It doesn't matter what got stolen. These could be collector's bottle caps just the same. Both of these have a monetary value that's unrelated to any intrinsic virtue such an item would have but to what the market pays. If that kind of old bottle caps is typically sold on collectors' auctions for X quatloos, the judge will assume a value somewhere around X. Bitcoin is just easier to appraise than most items.
The guy requested multiple additional means of protection, which AT&T agreed to implement. It's not the plaintiff who got repeatedly phished, it was AT&T.
You're searching for a fixed phrase, doofus. Google gets fooled by just a single word of difference. Are you seriously expecting me to remember a headline exactly? And if you ever bothered to see CNN's front page since early 2016, you'd know this is not an isolated occurence but something that happens all the time. Heck, they have a piece of anti-Israel drivel on their front page right now.
But no, your side is holiest of holy. Every SJW and neo-nazi these days says that. Polish "patriots" put people into prison for claiming that any Poles cooperated with the Nazis (~80% of Jews who died to Nazis were denounced by their neighbours), or that Poland had any concentration camps (every single ex-German camp that wasn't dismantled before Soviets came operated after the war, some up to 1956). Then you say that no, CNN can't be anti-semitic racist and genderist, because CNN is good and I'm evil.
Most non-AAA games work nicely on Wine. Steam's client doesn't (partially loads but browser engine that displays most of the content is blank) though, so you need to grab a properly working copy from cpt. Anakata, for a game you paid for. Only then you can run it via Wine.
Thus, having Steam cooperate with Wine nicely would be a good step forward.
I haven't screen-capped that page, but it was the day when another bunch of martyrs has been thwarted by Israel. According to CNN, those were "kids and teenagers" murdered by eeeevil joos, yet according to Hamas 53 out of 62 slain were their active members; I don't suspect the remaining 9 to be upstanding innocent people either -- those don't attack "infidels" arm-to-arm with Hamas.
Americans are extremely dumb these days, but singling them out is unfair. I see that voters in Switzerland are kind of sane-ish, but that's the only case I can think of.
Well, but CNN is downright scary. They were a respectable news source not so long ago, but nowadays? Main headline in huge letters: "Israel must be stopped". WTF?!? At that very time, the front page highlights (ie, before you scroll down) also included a call for racial war, and also one for gender war.
In disgust, I went and searched for what domain name Daily Stormer had that day. Anti-Israel, check. Racial war, check. Gender war, nope. So CNN was actually worse.
US news sites are completely bonkers. You have far-left and far-right, with nothing in between.
Nope, all of that is a hole without bottom that if you put 1T this year, you won't be any better off the next year. On the other hand, science will have a lasting value in the future. Space exploration in particular allows us to expand away from the planet we ruined, ensuring survival of mankind. And even that "space force" you dismiss, beside civilian benefits, also means you won't be defenseless against China and Russia, both of which do build space weapons, despite treaties they signed.
Thus, you shouldn't put all money towards consumption, but also invest a bit in our species' survival. Current scraps we put there are quite suicidal.
Marketing experts. Not doctors. Everyone but those who delude themselves in order to be "hip" knew that already.
For example, the main active ingredient of douche flute juice is nicotine. Nicotine content of a single pack of cigarettes is enough to kill a horse (smoking is a very inefficient way of drug delivery, thus it's usually not immediately fatal). Typical use of vape juice brings similar amounts of nicotine as smoking cigarettes. So here go any claims that vaping is "safe".
Both cigarettes and vape juice contain additional highly harmful substances. This is also widespread knowledge.
No one with more than two brain cells believes marketing drivel anymore. Those that do would also buy that bridge or follow that nice offer from a prince of Nigeria. The message provides an excuse for those who want to vape anyway. This is about the same as preferring to spread drivel about "healthy at any size" instead of stuffing oneself left.
Uhm, there are MP3 samples at 320kbps (the max allowed by the format) that even I, with my aged ears and not so good gear, can ABX from lossless. Those with better ears and more training can ABX a typical not-specially-picked piece of music (stress on "music", there's a lot of crap serfed for ~4 bits of dynamic range).
You want OPUS not AAC, by the way, it's a good deal better, with no sample+gear+person combination known to ABX it at 128kbps, and hard at 96kbps.
And in this case, the customer base is 0. What we all use is an ancient version of JPEG -- the format has completely ossified. Any proposed additions get a big fat rejection: see the libjpeg8 debacle. With a compat break, you can as well go to a completely new format, and proposals from the JPEG group have been laughed out (see JPEG2000).
