I will now discuss the idea of rhetoric in games. Here is my definition of rhetoric in games which is similar to rhetoric in fiction. Here's 2 examples of rhetoric in ICO. Thank you for your time.
This passes for academia?!?
Save games and information presentation for the sake of interacting with an environment is not rhetoric but, I would propose, an extension of the fictional characteristic called "breaking the 4th wall". The 4th wall being the "wall" between the reader/viewer/player and the media being read/watched/played. You see examples of this in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Ferris talks to the camera and explains his inner thoughts. Also check out the Sesame Street children's book "The Monster at the End of this Book", and Isaac Asimov's "Murder at the ABA" (where Asimov has an ongoing argument with the main character about what "really happened" in the footnotes).
"Saving" on the couch is a nice touch that keeps you within the fiction of the game. It is *not* intuitive. (Try it, drag anybody over who's never seen the game and let them go at it. It's incredibly easy to fly past the couches without ever sitting on them and then ask "Say...how do I save" in the middle of a dangerous situation with no couch anywhere to be seen). But the mere fact that you have to *think* about saving the game will destroy any established rhetoric, because you're not thinking about the story at that point. You're thinking... I have to pee or I better save before the big monster kills me or the power goes out. No matter how much you candy coat it, you're still pulling yourself out of the immersion of fiction to think of real world events.
Contrast this with Myst which saves with every transition from room to room and doesn't penalize you for health or time when you don't interact with it. (THAT'S intuitive, but then that's a PC/MAC game too where you've got a hard drive and not slow memory cards to write to.)
And note that this only applies to story based games. In mulitplayer Quake, this sort of thing is silly (as has been pointed out here already). I need critical information about health and ammo YESTERDAY! That means some sort of HUD or static information gauges. You don't care if the health pack is a realistically rendered metal container with a satin emroidered red cross on it. You care if you can see it from two rooms away!
We would leave quarters up on the monitor railing to tell whose turn was coming up next. Those quarters never got stolen by nobody because we all had a system of honor and respect with each other.
Kids these days are just too rambunctious and don't have any sense of pride and honor!
(and before you start modding me down... 1> Yes, the quarters DID get stolen 2> My generation supposedly had no sense of pride and honor either.)
A method for operating a user interface used in interactive entertainment network system, the interactive entertainment network system having a content provider which is connected to provide video content programs to a plurality of user interface units in individual homes, the user interface being executed on a processor provided at each user interface unit, the method comprising the following steps:
generating a list of entries pertaining to the video content programs;
displaying a number of entries on the list;
That's the perfect description of a visual networked lobby system, which would allow you to mark off and store your personal "lobbies" which contain pre-made games setup to be played by your friends.
And throughout the rest of the document, Games readily appear along with "Video". The CLAIMS make references to an INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
Oh, but because it doesn't SAY Xbox, it has NOTHING to do with it? Right.
"An interactive entertainment network system has a video-on-demand application which allows viewers to create their own customized lists of preferred video content programs, such as movies,
games, TV shows, and so forth."
I was wondering why MS continued to stake their XBox claims on XBox live, while PS/2 and Gamecube were offering freestanding systems.
Legally, this will allow MS to shut down EA from providing a portal to all their sports games on PS/2, and Sony and Nintendo will not be allowed to provide a one-stop front end for their modem services either.
Tivo may already have prior art here (Starz on demand) as well as Compuserves networked games and AOL. (Depends on what a "set top box" is).
Why not secure the interface so hackers CAN'T pop up a new window outside the client window area!!
Oh wait, that would deprive MS of ad revenue...
No no, much easier to put up a purty border of your kids middle hyphenated names because malicious hackers would never figure out where that configuration information is stored (regedit).
"Honey, why does Thomas-Clark's name keep appearing in the border of my window underneath this ad for a web cam?"
Of the 5 malls in my neck of the woods only one has an arcade (Sega City). There's one nightclub with a gameroom, and a handful of putt-putt golf courses. Oh, and a Chuck E Cheese, which hasn't gotten a new video game in well over 3 years.
