Agreed, I'm in the same boat. Sony doesn't like this because then they're not getting any additional revenue from you on game sales. In fact, it looks like they went to good lengths to neuter the media-center capabilities of the PS4 compared to the PS3 for these reasons.
That of course ignores people like myself who might have multiple consoles for different rooms in the house (because it's more convenient to have buy the a device that plays games and discs than to have a blu-ray player in one room and a PS3 in another). While having two consoles might not get them a lot of extra game sales from me, it *would* get them more accessories such as controllers, DVD remote, etc.
eBay's "committment" against forgery is complete and utter bullshit. I bought a DVD series from a seller overseas (it was not a domestic series) who had lots of listing proudly proclaiming he doesn't sell bootlegs. DVD's arrive, and the first few episodes have the same shitty fan-subs that would see with crap downloaded online. Some episodes even have the f***ing scan-lines where they were recorded to DVD from an analogue source. The only thing that looked remotely legit about them was the silkscreening and some box art.
eBay's response: You need to get a professional in the industry to provide a written attestation that the goods are counterfeit, within the next 30 days.
Within the podunk town I was living at the time that was pretty much impossible, and thus the seller got to keep my money for what was essentially fancy cardboard and crappy burned downloads.
This seems more "portable" than "console", and from the video it seems there's not much in the way of peripherals to deal with legacy games.
Buuuuut, that would be a *huge* seller for me. If they come up with something that could replace not only my 3DS but any previous consoles, that's gold (and certainly something the competition seems to fail on). I wonder if the dock is going to allow peripherals, say like an optical drive and/or adaptors for old-style controllers.
Yup. Consumers "open" their wallets, their private information becomes more "open", and then whenever MS decides to change something the customer can bend over and "open" something else too.
Seriously, around here you can take your drivers test in a dozen different languages, but realistically being able to read (and speak) the local language is an important f***ing skill. There are plenty of signs that are text-only, and when you have an accident or a cop pulls you over then not being able to communicate is a pretty big deal.
One CD-ROM drive could read the game, another couldn't.
I believe that was related to SecuRom. Not only could it f*** up the game in question, but it often also broke other stuff on the system such as burning etc because it was twisted so deeply into the guts of the OS (IIRC, including optical device drivers etc)
I don't think the push for thinness helps. Similar to how the iPhone 6 is experiencing issues with dying screens (due to flex on one of the related chips), perhaps what's happening is some important trace/component is being shorted because the overly-thin device is able to flex enough to cause Bad Things (tm) to happen, e.g. breaking a solder, having two components touch that aren't supposed to, etc
Things are pretty crammed inside these phones, so it wouldn't take much for an unintended short to occur even outside the battery.
it's not even a threat to human life on the planet, we are an adaptable species and global warming won't be enough to drive us to extinction
We're not quite as adaptable as you'd think. For one thing we depend on various other - less adaptable - life forms as a food supply. Second, there are plenty of other life forms - from jellyfish to bacteria - that would be very happy to have a nice hot planet that don't get along particular well with humans (and antibiotics are starting to become rather ineffective in many cases).
nowadays it's trivially easy to get BASIC (or most any other computer language) onto your computer
Eh? Back in the 80's elementary schools where I was often had computers that had two 2.5" floppy drives, no HDD, and booted directly to BASIC (actually BASIC mind, not QBasic etc) when no boot media was installed. It doesn't get much easier than that.
"it is quite obvious that you are doing something destructive with your phones to get that many to fail"
Or it's just environmental. A lot of products are adversely affected by climate conditions etc that may lead to more issues in a given region. Cars in areas with high humidity may have more rust issues, especially if it's humid with high salinity. Some products don't like more arid areas as the "dry out"
I should clarify that I've had something similar to this happen to me in the past. (a long time ago) I had a server which was running a squid proxy. The proxy was fairly open but the firewall rules prevented it from being accessible outside of my LAN unless one SSH'ed in. During an upgrade I broke the firewall rules and accidentally had it open to the world, after which some jerk/jerks hijacked it for nefarious purposes.
