An ounce of prevention could have saved them from having to shell out for a pound of cure.
Instead of using thinner pipes, they could have used what the original plans called for. Instead of using crappier seals, they could have used the ones the original plans called for. Instead of compacting everything into one area, they could have left it at two, like the original plans probably called for.
This is engineering, and it's the way it's been done on damn near everything for a long time. Engineers draw up plans, bean counters go back and make changes. Engineers make new plans to work around what the bean counters did, but it's too late, because the modified plans are by that time already in production. Of course, the original plans are the ones that are submitted to the safety agencies for verification...
Alright, since 100% of posts so far have been about flaming the guy or calling him retarded, I'm sure he already knows. How about back to the original topic? What should he do to get his software back? There SHOULD be a law in place stating that if a product can no longer be 'activated' it must be 'unlocked' permanently and for free. Yes, this includes hosting servers for games that no longer have master servers (including MMOs).
I would say with certainty that it's closer to chemical computation than it is evolution. Prions' and proteins' function is heavily influenced by their shape. Their shape isn't a 100% consistent. So you could have an d shaped protein and a b shaped protein and they might still function as intended, but if it switches to an a shaped protein, it may not work anymore. Errors in folding are quite common, even in biological systems. Usually the aforementioned system has things in place to deal with prions, but obviously not 100% of prions get dealt with, or we wouldn't have Mad Cow Disease.
Yeah. Then you can start researching 'reactor coolant' and 'reactor control systems' so that someday, in a few weeks, you'll be qualified to build your own nuclear reactor. Then you just need a ship for it to go in, but don't worry, after all that, it'll be destroyed by someone waiting outside of a jump gate.
Oh, yes, it's very affordable. $600+ a month can easily buy you a decent apartment pretty much anywhere else, but here you get a room that's smaller than a prison cell that you can just barely sleep in.
I could see people sleeping in one of these once in a while if they have to pull shift work or if they miss a train, but every day? Even living with your parents would be less degrading than living in one of these as an apartment.
It's illegal to receive signals intentionally that were not intended for you. Example being satellite TV. If you aren't paying for it, it's illegal to decrypt it. Since there's no way to stop some signals from leaving your home, it would be illegal for people to snoop on those signals. It would be like the police using a high gain antenna to listen in to your phone conversations from your cordless phone in the house and say that it's not wiretapping since they're just using the emitted signals.
"The role of IT isn't to control information, and that's a ridiculous straw man argument. We're trying to make sure users (1) don't access any malicious content and (2) don't waste time on fark.com all day. Sometimes there's collateral damage. If you've got a better system I'm all ears."
It's called managers actually being managers and not regular employees with management duties tacked on. If you see that Joe Johnson is spending 5 hours a day actively (this is important) browsing Fark or Reddit, talk to them about it. Give them a warning. If you see that they refresh the page occasionally and check their email once in a while, it doesn't matter. When Susie Smith comes in whining about how her project is too much work and you see that she was talking to guys on Facebook all day, inform her as such, give her a warning, etc. When she looks at her bank statements or pops an email off once in a while it doesn't matter.
Using IT to block 99.99% of websites to keep the employees from dicking off is a very passive aggressive move. It keeps the managers from having to say, "Look, you've been on Reddit for 6 hours, actively browsing. This shit is unacceptable." and it keeps the higher ups in their little cloud in the sky, situated as far away from the workers (and reality) as possible.
On a side note, a friend of mine used to complain about his job at a tech support place. A good 80% of all websites were blocked. Going to a blocked website would get you a WTF email from your supervisor and too many of these would get you fired. A lot of these websites were great for helping you troubleshoot or looking up specific hardware/software info. The whole reasoning was to keep people from dicking off, looking at porn, checking their email, banking, playing games, listening to music, going to competitors' websites, going to forums, etc. I'm not entirely sure why they even had the internet, but every request to the higher ups to get the restrictions relaxed was shot down because they didn't think that's how a business should be run. Can anyone guess that they went out of business? This was pre-India call center exodus.
At first, he speaks of we as gamers. Then he speaks of he, the gamer. You, the gamer. They, the gamers. He separates himself from the gamers by saying he doesn't want the fantasy. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to realize that plenty of shooters are hard when played as they were meant to be played. The Call of Duty games are very challenging on the hardest modes. So are many games. Many shooters.
