Your The Problem with Motion blog... might not be so bad, if you actually bothered to finish it. Instead all we have is claims with nothing to back it up. Please stop re-posting this blog spam until you finish writing the article in full... so we can at least attempt to understand what you are pushing. As they say, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof... or in this case, any proof at all. Maybe even put a disclaimer on the first page announcing you aren't going to finish writing it up at this time, instead of dragging people along, poking fun at some of the greatest minds in science / philosophy, and then ending it all in a rather conspiratorial way. Once the reader has already invested themselves into several pages, it is quite a let down to not even hear what the hell it is you are on about.
That is, if you have enough slots. A slim case might have room for only one or two PCIe cards on a riser. If you've replaced the integrated graphics with ATI and the integrated wired networking with a WLAN card, what do you do once the onboard audio gets sick, other than build a new PC out of the remaining working parts?
I'm late to the show on answering you, but if all you are missing is broken audio, they have USB audio devices these days. The mini-jack plug went out on my wife's computer, and she had no spare PCI slots to replace the onboard audio with. The solution was a USB stereo audio adapter. (Here is one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035) they even go up to 7.1 surround, but I'd imagine it isn't a great solution for a gaming computer.
Another bit of awesomeness is you can have your account logged in as offline on as many computers as you want. So if you have a fun single player game you can share your account with friends / family, and so long as they all behave and keep the account set to offline, you all can play the single player game at the same time and only buy a single copy.
Lots of good posts so far, but one thing I also do and would suggest trying as well (depending on what the problem you are dealing with) is to also drop in a live cd of Ubuntu or Knoppix, install whatever app would also put a strain on whatever part of the system appears to be failing, and see if the problem occurs in another OS as well. I've seen Windows fail in some pretty interesting ways that seems like hardware is failing. But when testing with another OS and the problem doesn't reoccur, I often then suggest reinstalling Windows. While it isn't overly common these days, Windows can pretty silently get hosed up and crash for no apparent reasons and make it seem like hardware when it is just a borked up driver causing the issue.
The Xbox 360 can stream tv/movies/music using a Zune pass, tv/movies using a Netflix subscription, and it plays CDs/DVDs. You don't need to hack it at all.
Don't you need an Xbox gold account (thus pay monthly to MS) in order to use Netflix? If I was using it to just stream media to my TV, I surely would not pay extra each month just to use my Netflix account.
Do companies in the US have access to that kind of information? In the Netherlands, these records are private, but companies often will require a "declaration of no objection" from new hires for positions of trust.
The same does not hold true in the US. Any business can do a felony lookup on anyone once they apply and give said company their name, address, etc. Their are free services, often provided at tax-payer expense, to provide public access to felony conviction records.
In the US, generally it is a financial death sentence to get a felony on your record because you will be treated like a pariah in the job market for all but the most menial tasks. This isn't always the case, some felons are able to make it back into the workforce, but I would consider them VERY lucky as they applied at the right time, at the right place, with the right person who was willing to over look their past.
So 57 years ago France was already broadcasting 441 lines. I was under the impression, that in the USA, today, that 480 lines were being broadcast and sold as the low end of HD. And that we continue to use 320 line for regular cable / satellite / OTA broadcasts. I could be off a lot in my understanding and was looking for clarification. It just seems amazing that France would have been for all intents and purposes be broadcasting 57 years ago what we American's are being sold as HD TV today (considering how overly compressed current broadcasts are, 441 vs 480 seems like it should be negligible). So, since these seems pretty impossible to me, please point out my flawed understanding. Thanks!
Agreed, my pointer finger and thumb hurt watching most of those demo's. If it doesn't have a tactile response, which none of them appeared to, no thanks. Just thinking about how much fun it is tapping the tip of your finger against the a hard unyielding surface for hours of the day... ugh. It seems to me that even the slight spring in the clicking of your mouse probably helps cushion your finger tap and help protect your joints by taking some of the energy out of the motion and not just sending it all back up your finger.
As the ingenuity of GenL shows, it's not up to them.
I'm unfamiliar with GenL, can you please shed some light on that. Both Google and M-W were no help. The best I can infer is you mean Generation Linux... but that doesn't quite grok.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I too wouldn't mind going that route.
