Yeah, you are absolutely right, the location is not that big of a deal.
What's worse is that the pictures have dates embedded.
With the dates there on your vacation pictures the thieves can just go back in time and rob your house and know for sure that you wont be back for several days.
You are forgetting one very important factor. For any free market to actually be competitive it requires a low barrier to enter. Many markets have huge barriers to enter them. ISPs, telcos, wireless providers are among them since they need a lot of infrastructure to be useful.
When that requirement is not fulfilled it will not be a free and competing market. That is the reason some markets need regulation.
Another evidence some markets are not competitive are the huge profits for some companies. If there was competition someone would undercut the prices of those having huge margins until the margins were low. This clearly does not happen in some markets.
Why on earth do you have more fun when you're able to control your game less well?
It is not more fun because it reduces the maximum capability of control. It is more fun because it lowers the minimum required amount of skill.
I suck at fast and precise movements with the mouse and don't want to learn 20 keys on the keyboard be be able to control my character reasonably well.
I guess it is same thing as why more realistic game play is not always more fun. You can concentrate on killing zombies instead of concentrating on the details of aiming or getting hung up on the fact that zombies doesn't actually exist:-)
All of them are not looking for help.
Not all open source software are open source because of the community collaboration aspect of it.
Some people just want to do their thing and work at it alone but for various reasons want to publish the source (ideological reasons, bragging rights, looks good on a resume, etc.)
I don't know how common this is, but it definitely exist.
Another reason a OSS project might not really be "hiring" is that it is half dead. It has a TODO list but it didn't make a release in a couple of years and there is no obvious activity that indicate another release is coming. If you are looking to make a meaningful contribution this is maybe not the project you are looking for.
So when the creators want to get paid "over and over for the same thing" they are greedy bastards that only needs to get paid once when they actually work. But when someone (MPAA) forks up the cash and pays them to do some work one time this is also wrong?
I'm getting confused here...
According to the report, which probably looked at a well chosen sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."
When someone tries to sell you software to protect you from the evil porn that you might accidentally see on the internet, I'm not sure I'm gonna believe their claims of how much porn there is.
Yes, but the pie may as well shrink. That is still a gambling aspect.
Another side is of course that on average the stock market increase over time, which would give you better odds for the long term investment. Gambling with good odds is still gambling though and you stand to lose money on it.
But is not all investment gambling?
The fact that you hope to make a profit in 20 minutes instead of 20 months doesn't really change the gambling aspect.
And how long will it be until all trade bots wants to buy the same stock and then sell it 20 minutes later? It will cause the same problems we've seen before with automated trading running haywire.
I'd say that argument is still valid.
Obviously not ALL cracked games contain root kits and malware, but surely some of them do.
The problem is knowing what version is safe and which is not. The average gamer does not have the expertise to know this for sure (unless you have a trusted source of your game). Someone at Rockstar will surely have the knowledge to judge if a crack is safe or not.
If I understood what i have read about BD+ correctly it has a big set of features that is known by the people who make the BD players. Only a few of the features has been used by the ones making the discs. Each time a BD+ feature gets cracked by for example SlySoft the disc manufacturer move to the next thing.
Most decent players will probably have a lot of the BD+ features implemented and will last a long time before they stop working.
This does of course not mean that crappy players won't need an update each time you buy a new disc.
Since it was PBXs that were hacked it is not really related to the Telcos, but rather it is telephony switches at other companys.
The indictment pdf has some details on how it was made also. There are two different scenarios:
A: the hacker calls the PBX (a cheap call). He then has the PBX make an outgoing call to where the hacker wants to call (an expensive call)
B: the hacker makes the PBX first call up the hacker and then call the other party, thus making the company that owns the PBX pay for both calls.
There was one example where the second method was used to make calls to the Philippines and Guinea and the lines were open for over 23 hours. Both of these calls are probably 2-3 USD/minute which makes that one instance cost around $6000
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Yeah, you are absolutely right, the location is not that big of a deal. What's worse is that the pictures have dates embedded.
