If you believe that use of the wiretapping law in instances like this is abuse, make sure your district attorney knows that prosecuting these cases means you will do your best to get a different person into their office next election.
Tolls waste a lot of time and money in an attempt to spread the cost of the road to the people that 'use' it, but this doesn't work. Everyone benefits from the road system. Even if you don't own a car, the goods and services you use rely on them. Adding tolls just increases the cost of those goods and services, so the entire toll industry is a waste of time. Just tax people evenly for the roads we all rely on and skip the wasteful toll booths and electronics.
The online game industry has existed long enough for there to be people with talent and experience in handling online communities. Hire them. Seriously. Don't just pick a developer that's friendly and good at multitasking and expect them to deal with your clientele. A well managed online community is a huge advantage for any online game, but you need a filter between the creators and the players, and that filter goes both ways.
The creators don't need to view the more soul destroying senseless hate that shows on message boards, and the players don't need to hear about the grim reality of 16 hour days during crunch time. A good community manager knows enough about game development in general, and their product in particular to find the signal in the noise, and get the information to the correct people on the team, as well as editing the information the players want to hear from the developers.
Sanya Weathers, (aka. Tweety) has a sporadically updated blog that discusses these and other issues. If you want some insight in community management, I recommend checking the archives there. http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org/
Malware is profitable when it can infect a huge number of systems. Without a monoculture of mobile operating systems malware isn't profitable enough to develop.
This is the truth. Terrorism can't be completely stopped without turning the US into a police state, with cameras inside every home. Therefore some terrorist attacks are part of the price of freedom.
Reasonable searches are fine, but machines that take naked pictures of passengers and invasive physical searches are not reasonable.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but in my opinion enjoying Heavy Rain is a huge sign that you don't actually like games.
gog.com is a good source for old games at a very reasonable price with no DRM. Plenty of stuff in the adventure genre that you may have missed over the years.
Bethesda has a long and storied history of releasing games that are very ambitious, and very unstable. The original release of Daggerfall would crash hourly.
Now that the majority of games are for consoles, how about letting us return defective products? If a companies initial release was awful, they would lose a lot of day one sales in returns if we had that simple bit of consumer protection.
Fuck the FCC. Fuck them. It's a perfectly good word that millions of Americans use every day. Don't shy away from it, particularly when we are discussing censorship through decency laws. The Constitution didn't protect freedom of speech as long as no one can hear you.
Seriously, we don't try and kid proof the world, we make playgrounds. Create a.kid domain and control the content there. That way making an internet connection that is safe for children becomes relatively easy.
The reason why bots and gold farming exist is because the game is flawed. If sections of the game are not overly long, boring, and repetitive, there won't be a demand for services to skip that part of the game or play it for you.
Stop designing games that waste the players' time without providing fun. If you want to keep people as subscribers design your game to have replay value instead of long travel times or grinding.
If the black hats share resources by selling one another exploits, or cloaking packages it just takes less work for the the white hats to patch the problem or break the cloak.
The problem with.xxx is that it is voluntary, and plenty of companies that want to distribute porn will resist moving to this domain. Remember whitehouse.com? Additionally, forcing them to move is easily fought, since it is essentially a form of censorship.
Why are we trying to kid-proof the entire internet? We don't do that to the world, we make playgrounds instead. We should create a.kid domain and license that to companies that want to use it. Posting material that isn't suitable gets your site pulled.
Once that is in place, creating computer accounts that can only access.kid domains is trivial.
I repair Windows systems often at work, and system restore is a very valuable tool when you are trying to avoid a format and reinstall. Even if the restore itself fails, or contains infected files, it is possible to manually pull out the registry files to undo registry damage.
Keep in mind that Windows 7 uses volume shadow copy instead of a hidden directory for system restore, and is therefore much less likely to be intentionally infected by malware. It's no substitute for a good backup system, but disabling system restore could easily end up turning a repairable problem into an unsolvable one.
Please do not take legal action against the person that made this. Instead, credit them for creativity, and make an iPhone app of this game. I'll buy it.
Adobe's security track record has been pretty terrible. Flash and Reader security vulnerabilities are the most common way for malware attacks to get access to systems today. One of the main reasons Apple insists on having control of their products is to deliver a good user experience, and they currently enjoy a very positive reputation for not getting infected by viruses. I'm honestly surprised that lack of security isn't number one on the list.
With the market penetration of the iPhone, if it used Flash it would be a huge target for malware authors. While not having Flash can be irritating, disenfecting my phone would be far worse.
Yeah, and many people work 16 hours for many days and make less.
Not at jobs where you are safeguarding thousands of lives, and millions of dollars of equipment. Hell it takes over $170,000 to fuel a 747, there has to be a way to pay the pilots a wage that is reasonable considering the time and education it takes to develop the skill.
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If you believe that use of the wiretapping law in instances like this is abuse, make sure your district attorney knows that prosecuting these cases means you will do your best to get a different person into their office next election.
Tolls waste a lot of time and money in an attempt to spread the cost of the road to the people that 'use' it, but this doesn't work. Everyone benefits from the road system. Even if you don't own a car, the goods and services you use rely on them. Adding tolls just increases the cost of those goods and services, so the entire toll industry is a waste of time. Just tax people evenly for the roads we all rely on and skip the wasteful toll booths and electronics.
