tl;dr can you try and keep your trolls short, i mean "i just shat an obama" see below, is short, to the point (horrendous display of stupidity and racism) and even partially successful as people will take a second to reply to the troll.
you have 2 major problems: 1) Offline DRM is COMPLETELY flawed, the only way you can even get close to working drm is if you offer legitimate users something reasonable in exchange for connecting to your servers. A good online game play experience, downloadable content (cheep/free or even full priced), etc, all allow you to offer legitimate customers benefits while excluding those without keys. 2) You *come across* as a bit of an asshole, if you want people to pay for something they can get for free, stop talking
I create for me, but if you're going to receive utility from it, I expect to be compensated.
If you created it for YOU, what are we* compensating you for? Bandwidth? No the.torrent lets us takes care of that Support? well you could only give that to legit customers
given that you have already made the game for yourself. you can do one of the following: 1) keep it, make $0.00 2) release it at a reasonable price point, forget about drm make some money, but be expected to support it for that money 3) open source it and ask for donations (probably make very little, but you don't need to support anything)
p.s given your low opinion of the game (assuming nobody would pay for it if they had the choice) and lack of enthusiasm (if you thought it was something truly great, you'd care a bit more about getting it out there and less about making money off it), i honestly think it makes very little difference which choice you make as you'll be sourly disappointed by the returns on any of them.
People HATE giving money to people they feel are assholes. If they have to then they have to. But if they can avoid it they will.
SO true, while i could most likely pirate pennyarcade's drm less game, i have not and will not, why? because i like the guys. on the otherhand OFC i have a pirated copy of spore despite its DRM because i have no intention of paying for something produced by EA.
go back to lynx then, i for one welcome being able to browse the web as it was designed is, an if i want to modify that i SHOULD use extensions scripts to achieve it. As for OO being slow, in my experience the slowest link is me typing/reading, so while id rather it was a better office suit i couldn't give two shits what fps it gets or how fast it boots and opens files.
i just switch the browser to private mode and that way 1) I don't get any of their stuff in my awesome bar 2) their privacy is preserved 3) they don't log me out of facebook/myspaz or whatever other retarded site were both signed up to.
score one for google/opera/whoever for implementing the feature first so that mozilla got up and implemented it in 3.1 (it was in A spec for 3.0 but got the chop)
If your typing a URL in the address by it will be treated as such but urls don't contain spaces (unless your on windows but then you're got other problems), so when a user dosn't type a url, why not give them another feature to take advantage of?
but what I'd rather do is just block anything that matches some keywords or domains (like "pr0n" or "*.pr0n.com") from showing up in my awesome bar/history.
but then the registry shows all the stuff you have deliberatly blocked. private browsing in 3.1 is a much better solution (along with clear last hr of browsing)
If I never patched my Linux/BSD servers when security flaws were discovered, they'd be rooted pretty fast too.
But with many(most?) linux/bsd distributions once installed you only get security patches, with windows if you want a secure box you also get hit with whatever usability changes/bugfixes they choose to push through the update channels. Additionally all distros i use take special care to not mess up your configuration files without warning you first, i don't think windows does you that courtesy either.
how is X the weak link? the weak link is whatever you let on the internet and whatever network aware daemons you have running. once on your system X MAY be the weak link but the pwm2own vulnerabilities dont need root, so X doesn't even matter (much like it matters little in modern security) where attackers don't need root. while SElinux & AppArmor MAY protect against use of these attacks, e.g killing firefox when it executes malicious code, but a fishing scam doesn't need to do anything malicious to your system (and Firefox has already been 'pwned' in the context of this competition).