Somebody traced it back to my IP, and my ISP verified it was an issue then killed my internet service and left me a voicemail letting me know. Once I fixed the issue double-checked and let me come back online.
I'd imagine a similar situation for infected devices, but perhaps just knocking the offending device offline if possible (ISP could probably do this from the modem/router if it's one they control, or if the device is accessible via a crappy backdoor it could be told to shutdown).
So long as this follows a proper process with records to show why, I'm actually quite cool with it. I realize a lot of people are wary because of the BS "3 strikes" laws, but it should be easier to show that somebody is participating in a botnet than deep-dive their traffic to check they aren't downloading hurtlock.mkv...
Yup. I wasn't suggesting that just anyone should do it, but - assuming that laws might be passed regarding the securing of IOT devices - there could probably also be dispensations made for removing bad devices from the internet.
If these devices are so trivially insecure and easy to get into, maybe the best way to deal with them currently is to use the same exploits used by blackhats to knock them offline.
Well to be fair, she pretty much screwed over employees of both genders
(and yes, I realise that either gender can take care of kids - my wife and I split our shifts to do so - but the negative effects of the work-from-home seemed to affect female employees more than male)
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Agreed, I'm in the same boat. Sony doesn't like this because then they're not getting any additional revenue from you on game sales. In fact, it looks like they went to good lengths to neuter the media-center capabilities of the PS4 compared to the PS3 for these reasons.
That of course ignores people like myself who might have multiple consoles for different rooms in the house (because it's more convenient to have buy the a device that plays games and discs than to have a blu-ray player in one room and a PS3 in another). While having two consoles might not get them a lot of extra game sales from me, it *would* get them more accessories such as controllers, DVD remote, etc.
eBay's "committment" against forgery is complete and utter bullshit. I bought a DVD series from a seller overseas (it was not a domestic series) who had lots of listing proudly proclaiming he doesn't sell bootlegs. DVD's arrive, and the first few episodes have the same shitty fan-subs that would see with crap downloaded online. Some episodes even have the f***ing scan-lines where they were recorded to DVD from an analogue source. The only thing that looked remotely legit about them was the silkscreening and some box art.
eBay's response: You need to get a professional in the industry to provide a written attestation that the goods are counterfeit, within the next 30 days.
Within the podunk town I was living at the time that was pretty much impossible, and thus the seller got to keep my money for what was essentially fancy cardboard and crappy burned downloads.
Sorry
This seems more "portable" than "console", and from the video it seems there's not much in the way of peripherals to deal with legacy games.
Buuuuut, that would be a *huge* seller for me. If they come up with something that could replace not only my 3DS but any previous consoles, that's gold (and certainly something the competition seems to fail on). I wonder if the dock is going to allow peripherals, say like an optical drive and/or adaptors for old-style controllers.
Except it *doesn't* make sense. The .org domain is pretty much made for a logical or business organization, just like Organization for Transformative Works, The National Organization for Women, The Mozilla Corporation/Organization, etc
Now if they wanted to cover both bases, having trump.com and trump.org might make sense.
Do they mean that it has 1/8 the speed, or 12.5%? Because there is no real measurement of "8x slower" unless you have a common base for comparison.
You can say the 32GB model is 8x faster, but "8x slower" doesn't really make sense.
Except that in the case of platforms, you may have a lot of money tied into either the "App Store" or "Google Play" for apps/music/video/etc
Yup. Consumers "open" their wallets, their private information becomes more "open", and then whenever MS decides to change something the customer can bend over and "open" something else too.
Seriously, around here you can take your drivers test in a dozen different languages, but realistically being able to read (and speak) the local language is an important f***ing skill. There are plenty of signs that are text-only, and when you have an accident or a cop pulls you over then not being able to communicate is a pretty big deal.
They can ban protected classes too, just not *BECAUSE* they're a protected class.
One CD-ROM drive could read the game, another couldn't.
I believe that was related to SecuRom. Not only could it f*** up the game in question, but it often also broke other stuff on the system such as burning etc because it was twisted so deeply into the guts of the OS (IIRC, including optical device drivers etc)
Sure, but how many of those guys are in the same city, state/province, or even country?
