How is a single chip on a motherboard going to do the following and do it without someone noticing:
1: Intercept data on the server without knowledge of what OS is running and/or without a driver to facilitate OS access?
2: Send that data to some 3rd party, through a firewall, without the bandwidth usage being noticed?
I know someone is going to answer #1 by saying "it'll just send everything in memory / traveling over the bus", but then you wind up hitting #2 because that would use a crap ton of bandwidth.
This looks very improbable and much like another "China is the boogeyman" story. I want hard proof before I believe this. The hysteria around this is like BadUSB all over again, and we all know where that went.
Don't trust Blackburn. It's already leaking out that Comcast's lawyers are the ones writing this legislation. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvw8k5/comcast-fcc-net-neutrality-law
Also you have to remember the cost to transport the parts. Right now most of the parts are semi-local. They come from down the street pretty much. Now all those parts have to be shipped to the US and handled separately through customs thus probably adding almost 50% to that cost at least.
They have the wrong article linked above. This is the right one: http://www.fastcompany.com/3061860/the-future-of-work/how-technology-is-making-doctors-hate-their-jobs
My main box is a couple of years old on the CPU at this point but it still cranks pretty fast. It helps that I upgrade GPUs every 2 years usually.
Core i7-4770K 16GB RAM GeForce GTX 970 1 LG 34" 21:9 2 Acer 27" 16:9 Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD for boot and core apps 2x WD 2TB HDD (RAID 1) for everything else Windows 10
With 4 versions of Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015) and the rest of the 10+ apps in startup, my time from power on to usable desktop is about 75 seconds. (yay SSD)
Ok, based off what I read, 1 & 3 are true but they are common business practices used in multiple areas. 2 is completely false but market forces make it look true.
A good example of 1 & 3 is Coke. If you decide to have Coke in your business, Coke will give you things as promotional considerations. Signs with you name on it plus the Coke logo, etc. But to get those you have to not carry Pepsi. That's the crux of 1 & 3. If you want to carry both, then you don't get the goodies that go along with them. You can preload Play with something else, but not Maps, Gmail and the other unless you agree to exclusivity for the preinstalled items. (The Play concession was made a while back to satisfy some anti-trust worries). More manufactures don't do that though because of the incentives plus market forces. People want Google's stuff there and ready. Google isn't holding a gun to people's head saying "Use Gmail or else". There are plenty of option and I use one myself in the form of AquaMail to my non-Gmail e-mail.
As for #2, hello, phones being sold running Cyanogen and others based on AOSP derivatives, but they don't have a big market share yet, or maybe ever. Market forces (people) aren't creating a demand for them. Thus the big guys don't make Cyanogen phones because people won't buy them en mass. And it's not for a lack of trying. Look at Samsung and all the times they've tried to do Tizen as an Android alternative. They never got anywhere. The mass market is happy with what they have. Phone OSs are a two horse race (Android and iOS). You're not going to force the market to accept more if they don't want it, but that's seems to be what the EU is angling for with #2.
This is just how I see it. I'm sure someone is going to come along with some conspiracy and collusion theory as to why I'm wrong, but this is a situation where the simple answer is the answer.
Dude can sell these t-shirts all he wants because they are satire and that's a protected form of speech. If it wasn't, Weird Al, MAD Magazine, etc would have been out of business a long time ago.
The full mobi format is documented officially so that kind of makes it not proprietary. It's like saying FAT is proprietary compared to ext3 just because Microsoft uses it.
The license only grants though permissions when they "access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service"
I don't think there were playing it live from a YouTube page or through an authorized YouTube API application, so they were in violation of the license.
How many times does it have to be repeated that are no annual fees for Windows 10?
SERVICE != SUBSCRIPTION
Examples: Steam = Service Salesforce = Subscription
Figure it out already and quit spouting the nonsense.
The reason for free Windows makes perfect sense. The cost of buying an upgrade has always made upgrades on existing hardware a very low number. So just give it away to end users since it doesn't make any money anyway. It's pretty well known 99% the of income for Windows comes from new PCs and enterprise agreements.
If they try to turn around and start charging annually for Windows after this, piracy will shoot through the roof and patching will go through the floor as people will hack to get it free and stop Windows Update so their hacks won't get blocked. (Remember the Windows Genuine Advantage garbage from XP, that was a lesson learned) This would result in 2 black eyes that Microsoft doesn't want and would lead to increases for Mac, Linux or other alternative. 1st is customer ill will over "pay us or your PC stops" and the 2nd is from getting a reputation about Windows being buggy exploit ridden as a result of people not patching and updating.