I find it amusing that they claim that the NT architecture is so wonderful because it's the exact same architecture that's been used since the original "N-Ten" design.
Right.
Translation: "The kernel is easily portable in 18 months".
All the app developers code to the Win32 layer. This used to include the windows GUI shell which they had to REWRITE for every platform, and that oftentimes requires rewrites by the app developers. (Yeah, that MS Word app "scales" real well to pocket PC's.. oh wait... I need MS Word - Pocket PC!)
Anybody else notice that the new MSN Messenger 5 will only open IE 6 to read email? Even if you've used their "settlement software" to completely remove IE 6 as a useable web browser option.
MSN Messenger 4.x happily opened Mozilla without any problems... BEFORE the settlement software...
(By settlement software, I'm referring to the FTC settlement program "Set Program Access and defaults" which allows you to specify which programs get called for what uses. Specifically, I've got Mozilla set as my default, and IE marked to not (or unchecked) Make available to other programs.)
Geez, this is what passes for INFORMATION on Slashdot anymore?
What about Slammer?
What about Gates announcement today promising to do something about security... now... really...
What about Kasparov beating Big Blue 2?
What about Gates giving a paltry 200 million to "cure" diseases for the poor? (Don't look at that Slammer worm... lookee here)
I mean, c'mon... what's the purpose of forwarding an announcement that AICN is going to review games!? Trolling for advertising revenue again? Hoping to get the movie studios to advertise here? Why not start a movie review section on Slashdot?!?
Lain was generally liked, though I didn't finish it with that group of friends. (We got sidetracked onto Evangelion and haven't gone back to pick it up yet). I did finish the series with another friend who generally dislikes most Anime and he liked all of it except for the ending which was too metaphysical for his tastes. (I just thought it was a bummer ending. Though not as bad as Grave of the Fireflies... "The best movie I'll never watch again.")
Escaflowne we haven't watched yet. We're currently going through Love Hina.
I was the 'viewing director' on Evangelion, and we watched the full series ending, plus Death and Rebirth, and now I'm trying to get them to watch "End of Evangelion". I've seen it myself and think you should watch the series end and "End" and skip Death and Rebirth altogether.
I mean "Anime in the US Market", but let me clarify: It's singlehandedly the biggest growth market of home video (my local suncoast devotes 2 ENTIRE shelves to it, only 1 to sci-fi...), but there's a huge amount of saturation going on, and the new stuff doesn't seem to be resonating with the average US viewer. (In my personal opinion) I've got a group of friends and for about the past 3 years, we've been watching whole anime series at the rate of 2 a week. We went through Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Lodoss War, and a whole TON of Ranma. But I can't get them interested in the new stuff like Love Hina, His and Her Cicrumstances, and I was told in no uncertain terms to never show FLCL again. But we all went out to see Spirited Away together last week. So obviously we're not tired of it, but we're becoming more finicky about what we watch.
I think Anime has established itself as a viable medium here in the US, and its not going to go away anytime soon, but I also think its audience growth has plateaued and the marketplace is looking for the next "big thing". Just like the SciFi channel is doing by moving to supernatural stories and dropping the "Science" from their station, because for some reason, the geek audience isn't enough... (Maybe because we're not slaves to advertising...)
I wonder if this is a sign that Anime has peaked. The Action channel (Encore) quietly killed their dedicated anime line-up, though they still have it, and now Cartoon Network is removing theirs.
Maybe there's not enough viewer support for broadcast anime, as opposed to just buying it off of DVD...
So the US gets low marks because they imprison journalists who won't release their sources and those who illegally crossed into security zones.
I'd like to see the raw numbers on that. I only know of ONE "journalist" (she's a book author) being held because she won't reveal her information. It's because her source may very well be enough to convict a potential criminal in a high-profile murder case. Even though the courts have offered to seal her information, she still refuses to release it, and has been held in contempt of court ever since.
Otherwise, could somebody please explain to me why the Palestinian Authority scores higher in press freedom than Israel? Even when they proclaim that there is no longer any alternative media to the PA's official line?
If these hackers were mobsters who had ordered US hits, the FBI would still have the ability to appropriate evidence.
