Unfortunately, I don't think there's a lot they can do about it, otherwise they probably would.
This is wrong. Any experienced D2 player can tell you inside of 2 minutes if a Char running around is bot or not. Identifying Spambots is obviously even easier.
Even when the game was new this was a big problem and they couldn't stop in when they probably had a larger support team looking at the game. The BNet system probably wasn't built to handle problems like that and Blizzard may not have anticipated that such a problem would exist.
The main boast Blizzard made about Battle.net and D2 "closed" online play was: it's hackproof! This came after the tons of trivial cheats happening with D1 played online. So they failed in the number one design goal of Online Play for D2.
They're running the D2 server software on pretty ancient hardware (at least by today's standards) so it's not as though they can easily upgrade it to code in new fixes. This much they mentioned when they released the latest content patch for the game and explained why certain changes couldn't be made.
No hardware needed. 2-3 students per realm and there'd be a LOT less bots, of the spam or the itemfind/level variety, out there. But that'd have consequences: the D2 economy "crashes". Without MF bots to find stuff, people can't have their teleport armors in a day of playing anymore, which would take out the "fun" for many, and make the player base shrink. After all, if you need 2-3 months of hours of daily play for this armor, it's a lot less common.
The bots don't really destroy the economy, they just add more crap to it, which drives the price of almost everything downwards. That actually benefits the average person as they've better access to better weapons. Perhaps you consider that ruined, but from the average person's perspective, it's not exactly a bad thing. Also, since D2 has random stats on almost everything, the values of items can vary widely from essentially worthless to decently valuable. It seems to me that as of recently, most people were using bots to get to the top of the ladder.
Fight what exactly? No one, except some braindead politicians and pundits who panders for some vote/eyeballs/advertising dollars/pagehits, have told Amazon to shut down the account of Wikileaks. There is no lawsuit ANYWHERE in the US against wikileaks or their hoster. None. Nada. So far, braindead public statements by politicians are not in any way binding for anyone at all.
Also, the publishing of the information is totally legal and no one in the US is suing for stopping any publisher. The government already tried that in the 70s with the Pentagon Papers and lost at SCOTUS. They won't try again. Especially since they had now 9 months or so to try stopping wikileaks but never even made the slightest attempt. The government will crucify the whistleblower/traitor/terrorist/freedom fighter who actually leaked it to Wikileaks, but Wikileaks itself and all the newspapers (NYT, Guardian, etc) are in the clear.
Considering no AG has filed a suit in any US jurisdiction against wikileaks that I know of, considering wikileaks.ORG is a domain registered at a US registry and therefore falls under US jurisdiction but not taken down like other domains, etc, I am very confident that Wikileaks doesn't violate any laws in the US. If I were wrong in my assessment, the US had almost a year (since the first "anti US wikileaks") to file any suit, close them down, etc but didn't do anything of the above. When you see how much embarrassment they caused the US, don't you think something had happened by now? All we've seen so far is lots of foot stomping, foaming at the mouth and other bullshit from the guilty parties for exposing the dirt US policy is based on. For your education you might read up on the Pentagon Papers and the POTUS trial surrounding them why publishing secret documents is not illegal in the US.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was not banned. Wolfenstein 3D was banned for showing swastikas. Playing as Nazi is fine, mowing down people is fine (as long as they have green blood), swastikas and other national-socialist signs and symbols are not.
The MPAA ratings are not done by any government body, but they still censor movies when someone in the movie says fuck, copulates with same/different sex or mindlessly kills people. Censorship is not just when governments do it. And no one prevents me to say "fuck" either. Yet.
The problem per se is not that Fedora removes a package. The problem is their reasoning especially when there tons of other penetration testing tools still existing in Fedora. It's their choice if they want a non-offensive, family friendly, annoy no one distro, it just might be a tad difficult thing to then create a useful distro which technical people want to use.
There are a lot of patents pertaining to many aspects of Java. You only get a royalty free license for the patents if you have a compatible, tested Java implementation. The testkit to do this evaluation TCK is not-free and access terms for it is pretty much unacceptable for any3rd party Free software. So Apache must be able to call its implementation Java or they have to cough up a lot of money for patent licenses. Best ask how much MSFT paid for.Net to know how much exactly.
If 95% of the people who bought the game complete the first level (as tracked by developers through achievement systems) but only, say, 35-40% finish the game, that necessarily influences how you invest your limited development funds.
