That could work, but it may not be the easiest way, especially if the network protocol uses good encryption.
All they gotta do is NOP out the encryption routines so the protocol ends up in the clear with no crypto handshakes. It means a cracked copy of the game won't work with the official servers, but that's kind of the point anyway.
In the end, it all depends on whether it's worth the effort. I don't know what goes on in every cracker's mind, but I can easily imagine them directing their effort elsewhere.
Maybe the pussies. But the hardcore crackers aren't in it to play the game - their entertainment comes from cracking the game so something new like this is going to be very attractive.
Seriously. If we can shoot down mosquitos with optically guided lasers for $50, surely we can shoot down drones?
They aren't optically guided - they are aurally guided - they track the mosquitos by the frequency of their wings flapping. That's how it ignores other species and even ignores the males of the target species.
What that argument ignores is that she's a singer. That's what she does, that's the only reason she even had a platform to tell anyone anything in the first place. Do you think SNL would have given her national air time to do anything BUT perform? Of course not. Look at Bono - he's got all kinds of causes that he raises money for by "going through channels" - do you know even one of them?
And as for your giving the pope a pass, bullshit. The policy of the church was that molested kids faced excommunication unless they kept their mouths shut. It doesn't matter HOW many kids were molested by priests - the fact that church policy straight out of the vatican was so massively wrong-headed is what made an enemy out of him and organization that he lead.
Personally, I'll take the Pope's message any time over the sorrowful moaning of O'Connor because it was he and not her who stood by us and gave us hope at a time where everyone else turned their back on us.
Funny, I'm pretty sure that the tens of thousands of people who were abused as children by the clergy would disagree with you.
If you go into a library it's highly unlikely you'll be able to read every book in it, but does that matter? You just want to read the good books about things that interest you.
I think you could define the ideal recommendation system by adding just one word to your definition above:
You just want to read the good books about things that will interest you.
with such a large code base it's also important to remember to check for unintended side effects;
Bingo.
I can't believe how absolutely shit poor the risk analysis in this discussion has been.
On one hand we have a software system that has been field-tested by tens, if not hundreds of millions of drivers for nearly a decade and there have been on the order of a 100 accidents attributed to the bug. More people have died from talking on the phone while driving.
On the other hand we have a patch to an extremely complex system that has been rushed out under some of the most massive pressure ever applied to a company - having your president and other senior officers summoned by congress for a public brow-beating. It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the "you gotta do something, just do ANYTHING!!" management fallacy would be more likely to occur.
If I drove a Toyota no way in hell would I take the patch today. I'd give it at least 6 months for everybody else to beta-test it for unintended side effects.
Dunno if it made the news down there, but well over a decade ago Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope on live television in the USA and said "Fight the real enemy" as she did it. She was hugely censured for it and although it did not kill her career as a musician it probably forever kept her off the pop charts here.
The thing about her protest that most people didn't even realize, was that she had just finished singing a version of the classic reggae song "War" in which the lyrics were repurposed to be about stopping child abuse. Her message was drowned out by all the media outrage - for a few weeks we learned that everybody in America was catholic, but nothing else really came out of the incident.
A decade later and the news media finally pick up on the abuses perpetrated by the catholic church - even the 'discovery' of an official super-duper-secret document detailing how to deny any molestation accusations and denigrate the accusers written by the guy who is now pope from back in the 70s - but not one of those people who took O'Connor to task for telling people the truth back then has come forward to apologize and say, "Sorry, guess you were right and we should have listened to you."
So yeah, it doesn't go over very well when you tell them and they sure aren't willing to give you credit when they can no longer avoid the facts either.
ACTA is being negotiated by the executive branch, the US Trade Rep, so don't blame Congress. This side-steps the constitutional separation of powers by claiming it is an agreement under existing laws, not creating new laws. At any rate, write to Obama about his promise of greater openness.
