Cortana re-appeared after I unlinked it from my menu after the last update (assuming the november update) but I did have a hard drive failure around the same time.
You did read the article where it stated only the star wars bundle is taking advantage and Sony refuses to comment further.
Oh wait, of course you didn't read it.
Keep in mind the ps3 (cell) had a totally different architecture where the ps4 is off the shelf (mostly) pc components.
They are offering a paid streaming service for some (all?) ps3 titles. That's why just giving us an emulator will never happen. Why spend time and money developing this to give it for free when you can make me buy those games again, or better yet sucker me into a subscription.
Fact is, much like the xbox1 supporting a big list of xbox games, no one gives a crap because no one buys a 500$ console to play games from 7 years ago.
Yes and no, some games do get re-released in an updated format and some users will pay for that. The rest of us tend to keep the old consoles and the few games we truely love, in a box somewhere that gets dusted off and used once every leap year.
The upside to this is there's no "hacking" to get something working. And if we're talking 20 year old PC titles, well, we're into the territory that you have to ensure your sound card (yes, they did exist as their own card) and video card are actually supported for the game. If the game is for my console, my console supports it. Period.
I've got my wii, 1 modded ps2, 1 unmodded ps2, and two ps3s that are being usurped once I unbox the ps4. Not much space or money wasted there considering each console upgrade cost LESS than the video card upgrade required to keep my pc running current titles are good quality. The ps4 is the first to come CLOSE to how much I have to dish out every 2 years for a video card, and only because I grabbed one of the special console bundles to get a larger drive. It was still less than the video card upgrade but not by much.
As for stacks of games? Ignoring the modded ps2 with a HD loaded with games, I typically keep 3 or 4 disc based games for the console.
So as a pc gamer, what do you upgrade and on why cycle, what's the cost, how do you store all the piles of hard drives, ram sticks and video cards you have to continually upgrade to stay current?
To add. it was a feature promised and provided on the orginal PHAT ps3. The ps3 slims removed that feature from the box description. Meaning less than 15% of the idiots complaining about a removed feature they never used were full of crap because their console indeed never actually supported this feature.
Beyond that, they didn't actually remove it from the ps3s that shipped with that support, the USERS removed it when they upgraded the firmware, something Sony gave advanced warning about. No excuses.
Oh boy, we can run yellowdog (dead) on ps3 with very VERY limited hardware support and features. Unless you are the US army building a cluster, you had no use for this feature at all. But.... many butthurt morons were butthurt because they thought, incorrectly, that this "other os" feature allowed for piracy. It didn't. Once it was removed it was still possible to mod the consoles, so that argument falls flat as well.
No, the vendor buys exploits from the researchers that discover them. Then the vendor turns around and sells said exploit. You can google a bit and find some enlightening interviews about this, including one from one of the most prominent researchers from years past who notes that most of the exploits he sold (very nasty, made lots of money) were never actually patched, some of which likely showed up in that trove of NSA docs.
The vendor has to have a product to sell, and these guys are mostly a market so they don't actively find and build exploits, they simply created the market to sell them and make profit.
1000$ to hacker A for finding it then they turn around and sell it to the NSA for 15,000$ (pure speculation on my part)
I'm still confused as how this exploit market is still legal. Security research has legal purposes, exploit discovery has legal purposes. But the selling of exploits on an open market seems to only have one purpose. Using those exploits for something nefarious.
So on the one hand according to some, just the fact that there is torrent traffic on my network makes me a criminal..... but on the other this company can buy and sell exploits to be used to hack and attack people and it's perfectly legal?
Sounds about right.
Not a fair comparison. Handing out a porn starts info likely means they get harrassed and stalked in person. Handing out "doctors who mistreat animals" info to PETA followers has 1 purpose.
And no, it;s not for the followers to "call them up and say hi" and you know it.
Your comparison fails.
Considering you'd be putting their lives at risk, I think the law would beg to differ. And that's why Doxing is a big deal and "the gubment" is actively engaged.
PETA knows their supporters are batshit crazy. They know exactly what the outcome would be after releasing names numbers and addresses of people PURPORTED to be involved with animal testing (behavioral testing?). Threats, harassment and violence.