Look at it this way:
What the FBI did is essentially the same as inviting the Russian Hackers to the US and filling out a work visa form, and then using the phone numbers and addresses written on the form to call over to Russia and "social hack" whomever they're calling to get the evidence.
1> Adobe does business in Russia. 2> Adobe is a US company. 3> Therefore, Adobe is a US interest. 4> The ebook cracking software was being distributed worldwide, but specifically, back in the US.
The judge found, therefore, that the FBI had the right to investigate the Russian company, to build up evidence against the company to show to the Russians for possible extradition. (Nice link on the judges decision, btw)
So even THEN, the US couldn't touch him until he came to the US.
I realize everyone wants to bash the US, and I don't care if you want to, but use some common sense. If he had ordered the killings of US citizens, by hiring hitmen in the US, the US would be perfectly justified in hacking into the guys records, and arresting him if he arrived on US soil. The same thing the Russians would do if the roles were reversed.
While software cracking and murder are not on the same level, the judicial principle is the same.
There've been too many admins who've been burned by a "security patch" that broke the system in some other way. When your computers need to be up 24-7, and you can have, at most, about 4 hours of down time, you're going to be VERY selective about what patches get added to the system. Or from another viewpoint, I just got burned by an XP "security patch" that for some reason broke my autodial functionality so that my routing table went straight into my local network. I had to reinstall Windows XP to get the functionality back... I'm not about to start putting those security patches back on. I don't like it, but my system works. (I run firewall and antivirus software as well, so its not like my butt is completely uncovered, either)
Admin's are not only responsible for the computers and OS's themselves, but the network communications layer, hard drive resources, ALL of the apps on those boxes (and their associated patches), plus help desk support, new computer setups, and old computer shut downs, and let us not forget software licensing management issues.
IT Admins also painfully understand the one part of Software Engineering that Software Engineers don't. Any change to the program WILL have functional differences.
Automating updates can work because it takes the load off of the admin. But as you point out, there are legal issues, plus there's the above issue where you don't necessarily want to install all of these patches because your system works "as is". On the flip side, Norton's LiveUpdate for their anti-virus software runs pretty well. But NAV is a very distinct application and purpose, and doesn't have ripple effects throughout the rest of the computer system.
Also there's an apple and oranges comparison to Microsoft and Linux problems here. Microsoft got its bad press not from legitimate security issues, but because Outlook allowed the very ACT of receiving an email a vector for running a virus/trojan horse through the preview pane. Because Word allowed any document to take control of the users hard drive and begin deleting files, grab the email address book and replicate itself. That's a whole different ballgame than exploiting IIS through stack overflow issues, or exploiting this loophole in OpenSSL. There's a difference between "defeating/exploiting security" and "leaving the doors wide open.". But now, thanks to Microsoft PR to spin their problems and Linux PR to make Microsoft look bad, ALL exploits are equal so that the least exploit is just as important as a truly criticial one and THAT adds to the Admin's workload, and leads back down the road of not getting these patches installed.
In the end, the power and the responsibility lie with the Sys Admin. Which is where it should be.
I had to sit through a showing of "Cast Away" where 3 families brought their kids, 2 of them would take turns crying through the movie, and the 3rd proceeded to run up and down the aisles. Ushers were called in twice, chastised the families, but refused to bounce them.
Or how about being in an audience with a buncha rowdy teens who like to talk back to the screen?
So tell me... will the US Government protect me from screaming children by allowing me to call the police on them during the show?
What's next, is the US Government going to force me to watch the show? Will a quiz be given afterwards to confirm that I followed the letter of the theaters EULA?
Geez people... They've already got cellphone jammers, if the theater has such a problem with it, buy them and use them... if they're afraid that they'll accidentally jam a doctor's pager from getting a message about a heart attack patient, then DON'T USE THEM and pay more for your ushers to kick them out... But stop with the stupid laws already!
(or OEM manufacturers) Starting with Windows XP and Office XP, OEM keys are bound to the machine they came with through a BIOS signature. The OEM discs will not install on machines that don't match the BIOS signature, and will not reactivate on machines moved to that don't contain that hardware signature.
