What I don't understand is why you think it's your right to use someone else's property in a way you see fit?
I mean it may suck, but its not your property (databases, code, art, sound, music etc) and Blizzard - like it or not should still have control over it.
What your not telling people also - is you can still play all the burning crusade quests, dungeons and raids (same with vanilla, same with wrath, same with cata etc etc) - you can even turn off leveling so you never go past level 70. With the new zone scaling system you can even be a completist - and do every single quest in any given zone to its completion without outleveling it.
As someone who likes retro games - I think you're abusing the term abandoneware - I think for it to be abandoned it needs to be end of life. Your talking about a game that is actively being developed and sold by a vendor who is still in business. Also ignoring the fact that Blizzard is actively developing a classic mode set of servers - an actual product that does what you want.
It's not the code per se - but the gigabytes of art, music and sound assets these guys are pirating as well (many of which are still in the currently sold game) - which the dmca is well suited for.
I highly doubt old patches really qualify as abandonware for a game currently for sale.
I think it's kinda funny how people justify these private servers...
I did it before the partner program - because I like helping people and I love retro game machines and computers. For a long time my videos were not "monetized" - I turned it on just to see how much money I could make. For a video that was 20 minutes long and got 20,000 views - it was worth about 30 dollars.
I'll probably still make videos tbh, but - honestly that email they sent was REALLY demoralizing.
Fwiw I used to get restricted stock bonuses at Adobe most every year - this is when I worked there 10-12 years ago. They only vest after 5 years - which is what what Apple did in this case. Still after they did layoffs in 2010 (I think) I had collected well over 20k of these - and its not like I was senior engineer of anything (I was a technical account manager).
These sorts of things never made the news though;) - its pretty normal in any decent sized company in silicon valley.
Anyhow like I said - its not because of the tax cut - bonuses like this are a NORMAL reward for good sales.
Making repair and electronic instructional videos on youtube;).
Not that I ever made much money on it, but I gain about a 10-100 subs a month and the hope was that it would get a bit bigger and be a decent secondary income for me.
It doesn't - the error code (I think - it's not documented) something bad happened on restart. Windows update should have created a restore point (as it usually does) and you can revert the snapshot in safemode or in recovery.
I've seen it occur on machines with failing disk drives long before this though.
Its high until you visit another country - even in the most rural parts of Scotland 10 years ago 30 megabits was minimum speed you could buy for a cable provider.
Windows 10 is a bit more complex than the first versions of Android or iPhone face recognition - it actually requires infrared capable cameras (it won't work with just any webcam). The theory behind requiring an IR photo was that is was less susceptible to photograph attacks.
One of the cool demos they do is unlock the machine while wearing glasses, sun glasses or no glasses, or with and without hats. It's really up to the enterprise to configure this fully - you can require multiple authentication methods on windows for example - like windows hello/password or windows password/smartcard or password/otp etc. Out of the box I think its fine for most end users.
That said - it's still a difficult attack to carry out because you'd still need a portrait photo taken with enough data to print out a near IR photo (which I didn't know was possible) - most jpeg's I would think strip out that information during compression - there's not enough details sadly on the article linked and of course physical access to the PC.
One problem with chargebacks is every time you charge something back to another department it costs money to essentially move one value in a db, to another in the same accounting db without any real value and without realizing ultimately in any given company - it's all the same bucket of money. You end up with this system where all of the sudden you have to charge activation fee's for things like phone and network ports, fee's for things like printer setup, email account setup - and it's like look really - we all need this stuff - let's recognize we need to pay for it and how much it costs and just write some checks.
Of course MBA's have a hard time for whatever reason recognizing that IT costs money, and how much money they actually need for the things they do.
This has to be a myth - I have a google apps enterprise domain with almost a million accounts so I work with them a fair amount and they do know their way around Windows.
Funny story though - arrive in India and everything smells like you're out in the farm (cow BO basically). Apparently most Indians think everything in the US smells like soap.
