Abandonware can mean that the company that owned the copyrights no longer exists, and the ownership of the copyright is in limbo. Look at Transport Tycoon for example. The copyright was transferred to a company from a company that no longer exists to a company that no longer exists, and thus nobody can defend the copyright to the game. This is the epitome of abandonware and it's what allowed OpenTTD to exist.
The really sad thing about this DRM being cracked is as much a win to the consumer as to the pirate. The pirate gets a game that functions under more circumstances than the consumer, which I imagine will lead to more consumers being pissed off at Ubisoft and resulting to pirate a game they've already paid for just so they can fucking play it without having a connection to the internet 24/7.
Good job Ubisoft, alienating customers will surely lower piracy rates and raise your stock prices.
I actually married with a girl I've found on fotolog.net six years ago.
We divorced, and I had a two-year relationship with somenone I found at orkut.
And I'll marry again with the first one.
I find even more strange to find someone in a night club, a dance club, whatever, w, where you cannot see nor hear really much. How are ideas exchanged in those places?
I don't think you fully understood my comment, nor your own. I stated that I believe a real relationship cannot flourish on a social networking site. I didn't say you couldn't meet somebody on such a site and get to know them on another medium. I see social networking sites as nothing more than a directory, and apparently, so do you.
I'm always curious by people talking about "useless forms of social networking". I mean, what's the supposed purpose of social networking sites? Is there a fixed goal? A constitution? Should we measure a social networking site by how many jobs it fills, or how many dates are had through it?
As I see it, there are people, and they chat. That's social. That's the essence of humanity.
How can you get any more, or any less, useful than that?
In summary: what forms of social networking do you consider "useful", and why?
The types where actual interaction occurs between two or more human beings with a common understanding of some sort. My understanding of social networking involves some kind of game of watching your number of friends increment.
Basically, I feel social networking destroys the essence of communication: a wall of text, with a photo next to it, passing comment of amusement about a "how long is your dong" survey and seemingly nothing more. I find it hard to believe a real relationship can develop through such a medium.
While this sounds interesting, I believe that somebody has finally found an even more useless form of social networking. A standing ovation for him indeed.
I'd like to say I'm shocked by the previous 4 moronic comments, but this is slashdot, so I am not.
So they confirm where the attacks came from, where does it go from there? Banning the IP range of those schools from Google services? I somehow doubt they'll find a way to directly pin this on the Chinese government, regardless of if they did it or not.
Until I need a disk in my CD/DVD drive and/or an Internet connection for single player mode. Or until it's used as an excuse to inflate the price of entertainment.
What it really comes down to is the company punishing legit customers instead of working harder on a viable product. The pirates don't suffer from their moronic DRM schemes, only the legit customer.
Ironically, with Ubisoft's new DRM scheme, I'm sure a lot more paying customers will become 'pirates' as anyone with a crappy Internet connection will be searching for a way to 'disable' the crappy constant connection requirements. Really, that's DRM at its most draconian... so far.
Did the Playstation chipping case occur before or after the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement? If you weren't aware, our copyright laws were heavily modified by that "trade" agreement.
But by that logic, couldn't you simply state that the entire system is a technical protection measure, and that by using anything with it that is unlicensed by $company is suddenly breaking the law? That seems to be what happened here.
This article seems rather flawed. R4 is a cartridge that takes micro-SDHC cards that could use homebrew applications on your DS. The DS is not region-locked whatsoever. They're evidently attempting to apply previous understanding of consoles to this one and falling rather short.
This is also not the only homebrew cartridge available for the DS, and by far not the best, but probably the most well known. I bought one so I could use emulators and DSLinux:)
Personally, I'm in favour of censorship on the Internet, as we have it on TV and radio etc. I see no difference. I am not quite as happy with the current proposed implementation. As I run a PC repair business, I have received a lot of requests for home internet filtering etc. I'd say that the majority of families that I've seen have asked about internet filtering. Many people do want it.
Consider this analogy:
Many Australians consider the water supply to be clean. Some people wish the water to be filtered, a minority. The government could implement a giant filter for the water supply at great cost, or, the minority could purchase personal filters to filter their own water, even with a government subsidy!
The Australian government already tried to give out filtering software for free, and there wasn't a large uptake. This leads be to believe, based on your comments, that it wasn't made well-known enough for computer repairpersons to recommend it to their customers, or that the repairpersons believed it to be inadequate, or an even greater chance, people just don't care about filtering their internet.
