I agree. I would not purchase their games at all. I'm done with everybody and his uncle thinking he has the right to snoop on me. Hell, I only use my PC for gaming, and I do that once or twice a month at most, so this game could would not be able to call home every 10 days anyway.
The ONLY question that is of any interest is whether or not this device actually has a back door to Windows encryption.
Agreed.
Somehow I seriously doubt that it does.
Why? Have you seen the source or something? TFA says that the device "can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer."
Now, granted TFA is lean on details and somewhat muddled as all articles tend to be, but unless you have information the writers didn't have, I would be curious what the basis of your doubt is.
Having sat for jury duty a few times, and being rejected every time, I can tell you that the -last- thing a lawyer wants on a jury is somebody with critical thinking skills.
Having defended numerous criminal defendants at trial, I can tell you that you are wrong. The last thing a Prosecutor wants is a juror with logical thinking skills. The first thing a defense attorney wants is 12 jurors with logical thinking skills.
The problem is that the Prosecutor gets just as many peremptory challenges (i.e. challenges without cause) as the defense attorney gets.
Try this logic on: All prosecutors are attorneys, but not all attorneys are prosecutors.
"the chances are that you are the lowest of the low in someone's book."
You are so right, "kestasjk" has a vaguely slavic sounding name and we all know that slavs are untermenschen, so, yes, he is the lowest of the low in quite a lot of people's books, particularly Mein Kampf.
I agree, if they were smart they would have called it the "Trinity" chip, stuck a cross logo on the box, and sold it to the same Christian Fundamentalists who read the Lost Behind novels.
A failed core goes from being a sign of bad engineering, to a sign from God.
They have to explain why something they defined as a core market in the early days, really isn't something they can do well.
You will see a similar announcement from General Motors soon explaining how they are a public company and their obligation is to make money for their shareholders and how building cars isn't producing that result for them.
They would rather sit around and talk about pedicures and Brad Pitt than compete with Ubuntu. Hell, I agree: it's hard making software that doesn't suck and that can actually interface with a sound card. The boys at Ubuntu figured it out, the sissies at Red Hat started flailing their arms and running around in circles afraid of getting a run in their pantyhose.
Didn't we just talk about the Monty Hall fallacy yesterday?
If my primary concern is the health of my child and not the world, then the proper question is this: what is my unvaccinated child's chance of getting a disease in a population in which I know nearly every other member has been vaccinated against it? This is a significantly lower chance than the chance of getting the disease in an unvaccinated population.
I then compare that chance against the chance of a disastrous side-effect from the vaccine. It is almost certainly going to be significantly less probable that the child will get the disease than that he will have a disastrous side-effect.
Granted, in a few generations the vaccination system collapses and we have rampant disease again, but, sometimes rational self-interest fucks everyone in the ass.
Remember: greed is good and selfishness is virtuous.
I just ran iTunes on my Windows machine to see what it would do. It said that there is a new version of iTunes available and do I want to install it. I clicked OK and I got the "Apple Software Update" disalog offering me "iTunes + Quicktime" 7.6.1 and Safari 3.1. Each piece of software was offered with a check box (by default checked) but which I could uncheck. I had to hit a confirm button that actually says "Install 2 items" os "Install 1 item" before I anything was installed.
This is forcing software on me the same way the grocery store forces food samples on me.
FFS, if you don't want it, don't tell it to install.
You are absolutely right. Apple is hardly forcing Safari on people since it asks first and they can decline the download. I decline downloads offered from Apple and MS all the time. This is a complete non-issue brought up by someone wanting free press.
The Mozilla folks are whining because there is some chance that a significant portion of Firefox users will switch to Safari. I have used Firefox since beta on Windows machines, but I will switch to Safari if it is faster. Firefox is dog-slow on a Mac, and I don't even consider it on that platform.
True, you will never end up in Pittsburgh unless you finally tire of traveling, but you may pass through Pittsburgh many times on your way to Cleveland. Hell, you might pass though Lima, Peru on your way to Cleveland, Ohio. For that matter, you might pass though Cleveland, Ohio itself several times before you complete the trip according to the instructions.
With 1.3 billion people in China, their sewers must be overflowing with shit, but does that mean they should wrap a turd in plastic and try to sell it to America? It's innovative, but the concept fails because it relies on an unsustainable level of stupidity in the market to function.
From reading the article, it seems to me Diego and Steve [yeah, sounds like a gay disco duo] have never met parents from the Middle East. Basically, a kids has one of two choices about higher education: medicine or engineering. This is so prevalent, it is a joke among the relevant demographic. Now, me, I'm shocked that theatre majors seem to be underrepresented in "Islamist groups."
The decision says that the person made out a prima facie case for copyright infringement under the DMCA for the issuance of a subpoena. Prima Facie is a very low standard. The actual decision doesn't address the copyrighting of letters, though there is probably no reason one could n't be copyrighted, and it doesn't address the issues of fair use, as least as far as the edited decision on the Dozier site shows.
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After Zune, I thought brown was Microsoft's color.
I agree. I would not purchase their games at all. I'm done with everybody and his uncle thinking he has the right to snoop on me. Hell, I only use my PC for gaming, and I do that once or twice a month at most, so this game could would not be able to call home every 10 days anyway.
The ONLY question that is of any interest is whether or not this device actually has a back door to Windows encryption.
Agreed.
Somehow I seriously doubt that it does.
Why? Have you seen the source or something? TFA says that the device "can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer."
