To add on to this, it is good to block all DNS except a few trusted servers anyway. If someone gets a 'DNSChanger' style virus it will show up on the firewall pretty quick.
>But for EasyDNS, you HAVE to be able to control the resolv.conf of your clients, or it is bypassed.
You don't have to control the resolv.conf, you just only allow DNS traffic to the IP's of the DNS server and block the others. That doesn't top a user from going all APK on you and using a hosts file (or something similar) or a VPN if you allow it, but will stop most people.
Doing sooooo good they are bleeding money like a guillotined Marie Antoinette. The problem with EA is I think they are so internally fucked that they will not come out of their death spiral. Really for the health of the rest of the industry they need to die.
...Polygon's reviewer downgraded their initial review from a 9.5 to a 4.
Wow...if that doesn't tell you something about how the game was reviewed, nothing will.
I don't own SC since I do not buy EA, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to blame the the reviewers or the beta testers.
The beta only allowed one hour of play at a time. I'm sure the reviewers had a pretty limited amount of time to look at the features trying to touch a little bit on each part. EA designed the well enough that it could pass a few hours of uncritical inspection, but once the curtain was pulled back and people were had time to play it long enough the SC engine has revealed itself as a sham. I'm going to assume that most reviewers are not given a whole lot of time to review the game on purpose. This just goes to prove my next premise. Any game review created before release will be creatively framed by the manufacture to limit the amount of actual review that can occur.
tl;dr Don't believe the hype and never preorder. Let your peers test the water for sharks.
No, it's my magic crystal my grampa had from WWII. It's stopped the Nazi's ever since.
At one time most people may have agreed that 100 angels could dance on the head of a pin, doesn't mean what most people agree on is in any way connected with reality.
Uh, what. Libel and Slander are a form of harm against someone else, you must also take someone to court and prove it. There is no blanket ban on them, each case must be proven in a court of law.
Pictures and movies of people copulating and such, if the actors are willing is not a form of harm against another person. If some one was not a willing actor then they can file criminal trespass against them (rape charge). A blanket ban against 'porn' in general is a ban against willing participant in an action that has not been proven to be a harm against society.
Not sure about 10, but at 14 we were trading porno mags at school. There is so much porn out there (and it's so easy to produce with digital everything that we have now) that at most you'll move it to USB sticks. A certain subset of kids at school would love that, they are now elevated to the status of the guy that sneaks cigarettes in to prison and everyone owes him favors. Kids, like adults can do a pretty good job of finding what they are looking for. By your post, you make it sound like kids live in little bubbles and they never talk to each other. Your childhood must have been very odd.
How about this instead. I'm the hot shit designer that is helping make your company millions. If I can't eat at my desk I'll go work for $other_startup where I can, and they'll accept the risk of some small losses due to coffee damage. Your odd beliefs that drinking at ones desk is in any way a modifier of their work quality or creativity borders on religious fundamentalism.
Some would consider the slack a form of lying, or bad accounting. There is no more or less assumption of doing the right thing either way. If you have to wait 3 hours for an IT guy to show up to install a keyboard or some other little thing that's quite a large productivity loss, you can afford to lose two or three actual keyboard and still come out ahead.
5 keyboards in 3 years for 250 staff seems way to low a number. Random failures due to no fault of the employees themselves should be higher then that. Either you have a bunch of really nice expensive keyboards that are at the top of the bell curve for reliability, or the employees are not calling you and replacing the keyboards themselves.
Modern vending machines are high tech devices. Normal vending machines (like when I was a kid) took a few quarters and shit out a twinkie or a coke which then became jammed in the mechanisms. The new machines do inventory control, report on their status (am I jammed?), and in this case report which user got the equipment rather than payment processing.
>US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem
The U.S. (FCC/FTC?) can STOP the problem of locked phones by issuing an order saying that locked phones cannot be sold starting 5 minutes from now. The phone manufactures will starting doing back-flips unlocking new and current phones so fast the earths spin might slow down some.
That is their right to film you, you can decide not to go there. That said, most businesses don't post this on the internet. Many businesses don't keep the video very long either. Lastly, and most importantly, most of the camera systems I've installed at businesses deal with monitoring employee theft (stealing from the till).
I think you misread what I said? I was saying it's totally within the owners rights to ban google glasses at his location, the same position you have.
For you and anyone else I'll just make my point clear again for history.
PUBLIC. Roads, state controlled venues, police stopping people on the side of the road, public sidewalks. Wear your GoogleGoggles all you want. Post on Youtube what you wish. Please film dumb people doing dumb things, doubly so if they are cops or other public officials.
PRIVATE. A restaurant, my business, your house, pretty much any place that an owner can call the police and have you removed for trespassing when not obeying their rules. Please follow the wishes of the owner. That said, if the owner is doing something illegal, please film dumb people doing dumb things and post them on Youtube (or at least the local police investigator).
If he also has a policy of not letting people run around with cameras filming staff and customers, this is nothing more then a continuation of the policy. I rather like going to PRIVATE establishments and not being filmed and recorded for all to see.
