Except that's the entire fuckin' point of Denuvo. To prevent cracking.
If the game is already cracked, why would you shit on your existing users?
This sounds very much like a case of "The Publisher DEMANDED us use Denuvo and we hate it."
Why the hell else would they go out of their way to ENCOURAGE crackers to crack their game by telling them "As soon as it's cracked, we'll get rid of that thing you hate."?
Next time, before you tell the world your genius insight, spend an extra 5 seconds and thinking it through.
...I don't think it has much real-world worry. If you're running an intentionally malicious program on your computer, you've got far worse problems. A SSD is one device. A single credit card number is worth thousands of dollars to you and possibly dozens of hours of your valuable time to fix.
I do wonder, is there such an equivalent vulnerability in platter drives? Writing rapidly to the inside and outside of the platter so the heads scream back and forth over and over? (Kind of like the bad old days of exceeding your RAM and thrashing everything to a page file as your heads go CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK.)
Come to think of it, I wonder if you could VARY the read/write speed of a hard drive by changing your write patterns. So if you can get the heads to swing at a certain frequency, you could start a resonant oscillation of the heads which, if tuned right, would cause a complete mechanical failure.
Not only that, they're slated for second-half of 2017... so like in a couple of months. Goodbye Netflix app. I hope they've resolved the "no 1080p/4K in Chrome except in the app" issue.
I agree with the previous poster. Nobody except Ford should be allowed to fix my Ford car or even change the oil. It's much better for me if competition doesn't exist at all. I don't want my unqualified "grandpa" from changing my air filter. I'd rather pay $600 in labor for it.
Yeah, seriously. 99% of comments on Slashdot since the elections are shoehorned in, not-clever-at-all bashes at Trump. He's the devil, I get it. But what the fuck does that have to do with self-driving cars or patent law?
If you think I want to pay $1600 for a Xeon, plus the surplus of price for the motherboard and half the other components, you're insane.
There has ALWAYS been a market for high-end "prosumer" products. We might as well be saying "Nobody would ever want $600 a 4K camcorder. A PROFESSIONAL will buy a $30,000 one."
I'm really surprised this thread isn't full of comments like this. Disney is considered to the living personification of the devil by many inside and outside the industry. They literally made their billions by "stealing" all their stories from public works, and then lobbied congress to pass copyright laws that made it impossible for any future generation to do what THEY DID.
Seriously. Just because one study (that hasn't been replicated yet, the fundamental requirement of science) say something, doesn't mean it invalidates ALL of our pragmatic knowledge and experience.
- Police aren't using humans to track drugs and dead bodies buried under ground for 7 days.
- As an engineer, it doesn't take a genius to look at the shape of a dog's nose verses other animals to notice the huge mass and evolutionary investment in their noses. We aren't using humans to hunt for truffles. Don't you think in the course of human history it would be easier to use our noses than DOMESTICATE AND TRAIN ANOTHER ANIMAL to learn what we want?
I mean, all we know from this snippet is we MAY have more "oder receptor genes." DO more genes = more smelling ability? And what is ability defined as? Maybe dogs can't smell [as many] types of different smells, but they can smell them BETTER at smaller parts-per-million. They may also be able to smell the DIRECTION the scent is coming from a thousand times stronger than us. Our nose is pointed DOWN, theirs is pointed FORWARD. Evolution doesn't just design stuff like that for shits and giggles.
I mean, there are so many questions that the only thing we can really do at this point is go "Huh. Interesting." and go about our days until some REAL science starts confirming this study and exploring the actual implications. This is just clickbait at this point unless some actual EXPERTS show up in the comment section to elaborate their experiences and research.
I'm not upgrading from my waterproof, durable S5 with easily replacable battery, SD card slot, and headphone jack, until they (Samsung or Apple) make a product that actually improves on it.
I really don't understand why people will buy "newer" products that are actually inferior. I mean, I get the "it's newer it must be better" people who don't have time to evaluate. But when you're spending $600+ on something, how can you not notice the LACK of features from your previous phone? Am I the only one who has to be careful with my financial purchases?
You're basically the only non-retard in this comment section that I can find.
"Omgawd guys, this product will totally fail for the following reasons... that equally apply to the original product... which is successful and makes more money in a year than I will accrue in my entire lifetime. I'm so smart."
Except I freakin' love Unity now and now that people are finally getting used to it, they're like "nevermind, we're going straight shit back to GNOME3."
