If you've saved money by not having to buy games, you can use the money you saved to buy multiple platforms to play those pirated games on. Not all games exist for all platforms.
I think the best thing to come from a cracked console has to be XBMC.. The media playback abilities on the default xbox or ps2 was pretty limited, restricted to just dvd media... Newer generation consoles are better but still fairly limited in what formats they support, for non high def content it's still very hard to beat a first gen xbox running xbmc.
For the record, i do agree with you on the emulators... i was quite disappointed to see the first ps3 homebrew apps were basically emulators for old consoles... If i wanted to play ancient games, i can already emulate them on a pc or i could buy original consoles and a huge selection of games on ebay for far less than the cost of a ps3.
It may lead to a more open PS3, but will result in the PS4 being considerably less open as an attempt to counter the hacking.
That said, piracy drives sales of consoles and many of those pirates will buy some legit games as well as various accessories which they wouldn't have bought otherwise. When the Amiga was a big gaming platform a few years ago the reason most people had bought one was because they could copy games between their friends (as opposed to cartridge based console systems of the time where this wasn't easy to do), this wasn't organised large scale piracy, one guy buys a game and shares it with his school friends. I doubt overall sales of games went down, it just meant that kids could spend their limited pocket money and get more games to play.
I also know a number of people who have had xbox 360 and wii systems for a few years, but held off on buying a ps3 because there was no way to get free games for it. Most of these people have several accessories for their consoles, as well as a handful of non pirated games.
Prison turns minor offenders into hardened criminals... Not only is prison hard and unpleasant, but you meet lots of useful criminal contacts who can get you into all kinds of other illegal activities when you get out.
Fines on the other hand, just mean the rich don't have to bother with the law because they can easily afford to pay the fine and carry on.
Neither strategy is effective at rehabilitating or deterring crime.
You also have more resale value on a mac. In many cases its cheaper to buy a top end mac, use it for a year, ebay it and buy the latest model than it is to do the same thing with a generic machine. You may have paid more up front, but you will pay less each time you upgrade once you've deducted the sale price of your old machine.
Many networks are exactly as the article describes, no firewalls on desktops or individual servers and instead relying entirely on the border firewall connecting the company lan to the internet... What this means however, is that a single rogue employee, rogue wireless access point, mobile device or laptop, or an exploit which penetrates the border firewalls (browser based, email based etc) results in a catastrophic breach as it becomes trivial to compromise everything once you get behind the main firewalls.
Now don't get me wrong, desktop firewalls are a nasty crutch too - desktop machines should _NEVER_ be offering services to the network, especially by default, and therefore shouldn't need a firewall to block access to these services... The fact that windows comes with several services listening by default on a workstation configuration (msrpc, smb, etc) is just stupid, the fact these services are a pain to disable even more so, and the fact people would rather hide these services behind a firewall instead of turning them off is just laughable - if noone needs to access them they shouldn't be running at all, not hiding behind a firewall.
Ideally your network should have a secure and well monitored gateway to the internet, as well as a secure and well monitored gateway between servers and workstations (and if possible treat the workstations as totally untrusted and make them use a vpn)... The workstations themselves should expose no services to the network, or at most expose a single admin service which can only be reached from a predefined management network.
The firewalls should be for logging rather than filtering, on the basis that if a service doesnt need to be accessed it shouldnt be listening, not relying on a firewall to block it.
Servers should only expose their intended services to the client lan, admin services should be separated from client services.
A custom error page with a 200 response code will usually still look like an error page, in that it will look different to the page given when a valid query is made. This exploit only needs to know that an error occurred, it doesn't need to know any more details about it, so a custom error page with a 200 response code will be perfectly sufficient in most cases.
That assumes that easier options exist, which in the case of broadcast TV they do... There are hundreds of different TV services around the world, all it needs is for one person to find the weakest service, rip the show and upload it somewhere.
