Imagine a professional football team bribed the opposing goalkeeper or perhaps the referee. While that may not be technically illegal it'll land all of you in trouble VERY quickly. That's because the rules say you must not use money to influence the game (if we ignore hiring for a moment). For MMOs the rules say "no trading items for real cash" so you can't do that within the rules of the game. Not obeying the rules will get you thrown out.
She wasn't living alone so someone could have dragged her to a psychiatrist. People with worse disorders can be patched up to a degree where they can continue to live happily, I doubt there was no way to prevent her from becoming like this.
How many people want to or even know how to properly eat vegetarian? The average person will not be satisfied with eating only (or mostly) vegetables and while vegetarians may be very rare among the obese most people prefer to eat what they feel like (and for most people that involves meat), not what their diet says is healthy.
The Warden would need to check for any files the API hides like rootkit scanners do then warn the user that he's infected. That would trick the DRMrootkit and any other "hide my processes" tricks a dedicated cheater could use.
Still, they make it sound like the game is worthless without the online mode so if I was planning to buy it that would be a definite reason not to as I don't use my PS2 for online.
I got a PS2 70k, it came with a notice that you'd have to register with Sony Europe to get the network disc and while registering it asks for a username and password. I did that, the disc arrived two months later and I didn't know what my login was anymore. I looked into the forums, seems to be a common issue and you're supposed to mail the customer support or something. Don't ask me what happens then, I only got that disc because it contained free demos (none of which turned out to be both for interesting games and playable) and a game called "Hardware Online Arena" so I couldn't be bothered to go through the customer support to get a login I wouldn't use anyway.
Plus, each console must leave the store with at *least* two games each.
A thief grabs an Xbox 360, tries to run away. Security holds him. "Sorry mister, but I'm not allowed to let anyone leave with an XBox 360 and less than two games for it!"
Halo 3 won't be a launch title, MS announced they'll release that for the PS3 launch. Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion was delayed as well so how many launch titles do you really want?
The drawback is that word of mouth has more time to spread. So if the launch games suckl and the guys who got one are disappointed they have enough time to tell all their friends before they buy one.
You have all the hardware but have you registered with Sony and got a username and password? That's the big hurdle for me, I registered but it took months for the network disc to arrive and I already forgot my login and password by then.
But the rootkit DRM isn't actually malicious, in that it is not intended to cause harm to the user or computer.
Even with good intentions hackers go to jail. There was a virus that patched your computer against the vulnerability it exploited, while that was not malicious the thing didn't work and caused big damage, the writer went to jail. Since this thing looks like a virus and acts like a virus it IS a virus.
The EULA talks about some DRM mechanism, it does not make clear that the mechanism involves a virus that replaces drivers from other manufacturers (anticompetitive behaviour?). If the courts said it was covered by the EULA and Sony is clear that's a dangerous precedent. Anyone care to send the judge responsible a CD that autoruns and infects his PC with a latent virus that overwrites all files commonly edited by users (.doc,.pdf,.txt, etc) with garbage the day after they've been edited or when some backup program is run while showing an innocuous looking EULA that pretends to install some thank-you greeting card program?
If they don't take it back, you have legal grounds because then you're practically forced into agreeing. The courts said an EULA is to be expected and a no-reverse-engineering clause is to be expected. If there's some additional stuff that you cannot be reasonably expected to know about beforehand AND they refuse to undo your sales contract (which you can be reasonably expected to think they'd do) then it's either being forced into accepting the contract (not sure about the legal term but I think it's not extortion when it involves contracts) or being sold a good that's not what they told you it was (fraud, you are expected to know that there's some form of EULA but you're also expected to assume the standard terms, these days more and more crap is being thrown in).
Moreover, it says when you terminate the agreement you have to remove ALL parts of the software. Sony hides part of the software and makes it hard to impossible for you to fulfill your obligations under the contract. They didn't tell you beforehand and there's most likely a law against that (putting a clause into a contract while actively hindering the signee from fulfilling it, forcing him to commit a breach of contract). Entrapment? Otherwise it'd be too easy to put some impossible (but on first glance harmless) clause into a contract that triggers upon termination and causes the signee to unknowingly violate the contract and be liable under the damages clause. Imagine AOL implemented that into their service contract.
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Imagine a professional football team bribed the opposing goalkeeper or perhaps the referee. While that may not be technically illegal it'll land all of you in trouble VERY quickly. That's because the rules say you must not use money to influence the game (if we ignore hiring for a moment). For MMOs the rules say "no trading items for real cash" so you can't do that within the rules of the game. Not obeying the rules will get you thrown out.
