Big thing is retooling the gas stations, etc, though, I'd think. Getting customers to buy some silly newfangled gizmo == profit, replacing all your infrastructure is mostly expenditure.
The energy crisis isn't going away, I wonder how long it will be before this type of thing is econically viable. I have the feeling things will suddenly switch the day that gas prices finally top the total prices of rutabega's and retooling... and not a second before.
Companies have to have some sort of contingency plans, don't they?
One question.. are the results of this project public domain, (in some way) or are they going to be snapped up and made proprietary? Seti is one thing (can't really make that a business),but I'm leery of donating my time to make someone else's fortune.
In other news, world war two profiteers remain solid on the endorsement of their classic business model. "Taking the best parts of peacetime capatalism", of course, means that it is necessarily superior, even when one isn't considering the bottom line.
Heh, I wonder if MS is intentionally trolling slashdot with this one.
I don't see anywhere in the article that indicates what MS intends to do with this gathered information. They don't have the authority to 'check up' on people, do they? (I'm ignoring businesses that own substantial copies of MS products, a la Virginia Beach) That seems to be the only place you could go with this information..
tools to circumvent any attempt the chinese government were to make
Its a public place, I'm sure any monkey business like this would be really easy to conceal. I don't think people will trade 'free news' for 'being shot', personally. Misusing public computer services is probably as punishable as any other hacker/cracker act.
New tld's are just an excuse to get another recurring billion from the exact same corporations as before, and they buy it, every time (Whats another $70 a year to a corporation?). Not that it isn't shady, but I absolutely *love* this scam.
Wish I'd thought of it when the internet was still relatively young..
On the other hand, you wouldn't be able to fly these things over my neck of the woods... the rednecks shoot at *everything* that there isn't a law against...
Smuggling isn't a problem. I work in a secret government lab, we are already training genetically modified seagulls to bring these babies down (at least during mating season).
Why does this strike me as a backup nightmare? Where would you store that much information, and how would you get it back to its proper place? (Unless you had another googlebyte of storage hiding in the tech closet or something...)
Yes, I love living in Maryland, even if this isn't a good thing, I'm proud to be a stumbling block in the way of world domination.
My college sent a guy to work for Microsoft mere weeks before their security was compromised. He seemed like the patriotic type, although I doubt it was him. Whatever my state can do to help, we will.
(Being a border state in the last war gave us a bad image, we're sorry!:)
They are just using the file transfer part of the http protocol, surely... not that I think that the comparison of them insofar as responsibilies go is invalid, but if we start grouping together high level concepts (like peer to peer vs central server, for instance) simply because they share a *protocol* in common, isn't that a little strange?
They should have slashcode when someone gets a first post, then delay stories 1-2 hours for them for a solid month. They'll probably get bored and go away.
If you give a soldier a piece of equipment with the GPL attached, does that give him a right to the code? Seems dangerous for a military environment, where mistakes are directly purportional to dead men. Security through obscurity is never perfect, but it *might* help in this scenario.
telnet jsmith.platoon4.batallion1.army.mil
root
beallyoucanbe
shutdown -h NOW
Much better to have one (hopefully) excellent game, with the steam of the company behind it, than two average games that are fighting over the same users. Would be somewhat different if the games were run by seperate corporations.. but if Origin owns them both, they could really care less if the players jump ship from one to the other.
"Oh, by the way, this game is archaic, but we'll keep it running even though we have a sequal" isn't the best line to use when courting new players. Its right up there with "We know you paid $1,000 on ebay for that house, and we aren't stupid enough to cancel the service before your contract expires."
Yes, exactly my point. People who think they were reasonably safe and moral in what they were doing (nintendo *wasn't* making money on a lot of those titles for quite some time) will suddenly find themselves further over the line of legality than they probably want to be.
So this is the one where they are reselling all their SNES games, instead of the one where they are working on reselling all their NES games? I looked at Shadowgate for Game Boy for about 10 whole seconds before I realized it was an identical port of the NES version.
The emulator/abandonware folks aren't going to like this that much.
I can second that. The only game that even remotely captured my attention was the one with the biggest vibrating gun I had ever seen. (had to wear gloves to stop the impact from putting hairline fractures in my hands, it felt like. Maybe I can sue)...but that one was played out after about $5.00. Once (if) you've beaten games these days, they just aren't fun anymore...
This isn't any surprise. Has anyone been in an arcade lately that wasn't hideously overpriced? Use to be a quarter to play a game (for 30 seconds until you died, but don't mind that), or 20 cents if you bought tokens instead... nowadays all the *good* games (anything with a gun) is at least 75 to start.
I can't afford to keep up my habit, I can't see how capcom can last without my generation splurging for them...
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I can work for years by hiding that gizmo somewhere at work, fixing the problem then repeating somewhere else in the building.
Woohoo!
Big thing is retooling the gas stations, etc, though, I'd think. Getting customers to buy some silly newfangled gizmo == profit, replacing all your infrastructure is mostly expenditure.