But many games are hard for the wrong reasons. Modern Warfare 2, for example, features enemies that kill you in two shots from a pistol from 500 meters away when they have no direct line of sight to you (due to shrubs/trees/debris/etc). This is hard for the wrong reason. Hard for the right reason would be that you have no idea he's there, and he thinks you might be in the general area. He sprays lead, giving away his position and possibly hitting you. The two shots probably will kill you, but unlikely at 500m, if you have body armor on. Also, he's probably scared. Nervous. Trembling. That affects accuracy.
That helicopter, for example, knows exactly where you are, down to the centimeter. In real life, you're a brown speck on the ground and unless you're viewing infrared or using some kind of visual aid, there's no way you're going to distinguish brown speck on the ground from beige rectangle that is the Corolla you're hiding behind. The helicopter would lay down suppressing fire, maybe shoot a few rockets in the general area if they were lucky enough to have someone use a laser target designator or are talking to a forward observer. In which case you could kill the forward observer or whoever is wielding the designator.
As soon as you get an official paycheck (if you even make it through the hiring process because damn near everyone does background checks), they'll know where you are. As soon as you open any new accounts, they'll know where you are. As soon as you apply for a loan or line of credit, they'll know where you are. Can you really survive with no available credit, no official job (or at least, a really low-paying job), and no way to get utilities/services?
Sure, you could live in a tent in the woods, shower in gas stations, etc, but all of that is a pain in the ass. People will realize that it's easier just to leave the country or return to prison and serve out their time. A few years in jail is much better than being imprisoned by exclusion from the rest of society and most of its benefits.
Never mind that cell phone companies are insanely profitable. They mark phones that cost $20 or less to make up to $200 if you don't get the two year agreement, they charge you $10+/month for messaging which is mostly handled in the normal packets your phone sends to the tower anyway, and they try to charge you so much for bandwidth that viewing a page one time will more than pay for the data plan. They could easily afford to put more towers in place. It's just that they won't.
After all, they're doing pretty well with the coverage they have right now. People are complaining, but not many people are changing networks. Have fun switching to Sprint or T-mobile, AT&T users. Your iPhone will be a glorified watch since you can't use it anymore.
56k was the pinnacle of modem technology. The phone line could NOT support much more than 56k using standard dial-up technology. Of course you had your flex and you had your x2, you could sometimes get around 60k or even 70k if the end software supported it and you were linked on perfect noise free lines. The problem was that the dial-up technology was ancient. We had the technology in the 1970's to make ISP modem pools. It never really went farther than that, barring x2 and flex and incremental increases in speed. We had the technology, but not the knowledge.
Then we hit a wall at 56k.
We actually had to develop the technology for DSL. The idea was formed in the early 80's, but until we got pretty good with laser communications and making really fast switching circuits, we couldn't develop it. Now we have DSL that can get 10MBps by tacking on faster and faster components to both ends. Ultimately, we'll run into the same wall again. We'll have the idea for how to go faster, but not the technology. We'll have gold plated connectors on both sides, and oxidized wire zig-zagging between neon signs connecting the sides to each other. If we want to keep going with phone lines, we'll probably have to lay new lines or experience some major breakthrough in communications.
"Calm the hell down, get the hell out, or take this antidote."
The drunk would have three choices. To stop being loud and obnoxious, to leave the establishment, or to take the antidote. Knowing most drunks, he'd take a swing at someone, but then it crosses into the legal territory and is no longer a civil matter. Then there would be even fewer excuses for synthehol-related crimes. Drunk driving? Stupid, you get a year in jail for not taking the antidote. Drinking and dialing? Stupid, don't call me ever again. Drinking and deriving? Stupid, get out of my math class.
Religion does exist in video games. They aren't usually the same religions as we have meatside, however. I think that's what people are complaining about. The problem is if you let, say, World of Warcraft priests worship the Christian god, then people will automatically boycott when it doesn't follow a particular sect's beliefs. In fact, they'd have no combat skills at all if they followed the word of the Bible.
Instead, religions are made up, relatively shallow, and may be based on the history that took place in the game. Sounds a lot like real religions, doesn't it?
If you get fired for failing to do a job for which you were not equipped (and they know you aren't equipped for it), you might be able to sue because they created a hostile work environment. Hostile work environment lawsuits aren't just for sexual harassment, folks.
