You're right that the tape is a bad idea. If someone does try it though, at least put a balancing slice on the opposite side of the disc. You don't know strange and loud until a CD EXPLODES in your CDROM drive. I've seen the remaining disc after an explosion, and sand almost has bigger pieces than some of what's left.
Also in describing the Sony Rootkit problem it's good to mention that the disks are "infected with DRM". The person won't know what DRM is, but it helps to associate it with a bad word like "infection". And in the case of the Sony CDs, it's not overhyping the facts either, so your conscience can remain clear.
Bottom line is, "these discs are designed to infect a computer with DRM, which breaks Windows, and lets Sony and viruses take over your computer."
"do you think the cost of a console adds up to much?"
Yes, more than you can count too. You have to count the Bads witth the Goods. The Good lasts only hours when you first enjoy the system with the kid(s). After that it turns into one more thing to pry them away from to sit down to supper, or to kick them outside away from the TV. You could be hurting your child's healthy by buying them an addictive game system, and you'll certainly hurt their academics in some form, although to what degree is determined by the kid's willpower to do work to avoid having bad grades, and the parent's wisdom about when it's time to take the TV away so homework gets done.
So the cost is $640C minimum for two kids to play, and poorer health and worse grades. Who WOULDN'T want one???!
Where are all these people that have $500C for a game system with no games? Do they have no other forms of entertainment that they must buy a bleeding edge Microsoft game console? Might I remind them politely that they can get a computer for the same price, and it can do games and everything else the XBox 360 can do, and not be locked into Microsoft only Xbox 360 games and software?
Why not buy an XBox original and get oodles of games for it if you don't already have a system. You get way more entertainment bang for your buck. I guess keeping up with the Joneses is more important these days than it's ever been in the past?
The media coverage this thing is geting makes me nearly sick. It's on the radio, the TV, and in print. I've only heard one reviewer say they wouldn't buy their kids the system because it's going to be at least $150 less in 6 months. Don't these parents realize that their heating bills are going to be about 50% more this year?
Normally I like every CSI Miami, but this show just rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I'd feel about any CSI where I'm familiar with the subject matter, but this one seemed "forced" or preachy. It's almost as if it Jumped the Shark, if they keep going with this lame social consequences route.
It's a puff show, and should stick to what it knows best: crime mystery and bikinis. Any thing more and it's just silly, because it doesn't have a foundation of fact to stand on and no one takes it seriously anyway. To suddenly try and have a moral, is satirizing the moral they try to give.
I think it sounds like a great TV episode, it's just too bad that ignorant people will take it to mean that video games promte violence in EVERYONE. It's a very small portion of video game players that actually become violent in a certain manner due to something they witness in a game.
The problem is parents who buy a game that's unsuitable for their mentally challenged or disturbed children. They wouldn't buy them beer or let them drive at 12, why would they buy them something like GTA?
Tim from http://www.boycottsony.us/ was the guest on the radio program, and he did a fine job of convincing the radio host John Gormley how bad this DRM infection is. If all technical people were as gifted verbally as Tim is, then we'd see a lot fewer problems from companies trying to exploit consumer ignorance.
"President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong"
In other news, cows give milk.
Anyone interested in local radio coverage of this story, CJME.com is about to do a show on the Sony rootkit, you can listen live at 10:05AM CST, and again in the evening for a rebroadcast. Sorry, no podcast is made.
I think POF has a clever name, it's short for "Plenty of Fish in the Ocean".
It's no stranger than listening to an "iPod", or buying something at "egghead" or "eBay". They're all terms that will grow on us. I mean, who meets their wife at "YAHOO!!!" "YIPPIE?"
Well if you want me to make a list: I made some funny pictures which caused a few people to laugh [entertainment, which is what this gamer is good for]. Plus I recycled a few pounds of cardboard that wasn't mine, plus my own. I pointed out that playing games for money doesn't really contribute to the economy [other than encouraging more kids to buy games I suppose because they think they can make a living at playing them]. And I gave you a civil response, which is more than your flamebait deserved, in an attempt to contribute to world peace.
I've seen at least a couple people in wheelchairs with profiles on things like Yahoo and PlentyofFish.
