It was already released at least a month ago. In fact the renderer in ET has already been replaced with the XreaL renderer (http://xreal-project.net/) by now and people are already working on converting the stock maps using bump maps and what not.
Oh please, that's not my point at all. If he's going to list countries he should've done it right. I'm not asking for everything to be listed but he lists INDECT and Germany while he could've made it Europe and INDECT. It just potrays the wrong picture and makes it look like INDECT is a project by the German government.
It's not even a security issue as far as I'm concerned. It's just one of their bonus services not detecting bad sites properly. There is no vulnerability in the browser itself, it's the user.
At least 2 of the 3 things mentioned in the paper can be done on ANY cam site (blogtv, ustream, tinychat, etc). It's truly ridiculous to only mention Chatroulette here and I don't consider any of the things mentioned a real security flaw. 4chan has been "exploiting" these sites for years already, it's nothing new.
I presume he means recent games, Unreal Tournament 3 was quickly disregarded and I wonder if anyone still plays it nowadays. It's so easy to blame piracy when sales for new products are not as good as expected instead of looking at the product itself and if the current market is waiting for such a game. Their Unreal 3 engine is pretty popular though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unreal_Engine_3_and_3.5
Yeah. Eventhough I know PC game sales are fairly low compared to consoles that first line of the article really bothered me. "the PC a third-class citizen for many gaming genres, especially the kind of high-adrenaline action games", I'd say a lot of high-adrenaline games are for the PC and work better on it because of the usual higher pace (mostly slowed down on consoles due to no mouse in FPS's for example).
"Each domain registration will cost $60 a year, with $10 going to a nonprofit organization promoting “responsible business practices” for the industry." Beside this being overly expensive for a domain name the fact that they donate $10 per domain to a nonprofit organisation is just wrong. Who are they to decide for us that this should be done? Aren't they supposed to be some sort of objective organisation when it comes to this?
Nope, xxx is actually recognised in a lot of countries. I have never heard of it meaning crossed/censored before. I just asked people from Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden (IRC ftw) and they all knew what it meant.
I find it funny that people actually think we won't be able to recreate old technology and we would have to go to museums to get the latest working readers. Furthermore data will just be copied and copied and copied to the latest hype so these usb cards probably won't still be around by then.
If someone leaves the door of his house open you could say it's pretty damn stupid but it doesn't mean walking in and going through someone's stuff is the normal thing to do. Wardriving is something people did (and do?) for the fun of it, it's not major corporations doing it on a massive scale to collect data on people, it's illegal too btw in some countries.
They are handing over the actual hard drives that contain the data apparently. This means that it can (and should) be destroyed by the government now but I suspect that they will research the collected data first to see if Google violated laws by doing this. After this they should officially destroy evidence like this for as far as I know but they probably wont, who knows? Anyway, people shouldn't be whining at the government at this point but at google for collecting it in the first place. What the f where they thinking and what does this say about how far google will go to get information through their own services?
I'd like to hear some arguments against a DNA database including the entire population of the US, or any country for that matter. I'm against it myself but my arguments are based on theories that people who are "okay with it because they have nothing to hide" call far-fetched.
A grenade is a weapon right? Why wouldn't you have to switch to a grenade like you would to any other weapon? It's like you wouldn't switch to pistols anymore but just hit the pistol key and instantly shoot your pistol without ever really switching. The same goes for knifes, why the hell does every game have an instant knife button nowadays? Like in Modern Warfare 2. You just happen to run into someone? Fuck skills, all you need is to be the first one to hit the knife button and bam! instant death while in the past you had to switch to your knife aim properly for the target and in various cases hit the target multiple times (if you didn't aim for the back properly on the first stab for example).
I'm sure a lot of people like dedicated instant-nade keys, I just think having to switch (like you would IRL too btw) to it adds to the game experience and adds to the game on a tactical level, you can't just randomly throw nades all over the place and hope for the best you need to time your switches right.
But i'm really getting offtopic since those are just my personal annoyances.
I was thinking of the same. Firstoff you'd need a stable (and I guess a fast) connection or your framerate would drop and/or you'd be just missing frames. As for the latency. Let's imagine you're playing a multiplayer FPS. Beside the time it takes for you to communicate with the streaming platform it also takes time for the streaming platform to communicate with yet another server which is hosting the game. Unless this server is hosted on the same network as the streaming platform the time packets with e.g. instructions for shooting at a specific location would drastically increase. The ping you'd see ingame wouldn't be realistic because it would be the ping the streaming platform has to the game server and not yours.
Oh and also, since this seems to be about streamed gaming, wouldn't any Tablet PC.. what am I saying.. any device with a compatible browser be able to do so?
I'm not here to bash on console gamers, hell, I'm a console gamer myself too but I see a trend of (ported) PC games being oversimplified because the console audience is not buying into the "RTS with binding 10.000 keys to individual units" theme. This totally ruins some games and it's not only RTS where this applies. It applies to basically every new PC game comming out that is being ported from a console version. Even menu's are stripped down so you can barely change any settings, I've ran into games where you couldn't even change the mouse y-ass to inverted or change advanced graphics settings. Shooters where you don't switch to grenades but just hit the nade key and limited choices of "items" available in RPGs.
Don't even get me started about advanced game manipulation through consoles and/or modding.
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It was already released at least a month ago. In fact the renderer in ET has already been replaced with the XreaL renderer (http://xreal-project.net/) by now and people are already working on converting the stock maps using bump maps and what not.
Oh please, that's not my point at all. If he's going to list countries he should've done it right.
I'm not asking for everything to be listed but he lists INDECT and Germany while he could've made it Europe and INDECT.