So the public would move to: * FLIF (free, technically the best, esp. for non-photographic or hybrid images) * AVIF (free, has big political backing) * BPG (useless because of patents, despite being technically good)
And a lossy image format is something for which DRM is a non-starter, because of the ease of screenshotting or even taking the picture of the screen with a camera.
Sounds like you already have a solution on mind. One that comes with 18446744073709551616 or possibly even 1208925819614629174706176 dedicated addresses. And even if your ISP sucks balls, you can always get a tunnel.
Besides, it will be done by bad guys in China (US can't find their ass with both hands these days, Russia prefers different methods). Thus, the rational response is to have good guys do such research in the open, not to demonize it. Just think of resistance to diseases, heightened intelligence, curing genetic defects, etc. Designer babies for cosmetic or bizarre reasons will still happen, and even there you want them to be done in a place that at least has some supervision rather than abroad.
Uhm, what? Please tell me what's the connection between Putin repeatedly using such tactics, and often even intentionally going out of his way to sign them (Litvinenko could have been knifed during a "robbery", so could Skripal) -- and random nutjobs?
If you have doubts about Russian involvement, please for example check IPs of shitposters: there's a remarkable lack of bots from Russia, except of a rare operator error when the connection was directly from Petersburg (but no other part of the country). Or, see the language used by anti-Ukrainian commenters on Polish news sites: while having knowledge of Polish close to native, they say "fascist". No one in Poland uses that word for anything but Mussolini's gang -- like USians saying "nazi", we were taught to say "hitlerite". Then suddenly there was this influx of trolls who called Ukrainians "fascist" in like every second post... Just guess what country used this word for their non-"capitalist"="imperialist" enemies since the "Great Patriotic War".
If making a series of false-flag terrorist attacks against your own citizens just to get elected doesn't make you a supervillain, I don't know what would.
And that one has been pretty widely proven, not just by Litvinenko but even by ordinary police, identifying the FSB as a culprit.
Thus, if doing so on own soil is "ok", you can expect anything in a rival country.
On the other hand, "copyright theft" does actually exist. It happens when someone (usually a MAFIAA member) takes something from the author then makes a fraudulent takedown request, thus depriving the copyright holder from his work.
That's why there's the Reproducible Builds project. Packages have.buildinfo files that save versions of dependencies, recompiling against the same deps should produce bit-to-bit identical results.
It's not yet complete, but 92.8% of packages build reproducibly.
It's a word about as well-defined as "fascist", but as I understand it, it usually means someone who discriminates based on race -- rather than blindly checking just an actually relevant trait of an individual. Thus, killing Jews for being Jews, or giving Blacks more points for university admission is racism.
If you say that admitting that a specific race is superior on the average with regard to a specific trait than others, then you can call me a racist, because I say that, given two traits that are completely independent, and follow gene-like changes and spread, with probability 1 they will show correlation (skin shade being one of the traits). On the other hand, no race is superior to another for all traits, otherwise it would quickly out-compete the other. And, at least within current human population, individual variance is far bigger than racial "bonuses", to the point that eg. saving some recruiting costs by not even testing those of a "worse" race is not worth losing that part of the talent pool.
Thus, for me, racism is any kind of preferential treatment based on race, be it refusing to enroll/hire/elect someone, or picking a worse candidate just because people of same skin color are "underrepresented".
A basic but well-made controller I have costed me 7.99PLN ($2.20) a few years ago. Fancy-schmancy controllers go for 15-18 ($4-$5). I understand that xbox might take an outrageous price for replacement parts that are made intentionally incompatible, but for PC or an ARM board you can use anything that connects with bog-standard USB.
And you have to get the roms (of course by plugging your legitimate cartridges into a cartridge dumper, right???).
You can find them on any ROM site, with the average person not even knowing the copyright mafia might have something against it. Unlike generic sites like The Pirate Bay, ROM sites never had a propaganda campaign against them. Nintendo is vile and litigious, but doesn't do big public campaigns, and most takedowns of fan remakes tend to give them pretty bad publicity.
$60 and they are done
And where do you connect that console? Most of my friends and relatives don't even have an TV anymore.
That PC is going to be a lot more money than $60...
