Well you must have missed the day that one of the most useful adblockers got sold and started force feeding you "acceptable ads" and you can disable until you update the plugin again. They also indicated that they are working on a payment system to allow paid ads to circumvent the adblocking plugin.
See, most people missed the point. We're 100% dependent on ad blockers and script blockers to safely navigate the internet. No on pays for these applications. Companies and coders don't do shit for free. "If something's too cheap someone is paying something". TRUTH.
So the name of the game is for these adblockers to become a requirement (we are there already) and then they flip the table, drop the mic, and allow ad companies to pay them to push ads through their filters.
That's the end goal of this, and anyone attempting to make a career out of script and ad blocking, who denies this goal, is a straight up motherfucking liar.
So you felt the need to comment on the fact that you don't see any ads on that site. You are running a privacy plugin, blocks and script blockers. Of fucking course you won't see any fucking ads, you've blocked the mechanism that allows them. AND you posted as AC.
This is only slightly less pointless than the homophobic racist rant way back there.
Forbes was serving malware infested ads not too long ago, save yourself the trouble and just block the site in your hosts file so you don't accidentally go back there
Napster didn't invent anything. They took MP3 (already out there) and the internet full of people sharing files (since the fucking BBS days before the internet) and created a platform for them to do this, easily. As easily as sorting your own collection of music in winamp (yeah, i'm that fucking old, I whipped the lamas ass.)
Naspter created NOTHING but a culture of entitled college students and mislabeled music.
Anyhoo, this system would likely work on secured HDMI only, so there's no routing the stream through a device capable of recording it. Go ahead, blue your blueray player into a device that could copy the stream. Exactly.
This is why hollywood might actually attempt this, they have much greater control over our consumption of their media than you'd think.
Let me tell you how this will play out. You pay 50$ to stream the movie, you do so during the 48 hour in your home. Using various technologies you pirate the movie, and because you have no morals and need to recover the 50$, you provide an pristine HD copy of the movie, on release day, to a release group.
This group then releases said movie to the internet. And.... you go to jail for 10 years because the thing is audio/video digital fingerprinted.
$50? No, sorry, that's never going to work. The exact same price as a theater ticket? Yes, that my friend, will actually work. BUT..... it has to be ATLEAST 50$ because two adults are not seeing a movie opening weekend for 50$. They just aren't.
And no one is going to pay 50$ to watch a new release at home, by themselves.
I just don't see this working. Give us everyone VOD and be done with it.
Because just obtaining the logins isn't enough, delivering a malware payload to the end system offers full control and monitoring.
The reality is, your bank account info isn't that important, and most banks / credit cards do indeed have fraud protection. So what's the goal of malware now? Crypto locking stuff, and more importantly, crypto currency mining/generation.
I can make more money than I'll even be able to steal from your bank account (tracable) by placing your device into a malware driving bitcoin farm. And for the most part, bitcoin can be harder to trace than me sending your cash to an account I've opened somewhere.
If I was a bad guy, that's my plan right there with some slight modifications. If I kill and slaughter that cow I'll get a bunch of beef. BUT... if I feed it and nurture it, I might get milk for the next dozen years.
Who the hell types.com? It's 2016 and most modern browsers (anything but IE I suspect) figure out what you mean.
google in the address bar is the same as "google.com" and the only time I specify a root is when I want the Canadian site without turning on location.
You do realize this is actually killing off an entire ocean right? You do realize eating ANYTHING from the Pacific Ocean is very very risky... right? You do realize the halflife of some of these contaminates right?
Small amount? Did you read the article? Did you read anything related to this disaster? Half of Japan should have been, and still be, evacuated, it will be causing thyroid cancers and untold others for decades.
Chernobyl was an explosive event, yes, but considerably less than fukishima on all honest accounts relating to the nuclear material released, we had several reactors fully melt down, and as such, the material escaped the containment vessels and that's all we know.
Well wait, we also know that these plants are so close to the ocean that it's very likely for the cores to melt right throw and into a ground water source, which would cause a massive hydrogen explosion (similar to what actually happened at atleast 1 of the reactors).