My point is: if you want it filtered, filter it yourself. Don't force your ethics on the rest of us.
Better still, educate your fucking kids to not do stupid shit on the internet. That works better than any filter.
I don't know how much space my university email account is meant to be able to hold, but I have it forward and delete on arrival of any mail, so no issue for me.
But, I do feel sorry for the people who still use the interface: it's a freaking Java applet:<
Sentenced, and currently going through a multitude of appeals. They're not in jail yet, and it's likely they'll never land in jail at all.
I don't think this has anything to do with heroism or anything of the sort. He has started a business, and it will mutually benefit him and the 'sellers' of the 'commodity'.
You say it like they already haven't ala Conroy's internet filter. His primary argument is filtering child porn when it's well known from leaked ACMA blacklists that a hell of a lot of it isn't child porn...
Also, next election is next year at the latest.
I took a look at your friend's site, but didn't get too far with it. I'm afraid it's all Greek to me.
Promote that man!
And seriously, you can't possibly consider that someone can learn a language by simply "reading" in that language. It requires some sort of introduction, at least a transliteration of the characters from the Greek to Latin alphabet.
All in all, staring at encrypted data for years wont get you any closer to decrypting it without some idea of how.
At this point, is our decline even reversible? I could draw some parallels with history (as I have in past posts) --- but what would be the point? We'll just have more people argue that education is worthless, or say how it's all the fault of teachers' unions, or argue that we need more charter schools.
So, we point fingers, scream, and ape talking points while our society crumbles around us. What's the point?
We're already the laughingstock of the world; the next generation actually looks worse than the boomers do, and that's an accomplishment. Screw this: I'm getting out. There must be some place in the world that welcomes those Americans who manage to not be complete morons.
The same comment quoted in two articles? My god man, BadAnalogyGuy is being lynched!
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Abandonware can mean that the company that owned the copyrights no longer exists, and the ownership of the copyright is in limbo. Look at Transport Tycoon for example. The copyright was transferred to a company from a company that no longer exists to a company that no longer exists, and thus nobody can defend the copyright to the game. This is the epitome of abandonware and it's what allowed OpenTTD to exist.
That isn't to say a patent for the very same thing hasn't been reapplied for in the time that has passed.
As long as it isn't covered by a dreaded software patent, you should be fine. Software patents need to die in a fire.
PPUK only needed 150 while PPAU needs 500. Different political structure, different society.
Seriously, obey, or you will be fucked by it.
I'd happily allow him to serve a life sentence if it would stop DRM. Modern day salvation anyone? :P
The really sad thing about this DRM being cracked is as much a win to the consumer as to the pirate. The pirate gets a game that functions under more circumstances than the consumer, which I imagine will lead to more consumers being pissed off at Ubisoft and resulting to pirate a game they've already paid for just so they can fucking play it without having a connection to the internet 24/7.
Good job Ubisoft, alienating customers will surely lower piracy rates and raise your stock prices.
I actually married with a girl I've found on fotolog.net six years ago.
We divorced, and I had a two-year relationship with somenone I found at orkut.
And I'll marry again with the first one.
I find even more strange to find someone in a night club, a dance club, whatever, w, where you cannot see nor hear really much. How are ideas exchanged in those places?
I don't think you fully understood my comment, nor your own. I stated that I believe a real relationship cannot flourish on a social networking site. I didn't say you couldn't meet somebody on such a site and get to know them on another medium. I see social networking sites as nothing more than a directory, and apparently, so do you.
I'm always curious by people talking about "useless forms of social networking". I mean, what's the supposed purpose of social networking sites? Is there a fixed goal? A constitution? Should we measure a social networking site by how many jobs it fills, or how many dates are had through it?
As I see it, there are people, and they chat. That's social. That's the essence of humanity.
How can you get any more, or any less, useful than that?
In summary: what forms of social networking do you consider "useful", and why?
The types where actual interaction occurs between two or more human beings with a common understanding of some sort. My understanding of social networking involves some kind of game of watching your number of friends increment.
Basically, I feel social networking destroys the essence of communication: a wall of text, with a photo next to it, passing comment of amusement about a "how long is your dong" survey and seemingly nothing more. I find it hard to believe a real relationship can develop through such a medium.
While this sounds interesting, I believe that somebody has finally found an even more useless form of social networking. A standing ovation for him indeed.