The hotkeys (while using EVERY META combination) are super fast and intuitive for moving windows, moving virtual desktops, moving windows inbetween virtual desktops. I combine it with Guake (a quake-style drop down console that has multiple tabs and doesn't change as you move across virtual desktops). Unity makes excellent use of space on a Netbook, and the keys are likewise fast. I'm running a converted Chromebook with a mere 2 GB of RAM and a single Chrome tab takes more RAM and CPU than the operating system with the sole exception of the compositor (standard compiz) when running graphics intensive stuff.
I program hobby games on this machine. I program shell scripts for work. I RDP into Windows systems. I've managed to do almost everything I normally used my windows machine for when I go to a client. All with 8+ hours of battery life. Life is good and Unity is a part of that right now.
Yes, it's not very customizable because Ubuntu is a bunch of smug assholes. But that doesn't mean every product they touch is inherently bad either.
You don't want to, but everyone else does. People want to spend time doing work, not putting in 60 different usernames and passwords for each of the 60 websites they visit.
Ideally, people could run password managers on their PC's (optionally mirrored and encrypted in "the Cloud") that use a standardized web interface to talk to websites so you only remember your one manager password. But that requires a lot of different people working together to make that "the standard."
>I feel very frustrated. If anyone has any ideas on how to get girls interested in tech, I would love to hear about it.
Ever consider that most girls don't enjoy being forced to think in linear, sequential, logical terms? Most girls don't want to drive fast motorcycles either. Most girls don't want to fight in bare knuckle boxing fights. We sure love forgetting biology and hell... girls and woman's own desires about what they want. If a girl picks nursing (or "play rehearsals") over IT, is she a "failure" or merely choosing the most rewarding job for her brain? Have you considered the only girls that enter coding are ones trying to please an authority figure (you, their parents, or some other societal pressure), and when that fails to continually reward them they go do what they actually want?
The true fact of the matter is, IT is a very financially successful field and that we want whats best for our girls (not equality, but the BEST) is the only reason we're trying to shoehorn them into IT. If we truly wanted "equality" of jobs, we'd be trying just as hard to force them to be plumbers, custodians, and other "bottom of the social ladder" jobs. But those jobs don't have social value, and we want our girls to be as valuable as possible.
We act like the world has magically gone "progressive" but all we're doing is the same thing we've been doing since pre-history, but calling it progressive. We're trying to make our girls the most valuable they can be, whether through corsets and exotic clothing to show the virtue of their virginity and social value, or simply getting them high paying jobs in IT and buying "princess" a nice car in highschool, the intent behind it is the same. And it's pretty damn obvious the same need doesn't exist for our boys.
So we either need to conclude that woman are incapable of driving themselves to become successful and NEED to be forced and pushed into being successful. Or, we're just a bunch of assholes pressuring girls into doing things they don't enjoy, just so they can alleviate our low view of them for being too "cliche" and enjoying feminine jobs.
It's alarming that these threads always end up like this. Denying women their agency, and/or treating them like morons. Nobody ever cares what women want, all they care about is, "there's not enough of them in this field."
Why do you people always show up? Nobody is debating they have the LEGAL RIGHT to do any goddamn thing.
We're debating whether it's ETHICALLY right, as well whether it's an EFFECTIVE solution to their problem.
Fuck off with Red Herring bullshit.
This is like that other over-used Slashdot argument, "Freedom of speech is only for the government!" (conflating the constitutional Bill of Rights _acknowledgement_ of Freedom of Speech with the actual _invention_ of the idea which goes all the way back to ancient Athens, Greece and has nothing to do with legislative government but instead societal values.)
People on Slashdot need to up their game instead of up-modding fallacious arguments.
Fun fact (and this is actually a fact) they found Muslims born during certain months every year had lower birth rates (and intelligence and health and...). The same months... over and over.
Why? Turns out these women all fast during Ramadan, and the kids are more likely to have problems if the mother fasts closer to conception than further away.
Infer whatever you want. But it's an interesting factoid.
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Except that's the entire fuckin' point of Denuvo. To prevent cracking.
If the game is already cracked, why would you shit on your existing users?
This sounds very much like a case of "The Publisher DEMANDED us use Denuvo and we hate it."
Why the hell else would they go out of their way to ENCOURAGE crackers to crack their game by telling them "As soon as it's cracked, we'll get rid of that thing you hate."?
Next time, before you tell the world your genius insight, spend an extra 5 seconds and thinking it through.
Wait... did you just imply Trump is some kind of anti-hero badass out for revenge?
p.s. Payback is an amazing movie.