And that my friend would essentially make Japan completely inhabitable for hundreds or more years. Radiation from this even, deadly cescium and other compounds, was detected as far as central canada for christ sake.
People like you scare the shit out of me. Carbon can be reclaimed. Nuclear material can not. Carbon doesn't cause mutations and cancers, nuclear material does. Carbon doesn't continue to react outside of the reactor leaking gamma and beta rays (yes, the same ones that made the Hulk), nucelar material and did in the case of fukishima.
You sir are very ignorant of this subject.
Wrong, they are caching junk to speed up loading the most recent apps. True, just like android, the os cycles stuff into the background pretty efficiently, it leaves junk in the cache.
The ones in "suspended" mode are indeed using resources, just not enough to actually affect battery life in any noticeable way. The cache, on the otherhand, can get out of hand.
Yes and no, if you are thinking about your computer or single server sitting beside you. If you are thinking of next gen data centers and virtualized servers, being able to supply a bus to RAM over a fiber link is very interesting. Think of a server component or appliance you install into a rack, then fiber link to your Hosts to supply more ram.
There is a limit to the amount of ram slots on a server, a physical limit. Fiber links would open up the ability to have external ram that doesn't actually need a slot. Fiberlinks take considerably less space. And if this was an option, I suspect you'd have a fiber trunk coming from the host. This could actually be genius.
I keep hearing about this, it's old news, why can't I got 3 hours without hearing about Shodan again??
Is this one of the new sponsors or something? Because the rush to get this, spam for lack of a better word, posted has resulted in, like many others, horribly manged posts.
Honestly. If it's a paid add, just mark it as such and be honest.
Magic? Malware delivering pixie fairies?
I'd suspect it's the same way this junk ends up on other systems. HINT: it's not always the user doing stupid things directly.
How you say? Ah well, lets say your linux admin is a lazy fuck and fails to disable root ssh on a server. And since he's a lazy fuck, he does manual patching instead of using a deployment system. Since he does it the "right way" he misses a box, and leaves a compromised version of openssh or some other shit there.
And then someone leverages a zeroday, or social engineers themselves onto your vpn, busts through a half secure web server, whatever. Their fancy little scantool will tell them everything they need to know to deploy whatever payload they want to that compromised box.
OR... someone plugs in a flashkey they brought from home to watch pirated copies of game of thrones (true story)
And considering most ransomware is asking for payment via bitcoin or any number of other cryptocurrencies.... the fact that law enforcement says "pay up so we can track the money" should be a wake up call.
Not for us, we read slashdot and already know bitcoin is anything but anonymous, but for the average joes who have heard the terms but don't grasp the concept.
Well yeah, that's kind of the core of the system. And you nailed it.
The indie devs could EASILY have made their own game paying homage to metal gear. From the sounds of it, they wanted to do a direct remake in a new engine. That's a pretty shitty idea for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, every damn game company is doing "classic" remakes of everything in their catalog so it is pretty stupid to assume this company wouldn't be thinking forwards like that.
Second, who the hell wants to trace? That's what this would have been, tracing. The game is already completed, they would be redoing it, reworking the assets. I'm not discounting the skill for those actually revamping the models and such.
But for the designer, this is a cheap cop out. That goes against everything I would put into an indie developers pocket. Seriously, you want to be a indie developer so you go ahead and decide to illegally remake one of the biggest games of all time from one of the larger publishers?
Clearly this whole deal was done to get them to stop the project and get these unoriginal asshats some publicity.
How to become an indie game designer in 3 easy steps.
Step 1: Think up an original idea (oh shit)
Step 2: You really need to complete step 1 before you get here
Step 3: You didn't even read step 2 did you?
Pretty sure Mosiac could have adapted. They didn't.
See, you act like MS showed up one day, murdered a bunch of Mosiac employees and then started rootkitting pcs to install their browser. Granted, there were some shady, but legal, business practices at work..... MS put out a product people adopted, their competitors failed to adapt. But hey, it's not all bad, mozilla was born from those ashes and up to a few years ago, provided one of the best alternatives to IE out there.