But it can be moved around, and if you're playing a game you're not using it otherwise. Yeah, doing so on a TV is hardly ever worth the bother to lug it around, except for probably social reasons. But a laptop is made for being moved, and I have yet to see a laptop without a monitor connector: VGA being dead, it's HDMI or mini-HDMI. It's probably just MacBooks that require an adapter from Lightning that, knowing Apple, costs north of $200, but it's often explicitly advertised as capable of doing that. HDMI signal also can be tunnelled over USB-C but not every machine can route it that way (my phone can).
Then, I think that modern telescreens (marketing name "Smart TV") all run Android, and might allow installing extra software even without an external HTPC.
Use a PC then. Downloading an emulator and inserting that HDMI plug into the computer is a task anyone smarter than a $SPORT spectator can do. If all fails, ask a 10 years old kid for help.
If you managed to connect the real NES to the TV all those years ago, and know basics of operating a PC, you already have that skill set.
The difference is the quality of games. No one who knows any better wants Xbox or PS4. You still have new good games but they come nearly exclusively from indie companies or outright individuals, who can't put their software on that PS4. Instead, they can do so on any open system. And I actually tested a $24 Pine64 with a $2.20 (!) joypad + USB extension cable (so it reaches the couch) on sister's TV so her kids can take a look at old good games. Then you have that HDMI output on an actual PC...
So yeah, NES is worth more. But even that $60 is a ripoff -- they're selling a crappy box with an abysmally poor emulator. I already have good emulators, and I own old cartridges, so I don't give an airborne intercourse about anyone telling me I have to buy that exact set of bits again. Obviously, there's only so much you can play the same game (at least without new content like Doom wads, or well-generated worlds like some roguelikes), so I haven't used a NES emulator in quite a while, but I could and can do so.
Why in the blazes they would even think about using blockchain (other than some C*O critter not knowing what buzzwords mean)? You pay a large cost for making data processed by untrusted nodes non-repudiable. The company controls all its data processing, and even if its distributed, can use far cheaper ways to ensure lack of tampering once a piece of data is committed, such as a simple hash of a block sent home when the block itself sits in the local database.
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It doesn't matter what got stolen. These could be collector's bottle caps just the same. Both of these have a monetary value that's unrelated to any intrinsic virtue such an item would have but to what the market pays. If that kind of old bottle caps is typically sold on collectors' auctions for X quatloos, the judge will assume a value somewhere around X. Bitcoin is just easier to appraise than most items.
The guy requested multiple additional means of protection, which AT&T agreed to implement. It's not the plaintiff who got repeatedly phished, it was AT&T.
You're searching for a fixed phrase, doofus. Google gets fooled by just a single word of difference. Are you seriously expecting me to remember a headline exactly? And if you ever bothered to see CNN's front page since early 2016, you'd know this is not an isolated occurence but something that happens all the time. Heck, they have a piece of anti-Israel drivel on their front page right now.
But no, your side is holiest of holy. Every SJW and neo-nazi these days says that. Polish "patriots" put people into prison for claiming that any Poles cooperated with the Nazis (~80% of Jews who died to Nazis were denounced by their neighbours), or that Poland had any concentration camps (every single ex-German camp that wasn't dismantled before Soviets came operated after the war, some up to 1956). Then you say that no, CNN can't be anti-semitic racist and genderist, because CNN is good and I'm evil.
You make me sick.
I bet these "tools" are just Wine.
Most non-AAA games work nicely on Wine. Steam's client doesn't (partially loads but browser engine that displays most of the content is blank) though, so you need to grab a properly working copy from cpt. Anakata, for a game you paid for. Only then you can run it via Wine.
Thus, having Steam cooperate with Wine nicely would be a good step forward.
I haven't screen-capped that page, but it was the day when another bunch of martyrs has been thwarted by Israel. According to CNN, those were "kids and teenagers" murdered by eeeevil joos, yet according to Hamas 53 out of 62 slain were their active members; I don't suspect the remaining 9 to be upstanding innocent people either -- those don't attack "infidels" arm-to-arm with Hamas.
Americans are extremely dumb these days, but singling them out is unfair. I see that voters in Switzerland are kind of sane-ish, but that's the only case I can think of.
Well, but CNN is downright scary. They were a respectable news source not so long ago, but nowadays? Main headline in huge letters: "Israel must be stopped". WTF?!? At that very time, the front page highlights (ie, before you scroll down) also included a call for racial war, and also one for gender war.
In disgust, I went and searched for what domain name Daily Stormer had that day. Anti-Israel, check. Racial war, check. Gender war, nope. So CNN was actually worse.
US news sites are completely bonkers. You have far-left and far-right, with nothing in between.
