We don't understand everything about direct carcinogen based cancer, we are a longggg way from understanding stress & cancer, other than stress puts strain on the body and increases the likelihood of something that may go wrong, actually going wrong namely by hindering the body's ability to right the problem. Cancer (in the sense of a mutation) can be a natural occurrence... but our body also knows how to kill it, it's when our body has given up or the problem has arisen so many times that it then goes ahead and kills you... at least based on my non-medical understanding. I'm only talking about healthy people here btw.
Can actually make you sick. Fear, paranoia, stress can all affect the mind to think there's something wrong with the body, until it manifests. That's why attitude is such an important part of recovering from sickness... if you think you're not going to get better, you may not, but it's guaranteed that it will take longer for you to get better as a consequence.
Then again I'd sooner listen a politician than an anti-windmill activist, you've gotta be f'in stupid to think windfarms are bad for your health.
Take a look at the majority of internet people: pedos, crackers, scammers caught online and you'll see a similarity of them leaking their personal info somewhere online (forum account, IRC, etc...), the only one I can think of that actually got reverse engineered and traced were the guys running a giant botnet serving malware to the tune of 6 million in supposed revenue. So unless you're doing something on that scope, the feds probably won't care. Oh, and they take missing kids & child abuse (porn would fall under this) pretty seriously too.
Not everybody should care either, all the sheeple have to do is not open emails with malicious attachments, or give their bank account number to a Nigerian prince. Move along.
And with enough resources they would... that's why the spammers pick them. But the problem is mobile, it moves from country to country, simply blocking IP blocks is a band aid solution.
India was called Eastern Europe a few years back in regards to spam. The locations may change, the concept of a botnet remains the same. Obviously, spammers will find the least regulated, easily available ISP around.
I'd sooner be interested in raising the requirements for getting a license than making people drive slower because some people have hand-eye coordination that makes them a hazard to others at the speed limit.
Anybody who's worked at a datacenter has known this for years and years. And comparing them to bad neighbors is correct... if we didn't consider scope and the medium. It's a lot harder to police something that's not in physical form and is transitional, and A LOT harder when it's in a country you don't have jurisdiction over. Sure you could block these ISPs and in a lot of cases it makes sense, if your website is national, then it can save a lot of pain, but it's not the end all solution to spam.
Financial institutions file more than 15 million "suspicious activity reports" every year, according to Treasury. Banks, for instance, are required to report all personal cash transactions exceeding $10,000, as well as suspected incidents of money laundering, loan fraud, computer hacking or counterfeiting.
They've been able to get this data through the IRS since before any of us were born. If you've ever made a transaction over 10k, they make you go through a bit of a process sometimes. This is the database of that process. It won't have yesterday's starbucks purchase, but it'll have something like the deposit withdrawal you made to put a down payment on your house. So it's not quite entire lives type stuff, but I could've sworn the IRS already did what these agencies are proposing to do, maybe they just suck at it, but the title of the article is over-dramatized in typical slashdot fashion.
No... piracy started up with the rise of P2P and faster connection speeds, it still existed prior but in the form of specialized hackers and physical media reaching a small audience, the internet magnified the scope a million-fold. I agree game companies haven't always been square with their customers, in fact most of them have not, but I think piracy is preventing start-ups from stepping in to compete, whether it hurts EA or not, I could care less.
The subscription argument is a paradox, gamers want more and new content, so they have to pay for it, they wind up paying for the upkeep of the servers too and profiting the game maker, where places like bnet don't, but still generate profit, but remember bnet never changes, new features are minor and rare. A lot of the subscription fees are really overpriced compared to what they used to be, inflation or not.
Yes... you've got it! Let's kill off MMOs and DRM & see what happens, we'll host the servers ourselves and NOBODY will dare to throw a non-DRM game out on TPB, that's never happened. Also, it's hard to argue a single player game vs. an MMO, the only crappy thing I can think of about MMOs is they advance the story very slowly for the most part, but they tend to give you more bang for buck and some are non-sub.
buying a game and then cracking it is quite different from downloading it and then cracking it. I agree though the game disc is an obsolete medium, but I don't quite follow what you're talking about with your examples, you're talking about MMOs and none of which require discs to play...? Also, SCII & D3 you can play offline in single player... SimCity well who cares.
And more rice... we shall counter with Starbucks and McDonalds... they'll be too fat and over-caffeinated to counter. Or we could just send Dennis Rodman.
Skyrim uses Steam, pretty sure you can play it offline, but what if you couldn't? Would you still buy it? I would. They get away with this type of DRM because they understand gamers better than some understand themselves. A must have title is just that must have, bugs and drm are secondary. That and piracy... piracy has hit the gaming industry hard, and now we're left with less video games and less producers again leading back to bolder DRM attempts and even computer infringement.
That has left the door wide open for EA, who has pretty consistent revenue from it's sports titles to step in and definite how big corporate America should run the gaming industry. Now we're pretty much fucked.
I ask because my experience with senior female management has been that they're very egotistic and go out of their way to try and be reverse-dominant. Typically, not very pleasant people to work with. I'm sure there's some good ones and I work with one right now, but at what point is throwing logic out the window and going on an emotional tantrum not good for the business? Somehow, most of the males I've worked with seem to have an easy time avoiding this non-aspect of business.
I'm not trying to stereotype, but merely stating my experience.
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We don't understand everything about direct carcinogen based cancer, we are a longggg way from understanding stress & cancer, other than stress puts strain on the body and increases the likelihood of something that may go wrong, actually going wrong namely by hindering the body's ability to right the problem. Cancer (in the sense of a mutation) can be a natural occurrence... but our body also knows how to kill it, it's when our body has given up or the problem has arisen so many times that it then goes ahead and kills you... at least based on my non-medical understanding. I'm only talking about healthy people here btw.