So lets take a look at this situation. They will provide a linux version of MSSQL. What does this mean? How exactly does supporting that other OS extinguish said OS? It doesn't. It frees me up from having to have a windows box host my MSSQL, and instead, I can spin up a linux VM and host it there, saving myself a license and god knows what else.
This is one of the best things MS can do to support Linux. If any of the other SQL implementations weren't half-assed shitfests, you'd have nothing to worry about. But that's the clincher, clearly you understand that most of the sql options for linux are crap and will take way more effort and care than MSSQL will.
You should be looking at this as a win, you'll get more servers installed with linux, and the sql projects will have to step it up a notch.
But that's not what this is about, this is about linux being "better" and microsoft being "crap" but now that we're on the verge of a fair comparison you cry foul.
Because for the typical linux fanboy (read desktop user) microsoft is bad, any implementation or incarnation of a MS product is by definition pure evil. It doesn't matter that MSSQL is a fucking solid product, and it doesn't matter that bringing this to linux will inevitably add MORE linux servers into the world.
MS= bad.
This will only GROW linux installation numbers.
"Two Astronauts Return To Earth After Record 340 Days In ISS"
A year was 365 days the last time I checked. It's been years since I checked. How many you ask? I don't know because it really depends on what you define a year to be, most of us picked 365, but the summary poster decided 340 was enough. So now I'm going to have to do the math to figure out how old I actually am.
the youtube model is kind of a dinosaur, it doesn't mesh with what people expect for consumable media anymore, I don't see this incarnation of it lasting much longer. I suspect we'll see a fundamental shift in the next few years.
Competitors simply don't have the google datacenters to use as a backend, and that's why all the competitors are worse than youtube. Lower quality, many many more ads, less control over said ads
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Well you must have missed the day that one of the most useful adblockers got sold and started force feeding you "acceptable ads" and you can disable until you update the plugin again. They also indicated that they are working on a payment system to allow paid ads to circumvent the adblocking plugin. See, most people missed the point. We're 100% dependent on ad blockers and script blockers to safely navigate the internet. No on pays for these applications. Companies and coders don't do shit for free. "If something's too cheap someone is paying something". TRUTH. So the name of the game is for these adblockers to become a requirement (we are there already) and then they flip the table, drop the mic, and allow ad companies to pay them to push ads through their filters. That's the end goal of this, and anyone attempting to make a career out of script and ad blocking, who denies this goal, is a straight up motherfucking liar.
So you felt the need to comment on the fact that you don't see any ads on that site. You are running a privacy plugin, blocks and script blockers. Of fucking course you won't see any fucking ads, you've blocked the mechanism that allows them. AND you posted as AC. This is only slightly less pointless than the homophobic racist rant way back there.
Forbes was serving malware infested ads not too long ago, save yourself the trouble and just block the site in your hosts file so you don't accidentally go back there
Napster didn't invent anything. They took MP3 (already out there) and the internet full of people sharing files (since the fucking BBS days before the internet) and created a platform for them to do this, easily. As easily as sorting your own collection of music in winamp (yeah, i'm that fucking old, I whipped the lamas ass.) Naspter created NOTHING but a culture of entitled college students and mislabeled music. Anyhoo, this system would likely work on secured HDMI only, so there's no routing the stream through a device capable of recording it. Go ahead, blue your blueray player into a device that could copy the stream. Exactly. This is why hollywood might actually attempt this, they have much greater control over our consumption of their media than you'd think.
Let me tell you how this will play out. You pay 50$ to stream the movie, you do so during the 48 hour in your home. Using various technologies you pirate the movie, and because you have no morals and need to recover the 50$, you provide an pristine HD copy of the movie, on release day, to a release group. This group then releases said movie to the internet. And.... you go to jail for 10 years because the thing is audio/video digital fingerprinted. $50? No, sorry, that's never going to work. The exact same price as a theater ticket? Yes, that my friend, will actually work. BUT..... it has to be ATLEAST 50$ because two adults are not seeing a movie opening weekend for 50$. They just aren't. And no one is going to pay 50$ to watch a new release at home, by themselves. I just don't see this working. Give us everyone VOD and be done with it.
