Which is most unfortunate as it is complete hogwash in practice. Pirates are using psjailbreak devices, not OtherOS. OtherOS doesn't facilitate piracy of any kind. Nor does Asbestos. Nor do the 'Open' SDKs.
The clear and obvious fact that everyone seems to be missing is that piracy continues completely unabated by the legal actions of Sony or the censorship it's trying to enforce. People really need to stop confusing these 2 issues as being the same thing.
Time and again I've come up against the same thing. And every time I either say 'No' or 'Goodbye'. Watching the chaos when a large AD deployment gets munged and domain controllers start refusing to sync with each other, or exchange hits some arbitrary artificial limit that some dick thought was a good default that's impossible to change without a 8000 character powershell oneliner, or a mandatory microsoft security update fucks the tcp stack on a headless machine requiring a rollback or total removal-then-reinstall of the network drivers in a colo you can't get to, I've vowed never to administer microsoft shit ever again, no matter what they want to pay me to do it. The price to my health from dealing with users screaming all day (not to mention the self loathing that comes from knowing you put up with perfectly functioning and reliable setups being replaced by this shit) isn't justified by *any* paycheque.
Never regretted leaving those places. And last I heard every single one of them have either gone bust when their customers got sick of services dying all the time and then being constantly charged for techs to fix things and the only knowledgeable techs leaving like rats from a sinking ship, or are currently in litigation because of introducing those things by switching to microsoft and will go bust very soon.
There's a reason microsoft is struggling right now and it's a real shame because they do have *some* good things. Windows 7 is actually pretty sweet in my opinion. C# is a fun language and the latest visual studio still beats eclipse, monodevelop and netbeans hands-down (for the languages it supports at least). But SBS? Exchange? Sharepoint? IIS? No damn way. We really need businesses to get past this brain-damaged notion that Microsoft's niche is the enterprise.
It has been my experience as well that clamAV and variants of it are in practice useless. Like, totally useless. I've never, ever, seen clam* successfully detect anything at all, even when up to date and used often. Even when pointed *directly at a known infected file with incredibly common malware/virii/whatever* it'll still say it's clean. When packages like that awful and bloated Nortons do a better job, I'm tempted to call clam* an outright hoax.
Fire up avast!, detects it. McAffee, detects it. Nortons, detects it. Even an outdated version of CA's AV from 2001 detected it. Clam couldn't.:( This article is un-news.
I just saw a doco on Snakes, and there's one species that's almost entirely self-inseminating females giving birth to genetic clones... Maybe this time we should make them all males.
how much is a BD-R *DL*? and a burner that can burn it? Are they actually selling ps3 bootlegged discs yet? Considering that it was not possible to use illegal backups until very recently? And the current jailbreaking methods still require you to copy the bluerays, legitimate or not, to a hard drive in order to bypass the DRM? I guess all this together still means my initial point is correct. People there will be using hard drives if they're playing ps3 backups just like everywhere else. I know you're on a soap box right now trying to attract attention to the unjust situation in your country... but nothing you have said yet invalidates any of my points so please calm down and take your argument to the appropriate venue. Thanks
When was the last time someone was kidnapped by a payphone or an internet terminal? Although, instead of the seedy bars with poker games and Italian restaurants the conventional stereotyped mafioso hang out in, the Malware Mob like to hang out in telephone pits and net cafes..
What kind of 'trouble' requires him avoiding even public computers and telephones? I mean, are we talking US Government spy satellites? Aliens? Alter-Dimensional invaders?
And before you point out Australia is just a little America and the sombrero appearing here is just America's perpetuation of a sterotype.. I even saw them in Beijing China when I visited there 2 months ago. And in the Philippines.
No one here wears a moustache and a sombrero either.
Surely SOMEONE in Argentina has a moustache:)
Also I bet if you looked hard enough you could find a sombrero. I've even found them here in Australia on the other side of the planet. I think you're just stereotyping perception of stereotypes now.
Before you get your knickers in a knot, I wasn't saying you were cheap per se. I was saying 'if you can't buy an $80 game, you likely also can't buy a dual layer blueray burner AND the media to go with it otherwise you would just buy the game because it's easier and cheaper to do'. And I'm betting this holds true even in latin america where despite your argument, ps3 games are still on blueray media and not DVDs which/are/ low cost and easy to produce.
I admit a lot of them are really crap and $80 is just a retarded asking price for them. But then there are games like God of War 3, Resistance 2, etc where I felt my $80 was well spent considering the hours of enjoyment I got out of them (Specially when you consider movie tickets here in this backwater country are $30)
I'm pretty sure everyone who is pirating ps3 games are putting them on hard drives. The cost of dual layer blue ray burners is itself prohibitive to the types of people who are too tight to shell out a reasonable $80 for a good game.
On the menu of a particular cafe in the Adelaide Hills, there used to be Kangaroo Vindaloo as a regular special. Might not be so bad then, curries were invented to preserve foods and vindaloo is the curriest curry of them all (apart from tindaloo, but the world isn't ready for that yet)
What I want to know is, what happens when all 2.5 million of them are arrested... and extradited to the US on taxpayer dollars with every embassy in the world screaming foul at America stealing their children. That'd could fun to watch I think
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Which is most unfortunate as it is complete hogwash in practice. Pirates are using psjailbreak devices, not OtherOS. OtherOS doesn't facilitate piracy of any kind. Nor does Asbestos. Nor do the 'Open' SDKs. The clear and obvious fact that everyone seems to be missing is that piracy continues completely unabated by the legal actions of Sony or the censorship it's trying to enforce. People really need to stop confusing these 2 issues as being the same thing.