To follow your analogy, you send out the personal information about your neighbor, enabling their insane internet stalker to find where they live. While you likely wouldn't be liable once that porn start got murdered, I'd hope you'd feel a little guilty.
I don't think anyone disputes that some humans treat some animals badly. PETA puts more animals to death each year than they save. But I guess their moral superiority gives them that right.
The right to "euthanize" my pet because it's better to be a dead cat than to be "forced to live in captivity"
PETA is a joke and I put them in the same bin as the nutso "pro-life" murderous thugs.
I personally read these articles to find the name of the apps they say are "hard to monitor" and make sure I in no way ever use them. Think about this long and hard. Why would they tell "them" exactly what apps to use because they can't monitor them?
They wouldn't. But.... they sure as hell would like to direct as many people as possible to use the apps that have easy access to, namely any app that appears by name in any of these articles.
Hell, they even tried to blame snowden.
Well it works exactly as designed. It measures your temperature and breathing. This has nothing to due with lie detection of course, but the device technically does function.
It's the PURPOSE of the device that they are lying about. If they were honest they'd tell you it measures perspiration, blood pressure and a few other things that *COULD* help detect deception. It is in no way a lie detector.
The scary part is they are 100% subjective to the person operating the machine, and these idiots are 100000% sure it actually works. That's where it gets dangerous.
That's not your imagination kind sir or madame, it's a fact.
This "device" is less effective than someone trained to pickup "tells". But it's quite effective on idiots and people who don't know it's a scam, and are being told it will TELL THEM WHEN YOU LIE.
The polygraph results aren't admissible in court, but the bullshit confession they get from you after 15 hours of questioning, sure as hell is.
you missed the point.
"The problem is the copyright cartels essentially want a veto on any technology on the grounds it might be used to infringe."
Nope.
The want to destroy and de-legitimize any technology that can compete with their stranglehold dinosaur of a business model. They couldn't buy the patents and make it disappear, so they went to plan B. "It's only used for piracy"
Actually it's being used to save the fucking internet, provide streaming services and a bunch of other fantastic stuff that the IPSs and Media Companies never bothered to invest in, because they write the laws and they make the rules.
It's never been about "piracy" we already pay a piracy tax on every type of blank media there is (in N.A. at least), it's never been about piracy, it's always been about a stranglehold on the content to make a profit.
Remember when netflix used to rent dvds over the internet? Why? Because going to a box store was a waste of time, online shopping is faster. Then they went to streaming, why? Because the internet pirates had ALREADY provided this service, as well as time shifting, region free, commercial free, etc
Jesus, you can thank people like ME for you being able to binge watch stuff on netflix, the old school pirates invented that shit. The media companies have been playing catch up for quite some time, and very badly I might add.
But they couldn't get out in front of this one, and instead of admitting defeat, licensing bittorrent, and providing all of their customers with what they want, they've opted to sue you instead.
I really hope the mindless morons follow your advice and get themselves fined and knocked offline because bittorrent in NO WAY provides a method to pirate and not get caught. In fact, out of ALL the methods you have at your disposal to pirate content, bittorrent is the WORST option. simply joining a swarm without even sending or receiving blasts your IP to anyone who bothers to listen.
Even with DHT, you still have to connect to nodes. Without DHT you are at the behest of whatever torrent tracker(s) are in use. Most of which are extremely easy to eavesdrop on.
Why would the "feds" want to shut down a major source of idiots for them to harass? I get your post was in jest, but it's so off base I feel the need to warn the morons who might actually think you were being serious.
Bittorrent is a protocol. Almost anything that uses p2p in the backend is using bittorrent. Game updates, OS updates, linux distros, this can and is being done via the bittorrent protocol.
Windows 10 offers peering for updates to your local network and even to the internet, while I didn't dig deep into it, this is p2p at its core, while it may not be using bittorrent (TM) but the technology is essentially the same. Peering. Without bittorrent and similar technology, we can expect the internet to fall apart as soon as all those developing nations login and start streaming HD. IRC is a huge source of piracy, so me logging into a linux support channel makes me a pirate? Just using the torrent protocol makes me a pirate?
It's well above and beyond a "defense". If we allow them to paint anyone using that protocol as a criminal, what's next? Email? Newsgroups? IM? As long as there is a system and a method to allow data sharing, data will be shared. As long as there is data, people will want to share it.