Because just obtaining the logins isn't enough, delivering a malware payload to the end system offers full control and monitoring. The reality is, your bank account info isn't that important, and most banks / credit cards do indeed have fraud protection. So what's the goal of malware now? Crypto locking stuff, and more importantly, crypto currency mining/generation. I can make more money than I'll even be able to steal from your bank account (tracable) by placing your device into a malware driving bitcoin farm. And for the most part, bitcoin can be harder to trace than me sending your cash to an account I've opened somewhere. If I was a bad guy, that's my plan right there with some slight modifications. If I kill and slaughter that cow I'll get a bunch of beef. BUT... if I feed it and nurture it, I might get milk for the next dozen years.
Who the hell types .com? It's 2016 and most modern browsers (anything but IE I suspect) figure out what you mean.
google in the address bar is the same as "google.com" and the only time I specify a root is when I want the Canadian site without turning on location.
You do realize this is actually killing off an entire ocean right? You do realize eating ANYTHING from the Pacific Ocean is very very risky... right? You do realize the halflife of some of these contaminates right? Small amount? Did you read the article? Did you read anything related to this disaster? Half of Japan should have been, and still be, evacuated, it will be causing thyroid cancers and untold others for decades. Chernobyl was an explosive event, yes, but considerably less than fukishima on all honest accounts relating to the nuclear material released, we had several reactors fully melt down, and as such, the material escaped the containment vessels and that's all we know. Well wait, we also know that these plants are so close to the ocean that it's very likely for the cores to melt right throw and into a ground water source, which would cause a massive hydrogen explosion (similar to what actually happened at atleast 1 of the reactors). And that my friend would essentially make Japan completely inhabitable for hundreds or more years. Radiation from this even, deadly cescium and other compounds, was detected as far as central canada for christ sake. People like you scare the shit out of me. Carbon can be reclaimed. Nuclear material can not. Carbon doesn't cause mutations and cancers, nuclear material does. Carbon doesn't continue to react outside of the reactor leaking gamma and beta rays (yes, the same ones that made the Hulk), nucelar material and did in the case of fukishima. You sir are very ignorant of this subject.
How did my above post get a score of 2 points immediately?? I certainly can't mod myself
Wrong, they are caching junk to speed up loading the most recent apps. True, just like android, the os cycles stuff into the background pretty efficiently, it leaves junk in the cache. The ones in "suspended" mode are indeed using resources, just not enough to actually affect battery life in any noticeable way. The cache, on the otherhand, can get out of hand.
Yes and no, if you are thinking about your computer or single server sitting beside you. If you are thinking of next gen data centers and virtualized servers, being able to supply a bus to RAM over a fiber link is very interesting. Think of a server component or appliance you install into a rack, then fiber link to your Hosts to supply more ram. There is a limit to the amount of ram slots on a server, a physical limit. Fiber links would open up the ability to have external ram that doesn't actually need a slot. Fiberlinks take considerably less space. And if this was an option, I suspect you'd have a fiber trunk coming from the host. This could actually be genius.
Someone to explain how this is a bad thing and all that jazz. MS is in the title and summary, it's going to happen.
I keep hearing about this, it's old news, why can't I got 3 hours without hearing about Shodan again?? Is this one of the new sponsors or something? Because the rush to get this, spam for lack of a better word, posted has resulted in, like many others, horribly manged posts. Honestly. If it's a paid add, just mark it as such and be honest.
I feel sad you needed to take the time to craft that post. But I do hope a lot of people read it.