Can actually make you sick. Fear, paranoia, stress can all affect the mind to think there's something wrong with the body, until it manifests. That's why attitude is such an important part of recovering from sickness... if you think you're not going to get better, you may not, but it's guaranteed that it will take longer for you to get better as a consequence.
Then again I'd sooner listen a politician than an anti-windmill activist, you've gotta be f'in stupid to think windfarms are bad for your health.
Take a look at the majority of internet people: pedos, crackers, scammers caught online and you'll see a similarity of them leaking their personal info somewhere online (forum account, IRC, etc...), the only one I can think of that actually got reverse engineered and traced were the guys running a giant botnet serving malware to the tune of 6 million in supposed revenue. So unless you're doing something on that scope, the feds probably won't care. Oh, and they take missing kids & child abuse (porn would fall under this) pretty seriously too.
They make running or using a proxy illegal. They have the power to do that you know. Doing that technologically though, is a whole different beast.
Not everybody should care either, all the sheeple have to do is not open emails with malicious attachments, or give their bank account number to a Nigerian prince. Move along.
And with enough resources they would... that's why the spammers pick them. But the problem is mobile, it moves from country to country, simply blocking IP blocks is a band aid solution.
India was called Eastern Europe a few years back in regards to spam. The locations may change, the concept of a botnet remains the same. Obviously, spammers will find the least regulated, easily available ISP around.
Bumper cars actually sound promising :)
I'd sooner be interested in raising the requirements for getting a license than making people drive slower because some people have hand-eye coordination that makes them a hazard to others at the speed limit.
Anybody who's worked at a datacenter has known this for years and years. And comparing them to bad neighbors is correct... if we didn't consider scope and the medium. It's a lot harder to police something that's not in physical form and is transitional, and A LOT harder when it's in a country you don't have jurisdiction over. Sure you could block these ISPs and in a lot of cases it makes sense, if your website is national, then it can save a lot of pain, but it's not the end all solution to spam.
With multiple machines, that electricity bill quickly goes up by hundreds... its a key difference between residential computer use and business.
From TFA:
Financial institutions file more than 15 million "suspicious activity reports" every year, according to Treasury. Banks, for instance, are required to report all personal cash transactions exceeding $10,000, as well as suspected incidents of money laundering, loan fraud, computer hacking or counterfeiting.
They've been able to get this data through the IRS since before any of us were born. If you've ever made a transaction over 10k, they make you go through a bit of a process sometimes. This is the database of that process. It won't have yesterday's starbucks purchase, but it'll have something like the deposit withdrawal you made to put a down payment on your house. So it's not quite entire lives type stuff, but I could've sworn the IRS already did what these agencies are proposing to do, maybe they just suck at it, but the title of the article is over-dramatized in typical slashdot fashion.
No... piracy started up with the rise of P2P and faster connection speeds, it still existed prior but in the form of specialized hackers and physical media reaching a small audience, the internet magnified the scope a million-fold. I agree game companies haven't always been square with their customers, in fact most of them have not, but I think piracy is preventing start-ups from stepping in to compete, whether it hurts EA or not, I could care less.
The subscription argument is a paradox, gamers want more and new content, so they have to pay for it, they wind up paying for the upkeep of the servers too and profiting the game maker, where places like bnet don't, but still generate profit, but remember bnet never changes, new features are minor and rare. A lot of the subscription fees are really overpriced compared to what they used to be, inflation or not.
Yes... you've got it! Let's kill off MMOs and DRM & see what happens, we'll host the servers ourselves and NOBODY will dare to throw a non-DRM game out on TPB, that's never happened. Also, it's hard to argue a single player game vs. an MMO, the only crappy thing I can think of about MMOs is they advance the story very slowly for the most part, but they tend to give you more bang for buck and some are non-sub.
buying a game and then cracking it is quite different from downloading it and then cracking it. I agree though the game disc is an obsolete medium, but I don't quite follow what you're talking about with your examples, you're talking about MMOs and none of which require discs to play...? Also, SCII & D3 you can play offline in single player... SimCity well who cares.
And more rice... we shall counter with Starbucks and McDonalds... they'll be too fat and over-caffeinated to counter. Or we could just send Dennis Rodman.
*shrug* if other big game manufacturers see EA's model working, then guess what.
Skyrim uses Steam, pretty sure you can play it offline, but what if you couldn't? Would you still buy it? I would. They get away with this type of DRM because they understand gamers better than some understand themselves. A must have title is just that must have, bugs and drm are secondary. That and piracy... piracy has hit the gaming industry hard, and now we're left with less video games and less producers again leading back to bolder DRM attempts and even computer infringement.
That has left the door wide open for EA, who has pretty consistent revenue from it's sports titles to step in and definite how big corporate America should run the gaming industry. Now we're pretty much fucked.
Cyber war = rise of the nerds?
I ask because my experience with senior female management has been that they're very egotistic and go out of their way to try and be reverse-dominant. Typically, not very pleasant people to work with. I'm sure there's some good ones and I work with one right now, but at what point is throwing logic out the window and going on an emotional tantrum not good for the business? Somehow, most of the males I've worked with seem to have an easy time avoiding this non-aspect of business.
I'm not trying to stereotype, but merely stating my experience.
That is the dumbest thing I've heard all day, how'd confronting those women in your life go for you?
We also need a few good sexual harassment scandals.
I'd imagine after getting these teeth added, one would develop a new fondness for cheese...
That it actually made the news. Obviously, this is the exception not the standard.