I have a feeling he won't give a shit. Best chance is to write to the republicans in congress and try to get them to come up with a way to aim their obstructionist game-plan to include this treaty - like pass a ride on a bill that would make implementing it as a presidential directive harder in some way. Maybe get Glenn Beck riled up about the presidential monarch making treaties with other countries and side-stepping congress.
You can get one of the WRT versions running on the verizon router now - don't remember if it is OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato or another one. In any case, the router hardware is great - lots of cpu horsepower. Just s really stupid NAT table size...
Yeah, the Fed prounounced that mandatory overdraft covers was verboten and that it had to be opt-in, but it isn't 100% - it doesn't apply to things like checks or scheduled payments and the change doesn't go into effect until July.
You can often get the debit functionality of those combo atm/debit cards disabled if you ask the issuing bank.
Also, debit cards are even worse now than credit cards with the whole mandatory "overdraft protection" scam. All banks require "overdraft protection" on their debit cards (but not necessarily credit unions). They call it a "feature" but it is just a way to screw over people who think having a debit card is a way to enforce fiscal responsibility on themselves as in, "I can't spend it if I don't have it." Except with mandatory overdraft protection you can spend it and they nail you with a $20-$40 fee each time you spend over the balance of your account, even if it is just for a $2 cup of coffee. So, 3 separate $2 transactions will nail you with $120 in overdraft fees.
I remember atleast 10 years ago at an Arco station had a sticker on the machine that said don't enter in your card if the reader looks wierd. I have also seen that warning on swipe ATMs.
The new part is that the reader does NOT look weird. It looks physically identical to the standard reader. Didja even read the summary?
Muslims believe they have a duty to kill somebody who leaves the faith. See the "Aposty in Islam" wikipedia article if you are clueless about this. There are a dozen countries where the government actually imposes the death penalty for leaving Islam.
Seeing as how I married a girl from a muslim family, I'm pretty sure I know a hell of a lot more about Islam than you do and I can tell you right here that you are absolutely wrong. If the kind of extremist interpretations that you subscribe to were the norm, then not only would I be killed for marrying a muslim girl, she would be killed for marrying me. After nearly two decades we are both still alive and kicking and the kind of bullshit you preach hasn't even been considered by anyone in her extended family, all of whom get along with me just fine.
What you are guilty of is the same thing the terrorists are: nit-picking and then exaggerating minor parts of the religion completely out of context of the rest of the religion in order to justify your psychosis. Its funny that that the extremists on both sides always focus on the same thing minor little things and then completely ignore the million other parts of the religion that contradict those whackadoodle interpretations.
I think there's a pretty clear line between "not showing someone getting killed" and "not showing anything offensive to anyone."
I don't. You might argue that there is a scale on one end is grandma baking apple pie and the other end is something like a snuff film. But the death of an athlete on the field at the olympics is nearly as important as the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, maybe even moreso depending on your perspective.
My point being (a) its real grey to begin with, nowhere near a clear line and (b) the circumstances of a death affect the offensiveness of its publication.
Agreed - it's idealism turned unrealism if you think you can take diametrically opposing views and plop them in front of a translation system to breed collaboration, open dialog, compassion, and understanding.
Huh? Why do you assume that arabic speakers and english speakers have "diametrically opposing views?"
I think you'd be surprised at just how much people have in common. Sure there are issues on which groups have a tendency to disagree (IMHO mostly promulgated by their respective propaganda outlets so each has only a piece of the whole story) but for the most part, people are people regardless of what country they live in and thus have many more common experiences than differences.
Would "Businessman" vs. "Hobbyist" be less objectionable?
Of course not. That a "businessman" - or anyone else - has any more default legal standing is odious because it welcomes abuse.
And to NORMAL PEOPLE, it seems unbelievable that...
Judges aren't normal people. I'm not saying they need to have expertise in every field, but what they should have is an extremely well developed set of critical thinking skills. Because if they do not have such skills, then we might as well just decide matters of law by doing sidewalk polls of "normal people."
