And to be fair to Sony, this is almost certainly the result of an automated scanning system that identified what it thought was Sony content, and blocked it per Sony's policy on their own content. Whether or not that should be a valid way of protecting one's IP is a separate question, but I'm 99% certain there's no malice on Sony's part here, and it will likely be resolved within a day or two.
This has been done. Tassimo has barcodes on their 'pods' that tell the system how to brew that particular pod. It lets the system have greater variety, e.g. there are latte, cappuccino, cocoa pods.
It was quickly reverse engineered on the internet.
Moral: Unless this thing has a mandatory internet connection, it's not going to stop anything.
Ah, Americans talking about Canadian healthcare. It's like hearing from an old, crazy friend.
(For the record, Canadian healthcare is awesome. Consider any metrics from Americans who haven't lived there to be very likely cherry-picked to support their ideology.)
Games, both downloaded and on optical media, are likely to be encrypted eight ways to Sunday on modern systems. Before you can even begin to emulate games from a modern console, you need the unencrypted binaries, or you need to resign yourself to running community-developed homebrew. This means extracting the console key from a console, which is not likely to be a trivial matter.
Wouldn't retailers be required to treat these transactions as "Card Not Present" transactions, meaning that far fewer would accept them?
I believe the liability is increased to the merchant if they just accept a CC number + expiration + CVV, to which accepting this would be functionally equivalent.
God, you mention a possible solution to corruption and people start complaining "but there are so many variables!" Yes, yes there are. Politics is complicated.
If we're going to block every idea because it's not simple enough, we're simply going to be paralyzed, and I'm not a fan of that course of action.
My point exactly. Most evidence I've seen suggests otherwise, that countries which don't have a death penalty typically have a lower murder rate per capita.
Imagine if the US holds strong and executes the 3 or 4 people it does each year anyway. Then the EU makes good on its threats. Then the millions who need life saving surgery every year can't get the anesthetics they need. Then hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents die to save 3 or 4 murderers.
You mean "to execute 3 or 4 murderers", which is ridiculous and savage.
Pure rationality cannot trample human rights. That leads to... unsavory consequences. History is full of dictators who believe they have "purely rational" reasons for genocide.
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For example, when a user has a bad day, he's likely to look up acquaintances who have it worse off, and feel a bit better that way.
That sounds automatable. Schadenfreude, the browser extension.
And to be fair to Sony, this is almost certainly the result of an automated scanning system that identified what it thought was Sony content, and blocked it per Sony's policy on their own content. Whether or not that should be a valid way of protecting one's IP is a separate question, but I'm 99% certain there's no malice on Sony's part here, and it will likely be resolved within a day or two.
I made this.
So get off my lawn!
This has been done. Tassimo has barcodes on their 'pods' that tell the system how to brew that particular pod. It lets the system have greater variety, e.g. there are latte, cappuccino, cocoa pods.
It was quickly reverse engineered on the internet.
Moral: Unless this thing has a mandatory internet connection, it's not going to stop anything.
That's the point. I bet the open access requirement is also harder to reach than it seems.
Another bill that looks helpful on the surface but really just supports their agenda.
Ah, the pyramid scheme delusion. Good luck with that, sucker.
Spies.
Ah, Americans talking about Canadian healthcare. It's like hearing from an old, crazy friend.
(For the record, Canadian healthcare is awesome. Consider any metrics from Americans who haven't lived there to be very likely cherry-picked to support their ideology.)
Please? How much more complicated do we have to make it before we do what the rest of the civilized world is doing?
I know Americans like to be different but it's gone too far.
the company not only gets to bill it as a perk of the job
Until you need to leave during peak time and find your battery depleted.
Officially the problem was lack of space in Hong Kong
...but let's just ignore that and come up with conspiracy theories.
Games, both downloaded and on optical media, are likely to be encrypted eight ways to Sunday on modern systems. Before you can even begin to emulate games from a modern console, you need the unencrypted binaries, or you need to resign yourself to running community-developed homebrew. This means extracting the console key from a console, which is not likely to be a trivial matter.
I'd be OK with it as long as I could annoy Jean-Luc.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're already doing this. An Android fork does take time, though.
Wouldn't retailers be required to treat these transactions as "Card Not Present" transactions, meaning that far fewer would accept them?
I believe the liability is increased to the merchant if they just accept a CC number + expiration + CVV, to which accepting this would be functionally equivalent.
my daily BS update
Not having to deal with (nearly as much) BS is why I work for a startup.
Look but don't touch.
God, you mention a possible solution to corruption and people start complaining "but there are so many variables!" Yes, yes there are. Politics is complicated.
If we're going to block every idea because it's not simple enough, we're simply going to be paralyzed, and I'm not a fan of that course of action.
False dichotomy. The government should provide public campaign financing with reasonable rules as to who can access the funds.
The truth has no place in marketing.
Are you a lawyer? In any case, where did you get the idea that federal supremacy is limited to issues where "it's a constitutional question"?
What do you think?
Deterrence is not proven.
My point exactly. Most evidence I've seen suggests otherwise, that countries which don't have a death penalty typically have a lower murder rate per capita.
Imagine if the US holds strong and executes the 3 or 4 people it does each year anyway. Then the EU makes good on its threats. Then the millions who need life saving surgery every year can't get the anesthetics they need. Then hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents die to save 3 or 4 murderers.
You mean "to execute 3 or 4 murderers", which is ridiculous and savage.
Pure rationality cannot trample human rights. That leads to... unsavory consequences. History is full of dictators who believe they have "purely rational" reasons for genocide.