Wiping someones machine because of Spyware can lead to losing IT peoples jobs. It is their duty to walk through fire to keep their clients machines tip top, virus free, spyware free, and running as close to 100% as possible. Even if the client is the dumbest person on the planet, and surfs hazard sites - It isn't the point, nor their problem. At the end of the day its on you watch, and you have to make sure you keep it working despite any problems they might encounter. If they lose their settings and it upsets them, it'll go up the chain until it comes back down to you and your job.
That said, blocking sites at the firewall, setting up filtering servers, and everything else doesn't work 100% of the time. We've invested nearly $100,000+ in various security measures and our clients STILL get this spyware crap all over their machines. These sites and programs change faster than people finding them can block them. Even the most high end dedicated packet filtering systems with hourly subscription systems can't catch all this crap. It's a freaking MESS. And we're the ones who have to deal with it all in the end, or its our ass on the line when the execs who pull in $100k a day in deals lose thousands for being offline for just 10 minutes.
If some states already have these laws in place, why aren't the spyware people all sitting in jail? Even if they're outside the country they can be pulled in because they're sending info across the lines into these states and stealing it back, so there shouldn't be any excuse not to have the countries to ship them over and lock them up and throw away the keys.
... If they passed the telemarketing bill, then why wouldnt they pass this anti-spam bill? It's the same damn thing, just a different medium. Make a do-not-spam list and be done with it.. If someone spams you, then you get a few grand. If they're out of the country, have the local authorities bring them in or hold off any help from the us financially..
We just started getting HDTV through our cable company and I can say without a doubt, HDTV is amazing. It's very low on content at the moment, but when you see all the new shows like CSI in HD with full 5.1 surround coming through the cable box, it's crazy. I simply cannot wait until everyone is broadcasting in HDTV.
That said, if we can't record any of it, then I wont pay for it, nor will I watch it. I have a Tivo and I expect to upgrade it to the HDTV capable one in the future when it comes out. As it is, I can only watch HDTV shows when I have the time available, which isn't often, but if I had a Tivo for this, i'd watch it a whole lot more.
The people behind this have an easy choice to make. Copy protect televison so no one watches, or make it freely available for everyone like it is now.
I mean, people use it for art and all. When it renders your artwork with a huge watermark over it, you just feel angry and uninstall it a minute later. Artists are fussy people. I applaud them for making a version for people to take a spin with, but unless you can see your work completely undisturbed, there is nothing to learn. I never know if the picture is how I want it if theres a huge crappy watermark all over it. Just an opinion...
You're talking about people working at home and remote sites? As if this should just be allowed? If so, then they need to expect their code to be stolen. Period. If they dont want it to, they need to maker everyone come in, work in the same building like everyone else on the planet. If the company is so lax on letting people dink around with code on their laptops while they're on a business trip, or sitting on a beach trying to keep stress levels down, then they need to realise that if their code gets stolen, its their own damn fault. Two seperate machines and two LANs is not hard to do!. It's all tradeoffs. Do you want your code stolen or not? It's that freaking simple!
And yes, testing stuff like Steam will require reimaging machines over and over when they're done doing it. Like I said, if you want the resources of the internet, then keep it on a seperate machine. It's just stupid to have someone get your lives work just because you want to check your email on the same damn machine or work at home. Never take those compromises.
Set up one machine for your email, web browsing, MP3 playing.. Hook it to your internet exposed LAN, and set up a 2nd machine on its own non-Internet accessable LAN.. A completely seperate network that has NO WAY of touching the internet. Dont use gateway machines and the like, PHYSICALLY keep the private network on its own. If you need to patch stuff, or move data over USE DVDRW MEDIA. I cant believe such a large developer like those who are making HL2 weren't doing this. After the whole Quake fiasco of them getting a beta via a SAMBA exploit you would have thought every dev house would have set up two entirely seperate networks.. One for work, one for play.
You can compile programs for the XBox just fine from standard source.. It just takes tweaking.. What you'll more than likely see is someone port the game to XBox themselves from the leaked software.
