but dude. our stealth cars.. we could totally drive around without anyone noticing us.. and the fucking government wants to put a card in our spokes like we're in 8th grade or something.. uhhh no thanks obama your not my president
When CS tells that player "Sorry, the login where the items were sold/transferred came from one of the IP addresses you normally log in from, the problem's on your end." and the player learns that that's because his ISP is NATing their entire network, he's not going to be happy.
I understand the point you are trying to make, and I agree with you. I just have to be pedantic and point out that currently, for WoW accounts that have been tampered with, it doesn't matter that the activity was on the same IP address.
If it did matter, there would be a lot of guys with neglected girlfriends that would be unable to get their characters restored.
If you've played around with any rootkits you know how devious an attacker can be with your system. If you read about the Gawker story, they had a couple signals that their systems were compromised but nothing catastrophic had happened so they carried on their merry way.
This is how most businesses are approaching IT security: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It almost takes a govt organization to sit down and say "wait a minute, we could be hacked and not even know it". Especially a very, very high profile target like the NSA. They're facing legions of hackers funded by foreign governments. This isn't the dawn of the Internet anymore, it has to be taken seriously.
I guess that's what I get for not reading the article. If a company owns the phones, they can do whatever monitoring they want on them. It might simply have been a case of Apple realizing that a call to is_this_device_jailbroken() would be the first thing any new jailbreaks subvert..
Jailbreaking became legally protected recently. Disabling functionality when a jailbreak is detected seems like it might open Apple to a class action lawsuit.
I'm sure they're legally allowed to say that jailbreaking voids the warranty, but I'm not sure they're willing to risk crippling a jailbreaker's device with an api flag.
"Sorry, you can't play our game because you jailbroke your phone" -- if Apple encouraged app developers to do this, things could get nasty.
As far as I know, they're the only console maker that has a branch of the American armed forces using their hardware for a literal supercomputer cluster, which is a stunning, resounding endorsement for the real world horsepower behind their hardware, and they've disabled the very "other OS" feature that allowed the air force to build the cluster in the first place.
Finally a patent I can agree with. This is some innovative work. Just this morning while driving to work I was thinking "gee, I wish my feet could be used to control something.. too bad nobody has invented foot based controls"
Should the child, who clearly already doesn't know not to run into people, be held responsible at age 4 for not knowing that elderly people are incredibly fragile and get potentially fatal complications easily?
Dreamcast came stock with a 56k but there was a rare "broadband adapter" that would swap the 56k for an ethernet socket. They are probably still a pretty hot item on ebay.
OpenGL is already out of the picture, for the most part.
OTOH, Macs run OpenGL and are stereotyped as having an affluent user base. Blizzard still releases Mac versions of games. Steam for Mac launched in May. Not really "out of the picture" yet.
Almost exactly five years ago, Paypal froze $30k in Hurricane Katrina charity money raised by SomethingAwful, the story is here. They're still crooks now.
I have a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, circa 2008) connected to an SMB share on a Windows 7 box (1055t/8GB ram) over wireless-n (~300mbit) and 1080p STILL gets the jitters
You realize running a serious stream over wifi is asking for trouble, right? You can't just say "oh it's 300mbit" and expect everything to arrive on time. There's a difference between bandwidth and latency, and every time the wifi has some freak drop in signal you're going to see problems. You would have to specifically configure a huge playback buffer software side.
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but dude. our stealth cars.. we could totally drive around without anyone noticing us.. and the fucking government wants to put a card in our spokes like we're in 8th grade or something.. uhhh no thanks obama your not my president
I understand the point you are trying to make, and I agree with you. I just have to be pedantic and point out that currently, for WoW accounts that have been tampered with, it doesn't matter that the activity was on the same IP address.
If it did matter, there would be a lot of guys with neglected girlfriends that would be unable to get their characters restored.
If you've played around with any rootkits you know how devious an attacker can be with your system. If you read about the Gawker story, they had a couple signals that their systems were compromised but nothing catastrophic had happened so they carried on their merry way.
This is how most businesses are approaching IT security: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It almost takes a govt organization to sit down and say "wait a minute, we could be hacked and not even know it". Especially a very, very high profile target like the NSA. They're facing legions of hackers funded by foreign governments. This isn't the dawn of the Internet anymore, it has to be taken seriously.
Sounds like a customer loyalty program. Maybe we will be seeing more of them in the future.
Wikipedia deleted the article on ioQuake3 while allowing the article on John Miller (footballer born 1878)
Wikipedia's bureaucracy is fucking retarded.
I guess that's what I get for not reading the article. If a company owns the phones, they can do whatever monitoring they want on them. It might simply have been a case of Apple realizing that a call to is_this_device_jailbroken() would be the first thing any new jailbreaks subvert..
Jailbreaking became legally protected recently. Disabling functionality when a jailbreak is detected seems like it might open Apple to a class action lawsuit.
I'm sure they're legally allowed to say that jailbreaking voids the warranty, but I'm not sure they're willing to risk crippling a jailbreaker's device with an api flag.
"Sorry, you can't play our game because you jailbroke your phone" -- if Apple encouraged app developers to do this, things could get nasty.
IANAL - this post is total speculation
As far as I know, they're the only console maker that has a branch of the American armed forces using their hardware for a literal supercomputer cluster, which is a stunning, resounding endorsement for the real world horsepower behind their hardware, and they've disabled the very "other OS" feature that allowed the air force to build the cluster in the first place.
What the hell, Sony, you idiots.
Finally a patent I can agree with. This is some innovative work. Just this morning while driving to work I was thinking "gee, I wish my feet could be used to control something.. too bad nobody has invented foot based controls"
Fucking Americans always have to be #1 in everything
They did a contra-zoom in Piranha 3D as a homage to Jaws, it seemed to work ok.
No
Thou were intended to be the ActiveX of our age, to witness the glorious rise of the ye Microsoft of old, alas, tis not to be.. alas..
(fucking rot in hell)
How about
- Train and pay teachers (yes this is socialism)
- Gut "no child left behind"
Or.. yknow.. put the cheetos and mountain dew generation into Aerons, that will fix everything
Dreamcast came stock with a 56k but there was a rare "broadband adapter" that would swap the 56k for an ethernet socket. They are probably still a pretty hot item on ebay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_Broadband_Adapter
They'll have gigabit to their curb but I can't imagine they'll be piped directly into a backbone or anything..
or will they? Does Stanford have a beefy link to the internet?
Ubuntu also has an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Software_Center]app store[/url], that doesn't mean anything is locked down
Like comment moderation would ever work
Ha, I've got you there! What if I already live in a cage, smarty pants?!
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This story supports the assertion that more spies are busted through snitching rather than sleuthing
If you can't innovate, litigate.. right?
"E.. mail? You mean that thing that our marketing dept uses to send out propaganda? Who reads that shit?" -- Comcast Exec
OTOH, Macs run OpenGL and are stereotyped as having an affluent user base. Blizzard still releases Mac versions of games. Steam for Mac launched in May. Not really "out of the picture" yet.
Almost exactly five years ago, Paypal froze $30k in Hurricane Katrina charity money raised by SomethingAwful, the story is here. They're still crooks now.
You realize running a serious stream over wifi is asking for trouble, right? You can't just say "oh it's 300mbit" and expect everything to arrive on time. There's a difference between bandwidth and latency, and every time the wifi has some freak drop in signal you're going to see problems. You would have to specifically configure a huge playback buffer software side.