Citing security concerns, the United States Marine Corps has issued an order banning access to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on its network for the next year.
They're only blocking it at the office, not banishing the marines from using it when they're off duty. Myspace is blocked at a ton of offices, but nobody cries foul. Working for the marines for 9 out of 10 people, is a normal office job, you show up to work, sit in your cube, and do what needs to be done. After that, you go home and can do whatever you want when you're home. This isn't a big deal, they're just trying to keep the marines from twittering their day away.
For the remaining 1 out of 10 who are stationed "over there," they may rely on the military for network access, but unless things have changed from 3 years ago, if you wanted internet over by baghdad, you had to arrange for your own satellite hookup and use your own computers. This connection was shared amongst a group of guys and was not managed by the military. These small hookups also wouldn't be influenced by the pentagon's orders either.
Heh, i can imagine the news getting into an uproar after someone manages to corrupt the la guardia key and all pilots everywhere start ignoring the tower...
At least with airplanes, they rely on decades-old, non-encrypted technology because it works, because to upgrade would require every grass field landing strip to upgrade decades-old radios that still work just as well as they did a half century ago, every antique piper cub to get new radio systems, and require world-wide adherence to the new standard all because some doof can override the signal if they want.
If that's not a knee-jerk, I don't know what is.
As for the busses, if they have enough of a problem, they can upgrade on a city by city basis, but until it becomes enough of a nuisance, they won't.
politician "I'm not responsible, I just propose and vote on the laws, the judges and cops apply and enforce them!"
judge "I'm not responsible, I just apply and interpret the laws, I don't make them or enforce them!"
cop "I'm not responsible, I just enforce the laws, I don't make or apply them!"
Nobody believes the are really and truly to blame for anything, and the great thing about a bureaucracy is that it's everybody's fault and nobody's fault.
I just wish that they'd apply a subject to the whole "protect and serve" motto. Who are they protecting and who are they serving? If every cop asked themselves that today and really thought about it, the US might be a better place tommorrow.
without the sentries that watch over attempts to guard our freedom, we may take the first step down the path (although it would be a much longer one) to the same restrictive and overbearing governments seen in the past. You don't have to worry about the frog boiling if you raise the alarm every time someone tries to turn on the fire underneath the pot.
If we don't yell and raise the alarm every single time the corporations try to cut our freedoms, they'll cut our freedoms.
it isn't cheap enough already to be permitted some ad revene.
Why? Because it isn't worth $60, or they would have gone for 60, no game designer gives stuff away free on the console nowadays. An average psn download game is 10 bucks, at twice the average cost, it counts as a premium title, so if anything, they should cut the cost down to 10 and say "This is a premium title that we are providing ads with so that you may buy it for the average cost." What? The ads aren't worth $10 per person? Then why are they shooting themselves in the foot like this?
I would be interested if there would be a way to block these ads by looking at traffic and blocking the source at the router. I haven't seen anyone attempt that with the xbox360, but everyone assumed that was par for the course. It would be really interesting to analyze this, and the youtube video should really spark outrage at the ads. I mean the ads are actually degrading performance, they're removing value from the game, and they're very very intrusive. Not everyone has hours and hours and hours to play, and if i can only play for an hour and an add saps 10 seconds every few minutes from my play time, I'd be royally miffed.
Alas, not everyone feels the outrage at having advertising shoved down their throats. I know that newspaper and tv REQUIRE ads to continue to be made, but you can get 77 issues of the WSJ for 70 bucks. That's a little more than a ps3 or xbox game, but the game isn't something completely new every day.
Bottom line, if you use ads, you should either seriously discount your product (newspaper) or provide it for free (broadcast TV), but charging users full price for a game or a DL game and then reaping the benefits of the ads that reduce play time from a session and degrade performance (longer load time = performance degredation) is not right.
Real bottom line: If you want more money from your game, make a better game, its on the console so you can't bitch about piracy, so do better or lose my business. If you previously got my business and then wish to make money off of providing ads to me in a game that there were previously no ads, I will be asking for a refund and encouraging all of my friends to do the same. If you didn't tell me that there would be ads or allow me to decline the ads, expect a general backlash. (I hope)
The first string says to the bartender, "Give me a beer." The bartender turns to the second string and says, "and what about for you?" To which the second string replies, "I would also like a beer#@a9101gb230b81;kajf3#$B89*#()*13!$%#@$"" and goes on and on spewing gibberish.
The bartender, shocked, asks the first string, "What is your buddy's problem?"
The first string answers, "Oh, you'll have to excuse him, he isn't null terminated."
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Citing security concerns, the United States Marine Corps has issued an order banning access to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on its network for the next year.
