Fines don't hurt enough? Finland doesn't have this problem because, for example, a traffic fine is based on ability to pay--the offender's income. That's how Anssi Vanjoki got a $103,000 speeding ticket.
Janus: A two-faced god that claims to stand between the primitive and civilization, but is in fact just a product of the primitive superstition of a decrepit culture.
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Janus is the Roman god of doorways, gates, passages, preventing people from copying music, etc.
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Gates, the two faced god of software that stands between the primitive masses and the high-tech industry, feeding off of the cash of the former while siphoning off the innovation of the latter all in the name of making the world a better place.
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So, putting in all these "security" features in the consumer's PC is supposed to stop cheating? Far from it. Instead, it does two things:
Makes cheaters more determined to find a way to cheat. It's a new challenge, nothing more. So, you can't run a software debugger. Well, what about a little home-made hardware plugged into the bus and a second PC (Trusted Computing PC, no less) acting as a remote debugging station with all the horsepower to analyze the data on the bus and send input to the keyboard and USB ports? The cheats might actually getting better this way since the cheat engine doesn't bog down the game PC.
Makes game developers complacent about server-side security. In essence, they are led into a false sense of security about the integrity of the clients connecting to the game server. As soon as a cheat becomes available, it'll be an online field day.
Headline: TLA & FLA supplant English usage on WWW, IRC, IM. General population befuddled. CHTRFA
Footnote: TLA = Three Letter Acronym, FLA = Four Letter Acronym, WWW = World Wide Web, IRC = Internet Relay Chat, IM = Instant Messaging, CHTRFA = Click Here To Read Full Article
Microsoft rarely gets things right the first time. DOS 5 was good (3.3 wasn't bad either). Windows really took off at version 4 (i.e. Win95). It's the old see-how-it-flops-then-have-the-users-tell-you-how- to-fix-it ploy.
Of course, Microsoft is one of the few companies that can afford to innovate in this manner.
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Fines don't hurt enough? Finland doesn't have this problem because, for example, a traffic fine is based on ability to pay--the offender's income. That's how Anssi Vanjoki got a $103,000 speeding ticket.
Remember, this is a Microsoft "innovation".
Yes, it is perfect:
Janus: A two-faced god that claims to stand between the primitive and civilization, but is in fact just a product of the primitive superstition of a decrepit culture.
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Janus is the Roman god of doorways, gates, passages, preventing people from copying music, etc.
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Gates, the two faced god of software that stands between the primitive masses and the high-tech industry, feeding off of the cash of the former while siphoning off the innovation of the latter all in the name of making the world a better place.
Gives new meaning to the recently coined phrase, "Wardrobe malfunction."
Multi-player Games
So, putting in all these "security" features in the consumer's PC is supposed to stop cheating? Far from it. Instead, it does two things:
Great! Now I have to throw away my pedals, yoke, stick and wheel and use a freakin' gamepad to fly or drive on my PC.
Well, there's no money to be made in simulation games anyway (The Sims excepted).
Footnote: TLA = Three Letter Acronym, FLA = Four Letter Acronym, WWW = World Wide Web, IRC = Internet Relay Chat, IM = Instant Messaging, CHTRFA = Click Here To Read Full Article
Microsoft rarely gets things right the first time. DOS 5 was good (3.3 wasn't bad either). Windows really took off at version 4 (i.e. Win95). It's the old see-how-it-flops-then-have-the-users-tell-you-how- to-fix-it ploy.
Of course, Microsoft is one of the few companies that can afford to innovate in this manner.