I'd like to say I'm shocked by the previous 4 moronic comments, but this is slashdot, so I am not. So they confirm where the attacks came from, where does it go from there? Banning the IP range of those schools from Google services? I somehow doubt they'll find a way to directly pin this on the Chinese government, regardless of if they did it or not.
If this isn't fraud, I'm sure the government will be on their asses about the lack of payment of their workers.
Until I need a disk in my CD/DVD drive and/or an Internet connection for single player mode. Or until it's used as an excuse to inflate the price of entertainment.
What it really comes down to is the company punishing legit customers instead of working harder on a viable product. The pirates don't suffer from their moronic DRM schemes, only the legit customer.
Ironically, with Ubisoft's new DRM scheme, I'm sure a lot more paying customers will become 'pirates' as anyone with a crappy Internet connection will be searching for a way to 'disable' the crappy constant connection requirements. Really, that's DRM at its most draconian... so far.
Thanks :D
Did the Playstation chipping case occur before or after the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement? If you weren't aware, our copyright laws were heavily modified by that "trade" agreement.
But by that logic, couldn't you simply state that the entire system is a technical protection measure, and that by using anything with it that is unlicensed by $company is suddenly breaking the law? That seems to be what happened here.
This article seems rather flawed. R4 is a cartridge that takes micro-SDHC cards that could use homebrew applications on your DS. The DS is not region-locked whatsoever. They're evidently attempting to apply previous understanding of consoles to this one and falling rather short.
:)
This is also not the only homebrew cartridge available for the DS, and by far not the best, but probably the most well known. I bought one so I could use emulators and DSLinux
I'd like it if anyone could find "technical protection measure" actually defined within any Australian law.
Seriously, I don't think it's defined anywhere, and I'm sure that's grounds for appeal.
Personally, I'm in favour of censorship on the Internet, as we have it on TV and radio etc. I see no difference. I am not quite as happy with the current proposed implementation. As I run a PC repair business, I have received a lot of requests for home internet filtering etc. I'd say that the majority of families that I've seen have asked about internet filtering. Many people do want it.
Consider this analogy:
Many Australians consider the water supply to be clean. Some people wish the water to be filtered, a minority. The government could implement a giant filter for the water supply at great cost, or, the minority could purchase personal filters to filter their own water, even with a government subsidy!
The Australian government already tried to give out filtering software for free, and there wasn't a large uptake. This leads be to believe, based on your comments, that it wasn't made well-known enough for computer repairpersons to recommend it to their customers, or that the repairpersons believed it to be inadequate, or an even greater chance, people just don't care about filtering their internet.
My point is: if you want it filtered, filter it yourself. Don't force your ethics on the rest of us.
Better still, educate your fucking kids to not do stupid shit on the internet. That works better than any filter.
I don't know how much space my university email account is meant to be able to hold, but I have it forward and delete on arrival of any mail, so no issue for me.
:<
But, I do feel sorry for the people who still use the interface: it's a freaking Java applet
Sentenced, and currently going through a multitude of appeals. They're not in jail yet, and it's likely they'll never land in jail at all. I don't think this has anything to do with heroism or anything of the sort. He has started a business, and it will mutually benefit him and the 'sellers' of the 'commodity'.
You say it like they already haven't ala Conroy's internet filter. His primary argument is filtering child porn when it's well known from leaked ACMA blacklists that a hell of a lot of it isn't child porn... Also, next election is next year at the latest.
Generally, babies acquire language aurally, not through reading random scribble called text.
I took a look at your friend's site, but didn't get too far with it. I'm afraid it's all Greek to me.
Promote that man! And seriously, you can't possibly consider that someone can learn a language by simply "reading" in that language. It requires some sort of introduction, at least a transliteration of the characters from the Greek to Latin alphabet. All in all, staring at encrypted data for years wont get you any closer to decrypting it without some idea of how.
At this point, is our decline even reversible? I could draw some parallels with history (as I have in past posts) --- but what would be the point? We'll just have more people argue that education is worthless, or say how it's all the fault of teachers' unions, or argue that we need more charter schools.
So, we point fingers, scream, and ape talking points while our society crumbles around us. What's the point?
We're already the laughingstock of the world; the next generation actually looks worse than the boomers do, and that's an accomplishment. Screw this: I'm getting out. There must be some place in the world that welcomes those Americans who manage to not be complete morons.
The same comment quoted in two articles? My god man, BadAnalogyGuy is being lynched!