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I suppose that makes me selfish. I've given so much to and for my family, and will continue to do so, I hope they respect my wishes when my time comes. I know I'll be dead, and it won't really matter. However as my last request I would hope that someone would love me enough to send me off the way I want.
Now as for how I'd like to be sent along... well, I figure I've ate so many animals and destroyed so many tree's and generally caused a hefty footprint on this world. My present thought on burial... (which is likely illegal in the USA, I still need to research more) is to stick me in the ground and plant a tree on what was once me. No casket, no embalming, just a fresh corpse fertilizing some tree's. I know ultimately in the long run, nothing matters once you die. Anything could happen to the plot I'm at, or the tree I'd become could be cut down and turned into creationist school books, or worse (I shudder to think), but regardless... it feels like I've taken so much that I should give myself back. Although, truly, in my dreams I think and hope that one day the rich, the poor, and all in between, will get to share a seat in that singularity that is the black hole we've been circling at the middle of our galaxy. But until then, I'd like a nice natural dirt nap.
On topic, but a side note. I know everyone has their own idea's/beliefs about death, but the idea of being cremated, put into some container, and then promptly forgotten about, with my old atoms, nutrients, etc, just going to waste, not going back into the system that supported me, just seems SOO selfish. A co-worker told me about how he still has his father in a coffee can on top of his fridge. It made me think that if hell is a real place, that sounds like it.
Then you'd just need to keep an eye out for any employees that keeps those life size cardboard cutouts at there desk, no doubt trying to subvert this cleaver tech. (No lie, we have a cardboard cutout of that now older and no longer used Home Depot guy in my office... and I had no idea why until reading the parents post)
A secure password?? That would be easy enough if I only needed "a" password, not fifty. (and one of the rules I do follow-- apparently the only person in the universe who does-- is to never use the same password on two different systems). And if I didn't have to change it every month.
Well, if you are able to set your own passwords you can still use a similar setup to what pwffff was suggesting.
Say you have 50 passwords, each needs to be diff, and they change every so often. Make all your passwords start with p455W0rd, then the next 2 (or more if you are so inclined) characters you could use to signify which server / app / product it is to be used with, and then have the next 2 characters increment for each time you are mandated to change your password.
i.e.[base password][few character to identify the system you are logging into][few character to increment your password for reoccuring passwd changes]
and really it can be in any order you are comfortable with and can be massaged into working with some crazy password requirements.
Password 1 = p455W0rd0101
In 3 months, or whatever the policy is, you'd change it to
Password 1 = p455W0rd0102
And for your next password, you'd have it start as
Password 2 = p455W0rd0201
and next time you change it, increment the last 2 digits. p455W0rd0202
Bottom line is if you never tell anyone that your base password starts with p455W0rd, then I don't think having a personalize system of 2+ characters to distinguish which system the password is for, and another 2+ characters to allow to reoccurring password changes would make your password any less secure, with the benefit of making them easier to remember. For extra security, add some ! _ - @ % etc characters to break up the 3 parts to your password. i.e. p455W0rd#02!01
I have an ungodly number of passwd's to remember, and I used to feel your pain until I started doing this. Good luck!
On my Windows gaming box I had to take the Windows function keys off. Some games hitting those Windows keys will take you right out of the game, and some games don't handle or let you Alt + Tab out, so the act of forcing it causing the program to crash. I don't game as much or even play any MMO's anymore, but back when I was playing WoW, it was EXTREMELY annoying accidentally hitting the Windows key, normally when you are in the heat of a fight, getting kicked back to the desktop, frantically trying to get WoW back on screen, just in time to find out you died. Only needed to die one time before I popped those keys right the hell off.
I think rpresser was talking about using google to get definitions on words. It really is hard to beat google using its define: feature. Of course, using 'man cmd' makes sense when you are running on the appropriate OS. But, for looking up odd acronyms or getting word definitions, I don't know of any linux programs (I'm sure there might be one out there, but I'm unaware) that I can type in 'define: HERF' (in light of the HERF gun article from yesterday, I had no idea what HERF was and the description wasn't exactly forthcoming with the details) in a browser, from ANY OS, once I'm on google.com and expect at least to find a good idea of what I'm looking for so it can point me in the right direction and I can tweak my search to get better results as needed. Although you bring up an interesting point, maybe google needs a man: search type with an os: (and maybe even a version) modifier, that would be pretty awesome.
