Given the current state of security most of these organizations are running (political, corporate, whatever) they might as well just drop plaintext files on TPB themselves. That's where it's gonna end up eventually, whether they use "the cloud" or not...
How many other corrupt nations do you see with a military presence in half the other countries in the world? I'm sure if, say Germany, was transitioning to a full fledged Corporatocracy bent on nation building in the middle east and exploiting 3rd world laborers the world over you would see them get a focus, too.
How is it that all these different sites keep getting hacked? I mean, NATO doesn't have access to experts in internet security that are able to defend against these attacks?
I'm not in the field, obviously, and I know that things are always evolving, but it seems to me that there needs to be more layers in web security. Also, why is there not more encryption on sensitive data? Is encryption more costly if it's more complex?
I can understand when a corporation gets hacked, they're going cheap on web security because of the costs. But one would think that truly sensitive information with major geopolitical players would be buttoned up pretty damn tight.
There's some genres of games where a subscription model actually makes a lot of sense. This is one of them.
I agree. I know a lot of people that would rather just buy a subscription to, say, an NCAA Football title, and get updates throughout the year than have to buy a new disc of what is pretty much the exact same game over and over again. They wouldn't even need to make physical discs, honestly, or if they did, they wouldn't have to make many. Most people can just pay their subscription fees and download it straight to their device, and I think a lot of people would adopt that for sports games. Certainly more than most other game genres...
Yeah, this tests pretty low on my 'give-a-fuck-ometer' as well.
You move your entire production to the counterfeiting and piracy capitol of the world to increase your profit margins and this is what happens. Too bad, so sad.
Nothing pisses me off more than this recent trend of games having only 8-10 hours of single player content and a bunch of multiplayer. I've bought far too many games over the last few years only to have them rotting on a shelf within a week of purchase. More than any other thing, it has driven me completely to the used game market. I think the last console game I paid full price for was maybe Red Dead Redemption. I'm not giving these people $60 for 5 hours of entertainment, I'm just not gonna do it.
See, multiplayer is boring, particularly shooters with the same tired 8v8 matches. Once you've been teabagged by an 8 year old screaming racial epithets into the mic, you've pretty much just experienced any shooter's online gameplay. Some people get off on that, I have the FPS Doug type friends that foam at the mouth every time the hear about the newest Call of Honor: Battlefield Black Ops 2 - Electric Boogaloo so they can get their fill of teabagging the teabaggers, but to me it's just tiring.
There's too many good MMO's out there to waste time with that. Free to Play is getting really hot right now, too. I spent $10 on Lord of the Rings: Online and got at least 1500 hours of gameplay out of it before I needed to take a break. Champions Online was good for a few months for 0 investment at all. Right now, I'm playing Global Agenda: Free Agent, an MMO Third Person Shooter, probably have 200 or so hours on that so far, all free. Team Fortress 2 is now free to play. Spiral Knights and Alien Swarm are 2 other decent F2P games, available on Steam.
What's wrong with having the desktop computer at home with the dual or triple 24" monitors and the netbook for travel? How many people really need that kind of screen real estate when they're traveling? Sure, it would be nice, but not worth the hassle, at least in my opinion.
To each their own, of course. I doubt you'll see many of these sold, so hopefully the few that buy them don't get screwed because the manufacturer drops product support.
Check used book stores in your area, there are several here that seem like they're just selling books, but they actually have a decent selection of old media as well, there aren't many people buying old LD's anymore (not locally) so they've been relegated to a back corner of the place a lot of the time, but they're there, right next to the used VHS tapes.
Even if they don't sell them, if they're the type of place that takes estate donations and buys at estate sales (many of the ones in my area do) they likely have people they go to when they have media they're not interested in carrying in their own store. I'm friendly with a couple of the people that own a few local stores near me (I spend a lot of time in used bookstores) and they basically have their own little network of collectors and such that can often help locate things they may not carry themselves.
Of course, I ignored all the game posts from the games themselves. The problem is that the older half of my family is all addicted to those games and frequently posts about them outside of the games as well as sends me private messages. They're like crack addicts over the stuff.
I admit, there's more to the decisions than that; mainly it's just nice in that it's a fresh start. I could create a new FB profile, but it's way easier just to start over somewhere else. As of now, the interface is a lot less cluttered, too.
To be fair, the article doesn't address that question at all. Haven't read the PDF, though, as I'm at work and not currently able to. Anyone care to paraphrase, or shall I wait until I get home?