If you do make something like that, you can get a lot of the geek crowd aware of it for free by posting to Slashdot and using the site in your signature.
Morpheus didn't come out until a while after Napster hit it big, and there was a Mopheus alike that was iMesh I think, although it might have been called something else. Those were the first 2 P2P programs that I used. Then Gnutella in 2000, using dialup.
It's too bad he can't use his uncanny ability to do something that helps humanity. I guess we can't punish him for not helping out, but it's not like we have to worship him.
I think that accidental online meetings that turn into relationships happen more than some people think. I tried online dating over a year ago for the first time, and didn't have much luck meeting anyone interesting. Then someone showed up at the message board I used most and we hit it off. Things worked out for over a year, but we aren't still together [online relationships fizzle if there's no chance of ever really meeting].
Online dating is no more risky than dating in the real world if you're cautious and remember that there are normal people out there too trying it instead of the usual bar scene that geeks tend to not dig much. You might even see someone on Slashdot that loves the same archaic text game, and is of the opposite sex. It doesn't hurt to strike up a conversation with them on their journal.
"If you deign to think of video games as simply a childish pastime, consider this professional game player."
At least the Baseball players who learn to cash in on a child's game aren't Coke-swilling computer nerds. There are all sorts of professions that are traditionally for kids who don't grow up, and it doesn't mean we have to respect them for doing nothing productive for society other than to provide the workers with something to gossip about.
99% of the things you can pay for on the Internet are a scam if you don't get something tangible out of it that you can hold in your hands. And even then, there's things you can hold which are still a scam like drugs.
Don't spend what you can't afford to lose.
That being said though, I'm pissed off at Yahoo now, since I signed up for a month to try it out and was possibly scammed since someone had "messaged" me before I signed up, but never messaged after I contacted them back. Not even a note to blow me off, which I found strange, but figured she'd found someone else or my reply wasn't interesting. While I accepted that my shortlived subscription was just a Blind Date that was a bit expensive and failed, now I feel victimized too. There's no way to know if she was a Yahoo shill, or just some woman that didn't find me interesting. Either way it's not a happy outcome. There can't be too many happy online daters out there in cyberland today upon hearing this news.
Fortunately I've since been tipped off to the existence of 100% free sites like http://www.craigslist.com/ andhttp://www.plentyoffish.com/which don't require you to pay. Plenty of Fish makes their money from Google advertising instead of scamming people with fake people.
We have to keep up with the negative attention DRM is getting these days. This is our golden opportunity to poison the term DRM, so that when people hear it they think of Sony's cockup and associate DRM with words like "infected", "Restricted", "spyware", and other Bad Things (TM).
Tell your friends not to buy Copy Protected CDs because they screw up computers since they are "infected with DRM spyware". You won't be overhyping it even.
I'd say that Napster shaped how people use the Internet. It was the greatest advancement in Internet use since the invention of the WWW for browsing. SETI@Home came out about the same time as Napster, and it paved the way for other distributed computing projects which have had some impact on the Internet's usage, but even the popular screensaver has been dwarfed by P2P sharing programs.
I think SETI@Home would have been the biggest thing since sliced bread if they found a way to search for alien music online while looking for alien signals in space. And the Voltrons don't even have obscure earth copyright laws for downloaders to worry about, although their tenors do make your head explode if you crank the volume.
That seems quite likely. It's not like you can ask a dead child why they jumped off a tall place to their death. Unless the kid said something like, "I'm going to go jump from a high place to reenact a video game called WoW," it's pretty hard to determine the impetus of his mental instability.
Slashdot Mirror
3M =
Duck[tape]ing the law!
Masking[tape] the truth!
An evil corporation that you can see right through [their Scotch tape]!
" since it most certainly doesn't install a backdoor"
It installs a gap in Windows = backdoor.
$sys$you_can't_see_this_file is a backdoor attack, just not one that advertises itself on a port or something like that.
You're right that the tape is a bad idea. If someone does try it though, at least put a balancing slice on the opposite side of the disc. You don't know strange and loud until a CD EXPLODES in your CDROM drive. I've seen the remaining disc after an explosion, and sand almost has bigger pieces than some of what's left.
