Exactly. Netflix has never considered it's PAYING customers to be pirates. And that's who this will affect, paying customers. No pirate will be affected by these changes, only paying customers. It's the same with DRM protection on software, this only affects legitimate customers, pirates get the DRM removed for them before they download the software.
In fact.... I'll admit to legally purchasing software then proceeding to use cracks released for the pirated version, to remove some of the nonsense DRM. It's sad but true.
The same goes for media consumption. When I drop 400$ on the x-files boxset I assume every episode on every disk will play, out of the box. This isn't the case at all, and instead I need to go out and PIRATE the episodes on back chunks of the disk.
I'm using netflix canada... I know, I know, I should be using a VPN to get the us version but really, I don't care, it has plenty of the shows I want in my catalog and anything that isn't there I can stream from an untold number of pirate sites. I'd prefer to pay 9$ to netflix a month so everything is above board. Once they can provide me the full catalog I'll be able to remove adblock and just use netflix. This will never happen because of the bullshit licensing laws out there.
But hey, Netflix Canada gets streaming rights to The Force Awakens before anyone else, so it's not ALL bad.
I didn't even go past the part of the article that the submitter mangled for "The ME is always listening, able to receive packets even when the device is asleep."
No, not exactly. The subsystem is able to recieve information from the network interface when the machine is hibernating or sleeping. So? Are we calling wake on lan or power saving mode an attack now? That's a basic feature of most modern devices with a network interface. Hell, my NAS box does this, it's network ready but in a powered down state with the drives spun down, but it's pingable and once you request resources from it, it wakes up and does it's job.
"Have you fought for legal polygamy? Have you demanded the IRS allow men to marry multiple women, and women to marry multiple men, and each to marry each other? Have you lobbied Congress to make marriage to animals legal, or are the Welsh beneath your morals?"
That's what every fucking homophobe says. Literally. I'll give you this much, I don't see any typos.
Hold on now.... Are you telling me mathematical calculations and theories that do not line up with what we observe doesn't count as evidence?
I'm shocked.
SHOCKED
Is it hollow though? Or is it flat? Because some unwashed half literate guy on youtube made a 2 hour video with N64 quality graphics that clearly explains how the world is flat.
It's the darn Go Pro cameras putting FAKE curves to the earth. Or something.
My last job required using a "soft token" in conjunction with the a "hard token". The softtoken is software either installed on your machine or your smartphone that requires a pin, from there once you enter the pin, it generates a challenge and response, that response is good for 30 seconds. You did need to enter that response in like a password, but it was unique and only good for 30 seconds.
That gets you into their systems. To connect to customer systems (VOIP mostly) that's when the hard token comes into play..... a usb key.
The whole thing was kind of a pain in the ass due to the way it was implemented, but you only needed your pin, never a bunch of passwords that get changed every 3 months
Well if you were actually going to try to brute force something, you'd already have 99% of these in your dictionary. Seriously.
In fact, I'd go ahead (if I had the power) and force all of my domains users to see a brute force crack in action and how ridiculously simple it is. 1 download, 2 clicks or 1 line of commands. I'd force each user to run that tool against a test password request with THEIR weak password. Just so they can see with their own eyes how trivial it is to crack these "passwords"
If the word is a word in a dictionary in any language, it's already in MY cracking dictionary. IF it's a curse word? Ditto. If it's "1337" speak? Already in there. Honestly the string of numbers, if they were out of sequence, would probably take 3 or 4 more minutes than "password", so there is that I guess.
To tell us how this planet oscillates the chemtrails so the 911 nuclear aliens can open up communications with the illuminati and space lizards to bring on the new world order and force us into fema camps.
It's not as simple as that. What expectations do we have on the company to actually check and verify? You've got to remember that at the core, corporations are merciless heartless beasts that only care about profit, if you give them a way to maximize profit they will take it.
Some responsibility HAS to lie with both the supplier AND the buyer, the buyer has to do SOMETHING to ensure laws are not being broken.
But where do we draw the line? Your guess is as good as mine(pun not intended but it's still funny).
Well if your school was using enterprise version of windows, as you should be, and a WSUS, you wouldn't ever see the upgrade to win10 nag. So... you are likely violating your license already.