Really, honestly, you shouldn't be using your company's phone/pager/etc for personal use. People do it all the time, and companies allow some leeway because everyone's human. It doesn't usually cost the company much and it makes their employees happier. It just gets their panties in a knot when people use company resources for illegal/conflict-of-interest kinds of things.
A work phone, paid for by the workplace, should be allowed to be inspected by the workplace. Just like email. Just like web traffic. Any abuse of this system, however, should be punished harshly and swiftly. If you want to sext each other, get your own damn phones. I'm sure evidence logs don't need a whole lot of, "Lol hang on let me beat this black guy for being black" mixed with "Done beating him here's a picture of my dick" when at trials.
Most judges I've dealt with or heard of seem to be disconnected. In no way shape or form would I ever represent myself in court. When they say maximum fine, they don't mean maximum fine. A judge will levy a HIGHER fine on you for DARING to represent yourself. It's not uncommon to see people lose their licenses for YEARS from a DUI that was completely unfounded and nearly without evidence, because they represented themselves and the judge was already pissed off at them.
I used to work for a magazine distributor and have seen this coming for at least a few years. Now the distributor is out of business, but far before the time of a workable digital magazine download/viewing system. The big publishers are looking to cut their costs some more. They're raking in ridiculous profit, but always want more. Getting rid of actual physical product in stores would be a great way to do that!
A company is in business to make money. They'll in no way spend money unless it'll make more money than the alternatives. There is an ulterior motive here, and it's the hope that the people with autism will be so absorbed with their jobs they won't realize they're getting minimum wage or may not care because now they have a job they can do well. They'll do a damn fine job at it, most likely, and they'll run off all the riff-raff (shitty testers who are just there to pirate the software and/or play games all day).
However, they'll also lower the bar. Suddenly all QA is minimum wage only, and the overall quality of software developed drops sharply. Remember back in the day when QA testers were usually part of the parent company? Now most are outsourced to smaller recruiting agencies that won't even tell people if there will be any work for them tomorrow or not, because they don't know if the parent company will just up and leave. The testers don't know shit about coding, only that throwing a grenade here will cause it to bounce back in their faces, but the software has already gone gold anyway, so it's too late to fix.
People won't blame Pandemic, they'll blame EA. But what chance do we have of boycotting EA for it's well-known and shitty practices? Seems like 90% of all big name games come out from them. Perhaps the various Departments of Labor should look into how they treat their staff? Finish this project, lay everyone off, skimp on pay, hours, blacklist people, contract violations, etc.
This is exactly the problem and I don't blame you for posting anonymously. Every single EA game I have owned after a certain point shipped with horrible bugs. Things that you could have caught in testing after about an hour of play time. Game stopping bugs. Only to be fixed a MONTH later when I shelved the game or had taken it back and swore off EA. It's getting harder and harder to avoid their games, though, since they keep buying out good ideas and then turning them to shit.
You know, EA, games take a while to develop. If you don't have the resources, time, or patience to deal with it, you're welcome to go eat a bowl of dicks. I'm tired of promising games being snatched up by EA, only to have them lay everyone off at the last minute and skip testing. They've done this with pretty much every single game, even their successful ones.
One of the main mechanisms for brain damage after injury to the brain is due to the neurons releasing their packets of neurotransmitters upon their death. So you have a good neuron right next to a big blob of toxic neurotransmitters. Then that neuron dies, too. It's a chemical cascade of dying neurons. Slowing down metabolism slows down this damage, as oxidation plays a large part. Ever see those people that drown in icy water, only to be revived after hours without oxygen, somewhat intact? Same thing.
Microsoft's network, Microsoft's rules. They're 100% in the right for banning modded consoles. Basically you can play your pirated games or you can play on Live, but not both with the same console. Now what angers me is how they'll send out replacement consoles for warranty repairs that are already banned from Live, and tell the recipient that they must have a modded console and refuse them any recourse. What also angers me is how it would be easily within the law to ban for almost ANY reason, leaving the user with little to no recourse.
I applaud Microsoft's banning of modded consoles, but condemn Terms of Service in general because they're 99.999% in the favor of the writer. I mean, the company.
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An ounce of prevention could have saved them from having to shell out for a pound of cure.