The energy crisis isn't going away, I wonder how long it will be before this type of thing is econically viable. I have the feeling things will suddenly switch the day that gas prices finally top the total prices of rutabega's and retooling... and not a second before.
Companies have to have some sort of contingency plans, don't they?
One question.. are the results of this project public domain, (in some way) or are they going to be snapped up and made proprietary? Seti is one thing (can't really make that a business),but I'm leery of donating my time to make someone else's fortune.
In other news, world war two profiteers remain solid on the endorsement of their classic business model. "Taking the best parts of peacetime capatalism", of course, means that it is necessarily superior, even when one isn't considering the bottom line.
Oh, I'm sorry, did my ISP cache your page?
Heh, I wonder if MS is intentionally trolling slashdot with this one.
I don't see anywhere in the article that indicates what MS intends to do with this gathered information. They don't have the authority to 'check up' on people, do they? (I'm ignoring businesses that own substantial copies of MS products, a la Virginia Beach) That seems to be the only place you could go with this information..
Somebody should stop him, we don't need anyone associated with Doom *anywhere* near our lunar or martian bases...
tools to circumvent any attempt the chinese government were to make
Its a public place, I'm sure any monkey business like this would be really easy to conceal. I don't think people will trade 'free news' for 'being shot', personally. Misusing public computer services is probably as punishable as any other hacker/cracker act.
Right. As long as you still own your company/idea/etc you don't have an investor. :)
New tld's are just an excuse to get another recurring billion from the exact same corporations as before, and they buy it, every time (Whats another $70 a year to a corporation?). Not that it isn't shady, but I absolutely *love* this scam.
Wish I'd thought of it when the internet was still relatively young..
On the other hand, you wouldn't be able to fly these things over my neck of the woods... the rednecks shoot at *everything* that there isn't a law against...
Smuggling isn't a problem. I work in a secret government lab, we are already training genetically modified seagulls to bring these babies down (at least during mating season).
Why does this strike me as a backup nightmare? Where would you store that much information, and how would you get it back to its proper place? (Unless you had another googlebyte of storage hiding in the tech closet or something...)
Yes, I love living in Maryland, even if this isn't a good thing, I'm proud to be a stumbling block in the way of world domination.
:)
My college sent a guy to work for Microsoft mere weeks before their security was compromised. He seemed like the patriotic type, although I doubt it was him. Whatever my state can do to help, we will.
(Being a border state in the last war gave us a bad image, we're sorry!
They are just using the file transfer part of the http protocol, surely... not that I think that the comparison of them insofar as responsibilies go is invalid, but if we start grouping together high level concepts (like peer to peer vs central server, for instance) simply because they share a *protocol* in common, isn't that a little strange?
They should have slashcode when someone gets a first post, then delay stories 1-2 hours for them for a solid month. They'll probably get bored and go away.
Would be nice if the lameness filter blocked ascii art...
If you give a soldier a piece of equipment with the GPL attached, does that give him a right to the code? Seems dangerous for a military environment, where mistakes are directly purportional to dead men. Security through obscurity is never perfect, but it *might* help in this scenario.
telnet jsmith.platoon4.batallion1.army.mil root beallyoucanbe shutdown -h NOW
Much better to have one (hopefully) excellent game, with the steam of the company behind it, than two average games that are fighting over the same users. Would be somewhat different if the games were run by seperate corporations.. but if Origin owns them both, they could really care less if the players jump ship from one to the other.
"Oh, by the way, this game is archaic, but we'll keep it running even though we have a sequal" isn't the best line to use when courting new players. Its right up there with "We know you paid $1,000 on ebay for that house, and we aren't stupid enough to cancel the service before your contract expires."
What an arbitrary benchmark to association with the creation. :)
Yes, exactly my point. People who think they were reasonably safe and moral in what they were doing (nintendo *wasn't* making money on a lot of those titles for quite some time) will suddenly find themselves further over the line of legality than they probably want to be.
So this is the one where they are reselling all their SNES games, instead of the one where they are working on reselling all their NES games? I looked at Shadowgate for Game Boy for about 10 whole seconds before I realized it was an identical port of the NES version.
The emulator/abandonware folks aren't going to like this that much.
I can second that. The only game that even remotely captured my attention was the one with the biggest vibrating gun I had ever seen. (had to wear gloves to stop the impact from putting hairline fractures in my hands, it felt like. Maybe I can sue) ...but that one was played out after about $5.00. Once (if) you've beaten games these days, they just aren't fun anymore...
This isn't any surprise. Has anyone been in an arcade lately that wasn't hideously overpriced? Use to be a quarter to play a game (for 30 seconds until you died, but don't mind that), or 20 cents if you bought tokens instead... nowadays all the *good* games (anything with a gun) is at least 75 to start.
I can't afford to keep up my habit, I can't see how capcom can last without my generation splurging for them...