And thats just being nice. This is supposed to be a next gen handheld, so what they need to actually do is provice MORE FOR LESS. Meaning, they need more than 10 hrs life with a light on, and they need more power, and it needs to be CHEAPER, and it needs to be SMALLER.
If it doesn't fit in my pocket, and I can't play it on a plane from New York to London without it running out of power, then why bother? They need 10hrs or more, badly. Or go the way of the gamegear.
Likewise with sattelite tv boxes that update on the fly without notice, operating systems that can update on the fly, cell phones, pagers, etc all agree'd by an EULA that you never signed.
I mean, really, 3 times faster than the best nVidia card all of a sudden? I'm sorry, but no. If the Radeon was 3 times faster in every game, then sure, that would be fine, but for this particular game only? Common sense says "duh".. I dont think ill be going near ATI anytime soon, and after those last nVidia scandal I dunno who to buy.. Both these companies are slime balls as far as im concerned.
It's still a 480p window within a 720p screen. Theres not point really because you're not gaining anything. And the comments about controllers is off, if you dont like a controller on a specific platform, you can use whatever other controller you want. You simply cannot rate controllers for a GAME.. I know people who use XBox controllers on their Gamecube, for instance. ($2 adaptor).. And as far as the general concensous is concerned, Spawn is a terrible character in the SC2 universe. I dont know a single person who even remotely likes him. Link on the other hand... Sounds to me like some reviewers are just flat out bias.
Instead of Media Player and WinAmp.. Just because you don't, doesn't mean everyone else does. It comes back to the ole gun arguement again.. Lots of different uses, but just by owning one doesn't make you a killer. The RIAA simply cannot be allowed to be above the law, ever. They must be reigned in, and some of the senators are noticing the victims of this are mostly innocent and the punishment is not fitting the crime. $11k fines for a swapped song? Try $5.
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....He said the negative wasnt part of the book, but rather the fact that they did this in RL.. he specifically made it clear it wasn't the books fault.. Ish.
If they even followed actual factual sales, they would see that Nintendo is actually beating out Microsoft with their 'poor excuse of a console' in pure raw sales numbers. And the reason production was halted was because their sales forcast was lowered and already had the machines waiting in the wings.
Notice how they didn't have a "What went wrong?" for the Xbox? Like say, actually having more than a single game worth buying? Sheesh.
Hacking is extending something beyond what it can normally do. It's most definately *not* modifying something that its NOT supposed to do. There is NOTHING negative about hacking in the true sense of the definition. It's all about furthering code/hardware/whatever to be something more/different than what it originally was.
This is EXACTLY the device for it, they give you a basic and open platform for ANYONE to hack (extend!) to their liking. In every sense of the word. Controllers, software, hardware, etc..
Really really tired of people always putting a negative spin on the "hacking" terminology.. It's like people HAVE to bust open an XBox because Microsoft doesn't want them to. That's not the point, people want to bust it open and change it to what they want, REGARDLESS if it was meant to or not.
If you look at all their branches, they're all being funded by the OS sales alone. Everything else is losing money by the bucketload, only to maintain a monopoly dominance in the market by doing so. Giving away close to, if not free software at a huge loss on purpose to be supported by a completely different division is absurd.
They need to be split, and now. Just my opinion...
Last week I bought three CDs.. These were the first three i've bought in nearly 5 years. I've got a HUGE cd collection, also.. around the mid 90s music just went stale for me. I stopped buying. Incidentally this is about when MP3s took off.
What were these three CDs? Two were THE DOORS, and the other was the new Janes Addiction.
Typically in the past I HAVE downloaded MP3s to listen to tracks I wasn't familiar with to test an album out. And for 5 years, out of many MP3s, not a single album was worth buying, IMO..
I've decided that the lastest Janes Addiction is pretty crappy and WISH I had downloaded this thing beforehand so I could have known if it was worth buying. So now i've wasted $13 that could have been spent on another Doors cd, or a feature packed DVD with multiple soundtracks, extras, and all sorts of kickass stuff.