Instead of using thinner pipes, they could have used what the original plans called for. Instead of using crappier seals, they could have used the ones the original plans called for. Instead of compacting everything into one area, they could have left it at two, like the original plans probably called for.
This is engineering, and it's the way it's been done on damn near everything for a long time. Engineers draw up plans, bean counters go back and make changes. Engineers make new plans to work around what the bean counters did, but it's too late, because the modified plans are by that time already in production. Of course, the original plans are the ones that are submitted to the safety agencies for verification...
Alright, since 100% of posts so far have been about flaming the guy or calling him retarded, I'm sure he already knows. How about back to the original topic? What should he do to get his software back? There SHOULD be a law in place stating that if a product can no longer be 'activated' it must be 'unlocked' permanently and for free. Yes, this includes hosting servers for games that no longer have master servers (including MMOs).
I would say with certainty that it's closer to chemical computation than it is evolution. Prions' and proteins' function is heavily influenced by their shape. Their shape isn't a 100% consistent. So you could have an d shaped protein and a b shaped protein and they might still function as intended, but if it switches to an a shaped protein, it may not work anymore. Errors in folding are quite common, even in biological systems. Usually the aforementioned system has things in place to deal with prions, but obviously not 100% of prions get dealt with, or we wouldn't have Mad Cow Disease.
Yeah. Then you can start researching 'reactor coolant' and 'reactor control systems' so that someday, in a few weeks, you'll be qualified to build your own nuclear reactor. Then you just need a ship for it to go in, but don't worry, after all that, it'll be destroyed by someone waiting outside of a jump gate.
Oh, yes, it's very affordable. $600+ a month can easily buy you a decent apartment pretty much anywhere else, but here you get a room that's smaller than a prison cell that you can just barely sleep in.
I could see people sleeping in one of these once in a while if they have to pull shift work or if they miss a train, but every day? Even living with your parents would be less degrading than living in one of these as an apartment.
It's illegal to receive signals intentionally that were not intended for you. Example being satellite TV. If you aren't paying for it, it's illegal to decrypt it. Since there's no way to stop some signals from leaving your home, it would be illegal for people to snoop on those signals. It would be like the police using a high gain antenna to listen in to your phone conversations from your cordless phone in the house and say that it's not wiretapping since they're just using the emitted signals.
"The role of IT isn't to control information, and that's a ridiculous straw man argument. We're trying to make sure users (1) don't access any malicious content and (2) don't waste time on fark.com all day. Sometimes there's collateral damage. If you've got a better system I'm all ears."
It's called managers actually being managers and not regular employees with management duties tacked on. If you see that Joe Johnson is spending 5 hours a day actively (this is important) browsing Fark or Reddit, talk to them about it. Give them a warning. If you see that they refresh the page occasionally and check their email once in a while, it doesn't matter. When Susie Smith comes in whining about how her project is too much work and you see that she was talking to guys on Facebook all day, inform her as such, give her a warning, etc. When she looks at her bank statements or pops an email off once in a while it doesn't matter.
Using IT to block 99.99% of websites to keep the employees from dicking off is a very passive aggressive move. It keeps the managers from having to say, "Look, you've been on Reddit for 6 hours, actively browsing. This shit is unacceptable." and it keeps the higher ups in their little cloud in the sky, situated as far away from the workers (and reality) as possible.
On a side note, a friend of mine used to complain about his job at a tech support place. A good 80% of all websites were blocked. Going to a blocked website would get you a WTF email from your supervisor and too many of these would get you fired. A lot of these websites were great for helping you troubleshoot or looking up specific hardware/software info. The whole reasoning was to keep people from dicking off, looking at porn, checking their email, banking, playing games, listening to music, going to competitors' websites, going to forums, etc. I'm not entirely sure why they even had the internet, but every request to the higher ups to get the restrictions relaxed was shot down because they didn't think that's how a business should be run. Can anyone guess that they went out of business? This was pre-India call center exodus.
At first, he speaks of we as gamers. Then he speaks of he, the gamer. You, the gamer. They, the gamers. He separates himself from the gamers by saying he doesn't want the fantasy. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to realize that plenty of shooters are hard when played as they were meant to be played. The Call of Duty games are very challenging on the hardest modes. So are many games. Many shooters.