I personally feel that technology has been ignored to back shelved because of the stigma put on torrents. It comes up during any discussion around traffic. "We all know what bittorrent is for...." No, we know what a lot of people use it for, and we know what it was designed for, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
Careful injection reason into these type of conversations. See, the fact is, these people are sub human and evil and there is no reason behind it./end sarcasm
While we continue to ignore the reasons that people join with these monsters, we will only ever add more monsters. It's as simple as that. We can't fight terrorism by fighting the symptoms alone, we must also fight the cause.
As long as people feel they have no other resource but to join with these people, these terrorists will always have numbers. What makes someone willing to sacrifice their life for a cause? Desperation? Determination? What exactly is it?
It's a fight for survival. Our troops enlist and give up their lives to help our way of life survive. Yet we want to pretend some of the enemy doesn't do this for the exact same reason?
I guess I'm naive to think that a lot of these people are doing this for more reasons that to just straight up murder people. It's like saying all elisted troops are well adjusted people who just want to do the right thing. That's patently false.
AGree 100%, while I agree with equality and I'm still amazed, and ashamed, that a gender pay gap even exists in 2015, assuming star wars posters are the reason girls aren't into coding, and suggesting putting up disney princess posters might help?
That's about as sexist as it can get right there folks. People get into coding for various reasons, and the posters in the computer lab rarely have an effect. Why are we differentiating coders by gender at all? Why aren't we trying to attract ANYONE into coding regardless of gender or race?
That said...
If you are a female coder, I suggest you grow a thick skin before you try to get involved with any linux projects
If you are a MALE coder, I suggest you grow a thick skin before you try to get involved with any linux projects
The fact that the solution to the problem is itself sexist, I think we need to be looking broader at this. How does C# appeal to boys but not girls? It doesn't. It appeals to CODERS even before they know they are coders.
All this will do is fill the market with mediocre coders, the same way photoshop has filled the graphic design market with mostly useless people who know how to operate 3 or 4 pre-built filters, and that's it. They don't even know what xif is. I work in IT, I see plenty of females here, not as many as males obviously, but they are here, qualified and talented as all get out.
I think the sexist nature of the career field is what might put them off. Again, the solution from the "field" is itself blatantly sexist.
"Maybe if we made the computers pink"
Just... just no
All browsers (computer, not assuming mobile) support CONTROL+ and CONTROL- to change font sizes. All modern OSs have a vision impared mode. Even your monitor likely has this feature. I guess it depends on the level of impairment really. But everything you complained about is fixable within your browser/OS. I'm not aware of an all in one turn it on and off easily solution unfortunately.
One of my coworkers is vision impaired and deals with it in the manner I explained above.
This might be a niche to be filled if there is no easy all in one solution.
As for the pages and apps looking screwy when you mess with fontsizes..... I'm not sure anyone can fix that without redesigning the way we build software.
There's a massive difference between an unlimited (I.E> no monthly cap) and infinite bandwidth. Carriers are not selling us unlimited bandwidth. They are selling us a connection, and when they label it unlimited this doesn't mean 999999999 MEG connection, it means i can use whatever amount of MEGS or GIGS I want without being stopped.
What is screwing us, and the industry, is the fact that most people can't see the difference, and their telco sells them an unlimited 20 meg connection. The problem is, they are also selling that to everyone else, and they simply do not have enough trunks to provide max speed to all customers.
Throughput is what's important, the amount of speed at a given time, not the amount of data I download. Me downloading 20 gigs or 2 megs makes no difference, unless they are selling more than they have to sell, which they all are.
The data you are downloading and uploading doesn't cost them much, the infrastructure does. The infrastructure they have refused to maintain. The telcos are the issue
To be "that guy" it is a widely held belief that Russia (The Soviets) did not announce the death toll from their space program. They, in fact, have censored out famous cosmonauts from photos when they lost favor.
There's even at conspiracy about the capsule and crew lost in space, supposedly radioing back to earth before they were too far out.
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Cortana re-appeared after I unlinked it from my menu after the last update (assuming the november update) but I did have a hard drive failure around the same time.