Are those the guys who announced a partnership with GE a decade ago to put fridge-sized fuel cells in people's basements within a year? Man, what a disappointment that turned out to be.
I think to the lower court this might have been seen as businessman v. hacker.
It's absolutely shameful that (a) a court should so easily fall into a stereotype like that and (b) that a stereotype like that should even influence a court's decision in the first place. So much for justice being blind.
I don't know that I would hope that any damages are awarded in the case, it simply costs their friends and neighbours who are tax payers for the board, rather than the individuals responsible for the abuse (of power).
Yep, I would much rather see everyone involved - especially the decision makers - convicted of some sort of pedophile related sex crime. That will effectively take them out of circulation and will prevent them from ever again being a position of authority where they can exercise their stupidity on others. If zero tolerance on drugs is good enough for the kids then society's zero tolerance on anything that can be remotely confused for pedophilia is good enough for the administrators.
Um, programmers, or anyone else CAN buy health care without their employers being part of the transaction. It's probably going to cost more because when we say that employers are "part of the transaction", that means they are paying for a large part of the transaction. There is no law that says you have to let them.
It's also a tax deduction if the employer does it but much more difficult to claim as a deduction if you do it on an individual basis. That was actually one of the best things about McCain - he wanted to kill the tax deduction for health insurance so that the incentive for the corps to get involved in something they really have no business doing would go away - thus opening the market up for much better competition for individual policies. Of course most people - especially regular W2 employees - have never really thought through how the current tax laws really skew the market for health insurance and so McCain's proposal was roundly booed off the stage by the ignorant (and the insurance corps who have an interest in keeping things the way they are).
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That could work, but it may not be the easiest way, especially if the network protocol uses good encryption.
All they gotta do is NOP out the encryption routines so the protocol ends up in the clear with no crypto handshakes. It means a cracked copy of the game won't work with the official servers, but that's kind of the point anyway.
In the end, it all depends on whether it's worth the effort. I don't know what goes on in every cracker's mind, but I can easily imagine them directing their effort elsewhere.
Maybe the pussies. But the hardcore crackers aren't in it to play the game - their entertainment comes from cracking the game so something new like this is going to be very attractive.
Seriously. If we can shoot down mosquitos with optically guided lasers for $50, surely we can shoot down drones?
They aren't optically guided - they are aurally guided - they track the mosquitos by the frequency of their wings flapping. That's how it ignores other species and even ignores the males of the target species.
Yeah, I've heard that complaint too.
What that argument ignores is that she's a singer. That's what she does, that's the only reason she even had a platform to tell anyone anything in the first place. Do you think SNL would have given her national air time to do anything BUT perform? Of course not. Look at Bono - he's got all kinds of causes that he raises money for by "going through channels" - do you know even one of them?
And as for your giving the pope a pass, bullshit. The policy of the church was that molested kids faced excommunication unless they kept their mouths shut. It doesn't matter HOW many kids were molested by priests - the fact that church policy straight out of the vatican was so massively wrong-headed is what made an enemy out of him and organization that he lead.
Personally, I'll take the Pope's message any time over the sorrowful moaning of O'Connor because it was he and not her who stood by us and gave us hope at a time where everyone else turned their back on us.
Funny, I'm pretty sure that the tens of thousands of people who were abused as children by the clergy would disagree with you.
If you go into a library it's highly unlikely you'll be able to read every book in it, but does that matter? You just want to read the good books about things that interest you.
I think you could define the ideal recommendation system by adding just one word to your definition above:
You just want to read the good books about things that will interest you.
with such a large code base it's also important to remember to check for unintended side effects;
Bingo.
I can't believe how absolutely shit poor the risk analysis in this discussion has been.
On one hand we have a software system that has been field-tested by tens, if not hundreds of millions of drivers for nearly a decade and there have been on the order of a 100 accidents attributed to the bug. More people have died from talking on the phone while driving.
