I lost 90 minutes of my life while my wife and baby had just returned from a week-long absence due to a false positive intrusion notice from Steamguard advising me to reset my ISP's SMTP password immediately, saying my SMTP password had been hacked. This is the most stressful event DRM has ever produced for me.
DRM sucks. This includes Steam. I love Valve's games as much as anybody else, but let's be clear about what sucks and what doesn't.
That said, I still use Steam and wish Valve luck with SteamOS. But given a choice, I always go DRM-free.
None of these posts have addressed the very real possibility that pseudonyms may be made illegal by various governments. We need vigilant legal defense.
Anyone else think that a canonical list of games is going to ship down the world's longest river and kindle something hot and steamy on top of TV sets? Because that's what I've been seeing for more than a year now.
Because life is likely to emerge in some other chemical distribution? Interesting idea. Do the requirements for being defined as "life" also change according to available chemistry?
People think you're saying MRSA, and they tune out. I've seen it happening over and over now. I'm not the only one to notice. It's obvious. If anyone reading this has any power to change what the media uses as a name for this, please, for the love of all that is good, get the name of this disease changed.
"Wrath of Eukor" does it seriously, "Curse of Fatal Death" does it humorously.
It does work. It's fine. It doesn't matter.
Also, not worth making a big deal about.
Since the community can't seem to be gender neutral, if I were a programming officer at the BBC, I would probably advise against it...just to avoid the banal public discussion.
I've been looking for an opportunity where I can be assured of a level playing field with other developers. Now that we'll all be on camera together, I finally have one.
Do I have to contribute directly to the hidden offline blackbox cache logging of user presence information in order to participate in the developer program?
I agree, but I'd take a step farther.
Today's geeks can be measured by their use of completely offline systems whenever possible or appropriate. If you're not even thinking about unplugging yet, you're far too behind the times to count as a geek in my book.
That said, I think Smith's observations are far more about personal sanity and quality of life than about technical concerns or privacy. His motivations for telling people to get off facebook are somewhat similar to a parent saying to children, "stop watching that tv and go play".
The primary difference is that streaming continuously reports your presence info back to the content provider. Why do you think the Nielsen family is no more?
When you watch streams, you are under voluntary surveillance. You send back ACKS galore. Radio frequency based one-way broadcasts are a far more public service.
By the way, has anyone noticed how weak the digital PBS broadcast signals are compared to their commercial counterparts? In Seattle this is true. Anybody else looked into this?
You may have valid points there, but it's hard to ignore the parenthetical "imaginary" as your primary proclamation. Back that one up, and then the other two points become worth looking at.
I would mod this insightful if I could. But I can't.
This has been part 3 of the uCallHimDrJ0NES slashdot posting trilogy for 9 July 2013.
It's been a wild, epic ride. Now please, no one use the word "prequel".
Lots of articles have been posted about XBMC on Ouya, but most of them have to do with early adopter Kickstarter backers sideloading XBMC onto the device, with promises that performance will be better when the real version ships.
So, it's launch day. How's the XBMC? Does it stream Blu-Ray ISOs well?
I think I speak for many people when I say this is the only reason we are interested in Ouya.
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I lost 90 minutes of my life while my wife and baby had just returned from a week-long absence due to a false positive intrusion notice from Steamguard advising me to reset my ISP's SMTP password immediately, saying my SMTP password had been hacked. This is the most stressful event DRM has ever produced for me. DRM sucks. This includes Steam. I love Valve's games as much as anybody else, but let's be clear about what sucks and what doesn't. That said, I still use Steam and wish Valve luck with SteamOS. But given a choice, I always go DRM-free.
This is similar to being surprised that the NSA monitors money changing hands across the border. Not news. Obvious. Not a scandal.
Wait--are you saying Steam isn't DRM?
None of these posts have addressed the very real possibility that pseudonyms may be made illegal by various governments. We need vigilant legal defense.
Anyone else think that a canonical list of games is going to ship down the world's longest river and kindle something hot and steamy on top of TV sets? Because that's what I've been seeing for more than a year now.
Is Windows-loving legal?
Because life is likely to emerge in some other chemical distribution? Interesting idea. Do the requirements for being defined as "life" also change according to available chemistry?
People think you're saying MRSA, and they tune out. I've seen it happening over and over now. I'm not the only one to notice. It's obvious. If anyone reading this has any power to change what the media uses as a name for this, please, for the love of all that is good, get the name of this disease changed.
...and failed to respond appropriately and publicly to the breach. It's been a few years now. I haven't looked back.
Can I get someone to help debug my music source?
We should use that.
Some evildoer modded this coward down. What a surprise.
"Wrath of Eukor" does it seriously, "Curse of Fatal Death" does it humorously. It does work. It's fine. It doesn't matter. Also, not worth making a big deal about. Since the community can't seem to be gender neutral, if I were a programming officer at the BBC, I would probably advise against it...just to avoid the banal public discussion.
I've been looking for an opportunity where I can be assured of a level playing field with other developers. Now that we'll all be on camera together, I finally have one. Do I have to contribute directly to the hidden offline blackbox cache logging of user presence information in order to participate in the developer program?
In junior high school, they call the subject "chemistry".
I agree, but I'd take a step farther. Today's geeks can be measured by their use of completely offline systems whenever possible or appropriate. If you're not even thinking about unplugging yet, you're far too behind the times to count as a geek in my book. That said, I think Smith's observations are far more about personal sanity and quality of life than about technical concerns or privacy. His motivations for telling people to get off facebook are somewhat similar to a parent saying to children, "stop watching that tv and go play".
I envy you, Boston!
Spotify charges you twice. You pay them, they give your usage data to Facebook, and Facebook sells your personality to anyone who'll pay.
The primary difference is that streaming continuously reports your presence info back to the content provider. Why do you think the Nielsen family is no more? When you watch streams, you are under voluntary surveillance. You send back ACKS galore. Radio frequency based one-way broadcasts are a far more public service. By the way, has anyone noticed how weak the digital PBS broadcast signals are compared to their commercial counterparts? In Seattle this is true. Anybody else looked into this?
You may have valid points there, but it's hard to ignore the parenthetical "imaginary" as your primary proclamation. Back that one up, and then the other two points become worth looking at.
I would mod this insightful if I could. But I can't. This has been part 3 of the uCallHimDrJ0NES slashdot posting trilogy for 9 July 2013. It's been a wild, epic ride. Now please, no one use the word "prequel".
Trinity. Not trilogy. This has been part 2 of the uCallHimDrJ0NES slashdot posting trilogy for 9 July 2013.
...which would make sense, if collecting state-level stamp taxes had anything whatsoever to do with this problem.
Listen, man. The suns will always be out. There is no "night". Your theories about former civilizations with knowledge are insane.
Lots of articles have been posted about XBMC on Ouya, but most of them have to do with early adopter Kickstarter backers sideloading XBMC onto the device, with promises that performance will be better when the real version ships. So, it's launch day. How's the XBMC? Does it stream Blu-Ray ISOs well? I think I speak for many people when I say this is the only reason we are interested in Ouya.