Yes,it does the calendar, briefcase, everything that exchange does. Even outlook is happy on it.
You mean like zimbra?
Time and again I've come up against the same thing. And every time I either say 'No' or 'Goodbye'. Watching the chaos when a large AD deployment gets munged and domain controllers start refusing to sync with each other, or exchange hits some arbitrary artificial limit that some dick thought was a good default that's impossible to change without a 8000 character powershell oneliner, or a mandatory microsoft security update fucks the tcp stack on a headless machine requiring a rollback or total removal-then-reinstall of the network drivers in a colo you can't get to, I've vowed never to administer microsoft shit ever again, no matter what they want to pay me to do it. The price to my health from dealing with users screaming all day (not to mention the self loathing that comes from knowing you put up with perfectly functioning and reliable setups being replaced by this shit) isn't justified by *any* paycheque. Never regretted leaving those places. And last I heard every single one of them have either gone bust when their customers got sick of services dying all the time and then being constantly charged for techs to fix things and the only knowledgeable techs leaving like rats from a sinking ship, or are currently in litigation because of introducing those things by switching to microsoft and will go bust very soon. There's a reason microsoft is struggling right now and it's a real shame because they do have *some* good things. Windows 7 is actually pretty sweet in my opinion. C# is a fun language and the latest visual studio still beats eclipse, monodevelop and netbeans hands-down (for the languages it supports at least). But SBS? Exchange? Sharepoint? IIS? No damn way. We really need businesses to get past this brain-damaged notion that Microsoft's niche is the enterprise.
It has been my experience as well that clamAV and variants of it are in practice useless. Like, totally useless. I've never, ever, seen clam* successfully detect anything at all, even when up to date and used often. Even when pointed *directly at a known infected file with incredibly common malware/virii/whatever* it'll still say it's clean. When packages like that awful and bloated Nortons do a better job, I'm tempted to call clam* an outright hoax. Fire up avast!, detects it. McAffee, detects it. Nortons, detects it. Even an outdated version of CA's AV from 2001 detected it. Clam couldn't. :( This article is un-news.
When mosquitoes are referenced, Microsft *sucks* jokes are entirely valid.
I just saw a doco on Snakes, and there's one species that's almost entirely self-inseminating females giving birth to genetic clones... Maybe this time we should make them all males.
Notice how the 'powers that be' mod'd me down? Attempted Censorship!
how much is a BD-R *DL*? and a burner that can burn it? Are they actually selling ps3 bootlegged discs yet? Considering that it was not possible to use illegal backups until very recently? And the current jailbreaking methods still require you to copy the bluerays, legitimate or not, to a hard drive in order to bypass the DRM? I guess all this together still means my initial point is correct. People there will be using hard drives if they're playing ps3 backups just like everywhere else. I know you're on a soap box right now trying to attract attention to the unjust situation in your country... but nothing you have said yet invalidates any of my points so please calm down and take your argument to the appropriate venue. Thanks
When was the last time someone was kidnapped by a payphone or an internet terminal? Although, instead of the seedy bars with poker games and Italian restaurants the conventional stereotyped mafioso hang out in, the Malware Mob like to hang out in telephone pits and net cafes..
... this really does sound like a case of paranoid schizophrenia.
Maybe it's the LSD the CIA are putting into this tap water supply finally kicking in.
Maybe I'm not spooky enough, but I see nothing sinister about series-connected downlights and a ballast.
(yes I RTFA'd, but the paranoia still seems excessive for the claimed situation)
What kind of 'trouble' requires him avoiding even public computers and telephones? I mean, are we talking US Government spy satellites? Aliens? Alter-Dimensional invaders?
And before you point out Australia is just a little America and the sombrero appearing here is just America's perpetuation of a sterotype.. I even saw them in Beijing China when I visited there 2 months ago. And in the Philippines.
No one here wears a moustache and a sombrero either.
Surely SOMEONE in Argentina has a moustache :)
Also I bet if you looked hard enough you could find a sombrero. I've even found them here in Australia on the other side of the planet. I think you're just stereotyping perception of stereotypes now.
Before you get your knickers in a knot, I wasn't saying you were cheap per se. I was saying 'if you can't buy an $80 game, you likely also can't buy a dual layer blueray burner AND the media to go with it otherwise you would just buy the game because it's easier and cheaper to do'. And I'm betting this holds true even in latin america where despite your argument, ps3 games are still on blueray media and not DVDs which /are/ low cost and easy to produce.
I admit a lot of them are really crap and $80 is just a retarded asking price for them. But then there are games like God of War 3, Resistance 2, etc where I felt my $80 was well spent considering the hours of enjoyment I got out of them (Specially when you consider movie tickets here in this backwater country are $30)
I'm pretty sure everyone who is pirating ps3 games are putting them on hard drives. The cost of dual layer blue ray burners is itself prohibitive to the types of people who are too tight to shell out a reasonable $80 for a good game.
Did you know you can buy bacon in a can now? It lasts for like 10 years or something.
On the menu of a particular cafe in the Adelaide Hills, there used to be Kangaroo Vindaloo as a regular special. Might not be so bad then, curries were invented to preserve foods and vindaloo is the curriest curry of them all (apart from tindaloo, but the world isn't ready for that yet)
My comment /was/ sarcastic of course :)
Sorry, I thought it was more obvious
What I want to know is, what happens when all 2.5 million of them are arrested... and extradited to the US on taxpayer dollars with every embassy in the world screaming foul at America stealing their children. That'd could fun to watch I think
I hear there are what some would consider 'too many people' in some places. 2 birds with 1 stone?