You cannot expect the reviewers to examine content that is only accessible by modifying the game.
The problem here is that the "mod" simply unlocks Hot Coffee. No new skins. No new scripts. That is what makes this episode so toxic. In theory, Rockstar could burn anything to disk and escape responsibility while quietly alerting a third-party hacker.
If the ESRB has already rated a game as Mature, what is it these rabid parent groups expect everyone else to do?
Hot Coffee undermines the credibility of the ESRB. Rockstar has been caught flirting with an AO rating and that may be enough to bring the voluntary system down.
THERE IS NO WAY FOR A COMPANY TO CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO TO/WITH THEIR PRODUCTS
Hot Coffee can be unlocked on both the PC and Playstation. That strikes me as being a little too coincidental. I have been waiting for the second shoe to drop: that the ispiration for this so-called "mod" has been traced back to a leak from Rockstar.
Browser Helper Objects...can be installed completely silently...They are a pain to uninstall as well
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware monitors the installation of BHOs. BHOs can easily be blocked or removed: MS Antispyware > Advanced Tools > System Explorers > Internet Explorer > IE BHOs.
It makes a pretty picture. The white-faced, pimply, overweight, gaming Geek picketing WalMart in 95 degree heat, fueled by Jolt Cola and cold pizza. But that it was it takes.
That is why in the early 1980s the soft drink manufacturers started to put corn syrup in your Coke instead of cane sugar
By 1980 half the cane sugar in Coke had been replaced by corn syrup. Knew Coke Corn syrup had been used as a substitute for cane sugar in World War Two.
they're well on the way to losing the blacks and the poor with the way that they spew rhetoric about the "uninformed sheepish herds". Good lord, y'all are arrogant
"Sheepish herds" is geek speak. Mrs Clinton is saying things that the poor and black have been waiting to hear for a very long time.
I just can't stop laughing when you called those vast, uninformed sheepish herds "politically aware'
more situationally aware and less given to group think than the geeks who believed the escalation of sex and violence in gangster themed games could go on forever.
Anyway, 99.99% of all firewall problems are caused by user ignorance of what a firewall is or how it works. They always click "Block" whenever their firewall comes up and asks whether or to Allow/Block a program, then wonder why that program can't access the internet
If you are selling internet security to non-technical users, then it becomes your responsibility to see that everything works properly.
First, you have to convince non-believers that "Hot Coffee" was "accidentally" embedded in both the PC and Playstation pressings of the game, in a form that could be easily unlocked on both platforms.
Next, you have to make the argument that you are safe at home no matter what illicit content can be found on a Rockstar disk, so long at is accessible only through a third-party mod. Good luck selling that idea to WalMart.
After all this great press coverage, Rockstar should box up the Hot Coffee mod, slap an AO rating on it, and put it on store shelves. Maybe even make the minigame a little more playable. That'll show them "think of the children" wankers how it is.
The middle class, "think of the children" wankers, as you call them, are a retailer's core market. They are politically aware, and politically potent. They have the power to grind Rockstar into pulp anytime they chose.
Any method of accessing this content would certainly be a violation of the EULA, thus absolving Rockstar of responsibility, and excluding that code and content from the raiting....
This Geek mind at work. Very interesting, but stupid.
No one else thinks like this. They see adult content burnt to disk that can be trivially unlocked and a company that has been ratcheting up the level of sex and violence in its games since day one.
I'm asking why www.w3schools.com changed the way it shows browser statistics?
what w3schools can't reliably estimate are the browser stats for sites that draw audiences orders of magnitude larger, sites like amazon or google.
when fan sites for Harry Potter show 10% running Firefox, then we can talk.
Maybe because Bill is worried about this and...
maybe it is time to grow up, throw away the tinfoil hat, and stop using words like bribery and blackmail to explain every bit of bad news that falls your way
For every one of these stories there must be a hundred kids who think "I could have done that, why didn't I get the chance?"
or, just maybe, this girl doesn't believe in maybe, should of, could of.
Big whoop. Rowling's fans aren't linking to stallman.org. You think after blowing off the Catholic church they are going to give a damn about RMS and his crusades?
The old familiar math... if there is one known terrorist per million people, and if the false positive rate is one in a thousand, then 999 out of 1000 people identified as "terrorists" will be innocent.
Facial recognition doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. You work through a process of elimination, a criminal investigation or the pursuit of a terrorist rarely turns on a single piece of information.
...keep inappropriate content out of the hands of young people...
The problem is, it looks as if Rockstar was trying to ratchet up the level of pornographic sex and violence in GTA another notch, or two, or three, while avoiding a poisonous AO rating.
Many crimes can be set up in such a way to implicate an innocent person. When this innocent person is convicted because all (or most / the most influential) the evidence points to him, does this still mean that it is "proven" that he did it?