On the other hand we have a patch to an extremely complex system that has been rushed out under some of the most massive pressure ever applied to a company - having your president and other senior officers summoned by congress for a public brow-beating. It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the "you gotta do something, just do ANYTHING!!" management fallacy would be more likely to occur.
If I drove a Toyota no way in hell would I take the patch today. I'd give it at least 6 months for everybody else to beta-test it for unintended side effects.
Dunno if it made the news down there, but well over a decade ago Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope on live television in the USA and said "Fight the real enemy" as she did it. She was hugely censured for it and although it did not kill her career as a musician it probably forever kept her off the pop charts here.
The thing about her protest that most people didn't even realize, was that she had just finished singing a version of the classic reggae song "War" in which the lyrics were repurposed to be about stopping child abuse. Her message was drowned out by all the media outrage - for a few weeks we learned that everybody in America was catholic, but nothing else really came out of the incident.
A decade later and the news media finally pick up on the abuses perpetrated by the catholic church - even the 'discovery' of an official super-duper-secret document detailing how to deny any molestation accusations and denigrate the accusers written by the guy who is now pope from back in the 70s - but not one of those people who took O'Connor to task for telling people the truth back then has come forward to apologize and say, "Sorry, guess you were right and we should have listened to you."
So yeah, it doesn't go over very well when you tell them and they sure aren't willing to give you credit when they can no longer avoid the facts either.
ACTA is being negotiated by the executive branch, the US Trade Rep, so don't blame Congress. This side-steps the constitutional separation of powers by claiming it is an agreement under existing laws, not creating new laws. At any rate, write to Obama about his promise of greater openness.
I have a feeling he won't give a shit.
Best chance is to write to the republicans in congress and try to get them to come up with a way to aim their obstructionist game-plan to include this treaty - like pass a ride on a bill that would make implementing it as a presidential directive harder in some way. Maybe get Glenn Beck riled up about the presidential monarch making treaties with other countries and side-stepping congress.
Yes, one would expect a Berulsconi run government be very pro IP laws since he's the biggest media mogul in the country.
You can get one of the WRT versions running on the verizon router now - don't remember if it is OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato or another one. In any case, the router hardware is great - lots of cpu horsepower. Just s really stupid NAT table size...
Yes. If they were serious they'd surely advertise with hard-core porn.
That's a different registrar - "Oh! Daddy!"
Yeah, the Fed prounounced that mandatory overdraft covers was verboten and that it had to be opt-in, but it isn't 100% - it doesn't apply to things like checks or scheduled payments and the change doesn't go into effect until July.
You can often get the debit functionality of those combo atm/debit cards disabled if you ask the issuing bank.
Also, debit cards are even worse now than credit cards with the whole mandatory "overdraft protection" scam. All banks require "overdraft protection" on their debit cards (but not necessarily credit unions). They call it a "feature" but it is just a way to screw over people who think having a debit card is a way to enforce fiscal responsibility on themselves as in, "I can't spend it if I don't have it." Except with mandatory overdraft protection you can spend it and they nail you with a $20-$40 fee each time you spend over the balance of your account, even if it is just for a $2 cup of coffee. So, 3 separate $2 transactions will nail you with $120 in overdraft fees.
I remember atleast 10 years ago at an Arco station had a sticker on the machine that said don't enter in your card if the reader looks wierd. I have also seen that warning on swipe ATMs.
The new part is that the reader does NOT look weird.
It looks physically identical to the standard reader.
Didja even read the summary?
With all the pushing by law enforcement for permanent archiving of everybody's web use the problem will solve itself!
Rah! Rah! for terrosists - they hate our freedom but they have saved our culture from fading from history!
Muslims believe they have a duty to kill somebody who leaves the faith. See the "Aposty in Islam" wikipedia article if you are clueless about this. There are a dozen countries where the government actually imposes the death penalty for leaving Islam.