You did read the article where it stated only the star wars bundle is taking advantage and Sony refuses to comment further. Oh wait, of course you didn't read it.
Keep in mind the ps3 (cell) had a totally different architecture where the ps4 is off the shelf (mostly) pc components. They are offering a paid streaming service for some (all?) ps3 titles. That's why just giving us an emulator will never happen. Why spend time and money developing this to give it for free when you can make me buy those games again, or better yet sucker me into a subscription. Fact is, much like the xbox1 supporting a big list of xbox games, no one gives a crap because no one buys a 500$ console to play games from 7 years ago.
Yes and no, some games do get re-released in an updated format and some users will pay for that. The rest of us tend to keep the old consoles and the few games we truely love, in a box somewhere that gets dusted off and used once every leap year. The upside to this is there's no "hacking" to get something working. And if we're talking 20 year old PC titles, well, we're into the territory that you have to ensure your sound card (yes, they did exist as their own card) and video card are actually supported for the game. If the game is for my console, my console supports it. Period. I've got my wii, 1 modded ps2, 1 unmodded ps2, and two ps3s that are being usurped once I unbox the ps4. Not much space or money wasted there considering each console upgrade cost LESS than the video card upgrade required to keep my pc running current titles are good quality. The ps4 is the first to come CLOSE to how much I have to dish out every 2 years for a video card, and only because I grabbed one of the special console bundles to get a larger drive. It was still less than the video card upgrade but not by much. As for stacks of games? Ignoring the modded ps2 with a HD loaded with games, I typically keep 3 or 4 disc based games for the console. So as a pc gamer, what do you upgrade and on why cycle, what's the cost, how do you store all the piles of hard drives, ram sticks and video cards you have to continually upgrade to stay current?
To add. it was a feature promised and provided on the orginal PHAT ps3. The ps3 slims removed that feature from the box description. Meaning less than 15% of the idiots complaining about a removed feature they never used were full of crap because their console indeed never actually supported this feature. Beyond that, they didn't actually remove it from the ps3s that shipped with that support, the USERS removed it when they upgraded the firmware, something Sony gave advanced warning about. No excuses. Oh boy, we can run yellowdog (dead) on ps3 with very VERY limited hardware support and features. Unless you are the US army building a cluster, you had no use for this feature at all. But.... many butthurt morons were butthurt because they thought, incorrectly, that this "other os" feature allowed for piracy. It didn't. Once it was removed it was still possible to mod the consoles, so that argument falls flat as well.
From what I've read and watched, the NSA/CSIS/GCHQ/Mossad are some of these vendors biggest, mostly undisclosed, customers
No, the vendor buys exploits from the researchers that discover them. Then the vendor turns around and sells said exploit. You can google a bit and find some enlightening interviews about this, including one from one of the most prominent researchers from years past who notes that most of the exploits he sold (very nasty, made lots of money) were never actually patched, some of which likely showed up in that trove of NSA docs. The vendor has to have a product to sell, and these guys are mostly a market so they don't actively find and build exploits, they simply created the market to sell them and make profit. 1000$ to hacker A for finding it then they turn around and sell it to the NSA for 15,000$ (pure speculation on my part)
I'm still confused as how this exploit market is still legal. Security research has legal purposes, exploit discovery has legal purposes. But the selling of exploits on an open market seems to only have one purpose. Using those exploits for something nefarious. So on the one hand according to some, just the fact that there is torrent traffic on my network makes me a criminal..... but on the other this company can buy and sell exploits to be used to hack and attack people and it's perfectly legal? Sounds about right.
Not a fair comparison. Handing out a porn starts info likely means they get harrassed and stalked in person. Handing out "doctors who mistreat animals" info to PETA followers has 1 purpose. And no, it;s not for the followers to "call them up and say hi" and you know it. Your comparison fails.
Considering you'd be putting their lives at risk, I think the law would beg to differ. And that's why Doxing is a big deal and "the gubment" is actively engaged. PETA knows their supporters are batshit crazy. They know exactly what the outcome would be after releasing names numbers and addresses of people PURPORTED to be involved with animal testing (behavioral testing?). Threats, harassment and violence. To follow your analogy, you send out the personal information about your neighbor, enabling their insane internet stalker to find where they live. While you likely wouldn't be liable once that porn start got murdered, I'd hope you'd feel a little guilty.
