Wait, the phone company gets to decide what sites you can and can't visit? What exactly does that mean? I haven't lived in the US since I was six years old, so I don't really know much about your ISP laws.
While there may be a small handful of companies that don't use it as a weapon against their own customers, I maintain that they are the exception. It would be like saying that worms aren't all that bad because of Nachi/Welchia. Yes, one example can be found of an instance where the sole purpose is not to destroy everything in sight, but that doesn't make the concept okay. The fact remains that the true purpose of microtransactions, like worms, is malicious. It would take a complete industry overhaul to change that.
I would argue that microtransactions are completely and utterly evil by their very definition. There is no "gone wrong" or "abuse" when it comes to microtransactions, because the sole purpose, the driving force behind them, is to deceitfully make large amounts of money. People are inherently bad at understanding how much money they're spending, particularly if it is done in small amounts. In fact, people will treat a five dollar bill differently than five one dollar bills. You buy an energy refill here and a potion there and all of a sudden you've spent $100 on that facebook game and have no idea what happened. That's exactly what they want.
English is not the official language in Taiwan. If you visit the app's page in any other language, the line about it being a joke will not be translated. While many educated people (particularly the younger generation) do learn English, very few are actually fluent. So yes, if you make everything look real except for a single line that says it's not, you will have a lot of people fooled.
So anyone who thinks this ridiculous security theater is absurd is a narrow minded bigot? Well then, if being against molesting children and harassing the elderly to no gain makes me a bigot, I suppose I am.
This seems like a good time to mention this old article:
http://www.geeks.co.uk/7282-activision%E2%80%99s-bobby-kotick-hates-developers-innovation-cheap-games-you
From that article, this takes the cake:
Maybe the choice quotes of the event, though, came when Kotick talked about Activision’s developers; you know, the guys who actually make the stuff he gets so rich from. You’d think he’d have a bit of respect for them, right? Oh no, Kotick’s goal over the past 10 years has been – you couldn’t make this up – “to take all the fun out of making video games.” How? By instilling a culture of “scepticism, pessimism, and fear” amongst the company’s staff based around the economic depression and an incentive program that rewards “profit and nothing else”.
...except that DRM leaves crap on your hard drive even after its removal. You have systems like StarForce that leave hidden drivers, registry keys, and even data written to normally user-inaccessible parts of your hard drive. I almost bought this game based on what they had said about no DRM to encourage this behavior. Good thing I didn't rush out and buy it on release day.
One of the first things you learn about web programming is to clean any string a user touches. If there's even a remote possibility that a user submitted something, clean it before putting it in your query. How is it even possible that someone would be given money for web programming before learning this? That's not even a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in the answer.
It doesn't matter what you think of yaoi, or manga, or erotica in general. Surely you can see where this is going. Stop supporting the thought police and put your money into companies that don't censor books. Amazon won't stop until they lose enough money. There's no telling when they'll start ruining classics.
This part threw me off:
'The second method involves a pneumatic (that would be "air-related") system'
So they expect people who can understand the diagram and are willing to read up on a recently patented device to not know what "pneumatic" means. I'd be very interested to know what their target audience is.
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Wait, the phone company gets to decide what sites you can and can't visit? What exactly does that mean? I haven't lived in the US since I was six years old, so I don't really know much about your ISP laws.
While there may be a small handful of companies that don't use it as a weapon against their own customers, I maintain that they are the exception. It would be like saying that worms aren't all that bad because of Nachi/Welchia. Yes, one example can be found of an instance where the sole purpose is not to destroy everything in sight, but that doesn't make the concept okay. The fact remains that the true purpose of microtransactions, like worms, is malicious. It would take a complete industry overhaul to change that.
I would argue that microtransactions are completely and utterly evil by their very definition. There is no "gone wrong" or "abuse" when it comes to microtransactions, because the sole purpose, the driving force behind them, is to deceitfully make large amounts of money. People are inherently bad at understanding how much money they're spending, particularly if it is done in small amounts. In fact, people will treat a five dollar bill differently than five one dollar bills. You buy an energy refill here and a potion there and all of a sudden you've spent $100 on that facebook game and have no idea what happened. That's exactly what they want.
English is not the official language in Taiwan. If you visit the app's page in any other language, the line about it being a joke will not be translated. While many educated people (particularly the younger generation) do learn English, very few are actually fluent. So yes, if you make everything look real except for a single line that says it's not, you will have a lot of people fooled.
So anyone who thinks this ridiculous security theater is absurd is a narrow minded bigot? Well then, if being against molesting children and harassing the elderly to no gain makes me a bigot, I suppose I am.
U mad? Yeah, u mad. Now stop being a chicken shit and post under your name.
Sounds cool and all, but we're talking about Sony here. Any 12 year old with a tutorial on sql injection could just walk in and hijack my hand.
You seem to be under the illusion that everyone who is accused of a crime is guilty.
This is neither. Get this crap off slashdot.
Can't tell if trolling... or just very stupid.
There's absolutely no way anyone would ever abuse such technology. Nope. Unpossible.
How is this insightful?
Don't take them seriously. Find a real bank to do business with.
Though this entry and the article contain no links to it, their homepage appears to have been bogged down by too many people googling "lulzboat".
This seems like a good time to mention this old article: http://www.geeks.co.uk/7282-activision%E2%80%99s-bobby-kotick-hates-developers-innovation-cheap-games-you From that article, this takes the cake: Maybe the choice quotes of the event, though, came when Kotick talked about Activision’s developers; you know, the guys who actually make the stuff he gets so rich from. You’d think he’d have a bit of respect for them, right? Oh no, Kotick’s goal over the past 10 years has been – you couldn’t make this up – “to take all the fun out of making video games.” How? By instilling a culture of “scepticism, pessimism, and fear” amongst the company’s staff based around the economic depression and an incentive program that rewards “profit and nothing else”.
...except that DRM leaves crap on your hard drive even after its removal. You have systems like StarForce that leave hidden drivers, registry keys, and even data written to normally user-inaccessible parts of your hard drive. I almost bought this game based on what they had said about no DRM to encourage this behavior. Good thing I didn't rush out and buy it on release day.
Not referencing attacks on Sony, but the actual act of hacking them has become mainstream. I'm sure it's funnier from our side than theirs.
So an online service was too bogged down to provide said service. I'm not seeing the "stuff that matters" part of this.
You can't just go around metabolizing people's caffeine and expect no retribution. We need that caffeine to survive boring meetings.
One of the first things you learn about web programming is to clean any string a user touches. If there's even a remote possibility that a user submitted something, clean it before putting it in your query. How is it even possible that someone would be given money for web programming before learning this? That's not even a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in the answer.
I believe slashdot had a story about the PSN servers here: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/0159210/An-Apple-TV-Based-Webserver
Poor thing is trying so hard to load. I almost feel bad for hitting refresh so many times. Almost.
It doesn't matter what you think of yaoi, or manga, or erotica in general. Surely you can see where this is going. Stop supporting the thought police and put your money into companies that don't censor books. Amazon won't stop until they lose enough money. There's no telling when they'll start ruining classics.
This part threw me off: 'The second method involves a pneumatic (that would be "air-related") system' So they expect people who can understand the diagram and are willing to read up on a recently patented device to not know what "pneumatic" means. I'd be very interested to know what their target audience is.
Since when is a low level bit of software with no assembler code a "benefit"?