I worked at a software company (one that is in the fortune 500 list) who used SAP - it did intergrate all our SKU's to sales, manufacturing, and support - but the bugs in the system were unbelievably stupid things:
* German dates everywhere (makes a huge problem if you're a multi-national - it seemed to have zero awareness of regional settings) * Sometimes different tabs wouldn't populate data so you'd have to be a copy/paste pro - if you've ever waited a minute or two for a support tech to bring up your stuff - they are probably copying and pasting stuff on SAP. * Required IE 6, with Java, Active X and Javascript - for the longest time - was actually a huge hinderance for moving off XP.
Rootpipe (an actual privilege escalation) - the issue with this one was Apple only patched it on the latest greatest OS at the time, but all the other OS's got patched 6 months after a lot of complaining by some seriously smart security experts.
Apple really doesn't take security all that seriously. Biggest example - show me on Apple's website what OS's are supported and which OS's are end of life?
I dunno - maybe its because there's a run on mobile homes and supply doesn't exist? Market may not really exist either - my gran lived a mobile home once they are dropped off and anchored to a concrete foundation and fastened together they really aren't moving anywhere. Yes they would be easier to move than a regular house, but still logistically difficult.
When she died and we sold the place - the new owners tore the old one out and put in a new one.
Also if you own the lot itself already - you might consider buying another one to put in its place if the cost was lower (say around 80k). For the person in the article it would make financial sense at her age - especially if the new one was half the cost - which it isn't - and why they wrote the article.
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You bought a license to use the art assets with their servers. This is actually in the World of Warcraft EULA:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/c...
Specifically 2(f).
What I don't understand is why you think it's your right to use someone else's property in a way you see fit?
I mean it may suck, but its not your property (databases, code, art, sound, music etc) and Blizzard - like it or not should still have control over it.
What your not telling people also - is you can still play all the burning crusade quests, dungeons and raids (same with vanilla, same with wrath, same with cata etc etc) - you can even turn off leveling so you never go past level 70. With the new zone scaling system you can even be a completist - and do every single quest in any given zone to its completion without outleveling it.
As someone who likes retro games - I think you're abusing the term abandoneware - I think for it to be abandoned it needs to be end of life. Your talking about a game that is actively being developed and sold by a vendor who is still in business. Also ignoring the fact that Blizzard is actively developing a classic mode set of servers - an actual product that does what you want.
It's not the code per se - but the gigabytes of art, music and sound assets these guys are pirating as well (many of which are still in the currently sold game) - which the dmca is well suited for.
I highly doubt old patches really qualify as abandonware for a game currently for sale.
I think it's kinda funny how people justify these private servers...
I did it before the partner program - because I like helping people and I love retro game machines and computers. For a long time my videos were not "monetized" - I turned it on just to see how much money I could make. For a video that was 20 minutes long and got 20,000 views - it was worth about 30 dollars.
I'll probably still make videos tbh, but - honestly that email they sent was REALLY demoralizing.
Fwiw I used to get restricted stock bonuses at Adobe most every year - this is when I worked there 10-12 years ago. They only vest after 5 years - which is what what Apple did in this case. Still after they did layoffs in 2010 (I think) I had collected well over 20k of these - and its not like I was senior engineer of anything (I was a technical account manager).
These sorts of things never made the news though ;) - its pretty normal in any decent sized company in silicon valley.
Anyhow like I said - its not because of the tax cut - bonuses like this are a NORMAL reward for good sales.
Making repair and electronic instructional videos on youtube ;).
Not that I ever made much money on it, but I gain about a 10-100 subs a month and the hope was that it would get a bit bigger and be a decent secondary income for me.
You can boot into recovery cold though - and chose safe mode from there.
Just this one patch ;).
If malware can set this reg key - your machine is already done (its only writable by system/admin).