Full virtulization is useless, if the attack is advanced enough that it can is keylogging a separate user (has root), modifying your Firefox binaries (has root and then some) or modifying what you see (one hell of an exploit somewhere in your xorg stack), then the chances are the attacker can modify your virtualized os when its mounted,( there's nothing you can do that a kernel recompile cant beat and as the attacker has root, he can do that).
you have 2 choices: 1) stop being paranoid 2) run a livecd and update it regularly enough (from your livecd using toram) that there are no known exploits for it. OFC this HAS to be done on multiple cd-rs as a cd-rw could be patched if its exploited. But wait they could actually exploit you and modify the iso before you managed to get it to the disk, so i refer you to point 1.
Now assuming you that you've stopped being paranoid and just want a bit of extra security the GP post is about as good as you can get it protects against all user level exploits.
erm that doesn't answer the question, there are some nice technologies in vista* and ie8 can take full advantage of those, eventually FF will be able to use those on vista and still be more secure than IE on xp (something MS has no intention of doing). It DOESN'T have anything to do with it being closed.
untrusted extentions are the way of the future. they let YOU choose how much you get pwned. Only want a mild risk? install a few 3rd party extentions, Fancy taking your chances? look for ones with spelling mistakes in the discriptions, Unprotected sex with the internet? well start installing them from 3rd party sites Fuck it, pwn me already? install greasemonkeys and look for scripts that have the discription written in 1337 sp3/\k
And not just this one, ANY article could contain image of 14y/o naked or partially/fully clothed! that's it from now on I'm not reading any articles, its the only way to be sure!
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fuck fox, use tpb*. I mean after what they did to firefly/serenity!
*I don't have a tv here and 4od doesn't even work on Linux so i don't really have a choice.
still better than the fox demographic then that can believe exactly the same bullshit thousands of times. Their shtick is old and tired.
Colbert & Stewart are a good counter balance
yeah its surprising how much coverage teh "two bushes" got in 2006 and nobody really mentioned colbert ripping bush a new one to his face.
he believes what he believed on Monday, no matter what happens on Tuesday
too bush's credit, he politely smiled and sat through it, then shook the guys hand.
/. readers = geeks
So which is it, are you 'colbair' or 'cohlburt'?
Its funny when a faux-irish cunt gets so caught up on a question that Colbert had already answered repeatedly.
yes, most people did realize but was there any need to be a dick and spoil the fun?
tl;dr
can you try and keep your trolls short, i mean "i just shat an obama" see below, is short, to the point (horrendous display of stupidity and racism) and even partially successful as people will take a second to reply to the troll.
yeah but that was banned for content NOT just the name.
whats the Irish/Gaelic for "Don't bomb McDonald lad, they're funding us so we stay away, that's how we got all these guns"
you have 2 major problems:
1) Offline DRM is COMPLETELY flawed, the only way you can even get close to working drm is if you offer legitimate users something reasonable in exchange for connecting to your servers. A good online game play experience, downloadable content (cheep/free or even full priced), etc, all allow you to offer legitimate customers benefits while excluding those without keys.
2) You *come across* as a bit of an asshole, if you want people to pay for something they can get for free, stop talking
I create for me, but if you're going to receive utility from it, I expect to be compensated.
If you created it for YOU, what are we* compensating you for? .torrent lets us takes care of that
Bandwidth? No the
Support? well you could only give that to legit customers
given that you have already made the game for yourself. you can do one of the following:
1) keep it, make $0.00
2) release it at a reasonable price point, forget about drm make some money, but be expected to support it for that money
3) open source it and ask for donations (probably make very little, but you don't need to support anything)
p.s given your low opinion of the game (assuming nobody would pay for it if they had the choice) and lack of enthusiasm (if you thought it was something truly great, you'd care a bit more about getting it out there and less about making money off it), i honestly think it makes very little difference which choice you make as you'll be sourly disappointed by the returns on any of them.
damn i jsut ran out of mod points
People HATE giving money to people they feel are assholes. If they have to then they have to. But if they can avoid it they will.