The music industry is dying because the talent is lacking in a huge way. Everyone is churning out anything they can to make it through life instead of actually just making music for musics sake.
Seriously, Walmart, Walgreens, etc have had disposable digital cameras for $10 for over a year now. I have no idea who this Ritz company is, and could care less. Nice way to market advertisements! Cripes.. Seriously, are we going to see advertisements for these new things called TELEVSIONS by some company named SAMSUNG now!??
Honestly, these things are so damn old it pisses me off! WHY WAS IT POSTED???
Which you can get for a huge amount of cash, or you can buy their start home dev kit for around $450 which in turn comes with a license to code PS2 software but not sell it. Simply modding your PS2 and coding for it is illegal in the eyes of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. You need licenses.
I mean seriously? Someone could have just been spoofing their addresses. It isn't all that hard. That will remove any "hard" evidence of using an IP or username.. So what are they going to arrest them on? They will have to find the actual MP3s on their drives, which isn't very likely anymore.
This wont go anywhere without hard evidence.
hostnames and IPs are simply too easy to forge to be used in a court of law.
Perhaps you missed the part of Sony and Phillips owning this company. Sony would like nothing more than to make Microsoft go byebye.. And Microsoft cant buy Sony.. These patents aren't simple broad things they made up, they are very clear and concise which the judge pointed out. There is no one to blame for the demise of Microsoft other than themselves.
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That said, blocking sites at the firewall, setting up filtering servers, and everything else doesn't work 100% of the time. We've invested nearly $100,000+ in various security measures and our clients STILL get this spyware crap all over their machines. These sites and programs change faster than people finding them can block them. Even the most high end dedicated packet filtering systems with hourly subscription systems can't catch all this crap. It's a freaking MESS. And we're the ones who have to deal with it all in the end, or its our ass on the line when the execs who pull in $100k a day in deals lose thousands for being offline for just 10 minutes.
If some states already have these laws in place, why aren't the spyware people all sitting in jail? Even if they're outside the country they can be pulled in because they're sending info across the lines into these states and stealing it back, so there shouldn't be any excuse not to have the countries to ship them over and lock them up and throw away the keys.
They own nearly every DVR patent known to man. I wouldn't worry about them too much.
... If they passed the telemarketing bill, then why wouldnt they pass this anti-spam bill? It's the same damn thing, just a different medium. Make a do-not-spam list and be done with it.. If someone spams you, then you get a few grand. If they're out of the country, have the local authorities bring them in or hold off any help from the us financially..
That said, if we can't record any of it, then I wont pay for it, nor will I watch it. I have a Tivo and I expect to upgrade it to the HDTV capable one in the future when it comes out. As it is, I can only watch HDTV shows when I have the time available, which isn't often, but if I had a Tivo for this, i'd watch it a whole lot more.
The people behind this have an easy choice to make. Copy protect televison so no one watches, or make it freely available for everyone like it is now.
I mean, people use it for art and all. When it renders your artwork with a huge watermark over it, you just feel angry and uninstall it a minute later. Artists are fussy people. I applaud them for making a version for people to take a spin with, but unless you can see your work completely undisturbed, there is nothing to learn. I never know if the picture is how I want it if theres a huge crappy watermark all over it. Just an opinion...
And yes, testing stuff like Steam will require reimaging machines over and over when they're done doing it. Like I said, if you want the resources of the internet, then keep it on a seperate machine. It's just stupid to have someone get your lives work just because you want to check your email on the same damn machine or work at home. Never take those compromises.
Set up one machine for your email, web browsing, MP3 playing.. Hook it to your internet exposed LAN, and set up a 2nd machine on its own non-Internet accessable LAN.. A completely seperate network that has NO WAY of touching the internet. Dont use gateway machines and the like, PHYSICALLY keep the private network on its own. If you need to patch stuff, or move data over USE DVDRW MEDIA. I cant believe such a large developer like those who are making HL2 weren't doing this. After the whole Quake fiasco of them getting a beta via a SAMBA exploit you would have thought every dev house would have set up two entirely seperate networks.. One for work, one for play.
