Then that hospital is just stupid having their main infrastructure on public network to begin with. Ok, they can bring down their website. It ends there. Its not like people are going to die because of that.
Having "gas tank shield", or antivirus and firewall isn't required by law. And most "normal" people dont really care either.
Also, intention usually counts a lot in crimes. Judges nor the layman (or what are those called in usa again) aren't usually really computer oriented, and they can see that user didn't have bad intention but the actual bad guys had.
Hell, even usa gov networks are hacked all the time now. Would you sue them for not securing them correctly? Would you sue car owner for not having 10m armored wall around the car when they park it?
The "DRM" you are talking about is just checks that you have the DVD in drive. That doesn't count as DRM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management "The term is used to describe any technology which makes the unauthorized use of such digital content and devices technically formidable, but generally doesn't include other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles."
Nobody ever talked about DRM when mentioning those serials since the 80's. It only means those situations when game exe or disc (or video content or whatever) contains those encryptions etc shit (that also can break more or less in certain situations).
Serial code is still a good, non-bothering system. It has some effect to bring down the casual copying, you can restrict online content with it and it works always.
A few free downloadable content packs that would require online registration is all that's needed to make a number of customers out of pirates. It works for Stardock.
Actually, EA is doing exactly this with The Sims 3. When you register your game as legitly bought you get 1000 free points to download more stuff from their item store. So you get the free downloadable content there aswell.
Nice move not using DRM, its a shame its still the most retarded "game" i can think of.
However I think the market for game actually lowers the piratism rate for The Sims. There will be lots of younger and older girls wanting to play this game aswell, and most of them (or their parents) will probably buy this game. Atleast way more than with other games. Now I must note that I'm waiting for this game too, so I wouldn't count it as girls-only game either. But the market is bigger with this title.
Now what makes me sad is that pirates will keep pushing statistics and sales down for usual games they like to play, and EA will just see that The Sims franchise sells so much better than the other games. Now here's a homework for you: Figure out if that will affect what kind of games they like to make.
Would be great if Google had added encryption into the protocol by default, it would make it so much better. Its a nice step to P2P the chat network, but its just stupid to send all the conversation unencrypted specifically in corporate situations.
I gotta agree here, Jazz Jackrabbit and Jill of the Jungle were great on my years. Even my gf still plays jazz jackrabbit, as its quite fun and controls are great. Along with Civ 2, Settlers 2, MegaRace 2 and SimCity 2000 I have to give kudos for Jazz Jackrabbit. Great game.
Damn right so. Nuclear weapons seem to be great way for countries to make sure other countries arent going to attack them and that is probably why other countries are so afraid of North Korea having nukes. I really doubt they will use them for anything other than having them around for defence, because if they do there will be many countries attacking them and nuking the whole place to shit right away.
Its also a nice note that only US has so far used nukes against other countries and then they attack other countries making their own ones. quite a hypocrisy, would I say.
and the rumors about concentration camps, are those true? - they're not rumors my friend, we have many concentration camps and you're starving your own people there? - ofcourse i'm starving [them], its a bad place, its a concentration camp:)
The world isn't black and white. Just because Japanese society is at fault, doesn't mean Google is without fault.
But who says japanese society is at fault, its cultural differences. This is more of an issue when USA company goes to Japan to do business and doesn't know the cultural issues to full extend.
So comes along one of those many fake websites that say 'you need to update your codec to watch this video'. User thinks its a new codec installed = your new program. Lots of malware seem to have changed to social engineering tactics instead of just trying to exploit some hole, and lots of users seem to fall to those.
You seem to forget here that most of the exploits now a days are from third party programs. These exploits are just aswell possible on mac/linux once the userbase is just there. Some windows services have been exploitable, but thats because like 90-95% of desktop computers use Windows, so its better idea to try to find exploits on them. However aswell as Windows, both Mac's and Linuxes have had their share of exploits to third party programs.
Whatever else we may think about Apple, they made a sound, pragmatic decision when they threw out the old OS 9 architecture and replaced it with what is essentially a BSD-like system with their own work on top to make it pretty. Unix, by its very nature, is actually quite hard to crack if sensible operating defaults are followed.
Most malware work just enough good when run under user account aswell. You do not need root access to most of the functions they do.
For example the recently hugely exploited Adobe PDF reader exploits would work quite aswell on Mac's. You seem to be blaiming OS's instead of the third party programs. Mac and Linux will have just as much malware as soon as its profitable enough for the malware authors.