Also in describing the Sony Rootkit problem it's good to mention that the disks are "infected with DRM". The person won't know what DRM is, but it helps to associate it with a bad word like "infection". And in the case of the Sony CDs, it's not overhyping the facts either, so your conscience can remain clear.
Bottom line is, "these discs are designed to infect a computer with DRM, which breaks Windows, and lets Sony and viruses take over your computer."
"do you think the cost of a console adds up to much?"
Yes, more than you can count too. You have to count the Bads witth the Goods. The Good lasts only hours when you first enjoy the system with the kid(s). After that it turns into one more thing to pry them away from to sit down to supper, or to kick them outside away from the TV. You could be hurting your child's healthy by buying them an addictive game system, and you'll certainly hurt their academics in some form, although to what degree is determined by the kid's willpower to do work to avoid having bad grades, and the parent's wisdom about when it's time to take the TV away so homework gets done.
So the cost is $640C minimum for two kids to play, and poorer health and worse grades. Who WOULDN'T want one???!
Where are all these people that have $500C for a game system with no games? Do they have no other forms of entertainment that they must buy a bleeding edge Microsoft game console? Might I remind them politely that they can get a computer for the same price, and it can do games and everything else the XBox 360 can do, and not be locked into Microsoft only Xbox 360 games and software?
Why not buy an XBox original and get oodles of games for it if you don't already have a system. You get way more entertainment bang for your buck. I guess keeping up with the Joneses is more important these days than it's ever been in the past?
The media coverage this thing is geting makes me nearly sick. It's on the radio, the TV, and in print. I've only heard one reviewer say they wouldn't buy their kids the system because it's going to be at least $150 less in 6 months. Don't these parents realize that their heating bills are going to be about 50% more this year?
"There are no cross-postings."
That's just because they couldn't figure out how to get clickable links to work on paper.
Normally I like every CSI Miami, but this show just rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I'd feel about any CSI where I'm familiar with the subject matter, but this one seemed "forced" or preachy. It's almost as if it Jumped the Shark, if they keep going with this lame social consequences route.
It's a puff show, and should stick to what it knows best:
crime mystery and bikinis. Any thing more and it's just silly, because it doesn't have a foundation of fact to stand on and no one takes it seriously anyway. To suddenly try and have a moral, is satirizing the moral they try to give.
I think it sounds like a great TV episode, it's just too bad that ignorant people will take it to mean that video games promte violence in EVERYONE. It's a very small portion of video game players that actually become violent in a certain manner due to something they witness in a game.
The problem is parents who buy a game that's unsuitable for their mentally challenged or disturbed children. They wouldn't buy them beer or let them drive at 12, why would they buy them something like GTA?
Tim from http://www.boycottsony.us/ was the guest on the radio program, and he did a fine job of convincing the radio host John Gormley how bad this DRM infection is. If all technical people were as gifted verbally as Tim is, then we'd see a lot fewer problems from companies trying to exploit consumer ignorance.
The rebroadcast is tonight CST at www.ckom.com
"President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong"
In other news, cows give milk.
Anyone interested in local radio coverage of this story, CJME.com is about to do a show on the Sony rootkit, you can listen live at 10:05AM CST, and again in the evening for a rebroadcast. Sorry, no podcast is made.
"The back end of that is about to be spun off in to a straight site"
It should be interesting if you use puns like that.
I think POF has a clever name, it's short for "Plenty of Fish in the Ocean".
It's no stranger than listening to an "iPod", or buying something at "egghead" or "eBay". They're all terms that will grow on us. I mean, who meets their wife at "YAHOO!!!" "YIPPIE?"
Well if you want me to make a list:
I made some funny pictures which caused a few people to laugh [entertainment, which is what this gamer is good for].
Plus I recycled a few pounds of cardboard that wasn't mine, plus my own.
I pointed out that playing games for money doesn't really contribute to the economy [other than encouraging more kids to buy games I suppose because they think they can make a living at playing them].
And I gave you a civil response, which is more than your flamebait deserved, in an attempt to contribute to world peace.
I've seen at least a couple people in wheelchairs with profiles on things like Yahoo and PlentyofFish.
