Or the fact that I can buy any number of devices from Amazon that don't support any number of Amazon services, just not the big cash cow of the day. This is pretty sad, they'll use "our customers are retarded" as an excuse for this. I'm never going to be an amazon prime customer, never in my life. I was in the market for a chromecast or two. I guess THAT profit margin goes to someone else.
This is surely grounds for an anti-trust case. And without actually checking, I suspect that these devices will tell you what services they do support before you buy it.
If I was guaranteed a working (defect free) product at launch I'd have no problem paying a little extra. The fact is, that's completely impossible with software, it really it. consoles are your best bet for launch issues (ignoring multiplayer server issues) because the consoles, with a few minor exceptions, are identical. They can safely code, and TEST, for that hardware setup and know that will be the setup their customers will be using.
This doesn't work for PC or steambox gaming, you can't be sure what the hell the end user will have, and you simply can't plan for every possible situation, you go for the largest chunk of the audience and try to make them a good product.
Why did COD cost so much? Licensing and paying for major actors. Did this at all fix the code issues that have been present for the past several games in the series? Nope. Did it provide a better product at launch? Nope. Did it really add ANYTHING of value to the game? Nope.
It's not about paying less, it's about paying a fair price. 60$ for a broken game that isn't actually complete until about a year later is not ok. (battlefield 4). Pre-ordering gives the game company no incentive to have a working product at launch, you already paid! They can literally have steam install an icon that loads nothing and call it a launch, you've already paid.
I don't feel that the price of their over the top marketing campaign should be worked into the price of the game at the expense of a quality product.
This isn't to say the industry is at fault. We are all at fault, we demand new games, improved everything, and we want it yesterday.
You mention building engines. Ok, we've got unreal, frostbite and maybe a few others. No one builds engines, they LICENSE them. So no, the research and development of a new engine doesn't count, none of this matters if the end product is a pile of crap.
Why is the digital copy of (insert game here) 59$ and the physical copy is 62$? Isn't the whole appeal of digital that there's no manufacturing, no physical media, no shipping or packaging, merely storage space and bandwidth? Why are these reduced costs not being passed to the customer?
Maybe I'm jaded but I've been burned one too many times paying full price for what amounts to a beta test. At least minecraft and day Z were honest and told you this was alpha/beta software. EA/DICE/SONY/SEGA don't seem to care.
I'm gonna go ahead and call this flamebait. I'm no fan of Apple but that's more about their business practices and less about the quality of their hardware and software... but I'm struggling to blame Apple for people not keeping quicktime updated.
Who the F@CK uses quicktime? I know back to the future day has passed, so clearly we aren't travelling back to 1998, so wtf is quicktime even doing on most peoples machines?
So I'm confused. They won't make app developers put in a back door (to allow them to intercept communication) but will require them to have a method to intercept communication on demand.
How exactly is that not a backdoor?
But it's not a hack. Is smashing at router with a hammer a hack? This is pure destruction, no real hack involved. It's much more efficient to deliver your malware via those keys instead of just straight up trying to fry whatever you are connected to.
That gives you away as soon as you insert it, and doesn't really do much because no enterprise relies on local storage on client machines, all the data is backed up, hosted in clusters, and perfectly usable.
I suspect this "attack" much like the same deal but with an ethernet port, would probably be stopped by most PoE routers/switches as they typically have some surge protection. They detect voltages and resistance and determine the class of PoE device by the resistance offered, each port is configured for a min and max allowance. I don't see this getting past one of those.
It seems nasty and scary but is effectively useless.
Worked for Stuxnet and most other state sponsored cyber attacks. Just saying.
We recently ran a "security awareness" month at the UNI I work for, giving away free flash keys to students who could show us their phone was secured at least with a password or pattern. They seemed surprised that no one bothered and most people told them they are too lazy to have to swype a pattern to unlock their phones.
My suggestion was to custom build some pseudo malware, load it on those flash keys, or a set of flash keys, and leave them around campus. Nothing nefarious would happen to the user who did insert it other than an autorun popup informing them that we could have owned them right there if we wanted.
The didn't go with my plan, I might still do it on my own.
I'm nice like that, when I taught myself to crack into WEP and weak WPA access points that had the management page accessible over wifi and the default admin passwords set, I promptly change their SSID and passwords, letting them know they need to lock that shit down. I'm nice like that
I agree, this is pure propaganda. We're supposed to demonize Putin for attempting to do what the US government, CIA, NSA, DHS, MPAA,RIAA are actively doing?