It doesn't - the error code (I think - it's not documented) something bad happened on restart. Windows update should have created a restore point (as it usually does) and you can revert the snapshot in safemode or in recovery.
I've seen it occur on machines with failing disk drives long before this though.
They did?
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Its high until you visit another country - even in the most rural parts of Scotland 10 years ago 30 megabits was minimum speed you could buy for a cable provider.
They aren't:
https://access.redhat.com/secu...
Yes ;)
https://access.redhat.com/secu...
And Mandrake was originally a fork of RedHat...
Until I found out it was only compatible with my S6. The thing was only supported for like a year. Without its paired smartphone it's useless.
It's the same with Apple Watch - it only works with a compatible iPhone.
But while I had it - it kept track of heart rate, sleep patterns - all kinds of fun things.
Windows 10 is a bit more complex than the first versions of Android or iPhone face recognition - it actually requires infrared capable cameras (it won't work with just any webcam). The theory behind requiring an IR photo was that is was less susceptible to photograph attacks.
One of the cool demos they do is unlock the machine while wearing glasses, sun glasses or no glasses, or with and without hats. It's really up to the enterprise to configure this fully - you can require multiple authentication methods on windows for example - like windows hello/password or windows password/smartcard or password/otp etc. Out of the box I think its fine for most end users.
That said - it's still a difficult attack to carry out because you'd still need a portrait photo taken with enough data to print out a near IR photo (which I didn't know was possible) - most jpeg's I would think strip out that information during compression - there's not enough details sadly on the article linked and of course physical access to the PC.
One problem with chargebacks is every time you charge something back to another department it costs money to essentially move one value in a db, to another in the same accounting db without any real value and without realizing ultimately in any given company - it's all the same bucket of money. You end up with this system where all of the sudden you have to charge activation fee's for things like phone and network ports, fee's for things like printer setup, email account setup - and it's like look really - we all need this stuff - let's recognize we need to pay for it and how much it costs and just write some checks.
Of course MBA's have a hard time for whatever reason recognizing that IT costs money, and how much money they actually need for the things they do.
This has to be a myth - I have a google apps enterprise domain with almost a million accounts so I work with them a fair amount and they do know their way around Windows.
Funny story though - arrive in India and everything smells like you're out in the farm (cow BO basically). Apparently most Indians think everything in the US smells like soap.
I worked at a software company (one that is in the fortune 500 list) who used SAP - it did intergrate all our SKU's to sales, manufacturing, and support - but the bugs in the system were unbelievably stupid things:
* German dates everywhere (makes a huge problem if you're a multi-national - it seemed to have zero awareness of regional settings)
* Sometimes different tabs wouldn't populate data so you'd have to be a copy/paste pro - if you've ever waited a minute or two for a support tech to bring up your stuff - they are probably copying and pasting stuff on SAP.
* Required IE 6, with Java, Active X and Javascript - for the longest time - was actually a huge hinderance for moving off XP.
Where did you read that?
Rootpipe (an actual privilege escalation) - the issue with this one was Apple only patched it on the latest greatest OS at the time, but all the other OS's got patched 6 months after a lot of complaining by some seriously smart security experts.
Apple really doesn't take security all that seriously. Biggest example - show me on Apple's website what OS's are supported and which OS's are end of life?
And Qualcomm sued with their patent portfolio because Apple refused to pay license fee's?
I dunno - maybe its because there's a run on mobile homes and supply doesn't exist? Market may not really exist either - my gran lived a mobile home once they are dropped off and anchored to a concrete foundation and fastened together they really aren't moving anywhere. Yes they would be easier to move than a regular house, but still logistically difficult.
When she died and we sold the place - the new owners tore the old one out and put in a new one.
Also if you own the lot itself already - you might consider buying another one to put in its place if the cost was lower (say around 80k). For the person in the article it would make financial sense at her age - especially if the new one was half the cost - which it isn't - and why they wrote the article.