They're only blocking it at the office, not banishing the marines from using it when they're off duty. Myspace is blocked at a ton of offices, but nobody cries foul. Working for the marines for 9 out of 10 people, is a normal office job, you show up to work, sit in your cube, and do what needs to be done. After that, you go home and can do whatever you want when you're home. This isn't a big deal, they're just trying to keep the marines from twittering their day away.
For the remaining 1 out of 10 who are stationed "over there," they may rely on the military for network access, but unless things have changed from 3 years ago, if you wanted internet over by baghdad, you had to arrange for your own satellite hookup and use your own computers. This connection was shared amongst a group of guys and was not managed by the military. These small hookups also wouldn't be influenced by the pentagon's orders either.
Heh, i can imagine the news getting into an uproar after someone manages to corrupt the la guardia key and all pilots everywhere start ignoring the tower...
At least with airplanes, they rely on decades-old, non-encrypted technology because it works, because to upgrade would require every grass field landing strip to upgrade decades-old radios that still work just as well as they did a half century ago, every antique piper cub to get new radio systems, and require world-wide adherence to the new standard all because some doof can override the signal if they want.
If that's not a knee-jerk, I don't know what is.
As for the busses, if they have enough of a problem, they can upgrade on a city by city basis, but until it becomes enough of a nuisance, they won't.
politician "I'm not responsible, I just propose and vote on the laws, the judges and cops apply and enforce them!"
judge "I'm not responsible, I just apply and interpret the laws, I don't make them or enforce them!"
cop "I'm not responsible, I just enforce the laws, I don't make or apply them!"
Nobody believes the are really and truly to blame for anything, and the great thing about a bureaucracy is that it's everybody's fault and nobody's fault.
I just wish that they'd apply a subject to the whole "protect and serve" motto. Who are they protecting and who are they serving? If every cop asked themselves that today and really thought about it, the US might be a better place tommorrow.
without the sentries that watch over attempts to guard our freedom, we may take the first step down the path (although it would be a much longer one) to the same restrictive and overbearing governments seen in the past. You don't have to worry about the frog boiling if you raise the alarm every time someone tries to turn on the fire underneath the pot.
If we don't yell and raise the alarm every single time the corporations try to cut our freedoms, they'll cut our freedoms.
i'm looking into buying the book, is it risk by dan gardner?
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it isn't cheap enough already to be permitted some ad revene.
Why? Because it isn't worth $60, or they would have gone for 60, no game designer gives stuff away free on the console nowadays. An average psn download game is 10 bucks, at twice the average cost, it counts as a premium title, so if anything, they should cut the cost down to 10 and say "This is a premium title that we are providing ads with so that you may buy it for the average cost." What? The ads aren't worth $10 per person? Then why are they shooting themselves in the foot like this?
I would be interested if there would be a way to block these ads by looking at traffic and blocking the source at the router. I haven't seen anyone attempt that with the xbox360, but everyone assumed that was par for the course. It would be really interesting to analyze this, and the youtube video should really spark outrage at the ads. I mean the ads are actually degrading performance, they're removing value from the game, and they're very very intrusive. Not everyone has hours and hours and hours to play, and if i can only play for an hour and an add saps 10 seconds every few minutes from my play time, I'd be royally miffed.
Alas, not everyone feels the outrage at having advertising shoved down their throats. I know that newspaper and tv REQUIRE ads to continue to be made, but you can get 77 issues of the WSJ for 70 bucks. That's a little more than a ps3 or xbox game, but the game isn't something completely new every day.
Bottom line, if you use ads, you should either seriously discount your product (newspaper) or provide it for free (broadcast TV), but charging users full price for a game or a DL game and then reaping the benefits of the ads that reduce play time from a session and degrade performance (longer load time = performance degredation) is not right.
Real bottom line: If you want more money from your game, make a better game, its on the console so you can't bitch about piracy, so do better or lose my business. If you previously got my business and then wish to make money off of providing ads to me in a game that there were previously no ads, I will be asking for a refund and encouraging all of my friends to do the same. If you didn't tell me that there would be ads or allow me to decline the ads, expect a general backlash. (I hope)
At least they're not like some companies that ignore that there is a (tiny tiny tiny) problem and just gag its customers.
Two strings walk into a bar.
The first string says to the bartender, "Give me a beer." The bartender turns to the second string and says, "and what about for you?" To which the second string replies, "I would also like a beer#@a9101gb230b81;kajf3#$B89*#()*13!$%#@$"" and goes on and on spewing gibberish.
The bartender, shocked, asks the first string, "What is your buddy's problem?"
The first string answers, "Oh, you'll have to excuse him, he isn't null terminated."