I don't think anyone disputes that some humans treat some animals badly. PETA puts more animals to death each year than they save. But I guess their moral superiority gives them that right. The right to "euthanize" my pet because it's better to be a dead cat than to be "forced to live in captivity" PETA is a joke and I put them in the same bin as the nutso "pro-life" murderous thugs.
Destroy someones career? They are basically asking their followers to murder these people.
I personally read these articles to find the name of the apps they say are "hard to monitor" and make sure I in no way ever use them. Think about this long and hard. Why would they tell "them" exactly what apps to use because they can't monitor them? They wouldn't. But.... they sure as hell would like to direct as many people as possible to use the apps that have easy access to, namely any app that appears by name in any of these articles. Hell, they even tried to blame snowden.
I'm in Canada, and we're seeing the effects clear as day, longest warmest summers I've ever experienced, harshest winters when they hit.
Well it works exactly as designed. It measures your temperature and breathing. This has nothing to due with lie detection of course, but the device technically does function. It's the PURPOSE of the device that they are lying about. If they were honest they'd tell you it measures perspiration, blood pressure and a few other things that *COULD* help detect deception. It is in no way a lie detector. The scary part is they are 100% subjective to the person operating the machine, and these idiots are 100000% sure it actually works. That's where it gets dangerous.
That's not your imagination kind sir or madame, it's a fact. This "device" is less effective than someone trained to pickup "tells". But it's quite effective on idiots and people who don't know it's a scam, and are being told it will TELL THEM WHEN YOU LIE. The polygraph results aren't admissible in court, but the bullshit confession they get from you after 15 hours of questioning, sure as hell is.
you missed the point. "The problem is the copyright cartels essentially want a veto on any technology on the grounds it might be used to infringe." Nope. The want to destroy and de-legitimize any technology that can compete with their stranglehold dinosaur of a business model. They couldn't buy the patents and make it disappear, so they went to plan B. "It's only used for piracy" Actually it's being used to save the fucking internet, provide streaming services and a bunch of other fantastic stuff that the IPSs and Media Companies never bothered to invest in, because they write the laws and they make the rules. It's never been about "piracy" we already pay a piracy tax on every type of blank media there is (in N.A. at least), it's never been about piracy, it's always been about a stranglehold on the content to make a profit. Remember when netflix used to rent dvds over the internet? Why? Because going to a box store was a waste of time, online shopping is faster. Then they went to streaming, why? Because the internet pirates had ALREADY provided this service, as well as time shifting, region free, commercial free, etc Jesus, you can thank people like ME for you being able to binge watch stuff on netflix, the old school pirates invented that shit. The media companies have been playing catch up for quite some time, and very badly I might add. But they couldn't get out in front of this one, and instead of admitting defeat, licensing bittorrent, and providing all of their customers with what they want, they've opted to sue you instead.
I really hope the mindless morons follow your advice and get themselves fined and knocked offline because bittorrent in NO WAY provides a method to pirate and not get caught. In fact, out of ALL the methods you have at your disposal to pirate content, bittorrent is the WORST option. simply joining a swarm without even sending or receiving blasts your IP to anyone who bothers to listen. Even with DHT, you still have to connect to nodes. Without DHT you are at the behest of whatever torrent tracker(s) are in use. Most of which are extremely easy to eavesdrop on. Why would the "feds" want to shut down a major source of idiots for them to harass? I get your post was in jest, but it's so off base I feel the need to warn the morons who might actually think you were being serious.
