But do you want to risk everyone being able to reverse-engineer the protocol used for adjusting the settings for such a device?
Yes. Security through obscurity is essentially no security at all. The only thing that should be secret is the private encryption key that is uniquely associated with the remote control, which should be under strict physical security at all times.
What you say? There's no encryption implemented in these devices? That's a big problem whether the code is open or not.
I don't understand. What is multi-touch actually good for? It seems pretty gimmicky to me. And I can browse the web just fine with the track point on my T23. So, uh, big whoop.
Huh? If there's a severe vulnerability and the manufacturer refuses to fix it, you should release it immediately. Then at least those affected can mitigate their vulnerability. Otherwise, the black hats have free reign.
Go play nethack and get back to me. Yeah, that horde of 'q' is stronger than you are. But who's smarter? (judging from your post, I'm betting on the 'q' actually)
Not really. I'd rather pay the $20. When we're talking about $20 transactions, that's something that's worth my while to investigate and see if I'm getting a good deal. When we're talking about $.05 transactions, that's not worth my while to consider critically. Sure it's not a big loss if I get ripped off for 5 cents, but it adds up. I'd rather just skip it.
To put it another way. For a $20 transaction, I have to make 1 decision. For $20 worth of $.05 transactions, I have to make 400 decisions. Which is going to be less stressful to me?
They are rewriting law. Congress passed a law allowing them to rewrite the law. That is wrong. Every word of law that I have to obey should be voted on by a representative that I can vote for.
Is anyone else disturbed that the Copyright Office is allowed to rewrite copyright law? That's Congress's job, and they shouldn't be allowed to defer it to an unelected body.
The funny part is that all the "ultra-violent" people in the world don't pose near the threat that one self-aggrandizing politician with a military does.
To be fair, XP would run just as well on this hardware. I wouldn't run it, but it's certainly a viable option. Don't even need 64 bits with just 1 gig of RAM. And who doesn't have an old XP license lying around?
I don't think you understood me. What I said was intended to imply that it was the control scheme that mattered, not the players. Specifically, in the context of this article FPS control schemes. Therefore it could not be "self-aggrandizing" in any way, since I am not a keyboard and mouse. Even if you thought I was aggrandizing PC players, I never suggested that I was part of either group. In fact, I enjoy Goldeneye and Killzone just as much as Doom and Half-Life.
Seriously, how can you misread my post so badly? I specifically said that:
It's not that PC gamers are inherently more skilled than console gamers
And you feel the need to tell me:
neither are particular more gifted at gaming in general
Nobody says that most bit torrent traffic is legal. What people say is that there is a significant amount of legal bittorrent activity. Check out bt.etree.org for one good example. If you kill bittorrent, you kill free legal trading of music on the internet.
1000 torrents is plenty, if your sampling is unbiased. That's the problem with this study, biased samples. Most medical studies get by with much much less, fewer than 100 subjects. Increasing your sample size doesn't increase your confidence level. It allows you to detect smaller effects, but if the effect is large enough you can get statistically significant results with as few as 6 subjects.
I think the zero legal music / tv / movie files can be attributed to those types of files that are legal to distribute are usually just done so by http or ftp servers. They don't get put into a torrent type download system.
Not at all. It's because they're looking at the wrong trackers. If you look at the Pirate Bay, what are you going to find but pirated media? If they looked at bt.etree.org they'd have found a ton of legal music.
Ah, so the publisher needs a cover so they can sell me books based on something besides the content. When you put it that way, the lack of a cover on ebooks is a positive boon.
Yep. It's not that PC gamers are inherently more skilled than console gamers. Take the best PC gamers and the best console gamers and put them on consoles and PCs respectively, and you'll still see the PC destroy the console.
They pay graphical artists to come up with book covers that reflect the nature of the book. This is a cost that does not go away when transitioning to electronic distribution.
Who needs a cover for an electronic book? Author, Title, and maybe an Abstract are all you really need.
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But do you want to risk everyone being able to reverse-engineer the protocol used for adjusting the settings for such a device?
Yes. Security through obscurity is essentially no security at all. The only thing that should be secret is the private encryption key that is uniquely associated with the remote control, which should be under strict physical security at all times.
What you say? There's no encryption implemented in these devices? That's a big problem whether the code is open or not.
