I expect it to last for the rest of my life, since I've shifted to hard-drive arrays for storage and FTP to exchange files. I've burned 2 DVDs so far this year.
Sure, but are you going to click on a link that says yet another idiot driver killed someone while messing around with his phone? Add Pokemon Go, and you have the fans, the haters, and the dubunkers all clicking your link, viewing your ads, and driving traffic to you via their blogs and social media.
Right, this idiot wasn't even playing the game, he was just messing around with his phone while driving, which we already know gets people killed, but adding Pokemon to the story gets clicks.
Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
Those of us that aren't locked into a fixed set of needs, find that a new phone each year or two is required to meet our new needs. We first used phones to make calls, then we started using them as pocket computers. Now we use them as VR systems, which will drive the need for faster phones with better displays and better positional tracking for years to come.
There's value in having all your games on a single distribution platform, and I'm already annoyed by having to put up with Origin and UPlay. Adding another crappy little distribution platform is not going to help anyone but maybe Facebook.
It's sad how people go off the deep end, and try to make everything about their personal crusade, like Cory has. People will be able to use headphone adapters, and even if that wasn't allowed, the signal can be intercepted at the earbuds.
A much bigger issue with this: if you can get this program onto the air-gapped machine in the first place, haven't you already compromised it? If I could load say, a flash drive, into the air-gapped system to run this program, why can't I just copy whatever data I was after?
This does make these air-gapped hacks much less useful, but it could be used to exfiltrate data on an ongoing basis without having to touch the hacked air-gapped machine again after it's been compromised.
The people don't support this buffoon. He appeals to right-wing lunatics, and is too far gone to even fake being a sane person for the general election.
And you're not the only one. Lots of one-man or small shops are making games today. A few of the best VR games were created by single developers, with some adding a couple of voice actors. We're in an indy-development boom right now, where any creative person with some basic skills can create games in Unity or Unreal. You don't even have to be an artist. You can buy the art from asset stores and focus on game play.
>Also, larger deployments will be more inclined to pay, e.g. for a company a $5000 ransom may be cheaper than having to replace all 200 thermostats in its various rooms.
Only of they're short-sighted fools. The insecure devices have to be updated or replaced. Paying the ransom will not secure the thermostats against tomorrow's attack. They need the manufacturer to replace the firmware to fix the lockout and secure against future attacks, or to replace them with a better brand.
Everyone who isn't insane or a fool understands that we need to stop Trump, so it's not really fair to say an outlet is in the tank for Hillary, when she's all that stands between us and a pro-torture, totally uninformed bullshitter who foolishly thinks he's qualified to be President because he can get a racist rabble frothing with disinformation.
It's no stretch. Maybe you've made the mistake of thinking that 3D printing is just squirting hot plastic out of nozzles. That's just low-end consumer 3D printing.
We already have 90fps VR, which is considered the lowest rate required for a good experience. 60fps would be sliding back to phone-based VR frame-rate, and would turn off a lot of people.
Right now VR systems don't have the comfort or resolution to appeal to the typical movie-goer, but they will very soon.
If cross-platform was possible, I wouldn't have an Xbox One. I bought a PS4 first, but friends wound up with XBox One, so I had to pick one up so we can co-op game. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
DVD is a bad choice. It's another dead format, and uses crappy old Mpeg 2 compression so the data is at least 10x the size it should be. You can convert and compress to a modern format, and play them from PCs and streaming devices. This also makes backup to sites like DropBox possible.
We reached that point years ago, and if you have to buy an eBay VCR when yours fails, your conversions will be lower quality than if played on the machine they were recorded on. VHS sucked that way.
The good news is that Time Base Correctors are inexpensive now, so I was able to fix flagging and color problems caused by playing on a different machine in most cases.
I had a huge tape collection, 75% of which turned out to be worthless because much better copies of the shows and movies are now available, but I did convert the remaining 25% to MP4 files. A few tapes were completely unplayable because time is very hard on magnetic tape.
I can't believe anyone would fail to upgrade home movies to a durable format, and just wait for them to degrade into uselessness while planning to convert them someday. That's destroying things via procrastination that should be handed down to your descendants.
VHS was never a competitor to LaserDisc. Even super-VHS had terrible video quality compared to LaserDisc, which was for people who would spend extra to have the best picture possible. LaserDisc died when better options came along with DVD, BluRay, and 1080p MKVs. LaserDisc became a low-quality format that could only present 500 lines of vertical resolution, but back in the bad old NTSC days, it was the best option available. It could compete with DVDs because there was no over-compression problem, but it could never compete with even 720p HDTV.
It's not even just when you click to close a tab, which would be obnoxious enough. Lots of pages announce their abandonment issues as soon as you move the mouse pointer to the tabs to toggle between tabs. This often leads me to close their tab, instead of leaving it to read later.
Without advertisers, there is no Internet, just a small network of subscription sites, so let's not fuck advertisers.
With a decent connection, lag isn't an issue, but malware and obnoxious shit sure are. The big problem with Flash ads is the payloads they deliver, such as ransom-ware. Flash isn't a security hole that you can just leave open because you're unable to change with the times. It will totally screw you eventually.
I think I see the problem here. HBI, for whatever delusional reason, believes that Flash is still useful. I think he was projecting when he talked about killing Flash for religious reasons.
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Change the root password. :)
That's what psychedelics and disassociatives are for.
I expect it to last for the rest of my life, since I've shifted to hard-drive arrays for storage and FTP to exchange files. I've burned 2 DVDs so far this year.