Also, most mac users think and they're told that theres no malware and they're secure, so they have the mentality of "nothing can hit me" and even tho theres a few mac av's, almost noone runs them.
Hell, there's botnets running inside _routers_. What makes it think that mac is somehow some bulletproof solution. You dont need root to send spam or ddos either.
Mac is also a standardized os, so its a lot easier to make malware for it than the tons of different linux os's. And its already true, but because of this mentality Apple and Mac users have given to everyone, they think they're safe. It's really stupid from Apple's part, because the problem keeps just rising and one day it gets hit badly and no one has prepared because of their assumptions.
Mac is in no way less vulnareble than Windows, specially in targeted attacks. It seems most people have been brainwashed quite good. Yes, the amount of malware for mac's is lower than Windows, but so is mac userbase. However there are many OSX malware circumventing already and it seems to be just going up.
And no, not all malware require root to run. They can easily run under your user account aswell and still steal lots of data, passwords and keylog etc. If they require root, then social engineering attack will get past most users as they happily enter their root password.
I played around with the same IE COM component as a kid, it was nice to have coded your own browser. On the other hand, I also coded my own operating system that would run on top of Windows and had a fixed 4 seconds delay in the OS loading screen. You could even shutdown computer from my operating system, as I figured out what WinApi function to call. All in VB!:)
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
You seem to the thinking of Sweden being 'bittorrent' haven because its been in news so many times. Well, now they're actually taken action about it and because of their intention, it doesnt seem good.
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
And let me state, I hope everything will be okay for the tpb guys. But these pro-piracy comments seem to have little to no idea how it actually works.
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Then that hospital is just stupid having their main infrastructure on public network to begin with. Ok, they can bring down their website. It ends there. Its not like people are going to die because of that.
Sorry to say it, but you are the kind of lying person I wouldn't ever want to be a friend with.
The idea of pushing your agenda *by lying* about it is just wrong.
Yeah, because having random malware on your computer and 3 kids dead is the same thing.
Having "gas tank shield", or antivirus and firewall isn't required by law. And most "normal" people dont really care either.
Also, intention usually counts a lot in crimes. Judges nor the layman (or what are those called in usa again) aren't usually really computer oriented, and they can see that user didn't have bad intention but the actual bad guys had.
Hell, even usa gov networks are hacked all the time now. Would you sue them for not securing them correctly? Would you sue car owner for not having 10m armored wall around the car when they park it?
The "DRM" you are talking about is just checks that you have the DVD in drive. That doesn't count as DRM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
"The term is used to describe any technology which makes the unauthorized use of such digital content and devices technically formidable, but generally doesn't include other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles."
Nobody ever talked about DRM when mentioning those serials since the 80's. It only means those situations when game exe or disc (or video content or whatever) contains those encryptions etc shit (that also can break more or less in certain situations).
Serial code is still a good, non-bothering system. It has some effect to bring down the casual copying, you can restrict online content with it and it works always.
You are confused. It only has serial.
A few free downloadable content packs that would require online registration is all that's needed to make a number of customers out of pirates. It works for Stardock.
Actually, EA is doing exactly this with The Sims 3. When you register your game as legitly bought you get 1000 free points to download more stuff from their item store. So you get the free downloadable content there aswell.
Nice move not using DRM, its a shame its still the most retarded "game" i can think of.
However I think the market for game actually lowers the piratism rate for The Sims. There will be lots of younger and older girls wanting to play this game aswell, and most of them (or their parents) will probably buy this game. Atleast way more than with other games. Now I must note that I'm waiting for this game too, so I wouldn't count it as girls-only game either. But the market is bigger with this title.
Now what makes me sad is that pirates will keep pushing statistics and sales down for usual games they like to play, and EA will just see that The Sims franchise sells so much better than the other games. Now here's a homework for you: Figure out if that will affect what kind of games they like to make.
So guys, you kept saying everyone pirates because of DRM. Well, this doesnt have one now. What excuse should we use now?
Dont break your stolen computers EULA; Use Linux!
Would be great if Google had added encryption into the protocol by default, it would make it so much better. Its a nice step to P2P the chat network, but its just stupid to send all the conversation unencrypted specifically in corporate situations.