Eventually, if ad-blocking rates keep going up, almost every place interesting will be forced into the same situation.
And will just continue to be a game of cat and mouse. I'll just use *Adblock Proxy v1.043" that will pretend like it got all the page, and it will spit out a nice, safe, ad free page to me.
Even if you lose 30% of your readership, these people were simply a drain on your bandwidth and were basically expecting everyone else to pay their way.
And if some of that 30% you block was very vocal and used to post links to your site that a lot of non-adblock using customers clicked on your traffic goes down 60%, OH SHI-
This right here. No quality control, what so ever. Ad companies seemingly let any ad on to their network AND they allow the websites splash them everywhere. Being advertisers you'd think they'd know what 'Reputation Management' is.
In 'the real world' most people just don't watch Infomercials, but the internet isn't a good fit in comparison. Blocking one station on TV doesn't stop the same add on another station, but blocking *.doubleclick.net blocks it on all internet sites.
In an odd way, ads are like DRM, they keep you from getting the product for free, but like most DRM the people with the best usage experience are the ones who remove it.
Our current crop of crap blog software would die. And good riddens. Turn on MySQL query logging and load one page on Wordpress, ugh, and if that's not bad enough look at the 500k of crap it dumps out, and that's even if they have mod_gzip or the like turned on their server.
If the owners had to pay for their bandwidth they'd think about optimizing what they are doing much more thoroughly.
And how do you propose they keep track of ad views? This is why ads are hosted remotely - the ad hosting company can see that/. downloaded 12 ads to display, therefore/. receives compensation for dispalying 12 ads.
This is the ad hosting companies problem. They do not manage their reputation in any way.
If your GPS tries to send you thru the ghetto you quickly 'block' that route out. This is what the ad companies have done, they route us to the BLINKING BLINKING BLINKING, flash taking over your screen, malware launching ghetto of the internet and then they wonder why we filter their routes out.
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To add on to this, it is good to block all DNS except a few trusted servers anyway. If someone gets a 'DNSChanger' style virus it will show up on the firewall pretty quick.
>But for EasyDNS, you HAVE to be able to control the resolv.conf of your clients, or it is bypassed.
You don't have to control the resolv.conf, you just only allow DNS traffic to the IP's of the DNS server and block the others. That doesn't top a user from going all APK on you and using a hosts file (or something similar) or a VPN if you allow it, but will stop most people.
Clippy: I see you're writing a lawsuit against Microsoft there...
>Preferably in the form of actual drops in sales, plus evidence that these shenanigans are what caused it.
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GeraldBelman/20120410/168299/Electronic_Arts__Why_has_its_financial_performance_been_so_poor.php
http://investor.ea.com/financials.cfm
Doing sooooo good they are bleeding money like a guillotined Marie Antoinette. The problem with EA is I think they are so internally fucked that they will not come out of their death spiral. Really for the health of the rest of the industry they need to die.
Employee sells game that customer doesn't like > customer mad at store and game.
Employee directs customer to another game that works better in the first place > customer happy and buys more from store in future.
Not fucking your customers and employees is something that many businesses forget to do.. like EA.
...Polygon's reviewer downgraded their initial review from a 9.5 to a 4.
Wow...if that doesn't tell you something about how the game was reviewed, nothing will.
I don't own SC since I do not buy EA, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to blame the the reviewers or the beta testers.
The beta only allowed one hour of play at a time. I'm sure the reviewers had a pretty limited amount of time to look at the features trying to touch a little bit on each part. EA designed the well enough that it could pass a few hours of uncritical inspection, but once the curtain was pulled back and people were had time to play it long enough the SC engine has revealed itself as a sham. I'm going to assume that most reviewers are not given a whole lot of time to review the game on purpose. This just goes to prove my next premise. Any game review created before release will be creatively framed by the manufacture to limit the amount of actual review that can occur.
tl;dr Don't believe the hype and never preorder. Let your peers test the water for sharks.
No, it's my magic crystal my grampa had from WWII. It's stopped the Nazi's ever since.
At one time most people may have agreed that 100 angels could dance on the head of a pin, doesn't mean what most people agree on is in any way connected with reality.
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+men+more+competitive+than+women
The question is do women earn less then men because they are women, or do women earn less then men because in general society teaches them to be meek?
Uh, what. Libel and Slander are a form of harm against someone else, you must also take someone to court and prove it. There is no blanket ban on them, each case must be proven in a court of law.
Pictures and movies of people copulating and such, if the actors are willing is not a form of harm against another person. If some one was not a willing actor then they can file criminal trespass against them (rape charge). A blanket ban against 'porn' in general is a ban against willing participant in an action that has not been proven to be a harm against society.