Get fucking bent with this blatant anti-russia propaganda.
Have fun maintaining that host file you idiot. Routers beat hosts file, so your whole deal falls apart because your network stack still gets involved with hosts.
Blocking this stuff on the router means it never even gets on your network, no wasted cycles.
But again, this means you will spend the rest of your life maintaining this growing hosts file or block list, when adblock and other browser plugins do this, and update it, for you.
That said, since adblock has been sold and no one will say to whom, and this nonsense of "Acceptable ads", I wouldn't recommend using and trusting it for much longer.
But I'd still suggest that over whatever crap you are spamming on each and every thread even remotely close to this subject. Gee... I wonder if you might be on the payroll for this "application" that requires administrator permissions to merely update your host file. No thanks.
congrats on not knowing what the hell you are talking about.
How are most ads delivered? Javascript. What do most ads do once loaded? Execute Javascript. How do ads deliver malware? Javascript. How do most nefarious sites check for, and execute, exploits? Javascript.
If you remove flash you likely won't see THAT much of a difference. Many sites have already switched seamlessly to html5 for video, but not all. I happen to frequent a few that still use flash.
If you are like me, you have a few options.
#1 install noscript on whatever browser you use
# Use chrome to load any pages which require flash
Here's the option part. You can either do the above and HOPE you don't get nailed, or you can run a sandbox for the browser and only view flash content that way.
Or... you can avoid entering passwords or doing anything like online banking on the machine, and just wipe and reinstall every few days. This won't fix you up if you get hit with something really nasty that stays resident on the service partition of your disc, or a rootkit / infected bios. But this will resolve 90% of the issues you'll get from running flash and actually connecting to the internet.
slashdot sells ad space to advertisers like every other webpage out there, they have very little control over the ads, mostly control after the fact once people complain.
Bitch all you want, just bitch at the right people.
It is, however, ironic. Much like the capchas were
Thank you for the first non flaming fanboy post. 100% accurate, we're seeing more mac infections and malware now not because of more exploits, it's because the market share is getting large enough to make them useful targets. This was not the case for some time.
This "mac is safer" BS is the same as "linux is safer" no, it's not at all safer. Linux has so many flavors and variations it's not really feasible to blanket attack them. Moreover, most linux users have a better understanding of the OS than windows users (I use all 3, win, ios,linux, lest ye think I'm fanboying) and I'm fairly confident that we can NOT say the same thing about the average Mac user, the AVERAGE (I said average) Mac user is the average windows user with a different skin on the OS, they know not of the things that lie beneath the gui.
Most average mac users wouldn't even know their MAC as a BASH terminal built in.
We are seeing more ios attacks because they are getting sloppy at the same time they are gaining popularity. I can't go a single day without seeing a Macbook somewhere and I bet you dollars to doughnuts that if I asked them,they would happily tell me how much more secure their Mac is. Mac users have a false sense of security, linux users have a false sense of superiority, and windows users like to click popups to get 100 free emoticons.
And I am still LOLing over "you shouldn't have to do anything on a Mac for OS maintenance". That's the exact crap I'm talking about, that's why it's ridiculously expensive to get your Mac cert to.... wait for it..... REPAIR AND MAINTAIN MACS. That's why apple has "geniuses" to help you with your Mac problems, because there are no problems.
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
You missed the point. It's not about the tool specifically, of course you need to skill yourself in whatever applications your field is going to use. But if you are merely becoming a pro at using that 1 tool you are likely not thinking past how to use that tool.
Want an example? Web hosting. So you are a wiz at dreamweaver or whatever other crapware people use to make template webpages these days, great for you. What happens when the company that hires you expects you to actually UNDERSTAND HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT? You fail miserably as you don't actually have web hosting skills, you have point and click dreamweaver skills.
This is a horrible example, but it's kind of to the point.
For the coders:
You use node.js? Fantastic, good for you, but do you actually understand what it's doing for you? Could you code those functions yourself? Can you look at them and at least make sense of 50% of it? If the answer is no, you don't know how to code javascript, you know how to use libraries.
Typically when dealing with NTP you do not want big swings. In fact, a system using NTP that's too far out of sync, won't sync back up correctly. One that is slightly out of sync will slowly come back in sync over a period of time, hours or days even.
Both approaches could work, they really could, but I think adding a few milliseconds here and there is a better way to get this done as long as the systems don't fall too far behind.