Imagine the headline: "Terrorists pilot flying mount into Castle Stormwind, Alliance declares War on Terror"
She wasn't living alone so someone could have dragged her to a psychiatrist. People with worse disorders can be patched up to a degree where they can continue to live happily, I doubt there was no way to prevent her from becoming like this.
How many people want to or even know how to properly eat vegetarian? The average person will not be satisfied with eating only (or mostly) vegetables and while vegetarians may be very rare among the obese most people prefer to eat what they feel like (and for most people that involves meat), not what their diet says is healthy.
Calvin would.
You can, I finished it on hard difficulty like that.
You mean "make their own distro"?
Yes but can you install Linux on a brick?
I seriously wonder whether it will be better or worse than Van Helsing.
Elite?
The Warden would need to check for any files the API hides like rootkit scanners do then warn the user that he's infected. That would trick the DRMrootkit and any other "hide my processes" tricks a dedicated cheater could use.
Still, they make it sound like the game is worthless without the online mode so if I was planning to buy it that would be a definite reason not to as I don't use my PS2 for online.
(It's Microsoft => it uses shady business practices) (It's Microsoft <=> it uses shady business practices)
Watch your logic.
I got a PS2 70k, it came with a notice that you'd have to register with Sony Europe to get the network disc and while registering it asks for a username and password. I did that, the disc arrived two months later and I didn't know what my login was anymore. I looked into the forums, seems to be a common issue and you're supposed to mail the customer support or something. Don't ask me what happens then, I only got that disc because it contained free demos (none of which turned out to be both for interesting games and playable) and a game called "Hardware Online Arena" so I couldn't be bothered to go through the customer support to get a login I wouldn't use anyway.
Plus, each console must leave the store with at *least* two games each.
A thief grabs an Xbox 360, tries to run away. Security holds him. "Sorry mister, but I'm not allowed to let anyone leave with an XBox 360 and less than two games for it!"
Halo 3 won't be a launch title, MS announced they'll release that for the PS3 launch. Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion was delayed as well so how many launch titles do you really want?
The drawback is that word of mouth has more time to spread. So if the launch games suckl and the guys who got one are disappointed they have enough time to tell all their friends before they buy one.
I don't get how they want to enforce that, either. I mean, you get something under the condition that a FUTURE event happens? WTF?
You have all the hardware but have you registered with Sony and got a username and password? That's the big hurdle for me, I registered but it took months for the network disc to arrive and I already forgot my login and password by then.
Circumventing the DRM, extracting the data and telling everyone how to do it (so much for Free Speech, eh?) is, removing the player isn't.
But the rootkit DRM isn't actually malicious, in that it is not intended to cause harm to the user or computer.
.pdf, .txt, etc) with garbage the day after they've been edited or when some backup program is run while showing an innocuous looking EULA that pretends to install some thank-you greeting card program?
Even with good intentions hackers go to jail. There was a virus that patched your computer against the vulnerability it exploited, while that was not malicious the thing didn't work and caused big damage, the writer went to jail. Since this thing looks like a virus and acts like a virus it IS a virus.
The EULA talks about some DRM mechanism, it does not make clear that the mechanism involves a virus that replaces drivers from other manufacturers (anticompetitive behaviour?). If the courts said it was covered by the EULA and Sony is clear that's a dangerous precedent. Anyone care to send the judge responsible a CD that autoruns and infects his PC with a latent virus that overwrites all files commonly edited by users (.doc,
If they don't take it back, you have legal grounds because then you're practically forced into agreeing. The courts said an EULA is to be expected and a no-reverse-engineering clause is to be expected. If there's some additional stuff that you cannot be reasonably expected to know about beforehand AND they refuse to undo your sales contract (which you can be reasonably expected to think they'd do) then it's either being forced into accepting the contract (not sure about the legal term but I think it's not extortion when it involves contracts) or being sold a good that's not what they told you it was (fraud, you are expected to know that there's some form of EULA but you're also expected to assume the standard terms, these days more and more crap is being thrown in).
Moreover, it says when you terminate the agreement you have to remove ALL parts of the software. Sony hides part of the software and makes it hard to impossible for you to fulfill your obligations under the contract. They didn't tell you beforehand and there's most likely a law against that (putting a clause into a contract while actively hindering the signee from fulfilling it, forcing him to commit a breach of contract). Entrapment? Otherwise it'd be too easy to put some impossible (but on first glance harmless) clause into a contract that triggers upon termination and causes the signee to unknowingly violate the contract and be liable under the damages clause. Imagine AOL implemented that into their service contract.
They look like handicapped Gameboys to me...
They've signed on so many japanese developers I wonder why you are still asking.