It turns out however, that EA is having really bad technical issues and managed to accidentally ban several users. The cause, they credit, is something to do with the email opt-out. (Which explains why I did not receive information regarding the ban)
Always On DRM is still a reason not to buy the game, as is buggy account management. However, the day-long Slashdot lag is providing only half the story.
Had I indicated "stands for", your flame would have been accurate. However, the words I chose were specific - "stands in for", which is meant to indicate that the Slashdot article summary uses the term "GHG" where the article uses "anthropogenic".
Yeah, my thoughts as well. "You don't want my ads? Don't waste my bandwidth!"
Any significant escalation in the ads vs ad-blocking conflict ends up screwing over users in some way or another - reduced access to content, buggy scripts that must run to view the page, the likes.
Also, since Free.FR has a specific set of IP addresses to use, it'd be pretty easy for web site owners to block Free.FR access to their website, in the spirit of "Don't want my ads? Don't waste my bandwidth!"
Now it could be that there is a better way of doing this, but it seems to me that no matter how this game is played, constant updates to users should be the norm...
Now that I think of it, perhaps a Firefox extension could do the trick. Signed extensions can be updated automatically. The extension could have obfuscated URLs that are decrypted with something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/ and then wired in to automatically select an available proxy from the current batch. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it solves the "spam" problem. Also, it maybe easier for users and harder for censors? Crap... now I'm not going to get any work done...
There are multiple benefits of email delivery that aren't present in the Firefox Addon model:
It's push notification - the updates only go out once. Firefox Addons are a pull - a server has to handle all the clients requesting updates (and sending the appropriate subset!).
It's more difficult for the people that this list is supposed to enable to bypassing of to automate the immediate blocking of the new set of domains.
It natively enables two-way communication at a human level.
If I were the OP, I'd consider moving to an encrypted blog method of delivery (still via email), but doing it while being very conscious of the level of technical know-how of the target recipients.
It's probably annoying for all involved, but just like the "show your work" in math classes, you can request a "show your work" equivalent via screen-cast. And the students will learn a bit about screen-casting.
The MarkMonitor company that is referenced has a service called "Brand Protection" which:
Efficiently detects piracy across the Internet by simultaneously monitoring millions of P2P users across all major networks, streaming sites, auction sites, blogs, exchanges, websites and online forums
Windows 8 is actually Windows NT 6.2. Vista was the dreaded "dot-zero" release (Windows NT 6.0), with Windows 7 being the famed "SP1" (Windows NT 6.1) and Windows 8 being technically "SP2".
MarkMonitor goes to The Pirate Bay and grabs the.torrent files for today's top illegal content.
MarkMonitor has a farm of BT clients, all of which connect to the swarms as normal clients would, but that also log the IPs of all other members of the swarms.
MarkMonitor sends those IPs to the appropriate ISPs.
By participating in a swarm, you've made your information available to anyone else who joins that swarm.
There may be something that can be done with regards to "illegal to record my calls" in some jurisdictions, but it'd be a stretch.
You can buy Windows 7 now for ~200$. Or you can buy Windows 8 now for ~70$. Or you can buy Windows 8 as digital download in a less than a week for $40.
It's a patent to prevent anyone else from implementing DRM in their 3D printers. This may be everyone who makes 3D printers.
It's a patent to generate revenue from everyone who licenses the technology for their 3D printers.
Either way, the set of 3D printers that do not receive license for this technology wouldn't implement DRM, which would be good for consumers - provided that no legislation goes into effect requiring some form of DRM on 3D printers...
It wasn't clear to me in the synopsis. However, reading the award site, it's clear that Yuri has given 27 million dollars - 3 million to each of 9 winners.
I know 1^21 other ways to spend compaign contribution money and romney's staff time other that developing an useless app. Also, there is this nice instrument out there which does exactly things like this. I think i cannot recall the name right now. Maybe was something like buzzer? jeezer? twiener?
I think you meant 10^21 as opposed to 1^21. Because multiplying by one isn't exactly the most impactful of things to do. Or mebbe you are using some really deep satire...?
What's interesting is that in this case, it's not the single document that has multiple copies - it's that the set of documents that any one person has access to is unique, and padded with person-specific misinformation, and with embedded tracking pixels! So there are theoretically three ways of detecting a leak - by determining which set is out in the wild, by examining the specific misinformation (in the case of incomplete sets), and by seeing what pixels get activated from external IPs.
The first detection is readily circumvented by leaking only a subset of the docs you have access to. The third is similarly trivial to block. And the middle one (person-specific misinformation) is back to being a canary trap.
Wave was somewhere between IM, email, forums, and The Wall. It never made much sense to me - it was kinda like asking me to cook dinner Swiss Army Knife - yeah, I can open wine, cut the meat, saw open the bread, and, well, do something with a screwdriver, but the specialized tools are much better suited for each task.
Maybe some folks did find value in it, but it seemed that the easiest thing to do on Wave was to talk about ways that Wave was theoretically good for doing stuff. And then I'd end up going and doing that stuff with the tools I'd been using to do that stuff up until now with, anyway. Either way, a product with as significant an identity crisis as Wave had from the get go isn't meant for greatness.
Slashdot Mirror
As he updated today, again on Reddit:
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Always On DRM is still a reason not to buy the game, as is buggy account management. However, the day-long Slashdot lag is providing only half the story.