Bittorrent is a protocol. Almost anything that uses p2p in the backend is using bittorrent. Game updates, OS updates, linux distros, this can and is being done via the bittorrent protocol. Windows 10 offers peering for updates to your local network and even to the internet, while I didn't dig deep into it, this is p2p at its core, while it may not be using bittorrent (TM) but the technology is essentially the same. Peering. Without bittorrent and similar technology, we can expect the internet to fall apart as soon as all those developing nations login and start streaming HD. IRC is a huge source of piracy, so me logging into a linux support channel makes me a pirate? Just using the torrent protocol makes me a pirate? It's well above and beyond a "defense". If we allow them to paint anyone using that protocol as a criminal, what's next? Email? Newsgroups? IM? As long as there is a system and a method to allow data sharing, data will be shared. As long as there is data, people will want to share it. I personally feel that technology has been ignored to back shelved because of the stigma put on torrents. It comes up during any discussion around traffic. "We all know what bittorrent is for...." No, we know what a lot of people use it for, and we know what it was designed for, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
Careful injection reason into these type of conversations. See, the fact is, these people are sub human and evil and there is no reason behind it. /end sarcasm
While we continue to ignore the reasons that people join with these monsters, we will only ever add more monsters. It's as simple as that. We can't fight terrorism by fighting the symptoms alone, we must also fight the cause.
As long as people feel they have no other resource but to join with these people, these terrorists will always have numbers. What makes someone willing to sacrifice their life for a cause? Desperation? Determination? What exactly is it?
It's a fight for survival. Our troops enlist and give up their lives to help our way of life survive. Yet we want to pretend some of the enemy doesn't do this for the exact same reason?
I guess I'm naive to think that a lot of these people are doing this for more reasons that to just straight up murder people. It's like saying all elisted troops are well adjusted people who just want to do the right thing. That's patently false.
AGree 100%, while I agree with equality and I'm still amazed, and ashamed, that a gender pay gap even exists in 2015, assuming star wars posters are the reason girls aren't into coding, and suggesting putting up disney princess posters might help? That's about as sexist as it can get right there folks. People get into coding for various reasons, and the posters in the computer lab rarely have an effect. Why are we differentiating coders by gender at all? Why aren't we trying to attract ANYONE into coding regardless of gender or race? That said... If you are a female coder, I suggest you grow a thick skin before you try to get involved with any linux projects If you are a MALE coder, I suggest you grow a thick skin before you try to get involved with any linux projects The fact that the solution to the problem is itself sexist, I think we need to be looking broader at this. How does C# appeal to boys but not girls? It doesn't. It appeals to CODERS even before they know they are coders. All this will do is fill the market with mediocre coders, the same way photoshop has filled the graphic design market with mostly useless people who know how to operate 3 or 4 pre-built filters, and that's it. They don't even know what xif is. I work in IT, I see plenty of females here, not as many as males obviously, but they are here, qualified and talented as all get out. I think the sexist nature of the career field is what might put them off. Again, the solution from the "field" is itself blatantly sexist. "Maybe if we made the computers pink" Just... just no
these attacks rely on the user leaving their device unlocked and unattended....... What exactly is the story here?
All browsers (computer, not assuming mobile) support CONTROL+ and CONTROL- to change font sizes. All modern OSs have a vision impared mode. Even your monitor likely has this feature. I guess it depends on the level of impairment really. But everything you complained about is fixable within your browser/OS. I'm not aware of an all in one turn it on and off easily solution unfortunately. One of my coworkers is vision impaired and deals with it in the manner I explained above. This might be a niche to be filled if there is no easy all in one solution. As for the pages and apps looking screwy when you mess with fontsizes..... I'm not sure anyone can fix that without redesigning the way we build software.
There's a massive difference between an unlimited (I.E> no monthly cap) and infinite bandwidth. Carriers are not selling us unlimited bandwidth. They are selling us a connection, and when they label it unlimited this doesn't mean 999999999 MEG connection, it means i can use whatever amount of MEGS or GIGS I want without being stopped. What is screwing us, and the industry, is the fact that most people can't see the difference, and their telco sells them an unlimited 20 meg connection. The problem is, they are also selling that to everyone else, and they simply do not have enough trunks to provide max speed to all customers. Throughput is what's important, the amount of speed at a given time, not the amount of data I download. Me downloading 20 gigs or 2 megs makes no difference, unless they are selling more than they have to sell, which they all are. The data you are downloading and uploading doesn't cost them much, the infrastructure does. The infrastructure they have refused to maintain. The telcos are the issue
To be "that guy" it is a widely held belief that Russia (The Soviets) did not announce the death toll from their space program. They, in fact, have censored out famous cosmonauts from photos when they lost favor. There's even at conspiracy about the capsule and crew lost in space, supposedly radioing back to earth before they were too far out.