I gotta agree here, Jazz Jackrabbit and Jill of the Jungle were great on my years. Even my gf still plays jazz jackrabbit, as its quite fun and controls are great. Along with Civ 2, Settlers 2, MegaRace 2 and SimCity 2000 I have to give kudos for Jazz Jackrabbit. Great game.
Damn right so. Nuclear weapons seem to be great way for countries to make sure other countries arent going to attack them and that is probably why other countries are so afraid of North Korea having nukes. I really doubt they will use them for anything other than having them around for defence, because if they do there will be many countries attacking them and nuking the whole place to shit right away.
Its also a nice note that only US has so far used nukes against other countries and then they attack other countries making their own ones. quite a hypocrisy, would I say.
now that was great!
and the rumors about concentration camps, are those true? - they're not rumors my friend, we have many concentration camps :)
and you're starving your own people there? - ofcourse i'm starving [them], its a bad place, its a concentration camp
The world isn't black and white. Just because Japanese society is at fault, doesn't mean Google is without fault.
But who says japanese society is at fault, its cultural differences. This is more of an issue when USA company goes to Japan to do business and doesn't know the cultural issues to full extend.
Thanks for the link tho, it was way better explained in that article.
When I first read the summary, I didnt really know what it was even about.
So comes along one of those many fake websites that say 'you need to update your codec to watch this video'. User thinks its a new codec installed = your new program. Lots of malware seem to have changed to social engineering tactics instead of just trying to exploit some hole, and lots of users seem to fall to those.
You seem to forget here that most of the exploits now a days are from third party programs. These exploits are just aswell possible on mac/linux once the userbase is just there. Some windows services have been exploitable, but thats because like 90-95% of desktop computers use Windows, so its better idea to try to find exploits on them. However aswell as Windows, both Mac's and Linuxes have had their share of exploits to third party programs.
Whatever else we may think about Apple, they made a sound, pragmatic decision when they threw out the old OS 9 architecture and replaced it with what is essentially a BSD-like system with their own work on top to make it pretty. Unix, by its very nature, is actually quite hard to crack if sensible operating defaults are followed.
Most malware work just enough good when run under user account aswell. You do not need root access to most of the functions they do.
For example the recently hugely exploited Adobe PDF reader exploits would work quite aswell on Mac's. You seem to be blaiming OS's instead of the third party programs. Mac and Linux will have just as much malware as soon as its profitable enough for the malware authors.
Also, most mac users think and they're told that theres no malware and they're secure, so they have the mentality of "nothing can hit me" and even tho theres a few mac av's, almost noone runs them.
Hell, there's botnets running inside _routers_. What makes it think that mac is somehow some bulletproof solution. You dont need root to send spam or ddos either.
Mac is also a standardized os, so its a lot easier to make malware for it than the tons of different linux os's. And its already true, but because of this mentality Apple and Mac users have given to everyone, they think they're safe. It's really stupid from Apple's part, because the problem keeps just rising and one day it gets hit badly and no one has prepared because of their assumptions.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9808489-37.html
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/new-mac-os-x-malware-osx_lamzev-a/
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan_osx_dnschanger.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/inqtana_a.shtml
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2418
to begin with a few.
Mac is in no way less vulnareble than Windows, specially in targeted attacks. It seems most people have been brainwashed quite good. Yes, the amount of malware for mac's is lower than Windows, but so is mac userbase. However there are many OSX malware circumventing already and it seems to be just going up.
And no, not all malware require root to run. They can easily run under your user account aswell and still steal lots of data, passwords and keylog etc. If they require root, then social engineering attack will get past most users as they happily enter their root password.
I played around with the same IE COM component as a kid, it was nice to have coded your own browser. On the other hand, I also coded my own operating system that would run on top of Windows and had a fixed 4 seconds delay in the OS loading screen. You could even shutdown computer from my operating system, as I figured out what WinApi function to call. All in VB! :)
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
You seem to the thinking of Sweden being 'bittorrent' haven because its been in news so many times. Well, now they're actually taken action about it and because of their intention, it doesnt seem good.
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
What you do not understand is that here in Sweden (and other nordic area) intention counts a lot in court aswell. If you happened to follow how they acted on stuff, and what their name (just fyi The PIRATE Bay) was, I'll bet you see the intention aswell. As much as the 'nerds' here like to think, we dont follow everything 'technically' 100% but the intention counts aswell.
And let me state, I hope everything will be okay for the tpb guys. But these pro-piracy comments seem to have little to no idea how it actually works.