There was never meant to be any way to unlock an iphone other than with the unique device specific code Apple use, and yet third party unlocks do exist. There was never meant to be any way to unlock a ps3, xbox or wii to play homebrew or pirate games, and yet there are many ways to do this. The HDCP master key just recently got leaked too, Intel designed that spec if i recall... Who's to say the processor unlock codes won't get leaked too?
Yes, but AMD aren't trying to sell you an upgrade... You may have a 3rd core which is defective, or you may get lucky and its just disabled and you can re-enable it with software for free. Either way you bought a cheaper chip. Intel on the other hand are selling a chip which is definitely fully working, and then trying to charge you extra to make use of the hardware you've already bought. AMD aren't trying to screw money out of you, you *may* end up getting a bargain out of them.
The prevalence of firefox has helped the security of IE considerably, for a number of reasons... Before they started losing market share, MS had no intention of improving IE at all.. Also now that no browser has over 90% market share they become far less attractive targets for malware authors, who instead now either target specific areas (eg ie6 is still huge in corporate settings) or other software which has a huge market share (adobe flash/pdf, msoffice). So long as there are a handful of browsers out there competing with each other. Were it not for firefox, ie7 would be a slightly warmed over ie6, and would still be getting attacked on a daily basis and users would have nowhere to go.
Incidentally, those benchmarks show ie9 coming in 3rd from last, only firefox 4 beta (by a small margin) and ie8 (by a huge and laughable margin) are slower. Actually released browsers such as firefox 3.6, safari 5, chrome 6 and opera 10 are all ahead of both betas of ie9 and firefox 4.
Now as for why the firefox 4 beta is slower than 3.6, it could be compiled in a debug mode (as betas often are), its new javascript engine has only just been integrated and needs tweaking etc...
The fact that current beta versions of both ie9 and firefox 4 are way behind current non beta versions of other browsers is rather poor, and you would hope that both will be fixed by the time their final releases come around.
As for Google, they make their money from the web and generally don't care which browser you use to access it, so long as that browser is fast enough to deliver a reasonable experience and standard enough so it doesn't force them to spend a lot of time kludging around. Older versions of IE were a threat to google as they made their web based apps appear slow, new versions appear better however IE is still controlled by google's biggest competitor who, given the chance, would use it against google in any way they can. When it comes to firefox/opera/chrome/safari i doubt google really cares which you use.
But if someone else sees your hole and decides to dig their own identical hole somewhere else there would be absolutely nothing you could do...
Especially if you went to the effort of digging the hole by hand, whereas the guy down the street used a mechanical digger to make his hole much more quickly.
Even a 10% increase in sales of proprietary software wouldn't create new jobs, or increase tax revenue.
The extra 10% of spending on proprietary software would have to come with a reduction in spending on something else, so the tax revenue would simply be redistributed.
Plus a 10% uptick in sales wouldn't cause software companies to employ anyone new, due to the nature of software it wouldn't require any additional resources to handle the additional sales, so it would just result in increased profits for the companies in question.
Not to mention that a 10% reduction in piracy wouldn't result in 10% more sales, many people who pirate software simply couldn't afford to buy it or are just unwilling to do so... These people would either do without, or use free alternatives. A massive clampdown on piracy would actually benefit free software far more than proprietary.
They used to make a vmware esx client for linux, but not anymore... If you run any of their highend products, you are stuck running windows boxes for management...
a: be offered as a service, eg world of warcraft, eve online etc b: be offered in arcades c: come with (more) in game advertising d: be offered built in to hardware (so copying it would necessitate cloning the entire hardware)
games would also be given away to promote services such as xbox live etc
NT for Alpha only supported 32bit addressing, and was built using a special compiler... NT also ran on the 64bit Mips R4400, but this too was running in 32bit mode...
Linux can also run in 64bit mode on mips, sparc, s390 and powerpc.