If you do make something like that, you can get a lot of the geek crowd aware of it for free by posting to Slashdot and using the site in your signature.
Morpheus didn't come out until a while after Napster hit it big, and there was a Mopheus alike that was iMesh I think, although it might have been called something else. Those were the first 2 P2P programs that I used. Then Gnutella in 2000, using dialup.
It's too bad he can't use his uncanny ability to do something that helps humanity. I guess we can't punish him for not helping out, but it's not like we have to worship him.
I think that accidental online meetings that turn into relationships happen more than some people think. I tried online dating over a year ago for the first time, and didn't have much luck meeting anyone interesting. Then someone showed up at the message board I used most and we hit it off. Things worked out for over a year, but we aren't still together [online relationships fizzle if there's no chance of ever really meeting].
Online dating is no more risky than dating in the real world if you're cautious and remember that there are normal people out there too trying it instead of the usual bar scene that geeks tend to not dig much. You might even see someone on Slashdot that loves the same archaic text game, and is of the opposite sex. It doesn't hurt to strike up a conversation with them on their journal.
"If you deign to think of video games as simply a childish pastime, consider this professional game player."
At least the Baseball players who learn to cash in on a child's game aren't Coke-swilling computer nerds. There are all sorts of professions that are traditionally for kids who don't grow up, and it doesn't mean we have to respect them for doing nothing productive for society other than to provide the workers with something to gossip about.
-/trolling done.
" I'd be curious to know how many /.-ers use such services. "
Options:
Use them all the time.
I'm not old enough to date.
They're all scams.
Tried it and didn't like it.
Met my significant other using one.
I only date Cowboy Neal.
If it can be shown that the company was behind the shill employees, then they ought to be liable for fraud damages.
I'm all for Open Dating, although I don't think that means what you think it means.
And the Dating Rights Managment is something that women are already applying all over the world.
99% of the things you can pay for on the Internet are a scam if you don't get something tangible out of it that you can hold in your hands. And even then, there's things you can hold which are still a scam like drugs.
Don't spend what you can't afford to lose.
That being said though, I'm pissed off at Yahoo now, since I signed up for a month to try it out and was possibly scammed since someone had "messaged" me before I signed up, but never messaged after I contacted them back. Not even a note to blow me off, which I found strange, but figured she'd found someone else or my reply wasn't interesting. While I accepted that my shortlived subscription was just a Blind Date that was a bit expensive and failed, now I feel victimized too. There's no way to know if she was a Yahoo shill, or just some woman that didn't find me interesting. Either way it's not a happy outcome. There can't be too many happy online daters out there in cyberland today upon hearing this news.
Fortunately I've since been tipped off to the existence of 100% free sites like http://www.craigslist.com/ and http://www.plentyoffish.com/ which don't require you to pay. Plenty of Fish makes their money from Google advertising instead of scamming people with fake people.
Where's the "YOU FAIL IT" troll when you need him?
I wonder why there have been such mission affecting mishaps on this ship? Where were the quality control teams?
We have to keep up with the negative attention DRM is getting these days. This is our golden opportunity to poison the term DRM, so that when people hear it they think of Sony's cockup and associate DRM with words like "infected", "Restricted", "spyware", and other Bad Things (TM).
Tell your friends not to buy Copy Protected CDs because they screw up computers since they are "infected with DRM spyware". You won't be overhyping it even.
I'd say that Napster shaped how people use the Internet. It was the greatest advancement in Internet use since the invention of the WWW for browsing. SETI@Home came out about the same time as Napster, and it paved the way for other distributed computing projects which have had some impact on the Internet's usage, but even the popular screensaver has been dwarfed by P2P sharing programs.
I think SETI@Home would have been the biggest thing since sliced bread if they found a way to search for alien music online while looking for alien signals in space. And the Voltrons don't even have obscure earth copyright laws for downloaders to worry about, although their tenors do make your head explode if you crank the volume.
That seems quite likely. It's not like you can ask a dead child why they jumped off a tall place to their death. Unless the kid said something like, "I'm going to go jump from a high place to reenact a video game called WoW," it's pretty hard to determine the impetus of his mental instability.