It just potrays the wrong picture and makes it look like INDECT is a project by the German government.
How is INDECT Germany only? Also Echelon is a project from both the UK and the US. Your examples are a bit random dear sir.
Reason 5: Adobe provides strong tools and support for designers and developers.
The game you are talking about is a port of a port of a port. It was not designed in HTML5 and JS, just ported from a JAVA port with the GWT toolkit.
It's not even a security issue as far as I'm concerned. It's just one of their bonus services not detecting bad sites properly. There is no vulnerability in the browser itself, it's the user.
How about agreements on sharing international banking data, it's far more worrying.
Terrorism has become the best argument for invading privacy nowadays.
Yep, VERY OLD. Video dates from october 2009..
At least 2 of the 3 things mentioned in the paper can be done on ANY cam site (blogtv, ustream, tinychat, etc).
It's truly ridiculous to only mention Chatroulette here and I don't consider any of the things mentioned a real security flaw. 4chan has been "exploiting" these sites for years already, it's nothing new.
True. Nuff said.
I presume he means recent games, Unreal Tournament 3 was quickly disregarded and I wonder if anyone still plays it nowadays. It's so easy to blame piracy when sales for new products are not as good as expected instead of looking at the product itself and if the current market is waiting for such a game.
Their Unreal 3 engine is pretty popular though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unreal_Engine_3_and_3.5
Yeah. Eventhough I know PC game sales are fairly low compared to consoles that first line of the article really bothered me. "the PC a third-class citizen for many gaming genres, especially the kind of high-adrenaline action games", I'd say a lot of high-adrenaline games are for the PC and work better on it because of the usual higher pace (mostly slowed down on consoles due to no mouse in FPS's for example).
"Each domain registration will cost $60 a year, with $10 going to a nonprofit organization promoting “responsible business practices” for the industry." Beside this being overly expensive for a domain name the fact that they donate $10 per domain to a nonprofit organisation is just wrong. Who are they to decide for us that this should be done? Aren't they supposed to be some sort of objective organisation when it comes to this?
Nope, xxx is actually recognised in a lot of countries. I have never heard of it meaning crossed/censored before.
I just asked people from Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden (IRC ftw) and they all knew what it meant.
I find it funny that people actually think we won't be able to recreate old technology and we would have to go to museums to get the latest working readers.
Furthermore data will just be copied and copied and copied to the latest hype so these usb cards probably won't still be around by then.
If someone leaves the door of his house open you could say it's pretty damn stupid but it doesn't mean walking in and going through someone's stuff is the normal thing to do. Wardriving is something people did (and do?) for the fun of it, it's not major corporations doing it on a massive scale to collect data on people, it's illegal too btw in some countries.
They are handing over the actual hard drives that contain the data apparently. This means that it can (and should) be destroyed by the government now but I suspect that they will research the collected data first to see if Google violated laws by doing this. After this they should officially destroy evidence like this for as far as I know but they probably wont, who knows?
Anyway, people shouldn't be whining at the government at this point but at google for collecting it in the first place. What the f where they thinking and what does this say about how far google will go to get information through their own services?
Unlike Microsoft's developer tools? You might want to check that again, things have changed.
I'd like to hear some arguments against a DNA database including the entire population of the US, or any country for that matter. I'm against it myself but my arguments are based on theories that people who are "okay with it because they have nothing to hide" call far-fetched.
You beat me to it, I've seen a documentary on this at discovery at least 5 years ago.
A grenade is a weapon right? Why wouldn't you have to switch to a grenade like you would to any other weapon?
It's like you wouldn't switch to pistols anymore but just hit the pistol key and instantly shoot your pistol without ever really switching.
The same goes for knifes, why the hell does every game have an instant knife button nowadays?
Like in Modern Warfare 2. You just happen to run into someone? Fuck skills, all you need is to be the first one to hit the knife button and bam! instant death while in the past you had to switch to your knife aim properly for the target and in various cases hit the target multiple times (if you didn't aim for the back properly on the first stab for example).
I'm sure a lot of people like dedicated instant-nade keys, I just think having to switch (like you would IRL too btw) to it adds to the game experience and adds to the game on a tactical level, you can't just randomly throw nades all over the place and hope for the best you need to time your switches right.
But i'm really getting offtopic since those are just my personal annoyances.
I was thinking of the same. Firstoff you'd need a stable (and I guess a fast) connection or your framerate would drop and/or you'd be just missing frames.
As for the latency. Let's imagine you're playing a multiplayer FPS. Beside the time it takes for you to communicate with the streaming platform it also takes time for the streaming platform to communicate with yet another server which is hosting the game. Unless this server is hosted on the same network as the streaming platform the time packets with e.g. instructions for shooting at a specific location would drastically increase. The ping you'd see ingame wouldn't be realistic because it would be the ping the streaming platform has to the game server and not yours.
Oh and also, since this seems to be about streamed gaming, wouldn't any Tablet PC.. what am I saying.. any device with a compatible browser be able to do so?
Wouldn't any Tablet PC with a Windows OS installed on it just run WoW for years already? Am I missing something here?
I'm not here to bash on console gamers, hell, I'm a console gamer myself too but I see a trend of (ported) PC games being oversimplified because the console audience is not buying into the "RTS with binding 10.000 keys to individual units" theme. This totally ruins some games and it's not only RTS where this applies. It applies to basically every new PC game comming out that is being ported from a console version.
Even menu's are stripped down so you can barely change any settings, I've ran into games where you couldn't even change the mouse y-ass to inverted or change advanced graphics settings.
Shooters where you don't switch to grenades but just hit the nade key and limited choices of "items" available in RPGs.
Don't even get me started about advanced game manipulation through consoles and/or modding.