Could this be due to many people renting your game? After all, if I pay $60 for a game and own it perpetually, I probably want my money's worth if the game is only at least halfway entertaining, so I play it til the end. If I rent the game however, the clock is always ticking: another day costs another dollar, so I might be tempted to stop playing and bring the game back instead? This of course brings some dilemma: the game developer creates short games since the gamer doesn't play to the end, while the gamer only rents the game since "it's only a few hours long anyways, not worth my money" which in turn encourages the game developer to create shorter games.... How long until there is nothing but a tutorial for the game anymore?
There is a very easy solution for people cheating to get achievements: disable their achievements publically outing them as cheaters. No need to ban them from the game outright.
If they don't trust the website to create the custom bot for them, why would they trust the binary which does that they downloaded from same said website. As a malware distributor you either trust your supplier or you don't, no matter how the software reaches you. If you don't trust your supplier you can't use the software, no matter how it is supplied to you.
This newsarticle is pure BS. The attack didn't target Bushehr: when Stuxnet became public, Bushehr wasn't even online yet. Stuxnet targeted the iraniane Uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and presumable other, secret, places. Those all use Siemens PLCs too and the code in Stuxnet for the PLCs is actually geared to break those centrifugues. It's also a much more sensible target IT wise: all the centrifuges are controlled by the same PLCs, the same programs running on each PLC for each centrifuge. Corroberating this is that in early 2009 shortly after Stuxnet was known, Iran publically suffered a big setback in nuclear enrichment and the government official in charge of the nuclear program was let go. So Stuxnet was successful in its mission to disrupt the nuclear program and heads rolled in Iran while some unspecified intelligence agencies got high fives all around.
The US wasn't booming. They were simply borrowing metric tons of money: it's easy to have a "boom" with borrowed money, unfortunately sooner or later you have to pay the money back....
The current crisis (no it's not over, not for a long time) was caused by these exact years you cite.
The biggest, baddest nuclear bombs, the deadliest engineered plagues, the shortest cryptography decryption times and the goodwill of all mankind (everybody is very very nice to you if you have the aforementioned weapons).
I understand IBM did some nice marketing in the "HPC is for Chess" area, but "surprise!": real world HPC is not used for chess playing.
It's for serious research, nowadays mostly nukes (design stuff to go BOOM) and flow modelation (climate research, stealth research, building better cars,planes and other machines), biochemistry (genetic engineering), cryptography and probably dozens of others things.
Apparently there is nothing new under the Sun. The reader of this PR to help IBM sell more of their HPC machines should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap first.
Will be interesting to see how the industry reacts to this. As all these machines today have upgradeable firmwares and internet connection that wont be able to totally close this break in the hardware spec itself but may cause problems for those seeking to exploit this leak.
TFT-LCD monitors or TVs don't have upgradeable encryption firmware. Even if they had, Joe Consumer cannot upgrade his new TV so he can continue to watch HD movies. And he will be really really cranky towards Hollywood, Sony, LG, Samsung, etc if he has to pay $50 to someone who can do it for him.
for putting the most important words of this "news" right at the beginning: "Gartner predicts". From that point onwards, everyone knows one can safely disregard anything that follows unless a good laugh is needed.
GoogleTV and Boxee are integrated software, ready for the masses who want to buy it all in one at the store so that it "just works". Yes it is the same essentially as XBMC, but preinstalled so they don't have to do anything. And yes, one price consumers will pay for it are ads. You had to know quite a lot about TV compatible hardware, connectors, codecs, software installation issues and so on to have a working DVR in the end. This is not something you can assume the average consumer has or wants. They want a TV with a remote. not another computer they need to take to the Geek Squad to fix.
The value you and other users like you get is a hackable TV: if the idea of GoogleTV/Boxee takes off, you can be sure there will be sites like xda-developers.com but for your TV where you can download the newest firmware with all the crap taken out, bugs fixed and so on.
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Unfortunately, I don't think there's a lot they can do about it, otherwise they probably would.
This is wrong. Any experienced D2 player can tell you inside of 2 minutes if a Char running around is bot or not. Identifying Spambots is obviously even easier.
Even when the game was new this was a big problem and they couldn't stop in when they probably had a larger support team looking at the game. The BNet system probably wasn't built to handle problems like that and Blizzard may not have anticipated that such a problem would exist.
