. This post is comical in nature, and not intended as an accurate factual description of the content or method of manufacture of BigMac sauce. GTFO, lawyer scum.
McDonald's is not cheap, not by any stretch of the imagination. For the cost of two medium Big Mac meals and two cheeseburger Happy Meals (approx £11) you can easily buy ingredients which will make evening meals for a good portion of the week, especially if you buy B-class or value range.
McDonald's is convenient. It saves time (which may be more valuable to the parent), but ultimately their bank account, and their child's health, suffers.
Generalisations, like rumours, often have some small truth to them. I could count on my two hands (and name) the kids who I know had Facebook accounts and knew the risks, yet I know from checking the proxy logs how many tried to access Facebook from the school. It was easily in the top 5 sites students attempted to visit.
Because children are culpable for their actions and know from a very early age about all of the dangers of using the internet, giving away personal information, and can accurately assess the risks involved with using social networking services. They also know, from birth, that roads are dangerous places, they shouldn't pick up used needles, and daddy's shotgun doesn't fire blanks.
children are stupid. The ones under 13 are very, very stupid. I know this because I work in education and have done for almost a decade. If they are unsupervised, they will press every button and click every link which has anything remotely to do with getting what they want, and no EULA will stop them.
This sits squarely on the parents. Not Facebook, not the children, but mom and dad who are fed up of bringing up their child and just want them to hit 18 ASAP. I'm not saying they should shoulder-surf 24/7 and only let them play Happy Fun Playground with Ponies and Sprinkles games, but actually taking the time to become involved in their internet use, or encouraging them in talking about the cool things they've learned or found, would be a start.
"Trust" in this sense is the trust you put in the other players on your football team to not Bogart the ball and run up and down the pitch, or to kick you in the back of the knees when you have the ball. It's trusting someone else to do something which is beneficial to you both, not just themselves. Call it the Nash Equilibrium if your antisocial brain can't quite handle the concept, because you sound like that type of person.
This is why you probably won't be asked to play Portal 2, or in fact any game, with anybody else. I guess in this instance, successful troll is successful.
That's great if you want to work in a field for the rest of your life.
My point was that Hobson's Choice only works if you have all of the product and the only one selling. If Hobson had only half of the horses, he'd have been competed out of business within days by the others.
Further, principles don't feed your family. If you're happy living off value-range beans and sitting under blankets with the heating off during winter, you can afford that smug satisfaction of taking the moral highground. Some of us have mortgages to pay and / or families to feed and clothe, and can't afford to "stick it to the man".
Leaving money on the table or in your Xbox Live account makes most of us a bit uncomfortable (PDF) because it feels wasteful.
This is why you buy points in bundles of 1000, but games are in multiples of 600. It's also why sausages are sold in packs of 8 and finger rolls in packs of 12. People like symmetry and find things which are unequal disconcerting. It's basic retail psychology.
I'm not in any way involved in this kind of thing, but it's so obvious it barely requires mentioning.
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No, they were. The problem was that the diesel pumps were swamped by the tsunami, and therefore unavailable; The reactor itself was functioning despite a quake in excess of its designed tolerance. The SCRAM shut down the reactor, the diesel generators were unavailable... "Hilarity" ensued (with the portable generators having different connectors to those required for the pumps). With a short period of time before the coolant remaining boiled off, they had to get drastic and pumped in sea water. As water is a moderator, this allowed the reactions to start up again. It wasn't until 12 days after the earthquake that boronated water was used to mitigate the neutron moderation properties. It obviously wasn't enough, or there was some unboronated water trapped lower in the containment vessel where meltdown occured, so up on top all is rosey, underneath it ain't so good.
At least that's my take on the thing, having not thought about it for a few weeks.
I brought in my own. Logitech MX700; One of the few mice I've found large enough to fit my hand. I rest my palm on the rear of the mouse, and click with the 3rd finger joint. I've also set my mouse to be SLLLLOOOOOWWWWW so I have to use my arm to manoeuvre across the screen, not my wrist.
If anything, this means that my hands aren't completely ruined by the time I get home and start gaming;)
As I understand it, however, higher brain function remains unaffected. It's a simple process:
- I am in a supermarket.
- I am high, and hungry.
- Supermarkets sell a wide variety of savoury and sweet snacks.
- I am here to buy savoury and sweet snacks. - Absolutely £20 of Doritto's and chocolate Hobnobs doesn't look suspicious! That clerk is just giggling at a funny joke... Maybe... Oh crap he knows... Maaaaaaan that security guard is watching me! I probably reek of the stuff! Act cool man, act cool... Grab a pack of gum from the end of the counter, it's all good... CRAP go back and pay for the gum. Say "Goodnight" on the way out to that total stranger, that's the normal thing to do...