The point is that 64bit linux has been tried and tested for far longer than 64bit windows, and it also has far more native 64bit applications available for it than windows does (most 64bit windows installs run predominantly 32bit applications)
PAE works fine in windows, server 2003 32bit handles it just fine, as did earlier versions of XP... Newer 32bit desktop windows simply isn't licensed for use with more than 4gb of address space and thus won't let you use it... The restrictions are intentionally implemented as part of the licensing scheme, not a technical limitation of any kind. In fact, PAE is on by default to support the NX bit, support for memory above 4GB is explicitly disabled.
I'm in a similar boat to you, i have a number of applications which either don't exist on windows, or exist in an inferior form...
If windows gained similar functionality i wouldn't switch to it because of cost, i would never pay for something unless it is significantly better than a free alternative (the extra cost has to be worth it), equivalence or even a marginal improvement is not good enough.
On the other hand, going the other way if i was using something expensive and something cheaper or free was approaching it in terms of functionality i would consider switching much sooner, just as soon as it could serve my needs adequately.
This is how MS got going, their offerings were always inferior to proprietary unix and novell, they were just a lot cheaper, and linux will head the same way once it overcomes the windows inertia/lockin.
Suspend should (and does on all my machines) keep you logged in... I have one system here which had problematic power management on linux, and i followed a guide to replace the bios so that i could install a hacked osx on the machine... Once i had the osx bios (which tweaked the power management setup to actually comply with acpi specs) linux and osx both worked fine, while windows (7) failed miserably to power off or suspend.
Conversely, i have an old hp all in one where the scanner component doesn't work on modern versions of windows (it works on 32bit xp or earlier), but works out of the box on linux.
However being a drunk passenger in a car which is driven by someone sober is not illegal at all. Steve Jobs wasn't flying his own plane, he employs a pilot to do that.
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If you've saved money by not having to buy games, you can use the money you saved to buy multiple platforms to play those pirated games on. Not all games exist for all platforms.
The nazis are also no longer around to cover up their crimes... Had they not been defeated, would the rest of the world have ever found out?
Concentration camps were a british invention btw.
Yes, POSIX based OS and Webkit based browser, just like iPad and Android... Only thing really different is the kernel.
I think the best thing to come from a cracked console has to be XBMC..
The media playback abilities on the default xbox or ps2 was pretty limited, restricted to just dvd media... Newer generation consoles are better but still fairly limited in what formats they support, for non high def content it's still very hard to beat a first gen xbox running xbmc.
For the record, i do agree with you on the emulators... i was quite disappointed to see the first ps3 homebrew apps were basically emulators for old consoles... If i wanted to play ancient games, i can already emulate them on a pc or i could buy original consoles and a huge selection of games on ebay for far less than the cost of a ps3.
It may lead to a more open PS3, but will result in the PS4 being considerably less open as an attempt to counter the hacking.
That said, piracy drives sales of consoles and many of those pirates will buy some legit games as well as various accessories which they wouldn't have bought otherwise.
When the Amiga was a big gaming platform a few years ago the reason most people had bought one was because they could copy games between their friends (as opposed to cartridge based console systems of the time where this wasn't easy to do), this wasn't organised large scale piracy, one guy buys a game and shares it with his school friends. I doubt overall sales of games went down, it just meant that kids could spend their limited pocket money and get more games to play.
I also know a number of people who have had xbox 360 and wii systems for a few years, but held off on buying a ps3 because there was no way to get free games for it. Most of these people have several accessories for their consoles, as well as a handful of non pirated games.
Prison turns minor offenders into hardened criminals... Not only is prison hard and unpleasant, but you meet lots of useful criminal contacts who can get you into all kinds of other illegal activities when you get out.
Fines on the other hand, just mean the rich don't have to bother with the law because they can easily afford to pay the fine and carry on.
Neither strategy is effective at rehabilitating or deterring crime.
And neither Intel nor AMD compete with the high end chips offered by IBM.