The main boast Blizzard made about Battle.net and D2 "closed" online play was: it's hackproof! This came after the tons of trivial cheats happening with D1 played online. So they failed in the number one design goal of Online Play for D2.
They're running the D2 server software on pretty ancient hardware (at least by today's standards) so it's not as though they can easily upgrade it to code in new fixes. This much they mentioned when they released the latest content patch for the game and explained why certain changes couldn't be made.
No hardware needed. 2-3 students per realm and there'd be a LOT less bots, of the spam or the itemfind/level variety, out there. But that'd have consequences: the D2 economy "crashes". Without MF bots to find stuff, people can't have their teleport armors in a day of playing anymore, which would take out the "fun" for many, and make the player base shrink. After all, if you need 2-3 months of hours of daily play for this armor, it's a lot less common.
The bots don't really destroy the economy, they just add more crap to it, which drives the price of almost everything downwards. That actually benefits the average person as they've better access to better weapons. Perhaps you consider that ruined, but from the average person's perspective, it's not exactly a bad thing. Also, since D2 has random stats on almost everything, the values of items can vary widely from essentially worthless to decently valuable. It seems to me that as of recently, most people were using bots to get to the top of the ladder.
It's about advertising for SimpleCDN.
Fight what exactly? No one, except some braindead politicians and pundits who panders for some vote/eyeballs/advertising dollars/pagehits, have told Amazon to shut down the account of Wikileaks. There is no lawsuit ANYWHERE in the US against wikileaks or their hoster. None. Nada. So far, braindead public statements by politicians are not in any way binding for anyone at all.
Also, the publishing of the information is totally legal and no one in the US is suing for stopping any publisher. The government already tried that in the 70s with the Pentagon Papers and lost at SCOTUS. They won't try again. Especially since they had now 9 months or so to try stopping wikileaks but never even made the slightest attempt. The government will crucify the whistleblower/traitor/terrorist/freedom fighter who actually leaked it to Wikileaks, but Wikileaks itself and all the newspapers (NYT, Guardian, etc) are in the clear.
Considering no AG has filed a suit in any US jurisdiction against wikileaks that I know of, considering wikileaks.ORG is a domain registered at a US registry and therefore falls under US jurisdiction but not taken down like other domains, etc, I am very confident that Wikileaks doesn't violate any laws in the US. If I were wrong in my assessment, the US had almost a year (since the first "anti US wikileaks") to file any suit, close them down, etc but didn't do anything of the above. When you see how much embarrassment they caused the US, don't you think something had happened by now? All we've seen so far is lots of foot stomping, foaming at the mouth and other bullshit from the guilty parties for exposing the dirt US policy is based on.
For your education you might read up on the Pentagon Papers and the POTUS trial surrounding them why publishing secret documents is not illegal in the US.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was not banned. Wolfenstein 3D was banned for showing swastikas. Playing as Nazi is fine, mowing down people is fine (as long as they have green blood), swastikas and other national-socialist signs and symbols are not.
ext2 is faster than ext3, simply because it does less. ZFS has many, many features most other FS don't have but they do come at a price.
The MPAA ratings are not done by any government body, but they still censor movies when someone in the movie says fuck, copulates with same/different sex or mindlessly kills people.
Censorship is not just when governments do it. And no one prevents me to say "fuck" either. Yet.
The problem per se is not that Fedora removes a package. The problem is their reasoning especially when there tons of other penetration testing tools still existing in Fedora. It's their choice if they want a non-offensive, family friendly, annoy no one distro, it just might be a tad difficult thing to then create a useful distro which technical people want to use.
There are a lot of patents pertaining to many aspects of Java. You only get a royalty free license for the patents if you have a compatible, tested Java implementation. The testkit to do this evaluation TCK is not-free and access terms for it is pretty much unacceptable for any3rd party Free software. .Net to know how much exactly.
So Apache must be able to call its implementation Java or they have to cough up a lot of money for patent licenses. Best ask how much MSFT paid for
RAGE is the 3D game engine Carmack/id Software wrote. Now they want to port it to smartphones and pads to enable others to build 3D games there.
If 95% of the people who bought the game complete the first level (as tracked by developers through achievement systems) but only, say, 35-40% finish the game, that necessarily influences how you invest your limited development funds.
Could this be due to many people renting your game? After all, if I pay $60 for a game and own it perpetually, I probably want my money's worth if the game is only at least halfway entertaining, so I play it til the end.