Sure, but are you going to click on a link that says yet another idiot driver killed someone while messing around with his phone? Add Pokemon Go, and you have the fans, the haters, and the dubunkers all clicking your link, viewing your ads, and driving traffic to you via their blogs and social media.
Right, this idiot wasn't even playing the game, he was just messing around with his phone while driving, which we already know gets people killed, but adding Pokemon to the story gets clicks.
Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
Those of us that aren't locked into a fixed set of needs, find that a new phone each year or two is required to meet our new needs. We first used phones to make calls, then we started using them as pocket computers. Now we use them as VR systems, which will drive the need for faster phones with better displays and better positional tracking for years to come.
There's value in having all your games on a single distribution platform, and I'm already annoyed by having to put up with Origin and UPlay. Adding another crappy little distribution platform is not going to help anyone but maybe Facebook.
It's sad how people go off the deep end, and try to make everything about their personal crusade, like Cory has. People will be able to use headphone adapters, and even if that wasn't allowed, the signal can be intercepted at the earbuds.
A much bigger issue with this: if you can get this program onto the air-gapped machine in the first place, haven't you already compromised it? If I could load say, a flash drive, into the air-gapped system to run this program, why can't I just copy whatever data I was after?
This does make these air-gapped hacks much less useful, but it could be used to exfiltrate data on an ongoing basis without having to touch the hacked air-gapped machine again after it's been compromised.
The people don't support this buffoon. He appeals to right-wing lunatics, and is too far gone to even fake being a sane person for the general election.
Can't tell if you're making fun of absurd Trump propaganda, or if you're really a delusional Trump supporter.
And you're not the only one. Lots of one-man or small shops are making games today. A few of the best VR games were created by single developers, with some adding a couple of voice actors. We're in an indy-development boom right now, where any creative person with some basic skills can create games in Unity or Unreal. You don't even have to be an artist. You can buy the art from asset stores and focus on game play.
>Also, larger deployments will be more inclined to pay, e.g. for a company a $5000 ransom may be cheaper than having to replace all 200 thermostats in its various rooms.
Only of they're short-sighted fools. The insecure devices have to be updated or replaced. Paying the ransom will not secure the thermostats against tomorrow's attack. They need the manufacturer to replace the firmware to fix the lockout and secure against future attacks, or to replace them with a better brand.
Everyone who isn't insane or a fool understands that we need to stop Trump, so it's not really fair to say an outlet is in the tank for Hillary, when she's all that stands between us and a pro-torture, totally uninformed bullshitter who foolishly thinks he's qualified to be President because he can get a racist rabble frothing with disinformation.
It's no stretch. Maybe you've made the mistake of thinking that 3D printing is just squirting hot plastic out of nozzles. That's just low-end consumer 3D printing.
We already have 90fps VR, which is considered the lowest rate required for a good experience. 60fps would be sliding back to phone-based VR frame-rate, and would turn off a lot of people.
Right now VR systems don't have the comfort or resolution to appeal to the typical movie-goer, but they will very soon.
If cross-platform was possible, I wouldn't have an Xbox One. I bought a PS4 first, but friends wound up with XBox One, so I had to pick one up so we can co-op game. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
DVDs are just as obsolete as VHS, and can degrade just as quickly.
DVD is a bad choice. It's another dead format, and uses crappy old Mpeg 2 compression so the data is at least 10x the size it should be. You can convert and compress to a modern format, and play them from PCs and streaming devices. This also makes backup to sites like DropBox possible.
We reached that point years ago, and if you have to buy an eBay VCR when yours fails, your conversions will be lower quality than if played on the machine they were recorded on. VHS sucked that way.
The good news is that Time Base Correctors are inexpensive now, so I was able to fix flagging and color problems caused by playing on a different machine in most cases.
I had a huge tape collection, 75% of which turned out to be worthless because much better copies of the shows and movies are now available, but I did convert the remaining 25% to MP4 files. A few tapes were completely unplayable because time is very hard on magnetic tape.
I can't believe anyone would fail to upgrade home movies to a durable format, and just wait for them to degrade into uselessness while planning to convert them someday. That's destroying things via procrastination that should be handed down to your descendants.
VHS was never a competitor to LaserDisc. Even super-VHS had terrible video quality compared to LaserDisc, which was for people who would spend extra to have the best picture possible. LaserDisc died when better options came along with DVD, BluRay, and 1080p MKVs. LaserDisc became a low-quality format that could only present 500 lines of vertical resolution, but back in the bad old NTSC days, it was the best option available. It could compete with DVDs because there was no over-compression problem, but it could never compete with even 720p HDTV.
That's probably so they can log your click. You can choose to allow them to do that, or just ditch their site.
Adobe still makes great authoring tools, it's just that Flash is now a depreciated technology, so they put little to no effort into it these days.
It's not even just when you click to close a tab, which would be obnoxious enough. Lots of pages announce their abandonment issues as soon as you move the mouse pointer to the tabs to toggle between tabs. This often leads me to close their tab, instead of leaving it to read later.
Without advertisers, there is no Internet, just a small network of subscription sites, so let's not fuck advertisers.
With a decent connection, lag isn't an issue, but malware and obnoxious shit sure are. The big problem with Flash ads is the payloads they deliver, such as ransom-ware. Flash isn't a security hole that you can just leave open because you're unable to change with the times. It will totally screw you eventually.
I think I see the problem here. HBI, for whatever delusional reason, believes that Flash is still useful. I think he was projecting when he talked about killing Flash for religious reasons.