I work with Avaya voice equipment and we've been warning people about this for months and months. We've provided instructions on several methods to ensure this doesn't cripple your system, but it all depends on how your NTP is setup.
I also foresee issues with just adding an extra second to the day, this is not going to work for a bunch of systems and will actually throw them out of sync compared to googles approach.
One of the solutions we've "provided" is to disable NTP shortly before the time roll over, then enable it once it's July. That's a pain in the butt, but if you can afford the few minutes of service interruption, it solves all of the issues right there, you turn it off when it's synced, turn it back on and it syncs to the new time.
The real issues come in, for my field at least, with logging, this is going to throw a wrench into sys logs if it's not taken care of, and with some of the platforms, it will literally cripple the system.
I guess it's the same way that hacking the PSN and handing out users credit card details was protecting us from the evil sony corp who charges too much for software......
The short answer is: there used to be a loosely affiliated group of like minded crackers and coders who congregated in the dark corners of the intertubes, IRC and other seldom traveled paths. They became hacktivists.
Then they began a government operation to provide the pretext to enact the laws the "anon" group stands against.
Problem, reaction, solution. I hate that AJ infowhore blowhard, but he's right about this.
Thank you for putting that into words, the exact words to describe it to the last byte../ was my go to site.
Now it's a widget on my phone because:
1) it doesn't spam me with ads.
2) I use and trust this site so little now, so it might as well be a widget.
Yes, technically there is a way to execute phone specific code with specially crafted text messages. This is not doing that.
It's not executing a program. The system is trying to abbreviate the contents of the message to display in a notification banner or on the lock screen through a widget (or whatever apple calls them).
The system is doing something it's designed to do, but due to lack of foresight or just shoddy development, they never bothered testing this with special characters. And some clown obviously found the bug. This is actually pretty big. So in the past few months I've learned about 3 important issues with IOS devices, even those running the current release:
1)They are still including a chinese root cert that has been delisted for handing out forged google certs, and who knows what else.
2)A specially crafted access point being in range of your IOS device can cause it to become unstable and eventually crash, even if you have not connected to that network
3)A specially crafted text message can crash your phone upon receiving it.
Lets be clear, I'm not saying Android doesn't have some major issues as well, so don't try to fanboy me. But this is not what I expect from Apple. This is just bad. Lack of sanity testing? Keeping their users at risk seemingly just to say FU to google?
The bf series it's a poster child for emergent game play, the rehashes are still fps, but there's very little similarity between bf1942 and bf4, the core it's the same, but there's much more to it. Hardline takes it to another level without destruction and more twichty like cod.
Actually thank my phone for the incoherent post. I own the devices I want and don't really give a shit what people play on. Resolution, ie clean detail, makes or breaks a Fps as it's 99% spotting, 1% shooting. If game A has a better resolution and the same frame rate as the port of that on console B, console A is the better choice as you will see more details. If you want an over the top example, find Any game that supports 4k resolution, then do a side by side with a lower resolution. If your game shows me as 1 pixel on console, but shows me as 4 pixels on pc, pc wins. This really only matters for fps, and only if you like winning.
You might want to read your novel about how you can afford all options and are a better person for it. It comes off as childish and rather pointless.... if 1 version of the have plays at a higher res, the others suffer, it's a basic fact of fps. No we dont give a shit if you dont play them as you clearly care enough to not only read a post about them, but also comment on them. And yes I was playing minecraft in alpha so I'm well aware that graphics don't make a game . But in fps land, they can certainly break one
Firstly, what a load of crap. Secondly, I think John Chen should take a break from his failing company and actually go read a definition of neutrality, and then go ahead and read even a short blog post about NET-neutrality.
This isn't above forcing your competition to allow you to piggy back on their success (hint I hate apple, don't go there) it's about ensuring a level playing field on the NETWORK. It has nothing to do with apps. It has everything to do with traffic shaping, packet manipulation, and avoiding a tiered internet ala the cable industry.
We're not talking about apple, android, facebook. We're talking about telcos and their networks (the internet) and stopping them from changing the fundamental way the internet works.
A packet is a packet is a packet, and it should stay that way. Obviously we need some traffic shaping to ensure the content that needs QoS gets it, that's a moot point.
When you plug your samsung TV into your power outlet, it gets power regardless of the fact it's Samsung. An electron is an electron is an electron. Packets should be (within reason) dealt with the same.
