Yes, you own your PS3. No, you don't own PSN. Sony locks down PSN access because it keeps PSN secure from exploitation, which would degrade the experience of those who do not exploit on PSN.
If Sony didn't ban cracked PS3's from PSN, and my gaming experience was affected by active exploits, you can bet I'd be screaming for George Hotz's head on a platter, your homebrew be damned.
A jury is a group of 12 people of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer.
A jury consists of 12 people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer. - Robert Frost.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby.
Almost arbitrarily the jury can decide whether you genuinely forgot something, you're lying about forgetting something, or the fact you can't recall is sufficient. Never underestimate the level of "stupid" a group of lay men can bring to a discussion between educated people.
Forgive my lack of terminology; I know next to nothing of databases anymore. MSAccess was forced on me at college, and know nothing to speak of SQL.
One of those passed parameters was passed directly to an SQL query, with no validation or sanitation whatsoever. Turning "...&page=27" into '...&page="; DROP TABLE (FOO);' or somesuch would result in the whole query being executed.
Look for the XKCD on "Bobby Tables" for a better example. Again, I know next to nothing of the exact methods involved. It's just just how I understand SQL injection to work.
A Linux client sounds amazing! You'll be able to buy all of those Windows Only games, see your disk space drop slowly while they download, then realise that the "Platinum" rating they get for WINE is actually rubbish and you spent £25 on something you can't use.
Don't take this the wrong way; I gamed on Linux for over a year, fiddling with WINE config and game ini files to get the damn things to load, and it was Good. I learned a lot. However, much like you *can* run a diesel car on cooking oil, it's far more convenient to fill it up at a petrol station than to buy carton after carton of catering fat. Right now, it's more convenient to PC game on Windows than Linux, and Gabe knows this.
Caveat emptor. You are given the option to return your goods you are dissatisfied by out of courtesy, not right. Faulty, you can return it. Not as described, you can return it. Your opinion of it is that is sucks? Too bad, suck it up and make better choices next time.
Sorry, but them's the apples. FWIW, I'm in the same boat as you, though, which is why I read reviews and opinion pieces from sources I trust before buying entertainment media anymore. Maybe you should do the same.
I'm in no way associated with Anonymous, 4Chan, or any of the stuff that's gone on, but I've read through this saga with keen interest, and think Barr got exactly what was coming to him. To use the vernacular, he got "served" good and proper.
The great thing about Anonymous is that, had I been at RSA and placed that sign, I would have been in Anonymous for that time, despite having never been associated with them in any other way. It's an ideal, not a club you apply to join.
If you still don't get that, you don't get Anonymous at all.
Apologies for replying to myself; Wikipedia for D&D Alignments lists Batman as "Lawful Good". I disagree, as he is frequently outside of the law in his actions. He is guided by his own moral compass, which is inarguably favoured towards "good", but lawful? I don't see it.
Batman is not unambiguously good. He does bad things to bad people, but that's an "ends justify the means" mentality. Any and all tools are employed in order to bring the bad guy down, regardless of the legality of the action. Yes, red tape may be all that stands in the way of bringing down the "bad guy" legally, but Batman doesn't cut through the red tape. Batman charges head first, guns (metaphorically) blazing in order to utterly decimate the criminal underworld. Batman is morally ambiguous, a personification of lynch mob justice.
His "one rule" of not killing anyone (going by TDK only here) gives him the leeway in morality which Alfred talks about in the scene where he talks about his past, working to defend against rebel tribes attacking convoys. Those "evil" aggressors would attack gem convoys just for the sport, and his solution was to "burn the forest to the ground". Batman is very much the same; Scorched Earth is his methodology, and as such he can't be seen as unambiguously good.
If I was to give Batman a D&D alignment, it would definitely be Chaotic Good. His methods are absolutely questionable, sometimes.
i propose that "bork" be interchangeable with all words, as words retaining their meaning adds no value to our lives.
Bork bork bork, bork bork bork bork bork bork. Understand? No, I didn't think so. Bricked = interchangeable with a brick. What these TiVo units will be is "with reduced functionality, but fully capable of playing pre-recorded shows" and not bricked at all.
Let me put it to you this way; If you would were faced with the situation of throwing $brickeddevice or a brick through someone's window, if you don't choose $brickeddevice it is not bricked.
Great use of suspense, menace, and inference. A pretty sinister film, with drug references, violence, and and an antagonist who creeps the hell out of you.