In my experience, I had a Dell laptop with Windows 2000 Pro on it (non-OEM), and Office XP that came with the laptop (OEM). I purchased a new laptop which was essentially the same, but more modern hardware and an equivalent hard drive size which came with WinXP-Home. I transferred the contents via Ghost, blanked the harddrive, and sold the laptop to a friend (who installed his copy of Windows 98 on it). The Windows XP-Home that came with my Dell would NOT upgrade my Windows 2000 (because you can only go from Win2k to WinXP-Pro. And Office XP would not reactivate because the BIOS signatures were different (even though I uninstalled OfficeXP). So now I am DENIED use of software I PAID for (Windows XP and Office XP) only because Microsoft licensing says I can't. The friend doesn't want my Office XP, and the Windows XP won't install on his computer either. So I have 2 CD's of software worth about $500 and they're both as useful as an AOL CD! I'm staging up to move to Linux. I will NOT go through this again. The more Microsoft tightens their grip, the more users will slip through their fingers...
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It's true that once you're logged into a desktop, all apps that respond to Windows messages within that desktop are vulnerable, there are ways to secure your app from that.
Beginning with Windows 2000 (and possibly later editions of NT4), THE desktop became "Desktops" and they all run in their own space with their own Windows messaging stacks. "Desktops" cannot request window handles from other "Desktops" so this exploit is stopped. All Screensavers will be spawned into their own desktop, so that they can't affect running apps. All apps can be set to run in their own "Desktop" as well. But it has to be proactively designed that way IN THE PROGRAM. The operation is not by default, and users cannot specify that apps run in their own space. (AFAIK)
Secondly, the documentation for making use of this feature doing so is (as usual) very fuzzy and poorly written.
It is also still possible to develop a ring 0 DLL which can query the existing desktops, get the desktop handles, and then query windows from within them.
So Palladium is only to make system safer, and isn't intended to control how and what I do with my computer?
Tell me then...will Palladium stop random Ad spamming in my MSN Messenger and ICQ and various web pages? This is an obvious breach of security for unsolicited applications.
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I will now discuss the idea of rhetoric in games. Here is my definition of rhetoric in games which is similar to rhetoric in fiction. Here's 2 examples of rhetoric in ICO. Thank you for your time.
This passes for academia?!?
Save games and information presentation for the sake of interacting with an environment is not rhetoric but, I would propose, an extension of the fictional characteristic called "breaking the 4th wall". The 4th wall being the "wall" between the reader/viewer/player and the media being read/watched/played. You see examples of this in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Ferris talks to the camera and explains his inner thoughts. Also check out the Sesame Street children's book "The Monster at the End of this Book", and Isaac Asimov's "Murder at the ABA" (where Asimov has an ongoing argument with the main character about what "really happened" in the footnotes).
"Saving" on the couch is a nice touch that keeps you within the fiction of the game. It is *not* intuitive. (Try it, drag anybody over who's never seen the game and let them go at it. It's incredibly easy to fly past the couches without ever sitting on them and then ask "Say...how do I save" in the middle of a dangerous situation with no couch anywhere to be seen). But the mere fact that you have to *think* about saving the game will destroy any established rhetoric, because you're not thinking about the story at that point. You're thinking... I have to pee or I better save before the big monster kills me or the power goes out. No matter how much you candy coat it, you're still pulling yourself out of the immersion of fiction to think of real world events.
Contrast this with Myst which saves with every transition from room to room and doesn't penalize you for health or time when you don't interact with it. (THAT'S intuitive, but then that's a PC/MAC game too where you've got a hard drive and not slow memory cards to write to.)
And note that this only applies to story based games. In mulitplayer Quake, this sort of thing is silly (as has been pointed out here already). I need critical information about health and ammo YESTERDAY! That means some sort of HUD or static information gauges. You don't care if the health pack is a realistically rendered metal container with a satin emroidered red cross on it. You care if you can see it from two rooms away!
We would leave quarters up on the monitor railing to tell whose turn was coming up next. Those quarters never got stolen by nobody because we all had a system of honor and respect with each other.