...Slashdotters don't know what to hate more. Cheap IT outsourcing of entire departments through abuse of the VISA program, or, Trump.
...I don't think it has much real-world worry. If you're running an intentionally malicious program on your computer, you've got far worse problems. A SSD is one device. A single credit card number is worth thousands of dollars to you and possibly dozens of hours of your valuable time to fix.
I do wonder, is there such an equivalent vulnerability in platter drives? Writing rapidly to the inside and outside of the platter so the heads scream back and forth over and over? (Kind of like the bad old days of exceeding your RAM and thrashing everything to a page file as your heads go CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK.)
Come to think of it, I wonder if you could VARY the read/write speed of a hard drive by changing your write patterns. So if you can get the heads to swing at a certain frequency, you could start a resonant oscillation of the heads which, if tuned right, would cause a complete mechanical failure.
Google Apps are being discontinued except for Chrome OS.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
Not only that, they're slated for second-half of 2017... so like in a couple of months. Goodbye Netflix app. I hope they've resolved the "no 1080p/4K in Chrome except in the app" issue.
The NSA?
I agree with the previous poster. Nobody except Ford should be allowed to fix my Ford car or even change the oil. It's much better for me if competition doesn't exist at all. I don't want my unqualified "grandpa" from changing my air filter. I'd rather pay $600 in labor for it.
Jackass.
Yeah, seriously. 99% of comments on Slashdot since the elections are shoehorned in, not-clever-at-all bashes at Trump. He's the devil, I get it. But what the fuck does that have to do with self-driving cars or patent law?
If you think I want to pay $1600 for a Xeon, plus the surplus of price for the motherboard and half the other components, you're insane.
There has ALWAYS been a market for high-end "prosumer" products. We might as well be saying "Nobody would ever want $600 a 4K camcorder. A PROFESSIONAL will buy a $30,000 one."
Yeah even the damn Wikipedia page for Vorbis explains more knowledge than 99% of the posters here.
OGG/Vorbis requires a floating point unit, and came out at a time when an FPU was expensive to have on a embedded chip. = Only desktops playing OGG.
Only somewhat recently was Tremor, a fixed-point Vorbis decoder, available.
I'm really surprised this thread isn't full of comments like this. Disney is considered to the living personification of the devil by many inside and outside the industry. They literally made their billions by "stealing" all their stories from public works, and then lobbied congress to pass copyright laws that made it impossible for any future generation to do what THEY DID.
You're right. It's impossible to steal national secrets because you have to have the physical copies from the fax machine.
Wow, you guys really are neo puritans.
In the 90's liberals would have called you fascists.
Seriously. Just because one study (that hasn't been replicated yet, the fundamental requirement of science) say something, doesn't mean it invalidates ALL of our pragmatic knowledge and experience.
- Police aren't using humans to track drugs and dead bodies buried under ground for 7 days.
- As an engineer, it doesn't take a genius to look at the shape of a dog's nose verses other animals to notice the huge mass and evolutionary investment in their noses. We aren't using humans to hunt for truffles. Don't you think in the course of human history it would be easier to use our noses than DOMESTICATE AND TRAIN ANOTHER ANIMAL to learn what we want?
I mean, all we know from this snippet is we MAY have more "oder receptor genes." DO more genes = more smelling ability? And what is ability defined as? Maybe dogs can't smell [as many] types of different smells, but they can smell them BETTER at smaller parts-per-million. They may also be able to smell the DIRECTION the scent is coming from a thousand times stronger than us. Our nose is pointed DOWN, theirs is pointed FORWARD. Evolution doesn't just design stuff like that for shits and giggles.
I mean, there are so many questions that the only thing we can really do at this point is go "Huh. Interesting." and go about our days until some REAL science starts confirming this study and exploring the actual implications. This is just clickbait at this point unless some actual EXPERTS show up in the comment section to elaborate their experiences and research.
>So much for common sense design.
[[Lithium battery heat intensifies.]]
I'm not upgrading from my waterproof, durable S5 with easily replacable battery, SD card slot, and headphone jack, until they (Samsung or Apple) make a product that actually improves on it.
I really don't understand why people will buy "newer" products that are actually inferior. I mean, I get the "it's newer it must be better" people who don't have time to evaluate. But when you're spending $600+ on something, how can you not notice the LACK of features from your previous phone? Am I the only one who has to be careful with my financial purchases?
You're basically the only non-retard in this comment section that I can find.