Not defending a McD's eating lifestyle, however it is VERY hard to beat them on the price for a meal. $.99 double cheese burger, and $.99 side salad with vinaigrette is a filling meal that has about 700 calories in it. For right at $2 it is hard to do better.
How do you decide the X lucky recipients of your partial key?
It seems to me that if you have an install base as large as Microsoft has, round robin will easily be enough redundancy without over thinking the problem.
How do you assume they are trustworthy?
Because it would be trivial to write in some sanity check on and against the client that could upload encrypted results to a server should the client disconnect in whatever way you are seeming to think is unreasonable. And to clarify server, should it be assumed that it could be a single point of failure, it shouldn't be. Between DNS and (even geographic) load balancers it too is trivial to mitigate any single point of failure risk.
Then again, if you're not watching the logs, how to you know they aren't cheating the system, and trying to assemble the full key without your permission?
The whole point of DRM is to give permission when you wish. Any system that allows someone to skip asking permission, and later beg forgiveness is broken. In that same vein, any DRM system gives you the keys at some point, and says "do not unlock this door"; therefore it always fails, even if we use it simply because it's easier to ask then to beg permission.
This part, I completely agree with you. Anything made by man, can be unmade by man. But it will keep a significant percentage of their customers in line and continuing to pay for legit products if only as a chilling factor effect. Then they could send cease and desist letters that could later be used in court, or the usual BSA business audit to bring your companies licenses up to compliance, depending on how they go with this.
but perhaps they are getting a patent on this in order for them to bring suit against any other bittorrent client that uses encryption, effectively making them to remove the encryption "feature" or face imminent pestering by a small horde of MS lawyers. Sure, they couldn't do much, at first to developers in other countries. But as the Pirate Bay trial has shown us, other(and more over time) countries tend to be making pro-IP choices. Thankfully, MS hasn't gone all RIAA on the world of software on a grandma by grandma basis... yet. But who knows, maybe they have a serious, long term, view(war) on the nature of how bittorrent and other p2p software will no doubt develop. So perhaps they are seriously going the road of the 3 E's yet again.
Getting the traffic your client makes to be encrypted, especially now p2p is so prevalent, simply will become a good idea if net neutrality doesn't come about. Or even just to finally flood the internet with so much encrypted traffic to give a big middle finger to all the intelligence (and no doubt ad) agencies of the world trying to read what we do and profile us on our own tax dollars.
I am kind of concerned with this development, but I guess it is just one concern on a pile of many. We really need to do something about software patents...
I don't think there will be a performance issue for sometime as video cards aren't even using enough bandwidth to saturate the now older PCIe 1.1 which can do up to 4GB/s, and are obviously no where near touching the PCIe 2.0's 8GB/s. Their is a ~2% performance increase with running modern cards on the 1.1 compared to the 2.0 which is within the margin of error. So if you want to use this HYDRA setup with 2 cards, regardless of their speed, the 16x PCIe 2.0 line should be enough bandwidth to do the job right. But in the end, down the line, their will be some performance issues if you keep using PCIe 2.0, but by then we'll all have PCIe 3.0 so it should be a moot point.
This enables the NSA to intercept not only most Asian e-mail messages but also the entire U.S. internal Internet traffic.
I'm going to call BS on that. Their is more tier 1 back bones going through USA than just AT&T. NSA would need to have monitoring setup on all tier 1's in order to really see the entire U.S. internal Internet traffic. Even then there would be fringe cases as not all email/traffic would go through these monitoring points, unless they are setup on the geographical border routes of the country.
Only way in hell I'm going to buy such a game is if it's free.
When I pay, I expect not to be pestered.
I'm going to make an assumption that you also do not have cable/satellite TV? I can only imagine that sooner than later game companies are going to start force feeding us ads and tell us that it is value added as the additional cash flow is needed in order maintain and expand on... well, anything they feel like telling us. And the sheep will continue to pay and ask for more...:(
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Your The Problem with Motion blog... might not be so bad, if you actually bothered to finish it. Instead all we have is claims with nothing to back it up. Please stop re-posting this blog spam until you finish writing the article in full... so we can at least attempt to understand what you are pushing. As they say, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof... or in this case, any proof at all. Maybe even put a disclaimer on the first page announcing you aren't going to finish writing it up at this time, instead of dragging people along, poking fun at some of the greatest minds in science / philosophy, and then ending it all in a rather conspiratorial way. Once the reader has already invested themselves into several pages, it is quite a let down to not even hear what the hell it is you are on about.