SO true, while i could most likely pirate pennyarcade's drm less game, i have not and will not, why? because i like the guys. on the otherhand OFC i have a pirated copy of spore despite its DRM because i have no intention of paying for something produced by EA.
i scroll down check for the part where it says
[this] License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software
and figure it cant be too bad so accept.
idiots! if you turn wifi off you get far longer battery life!
go back to lynx then, i for one welcome being able to browse the web as it was designed is, an if i want to modify that i SHOULD use extensions scripts to achieve it. As for OO being slow, in my experience the slowest link is me typing/reading, so while id rather it was a better office suit i couldn't give two shits what fps it gets or how fast it boots and opens files.
He said more manly not less!
apt-get install wilderness-essentials should do the trick then?
i just switch the browser to private mode and that way
1) I don't get any of their stuff in my awesome bar
2) their privacy is preserved
3) they don't log me out of facebook/myspaz or whatever other retarded site were both signed up to.
score one for google/opera/whoever for implementing the feature first so that mozilla got up and implemented it in 3.1 (it was in A spec for 3.0 but got the chop)
If your typing a URL in the address by it will be treated as such but urls don't contain spaces (unless your on windows but then you're got other problems), so when a user dosn't type a url, why not give them another feature to take advantage of?
but what I'd rather do is just block anything that matches some keywords or domains (like "pr0n" or "*.pr0n.com") from showing up in my awesome bar/history.
but then the registry shows all the stuff you have deliberatly blocked. private browsing in 3.1 is a much better solution (along with clear last hr of browsing)
If I never patched my Linux/BSD servers when security flaws were discovered, they'd be rooted pretty fast too.
But with many(most?) linux/bsd distributions once installed you only get security patches, with windows if you want a secure box you also get hit with whatever usability changes/bugfixes they choose to push through the update channels. Additionally all distros i use take special care to not mess up your configuration files without warning you first, i don't think windows does you that courtesy either.
But given that peanuts are peas not nuts, its important to warn you that the package may contain nuts due to a factory error.
how is X the weak link? the weak link is whatever you let on the internet and whatever network aware daemons you have running. once on your system X MAY be the weak link but the pwm2own vulnerabilities dont need root, so X doesn't even matter (much like it matters little in modern security) where attackers don't need root. while SElinux & AppArmor MAY protect against use of these attacks, e.g killing firefox when it executes malicious code, but a fishing scam doesn't need to do anything malicious to your system (and Firefox has already been 'pwned' in the context of this competition).
Full virtulization is useless, if the attack is advanced enough that it can is keylogging a separate user (has root), modifying your Firefox binaries (has root and then some) or modifying what you see (one hell of an exploit somewhere in your xorg stack), then the chances are the attacker can modify your virtualized os when its mounted,( there's nothing you can do that a kernel recompile cant beat and as the attacker has root, he can do that).
you have 2 choices:
1) stop being paranoid
2) run a livecd and update it regularly enough (from your livecd using toram) that there are no known exploits for it. OFC this HAS to be done on multiple cd-rs as a cd-rw could be patched if its exploited. But wait they could actually exploit you and modify the iso before you managed to get it to the disk, so i refer you to point 1.
Now assuming you that you've stopped being paranoid and just want a bit of extra security the GP post is about as good as you can get it protects against all user level exploits.
erm that doesn't answer the question, there are some nice technologies in vista* and ie8 can take full advantage of those, eventually FF will be able to use those on vista and still be more secure than IE on xp (something MS has no intention of doing). It DOESN'T have anything to do with it being closed.
untrusted extentions are the way of the future. they let YOU choose how much you get pwned.
Only want a mild risk? install a few 3rd party extentions,
Fancy taking your chances? look for ones with spelling mistakes in the discriptions,
Unprotected sex with the internet? well start installing them from 3rd party sites
Fuck it, pwn me already? install greasemonkeys and look for scripts that have the discription written in 1337 sp3/\k
ofc not it would drive their coke dealers prices through the roof!
And not just this one, ANY article could contain image of 14y/o naked or partially/fully clothed! that's it from now on I'm not reading any articles, its the only way to be sure!