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Or the fact that I can buy any number of devices from Amazon that don't support any number of Amazon services, just not the big cash cow of the day. This is pretty sad, they'll use "our customers are retarded" as an excuse for this. I'm never going to be an amazon prime customer, never in my life. I was in the market for a chromecast or two. I guess THAT profit margin goes to someone else. This is surely grounds for an anti-trust case. And without actually checking, I suspect that these devices will tell you what services they do support before you buy it.
If I was guaranteed a working (defect free) product at launch I'd have no problem paying a little extra. The fact is, that's completely impossible with software, it really it. consoles are your best bet for launch issues (ignoring multiplayer server issues) because the consoles, with a few minor exceptions, are identical. They can safely code, and TEST, for that hardware setup and know that will be the setup their customers will be using. This doesn't work for PC or steambox gaming, you can't be sure what the hell the end user will have, and you simply can't plan for every possible situation, you go for the largest chunk of the audience and try to make them a good product. Why did COD cost so much? Licensing and paying for major actors. Did this at all fix the code issues that have been present for the past several games in the series? Nope. Did it provide a better product at launch? Nope. Did it really add ANYTHING of value to the game? Nope. It's not about paying less, it's about paying a fair price. 60$ for a broken game that isn't actually complete until about a year later is not ok. (battlefield 4). Pre-ordering gives the game company no incentive to have a working product at launch, you already paid! They can literally have steam install an icon that loads nothing and call it a launch, you've already paid. I don't feel that the price of their over the top marketing campaign should be worked into the price of the game at the expense of a quality product. This isn't to say the industry is at fault. We are all at fault, we demand new games, improved everything, and we want it yesterday. You mention building engines. Ok, we've got unreal, frostbite and maybe a few others. No one builds engines, they LICENSE them. So no, the research and development of a new engine doesn't count, none of this matters if the end product is a pile of crap. Why is the digital copy of (insert game here) 59$ and the physical copy is 62$? Isn't the whole appeal of digital that there's no manufacturing, no physical media, no shipping or packaging, merely storage space and bandwidth? Why are these reduced costs not being passed to the customer? Maybe I'm jaded but I've been burned one too many times paying full price for what amounts to a beta test. At least minecraft and day Z were honest and told you this was alpha/beta software. EA/DICE/SONY/SEGA don't seem to care.
I'm gonna go ahead and call this flamebait. I'm no fan of Apple but that's more about their business practices and less about the quality of their hardware and software... but I'm struggling to blame Apple for people not keeping quicktime updated. Who the F@CK uses quicktime? I know back to the future day has passed, so clearly we aren't travelling back to 1998, so wtf is quicktime even doing on most peoples machines?
I really wish i had as much free time as you do
So I'm confused. They won't make app developers put in a back door (to allow them to intercept communication) but will require them to have a method to intercept communication on demand. How exactly is that not a backdoor?
But it's not a hack. Is smashing at router with a hammer a hack? This is pure destruction, no real hack involved. It's much more efficient to deliver your malware via those keys instead of just straight up trying to fry whatever you are connected to. That gives you away as soon as you insert it, and doesn't really do much because no enterprise relies on local storage on client machines, all the data is backed up, hosted in clusters, and perfectly usable. I suspect this "attack" much like the same deal but with an ethernet port, would probably be stopped by most PoE routers/switches as they typically have some surge protection. They detect voltages and resistance and determine the class of PoE device by the resistance offered, each port is configured for a min and max allowance. I don't see this getting past one of those. It seems nasty and scary but is effectively useless.
Worked for Stuxnet and most other state sponsored cyber attacks. Just saying. We recently ran a "security awareness" month at the UNI I work for, giving away free flash keys to students who could show us their phone was secured at least with a password or pattern. They seemed surprised that no one bothered and most people told them they are too lazy to have to swype a pattern to unlock their phones. My suggestion was to custom build some pseudo malware, load it on those flash keys, or a set of flash keys, and leave them around campus. Nothing nefarious would happen to the user who did insert it other than an autorun popup informing them that we could have owned them right there if we wanted. The didn't go with my plan, I might still do it on my own. I'm nice like that, when I taught myself to crack into WEP and weak WPA access points that had the management page accessible over wifi and the default admin passwords set, I promptly change their SSID and passwords, letting them know they need to lock that shit down. I'm nice like that
I agree, this is pure propaganda. We're supposed to demonize Putin for attempting to do what the US government, CIA, NSA, DHS, MPAA,RIAA are actively doing? Get fucking bent with this blatant anti-russia propaganda.
Yup, having to continually spam your questionable software makes it less questionable. Said no one, ever.