"Omgawd guys, this product will totally fail for the following reasons... that equally apply to the original product... which is successful and makes more money in a year than I will accrue in my entire lifetime. I'm so smart."
Except I freakin' love Unity now and now that people are finally getting used to it, they're like "nevermind, we're going straight shit back to GNOME3."
The hotkeys (while using EVERY META combination) are super fast and intuitive for moving windows, moving virtual desktops, moving windows inbetween virtual desktops. I combine it with Guake (a quake-style drop down console that has multiple tabs and doesn't change as you move across virtual desktops). Unity makes excellent use of space on a Netbook, and the keys are likewise fast. I'm running a converted Chromebook with a mere 2 GB of RAM and a single Chrome tab takes more RAM and CPU than the operating system with the sole exception of the compositor (standard compiz) when running graphics intensive stuff.
I program hobby games on this machine. I program shell scripts for work. I RDP into Windows systems. I've managed to do almost everything I normally used my windows machine for when I go to a client. All with 8+ hours of battery life. Life is good and Unity is a part of that right now.
Yes, it's not very customizable because Ubuntu is a bunch of smug assholes. But that doesn't mean every product they touch is inherently bad either.
You mean the SAME people we've "trusted" to tell us what is and isn't "fake news" are also ones who abuse their power?!
WHY? Color me surprised!
You don't want to, but everyone else does. People want to spend time doing work, not putting in 60 different usernames and passwords for each of the 60 websites they visit.
Ideally, people could run password managers on their PC's (optionally mirrored and encrypted in "the Cloud") that use a standardized web interface to talk to websites so you only remember your one manager password. But that requires a lot of different people working together to make that "the standard."
Are you surprised an ifanboy wouldn't understand the issue?
>I feel very frustrated. If anyone has any ideas on how to get girls interested in tech, I would love to hear about it.
Ever consider that most girls don't enjoy being forced to think in linear, sequential, logical terms? Most girls don't want to drive fast motorcycles either. Most girls don't want to fight in bare knuckle boxing fights. We sure love forgetting biology and hell... girls and woman's own desires about what they want. If a girl picks nursing (or "play rehearsals") over IT, is she a "failure" or merely choosing the most rewarding job for her brain? Have you considered the only girls that enter coding are ones trying to please an authority figure (you, their parents, or some other societal pressure), and when that fails to continually reward them they go do what they actually want?
The true fact of the matter is, IT is a very financially successful field and that we want whats best for our girls (not equality, but the BEST) is the only reason we're trying to shoehorn them into IT. If we truly wanted "equality" of jobs, we'd be trying just as hard to force them to be plumbers, custodians, and other "bottom of the social ladder" jobs. But those jobs don't have social value, and we want our girls to be as valuable as possible.
We act like the world has magically gone "progressive" but all we're doing is the same thing we've been doing since pre-history, but calling it progressive. We're trying to make our girls the most valuable they can be, whether through corsets and exotic clothing to show the virtue of their virginity and social value, or simply getting them high paying jobs in IT and buying "princess" a nice car in highschool, the intent behind it is the same. And it's pretty damn obvious the same need doesn't exist for our boys.
So we either need to conclude that woman are incapable of driving themselves to become successful and NEED to be forced and pushed into being successful. Or, we're just a bunch of assholes pressuring girls into doing things they don't enjoy, just so they can alleviate our low view of them for being too "cliche" and enjoying feminine jobs.
It's alarming that these threads always end up like this. Denying women their agency, and/or treating them like morons. Nobody ever cares what women want, all they care about is, "there's not enough of them in this field."
Why do you people always show up? Nobody is debating they have the LEGAL RIGHT to do any goddamn thing.
We're debating whether it's ETHICALLY right, as well whether it's an EFFECTIVE solution to their problem.
Fuck off with Red Herring bullshit.
This is like that other over-used Slashdot argument, "Freedom of speech is only for the government!" (conflating the constitutional Bill of Rights _acknowledgement_ of Freedom of Speech with the actual _invention_ of the idea which goes all the way back to ancient Athens, Greece and has nothing to do with legislative government but instead societal values.)
People on Slashdot need to up their game instead of up-modding fallacious arguments.
I love that you said both sides have snowflakes but failed to mention examples of right-wing people being snowflakes.
Fun fact (and this is actually a fact) they found Muslims born during certain months every year had lower birth rates (and intelligence and health and ...). The same months... over and over.
Why? Turns out these women all fast during Ramadan, and the kids are more likely to have problems if the mother fasts closer to conception than further away.
Infer whatever you want. But it's an interesting factoid.