Nope, all of that is a hole without bottom that if you put 1T this year, you won't be any better off the next year. On the other hand, science will have a lasting value in the future. Space exploration in particular allows us to expand away from the planet we ruined, ensuring survival of mankind. And even that "space force" you dismiss, beside civilian benefits, also means you won't be defenseless against China and Russia, both of which do build space weapons, despite treaties they signed.
Thus, you shouldn't put all money towards consumption, but also invest a bit in our species' survival. Current scraps we put there are quite suicidal.
Marketing experts. Not doctors. Everyone but those who delude themselves in order to be "hip" knew that already.
For example, the main active ingredient of douche flute juice is nicotine. Nicotine content of a single pack of cigarettes is enough to kill a horse (smoking is a very inefficient way of drug delivery, thus it's usually not immediately fatal). Typical use of vape juice brings similar amounts of nicotine as smoking cigarettes. So here go any claims that vaping is "safe".
Both cigarettes and vape juice contain additional highly harmful substances. This is also widespread knowledge.
No one with more than two brain cells believes marketing drivel anymore. Those that do would also buy that bridge or follow that nice offer from a prince of Nigeria. The message provides an excuse for those who want to vape anyway. This is about the same as preferring to spread drivel about "healthy at any size" instead of stuffing oneself left.
I am pretty sure they could add a remote power cut off relay to this to power cycle them...
... just to see Windows trying to install updates over and over. Or a STOP 0x8000003 immediately.
Obviously, iDrac will then fail with an expired Java certificate server-side...
There's no one to reboot the servers (remote management has its limits), thus it'd be suicidal to run Windows there.
Did you know that MP3 is a good as AAC?
Uhm, there are MP3 samples at 320kbps (the max allowed by the format) that even I, with my aged ears and not so good gear, can ABX from lossless. Those with better ears and more training can ABX a typical not-specially-picked piece of music (stress on "music", there's a lot of crap serfed for ~4 bits of dynamic range).
You want OPUS not AAC, by the way, it's a good deal better, with no sample+gear+person combination known to ABX it at 128kbps, and hard at 96kbps.
And in this case, the customer base is 0. What we all use is an ancient version of JPEG -- the format has completely ossified. Any proposed additions get a big fat rejection: see the libjpeg8 debacle. With a compat break, you can as well go to a completely new format, and proposals from the JPEG group have been laughed out (see JPEG2000).
So the public would move to:
* FLIF (free, technically the best, esp. for non-photographic or hybrid images)
* AVIF (free, has big political backing)
* BPG (useless because of patents, despite being technically good)
And a lossy image format is something for which DRM is a non-starter, because of the ease of screenshotting or even taking the picture of the screen with a camera.
might not have a dedicated IPv4 address
Sounds like you already have a solution on mind. One that comes with 18446744073709551616 or possibly even 1208925819614629174706176 dedicated addresses. And even if your ISP sucks balls, you can always get a tunnel.
And what's bad in this type of research?
Besides, it will be done by bad guys in China (US can't find their ass with both hands these days, Russia prefers different methods). Thus, the rational response is to have good guys do such research in the open, not to demonize it. Just think of resistance to diseases, heightened intelligence, curing genetic defects, etc. Designer babies for cosmetic or bizarre reasons will still happen, and even there you want them to be done in a place that at least has some supervision rather than abroad.
Uhm, what? Please tell me what's the connection between Putin repeatedly using such tactics, and often even intentionally going out of his way to sign them (Litvinenko could have been knifed during a "robbery", so could Skripal) -- and random nutjobs?
If you have doubts about Russian involvement, please for example check IPs of shitposters: there's a remarkable lack of bots from Russia, except of a rare operator error when the connection was directly from Petersburg (but no other part of the country). Or, see the language used by anti-Ukrainian commenters on Polish news sites: while having knowledge of Polish close to native, they say "fascist". No one in Poland uses that word for anything but Mussolini's gang -- like USians saying "nazi", we were taught to say "hitlerite". Then suddenly there was this influx of trolls who called Ukrainians "fascist" in like every second post... Just guess what country used this word for their non-"capitalist"="imperialist" enemies since the "Great Patriotic War".
If making a series of false-flag terrorist attacks against your own citizens just to get elected doesn't make you a supervillain, I don't know what would.
And that one has been pretty widely proven, not just by Litvinenko but even by ordinary police, identifying the FSB as a culprit.
Thus, if doing so on own soil is "ok", you can expect anything in a rival country.
That's the modern style of web front-end programming.