But, I suspect, you are buying bulk laptops and using the OEM version of windows on there. No excuse for that my friend, that's just a lazy IT department.
Well you could, and I do, argue this extends to the network, so if you are on your personal device but using THEIR network, the ruling still applies.
That said, I really doubt this gives them the right to break encryption or demand the keys. It's not the content of the discussion really, it's about the wasted time they got paid for.
Because you agreed to an acceptable use policy when using that companies equipment and services, this includes but is not limited to, your workstation and NETWORK.
Sorry, you already agreed to whatever terms they decide to implement. You don't watch porn on your work machine and network, do you? You don't pirate software on your companies computer do you? Why? Because it's morally objectionable, or more to the point, because you know it's wrong and an improper use of the equipment and services.
The only person complaining about this is the person wanting to get paid to sext and snapchat.
That has to be it right, the results would show how toxic the water is, forcing the state to step in and clean it up. That's the only logical reason for denying this request.
Probably because use of the software implies agreement to their terms. This imaginary butthurt is the stuff I can't tolerate. 99% of this coming from people who don't even run windows. It's the same way Apple has basically full ownership of you, your itunes content, and your dirty socks. You agreed to it by not reading the agreement.
That said..... I think we do have a class action case here, but only for those people on metered internet.
Strange, it handled my upgrade just fine, though I had been running win7 on the SSD for awhile by that point, I did run a fresh win7 install when i installed the SSD, and even migrated that to a newer SSD just before the win10 upgrade.
For the amount of time I spend at my desktop i haven't had any issues with 10 yet, all my apps worked, punkbuster was the 1 exception, the exe was in the wrong spot. It works fine, updates fine. I will admit that I'm getting tired to having to reset my privacy settings after updates, but whatever, it functions perfectly and in some instances, faster than win7 on the same box.
That said, if I didn't want it, and it kept downloading 6 gigs over and over, I'd be opening a class action lawsuit against MS on behalf of anyone with metered internet, you could use up your data cap just pulling the update you don't want.
The likely didn't sell the info. It's more likely that at least 1 of their outsourced call centers (guess which country) *shared* this information with other parties. You'd be surprised, or maybe not, to know this is actually a business model many agencies use.
Get the contract to be tech support, get access to customer records, lose contract and walk away with the account database, then start cold calling. In fact, there's a documentary out there somewhere showing this in action.
Well in this case your statement doesn't hold water. Just Cause 3 was anticipated and is selling quite well considering the crowded field of games out there right now.
But I feel what you are saying and for a lot of games it's 100% true. This is why almost every game coming out has some form of online connection to something, severely limiting the game while offline if it even plays at all.
Honestly, if the game companies would hire some of the crackers and modders to help make products that aren't broken at launch and highly overpriced, piracy likely wouldn't be as big of an issue here in NA.
Because evolution technically doesn't require death to continue to create new species, it just means without a death mechanism the planet would be awfully crowded, and at a very base level you could say that evolution has failed, because the less "fit" species don't die out, and could continue to breed.
Evolution doesn't require death at all to function, it just becomes much more transparent with death.
Look at it this way.
Species A develops a beneficial trait that lets them eat food others can, giving them the advantage. with death, we'd see species A likely thrive while the others species dies out, as the beneficial traits are passed down, we call it evolution.
And then this way.
Species A develops a beneficial trait that lets them eat food others can, giving them the advantage. Without death, species A still thrives and has an advantage, so evolution has taken place. But the less "fit" specimens don't die off, this doesn't affect the evolution but would affect the survival rates as without death, every new born is taking more and more of the food source up.
Not a great example but It works.
Well that's because you, ignorantly, equate "evolution" with the start of all life, they are not the same thing, evolution is the mechanism that led to life evolving after it started.
We have good ideas as to how it started, but evolution has nothing to do with it.
As well, you are actually talking about the birth of the universe and time itself, which again, is a totally different field that evolution and has very little to do with it other than "setting the stage" the stage being reality.
Agnostic? I'm doubting that right now
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It makes perfect sense for a format of my drive to brick my entire system, that makes perfect sense, in 1968. My bad, I thought this was 2016.