Not a single drop of blood or curse word = 12A in the UK. Quite a feat, that. I guess this director just isn't up to that standard. Probably shouldn't be making the film.
"... the largest xray solar flare in over a year..."
So we shouldn't be heading for the nuke shelter's then, as we're still all here after last year's "largest xray solar flare in over $meaninglesslysmalltime..."
Ok, so this is going to make pretty lights up at the pole, but the whole EMP-esque electrical Armageddon nuance is little over-hyped, don't you think?
I don't see what the fuss is about. regex are logical parsers; You can construct without error exactly what they do with little to no input from any other piece of code. That's rare.
I haven't got a clue how to construct them, but after reading this, I'm damn well going to learn.
Not a chance. Your custom crap will be replaced with a stock image and it'll be mailed back to you "fixed". When you tell them the problem is still present, they might look at it the second time around.
Imaging it to stock before sending it back just eliminates that first step.
If you liked the 4 and 5, the 8100 was a fantastic replacement workgroup printer. You could hammer it all day long, and when it eventually did fail you could strip it down and rebuild it in less than an hour. It's like they built it to make my job easier.
For administration PC's, it's a bit longer. I have to backup their data first and then slick and reload. Then I have to put the data back. So that's more in the 30-90 minutes category.
Uhhh... These are desktop PCs? You specified "laptop" in your first sentence, so I would have thought you'd specify it further down if that's what you meant. There's no reason to have user data stored on the local machine at all. All it does is needlessly choke up bandwidth when synchronising (you do sync it with the server, right? Or do you have some other backup mechanism in place?).
As for the rest? Well done, you've started taking system images instead of reloading all of the patches, drivers, and necessary software for every build. Save yourself a little time and do the same thing with your home PC with PING
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Yes, you own your PS3. No, you don't own PSN. Sony locks down PSN access because it keeps PSN secure from exploitation, which would degrade the experience of those who do not exploit on PSN.
If Sony didn't ban cracked PS3's from PSN, and my gaming experience was affected by active exploits, you can bet I'd be screaming for George Hotz's head on a platter, your homebrew be damned.
Yeah, but Windows is Windows and OS/X is OS/X. There's little difference between them.
Linux is complicated
A jury is a group of 12 people of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer.
A jury consists of 12 people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer. - Robert Frost.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby.
Almost arbitrarily the jury can decide whether you genuinely forgot something, you're lying about forgetting something, or the fact you can't recall is sufficient. Never underestimate the level of "stupid" a group of lay men can bring to a discussion between educated people.
As long as your key is backed up, you're good to go. Ignore the ney-sayers.
Forgive my lack of terminology; I know next to nothing of databases anymore. MSAccess was forced on me at college, and know nothing to speak of SQL.
One of those passed parameters was passed directly to an SQL query, with no validation or sanitation whatsoever. Turning "...&page=27" into '...&page="; DROP TABLE (FOO);' or somesuch would result in the whole query being executed.
Look for the XKCD on "Bobby Tables" for a better example. Again, I know next to nothing of the exact methods involved. It's just just how I understand SQL injection to work.
This "Hoodoo" thing... It reminds me of a man. A man with power.
A Linux client sounds amazing! You'll be able to buy all of those Windows Only games, see your disk space drop slowly while they download, then realise that the "Platinum" rating they get for WINE is actually rubbish and you spent £25 on something you can't use.
Don't take this the wrong way; I gamed on Linux for over a year, fiddling with WINE config and game ini files to get the damn things to load, and it was Good. I learned a lot. However, much like you *can* run a diesel car on cooking oil, it's far more convenient to fill it up at a petrol station than to buy carton after carton of catering fat. Right now, it's more convenient to PC game on Windows than Linux, and Gabe knows this.
Caveat emptor. You are given the option to return your goods you are dissatisfied by out of courtesy, not right. Faulty, you can return it. Not as described, you can return it. Your opinion of it is that is sucks? Too bad, suck it up and make better choices next time.
Sorry, but them's the apples. FWIW, I'm in the same boat as you, though, which is why I read reviews and opinion pieces from sources I trust before buying entertainment media anymore. Maybe you should do the same.
I'm in no way associated with Anonymous, 4Chan, or any of the stuff that's gone on, but I've read through this saga with keen interest, and think Barr got exactly what was coming to him. To use the vernacular, he got "served" good and proper.
