First, System Shock (the first) was a nightmare to control. The controls were stiff, very clunky and a far cry from today's expected fluid and responsive controls. They were closer to Wolfenstein 3D than Quake Arena, if that makes sense. Because it WAS closer to W3D than QA. We're talking about a game that was released close to Doom.
Even if you remade SS2 you'd be going for disaster. Because what made those games unique back then is old today.
System Shock was one of the first games where you would "craft" your character, where you could replay the game with another set of skills. You had variable gravity and a basic physics engine that let you destroy stuff that then fell to the ground. You had two "levels" of play where you would switch from real to virtual space and affect the real world with what you did in virtual space. And finally with SHODAN you had an adversary that had character and personality rather than just having an endboss that differs from the rest of enemies mostly by its different texture and number of hitpoints.
This is not new anymore. This is basically the basic stuff today, that's considered a given. You expect more out of a game today. And unless you deliver more than this, you'll create just another "meh" game.
IBM used to hold that position back in the days of the mainframe. There was no way around IBM and they knew it, and of course they behaved like they own your place.
Guess what: Their time came, and their time went. They are still big, no doubt about this, but even they had to learn that you have to treat customers like customers because else you get shown the finger and then the door.
Fight for civil rights? You got more zingers light that, you could maybe make your own standup routine.
MS knows damn well that if they cave in, they can as well kiss their international customers good-bye. Nobody in their right mind would store their data with them if they rolled over instantly the moment the US wants to engage in some friendly industrial espionage.
I don't give a fuck about comics, but had I known they exist, I would have bought as many as I could have gotten my hands on.
1) Signed with the writer's blood. I have no idea what kind of comic it is but if it's some sort of vampire story, all the better. The geeks will go nuts about this. 2) This will be considered illegal soon, and the books will no longer be available. Even if the blood had been drawn legally, we're looking at a health hazard. There are VERY strict standards about what you can do with blood. Mostly because there are SO many diseases associated with blood that we know, and we don't even have a clue about what we do NOT know yet. In labs, you'll notice that blood is usually handled in ways that already assume it's somehow hazardous. 3) Now combine the demand that results from 1) and the very limited supply that results from 2). 4) Profit.
If cryptolocker etc. proved one thing, then that privilege levels mean jack shit when it comes to destructiveness. What are the files that really matter to you? The ones that you have in your directory, your documents, your mail, your spreadsheets, your holiday pictures and "family movies". What kind of privileges do you need to ready, write, modify or delete those files? The ones the user already has.
The main reason that not having an AV on Linux is mostly the same reason there is less commercial software for it: Less of a market. You can actually see the popularity of an OS coincide with the amount of malware for it, when MacOS finally caught traction and gained a market share above a level where it even registers, the malware to accompany it was not far behind.
And yes, I give you that it's probably much harder to dig malware deeply into the depths of the Linux system, but unless you need a jump host for further attacks, that's not what you're after. The current waves of malware want to gather data, to destroy data or to hold it ransom. And for none of these things you need privileged access.
And it's equally easy to defeat this by simply behaving differently if not allowed privileged access to resources. Can't access device drivers? Oh, then I'm just a notepad program that waits for your input, dear master.
How could you hate Trump? He's the best we had since Monkey Boy went missing. You couldn't make fun of the ni... Obama, that was a nono, but the annoying orange is fair game for memes again!
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Why should you only pay one side of The Party?
It's like playing red and black at roulette. Only that the payout is better than 1:1 and that zero can't come.
In civilized countries that's still what it's called. The very idea of "campaign contributions" is pretty much this.
And as soon as I can shoot a corporation in the face and it ceases to exist I'll accept that decision.
Hey, when I pay a whore I expect a blowjob!
Else you're going to produce a disaster.
First, System Shock (the first) was a nightmare to control. The controls were stiff, very clunky and a far cry from today's expected fluid and responsive controls. They were closer to Wolfenstein 3D than Quake Arena, if that makes sense. Because it WAS closer to W3D than QA. We're talking about a game that was released close to Doom.