You can compile programs for the XBox just fine from standard source.. It just takes tweaking .. What you'll more than likely see is someone port the game to XBox themselves from the leaked software.
This would rock! The framerates would be the same as the ATi's then!
If it doesn't fit in my pocket, and I can't play it on a plane from New York to London without it running out of power, then why bother? They need 10hrs or more, badly. Or go the way of the gamegear.
Likewise with sattelite tv boxes that update on the fly without notice, operating systems that can update on the fly, cell phones, pagers, etc all agree'd by an EULA that you never signed.
I mean, really, 3 times faster than the best nVidia card all of a sudden? I'm sorry, but no. If the Radeon was 3 times faster in every game, then sure, that would be fine, but for this particular game only? Common sense says "duh" .. I dont think ill be going near ATI anytime soon, and after those last nVidia scandal I dunno who to buy .. Both these companies are slime balls as far as im concerned.
It's still a 480p window within a 720p screen. Theres not point really because you're not gaining anything. And the comments about controllers is off, if you dont like a controller on a specific platform, you can use whatever other controller you want. You simply cannot rate controllers for a GAME .. I know people who use XBox controllers on their Gamecube, for instance. ($2 adaptor) .. And as far as the general concensous is concerned, Spawn is a terrible character in the SC2 universe. I dont know a single person who even remotely likes him. Link on the other hand... Sounds to me like some reviewers are just flat out bias.
Instead of Media Player and WinAmp .. Just because you don't, doesn't mean everyone else does. It comes back to the ole gun arguement again .. Lots of different uses, but just by owning one doesn't make you a killer. The RIAA simply cannot be allowed to be above the law, ever. They must be reigned in, and some of the senators are noticing the victims of this are mostly innocent and the punishment is not fitting the crime. $11k fines for a swapped song? Try $5.
....He said the negative wasnt part of the book, but rather the fact that they did this in RL.. he specifically made it clear it wasn't the books fault.. Ish.
Notice how they didn't have a "What went wrong?" for the Xbox? Like say, actually having more than a single game worth buying? Sheesh.
This is EXACTLY the device for it, they give you a basic and open platform for ANYONE to hack (extend!) to their liking. In every sense of the word. Controllers, software, hardware, etc ..
Really really tired of people always putting a negative spin on the "hacking" terminology .. It's like people HAVE to bust open an XBox because Microsoft doesn't want them to. That's not the point, people want to bust it open and change it to what they want, REGARDLESS if it was meant to or not.
They need to be split, and now. Just my opinion...
What were these three CDs? Two were THE DOORS, and the other was the new Janes Addiction.
Typically in the past I HAVE downloaded MP3s to listen to tracks I wasn't familiar with to test an album out. And for 5 years, out of many MP3s, not a single album was worth buying, IMO ..
I've decided that the lastest Janes Addiction is pretty crappy and WISH I had downloaded this thing beforehand so I could have known if it was worth buying. So now i've wasted $13 that could have been spent on another Doors cd, or a feature packed DVD with multiple soundtracks, extras, and all sorts of kickass stuff.
The music industry is dying because the talent is lacking in a huge way. Everyone is churning out anything they can to make it through life instead of actually just making music for musics sake.
Honestly, these things are so damn old it pisses me off! WHY WAS IT POSTED???
Which you can get for a huge amount of cash, or you can buy their start home dev kit for around $450 which in turn comes with a license to code PS2 software but not sell it. Simply modding your PS2 and coding for it is illegal in the eyes of Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. You need licenses.
This wont go anywhere without hard evidence.
hostnames and IPs are simply too easy to forge to be used in a court of law.
Perhaps you missed the part of Sony and Phillips owning this company. Sony would like nothing more than to make Microsoft go byebye .. And Microsoft cant buy Sony.. These patents aren't simple broad things they made up, they are very clear and concise which the judge pointed out. There is no one to blame for the demise of Microsoft other than themselves.
If I had MS shares, i'd sell em now, because after Sony is done with them, they will only be making joysticks for the PS3.