As for the piracy figures, how the hell does anyone even know for sure what percentage is being used for what? Are ISPs now capable of reading bittorrent packets and seeing what type of file they are pieces of, and even if they are capable, are they legally allowed to do it?
Just another case of Big Media playing the "moral panic" game to try and secure their monopoly on content delivery again. "I hear that there might be child porn on the internet, guess we'd better shut it down until we can stop it completely. Oh, wait, that's literally impossible. Oh well, might as well keep it shut down for good."
If you don't think that's the trick they're trying to pull, you're either naive or willfully short-sighted. Big Media gets caught infringing on just as many copyrights as regular joes, but no ones shutting them down...go figure.
Doesn't there still need to be a stationary connection to the rotating heatsink since the CPU is stationary? And if that's the case, how does this help prevent the boundary layer? Seems like one would still be able to form between the CPU surface the the rotating heatsink.
I'm no scientist, however, so I'm probably making a false assumption. But I am curious how this alleviates that boundary layer...
Many firearms are used in the commission of a crime here in the United States, go ahead and try to ban guns based on that fact. Never happen.
At some point, we have to accept that people are going to misuse services and devices to break the law. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater by banning said service or device because of the misuse by a small segment of the population is a tad too Orwellian for me.
but to have fair use you need someone to create the content in the first place
And people always will. Empires rise and fall, monetary systems collapse, styles of government come and go, but there will always be people creating content, even if they're not being compensated for it.
I'm not sure if you were trying to make one of those "but who will create if we don't pay people to do it?" statements, but it kinda sounded that way. No offense meant, of course, just pointing out that capitalism is not what drives creativity; it's certainly nice, but the two certainly are not intrinsically connected like so many would like us to believe. It makes the false assumption that the only media people would consume is the media generated by the big dogs, and every year that becomes less and less the case.
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Oh, that guy? Fuck that guy. He still owes me $50 bucks in cab fair...
Didn't they just say, in so many words, that Business wasn't their focus? Is this doublespeak, or have they forgotten already?
Given the current state of security most of these organizations are running (political, corporate, whatever) they might as well just drop plaintext files on TPB themselves. That's where it's gonna end up eventually, whether they use "the cloud" or not...
It's full of stars!!
How many other corrupt nations do you see with a military presence in half the other countries in the world? I'm sure if, say Germany, was transitioning to a full fledged Corporatocracy bent on nation building in the middle east and exploiting 3rd world laborers the world over you would see them get a focus, too.
How is it that all these different sites keep getting hacked? I mean, NATO doesn't have access to experts in internet security that are able to defend against these attacks?
I'm not in the field, obviously, and I know that things are always evolving, but it seems to me that there needs to be more layers in web security. Also, why is there not more encryption on sensitive data? Is encryption more costly if it's more complex?
I can understand when a corporation gets hacked, they're going cheap on web security because of the costs. But one would think that truly sensitive information with major geopolitical players would be buttoned up pretty damn tight.
...and thanks for all the fish.
Clearly someone has missed their yearly bribe payment, oh wait, I mean "campaign contribution".
I'm sure this will all get sorted soon. Once that check gets deposited, it always does...
There's some genres of games where a subscription model actually makes a lot of sense. This is one of them.
I agree. I know a lot of people that would rather just buy a subscription to, say, an NCAA Football title, and get updates throughout the year than have to buy a new disc of what is pretty much the exact same game over and over again. They wouldn't even need to make physical discs, honestly, or if they did, they wouldn't have to make many. Most people can just pay their subscription fees and download it straight to their device, and I think a lot of people would adopt that for sports games. Certainly more than most other game genres...
Yeah, this tests pretty low on my 'give-a-fuck-ometer' as well.
You move your entire production to the counterfeiting and piracy capitol of the world to increase your profit margins and this is what happens. Too bad, so sad.
Nothing pisses me off more than this recent trend of games having only 8-10 hours of single player content and a bunch of multiplayer. I've bought far too many games over the last few years only to have them rotting on a shelf within a week of purchase. More than any other thing, it has driven me completely to the used game market. I think the last console game I paid full price for was maybe Red Dead Redemption. I'm not giving these people $60 for 5 hours of entertainment, I'm just not gonna do it.
See, multiplayer is boring, particularly shooters with the same tired 8v8 matches. Once you've been teabagged by an 8 year old screaming racial epithets into the mic, you've pretty much just experienced any shooter's online gameplay. Some people get off on that, I have the FPS Doug type friends that foam at the mouth every time the hear about the newest Call of Honor: Battlefield Black Ops 2 - Electric Boogaloo so they can get their fill of teabagging the teabaggers, but to me it's just tiring.