The standard in smerican law is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." Not to some impossible, metaphysical, certainty. To paraphrase Holmes, the life of the law is experience, not logic.
All this talk about Linux being ready for Joe Sixpack belies the fact that operating system acceptance begins in the workplace and filters down from there
If you think the office cubicle defines what sells in the home market, you are living twenty years in the past.
When Windows is the system everyone knows, it becomes very difficult to push it off the corporate desktop. For all the talk of the cathedral and the bazaar, posters here tend to be authoritarian, top-down thinkers, certain that the decree from on high will crush all resistance down below. It doesn't always work that way.
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The problem here is that the "mod" simply unlocks Hot Coffee. No new skins. No new scripts.
That is what makes this episode so toxic. In theory, Rockstar could burn anything to disk and escape responsibility while quietly alerting a third-party hacker.
In the words of John Nance Garner, the Geek vote "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
Hot Coffee undermines the credibility of the ESRB. Rockstar has been caught flirting with an AO rating and that may be enough to bring the voluntary system down.
Hot Coffee can be unlocked on both the PC and Playstation.
That strikes me as being a little too coincidental. I have been waiting for the second shoe to drop: that the ispiration for this so-called "mod" has been traced back to a leak from Rockstar.
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware monitors the installation of BHOs. BHOs can easily be blocked or removed: MS Antispyware > Advanced Tools > System Explorers > Internet Explorer > IE BHOs.
It makes a pretty picture. The white-faced, pimply, overweight, gaming Geek picketing WalMart in 95 degree heat, fueled by Jolt Cola and cold pizza. But that it was it takes.
By 1980 half the cane sugar in Coke had been replaced by corn syrup. Knew Coke Corn syrup had been used as a substitute for cane sugar in World War Two.
"Sheepish herds" is geek speak.
Mrs Clinton is saying things that the poor and black have been waiting to hear for a very long time.
and these consumers are to be found where?:
certainly not among subscribers to XM Radio, Rhapsody, Y! Unlimited, Live365, Virgin, etc.
the DRM based subscription sales model is looking very good right now.
more situationally aware and less given to group think than the geeks who believed the escalation of sex and violence in gangster themed games could go on forever.
If you are selling internet security to non-technical users, then it becomes your responsibility to see that everything works properly.
Not at all.
First, you have to convince non-believers that "Hot Coffee" was "accidentally" embedded in both the PC and Playstation pressings of the game, in a form that could be easily unlocked on both platforms.
Next, you have to make the argument that you are safe at home no matter what illicit content can be found on a Rockstar disk, so long at is accessible only through a third-party mod. Good luck selling that idea to WalMart.
The middle class, "think of the children" wankers, as you call them, are a retailer's core market. They are politically aware, and politically potent. They have the power to grind Rockstar into pulp anytime they chose.
There have been AO rated games.
But you aren't likely to find them outside of the red light district of your local adult bookstore.
This Geek mind at work. Very interesting, but stupid.
No one else thinks like this. They see adult content burnt to disk that can be trivially unlocked and a company that has been ratcheting up the level of sex and violence in its games since day one.
what w3schools can't reliably estimate are the browser stats for sites that draw audiences orders of magnitude larger, sites like amazon or google.
when fan sites for Harry Potter show 10% running Firefox, then we can talk.
Maybe because Bill is worried about this and...
maybe it is time to grow up, throw away the tinfoil hat, and stop using words like bribery and blackmail to explain every bit of bad news that falls your way
For every one of these stories there must be a hundred kids who think "I could have done that, why didn't I get the chance?" or, just maybe, this girl doesn't believe in maybe, should of, could of.
Big whoop. Rowling's fans aren't linking to stallman.org. You think after blowing off the Catholic church they are going to give a damn about RMS and his crusades?
with hundreds of millions of fans in a mood for a mid-summer party, he'll be swept away without a thought, like a bug.
Facial recognition doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. You work through a process of elimination, a criminal investigation or the pursuit of a terrorist rarely turns on a single piece of information.
The problem is, it looks as if Rockstar was trying to ratchet up the level of pornographic sex and violence in GTA another notch, or two, or three, while avoiding a poisonous AO rating.
But only if it can be found on the shelves.
GTA was already drawing enough fire to make a retailer flinch. Now they get this sucker punch from Rockstar. Who needs that kind of grief?
That line was erased in 1992. Cybercrime, Criminal Intellectual Property Laws.
The standard in smerican law is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." Not to some impossible, metaphysical, certainty. To paraphrase Holmes, the life of the law is experience, not logic.
If you think the office cubicle defines what sells in the home market, you are living twenty years in the past.
When Windows is the system everyone knows, it becomes very difficult to push it off the corporate desktop. For all the talk of the cathedral and the bazaar, posters here tend to be authoritarian, top-down thinkers, certain that the decree from on high will crush all resistance down below. It doesn't always work that way.