Kids these days are just too rambunctious and don't have any sense of pride and honor!
(and before you start modding me down... 1> Yes, the quarters DID get stolen 2> My generation supposedly had no sense of pride and honor either.)
And throughout the rest of the document, Games readily appear along with "Video". The CLAIMS make references to an INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
Oh, but because it doesn't SAY Xbox, it has NOTHING to do with it? Right.
I was wondering why MS continued to stake their XBox claims on XBox live, while PS/2 and Gamecube were offering freestanding systems.
Legally, this will allow MS to shut down EA from providing a portal to all their sports games on PS/2, and Sony and Nintendo will not be allowed to provide a one-stop front end for their modem services either.
Tivo may already have prior art here (Starz on demand) as well as Compuserves networked games and AOL. (Depends on what a "set top box" is).
Why not secure the interface so hackers CAN'T pop up a new window outside the client window area!!
Oh wait, that would deprive MS of ad revenue...
No no, much easier to put up a purty border of your kids middle hyphenated names because malicious hackers would never figure out where that configuration information is stored (regedit).
"Honey, why does Thomas-Clark's name keep appearing in the border of my window underneath this ad for a web cam?"
Told us that we weren't ready for the internet, and didn't have a need for fiber optic cable either.
What arcades?
Of the 5 malls in my neck of the woods only one has an arcade (Sega City). There's one nightclub with a gameroom, and a handful of putt-putt golf courses. Oh, and a Chuck E Cheese, which hasn't gotten a new video game in well over 3 years.
Midway just got out of the biz altogether.
Or does Microsoft just want to be the next Sega?
I find it amusing that they claim that the NT architecture is so wonderful because it's the exact same architecture that's been used since the original "N-Ten" design.
Right.
Translation: "The kernel is easily portable in 18 months".
All the app developers code to the Win32 layer. This used to include the windows GUI shell which they had to REWRITE for every platform, and that oftentimes requires rewrites by the app developers. (Yeah, that MS Word app "scales" real well to pocket PC's.. oh wait... I need MS Word - Pocket PC!)
Anybody else notice that the new MSN Messenger 5 will only open IE 6 to read email? Even if you've used their "settlement software" to completely remove IE 6 as a useable web browser option.
MSN Messenger 4.x happily opened Mozilla without any problems... BEFORE the settlement software...
(By settlement software, I'm referring to the FTC settlement program "Set Program Access and defaults" which allows you to specify which programs get called for what uses. Specifically, I've got Mozilla set as my default, and IE marked to not (or unchecked) Make available to other programs.)
Geez, this is what passes for INFORMATION on Slashdot anymore?
What about Slammer?
What about Gates announcement today promising to do something about security... now... really...
What about Kasparov beating Big Blue 2?
What about Gates giving a paltry 200 million to "cure" diseases for the poor? (Don't look at that Slammer worm... lookee here)
I mean, c'mon... what's the purpose of forwarding an announcement that AICN is going to review games!? Trolling for advertising revenue again? Hoping to get the movie studios to advertise here? Why not start a movie review section on Slashdot?!?
A computer is a consumer electronics appliance.
When was the last time you took your TV to a legally approved government TV repairman?
Lain was generally liked, though I didn't finish it with that group of friends. (We got sidetracked onto Evangelion and haven't gone back to pick it up yet). I did finish the series with another friend who generally dislikes most Anime and he liked all of it except for the ending which was too metaphysical for his tastes. (I just thought it was a bummer ending. Though not as bad as Grave of the Fireflies... "The best movie I'll never watch again.")
Escaflowne we haven't watched yet.
We're currently going through Love Hina.
I was the 'viewing director' on Evangelion, and we watched the full series ending, plus Death and Rebirth, and now I'm trying to get them to watch "End of Evangelion". I've seen it myself and think you should watch the series end and "End" and skip Death and Rebirth altogether.
