Most of his users want stuff blocked not look at his ads, they don't consider him or google special, why not white list all advertisers, not only his own? Not to mention the update mill and resulting page visits. If he could manage to not realize what the hell he was doing once (and I'm not sure I believe that, the default white list and updates had made me iffy even before the incident), he can do it again. I don't want to be there when that happens, not after opening adblock plus one day and seeing white lists Inever added and Inever had EasyList, just a handful of manually added rules.
I've been happy with RequestPolicy so far. It's not a drop in replacement however. On the upside it blocks all cross site requests, not just javascript (was that an invisible 1x1 gif?), on the downside if you want a third party image to load you will also enable javascript from that party. You also can't block javascript from the site you are on, but that's what YesScriptis for.
I wanted to get a "real" game for myself and friends so I picked up Call of Duty for the Wii.
There are many "real"games on the Wii, the exact titles depend on your definition of real. For example if your definition of a "hardcore"game goes beyond shooting stuff, blood and dark atmosphere (the self identified hardcore crowd has shifted dramaticly since the original Xbox) there are quite a few hardcore games such as:
Super Mario Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition
Okami
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Mega Man 9
All of the above have heaps gameplay and depth. No, there aren't as many games of this caliber for the Wii as the fulltime gamer would wish for. But for someone like me who likes to spend about 10-15 hours a week alternating between deep and involved games (such as the ones listed above) and pick up &play but takes time to master titles (such as Samba de Amigo, Boom Blox, Zack and Wiki, World of Goo) the Wii works great. The later of the two might not be your typical hardcore game, but that doesn't mean their just kid games. And if you didn't have a GameCube you have that much more great games to choose from.
I doubt there's any difference in the type of polycarbonate used for pirated DVDs versus legitimate ones.... Chances are, they are trained to smell a significant concentration of any optical media in a single place.
Chances are they are just providing an excuse for a warrant.
Idon't really see how this is any worse then generics that say "compare active ingredients to " and similar messages on storebrand food items. Sometimes they sit right next to the brandname as well, the horror!
Not going into the argument about profiting from work done once your whole life this time, suffice to say that copyright lasts significantly longer then that as it stands.
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Since it's uniform across the DVD spectrum, no. A three activation DRM for a PC game is however out of the ordinary. For example if a DVD would refuse to play on computers and just worked on standalone players that would be out of the ordinary and should be mentioned.
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So by that logic, every review of every DVD should mention the DRM instead of actually reviewing the movie, which is what I think people are actually seeking.
A review not mentioning the region would be incomplete for example. Things like unskipable ads should also be mentioned.
I wans't arguing for or against that, just pointing out that "you expect to get to paid for your work" doesn't directly translate for most people as they are not in the same situation.
My point was exactly that pushing for a standard which does not exist would be similar to the non-standard tags pushed through in the period when NS4.7 & IE4 where the main browsers.
Since there is no standard codec everyone is free to implement their own, it's not optimal, but that's where we are at.
I want to see vorbis & theora succeed, but is it right to cheer on the FF team while they're going around the W3C? I'm a little uninformed here, so I don't mean this to sound snarky but: why is it okay for Firefox to break or extend the standards when we all acknowledge that it was bad when Netscape & Microsoft kept doing it?
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Half apology, half counterattack.
Most of his users want stuff blocked not look at his ads, they don't consider him or google special, why not white list all advertisers, not only his own? Not to mention the update mill and resulting page visits. If he could manage to not realize what the hell he was doing once (and I'm not sure I believe that, the default white list and updates had made me iffy even before the incident), he can do it again. I don't want to be there when that happens, not after opening adblock plus one day and seeing white lists Inever added and Inever had EasyList, just a handful of manually added rules.
I've been happy with RequestPolicy so far. It's not a drop in replacement however. On the upside it blocks all cross site requests, not just javascript (was that an invisible 1x1 gif?), on the downside if you want a third party image to load you will also enable javascript from that party. You also can't block javascript from the site you are on, but that's what YesScriptis for.
There are many "real"games on the Wii, the exact titles depend on your definition of real. For example if your definition of a "hardcore"game goes beyond shooting stuff, blood and dark atmosphere (the self identified hardcore crowd has shifted dramaticly since the original Xbox) there are quite a few hardcore games such as:
All of the above have heaps gameplay and depth. No, there aren't as many games of this caliber for the Wii as the fulltime gamer would wish for. But for someone like me who likes to spend about 10-15 hours a week alternating between deep and involved games (such as the ones listed above) and pick up &play but takes time to master titles (such as Samba de Amigo, Boom Blox, Zack and Wiki, World of Goo) the Wii works great. The later of the two might not be your typical hardcore game, but that doesn't mean their just kid games. And if you didn't have a GameCube you have that much more great games to choose from.
Did Sony cover what happens if the camera looses track of the glowing sphere for a while?
Chances are they are just providing an excuse for a warrant.
Idon't really see how this is any worse then generics that say "compare active ingredients to " and similar messages on storebrand food items. Sometimes they sit right next to the brandname as well, the horror!
Good to know I'm not the only one with that "problem" :)
The other solution is to use a different Firefox profile for sensitive transactions.
Not going into the argument about profiting from work done once your whole life this time, suffice to say that copyright lasts significantly longer then that as it stands.
I use CS Lite myself.
Or you could use one of the cookie equivalents of noscript.
Lock-in isn't the only way to make money.
Since it's uniform across the DVD spectrum, no. A three activation DRM for a PC game is however out of the ordinary. For example if a DVD would refuse to play on computers and just worked on standalone players that would be out of the ordinary and should be mentioned.
A review not mentioning the region would be incomplete for example. Things like unskipable ads should also be mentioned.
There was once a yahoo research project that did this, sadly it seams to be gone.
Fingerprint?
I wans't arguing for or against that, just pointing out that "you expect to get to paid for your work" doesn't directly translate for most people as they are not in the same situation.
Rather few expect to get paid for copies of their work however.
Since there is no standard codec everyone is free to implement their own, it's not optimal, but that's where we are at.
They aren't, no codec is specified by W3C.
There is no standard codec specified.
I really doubt the OP has much love for "Geek Squad" either...
Talk about an ugly solution.
Just check the fingerprint, duh.
I was talking about the developers further downstream, the ones affected by their providers choices, but I see it's no use.