Have fun maintaining that host file you idiot. Routers beat hosts file, so your whole deal falls apart because your network stack still gets involved with hosts. Blocking this stuff on the router means it never even gets on your network, no wasted cycles. But again, this means you will spend the rest of your life maintaining this growing hosts file or block list, when adblock and other browser plugins do this, and update it, for you. That said, since adblock has been sold and no one will say to whom, and this nonsense of "Acceptable ads", I wouldn't recommend using and trusting it for much longer. But I'd still suggest that over whatever crap you are spamming on each and every thread even remotely close to this subject. Gee... I wonder if you might be on the payroll for this "application" that requires administrator permissions to merely update your host file. No thanks.
congrats on not knowing what the hell you are talking about. How are most ads delivered? Javascript. What do most ads do once loaded? Execute Javascript. How do ads deliver malware? Javascript. How do most nefarious sites check for, and execute, exploits? Javascript. If you remove flash you likely won't see THAT much of a difference. Many sites have already switched seamlessly to html5 for video, but not all. I happen to frequent a few that still use flash. If you are like me, you have a few options. #1 install noscript on whatever browser you use # Use chrome to load any pages which require flash Here's the option part. You can either do the above and HOPE you don't get nailed, or you can run a sandbox for the browser and only view flash content that way. Or... you can avoid entering passwords or doing anything like online banking on the machine, and just wipe and reinstall every few days. This won't fix you up if you get hit with something really nasty that stays resident on the service partition of your disc, or a rootkit / infected bios. But this will resolve 90% of the issues you'll get from running flash and actually connecting to the internet.
slashdot sells ad space to advertisers like every other webpage out there, they have very little control over the ads, mostly control after the fact once people complain. Bitch all you want, just bitch at the right people. It is, however, ironic. Much like the capchas were
Thank you for the first non flaming fanboy post. 100% accurate, we're seeing more mac infections and malware now not because of more exploits, it's because the market share is getting large enough to make them useful targets. This was not the case for some time. This "mac is safer" BS is the same as "linux is safer" no, it's not at all safer. Linux has so many flavors and variations it's not really feasible to blanket attack them. Moreover, most linux users have a better understanding of the OS than windows users (I use all 3, win, ios,linux, lest ye think I'm fanboying) and I'm fairly confident that we can NOT say the same thing about the average Mac user, the AVERAGE (I said average) Mac user is the average windows user with a different skin on the OS, they know not of the things that lie beneath the gui. Most average mac users wouldn't even know their MAC as a BASH terminal built in. We are seeing more ios attacks because they are getting sloppy at the same time they are gaining popularity. I can't go a single day without seeing a Macbook somewhere and I bet you dollars to doughnuts that if I asked them ,they would happily tell me how much more secure their Mac is. Mac users have a false sense of security, linux users have a false sense of superiority, and windows users like to click popups to get 100 free emoticons.
And I am still LOLing over "you shouldn't have to do anything on a Mac for OS maintenance". That's the exact crap I'm talking about, that's why it's ridiculously expensive to get your Mac cert to.... wait for it..... REPAIR AND MAINTAIN MACS. That's why apple has "geniuses" to help you with your Mac problems, because there are no problems.
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
You missed the point. It's not about the tool specifically, of course you need to skill yourself in whatever applications your field is going to use. But if you are merely becoming a pro at using that 1 tool you are likely not thinking past how to use that tool. Want an example? Web hosting. So you are a wiz at dreamweaver or whatever other crapware people use to make template webpages these days, great for you. What happens when the company that hires you expects you to actually UNDERSTAND HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT? You fail miserably as you don't actually have web hosting skills, you have point and click dreamweaver skills. This is a horrible example, but it's kind of to the point. For the coders: You use node.js? Fantastic, good for you, but do you actually understand what it's doing for you? Could you code those functions yourself? Can you look at them and at least make sense of 50% of it? If the answer is no, you don't know how to code javascript, you know how to use libraries.