I mean "Anime in the US Market", but let me clarify: It's singlehandedly the biggest growth market of home video (my local suncoast devotes 2 ENTIRE shelves to it, only 1 to sci-fi...), but there's a huge amount of saturation going on, and the new stuff doesn't seem to be resonating with the average US viewer. (In my personal opinion) I've got a group of friends and for about the past 3 years, we've been watching whole anime series at the rate of 2 a week. We went through Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Lodoss War, and a whole TON of Ranma. But I can't get them interested in the new stuff like Love Hina, His and Her Cicrumstances, and I was told in no uncertain terms to never show FLCL again. But we all went out to see Spirited Away together last week. So obviously we're not tired of it, but we're becoming more finicky about what we watch.
I think Anime has established itself as a viable medium here in the US, and its not going to go away anytime soon, but I also think its audience growth has plateaued and the marketplace is looking for the next "big thing". Just like the SciFi channel is doing by moving to supernatural stories and dropping the "Science" from their station, because for some reason, the geek audience isn't enough...
(Maybe because we're not slaves to advertising...)
I wonder if this is a sign that Anime has peaked. The Action channel (Encore) quietly killed their dedicated anime line-up, though they still have it, and now Cartoon Network is removing theirs.
Maybe there's not enough viewer support for broadcast anime, as opposed to just buying it off of DVD...
So the US gets low marks because they imprison journalists who won't release their sources and those who illegally crossed into security zones.
I'd like to see the raw numbers on that. I only know of ONE "journalist" (she's a book author) being held because she won't reveal her information. It's because her source may very well be enough to convict a potential criminal in a high-profile murder case. Even though the courts have offered to seal her information, she still refuses to release it, and has been held in contempt of court ever since.
Otherwise, could somebody please explain to me why the Palestinian Authority scores higher in press freedom than Israel? Even when they proclaim that there is no longer any alternative media to the PA's official line?
If these hackers were mobsters who had ordered US hits, the FBI would still have the ability to appropriate evidence.
Look at it this way:
What the FBI did is essentially the same as inviting the Russian Hackers to the US and filling out a work visa form, and then using the phone numbers and addresses written on the form to call over to Russia and "social hack" whomever they're calling to get the evidence.
1> Adobe does business in Russia.
2> Adobe is a US company.
3> Therefore, Adobe is a US interest.
4> The ebook cracking software was being distributed worldwide, but specifically, back in the US.
The judge found, therefore, that the FBI had the right to investigate the Russian company, to build up evidence against the company to show to the Russians for possible extradition. (Nice link on the judges decision, btw)
So even THEN, the US couldn't touch him until he came to the US.
I realize everyone wants to bash the US, and I don't care if you want to, but use some common sense. If he had ordered the killings of US citizens, by hiring hitmen in the US, the US would be perfectly justified in hacking into the guys records, and arresting him if he arrived on US soil. The same thing the Russians would do if the roles were reversed.
While software cracking and murder are not on the same level, the judicial principle is the same.
It's not a "lazy" admin problem.
There've been too many admins who've been burned by a "security patch" that broke the system in some other way. When your computers need to be up 24-7, and you can have, at most, about 4 hours of down time, you're going to be VERY selective about what patches get added to the system. Or from another viewpoint, I just got burned by an XP "security patch" that for some reason broke my autodial functionality so that my routing table went straight into my local network. I had to reinstall Windows XP to get the functionality back... I'm not about to start putting those security patches back on. I don't like it, but my system works. (I run firewall and antivirus software as well, so its not like my butt is completely uncovered, either)
Admin's are not only responsible for the computers and OS's themselves, but the network communications layer, hard drive resources, ALL of the apps on those boxes (and their associated patches), plus help desk support, new computer setups, and old computer shut downs, and let us not forget software licensing management issues.
IT Admins also painfully understand the one part of Software Engineering that Software Engineers don't. Any change to the program WILL have functional differences.
Automating updates can work because it takes the load off of the admin. But as you point out, there are legal issues, plus there's the above issue where you don't necessarily want to install all of these patches because your system works "as is". On the flip side, Norton's LiveUpdate for their anti-virus software runs pretty well. But NAV is a very distinct application and purpose, and doesn't have ripple effects throughout the rest of the computer system.
