Umm... all concrete is radioactive. All. Perhaps this concrete is a wee bit more radioactive, but last time I checked, rocks contain traces of things like Potassium, Uranium, and virtually every other naturally occurring radioactive element. It's no big deal unless you eat it... and if so, you're probably a person that also eats silica gel and has a host of other medical problems.
I have yet to see any DRM that noticeably effects piracy rates. Hell, I suspect it sometimes increases piracy rates. Assassin's Creed II was the most pirated game at the time, despite Ubisoft's draconian always-online DRM. The only good it seemed to do was piss off legitimate users, especially media darlings like combat soldiers, who often have flaky satellite connections... if they're lucky.
When the pirated copy of a game is superior to the legitimate copy, that's going to hurt sales more than anything.
Every time an artist does something like this, it pays off greatly. Think Humble Indy Bundle. Yet all the major publishers claim they'd be bankrupted?
Pirates gonna pirate.
Haters gonna hate.
Don't screw over your legitimate users with malware!
Hey... I have some great proprietary technology that can increase the performance of any program by at least 1 times. Please send $1 to Happy Dude, at 742 Evergreen Terrace...
From my experience with financial companies, COBOL still is entrusted as the God of all Data and backend processes, but almost no user input is provided directly. In fact, most of the COBOL I've worked with has ASSUMED that the data is good and non-malicious. Either that, or the security checks were in the user interface code, which was abandoned 20 years ago.
My guess on this? The COBOL still out there has very small attack surface...it's encased in a warm, porous, gooey layer of Java/PHP/.NET/Ruby/Groovy/Grails/G-g-g-g-g-unit! The fact that PHP (and to a lesser extent, Java) was designed by and for script kiddies does not help either, buy hey!
I, for one, am SHOCKED that ad networks aren't honoring my polite request not to make money off of me. I'm also puzzled that I continue to get emails about Viagra after dutifully clicking on the "opt-out" link in those e-mails. I should write a letter to my congressional representatives. They'll listen!
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... the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. Could this guy possibly mix and otherwise abuse metaphors more?
"Research" and "Plan" are two very different words.
Umm... all concrete is radioactive. All. Perhaps this concrete is a wee bit more radioactive, but last time I checked, rocks contain traces of things like Potassium, Uranium, and virtually every other naturally occurring radioactive element. It's no big deal unless you eat it... and if so, you're probably a person that also eats silica gel and has a host of other medical problems.
I have yet to see any DRM that noticeably effects piracy rates. Hell, I suspect it sometimes increases piracy rates. Assassin's Creed II was the most pirated game at the time, despite Ubisoft's draconian always-online DRM. The only good it seemed to do was piss off legitimate users, especially media darlings like combat soldiers, who often have flaky satellite connections... if they're lucky. When the pirated copy of a game is superior to the legitimate copy, that's going to hurt sales more than anything.
Every time an artist does something like this, it pays off greatly. Think Humble Indy Bundle. Yet all the major publishers claim they'd be bankrupted? Pirates gonna pirate. Haters gonna hate. Don't screw over your legitimate users with malware!
Hey... I have some great proprietary technology that can increase the performance of any program by at least 1 times. Please send $1 to Happy Dude, at 742 Evergreen Terrace...
From my experience with financial companies, COBOL still is entrusted as the God of all Data and backend processes, but almost no user input is provided directly. In fact, most of the COBOL I've worked with has ASSUMED that the data is good and non-malicious. Either that, or the security checks were in the user interface code, which was abandoned 20 years ago. My guess on this? The COBOL still out there has very small attack surface...it's encased in a warm, porous, gooey layer of Java/PHP/.NET/Ruby/Groovy/Grails/G-g-g-g-g-unit! The fact that PHP (and to a lesser extent, Java) was designed by and for script kiddies does not help either, buy hey!
Why?
Stop asking yourself easy questions to make yourself look smart, RMS.
I, for one, am SHOCKED that ad networks aren't honoring my polite request not to make money off of me. I'm also puzzled that I continue to get emails about Viagra after dutifully clicking on the "opt-out" link in those e-mails. I should write a letter to my congressional representatives. They'll listen!