If I rent the game however, the clock is always ticking: another day costs another dollar, so I might be tempted to stop playing and bring the game back instead?
This of course brings some dilemma: the game developer creates short games since the gamer doesn't play to the end, while the gamer only rents the game since "it's only a few hours long anyways, not worth my money" which in turn encourages the game developer to create shorter games.... How long until there is nothing but a tutorial for the game anymore?
There is a very easy solution for people cheating to get achievements: disable their achievements publically outing them as cheaters. No need to ban them from the game outright.
The typical nerd also likes gadgets, like 3D and funny glasses, for its own sake. Using more useless (gadgets) is highly approved in nerddom.
There's a third option you missed: the machinery breaks.
Are you prepared to bet your life on this option?
If they don't trust the website to create the custom bot for them, why would they trust the binary which does that they downloaded from same said website. As a malware distributor you either trust your supplier or you don't, no matter how the software reaches you.
If you don't trust your supplier you can't use the software, no matter how it is supplied to you.
This newsarticle is pure BS. The attack didn't target Bushehr: when Stuxnet became public, Bushehr wasn't even online yet. Stuxnet targeted the iraniane Uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and presumable other, secret, places. Those all use Siemens PLCs too and the code in Stuxnet for the PLCs is actually geared to break those centrifugues. It's also a much more sensible target IT wise: all the centrifuges are controlled by the same PLCs, the same programs running on each PLC for each centrifuge.
Corroberating this is that in early 2009 shortly after Stuxnet was known, Iran publically suffered a big setback in nuclear enrichment and the government official in charge of the nuclear program was let go.
So Stuxnet was successful in its mission to disrupt the nuclear program and heads rolled in Iran while some unspecified intelligence agencies got high fives all around.
Yes it is lacking: it's too long for a /. "story". Editors want small, easily digested soundbites, not articles with actual information.
Not true. MoO2 was made by Simtex, published by Microprose. Birth of the Federation was made by Microprose, published by Hasbro Interactive. The people involved are totally different ones too.
See for yourself:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/master-of-orion-ii-battle-at-antares
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/star-trek-the-next-generation-birth-of-the-federation
The US wasn't booming. They were simply borrowing metric tons of money: it's easy to have a "boom" with borrowed money, unfortunately sooner or later you have to pay the money back....
The current crisis (no it's not over, not for a long time) was caused by these exact years you cite.
Since they sell the vast majority of their HPCs in the US.
The biggest, baddest nuclear bombs, the deadliest engineered plagues, the shortest cryptography decryption times and the goodwill of all mankind (everybody is very very nice to you if you have the aforementioned weapons).
I understand IBM did some nice marketing in the "HPC is for Chess" area, but "surprise!": real world HPC is not used for chess playing.
It's for serious research, nowadays mostly nukes (design stuff to go BOOM) and flow modelation (climate research, stealth research, building better cars,planes and other machines), biochemistry (genetic engineering), cryptography and probably dozens of others things.
Apparently there is nothing new under the Sun. The reader of this PR to help IBM sell more of their HPC machines should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap first.
Will be interesting to see how the industry reacts to this. As all these machines today have upgradeable firmwares and internet connection that wont be able to totally close this break in the hardware spec itself but may cause problems for those seeking to exploit this leak.
TFT-LCD monitors or TVs don't have upgradeable encryption firmware. Even if they had, Joe Consumer cannot upgrade his new TV so he can continue to watch HD movies. And he will be really really cranky towards Hollywood, Sony, LG, Samsung, etc if he has to pay $50 to someone who can do it for him.
for putting the most important words of this "news" right at the beginning: "Gartner predicts". From that point onwards, everyone knows one can safely disregard anything that follows unless a good laugh is needed.
GoogleTV and Boxee are integrated software, ready for the masses who want to buy it all in one at the store so that it "just works". Yes it is the same essentially as XBMC, but preinstalled so they don't have to do anything. And yes, one price consumers will pay for it are ads. You had to know quite a lot about TV compatible hardware, connectors, codecs, software installation issues and so on to have a working DVR in the end. This is not something you can assume the average consumer has or wants. They want a TV with a remote. not another computer they need to take to the Geek Squad to fix.
The value you and other users like you get is a hackable TV: if the idea of GoogleTV/Boxee takes off, you can be sure there will be sites like xda-developers.com but for your TV where you can download the newest firmware with all the crap taken out, bugs fixed and so on.