Yeah, that's why my CV includes the line:
Proud to not have touched any Javascript madness in a decade, or its frameworks -- ever.
On the other hand, "copyright theft" does actually exist. It happens when someone (usually a MAFIAA member) takes something from the author then makes a fraudulent takedown request, thus depriving the copyright holder from his work.
That's why there's the Reproducible Builds project. Packages have .buildinfo files that save versions of dependencies, recompiling against the same deps should produce bit-to-bit identical results.
It's not yet complete, but 92.8% of packages build reproducibly.
It's a word about as well-defined as "fascist", but as I understand it, it usually means someone who discriminates based on race -- rather than blindly checking just an actually relevant trait of an individual. Thus, killing Jews for being Jews, or giving Blacks more points for university admission is racism.
If you say that admitting that a specific race is superior on the average with regard to a specific trait than others, then you can call me a racist, because I say that, given two traits that are completely independent, and follow gene-like changes and spread, with probability 1 they will show correlation (skin shade being one of the traits). On the other hand, no race is superior to another for all traits, otherwise it would quickly out-compete the other. And, at least within current human population, individual variance is far bigger than racial "bonuses", to the point that eg. saving some recruiting costs by not even testing those of a "worse" race is not worth losing that part of the talent pool.
Thus, for me, racism is any kind of preferential treatment based on race, be it refusing to enroll/hire/elect someone, or picking a worse candidate just because people of same skin color are "underrepresented".
An xbox controller is around $40 by itself.
What?!? Are you buying them in an iApple iStore?
A basic but well-made controller I have costed me 7.99PLN ($2.20) a few years ago. Fancy-schmancy controllers go for 15-18 ($4-$5). I understand that xbox might take an outrageous price for replacement parts that are made intentionally incompatible, but for PC or an ARM board you can use anything that connects with bog-standard USB.
And you have to get the roms (of course by plugging your legitimate cartridges into a cartridge dumper, right???).
You can find them on any ROM site, with the average person not even knowing the copyright mafia might have something against it. Unlike generic sites like The Pirate Bay, ROM sites never had a propaganda campaign against them. Nintendo is vile and litigious, but doesn't do big public campaigns, and most takedowns of fan remakes tend to give them pretty bad publicity.
$60 and they are done
And where do you connect that console? Most of my friends and relatives don't even have an TV anymore.
That PC is going to be a lot more money than $60...
But it can be moved around, and if you're playing a game you're not using it otherwise. Yeah, doing so on a TV is hardly ever worth the bother to lug it around, except for probably social reasons. But a laptop is made for being moved, and I have yet to see a laptop without a monitor connector: VGA being dead, it's HDMI or mini-HDMI. It's probably just MacBooks that require an adapter from Lightning that, knowing Apple, costs north of $200, but it's often explicitly advertised as capable of doing that. HDMI signal also can be tunnelled over USB-C but not every machine can route it that way (my phone can).
Then, I think that modern telescreens (marketing name "Smart TV") all run Android, and might allow installing extra software even without an external HTPC.
Use a PC then. Downloading an emulator and inserting that HDMI plug into the computer is a task anyone smarter than a $SPORT spectator can do. If all fails, ask a 10 years old kid for help.
If you managed to connect the real NES to the TV all those years ago, and know basics of operating a PC, you already have that skill set.
The difference is the quality of games. No one who knows any better wants Xbox or PS4. You still have new good games but they come nearly exclusively from indie companies or outright individuals, who can't put their software on that PS4. Instead, they can do so on any open system. And I actually tested a $24 Pine64 with a $2.20 (!) joypad + USB extension cable (so it reaches the couch) on sister's TV so her kids can take a look at old good games. Then you have that HDMI output on an actual PC...
So yeah, NES is worth more. But even that $60 is a ripoff -- they're selling a crappy box with an abysmally poor emulator. I already have good emulators, and I own old cartridges, so I don't give an airborne intercourse about anyone telling me I have to buy that exact set of bits again. Obviously, there's only so much you can play the same game (at least without new content like Doom wads, or well-generated worlds like some roguelikes), so I haven't used a NES emulator in quite a while, but I could and can do so.
Why in the blazes they would even think about using blockchain (other than some C*O critter not knowing what buzzwords mean)? You pay a large cost for making data processed by untrusted nodes non-repudiable. The company controls all its data processing, and even if its distributed, can use far cheaper ways to ensure lack of tampering once a piece of data is committed, such as a simple hash of a block sent home when the block itself sits in the local database.