That is, if you have enough slots. A slim case might have room for only one or two PCIe cards on a riser. If you've replaced the integrated graphics with ATI and the integrated wired networking with a WLAN card, what do you do once the onboard audio gets sick, other than build a new PC out of the remaining working parts?
I'm late to the show on answering you, but if all you are missing is broken audio, they have USB audio devices these days. The mini-jack plug went out on my wife's computer, and she had no spare PCI slots to replace the onboard audio with. The solution was a USB stereo audio adapter. (Here is one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035) they even go up to 7.1 surround, but I'd imagine it isn't a great solution for a gaming computer.
Another bit of awesomeness is you can have your account logged in as offline on as many computers as you want. So if you have a fun single player game you can share your account with friends / family, and so long as they all behave and keep the account set to offline, you all can play the single player game at the same time and only buy a single copy.
Lots of good posts so far, but one thing I also do and would suggest trying as well (depending on what the problem you are dealing with) is to also drop in a live cd of Ubuntu or Knoppix, install whatever app would also put a strain on whatever part of the system appears to be failing, and see if the problem occurs in another OS as well. I've seen Windows fail in some pretty interesting ways that seems like hardware is failing. But when testing with another OS and the problem doesn't reoccur, I often then suggest reinstalling Windows. While it isn't overly common these days, Windows can pretty silently get hosed up and crash for no apparent reasons and make it seem like hardware when it is just a borked up driver causing the issue.
The Xbox 360 can stream tv/movies/music using a Zune pass, tv/movies using a Netflix subscription, and it plays CDs/DVDs. You don't need to hack it at all.
Don't you need an Xbox gold account (thus pay monthly to MS) in order to use Netflix? If I was using it to just stream media to my TV, I surely would not pay extra each month just to use my Netflix account.
(The sooner this fucking stupid 'LOL FIXED THAT FOR YOU' meme ends the better, sorry)
I see you are new here... ;)
Do companies in the US have access to that kind of information? In the Netherlands, these records are private, but companies often will require a "declaration of no objection" from new hires for positions of trust.
The same does not hold true in the US. Any business can do a felony lookup on anyone once they apply and give said company their name, address, etc. Their are free services, often provided at tax-payer expense, to provide public access to felony conviction records.
In the US, generally it is a financial death sentence to get a felony on your record because you will be treated like a pariah in the job market for all but the most menial tasks. This isn't always the case, some felons are able to make it back into the workforce, but I would consider them VERY lucky as they applied at the right time, at the right place, with the right person who was willing to over look their past.
So 57 years ago France was already broadcasting 441 lines. I was under the impression, that in the USA, today, that 480 lines were being broadcast and sold as the low end of HD. And that we continue to use 320 line for regular cable / satellite / OTA broadcasts. I could be off a lot in my understanding and was looking for clarification. It just seems amazing that France would have been for all intents and purposes be broadcasting 57 years ago what we American's are being sold as HD TV today (considering how overly compressed current broadcasts are, 441 vs 480 seems like it should be negligible). So, since these seems pretty impossible to me, please point out my flawed understanding. Thanks!
Agreed, my pointer finger and thumb hurt watching most of those demo's. If it doesn't have a tactile response, which none of them appeared to, no thanks. Just thinking about how much fun it is tapping the tip of your finger against the a hard unyielding surface for hours of the day... ugh. It seems to me that even the slight spring in the clicking of your mouse probably helps cushion your finger tap and help protect your joints by taking some of the energy out of the motion and not just sending it all back up your finger.
::hangs head in shame::
/. had a delete option. D'oh!
Just noticed who GenL is... wishing
As the ingenuity of GenL shows, it's not up to them.
I'm unfamiliar with GenL, can you please shed some light on that. Both Google and M-W were no help. The best I can infer is you mean Generation Linux... but that doesn't quite grok.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I too wouldn't mind going that route.
I suppose that makes me selfish. I've given so much to and for my family, and will continue to do so, I hope they respect my wishes when my time comes. I know I'll be dead, and it won't really matter. However as my last request I would hope that someone would love me enough to send me off the way I want.