But many games are hard for the wrong reasons. Modern Warfare 2, for example, features enemies that kill you in two shots from a pistol from 500 meters away when they have no direct line of sight to you (due to shrubs/trees/debris/etc). This is hard for the wrong reason. Hard for the right reason would be that you have no idea he's there, and he thinks you might be in the general area. He sprays lead, giving away his position and possibly hitting you. The two shots probably will kill you, but unlikely at 500m, if you have body armor on. Also, he's probably scared. Nervous. Trembling. That affects accuracy.
That helicopter, for example, knows exactly where you are, down to the centimeter. In real life, you're a brown speck on the ground and unless you're viewing infrared or using some kind of visual aid, there's no way you're going to distinguish brown speck on the ground from beige rectangle that is the Corolla you're hiding behind. The helicopter would lay down suppressing fire, maybe shoot a few rockets in the general area if they were lucky enough to have someone use a laser target designator or are talking to a forward observer. In which case you could kill the forward observer or whoever is wielding the designator.
Truth.
As soon as you get an official paycheck (if you even make it through the hiring process because damn near everyone does background checks), they'll know where you are. As soon as you open any new accounts, they'll know where you are. As soon as you apply for a loan or line of credit, they'll know where you are. Can you really survive with no available credit, no official job (or at least, a really low-paying job), and no way to get utilities/services?
Sure, you could live in a tent in the woods, shower in gas stations, etc, but all of that is a pain in the ass. People will realize that it's easier just to leave the country or return to prison and serve out their time. A few years in jail is much better than being imprisoned by exclusion from the rest of society and most of its benefits.
Never mind that cell phone companies are insanely profitable. They mark phones that cost $20 or less to make up to $200 if you don't get the two year agreement, they charge you $10+/month for messaging which is mostly handled in the normal packets your phone sends to the tower anyway, and they try to charge you so much for bandwidth that viewing a page one time will more than pay for the data plan. They could easily afford to put more towers in place. It's just that they won't.
After all, they're doing pretty well with the coverage they have right now. People are complaining, but not many people are changing networks. Have fun switching to Sprint or T-mobile, AT&T users. Your iPhone will be a glorified watch since you can't use it anymore.
56k was the pinnacle of modem technology. The phone line could NOT support much more than 56k using standard dial-up technology. Of course you had your flex and you had your x2, you could sometimes get around 60k or even 70k if the end software supported it and you were linked on perfect noise free lines. The problem was that the dial-up technology was ancient. We had the technology in the 1970's to make ISP modem pools. It never really went farther than that, barring x2 and flex and incremental increases in speed. We had the technology, but not the knowledge.
Then we hit a wall at 56k.
We actually had to develop the technology for DSL. The idea was formed in the early 80's, but until we got pretty good with laser communications and making really fast switching circuits, we couldn't develop it. Now we have DSL that can get 10MBps by tacking on faster and faster components to both ends. Ultimately, we'll run into the same wall again. We'll have the idea for how to go faster, but not the technology. We'll have gold plated connectors on both sides, and oxidized wire zig-zagging between neon signs connecting the sides to each other. If we want to keep going with phone lines, we'll probably have to lay new lines or experience some major breakthrough in communications.
That wouldn't be a bad idea actually.
"Calm the hell down, get the hell out, or take this antidote."
The drunk would have three choices. To stop being loud and obnoxious, to leave the establishment, or to take the antidote. Knowing most drunks, he'd take a swing at someone, but then it crosses into the legal territory and is no longer a civil matter. Then there would be even fewer excuses for synthehol-related crimes. Drunk driving? Stupid, you get a year in jail for not taking the antidote. Drinking and dialing? Stupid, don't call me ever again. Drinking and deriving? Stupid, get out of my math class.
Religion does exist in video games. They aren't usually the same religions as we have meatside, however. I think that's what people are complaining about. The problem is if you let, say, World of Warcraft priests worship the Christian god, then people will automatically boycott when it doesn't follow a particular sect's beliefs. In fact, they'd have no combat skills at all if they followed the word of the Bible.
Instead, religions are made up, relatively shallow, and may be based on the history that took place in the game. Sounds a lot like real religions, doesn't it?
If you get fired for failing to do a job for which you were not equipped (and they know you aren't equipped for it), you might be able to sue because they created a hostile work environment. Hostile work environment lawsuits aren't just for sexual harassment, folks.
Some companies add latency and lag to their lower end connections to get people to pay up for higher speed ones.