Also there's an apple and oranges comparison to Microsoft and Linux problems here. Microsoft got its bad press not from legitimate security issues, but because Outlook allowed the very ACT of receiving an email a vector for running a virus/trojan horse through the preview pane. Because Word allowed any document to take control of the users hard drive and begin deleting files, grab the email address book and replicate itself. That's a whole different ballgame than exploiting IIS through stack overflow issues, or exploiting this loophole in OpenSSL. There's a difference between "defeating/exploiting security" and "leaving the doors wide open.". But now, thanks to Microsoft PR to spin their problems and Linux PR to make Microsoft look bad, ALL exploits are equal so that the least exploit is just as important as a truly criticial one and THAT adds to the Admin's workload, and leads back down the road of not getting these patches installed.
In the end, the power and the responsibility lie with the Sys Admin. Which is where it should be.
I had to sit through a showing of "Cast Away" where 3 families brought their kids, 2 of them would take turns crying through the movie, and the 3rd proceeded to run up and down the aisles.
Ushers were called in twice, chastised the families, but refused to bounce them.
Or how about being in an audience with a buncha rowdy teens who like to talk back to the screen?
So tell me... will the US Government protect me from screaming children by allowing me to call the police on them during the show?
What's next, is the US Government going to force me to watch the show? Will a quiz be given afterwards to confirm that I followed the letter of the theaters EULA?
Geez people... They've already got cellphone jammers, if the theater has such a problem with it, buy them and use them... if they're afraid that they'll accidentally jam a doctor's pager from getting a message about a heart attack patient, then DON'T USE THEM and pay more for your ushers to kick them out... But stop with the stupid laws already!
(or OEM manufacturers)
Starting with Windows XP and Office XP, OEM keys are bound to the machine they came with through a BIOS signature. The OEM discs will not install on machines that don't match the BIOS signature, and will not reactivate on machines moved to that don't contain that hardware signature.
In my experience, I had a Dell laptop with Windows 2000 Pro on it (non-OEM), and Office XP that came with the laptop (OEM). I purchased a new laptop which was essentially the same, but more modern hardware and an equivalent hard drive size which came with WinXP-Home. I transferred the contents via Ghost, blanked the harddrive, and sold the laptop to a friend (who installed his copy of Windows 98 on it). The Windows XP-Home that came with my Dell would NOT upgrade my Windows 2000 (because you can only go from Win2k to WinXP-Pro. And Office XP would not reactivate because the BIOS signatures were different (even though I uninstalled OfficeXP). So now I am DENIED use of software I PAID for (Windows XP and Office XP) only because Microsoft licensing says I can't. The friend doesn't want my Office XP, and the Windows XP won't install on his computer either. So I have 2 CD's of software worth about $500 and they're both as useful as an AOL CD!
I'm staging up to move to Linux. I will NOT go through this again. The more Microsoft tightens their grip, the more users will slip through their fingers...
It's true that once you're logged into a desktop, all apps that respond to Windows messages within that desktop are vulnerable, there are ways to secure your app from that.
Beginning with Windows 2000 (and possibly later editions of NT4), THE desktop became "Desktops" and they all run in their own space with their own Windows messaging stacks. "Desktops" cannot request window handles from other "Desktops" so this exploit is stopped. All Screensavers will be spawned into their own desktop, so that they can't affect running apps.
All apps can be set to run in their own "Desktop" as well. But it has to be proactively designed that way IN THE PROGRAM. The operation is not by default, and users cannot specify that apps run in their own space. (AFAIK)
Secondly, the documentation for making use of this feature doing so is (as usual) very fuzzy and poorly written.
It is also still possible to develop a ring 0 DLL which can query the existing desktops, get the desktop handles, and then query windows from within them.
So Palladium is only to make system safer, and isn't intended to control how and what I do with my computer?
Tell me then...will Palladium stop random Ad spamming in my MSN Messenger and ICQ and various web pages? This is an obvious breach of security for unsolicited applications.
No?
The court rests.
I don't see an internet option on Win2K
Not: Eldred v. The United States of America
...
but
Eldred v. Ashcroft
Funny, I never heard cases like:
Cuba v. Reno