This code doesn't necessarily have to be FL/OSS in my mind - let them keep the copyright
Authors of open source software retain their copyright.
I don't understand. What is multi-touch actually good for? It seems pretty gimmicky to me. And I can browse the web just fine with the track point on my T23. So, uh, big whoop.
Huh? If there's a severe vulnerability and the manufacturer refuses to fix it, you should release it immediately. Then at least those affected can mitigate their vulnerability. Otherwise, the black hats have free reign.
Why would you need two phones?
Go play nethack and get back to me. Yeah, that horde of 'q' is stronger than you are. But who's smarter? (judging from your post, I'm betting on the 'q' actually)
Most of Charles Dickens works were sold serially.
Not really. I'd rather pay the $20. When we're talking about $20 transactions, that's something that's worth my while to investigate and see if I'm getting a good deal. When we're talking about $.05 transactions, that's not worth my while to consider critically. Sure it's not a big loss if I get ripped off for 5 cents, but it adds up. I'd rather just skip it.
To put it another way. For a $20 transaction, I have to make 1 decision. For $20 worth of $.05 transactions, I have to make 400 decisions. Which is going to be less stressful to me?
They are rewriting law. Congress passed a law allowing them to rewrite the law. That is wrong. Every word of law that I have to obey should be voted on by a representative that I can vote for.
Is anyone else disturbed that the Copyright Office is allowed to rewrite copyright law? That's Congress's job, and they shouldn't be allowed to defer it to an unelected body.
The funny part is that all the "ultra-violent" people in the world don't pose near the threat that one self-aggrandizing politician with a military does.
Don't forget to Support The Troops!
To be fair, XP would run just as well on this hardware. I wouldn't run it, but it's certainly a viable option. Don't even need 64 bits with just 1 gig of RAM. And who doesn't have an old XP license lying around?
Oh, so your wife is interested in photography, eh? Snap, snap, grin, grin, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!
I don't think you understood me. What I said was intended to imply that it was the control scheme that mattered, not the players. Specifically, in the context of this article FPS control schemes. Therefore it could not be "self-aggrandizing" in any way, since I am not a keyboard and mouse. Even if you thought I was aggrandizing PC players, I never suggested that I was part of either group. In fact, I enjoy Goldeneye and Killzone just as much as Doom and Half-Life.
Seriously, how can you misread my post so badly? I specifically said that:
It's not that PC gamers are inherently more skilled than console gamers
And you feel the need to tell me:
neither are particular more gifted at gaming in general
What is wrong with your reading comprehension?
You buy a piece of plastic. That's all.
bittorrent - free.
giganews - not.
bittorrent wins.
Is there an RSS feed that I can set up to automatically download files from rapidshare et al. with no user interaction without paying for anything?
Nobody says that most bit torrent traffic is legal. What people say is that there is a significant amount of legal bittorrent activity. Check out bt.etree.org for one good example. If you kill bittorrent, you kill free legal trading of music on the internet.
1000 torrents is plenty, if your sampling is unbiased. That's the problem with this study, biased samples. Most medical studies get by with much much less, fewer than 100 subjects. Increasing your sample size doesn't increase your confidence level. It allows you to detect smaller effects, but if the effect is large enough you can get statistically significant results with as few as 6 subjects.
I think the zero legal music / tv / movie files can be attributed to those types of files that are legal to distribute are usually just done so by http or ftp servers. They don't get put into a torrent type download system.
Not at all. It's because they're looking at the wrong trackers. If you look at the Pirate Bay, what are you going to find but pirated media? If they looked at bt.etree.org they'd have found a ton of legal music.
Ah, so the publisher needs a cover so they can sell me books based on something besides the content. When you put it that way, the lack of a cover on ebooks is a positive boon.
disgusting perverts??
god fearing Christians that have sex for procreation only
What's the difference? The guy who claims not to be perverted is many times the biggest pervert of all.
Yep. It's not that PC gamers are inherently more skilled than console gamers. Take the best PC gamers and the best console gamers and put them on consoles and PCs respectively, and you'll still see the PC destroy the console.
They pay graphical artists to come up with book covers that reflect the nature of the book. This is a cost that does not go away when transitioning to electronic distribution.
Who needs a cover for an electronic book? Author, Title, and maybe an Abstract are all you really need.