You seem to be of the opinion that the removal of OtherOS was the reason for Sony having poor security on their servers. This is not the case. Sony may well have been attacked through exactly the same vectors, with exactly the same outcome, had the OtherOS feature never been removed. The server-side security was not affected one single bit by the removal of OtherOS. The two are not linked. If the DDoS attacks on PSN provided a convenient smoke-screen for the hack, then that's all it did. The hack may well have simply been performed at a different time. As someone below has said, this kind of hack is planned, but opportunist. The time was right, and the hack was done.
In short, you have assumed, and we all know what that does.
From the look of the picture in the article, you plug the device into a powered USB hub and it would draw power from there. The USB connector is male A type, so plugging a keyboard into it is out of the question.
It looks like there is a third connector from the "top" of the device (in the picture) which is at the end of 6 soldered wires in what looks like a ribbon arrangement... A second USB input? From the running shot it ends in a small black device. Either way the hub is necessary as it looks like the mouse, keyboard, and external DLink LAN device connect through it. Good tech example, though. I'd definitely get one.
Not really. You can come up with a simple algorithm to create passwords which meet security criteria, and the algorithm is all you need to remember. Hell, go one better and include a salt.
An example: My password scheme could be to take the first three letters of the domain name, the last three letters, reverse them, and in between insert the value 4Fd9. Now, this gives me the password for Slashdot of tod4Fd9als. That meets the requirements of pretty much any website you can think of, is unlikely to be features in any rainbow table, requires remembering very little, and is not reliant on me carrying my password vault with me all the time.
1) Text-only chat (which is bat-guano-insane, IMHO)
Why would I use three different client types for different communications when one covers them all? That sounds a lot like having one car to go shopping, one to go to work, and one for the weekend. Personally, I don't have the inclination to maintain three cars, and one which does all three jobs is ideal.
Slashdot Mirror
Not legal in many jurisdictions, and not enforceable. Check into your local laws, but most countries are sane about that kind of thing: specifically you cannot preemptively sign away your copyright on things you haven't even created yet.
Legal or not, enforceable or not, Nintendo can afford more lawyers than you.
FTFY.
You can make BigMac sauce at home. Mix ketchup and mayonnaise in equal quantities, then leave in an open container on a shelf for a week and a half.
N.B. This post is comical in nature, and not intended as an accurate factual description of the content or method of manufacture of BigMac sauce. GTFO, lawyer scum.
Try "pink sauce". Half and half ketchup and mayonnaise.
You won't look back.
McDonald's is not cheap, not by any stretch of the imagination. For the cost of two medium Big Mac meals and two cheeseburger Happy Meals (approx £11) you can easily buy ingredients which will make evening meals for a good portion of the week, especially if you buy B-class or value range.
McDonald's is convenient. It saves time (which may be more valuable to the parent), but ultimately their bank account, and their child's health, suffers.
Give us your telephone number.
This isn't creepy at all.
Turns out it was a reverse routing issue with an intermediary ISP.
Pure, unadultered FUD. Right here.
Out of reach of common mortals.
Duh. He's wearing a jetpack!
If Deus Ex: Human Revolution is done right, they'll be well into the black again.
August 11th, folks. Diaries should be marked.
Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup Status and Configuration.
Backup and restore, all in one simple Wizard driven UI.
Nice generalisation there.
Generalisations, like rumours, often have some small truth to them. I could count on my two hands (and name) the kids who I know had Facebook accounts and knew the risks, yet I know from checking the proxy logs how many tried to access Facebook from the school. It was easily in the top 5 sites students attempted to visit.
In IT, we have "Small, Fast, Cheap. Choose two."
In reactor design, we seem to have "Efficient, Cost Effective, Safe. Choose two."
I don't like it.
It's not meant to be difficult to subvert. It's Cover Your Ass technology. They asked, they were lied to, they're not culpable.
Because children are culpable for their actions and know from a very early age about all of the dangers of using the internet, giving away personal information, and can accurately assess the risks involved with using social networking services. They also know, from birth, that roads are dangerous places, they shouldn't pick up used needles, and daddy's shotgun doesn't fire blanks.
children are stupid. The ones under 13 are very, very stupid. I know this because I work in education and have done for almost a decade. If they are unsupervised, they will press every button and click every link which has anything remotely to do with getting what they want, and no EULA will stop them.
This sits squarely on the parents. Not Facebook, not the children, but mom and dad who are fed up of bringing up their child and just want them to hit 18 ASAP. I'm not saying they should shoulder-surf 24/7 and only let them play Happy Fun Playground with Ponies and Sprinkles games, but actually taking the time to become involved in their internet use, or encouraging them in talking about the cool things they've learned or found, would be a start.
"Trust" in this sense is the trust you put in the other players on your football team to not Bogart the ball and run up and down the pitch, or to kick you in the back of the knees when you have the ball. It's trusting someone else to do something which is beneficial to you both, not just themselves. Call it the Nash Equilibrium if your antisocial brain can't quite handle the concept, because you sound like that type of person.
This is why you probably won't be asked to play Portal 2, or in fact any game, with anybody else. I guess in this instance, successful troll is successful.
So that's why it's called the Cupertino Chocolate Factory.