Not sure about 10, but at 14 we were trading porno mags at school. There is so much porn out there (and it's so easy to produce with digital everything that we have now) that at most you'll move it to USB sticks. A certain subset of kids at school would love that, they are now elevated to the status of the guy that sneaks cigarettes in to prison and everyone owes him favors. Kids, like adults can do a pretty good job of finding what they are looking for. By your post, you make it sound like kids live in little bubbles and they never talk to each other. Your childhood must have been very odd.
How about this instead. I'm the hot shit designer that is helping make your company millions. If I can't eat at my desk I'll go work for $other_startup where I can, and they'll accept the risk of some small losses due to coffee damage. Your odd beliefs that drinking at ones desk is in any way a modifier of their work quality or creativity borders on religious fundamentalism.
Some would consider the slack a form of lying, or bad accounting. There is no more or less assumption of doing the right thing either way. If you have to wait 3 hours for an IT guy to show up to install a keyboard or some other little thing that's quite a large productivity loss, you can afford to lose two or three actual keyboard and still come out ahead.
5 keyboards in 3 years for 250 staff seems way to low a number. Random failures due to no fault of the employees themselves should be higher then that. Either you have a bunch of really nice expensive keyboards that are at the top of the bell curve for reliability, or the employees are not calling you and replacing the keyboards themselves.
Modern vending machines are high tech devices. Normal vending machines (like when I was a kid) took a few quarters and shit out a twinkie or a coke which then became jammed in the mechanisms. The new machines do inventory control, report on their status (am I jammed?), and in this case report which user got the equipment rather than payment processing.
>US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem
The U.S. (FCC/FTC?) can STOP the problem of locked phones by issuing an order saying that locked phones cannot be sold starting 5 minutes from now. The phone manufactures will starting doing back-flips unlocking new and current phones so fast the earths spin might slow down some.
>another country on the other side of the planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Losses
>attack the other countries and eliminate part of your won power supply.
Space will do that for us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
The length of day is not stable
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20110314.html
Over the long (looooooong) term days are getting longer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length#Historical_variation_of_day_length_because_of_tidal_acceleration
That is their right to film you, you can decide not to go there. That said, most businesses don't post this on the internet. Many businesses don't keep the video very long either. Lastly, and most importantly, most of the camera systems I've installed at businesses deal with monitoring employee theft (stealing from the till).
I think you misread what I said? I was saying it's totally within the owners rights to ban google glasses at his location, the same position you have.
For you and anyone else I'll just make my point clear again for history.
PUBLIC. Roads, state controlled venues, police stopping people on the side of the road, public sidewalks. Wear your GoogleGoggles all you want. Post on Youtube what you wish. Please film dumb people doing dumb things, doubly so if they are cops or other public officials.
PRIVATE. A restaurant, my business, your house, pretty much any place that an owner can call the police and have you removed for trespassing when not obeying their rules. Please follow the wishes of the owner. That said, if the owner is doing something illegal, please film dumb people doing dumb things and post them on Youtube (or at least the local police investigator).
If he also has a policy of not letting people run around with cameras filming staff and customers, this is nothing more then a continuation of the policy. I rather like going to PRIVATE establishments and not being filmed and recorded for all to see.
Too bad you can't be modded to the top of the page on ./
Eventually, if ad-blocking rates keep going up, almost every place interesting will be forced into the same situation.
And will just continue to be a game of cat and mouse. I'll just use *Adblock Proxy v1.043" that will pretend like it got all the page, and it will spit out a nice, safe, ad free page to me.
Even if you lose 30% of your readership, these people were simply a drain on your bandwidth and were basically expecting everyone else to pay their way.
And if some of that 30% you block was very vocal and used to post links to your site that a lot of non-adblock using customers clicked on your traffic goes down 60%, OH SHI-
Advertisers really only have themselves to blame.
This right here. No quality control, what so ever. Ad companies seemingly let any ad on to their network AND they allow the websites splash them everywhere. Being advertisers you'd think they'd know what 'Reputation Management' is.
In 'the real world' most people just don't watch Infomercials, but the internet isn't a good fit in comparison. Blocking one station on TV doesn't stop the same add on another station, but blocking *.doubleclick.net blocks it on all internet sites.
In an odd way, ads are like DRM, they keep you from getting the product for free, but like most DRM the people with the best usage experience are the ones who remove it.
Who would pay for their hosting?
Our current crop of crap blog software would die. And good riddens. Turn on MySQL query logging and load one page on Wordpress, ugh, and if that's not bad enough look at the 500k of crap it dumps out, and that's even if they have mod_gzip or the like turned on their server.
If the owners had to pay for their bandwidth they'd think about optimizing what they are doing much more thoroughly.
And how do you propose they keep track of ad views? This is why ads are hosted remotely - the ad hosting company can see that /. downloaded 12 ads to display, therefore /. receives compensation for dispalying 12 ads.
This is the ad hosting companies problem. They do not manage their reputation in any way.
If your GPS tries to send you thru the ghetto you quickly 'block' that route out. This is what the ad companies have done, they route us to the BLINKING BLINKING BLINKING, flash taking over your screen, malware launching ghetto of the internet and then they wonder why we filter their routes out.