You also have more resale value on a mac. In many cases its cheaper to buy a top end mac, use it for a year, ebay it and buy the latest model than it is to do the same thing with a generic machine. You may have paid more up front, but you will pay less each time you upgrade once you've deducted the sale price of your old machine.
Many networks are exactly as the article describes, no firewalls on desktops or individual servers and instead relying entirely on the border firewall connecting the company lan to the internet...
What this means however, is that a single rogue employee, rogue wireless access point, mobile device or laptop, or an exploit which penetrates the border firewalls (browser based, email based etc) results in a catastrophic breach as it becomes trivial to compromise everything once you get behind the main firewalls.
Now don't get me wrong, desktop firewalls are a nasty crutch too - desktop machines should _NEVER_ be offering services to the network, especially by default, and therefore shouldn't need a firewall to block access to these services... The fact that windows comes with several services listening by default on a workstation configuration (msrpc, smb, etc) is just stupid, the fact these services are a pain to disable even more so, and the fact people would rather hide these services behind a firewall instead of turning them off is just laughable - if noone needs to access them they shouldn't be running at all, not hiding behind a firewall.
Ideally your network should have a secure and well monitored gateway to the internet, as well as a secure and well monitored gateway between servers and workstations (and if possible treat the workstations as totally untrusted and make them use a vpn)...
The workstations themselves should expose no services to the network, or at most expose a single admin service which can only be reached from a predefined management network.
The firewalls should be for logging rather than filtering, on the basis that if a service doesnt need to be accessed it shouldnt be listening, not relying on a firewall to block it.
Servers should only expose their intended services to the client lan, admin services should be separated from client services.
A custom error page with a 200 response code will usually still look like an error page, in that it will look different to the page given when a valid query is made. This exploit only needs to know that an error occurred, it doesn't need to know any more details about it, so a custom error page with a 200 response code will be perfectly sufficient in most cases.
That assumes that easier options exist, which in the case of broadcast TV they do...
There are hundreds of different TV services around the world, all it needs is for one person to find the weakest service, rip the show and upload it somewhere.
There was never meant to be any way to unlock an iphone other than with the unique device specific code Apple use, and yet third party unlocks do exist.
There was never meant to be any way to unlock a ps3, xbox or wii to play homebrew or pirate games, and yet there are many ways to do this.
The HDCP master key just recently got leaked too, Intel designed that spec if i recall... Who's to say the processor unlock codes won't get leaked too?
Yes, but AMD aren't trying to sell you an upgrade...
You may have a 3rd core which is defective, or you may get lucky and its just disabled and you can re-enable it with software for free. Either way you bought a cheaper chip.
Intel on the other hand are selling a chip which is definitely fully working, and then trying to charge you extra to make use of the hardware you've already bought. AMD aren't trying to screw money out of you, you *may* end up getting a bargain out of them.
Intent is all important.
The prevalence of firefox has helped the security of IE considerably, for a number of reasons...
Before they started losing market share, MS had no intention of improving IE at all.. Also now that no browser has over 90% market share they become far less attractive targets for malware authors, who instead now either target specific areas (eg ie6 is still huge in corporate settings) or other software which has a huge market share (adobe flash/pdf, msoffice).
So long as there are a handful of browsers out there competing with each other.
Were it not for firefox, ie7 would be a slightly warmed over ie6, and would still be getting attacked on a daily basis and users would have nowhere to go.
Incidentally, those benchmarks show ie9 coming in 3rd from last, only firefox 4 beta (by a small margin) and ie8 (by a huge and laughable margin) are slower. Actually released browsers such as firefox 3.6, safari 5, chrome 6 and opera 10 are all ahead of both betas of ie9 and firefox 4.
Now as for why the firefox 4 beta is slower than 3.6, it could be compiled in a debug mode (as betas often are), its new javascript engine has only just been integrated and needs tweaking etc...
The fact that current beta versions of both ie9 and firefox 4 are way behind current non beta versions of other browsers is rather poor, and you would hope that both will be fixed by the time their final releases come around.