That's great if you want to work in a field for the rest of your life.
My point was that Hobson's Choice only works if you have all of the product and the only one selling. If Hobson had only half of the horses, he'd have been competed out of business within days by the others.
Further, principles don't feed your family. If you're happy living off value-range beans and sitting under blankets with the heating off during winter, you can afford that smug satisfaction of taking the moral highground. Some of us have mortgages to pay and / or families to feed and clothe, and can't afford to "stick it to the man".
FWIW, I agree with you. I'm just being realistic.
Leaving money on the table or in your Xbox Live account makes most of us a bit uncomfortable (PDF) because it feels wasteful.
This is why you buy points in bundles of 1000, but games are in multiples of 600. It's also why sausages are sold in packs of 8 and finger rolls in packs of 12. People like symmetry and find things which are unequal disconcerting. It's basic retail psychology.
I'm not in any way involved in this kind of thing, but it's so obvious it barely requires mentioning.
"Dear ChrisQ,
I admire you for your adherence to regulation regarding our website. Your input into the compliance process has been valuable.
Since you have provided the potential customers with the choice of accepting cookies or not using the site, our sales have dropped 35% and advertising revenue is now nill. We are no longer able to support your position with this company. Please clean off your desk and hand in your ID and keys to the receptionist on the way out.
All the best for the future,
Your ex-Boss."
No, they were. The problem was that the diesel pumps were swamped by the tsunami, and therefore unavailable; The reactor itself was functioning despite a quake in excess of its designed tolerance. The SCRAM shut down the reactor, the diesel generators were unavailable... "Hilarity" ensued (with the portable generators having different connectors to those required for the pumps). With a short period of time before the coolant remaining boiled off, they had to get drastic and pumped in sea water. As water is a moderator, this allowed the reactions to start up again. It wasn't until 12 days after the earthquake that boronated water was used to mitigate the neutron moderation properties. It obviously wasn't enough, or there was some unboronated water trapped lower in the containment vessel where meltdown occured, so up on top all is rosey, underneath it ain't so good.
At least that's my take on the thing, having not thought about it for a few weeks.
I brought in my own. Logitech MX700; One of the few mice I've found large enough to fit my hand. I rest my palm on the rear of the mouse, and click with the 3rd finger joint. I've also set my mouse to be SLLLLOOOOOWWWWW so I have to use my arm to manoeuvre across the screen, not my wrist.
;)
If anything, this means that my hands aren't completely ruined by the time I get home and start gaming
As I understand it, however, higher brain function remains unaffected. It's a simple process:
- I am in a supermarket.
- I am high, and hungry.
- Supermarkets sell a wide variety of savoury and sweet snacks.
- I am here to buy savoury and sweet snacks.
- Absolutely £20 of Doritto's and chocolate Hobnobs doesn't look suspicious! That clerk is just giggling at a funny joke... Maybe... Oh crap he knows... Maaaaaaan that security guard is watching me! I probably reek of the stuff! Act cool man, act cool... Grab a pack of gum from the end of the counter, it's all good... CRAP go back and pay for the gum. Say "Goodnight" on the way out to that total stranger, that's the normal thing to do...
You seem to be of the opinion that the removal of OtherOS was the reason for Sony having poor security on their servers. This is not the case. Sony may well have been attacked through exactly the same vectors, with exactly the same outcome, had the OtherOS feature never been removed. The server-side security was not affected one single bit by the removal of OtherOS. The two are not linked. If the DDoS attacks on PSN provided a convenient smoke-screen for the hack, then that's all it did. The hack may well have simply been performed at a different time. As someone below has said, this kind of hack is planned, but opportunist. The time was right, and the hack was done.
In short, you have assumed, and we all know what that does.
From the look of the picture in the article, you plug the device into a powered USB hub and it would draw power from there. The USB connector is male A type, so plugging a keyboard into it is out of the question.
It looks like there is a third connector from the "top" of the device (in the picture) which is at the end of 6 soldered wires in what looks like a ribbon arrangement... A second USB input? From the running shot it ends in a small black device. Either way the hub is necessary as it looks like the mouse, keyboard, and external DLink LAN device connect through it. Good tech example, though. I'd definitely get one.
Not really. You can come up with a simple algorithm to create passwords which meet security criteria, and the algorithm is all you need to remember. Hell, go one better and include a salt.
An example: My password scheme could be to take the first three letters of the domain name, the last three letters, reverse them, and in between insert the value 4Fd9. Now, this gives me the password for Slashdot of tod4Fd9als. That meets the requirements of pretty much any website you can think of, is unlikely to be features in any rainbow table, requires remembering very little, and is not reliant on me carrying my password vault with me all the time.
1) Text-only chat (which is bat-guano-insane, IMHO)
Why would I use three different client types for different communications when one covers them all? That sounds a lot like having one car to go shopping, one to go to work, and one for the weekend. Personally, I don't have the inclination to maintain three cars, and one which does all three jobs is ideal.