One of the older GTA games also did this, and I believe it involved toy helicopters (aka "drones" by today's media)
More likely he's from a class of citizen where life is pretty damn good.
I don't think the push for thinness helps. Similar to how the iPhone 6 is experiencing issues with dying screens (due to flex on one of the related chips), perhaps what's happening is some important trace/component is being shorted because the overly-thin device is able to flex enough to cause Bad Things (tm) to happen, e.g. breaking a solder, having two components touch that aren't supposed to, etc
Things are pretty crammed inside these phones, so it wouldn't take much for an unintended short to occur even outside the battery.
it's not even a threat to human life on the planet, we are an adaptable species and global warming won't be enough to drive us to extinction
We're not quite as adaptable as you'd think. For one thing we depend on various other - less adaptable - life forms as a food supply. Second, there are plenty of other life forms - from jellyfish to bacteria - that would be very happy to have a nice hot planet that don't get along particular well with humans (and antibiotics are starting to become rather ineffective in many cases).
nowadays it's trivially easy to get BASIC (or most any other computer language) onto your computer
Eh? Back in the 80's elementary schools where I was often had computers that had two 2.5" floppy drives, no HDD, and booted directly to BASIC (actually BASIC mind, not QBasic etc) when no boot media was installed. It doesn't get much easier than that.
C:\Users\bob>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.3.261]
C:\Users\bob>wmp captain-america-civil-war-1080p.wmv
Please wait. Windows is now rebooting to install your free upgrade to windows 11
(2 hours later)
Error: Device "Realtek Audio Card" not found
(1 week later)
C:\Users\bob>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 11.6.6.6]
C:\Users\bob>wmp captain-america-civil-war-1080p.wmv
Preparing file hash for "captain-america-civil-war-1080p.wmv". 0... 25 ... 50 ... 75 ... 100% done
Sending hash to partner vendors
Illegal copy detected. Sending your name and current location to anti-piracy@MPAA.org
This PC has been found to be in violation of the DCMA. Shutting down to preserve evidence. Prepare for lawsuits, f***er!
"it is quite obvious that you are doing something destructive with your phones to get that many to fail"
Or it's just environmental. A lot of products are adversely affected by climate conditions etc that may lead to more issues in a given region. Cars in areas with high humidity may have more rust issues, especially if it's humid with high salinity. Some products don't like more arid areas as the "dry out"
Apple tax? You realize that Macs were among the computers infected (per the fucking HEADLINE)
I should clarify that I've had something similar to this happen to me in the past.
(a long time ago) I had a server which was running a squid proxy. The proxy was fairly open but the firewall rules prevented it from being accessible outside of my LAN unless one SSH'ed in. During an upgrade I broke the firewall rules and accidentally had it open to the world, after which some jerk/jerks hijacked it for nefarious purposes.
Somebody traced it back to my IP, and my ISP verified it was an issue then killed my internet service and left me a voicemail letting me know. Once I fixed the issue double-checked and let me come back online.
I'd imagine a similar situation for infected devices, but perhaps just knocking the offending device offline if possible (ISP could probably do this from the modem/router if it's one they control, or if the device is accessible via a crappy backdoor it could be told to shutdown).
So long as this follows a proper process with records to show why, I'm actually quite cool with it. I realize a lot of people are wary because of the BS "3 strikes" laws, but it should be easier to show that somebody is participating in a botnet than deep-dive their traffic to check they aren't downloading hurtlock.mkv...
Infected devices shown to be participating in a botnet/attack?
Yup. I wasn't suggesting that just anyone should do it, but - assuming that laws might be passed regarding the securing of IOT devices - there could probably also be dispensations made for removing bad devices from the internet.
If these devices are so trivially insecure and easy to get into, maybe the best way to deal with them currently is to use the same exploits used by blackhats to knock them offline.
Well to be fair, she pretty much screwed over employees of both genders
(and yes, I realise that either gender can take care of kids - my wife and I split our shifts to do so - but the negative effects of the work-from-home seemed to affect female employees more than male)