Now as for how I'd like to be sent along... well, I figure I've ate so many animals and destroyed so many tree's and generally caused a hefty footprint on this world. My present thought on burial... (which is likely illegal in the USA, I still need to research more) is to stick me in the ground and plant a tree on what was once me. No casket, no embalming, just a fresh corpse fertilizing some tree's. I know ultimately in the long run, nothing matters once you die. Anything could happen to the plot I'm at, or the tree I'd become could be cut down and turned into creationist school books, or worse (I shudder to think), but regardless... it feels like I've taken so much that I should give myself back. Although, truly, in my dreams I think and hope that one day the rich, the poor, and all in between, will get to share a seat in that singularity that is the black hole we've been circling at the middle of our galaxy. But until then, I'd like a nice natural dirt nap.
On topic, but a side note. I know everyone has their own idea's/beliefs about death, but the idea of being cremated, put into some container, and then promptly forgotten about, with my old atoms, nutrients, etc, just going to waste, not going back into the system that supported me, just seems SOO selfish. A co-worker told me about how he still has his father in a coffee can on top of his fridge. It made me think that if hell is a real place, that sounds like it.
Then you'd just need to keep an eye out for any employees that keeps those life size cardboard cutouts at there desk, no doubt trying to subvert this cleaver tech. (No lie, we have a cardboard cutout of that now older and no longer used Home Depot guy in my office... and I had no idea why until reading the parents post)
A secure password?? That would be easy enough if I only needed "a" password, not fifty. (and one of the rules I do follow-- apparently the only person in the universe who does-- is to never use the same password on two different systems). And if I didn't have to change it every month.
Well, if you are able to set your own passwords you can still use a similar setup to what pwffff was suggesting.
Say you have 50 passwords, each needs to be diff, and they change every so often. Make all your passwords start with p455W0rd, then the next 2 (or more if you are so inclined) characters you could use to signify which server / app / product it is to be used with, and then have the next 2 characters increment for each time you are mandated to change your password.
i.e.[base password][few character to identify the system you are logging into][few character to increment your password for reoccuring passwd changes]
and really it can be in any order you are comfortable with and can be massaged into working with some crazy password requirements.
Password 1 = p455W0rd0101
In 3 months, or whatever the policy is, you'd change it to Password 1 = p455W0rd0102
And for your next password, you'd have it start as Password 2 = p455W0rd0201
and next time you change it, increment the last 2 digits. p455W0rd0202
Bottom line is if you never tell anyone that your base password starts with p455W0rd, then I don't think having a personalize system of 2+ characters to distinguish which system the password is for, and another 2+ characters to allow to reoccurring password changes would make your password any less secure, with the benefit of making them easier to remember. For extra security, add some ! _ - @ % etc characters to break up the 3 parts to your password. i.e. p455W0rd#02!01
I have an ungodly number of passwd's to remember, and I used to feel your pain until I started doing this. Good luck!
On my Windows gaming box I had to take the Windows function keys off. Some games hitting those Windows keys will take you right out of the game, and some games don't handle or let you Alt + Tab out, so the act of forcing it causing the program to crash. I don't game as much or even play any MMO's anymore, but back when I was playing WoW, it was EXTREMELY annoying accidentally hitting the Windows key, normally when you are in the heat of a fight, getting kicked back to the desktop, frantically trying to get WoW back on screen, just in time to find out you died. Only needed to die one time before I popped those keys right the hell off.
I think rpresser was talking about using google to get definitions on words. It really is hard to beat google using its define: feature. Of course, using 'man cmd' makes sense when you are running on the appropriate OS. But, for looking up odd acronyms or getting word definitions, I don't know of any linux programs (I'm sure there might be one out there, but I'm unaware) that I can type in 'define: HERF' (in light of the HERF gun article from yesterday, I had no idea what HERF was and the description wasn't exactly forthcoming with the details) in a browser, from ANY OS, once I'm on google.com and expect at least to find a good idea of what I'm looking for so it can point me in the right direction and I can tweak my search to get better results as needed. Although you bring up an interesting point, maybe google needs a man: search type with an os: (and maybe even a version) modifier, that would be pretty awesome.