There's too many good MMO's out there to waste time with that. Free to Play is getting really hot right now, too. I spent $10 on Lord of the Rings: Online and got at least 1500 hours of gameplay out of it before I needed to take a break. Champions Online was good for a few months for 0 investment at all. Right now, I'm playing Global Agenda: Free Agent, an MMO Third Person Shooter, probably have 200 or so hours on that so far, all free. Team Fortress 2 is now free to play. Spiral Knights and Alien Swarm are 2 other decent F2P games, available on Steam.
What's wrong with having the desktop computer at home with the dual or triple 24" monitors and the netbook for travel? How many people really need that kind of screen real estate when they're traveling? Sure, it would be nice, but not worth the hassle, at least in my opinion.
To each their own, of course. I doubt you'll see many of these sold, so hopefully the few that buy them don't get screwed because the manufacturer drops product support.
LOL, didn't even check, but it is the CNN article. Gotta love it....
Yeah, I thought I was on CNN for a minute. They have their obligatory "Isn't Apple just great?!" articles daily.
Check used book stores in your area, there are several here that seem like they're just selling books, but they actually have a decent selection of old media as well, there aren't many people buying old LD's anymore (not locally) so they've been relegated to a back corner of the place a lot of the time, but they're there, right next to the used VHS tapes.
Even if they don't sell them, if they're the type of place that takes estate donations and buys at estate sales (many of the ones in my area do) they likely have people they go to when they have media they're not interested in carrying in their own store. I'm friendly with a couple of the people that own a few local stores near me (I spend a lot of time in used bookstores) and they basically have their own little network of collectors and such that can often help locate things they may not carry themselves.
Wow, who didn't see this one coming? Is the Zuck trying to make the claim that Facebook cares more about privacy? Give me a break...
Hope you got a spare battery. Or three.
So does that make Windows 8 Windows Vista: The Empire Strikes Back?
Or, God forbid, Windows Vista: The Phantom Menace?
Of course, I ignored all the game posts from the games themselves. The problem is that the older half of my family is all addicted to those games and frequently posts about them outside of the games as well as sends me private messages. They're like crack addicts over the stuff.
I admit, there's more to the decisions than that; mainly it's just nice in that it's a fresh start. I could create a new FB profile, but it's way easier just to start over somewhere else. As of now, the interface is a lot less cluttered, too.
Of all the times to be without mod points...
Of course, now everyone in the cubes around me wants to know what I'm chuckling about.
To be fair, the article doesn't address that question at all. Haven't read the PDF, though, as I'm at work and not currently able to. Anyone care to paraphrase, or shall I wait until I get home?
Bittorrent =/= The Pirate Bay.
As for the piracy figures, how the hell does anyone even know for sure what percentage is being used for what? Are ISPs now capable of reading bittorrent packets and seeing what type of file they are pieces of, and even if they are capable, are they legally allowed to do it?
Just another case of Big Media playing the "moral panic" game to try and secure their monopoly on content delivery again. "I hear that there might be child porn on the internet, guess we'd better shut it down until we can stop it completely. Oh, wait, that's literally impossible. Oh well, might as well keep it shut down for good."
If you don't think that's the trick they're trying to pull, you're either naive or willfully short-sighted. Big Media gets caught infringing on just as many copyrights as regular joes, but no ones shutting them down...go figure.
Doesn't there still need to be a stationary connection to the rotating heatsink since the CPU is stationary? And if that's the case, how does this help prevent the boundary layer? Seems like one would still be able to form between the CPU surface the the rotating heatsink.
I'm no scientist, however, so I'm probably making a false assumption. But I am curious how this alleviates that boundary layer...
Many firearms are used in the commission of a crime here in the United States, go ahead and try to ban guns based on that fact. Never happen.
At some point, we have to accept that people are going to misuse services and devices to break the law. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater by banning said service or device because of the misuse by a small segment of the population is a tad too Orwellian for me.
but to have fair use you need someone to create the content in the first place
And people always will. Empires rise and fall, monetary systems collapse, styles of government come and go, but there will always be people creating content, even if they're not being compensated for it.
I'm not sure if you were trying to make one of those "but who will create if we don't pay people to do it?" statements, but it kinda sounded that way. No offense meant, of course, just pointing out that capitalism is not what drives creativity; it's certainly nice, but the two certainly are not intrinsically connected like so many would like us to believe. It makes the false assumption that the only media people would consume is the media generated by the big dogs, and every year that becomes less and less the case.