Seeing as how I married a girl from a muslim family, I'm pretty sure I know a hell of a lot more about Islam than you do and I can tell you right here that you are absolutely wrong. If the kind of extremist interpretations that you subscribe to were the norm, then not only would I be killed for marrying a muslim girl, she would be killed for marrying me. After nearly two decades we are both still alive and kicking and the kind of bullshit you preach hasn't even been considered by anyone in her extended family, all of whom get along with me just fine.
What you are guilty of is the same thing the terrorists are: nit-picking and then exaggerating minor parts of the religion completely out of context of the rest of the religion in order to justify your psychosis. Its funny that that the extremists on both sides always focus on the same thing minor little things and then completely ignore the million other parts of the religion that contradict those whackadoodle interpretations.
I think there's a pretty clear line between "not showing someone getting killed" and "not showing anything offensive to anyone."
I don't. You might argue that there is a scale on one end is grandma baking apple pie and the other end is something like a snuff film.
But the death of an athlete on the field at the olympics is nearly as important as the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, maybe even moreso depending on your perspective.
My point being (a) its real grey to begin with, nowhere near a clear line and (b) the circumstances of a death affect the offensiveness of its publication.
Agreed - it's idealism turned unrealism if you think you can take diametrically opposing views and plop them in front of a translation system to breed collaboration, open dialog, compassion, and understanding.
Huh? Why do you assume that arabic speakers and english speakers have "diametrically opposing views?"
I think you'd be surprised at just how much people have in common. Sure there are issues on which groups have a tendency to disagree (IMHO mostly promulgated by their respective propaganda outlets so each has only a piece of the whole story) but for the most part, people are people regardless of what country they live in and thus have many more common experiences than differences.
Would "Businessman" vs. "Hobbyist" be less objectionable?
Of course not. That a "businessman" - or anyone else - has any more default legal standing is odious because it welcomes abuse.
And to NORMAL PEOPLE, it seems unbelievable that...
Judges aren't normal people. I'm not saying they need to have expertise in every field, but what they should have is an extremely well developed set of critical thinking skills. Because if they do not have such skills, then we might as well just decide matters of law by doing sidewalk polls of "normal people."
Are those the guys who announced a partnership with GE a decade ago to put fridge-sized fuel cells in people's basements within a year?
Man, what a disappointment that turned out to be.
See, you did it again. What's in your head is NOT what you write.
You wrote about "inadvertently aiding" as if following laws can't have unexpected results.
Nothing you say refutes my statement that everyone doing business in those countries are required by law to have such backdoors.
Lol, that's because you didn't make that statement until just now.
Maybe it was in your head all along, but it certainly isn't what your fingers posted.
I think to the lower court this might have been seen as businessman v. hacker.
It's absolutely shameful that (a) a court should so easily fall into a stereotype like that and (b) that a stereotype like that should even influence a court's decision in the first place. So much for justice being blind.
It's called, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
I don't know that I would hope that any damages are awarded in the case, it simply costs their friends and neighbours who are tax payers for the board, rather than the individuals responsible for the abuse (of power).
Yep, I would much rather see everyone involved - especially the decision makers - convicted of some sort of pedophile related sex crime. That will effectively take them out of circulation and will prevent them from ever again being a position of authority where they can exercise their stupidity on others. If zero tolerance on drugs is good enough for the kids then society's zero tolerance on anything that can be remotely confused for pedophilia is good enough for the administrators.
Um, programmers, or anyone else CAN buy health care without their employers being part of the transaction. It's probably going to cost more because when we say that employers are "part of the transaction", that means they are paying for a large part of the transaction. There is no law that says you have to let them.
It's also a tax deduction if the employer does it but much more difficult to claim as a deduction if you do it on an individual basis.
That was actually one of the best things about McCain - he wanted to kill the tax deduction for health insurance so that the incentive for the corps to get involved in something they really have no business doing would go away - thus opening the market up for much better competition for individual policies.
Of course most people - especially regular W2 employees - have never really thought through how the current tax laws really skew the market for health insurance and so McCain's proposal was roundly booed off the stage by the ignorant (and the insurance corps who have an interest in keeping things the way they are).