Not defending a McD's eating lifestyle, however it is VERY hard to beat them on the price for a meal. $.99 double cheese burger, and $.99 side salad with vinaigrette is a filling meal that has about 700 calories in it. For right at $2 it is hard to do better.
How do you decide the X lucky recipients of your partial key?
It seems to me that if you have an install base as large as Microsoft has, round robin will easily be enough redundancy without over thinking the problem.
How do you assume they are trustworthy?
Because it would be trivial to write in some sanity check on and against the client that could upload encrypted results to a server should the client disconnect in whatever way you are seeming to think is unreasonable. And to clarify server, should it be assumed that it could be a single point of failure, it shouldn't be. Between DNS and (even geographic) load balancers it too is trivial to mitigate any single point of failure risk.
Then again, if you're not watching the logs, how to you know they aren't cheating the system, and trying to assemble the full key without your permission?
The whole point of DRM is to give permission when you wish. Any system that allows someone to skip asking permission, and later beg forgiveness is broken. In that same vein, any DRM system gives you the keys at some point, and says "do not unlock this door"; therefore it always fails, even if we use it simply because it's easier to ask then to beg permission.
This part, I completely agree with you. Anything made by man, can be unmade by man. But it will keep a significant percentage of their customers in line and continuing to pay for legit products if only as a chilling factor effect. Then they could send cease and desist letters that could later be used in court, or the usual BSA business audit to bring your companies licenses up to compliance, depending on how they go with this.
"embrace" and all that?
but perhaps they are getting a patent on this in order for them to bring suit against any other bittorrent client that uses encryption, effectively making them to remove the encryption "feature" or face imminent pestering by a small horde of MS lawyers. Sure, they couldn't do much, at first to developers in other countries. But as the Pirate Bay trial has shown us, other(and more over time) countries tend to be making pro-IP choices. Thankfully, MS hasn't gone all RIAA on the world of software on a grandma by grandma basis... yet. But who knows, maybe they have a serious, long term, view(war) on the nature of how bittorrent and other p2p software will no doubt develop. So perhaps they are seriously going the road of the 3 E's yet again.
;-)
Getting the traffic your client makes to be encrypted, especially now p2p is so prevalent, simply will become a good idea if net neutrality doesn't come about. Or even just to finally flood the internet with so much encrypted traffic to give a big middle finger to all the intelligence (and no doubt ad) agencies of the world trying to read what we do and profile us on our own tax dollars.
I am kind of concerned with this development, but I guess it is just one concern on a pile of many. We really need to do something about software patents...
OK, no more to drink tonight... to paranoid
::refits tin foil hat::
I don't think there will be a performance issue for sometime as video cards aren't even using enough bandwidth to saturate the now older PCIe 1.1 which can do up to 4GB/s, and are obviously no where near touching the PCIe 2.0's 8GB/s. Their is a ~2% performance increase with running modern cards on the 1.1 compared to the 2.0 which is within the margin of error. So if you want to use this HYDRA setup with 2 cards, regardless of their speed, the 16x PCIe 2.0 line should be enough bandwidth to do the job right. But in the end, down the line, their will be some performance issues if you keep using PCIe 2.0, but by then we'll all have PCIe 3.0 so it should be a moot point.
Why do you think I'll be driving on the road ? I'm a car driver, I go where I fucking want !
Why do you think I'll think before I post ? I'm a slashdot troll, I post where I fucking want !
This enables the NSA to intercept not only most Asian e-mail messages but also the entire U.S. internal Internet traffic.
I'm going to call BS on that. Their is more tier 1 back bones going through USA than just AT&T. NSA would need to have monitoring setup on all tier 1's in order to really see the entire U.S. internal Internet traffic. Even then there would be fringe cases as not all email/traffic would go through these monitoring points, unless they are setup on the geographical border routes of the country.
Glad to hear it, so few practice what they preach. If only I could convince my wife I'd drop my satellite TV without thinking twice.
Only way in hell I'm going to buy such a game is if it's free. When I pay, I expect not to be pestered.
I'm going to make an assumption that you also do not have cable/satellite TV? I can only imagine that sooner than later game companies are going to start force feeding us ads and tell us that it is value added as the additional cash flow is needed in order maintain and expand on... well, anything they feel like telling us. And the sheep will continue to pay and ask for more... :(