Had I indicated "stands for", your flame would have been accurate. However, the words I chose were specific - "stands in for", which is meant to indicate that the Slashdot article summary uses the term "GHG" where the article uses "anthropogenic".
The title of the Slashdot article uses the acronym "GHG", which stands in for "anthropogenic carbon emissions", which means "human emitted".
Yeah, my thoughts as well. "You don't want my ads? Don't waste my bandwidth!"
Any significant escalation in the ads vs ad-blocking conflict ends up screwing over users in some way or another - reduced access to content, buggy scripts that must run to view the page, the likes.
Also, since Free.FR has a specific set of IP addresses to use, it'd be pretty easy for web site owners to block Free.FR access to their website, in the spirit of "Don't want my ads? Don't waste my bandwidth!"
I mean, sure, block sex offenders who have actually used the internet as a victim discovery method. But the public exhibitionist? Seriously?
Now it could be that there is a better way of doing this, but it seems to me that no matter how this game is played, constant updates to users should be the norm...
Now that I think of it, perhaps a Firefox extension could do the trick. Signed extensions can be updated automatically. The extension could have obfuscated URLs that are decrypted with something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/ and then wired in to automatically select an available proxy from the current batch. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it solves the "spam" problem. Also, it maybe easier for users and harder for censors? Crap... now I'm not going to get any work done...
There are multiple benefits of email delivery that aren't present in the Firefox Addon model:
If I were the OP, I'd consider moving to an encrypted blog method of delivery (still via email), but doing it while being very conscious of the level of technical know-how of the target recipients.
It's probably annoying for all involved, but just like the "show your work" in math classes, you can request a "show your work" equivalent via screen-cast. And the students will learn a bit about screen-casting.
Alternatively, request a picture of each step.
Come on, this isn't the "TOS-DR" article!
The MarkMonitor company that is referenced has a service called "Brand Protection" which:
reference.
Given sufficient demand, someone will do a lot of work.
Windows 8 is actually Windows NT 6.2. Vista was the dreaded "dot-zero" release (Windows NT 6.0), with Windows 7 being the famed "SP1" (Windows NT 6.1) and Windows 8 being technically "SP2".
No.
By participating in a swarm, you've made your information available to anyone else who joins that swarm.
There may be something that can be done with regards to "illegal to record my calls" in some jurisdictions, but it'd be a stretch.
You can buy Windows 7 now for ~200$. Or you can buy Windows 8 now for ~70$. Or you can buy Windows 8 as digital download in a less than a week for $40.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbpage.Windows_8_Pro
It's up to you, but if you've got a few *NIX machines on your LAN, and know enough to as Slashdot, you can deal with burning a DVD.
The point I was making is that the sentence tries to use "daily" as a verb.
I guess I should RTFA, but:
I don't know what that means...
Either way, the set of 3D printers that do not receive license for this technology wouldn't implement DRM, which would be good for consumers - provided that no legislation goes into effect requiring some form of DRM on 3D printers...
China can make high quality things right now. They just choose not to.
Right. Is that the rationale behind the scratches on the iPhone 5? Or does that not count as a quality thing?
I, too, am verily surprised that these newfangled iPhone 5 thingamabobs work properly.
Ed Bott says that Sarah Downey (Privacy Advocate) says that the IAB says that the IAB membership "will continue to monetize data".
Except that to become an IAB member, a company must comply to the IAB code of conduct, which includes the self-regulatory program for online behavioral targeting. This includes the requirement of providing a consumer choice mechanism, which has been implemented for the industry at www.aboutads.info.
I guess fact checking was too much for Ed...
From the rules, there's provision to really spread around the wealth with the US$100,000 awards.
It wasn't clear to me in the synopsis. However, reading the award site, it's clear that Yuri has given 27 million dollars - 3 million to each of 9 winners.
I know 1^21 other ways to spend compaign contribution money and romney's staff time other that developing an useless app. Also, there is this nice instrument out there which does exactly things like this. I think i cannot recall the name right now. Maybe was something like buzzer? jeezer? twiener?
I think you meant 10^21 as opposed to 1^21. Because multiplying by one isn't exactly the most impactful of things to do. Or mebbe you are using some really deep satire...?
What's interesting is that in this case, it's not the single document that has multiple copies - it's that the set of documents that any one person has access to is unique, and padded with person-specific misinformation, and with embedded tracking pixels! So there are theoretically three ways of detecting a leak - by determining which set is out in the wild, by examining the specific misinformation (in the case of incomplete sets), and by seeing what pixels get activated from external IPs.
The first detection is readily circumvented by leaking only a subset of the docs you have access to. The third is similarly trivial to block. And the middle one (person-specific misinformation) is back to being a canary trap.
the signal intensity of the ones and zeroes has an affect on the audio quality.
Um...
Does that mean that
1 > 1
0 < 0
Have you ever accepted a raise from 50,000$ a year to 50,000$ a year?
Wave was somewhere between IM, email, forums, and The Wall. It never made much sense to me - it was kinda like asking me to cook dinner Swiss Army Knife - yeah, I can open wine, cut the meat, saw open the bread, and, well, do something with a screwdriver, but the specialized tools are much better suited for each task.
Maybe some folks did find value in it, but it seemed that the easiest thing to do on Wave was to talk about ways that Wave was theoretically good for doing stuff. And then I'd end up going and doing that stuff with the tools I'd been using to do that stuff up until now with, anyway. Either way, a product with as significant an identity crisis as Wave had from the get go isn't meant for greatness.