Really, honestly, you shouldn't be using your company's phone/pager/etc for personal use. People do it all the time, and companies allow some leeway because everyone's human. It doesn't usually cost the company much and it makes their employees happier. It just gets their panties in a knot when people use company resources for illegal/conflict-of-interest kinds of things.
A work phone, paid for by the workplace, should be allowed to be inspected by the workplace. Just like email. Just like web traffic. Any abuse of this system, however, should be punished harshly and swiftly. If you want to sext each other, get your own damn phones. I'm sure evidence logs don't need a whole lot of, "Lol hang on let me beat this black guy for being black" mixed with "Done beating him here's a picture of my dick" when at trials.
Actually, there was an attempt a while back to get libraries to pay 'rent' for books, because OMG they're infringing upon our right to profit!!
Most judges I've dealt with or heard of seem to be disconnected. In no way shape or form would I ever represent myself in court. When they say maximum fine, they don't mean maximum fine. A judge will levy a HIGHER fine on you for DARING to represent yourself. It's not uncommon to see people lose their licenses for YEARS from a DUI that was completely unfounded and nearly without evidence, because they represented themselves and the judge was already pissed off at them.
I used to work for a magazine distributor and have seen this coming for at least a few years. Now the distributor is out of business, but far before the time of a workable digital magazine download/viewing system. The big publishers are looking to cut their costs some more. They're raking in ridiculous profit, but always want more. Getting rid of actual physical product in stores would be a great way to do that!
Let's face it.
A company is in business to make money. They'll in no way spend money unless it'll make more money than the alternatives. There is an ulterior motive here, and it's the hope that the people with autism will be so absorbed with their jobs they won't realize they're getting minimum wage or may not care because now they have a job they can do well. They'll do a damn fine job at it, most likely, and they'll run off all the riff-raff (shitty testers who are just there to pirate the software and/or play games all day).
However, they'll also lower the bar. Suddenly all QA is minimum wage only, and the overall quality of software developed drops sharply. Remember back in the day when QA testers were usually part of the parent company? Now most are outsourced to smaller recruiting agencies that won't even tell people if there will be any work for them tomorrow or not, because they don't know if the parent company will just up and leave. The testers don't know shit about coding, only that throwing a grenade here will cause it to bounce back in their faces, but the software has already gone gold anyway, so it's too late to fix.
People won't blame Pandemic, they'll blame EA. But what chance do we have of boycotting EA for it's well-known and shitty practices? Seems like 90% of all big name games come out from them. Perhaps the various Departments of Labor should look into how they treat their staff? Finish this project, lay everyone off, skimp on pay, hours, blacklist people, contract violations, etc.
This is exactly the problem and I don't blame you for posting anonymously. Every single EA game I have owned after a certain point shipped with horrible bugs. Things that you could have caught in testing after about an hour of play time. Game stopping bugs. Only to be fixed a MONTH later when I shelved the game or had taken it back and swore off EA. It's getting harder and harder to avoid their games, though, since they keep buying out good ideas and then turning them to shit.
You know, EA, games take a while to develop. If you don't have the resources, time, or patience to deal with it, you're welcome to go eat a bowl of dicks. I'm tired of promising games being snatched up by EA, only to have them lay everyone off at the last minute and skip testing. They've done this with pretty much every single game, even their successful ones.
One of the main mechanisms for brain damage after injury to the brain is due to the neurons releasing their packets of neurotransmitters upon their death. So you have a good neuron right next to a big blob of toxic neurotransmitters. Then that neuron dies, too. It's a chemical cascade of dying neurons. Slowing down metabolism slows down this damage, as oxidation plays a large part. Ever see those people that drown in icy water, only to be revived after hours without oxygen, somewhat intact? Same thing.
Microsoft's network, Microsoft's rules. They're 100% in the right for banning modded consoles. Basically you can play your pirated games or you can play on Live, but not both with the same console. Now what angers me is how they'll send out replacement consoles for warranty repairs that are already banned from Live, and tell the recipient that they must have a modded console and refuse them any recourse. What also angers me is how it would be easily within the law to ban for almost ANY reason, leaving the user with little to no recourse.
I applaud Microsoft's banning of modded consoles, but condemn Terms of Service in general because they're 99.999% in the favor of the writer. I mean, the company.