Exactly. Netflix has never considered it's PAYING customers to be pirates. And that's who this will affect, paying customers. No pirate will be affected by these changes, only paying customers. It's the same with DRM protection on software, this only affects legitimate customers, pirates get the DRM removed for them before they download the software. In fact.... I'll admit to legally purchasing software then proceeding to use cracks released for the pirated version, to remove some of the nonsense DRM. It's sad but true. The same goes for media consumption. When I drop 400$ on the x-files boxset I assume every episode on every disk will play, out of the box. This isn't the case at all, and instead I need to go out and PIRATE the episodes on back chunks of the disk. I'm using netflix canada... I know, I know, I should be using a VPN to get the us version but really, I don't care, it has plenty of the shows I want in my catalog and anything that isn't there I can stream from an untold number of pirate sites. I'd prefer to pay 9$ to netflix a month so everything is above board. Once they can provide me the full catalog I'll be able to remove adblock and just use netflix. This will never happen because of the bullshit licensing laws out there. But hey, Netflix Canada gets streaming rights to The Force Awakens before anyone else, so it's not ALL bad.
I didn't even go past the part of the article that the submitter mangled for "The ME is always listening, able to receive packets even when the device is asleep." No, not exactly. The subsystem is able to recieve information from the network interface when the machine is hibernating or sleeping. So? Are we calling wake on lan or power saving mode an attack now? That's a basic feature of most modern devices with a network interface. Hell, my NAS box does this, it's network ready but in a powered down state with the drives spun down, but it's pingable and once you request resources from it, it wakes up and does it's job.
My money is on "totallynotabackdoor"
Silly pleb, the government wants backdoors into YOUR stuff, not theirs.
"Have you fought for legal polygamy? Have you demanded the IRS allow men to marry multiple women, and women to marry multiple men, and each to marry each other? Have you lobbied Congress to make marriage to animals legal, or are the Welsh beneath your morals?" That's what every fucking homophobe says. Literally. I'll give you this much, I don't see any typos.
Hold on now.... Are you telling me mathematical calculations and theories that do not line up with what we observe doesn't count as evidence? I'm shocked. SHOCKED
Is it hollow though? Or is it flat? Because some unwashed half literate guy on youtube made a 2 hour video with N64 quality graphics that clearly explains how the world is flat. It's the darn Go Pro cameras putting FAKE curves to the earth. Or something.
My last job required using a "soft token" in conjunction with the a "hard token". The softtoken is software either installed on your machine or your smartphone that requires a pin, from there once you enter the pin, it generates a challenge and response, that response is good for 30 seconds. You did need to enter that response in like a password, but it was unique and only good for 30 seconds. That gets you into their systems. To connect to customer systems (VOIP mostly) that's when the hard token comes into play..... a usb key. The whole thing was kind of a pain in the ass due to the way it was implemented, but you only needed your pin, never a bunch of passwords that get changed every 3 months
Well if you were actually going to try to brute force something, you'd already have 99% of these in your dictionary. Seriously. In fact, I'd go ahead (if I had the power) and force all of my domains users to see a brute force crack in action and how ridiculously simple it is. 1 download, 2 clicks or 1 line of commands. I'd force each user to run that tool against a test password request with THEIR weak password. Just so they can see with their own eyes how trivial it is to crack these "passwords" If the word is a word in a dictionary in any language, it's already in MY cracking dictionary. IF it's a curse word? Ditto. If it's "1337" speak? Already in there. Honestly the string of numbers, if they were out of sequence, would probably take 3 or 4 more minutes than "password", so there is that I guess.
Lies, you and I both know they read that and said "Theyz cumming 2 take er jerbs"
Well now that made MY day. I spilled my coffee... thanks Obama.
To tell us how this planet oscillates the chemtrails so the 911 nuclear aliens can open up communications with the illuminati and space lizards to bring on the new world order and force us into fema camps.
Because not all of the skilled and talented people out there are asshats willing to sell out security to make a quick buck?
It's not as simple as that. What expectations do we have on the company to actually check and verify? You've got to remember that at the core, corporations are merciless heartless beasts that only care about profit, if you give them a way to maximize profit they will take it. Some responsibility HAS to lie with both the supplier AND the buyer, the buyer has to do SOMETHING to ensure laws are not being broken. But where do we draw the line? Your guess is as good as mine(pun not intended but it's still funny).
