Sometimes you have to take a little break from gaming, and see if something interesting is going on.
I'll be frank, I honestly don't buy that you've been playing any GOG games recently. Maybe it's because I can't be bothered with 'old classics'..
Sad, but that's what you get if you don't care about DRM.
It wouldn't matter if the infrastructure of xbox live was open. It still depends on a central point of failure. This is an architecture and design issue. DRM can be implemented without the use of a central point of failure. Please stop spreading lies about how DRM is the cause of this.
I could architect a decentralized peer2peer design backed by central servers (that are not necessary to keep the service running for gaming purposes) while using certificate signing to verify signed code verses unsigned code among multi layer signature authentication schemes in hardware layers to detect tampering.
Meyers-Briggs, DISC, and similar Jungian personality assessments are bunk.
They're certainly not applicable to all people, but that doesn't mean it is outright bunk. Not much different from how the different psychology have completely incompatible premises yet have managed to have successful treatments regardless.
But it was anticipated! That's why I didn't engage more directly in the first place.
I honestly don't buy that.
On that point, there's nothing to discuss. You'll note that I did offer him more specifics on his other points.
From my point of view, the most important point he made was making was that he didn't see the benefit. The rest of his comment appears to be intended to elaborate the first sentence. The question in it self was stupid in my opinion, but more about driving the point he was trying to express through.
Does it? I've found that people tend to "read in" to my posts more than what is actually there. I attributed this to the 'either-or' mentality you find here.
It does in my case.
It is true, however, that I try to keep my personal views private as they're often irrelevant to the discussion. Unfortunately, most people here are more interested in someones personal beliefs than they are the content of their posts -- it makes it easier for them to dismiss what the other person has written.
Red herrings are red herrings. When they happen, pointing it out is sufficient without needing to argue the points.
Rather than an "attempt to avoid any genuine discussion on the topic" as you suggest, it's one of the few ways to actually achieve it!
Giving you the benefit of a doubt, I had waited some time for this to prove you correct. I don't really view that as actually have taken place here. I remain unconvinced.
Many good Americans died protecting the U.K. from the Nazis
Americans only came to help after the U.S. added the condition that the UK give up her colonies and stop being a super power. I don't consider this the U.S. saving the UK, the U.S. helped in exchange for a deal that was against the UK's interests.
Of course it's not much of a "united kingdom" any more
Yes it is, Great Britain and Northern Ireland are still a union.
Show me anyone outside the 1% and even 99% of the 1%'ers that would choose to make less money because they where being taxed too heavily on it.
I don't wish to show you actual people. However, I know that people who earn some good coin in my company have the majority of their sallary put into their pension to prevent it from getting taxed.
I am starting to question the author behind these comments and I am going to be forward by including my feelings in this comment to be direct behind my considerations so that you may understand them better.
If I offer anything, it will be rejected out-of-hand.
I would consider that quite a generalization. However, for people that follow the extroversion, intuition, thinking, judgement Myers-Briggs personality type, being direct and verbally fluent (even to the point of debating) is usually the best method for convincing such people. I am suspicious of someone that talks about considering and consuming information for thought that didn't consider personality types.
If he comes to an answer on his own, through reading or reflection, he has no choice but to consider it.
The problem is, upon my reading and reflecting what was written. You didn't seem to have a genuine point, but rather you seemed to not reveal any real insight beyond what appears to be a statement to provoke. Considering this, it seemed like an opportunity to duck out of a discussion in an attempt to avoid any genuine discussion on the topic.
I don't feel it's far-fetched for others to view your comment this way. I am also suspicious of someone that talks about considering and consuming information for thought that managed to miss anticipating this reaction.
You can't argue with ideologues on the internet.
I disagree. Additionally, your lack of substance in such discussions seems very practised.
With luck, however, you can guide them.
If my intent is to guide someone (and this particular discussion, it is not). I would suggest befriending the person first as the issue I sense you're trying to verbalize relates to how a person is on the defensive and trying to make a point won't get absorbed in such a scenario.
So I can install and trust a cert on my machine (or everyone's machine by policy) but Firefox won't fucking play by the rules.
I found Firefox easier for the fact that it's certificate store is cross platform and made it easier to deploy a single Firefox configuration across all platforms.
Like I said, take your time. Maybe do a bit of reading.
