User: vulpes_fulva

Let them raise a virtual army

On: Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention

There's a question of jurisdiction. The host government has unquestioned jurisdiction over physical machines hosting the games, but the virtual worlds are different. They don't necessarily exist within the coordinates of the host government's borders.

To subvert virtual lands into colonies, governments will have to raise a virtual armies to assert rule.
The inhabitants will most likely resist.

Can anyone see reservations, re-education camps, trails of tears ...

ward of the state?

On: Microsoft turns to U.S. for EU Antitrust Help

What??? Is Microsoft now a ward of the state??

recognizing virus patterns is dumb to start with

On: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus

- unless your business model includes charging for monthly pattern updates.

i tried using software that recognizes allowed code instead - which is a smaller problem (for population of software used in a single IT context) and takes fewer resources than rt-scanning. it doesn't have to scan executables for patterns. it authenticates software blessed by the admin - me from my desk. if a user tries to install or run something ... knowingly or not, if the software hasn't been blessed already, a request is put in the queue. If it's ok, I can bless it for install or running on that desktop or all of 'em.

this means virus code could be installed on the machine, but if it's request doesn't get past authentication, it can only sit there harmless.

it's not in beta either.

http://www.seventhknight.com/