Typically when dealing with NTP you do not want big swings. In fact, a system using NTP that's too far out of sync, won't sync back up correctly. One that is slightly out of sync will slowly come back in sync over a period of time, hours or days even. Both approaches could work, they really could, but I think adding a few milliseconds here and there is a better way to get this done as long as the systems don't fall too far behind. I work with Avaya voice equipment and we've been warning people about this for months and months. We've provided instructions on several methods to ensure this doesn't cripple your system, but it all depends on how your NTP is setup. I also foresee issues with just adding an extra second to the day, this is not going to work for a bunch of systems and will actually throw them out of sync compared to googles approach. One of the solutions we've "provided" is to disable NTP shortly before the time roll over, then enable it once it's July. That's a pain in the butt, but if you can afford the few minutes of service interruption, it solves all of the issues right there, you turn it off when it's synced, turn it back on and it syncs to the new time. The real issues come in, for my field at least, with logging, this is going to throw a wrench into sys logs if it's not taken care of, and with some of the platforms, it will literally cripple the system.
I guess it's the same way that hacking the PSN and handing out users credit card details was protecting us from the evil sony corp who charges too much for software...... The short answer is: there used to be a loosely affiliated group of like minded crackers and coders who congregated in the dark corners of the intertubes, IRC and other seldom traveled paths. They became hacktivists. Then they began a government operation to provide the pretext to enact the laws the "anon" group stands against. Problem, reaction, solution. I hate that AJ infowhore blowhard, but he's right about this.
Thank you for putting that into words, the exact words to describe it to the last byte. ./ was my go to site.
Now it's a widget on my phone because:
1) it doesn't spam me with ads.
2) I use and trust this site so little now, so it might as well be a widget.
Yes, technically there is a way to execute phone specific code with specially crafted text messages. This is not doing that. It's not executing a program. The system is trying to abbreviate the contents of the message to display in a notification banner or on the lock screen through a widget (or whatever apple calls them). The system is doing something it's designed to do, but due to lack of foresight or just shoddy development, they never bothered testing this with special characters. And some clown obviously found the bug. This is actually pretty big. So in the past few months I've learned about 3 important issues with IOS devices, even those running the current release: 1)They are still including a chinese root cert that has been delisted for handing out forged google certs, and who knows what else. 2)A specially crafted access point being in range of your IOS device can cause it to become unstable and eventually crash, even if you have not connected to that network 3)A specially crafted text message can crash your phone upon receiving it. Lets be clear, I'm not saying Android doesn't have some major issues as well, so don't try to fanboy me. But this is not what I expect from Apple. This is just bad. Lack of sanity testing? Keeping their users at risk seemingly just to say FU to google?
The bf series it's a poster child for emergent game play, the rehashes are still fps, but there's very little similarity between bf1942 and bf4, the core it's the same, but there's much more to it. Hardline takes it to another level without destruction and more twichty like cod.
Actually thank my phone for the incoherent post. I own the devices I want and don't really give a shit what people play on. Resolution, ie clean detail, makes or breaks a Fps as it's 99% spotting, 1% shooting. If game A has a better resolution and the same frame rate as the port of that on console B, console A is the better choice as you will see more details. If you want an over the top example, find Any game that supports 4k resolution, then do a side by side with a lower resolution. If your game shows me as 1 pixel on console, but shows me as 4 pixels on pc, pc wins. This really only matters for fps, and only if you like winning.
You might want to read your novel about how you can afford all options and are a better person for it. It comes off as childish and rather pointless.... if 1 version of the have plays at a higher res, the others suffer, it's a basic fact of fps. No we dont give a shit if you dont play them as you clearly care enough to not only read a post about them, but also comment on them. And yes I was playing minecraft in alpha so I'm well aware that graphics don't make a game . But in fps land, they can certainly break one
I just youtubed him. Yup, that guy is now Bilbo douchebaggins in my book. This is celebrity now? Honestly? I'm out.
I've never heard of either of those douchebags.
Firstly, what a load of crap. Secondly, I think John Chen should take a break from his failing company and actually go read a definition of neutrality, and then go ahead and read even a short blog post about NET-neutrality. This isn't above forcing your competition to allow you to piggy back on their success (hint I hate apple, don't go there) it's about ensuring a level playing field on the NETWORK. It has nothing to do with apps. It has everything to do with traffic shaping, packet manipulation, and avoiding a tiered internet ala the cable industry. We're not talking about apple, android, facebook. We're talking about telcos and their networks (the internet) and stopping them from changing the fundamental way the internet works. A packet is a packet is a packet, and it should stay that way. Obviously we need some traffic shaping to ensure the content that needs QoS gets it, that's a moot point. When you plug your samsung TV into your power outlet, it gets power regardless of the fact it's Samsung. An electron is an electron is an electron. Packets should be (within reason) dealt with the same.
Don't trust it because it's open source. Trust it because there's a community involved in reviewing the code that has no incentive to be deceptive.