With the dates there on your vacation pictures the thieves can just go back in time and rob your house and know for sure that you wont be back for several days.
THIS is what we really need to be worried about.
You are forgetting one very important factor. For any free market to actually be competitive it requires a low barrier to enter. Many markets have huge barriers to enter them. ISPs, telcos, wireless providers are among them since they need a lot of infrastructure to be useful.
When that requirement is not fulfilled it will not be a free and competing market. That is the reason some markets need regulation.
Another evidence some markets are not competitive are the huge profits for some companies. If there was competition someone would undercut the prices of those having huge margins until the margins were low. This clearly does not happen in some markets.
Why on earth do you have more fun when you're able to control your game less well?
It is not more fun because it reduces the maximum capability of control. It is more fun because it lowers the minimum required amount of skill. :-)
I suck at fast and precise movements with the mouse and don't want to learn 20 keys on the keyboard be be able to control my character reasonably well.
I guess it is same thing as why more realistic game play is not always more fun. You can concentrate on killing zombies instead of concentrating on the details of aiming or getting hung up on the fact that zombies doesn't actually exist
All of them are not looking for help.
Not all open source software are open source because of the community collaboration aspect of it.
Some people just want to do their thing and work at it alone but for various reasons want to publish the source (ideological reasons, bragging rights, looks good on a resume, etc.)
I don't know how common this is, but it definitely exist.
Another reason a OSS project might not really be "hiring" is that it is half dead. It has a TODO list but it didn't make a release in a couple of years and there is no obvious activity that indicate another release is coming. If you are looking to make a meaningful contribution this is maybe not the project you are looking for.
So when the creators want to get paid "over and over for the same thing" they are greedy bastards that only needs to get paid once when they actually work. But when someone (MPAA) forks up the cash and pays them to do some work one time this is also wrong?
I'm getting confused here...
According to the report, which probably looked at a well chosen sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."
When someone tries to sell you software to protect you from the evil porn that you might accidentally see on the internet, I'm not sure I'm gonna believe their claims of how much porn there is.
Yes, but the pie may as well shrink. That is still a gambling aspect.
Another side is of course that on average the stock market increase over time, which would give you better odds for the long term investment. Gambling with good odds is still gambling though and you stand to lose money on it.
But is not all investment gambling?
The fact that you hope to make a profit in 20 minutes instead of 20 months doesn't really change the gambling aspect.
And how long will it be until all trade bots wants to buy the same stock and then sell it 20 minutes later? It will cause the same problems we've seen before with automated trading running haywire.
I'd say that argument is still valid.
Obviously not ALL cracked games contain root kits and malware, but surely some of them do.
The problem is knowing what version is safe and which is not. The average gamer does not have the expertise to know this for sure (unless you have a trusted source of your game). Someone at Rockstar will surely have the knowledge to judge if a crack is safe or not.
If I understood what i have read about BD+ correctly it has a big set of features that is known by the people who make the BD players. Only a few of the features has been used by the ones making the discs. Each time a BD+ feature gets cracked by for example SlySoft the disc manufacturer move to the next thing. Most decent players will probably have a lot of the BD+ features implemented and will last a long time before they stop working.
This does of course not mean that crappy players won't need an update each time you buy a new disc.
Since it was PBXs that were hacked it is not really related to the Telcos, but rather it is telephony switches at other companys.
The indictment pdf has some details on how it was made also. There are two different scenarios:
A: the hacker calls the PBX (a cheap call). He then has the PBX make an outgoing call to where the hacker wants to call (an expensive call)
B: the hacker makes the PBX first call up the hacker and then call the other party, thus making the company that owns the PBX pay for both calls.
There was one example where the second method was used to make calls to the Philippines and Guinea and the lines were open for over 23 hours. Both of these calls are probably 2-3 USD/minute which makes that one instance cost around $6000