If I'm trusting my private data to a company to store
Then we can safely dismiss your comments as the ravings of a fool.
If you want to see what all these companies think of your private data, look at their SLAs. Do they offer anything more than subscription fee back in case of leak or loss?
This only protects from other non-privileged users. If the service stores the key, why bother with the encryption? If you hash to check for dedupe you can check who has what files, again why bother with encryption in that case?
It would make me run out and buy their stock today if that was true. When money is goal number 1, the company is either stagnant or already dieing. Good product, advancement, something else has to be goal number 1, or the bean counters will kill the company.
So release the server software to the public and be done with it. That used to be very common, the problem is game companies would rather force people to upgrade.
What enormous cost? They already have game server software, just not released to the public. The client should have been designed with this in mind from the word go. The fanbase would be happy to get a dedicated server at all, much less be looking for support.
What time and expense? Do you have an old desktop or laptop and can spare $10/month for power? Congratulations, you too can have a game server at your house. Laptops are really great for this because they use relatively little power and lots of people either have old ones or one with a broken screen can be had for a song.
Yes, you do want to host your own game servers. I did it for years, CS, Ghost Recon, etc. Once the machine is setup there is no work to it. It can go down for patches whenever since no one is paying. Nothing like the PITA of dealing with paying customers.
Read the part about the plant with a football sized hole eaten into the vessel. It had another two months and they would have had a leak. No one is going to really suggest the engineers were ok with that, are they?
The maintenance was delayed to save money and they got lucky that is was not delayed again.
Option D should not even be on the table. The regulatory agency should limit renewals to only what the engineers approve of. No concern should be given to loss of electric supply, nor to cost. They are there to regulate not assist.
These regulations should only be allowed to be made more harsh, loosening should only be done once a decade or so.
Delays in maintenance to scheduled windows should be forbidden. Any such delay should result in criminal charges.
It is not inevitable. You find those regulators who were willing to bend the rules and you jail them. For long times. You end the revolving door between regulators and those they regulate and you pierce the corporate veil in any case of regulation violation. If the engineers said the piping was bad but the managers did not replace it to get bigger bonuses, then those managers can rot in a cell.
This is not regulation we need. That is something players can get by spending their dollars at an establishment that does that. If anything strong labeling regulation is needed, so players can determine what sort of system they are playing against. More information helps markets be more efficient. Which is why so many big companies are against labeling laws more than regulation they can easily corrupt.
That is one heck of a "But, Clinton". Just because the idiots from the other side of the isle voted for it does not change he stupidity of banning it in the first place.
Which ones were those? The only ones I have heard of were the one the passengers stopped. Tornadoes killed over 100 people this year, terrorists on US planes 0.
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If I'm trusting my private data to a company to store
Then we can safely dismiss your comments as the ravings of a fool.
If you want to see what all these companies think of your private data, look at their SLAs. Do they offer anything more than subscription fee back in case of leak or loss?
This only protects from other non-privileged users. If the service stores the key, why bother with the encryption? If you hash to check for dedupe you can check who has what files, again why bother with encryption in that case?
Storing stuff you don't want on the internet, with a service you access via the interent is moronic. At the very least upload only encrypted blobs.
The processing power is not the issue, the storage is. They can't do global dedupe on the block level if they use per user encryption.
If your webmaster can also edit etc/rc.d/httpd or any of the config files it uses then all bets are off.
It would make me run out and buy their stock today if that was true. When money is goal number 1, the company is either stagnant or already dieing. Good product, advancement, something else has to be goal number 1, or the bean counters will kill the company.
So release the server software to the public and be done with it. That used to be very common, the problem is game companies would rather force people to upgrade.
What enormous cost? They already have game server software, just not released to the public. The client should have been designed with this in mind from the word go. The fanbase would be happy to get a dedicated server at all, much less be looking for support.
What time and expense?
Do you have an old desktop or laptop and can spare $10/month for power? Congratulations, you too can have a game server at your house. Laptops are really great for this because they use relatively little power and lots of people either have old ones or one with a broken screen can be had for a song.
Yes, you do want to host your own game servers. I did it for years, CS, Ghost Recon, etc. Once the machine is setup there is no work to it. It can go down for patches whenever since no one is paying. Nothing like the PITA of dealing with paying customers.
5 years?
Are you 10?
I still play doom 2 online. I play 20+ year old games on my android phone via emulators.
Report facts only, and no celeb or sports crap and I will go for it.
Read the part about the plant with a football sized hole eaten into the vessel. It had another two months and they would have had a leak. No one is going to really suggest the engineers were ok with that, are they?
The maintenance was delayed to save money and they got lucky that is was not delayed again.
Option D should not even be on the table.
The regulatory agency should limit renewals to only what the engineers approve of. No concern should be given to loss of electric supply, nor to cost. They are there to regulate not assist.
These regulations should only be allowed to be made more harsh, loosening should only be done once a decade or so.
Delays in maintenance to scheduled windows should be forbidden. Any such delay should result in criminal charges.
It is not inevitable. You find those regulators who were willing to bend the rules and you jail them. For long times. You end the revolving door between regulators and those they regulate and you pierce the corporate veil in any case of regulation violation. If the engineers said the piping was bad but the managers did not replace it to get bigger bonuses, then those managers can rot in a cell.
This is not regulation we need. That is something players can get by spending their dollars at an establishment that does that. If anything strong labeling regulation is needed, so players can determine what sort of system they are playing against. More information helps markets be more efficient. Which is why so many big companies are against labeling laws more than regulation they can easily corrupt.
Add in the cameras and off duty cops used for that security and I bet it covers all or most of that 8%.
Lots of unreported crime when no one is watching.
So then crime rates will shoot up around free wifi if we make internet poker legal?
An 8% increase is not crime rates going through the roof. Considering the link to the paper is dead, this seems like rather poor evidence all around.
How does gambling impact the size of the population?
I am generally for harm reduction, and as such believe that gambling, prostitution and most drugs should be legal, well regulated and discouraged.
That is one heck of a "But, Clinton". Just because the idiots from the other side of the isle voted for it does not change he stupidity of banning it in the first place.
I don't see that at all. He suggested they turn to their faith if they did not want to pay for science.
Don't forget that taxes are lower than they were during the Reagan Era. About 15% less for most, and an even more generous cut for the rich.
Which ones were those?
The only ones I have heard of were the one the passengers stopped. Tornadoes killed over 100 people this year, terrorists on US planes 0.
You would save bunches decommissioning them. They have to be fueled, maintained, and kept ready. That stuff ain't cheap.
I suggest we order 126 and decommission a couple more. That should get us a couple spare satellites.
To be fair we probably did blow up those bridges to begin with.
How about we have less wars and buy satellites with the saved money? I bet cutting that "War on Drugs" would buy more than one satellite.