Even if you remade SS2 you'd be going for disaster. Because what made those games unique back then is old today.
System Shock was one of the first games where you would "craft" your character, where you could replay the game with another set of skills. You had variable gravity and a basic physics engine that let you destroy stuff that then fell to the ground. You had two "levels" of play where you would switch from real to virtual space and affect the real world with what you did in virtual space. And finally with SHODAN you had an adversary that had character and personality rather than just having an endboss that differs from the rest of enemies mostly by its different texture and number of hitpoints.
This is not new anymore. This is basically the basic stuff today, that's considered a given. You expect more out of a game today. And unless you deliver more than this, you'll create just another "meh" game.
With really crappy controls.
At least with every bullet so far.
You have seen what Firefox turned into in the past couple years? The longer they don't touch Thunderbird, the better!
Well, it does send out emails and it doesn't crash when it receives some, so it's at least two bits better than what he has now.
IBM used to hold that position back in the days of the mainframe. There was no way around IBM and they knew it, and of course they behaved like they own your place.
Guess what: Their time came, and their time went. They are still big, no doubt about this, but even they had to learn that you have to treat customers like customers because else you get shown the finger and then the door.
So? It's still his holiness' very own blood. Who gives a fuck who wrote with it?
Don't know. Don't care. I'm not in the business of buying and selling comic books.
Considering that they don't really differ on anything else, you can as well make that the issue.
Fight for civil rights? You got more zingers light that, you could maybe make your own standup routine.
MS knows damn well that if they cave in, they can as well kiss their international customers good-bye. Nobody in their right mind would store their data with them if they rolled over instantly the moment the US wants to engage in some friendly industrial espionage.
Erh... my country's privacy laws might want to have a word with your faith that your laws apply anywhere but your country.
Please don't do the "but it's a Republic!" bullshit game.
If a government moves to ban a program because said government can't use it to spy on its users, what more endorsement could you possibly need?
Okay, all I'm giving you is the comic book...
I don't give a fuck about comics, but had I known they exist, I would have bought as many as I could have gotten my hands on.
1) Signed with the writer's blood. I have no idea what kind of comic it is but if it's some sort of vampire story, all the better. The geeks will go nuts about this.
2) This will be considered illegal soon, and the books will no longer be available. Even if the blood had been drawn legally, we're looking at a health hazard. There are VERY strict standards about what you can do with blood. Mostly because there are SO many diseases associated with blood that we know, and we don't even have a clue about what we do NOT know yet. In labs, you'll notice that blood is usually handled in ways that already assume it's somehow hazardous.
3) Now combine the demand that results from 1) and the very limited supply that results from 2).
4) Profit.
Yes, what really makes a system more secure is making it more complicated with more moving parts... try again.
If cryptolocker etc. proved one thing, then that privilege levels mean jack shit when it comes to destructiveness. What are the files that really matter to you? The ones that you have in your directory, your documents, your mail, your spreadsheets, your holiday pictures and "family movies". What kind of privileges do you need to ready, write, modify or delete those files? The ones the user already has.
The main reason that not having an AV on Linux is mostly the same reason there is less commercial software for it: Less of a market. You can actually see the popularity of an OS coincide with the amount of malware for it, when MacOS finally caught traction and gained a market share above a level where it even registers, the malware to accompany it was not far behind.
And yes, I give you that it's probably much harder to dig malware deeply into the depths of the Linux system, but unless you need a jump host for further attacks, that's not what you're after. The current waves of malware want to gather data, to destroy data or to hold it ransom. And for none of these things you need privileged access.
And it's equally easy to defeat this by simply behaving differently if not allowed privileged access to resources. Can't access device drivers? Oh, then I'm just a notepad program that waits for your input, dear master.
Can I? Then I'm your worst nightmare.
Yeah, whataboutism, I mean, what about it?
Who would WANT to see that?
How could you hate Trump? He's the best we had since Monkey Boy went missing. You couldn't make fun of the ni... Obama, that was a nono, but the annoying orange is fair game for memes again!
Obama made him part of the commission but it took a Trump to make him chairman.