I would suggest you give specifics instead of vague responses that come off condescending and do not reveal any real insight beyond what appears to be a statement to provoke.
LOL that you're trying to tell Matt Fucking Dillon off about Amiga history
I am strongly in the opinion that I am right here, but it doesn't offend me if I get schooled.
A good source can be found on Page 60 of "Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity" by Michael Perelman, published in 2004 through Palgrave Macmillan (Amazon link).
Alternatively, you can probably find an on-line source using Google.
I do have to say it's a new one to me, so congrats on originality I guess
I'm not original, I've read this story and heard this story from/in a few places of authority previously.
in 'summary' you've been called out and embarassed by your lack of technical knowledge of the Internet
Says the person that won't provide technical information on what activity would they detect in the freenet project that leads back to your identity exactly.
And your argument is some random non-sense about how Freenet is suddenly illegal with said system, however it isn't. Tracability of a connection doesn't mean anything in this scenario. You claim detecting of 'encrypted traffic', but true encrypted traffic is indistinguishable from binary data and with Freenet's use of steganography, how exactly are you detecting it?
The fact you compare Freenet to Tor shows how little you even know about how and what Freenet is. Freenet is not an anonymizing proxy and doesn't provide any sort of Internet connectivity like Tor.
you pretend that the whole thing doesn't matter and that nothing I presented has any merit
Why should I be bothered to explain any particulars in response to you when you can't be bothered to do the same?
No, Commodore died because of a patent troll preventing the Amiga CD32 from being sold due to a patent on XOR. They ran out of money just from keeping the units stored very quickly. Stop trying to rewrite history to make your points.
1) Addressable memory in 32-bit browsers. The threading approach means all tabs must not take more than a total of 4GB of memory, and this is quickly becoming a problem.
Let me guess, adblock plus user?
2) One tab crashing them all. Yes, firefox crashes on me often enough that it is annoying. Yes, the tabs come back when you relaunch, but then I get bombarded with login requests to all the sites I have open that require logins to view.
..no, I'm faily confident that you don't understand what they're suggesting, which is that no one would be allowed to access the Internet without a 'license', and any activity, no matter how you tried to hide it, would lead back to that 'license', and therefore your actual, legal identity.
Explain what activity is the freenet project that leads back to your identity exactly.
Things like your 'Freenet' and Tor would not be allowed
Nothing mentioned says it wouldn't be allowed.
Additionally, tell me how they would detect the Freenet project, please provide specifics. Tor is irrelevant where Freenet is concerned, it's not even similar in the slightest.
If there was any one thing that would degrade and destroy the Internet permanently for everyone, it would be THIS.
No, it wouldn't. I am fairly confident that this would have no baring on systems like Freenet. I'm also fairly confident that the sophistification still needs to meet the needs of the lowest common denominator and as such, I believe that I would be able to circumvent a fair amount of things that the general population would not.
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I'll be frank, I honestly don't buy that you've been playing any GOG games recently. Maybe it's because I can't be bothered with 'old classics'..
It wouldn't matter if the infrastructure of xbox live was open. It still depends on a central point of failure. This is an architecture and design issue. DRM can be implemented without the use of a central point of failure. Please stop spreading lies about how DRM is the cause of this.
I could architect a decentralized peer2peer design backed by central servers (that are not necessary to keep the service running for gaming purposes) while using certificate signing to verify signed code verses unsigned code among multi layer signature authentication schemes in hardware layers to detect tampering.
And yet you are on Slashdot instead of playing them. They're apparently not that great.
They're certainly not applicable to all people, but that doesn't mean it is outright bunk. Not much different from how the different psychology have completely incompatible premises yet have managed to have successful treatments regardless.
I honestly don't buy that.
From my point of view, the most important point he made was making was that he didn't see the benefit. The rest of his comment appears to be intended to elaborate the first sentence. The question in it self was stupid in my opinion, but more about driving the point he was trying to express through.
It does in my case.
Red herrings are red herrings. When they happen, pointing it out is sufficient without needing to argue the points.
Giving you the benefit of a doubt, I had waited some time for this to prove you correct. I don't really view that as actually have taken place here. I remain unconvinced.
A Google alerts RSS feed.
Instead of modding this troll, how about you explain exactly what about my post is a troll and not truth?