As for Google, they make their money from the web and generally don't care which browser you use to access it, so long as that browser is fast enough to deliver a reasonable experience and standard enough so it doesn't force them to spend a lot of time kludging around. Older versions of IE were a threat to google as they made their web based apps appear slow, new versions appear better however IE is still controlled by google's biggest competitor who, given the chance, would use it against google in any way they can. When it comes to firefox/opera/chrome/safari i doubt google really cares which you use.
But if someone else sees your hole and decides to dig their own identical hole somewhere else there would be absolutely nothing you could do...
Especially if you went to the effort of digging the hole by hand, whereas the guy down the street used a mechanical digger to make his hole much more quickly.
Even a 10% increase in sales of proprietary software wouldn't create new jobs, or increase tax revenue.
The extra 10% of spending on proprietary software would have to come with a reduction in spending on something else, so the tax revenue would simply be redistributed.
Plus a 10% uptick in sales wouldn't cause software companies to employ anyone new, due to the nature of software it wouldn't require any additional resources to handle the additional sales, so it would just result in increased profits for the companies in question.
Not to mention that a 10% reduction in piracy wouldn't result in 10% more sales, many people who pirate software simply couldn't afford to buy it or are just unwilling to do so... These people would either do without, or use free alternatives. A massive clampdown on piracy would actually benefit free software far more than proprietary.
They used to make a vmware esx client for linux, but not anymore... If you run any of their highend products, you are stuck running windows boxes for management...
Commercial games would simply...
a: be offered as a service, eg world of warcraft, eve online etc
b: be offered in arcades
c: come with (more) in game advertising
d: be offered built in to hardware (so copying it would necessitate cloning the entire hardware)
games would also be given away to promote services such as xbox live etc
NT for Alpha only supported 32bit addressing, and was built using a special compiler...
NT also ran on the 64bit Mips R4400, but this too was running in 32bit mode...
Linux can also run in 64bit mode on mips, sparc, s390 and powerpc.
The point is that 64bit linux has been tried and tested for far longer than 64bit windows, and it also has far more native 64bit applications available for it than windows does (most 64bit windows installs run predominantly 32bit applications)
PAE works fine in windows, server 2003 32bit handles it just fine, as did earlier versions of XP...
Newer 32bit desktop windows simply isn't licensed for use with more than 4gb of address space and thus won't let you use it... The restrictions are intentionally implemented as part of the licensing scheme, not a technical limitation of any kind. In fact, PAE is on by default to support the NX bit, support for memory above 4GB is explicitly disabled.
I'm in a similar boat to you, i have a number of applications which either don't exist on windows, or exist in an inferior form...
If windows gained similar functionality i wouldn't switch to it because of cost, i would never pay for something unless it is significantly better than a free alternative (the extra cost has to be worth it), equivalence or even a marginal improvement is not good enough.
On the other hand, going the other way if i was using something expensive and something cheaper or free was approaching it in terms of functionality i would consider switching much sooner, just as soon as it could serve my needs adequately.
This is how MS got going, their offerings were always inferior to proprietary unix and novell, they were just a lot cheaper, and linux will head the same way once it overcomes the windows inertia/lockin.
Suspend should (and does on all my machines) keep you logged in...
I have one system here which had problematic power management on linux, and i followed a guide to replace the bios so that i could install a hacked osx on the machine... Once i had the osx bios (which tweaked the power management setup to actually comply with acpi specs) linux and osx both worked fine, while windows (7) failed miserably to power off or suspend.
Conversely, i have an old hp all in one where the scanner component doesn't work on modern versions of windows (it works on 32bit xp or earlier), but works out of the box on linux.
However being a drunk passenger in a car which is driven by someone sober is not illegal at all.
Steve Jobs wasn't flying his own plane, he employs a pilot to do that.
The GPS signal is to stop you taking the device to a foreign country to avoid roaming charges...