Magic? Malware delivering pixie fairies? I'd suspect it's the same way this junk ends up on other systems. HINT: it's not always the user doing stupid things directly. How you say? Ah well, lets say your linux admin is a lazy fuck and fails to disable root ssh on a server. And since he's a lazy fuck, he does manual patching instead of using a deployment system. Since he does it the "right way" he misses a box, and leaves a compromised version of openssh or some other shit there. And then someone leverages a zeroday, or social engineers themselves onto your vpn, busts through a half secure web server, whatever. Their fancy little scantool will tell them everything they need to know to deploy whatever payload they want to that compromised box. OR... someone plugs in a flashkey they brought from home to watch pirated copies of game of thrones (true story)
And considering most ransomware is asking for payment via bitcoin or any number of other cryptocurrencies.... the fact that law enforcement says "pay up so we can track the money" should be a wake up call. Not for us, we read slashdot and already know bitcoin is anything but anonymous, but for the average joes who have heard the terms but don't grasp the concept.
Well yeah, that's kind of the core of the system. And you nailed it. The indie devs could EASILY have made their own game paying homage to metal gear. From the sounds of it, they wanted to do a direct remake in a new engine. That's a pretty shitty idea for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, every damn game company is doing "classic" remakes of everything in their catalog so it is pretty stupid to assume this company wouldn't be thinking forwards like that. Second, who the hell wants to trace? That's what this would have been, tracing. The game is already completed, they would be redoing it, reworking the assets. I'm not discounting the skill for those actually revamping the models and such. But for the designer, this is a cheap cop out. That goes against everything I would put into an indie developers pocket. Seriously, you want to be a indie developer so you go ahead and decide to illegally remake one of the biggest games of all time from one of the larger publishers? Clearly this whole deal was done to get them to stop the project and get these unoriginal asshats some publicity.
Lol neither did you
How to become an indie game designer in 3 easy steps. Step 1: Think up an original idea (oh shit) Step 2: You really need to complete step 1 before you get here Step 3: You didn't even read step 2 did you?
Pretty sure Mosiac could have adapted. They didn't. See, you act like MS showed up one day, murdered a bunch of Mosiac employees and then started rootkitting pcs to install their browser. Granted, there were some shady, but legal, business practices at work..... MS put out a product people adopted, their competitors failed to adapt. But hey, it's not all bad, mozilla was born from those ashes and up to a few years ago, provided one of the best alternatives to IE out there. So lets take a look at this situation. They will provide a linux version of MSSQL. What does this mean? How exactly does supporting that other OS extinguish said OS? It doesn't. It frees me up from having to have a windows box host my MSSQL, and instead, I can spin up a linux VM and host it there, saving myself a license and god knows what else. This is one of the best things MS can do to support Linux. If any of the other SQL implementations weren't half-assed shitfests, you'd have nothing to worry about. But that's the clincher, clearly you understand that most of the sql options for linux are crap and will take way more effort and care than MSSQL will. You should be looking at this as a win, you'll get more servers installed with linux, and the sql projects will have to step it up a notch. But that's not what this is about, this is about linux being "better" and microsoft being "crap" but now that we're on the verge of a fair comparison you cry foul.
Because for the typical linux fanboy (read desktop user) microsoft is bad, any implementation or incarnation of a MS product is by definition pure evil. It doesn't matter that MSSQL is a fucking solid product, and it doesn't matter that bringing this to linux will inevitably add MORE linux servers into the world. MS= bad. This will only GROW linux installation numbers.
Didn't we already discuss the fact that they are using a customized linux based SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK. They aren't running azure on linux.
"Two Astronauts Return To Earth After Record 340 Days In ISS" A year was 365 days the last time I checked. It's been years since I checked. How many you ask? I don't know because it really depends on what you define a year to be, most of us picked 365, but the summary poster decided 340 was enough. So now I'm going to have to do the math to figure out how old I actually am.
the youtube model is kind of a dinosaur, it doesn't mesh with what people expect for consumable media anymore, I don't see this incarnation of it lasting much longer. I suspect we'll see a fundamental shift in the next few years. Competitors simply don't have the google datacenters to use as a backend, and that's why all the competitors are worse than youtube. Lower quality, many many more ads, less control over said ads
Didn't take long for the bigots to come out