Americans only came to help after the U.S. added the condition that the UK give up her colonies and stop being a super power. I don't consider this the U.S. saving the UK, the U.S. helped in exchange for a deal that was against the UK's interests.
Yes it is, Great Britain and Northern Ireland are still a union.
I am certain that I know a fair few that don't have any cameras pointed at the entrance or otherwise.
The city of London and London are different cities with different mayors and even different police forces.
With all the little passages through buildings in the City, I actually suspect it would be very possible to avoid the cameras.
The only way of doing so to my knowledge requires a patch and recompiling the SSH daemon and client.
I don't wish to show you actual people. However, I know that people who earn some good coin in my company have the majority of their sallary put into their pension to prevent it from getting taxed.
VAT is mandated by the European Union and is forcefully applied across all European Union countries.
Similar situation in the UK:
Your first 10,000 is 0%.
Up to 31,865 is 20%.
Up to 150,000 is 40%.
Above that, it's 45%.
I am starting to question the author behind these comments and I am going to be forward by including my feelings in this comment to be direct behind my considerations so that you may understand them better.
I would consider that quite a generalization. However, for people that follow the extroversion, intuition, thinking, judgement Myers-Briggs personality type, being direct and verbally fluent (even to the point of debating) is usually the best method for convincing such people. I am suspicious of someone that talks about considering and consuming information for thought that didn't consider personality types.
The problem is, upon my reading and reflecting what was written. You didn't seem to have a genuine point, but rather you seemed to not reveal any real insight beyond what appears to be a statement to provoke. Considering this, it seemed like an opportunity to duck out of a discussion in an attempt to avoid any genuine discussion on the topic.
I don't feel it's far-fetched for others to view your comment this way. I am also suspicious of someone that talks about considering and consuming information for thought that managed to miss anticipating this reaction.
I disagree. Additionally, your lack of substance in such discussions seems very practised.
If my intent is to guide someone (and this particular discussion, it is not). I would suggest befriending the person first as the issue I sense you're trying to verbalize relates to how a person is on the defensive and trying to make a point won't get absorbed in such a scenario.
I found Firefox easier for the fact that it's certificate store is cross platform and made it easier to deploy a single Firefox configuration across all platforms.
I would suggest you give specifics instead of vague responses that come off condescending and do not reveal any real insight beyond what appears to be a statement to provoke.
I am strongly in the opinion that I am right here, but it doesn't offend me if I get schooled.
A good source can be found on Page 60 of "Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity" by Michael Perelman, published in 2004 through Palgrave Macmillan (Amazon link).
Alternatively, you can probably find an on-line source using Google.
I'm not original, I've read this story and heard this story from/in a few places of authority previously.
Says the person that won't provide technical information on what activity would they detect in the freenet project that leads back to your identity exactly.
And your argument is some random non-sense about how Freenet is suddenly illegal with said system, however it isn't. Tracability of a connection doesn't mean anything in this scenario. You claim detecting of 'encrypted traffic', but true encrypted traffic is indistinguishable from binary data and with Freenet's use of steganography, how exactly are you detecting it?
The fact you compare Freenet to Tor shows how little you even know about how and what Freenet is. Freenet is not an anonymizing proxy and doesn't provide any sort of Internet connectivity like Tor.
Why should I be bothered to explain any particulars in response to you when you can't be bothered to do the same?
No, Commodore died because of a patent troll preventing the Amiga CD32 from being sold due to a patent on XOR. They ran out of money just from keeping the units stored very quickly. Stop trying to rewrite history to make your points.
In summary, you have an opinion with no factual backing. I don't care.
SUSE and many companies prefer GPL type licensing.
I can tell you've never worked with those companies.
Let me guess, adblock plus user?
Let me guess, adblock plus user?
Explain what activity is the freenet project that leads back to your identity exactly.
Nothing mentioned says it wouldn't be allowed.
Additionally, tell me how they would detect the Freenet project, please provide specifics. Tor is irrelevant where Freenet is concerned, it's not even similar in the slightest.
No, it wouldn't. I am fairly confident that this would have no baring on systems like Freenet. I'm also fairly confident that the sophistification still needs to meet the needs of the lowest common denominator and as such, I believe that I would be able to circumvent a fair amount of things that the general population would not.