The great thing about Anonymous is that, had I been at RSA and placed that sign, I would have been in Anonymous for that time, despite having never been associated with them in any other way. It's an ideal, not a club you apply to join.
If you still don't get that, you don't get Anonymous at all.
Apologies for replying to myself; Wikipedia for D&D Alignments lists Batman as "Lawful Good". I disagree, as he is frequently outside of the law in his actions. He is guided by his own moral compass, which is inarguably favoured towards "good", but lawful? I don't see it.
Batman is not unambiguously good. He does bad things to bad people, but that's an "ends justify the means" mentality. Any and all tools are employed in order to bring the bad guy down, regardless of the legality of the action. Yes, red tape may be all that stands in the way of bringing down the "bad guy" legally, but Batman doesn't cut through the red tape. Batman charges head first, guns (metaphorically) blazing in order to utterly decimate the criminal underworld. Batman is morally ambiguous, a personification of lynch mob justice.
His "one rule" of not killing anyone (going by TDK only here) gives him the leeway in morality which Alfred talks about in the scene where he talks about his past, working to defend against rebel tribes attacking convoys. Those "evil" aggressors would attack gem convoys just for the sport, and his solution was to "burn the forest to the ground". Batman is very much the same; Scorched Earth is his methodology, and as such he can't be seen as unambiguously good.
If I was to give Batman a D&D alignment, it would definitely be Chaotic Good. His methods are absolutely questionable, sometimes.
i propose that "bork" be interchangeable with all words, as words retaining their meaning adds no value to our lives.
Bork bork bork, bork bork bork bork bork bork. Understand? No, I didn't think so. Bricked = interchangeable with a brick. What these TiVo units will be is "with reduced functionality, but fully capable of playing pre-recorded shows" and not bricked at all.
Let me put it to you this way; If you would were faced with the situation of throwing $brickeddevice or a brick through someone's window, if you don't choose $brickeddevice it is not bricked.
Great use of suspense, menace, and inference. A pretty sinister film, with drug references, violence, and and an antagonist who creeps the hell out of you.
Not a single drop of blood or curse word = 12A in the UK. Quite a feat, that. I guess this director just isn't up to that standard. Probably shouldn't be making the film.
They're not scared of any religion. Their network is petrified of both Scientology and Islam.
"... the largest xray solar flare in over a year..."
So we shouldn't be heading for the nuke shelter's then, as we're still all here after last year's "largest xray solar flare in over $meaninglesslysmalltime..."
Ok, so this is going to make pretty lights up at the pole, but the whole EMP-esque electrical Armageddon nuance is little over-hyped, don't you think?
Badger in a harness.
Badger.
IN A HARNESS!
You fail on point 8 by admitting to know more about Windows than you'd ever admit.
Me? I know plenty, but then again I know nothing of *nix.
I don't see what the fuss is about. regex are logical parsers; You can construct without error exactly what they do with little to no input from any other piece of code. That's rare.
I haven't got a clue how to construct them, but after reading this, I'm damn well going to learn.
You didn't close the anchor tag. It's a bug.
Labels have audiences. She probably wouldn't be signed up on Roadrunner Records either, even if the dude at the top said she was pretty good.
So what's with / still working? Why didn't they deprecate that and force on us?
Consistency fail.
Not a chance. Your custom crap will be replaced with a stock image and it'll be mailed back to you "fixed". When you tell them the problem is still present, they might look at it the second time around.
Imaging it to stock before sending it back just eliminates that first step.
If you liked the 4 and 5, the 8100 was a fantastic replacement workgroup printer. You could hammer it all day long, and when it eventually did fail you could strip it down and rebuild it in less than an hour. It's like they built it to make my job easier.
Ex HP printer engineer.
Are you unable to separate work from leisure? Your acquaintance may well be able to, even if you're not.
Allow me to present to you a fundamental fact of the internet: Internet Fuckwad Theory
For administration PC's, it's a bit longer. I have to backup their data first and then slick and reload. Then I have to put the data back. So that's more in the 30-90 minutes category.
Uhhh... These are desktop PCs? You specified "laptop" in your first sentence, so I would have thought you'd specify it further down if that's what you meant. There's no reason to have user data stored on the local machine at all. All it does is needlessly choke up bandwidth when synchronising (you do sync it with the server, right? Or do you have some other backup mechanism in place?).
As for the rest? Well done, you've started taking system images instead of reloading all of the patches, drivers, and necessary software for every build. Save yourself a little time and do the same thing with your home PC with PING