Well if your school was using enterprise version of windows, as you should be, and a WSUS, you wouldn't ever see the upgrade to win10 nag. So... you are likely violating your license already. But, I suspect, you are buying bulk laptops and using the OEM version of windows on there. No excuse for that my friend, that's just a lazy IT department.
Well you could, and I do, argue this extends to the network, so if you are on your personal device but using THEIR network, the ruling still applies. That said, I really doubt this gives them the right to break encryption or demand the keys. It's not the content of the discussion really, it's about the wasted time they got paid for.
Because you agreed to an acceptable use policy when using that companies equipment and services, this includes but is not limited to, your workstation and NETWORK. Sorry, you already agreed to whatever terms they decide to implement. You don't watch porn on your work machine and network, do you? You don't pirate software on your companies computer do you? Why? Because it's morally objectionable, or more to the point, because you know it's wrong and an improper use of the equipment and services. The only person complaining about this is the person wanting to get paid to sext and snapchat.
That has to be it right, the results would show how toxic the water is, forcing the state to step in and clean it up. That's the only logical reason for denying this request.
Probably because use of the software implies agreement to their terms. This imaginary butthurt is the stuff I can't tolerate. 99% of this coming from people who don't even run windows. It's the same way Apple has basically full ownership of you, your itunes content, and your dirty socks. You agreed to it by not reading the agreement. That said..... I think we do have a class action case here, but only for those people on metered internet.
Strange, it handled my upgrade just fine, though I had been running win7 on the SSD for awhile by that point, I did run a fresh win7 install when i installed the SSD, and even migrated that to a newer SSD just before the win10 upgrade. For the amount of time I spend at my desktop i haven't had any issues with 10 yet, all my apps worked, punkbuster was the 1 exception, the exe was in the wrong spot. It works fine, updates fine. I will admit that I'm getting tired to having to reset my privacy settings after updates, but whatever, it functions perfectly and in some instances, faster than win7 on the same box. That said, if I didn't want it, and it kept downloading 6 gigs over and over, I'd be opening a class action lawsuit against MS on behalf of anyone with metered internet, you could use up your data cap just pulling the update you don't want.
The likely didn't sell the info. It's more likely that at least 1 of their outsourced call centers (guess which country) *shared* this information with other parties. You'd be surprised, or maybe not, to know this is actually a business model many agencies use. Get the contract to be tech support, get access to customer records, lose contract and walk away with the account database, then start cold calling. In fact, there's a documentary out there somewhere showing this in action.
Well in this case your statement doesn't hold water. Just Cause 3 was anticipated and is selling quite well considering the crowded field of games out there right now. But I feel what you are saying and for a lot of games it's 100% true. This is why almost every game coming out has some form of online connection to something, severely limiting the game while offline if it even plays at all. Honestly, if the game companies would hire some of the crackers and modders to help make products that aren't broken at launch and highly overpriced, piracy likely wouldn't be as big of an issue here in NA.
Because evolution technically doesn't require death to continue to create new species, it just means without a death mechanism the planet would be awfully crowded, and at a very base level you could say that evolution has failed, because the less "fit" species don't die out, and could continue to breed. Evolution doesn't require death at all to function, it just becomes much more transparent with death. Look at it this way. Species A develops a beneficial trait that lets them eat food others can, giving them the advantage. with death, we'd see species A likely thrive while the others species dies out, as the beneficial traits are passed down, we call it evolution. And then this way. Species A develops a beneficial trait that lets them eat food others can, giving them the advantage. Without death, species A still thrives and has an advantage, so evolution has taken place. But the less "fit" specimens don't die off, this doesn't affect the evolution but would affect the survival rates as without death, every new born is taking more and more of the food source up. Not a great example but It works.
Well that's because you, ignorantly, equate "evolution" with the start of all life, they are not the same thing, evolution is the mechanism that led to life evolving after it started. We have good ideas as to how it started, but evolution has nothing to do with it. As well, you are actually talking about the birth of the universe and time itself, which again, is a totally different field that evolution and has very little to do with it other than "setting the stage" the stage being reality. Agnostic? I'm doubting that right now