The online game industry has existed long enough for there to be people with talent and experience in handling online communities. Hire them. Seriously. Don't just pick a developer that's friendly and good at multitasking and expect them to deal with your clientele. A well managed online community is a huge advantage for any online game, but you need a filter between the creators and the players, and that filter goes both ways.
The creators don't need to view the more soul destroying senseless hate that shows on message boards, and the players don't need to hear about the grim reality of 16 hour days during crunch time. A good community manager knows enough about game development in general, and their product in particular to find the signal in the noise, and get the information to the correct people on the team, as well as editing the information the players want to hear from the developers.
Sanya Weathers, (aka. Tweety) has a sporadically updated blog that discusses these and other issues. If you want some insight in community management, I recommend checking the archives there. http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org/
Malware is profitable when it can infect a huge number of systems. Without a monoculture of mobile operating systems malware isn't profitable enough to develop.
When they added the groups feature it became somewhat useful, instead of just being a vanity toy.
This is the truth. Terrorism can't be completely stopped without turning the US into a police state, with cameras inside every home. Therefore some terrorist attacks are part of the price of freedom.
Reasonable searches are fine, but machines that take naked pictures of passengers and invasive physical searches are not reasonable.
Forking narrative? It's a mystery game with 20 endings where the killer is always the same guy!
Fork that narrative!
YES!
Been saying the same thing for years. It makes sense, and it's more technically feasible.
Just what I was thinking.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but in my opinion enjoying Heavy Rain is a huge sign that you don't actually like games.
gog.com is a good source for old games at a very reasonable price with no DRM. Plenty of stuff in the adventure genre that you may have missed over the years.
Bethesda has a long and storied history of releasing games that are very ambitious, and very unstable. The original release of Daggerfall would crash hourly.
Now that the majority of games are for consoles, how about letting us return defective products? If a companies initial release was awful, they would lose a lot of day one sales in returns if we had that simple bit of consumer protection.
Constantly scanning every machine for sensitive data is too difficult to be effective.
Simply encrypt active machines, and use secure erase/destruction policies for retired hard drives.
Instead of 'M' for mature, put a photo of a giant erect penis on the cover.
Those dang kids and their __________, it's ruining them!
Video games
Magic the Gathering cards
Dungeons and Dragons
Comic books
Rock and Roll
Jazz music and dancing
How far back you want to go?
Fuck the FCC. Fuck them. It's a perfectly good word that millions of Americans use every day. Don't shy away from it, particularly when we are discussing censorship through decency laws. The Constitution didn't protect freedom of speech as long as no one can hear you.
Not to mention the firing rate of that system is basically filling the sky with lead/depleted uranium/whatever.
No U. >:(
Seriously, we don't try and kid proof the world, we make playgrounds. Create a .kid domain and control the content there. That way making an internet connection that is safe for children becomes relatively easy.
Fail Whale.
The reason why bots and gold farming exist is because the game is flawed. If sections of the game are not overly long, boring, and repetitive, there won't be a demand for services to skip that part of the game or play it for you.
Stop designing games that waste the players' time without providing fun. If you want to keep people as subscribers design your game to have replay value instead of long travel times or grinding.
If the black hats share resources by selling one another exploits, or cloaking packages it just takes less work for the the white hats to patch the problem or break the cloak.
The problem with .xxx is that it is voluntary, and plenty of companies that want to distribute porn will resist moving to this domain. Remember whitehouse.com? Additionally, forcing them to move is easily fought, since it is essentially a form of censorship.
Why are we trying to kid-proof the entire internet? We don't do that to the world, we make playgrounds instead. We should create a .kid domain and license that to companies that want to use it. Posting material that isn't suitable gets your site pulled.
Once that is in place, creating computer accounts that can only access .kid domains is trivial.
I repair Windows systems often at work, and system restore is a very valuable tool when you are trying to avoid a format and reinstall. Even if the restore itself fails, or contains infected files, it is possible to manually pull out the registry files to undo registry damage.
Keep in mind that Windows 7 uses volume shadow copy instead of a hidden directory for system restore, and is therefore much less likely to be intentionally infected by malware. It's no substitute for a good backup system, but disabling system restore could easily end up turning a repairable problem into an unsolvable one.
Dear Nintendo,
Please do not take legal action against the person that made this. Instead, credit them for creativity, and make an iPhone app of this game. I'll buy it.
-Zaphod
Adobe's security track record has been pretty terrible. Flash and Reader security vulnerabilities are the most common way for malware attacks to get access to systems today. One of the main reasons Apple insists on having control of their products is to deliver a good user experience, and they currently enjoy a very positive reputation for not getting infected by viruses. I'm honestly surprised that lack of security isn't number one on the list.
With the market penetration of the iPhone, if it used Flash it would be a huge target for malware authors. While not having Flash can be irritating, disenfecting my phone would be far worse.
Yeah, and many people work 16 hours for many days and make less.
Not at jobs where you are safeguarding thousands of lives, and millions of dollars of equipment. Hell it takes over $170,000 to fuel a 747, there has to be a way to pay the pilots a wage that is reasonable considering the time and education it takes to develop the skill.