Now, granted TFA is lean on details and somewhat muddled as all articles tend to be, but unless you have information the writers didn't have, I would be curious what the basis of your doubt is.
Having sat for jury duty a few times, and being rejected every time, I can tell you that the -last- thing a lawyer wants on a jury is somebody with critical thinking skills.
Having defended numerous criminal defendants at trial, I can tell you that you are wrong. The last thing a Prosecutor wants is a juror with logical thinking skills. The first thing a defense attorney wants is 12 jurors with logical thinking skills.
The problem is that the Prosecutor gets just as many peremptory challenges (i.e. challenges without cause) as the defense attorney gets.
Try this logic on: All prosecutors are attorneys, but not all attorneys are prosecutors.
More like strolling or sauntering, but definitely not running.
not a 6'1", 200 lb muscular male attorney, but a DEX-based female halfling assassin named "Poppy Moon"?
"the chances are that you are the lowest of the low in someone's book."
You are so right, "kestasjk" has a vaguely slavic sounding name and we all know that slavs are untermenschen, so, yes, he is the lowest of the low in quite a lot of people's books, particularly Mein Kampf.
I agree, if they were smart they would have called it the "Trinity" chip, stuck a cross logo on the box, and sold it to the same Christian Fundamentalists who read the Lost Behind novels.
A failed core goes from being a sign of bad engineering, to a sign from God.
Plus, from the look of the website, they stole all the icons from KDE.
Now they can change their logo to say "Over a Billion Platters Served."
They have to explain why something they defined as a core market in the early days, really isn't something they can do well.
You will see a similar announcement from General Motors soon explaining how they are a public company and their obligation is to make money for their shareholders and how building cars isn't producing that result for them.
They would rather sit around and talk about pedicures and Brad Pitt than compete with Ubuntu. Hell, I agree: it's hard making software that doesn't suck and that can actually interface with a sound card. The boys at Ubuntu figured it out, the sissies at Red Hat started flailing their arms and running around in circles afraid of getting a run in their pantyhose.
Didn't we just talk about the Monty Hall fallacy yesterday?
If my primary concern is the health of my child and not the world, then the proper question is this: what is my unvaccinated child's chance of getting a disease in a population in which I know nearly every other member has been vaccinated against it? This is a significantly lower chance than the chance of getting the disease in an unvaccinated population.
I then compare that chance against the chance of a disastrous side-effect from the vaccine. It is almost certainly going to be significantly less probable that the child will get the disease than that he will have a disastrous side-effect.
Granted, in a few generations the vaccination system collapses and we have rampant disease again, but, sometimes rational self-interest fucks everyone in the ass.
Remember: greed is good and selfishness is virtuous.
These guys are amateurs. I'm sure Tom's Hardware or Ars Technica could have gotten this fluff piece up to 15 pages easily.
A naturalist is -
Not a naturist or nudist.
Good catch. I just started to write the same thing when I saw your post.
I just ran iTunes on my Windows machine to see what it would do. It said that there is a new version of iTunes available and do I want to install it. I clicked OK and I got the "Apple Software Update" disalog offering me "iTunes + Quicktime" 7.6.1 and Safari 3.1. Each piece of software was offered with a check box (by default checked) but which I could uncheck. I had to hit a confirm button that actually says "Install 2 items" os "Install 1 item" before I anything was installed.
This is forcing software on me the same way the grocery store forces food samples on me.
FFS, if you don't want it, don't tell it to install.
You are absolutely right. Apple is hardly forcing Safari on people since it asks first and they can decline the download. I decline downloads offered from Apple and MS all the time. This is a complete non-issue brought up by someone wanting free press.
The Mozilla folks are whining because there is some chance that a significant portion of Firefox users will switch to Safari. I have used Firefox since beta on Windows machines, but I will switch to Safari if it is faster. Firefox is dog-slow on a Mac, and I don't even consider it on that platform.
True, you will never end up in Pittsburgh unless you finally tire of traveling, but you may pass through Pittsburgh many times on your way to Cleveland. Hell, you might pass though Lima, Peru on your way to Cleveland, Ohio. For that matter, you might pass though Cleveland, Ohio itself several times before you complete the trip according to the instructions.
Lame idea. Lame implementation. Expensive. Glad I'm not an investor in their company.
Am I the only one who had to do a double-take on this one? Then I £ sign.
"Why the heck would I bother to convert the discs anyway? If I've got the hardware to watch the disc. . . why not just watch it in the native format?"
Are you new here?
With 1.3 billion people in China, their sewers must be overflowing with shit, but does that mean they should wrap a turd in plastic and try to sell it to America? It's innovative, but the concept fails because it relies on an unsustainable level of stupidity in the market to function.
From reading the article, it seems to me Diego and Steve [yeah, sounds like a gay disco duo] have never met parents from the Middle East. Basically, a kids has one of two choices about higher education: medicine or engineering. This is so prevalent, it is a joke among the relevant demographic. Now, me, I'm shocked that theatre majors seem to be underrepresented in "Islamist groups."
The decision says that the person made out a prima facie case for copyright infringement under the DMCA for the issuance of a subpoena. Prima Facie is a very low standard. The actual decision doesn't address the copyrighting of letters, though there is probably no reason one could n't be copyrighted, and it doesn't address the issues of fair use, as least as far as the edited decision on the Dozier site shows.
On the other hand, may modern BIOS's still cannot be configured with a USB keyboard but require a PS/2 keyboard be hooked up to the rig.