They paused Linux and Mac OS development to focus on Windows because that's where the MAJORITY of PC users are. Once they have that end of it all nice and tight and made some money, then they can look at finishing the Linux and Mac support. If you want to come back with "oh, they have Facebook's billions", that's not true. Facebook isn't stupid and they won't blindly pump cash into a subsidiary (remember, they weren't absorbed, they still operate as an independent entity) without a plan to profitability. Getting up, running and selling on Windows ASAP is the best plan for that.
Does it support cams? Does it support streaming from broadcasting software? Does it support archiving recordings? Does it support headset input if the game doesn't have voice support to begin with? The answer to all of these is no and Valve doesn't seem to have plans to add those items either.
What this really is doing is filling a hole that Twitch isn't concerned about: The casual easy stream to my friends/community. I don't know about other's experiences, but my experience with streaming to Twitch casually was a massive pain in the ass. This feature was probably a no-brainer thing to do since it was more than likely just a tweak to their in-home streaming function. So woo-hoo, new feature, not much work required. (Developer mantra.)
Is Twitch concerned about this hole? Probably not. They see it as small potatoes at this point or they would have done something directly to make setting up streaming easier. Also when you have the "professional" streamers who are half game / half talk show drawing in 100-10,000 viewers plus the eSport leagues using their platform for broadcast, they don't care about a casual gamer who may have 0-10 people watching. Even if it's 1000 gamers pulling 0-10 viewers, those aren't sexy numbers for ad sales and that's what drives them.
Best Buy used to take Google Wallet and other NFC payments then they did a similar thing a few months ago and started blocking them. They are on the merchant list for CurrentC. Question answered.
But now my big question is: Why doesn't the big 4 (Visa, MC, Discover and Amex) just smack them around and say "this is how it's going to be"? I'm sure their member banks would rather have one secure payment standard floating around out there too. This CurrentC thing just looks like a big identity theft cluster f*** data breach waiting to happen.
I'm sorry, but Linux distros have worse forced upgrade policies than XP. How well does Ubuntu 13.10 run on 10 year old PCs with 10 year old graphics hardware? Not well. How does it run on 5 year old PCs? Not well either. But that is your only real option for Ubuntu since they only support releases for a YEAR AND A HALF! Ok, the LTS versions get 5 years, but still that's much shorter than XP and the system requirements move forward with each release for the GUI.
OpenSUSE, Cent OS, Mint all of them are the same way.
If you're running a PC that is 5 years old or less with XP, quit the whining and goto Win 7 (the new XP for corp) or 8. If it's older than 5, get a new PC because you've probably replaced your TV and got a new game console in that time which cost about as much if not more.
These guys suing Kickstarter makes about as much sense as Apple suing Wal-Mart for selling Samsung tablets and phones. Are we going to expect Wal-Mart, Best Buy and eBay to start doing patent checks on everything they put on their shelves or list on their site? If by some strange quirk this case moves forward with Kickstarter attached, that will be the legal expectation by precedent.
IANL, but in the complaint they may have already given Kickstarter cause to get removed. They mention Kickstarter's TOS and the judge should see that as a safe harbor establishment.
There are a few docs in the VMware knowledge base about clock drift on AMD CPUs. 90% of the issues are solved by turning off "Quiet'n'Cool" or any other power saving feature in the BIOS that alters the clock speed. The same advice goes for Intel chips with SpeedStep. The clock fluctuation really screw with the VM's VCPU emulation. I turned it off and my drift dropped to a minute or so a week which is easily fixable with a NTP service on Linux.
They don't, it's just taking Nexon's argument to the extremes. Things such as that are governed by the EULAs, which still begs the question, does a EULA violation constitute a DMCA circumvention. Did UStory break a DRM lock that's not being mentioned?
But if you take that logic to it's extreme you wind up with Microsoft or Google suing the whole net because you're using their intellectual property (the browser) to access a services other than a Microsoft or Google one without getting their permission and making money. I know this thought will never happen, but it's still a extension of the logic.
Back to the crux of this though, The UMaple people clean room reverse engineered the MapleStory server to run a completely separate environment. There was no true profit, it looks like they were getting donations to keep it running. I just can't see the DMCA circumvention here, but I believe Blizzard used this same threat against some users a few years ago who were trying to reverse engineer the WoW server.
It's all out of control. Adapt or die has become adapt or litigate and heading towards litigate or litigate. Shakespeare was right.
Windows does have a built-in language. More precisely, it has 2 of them, VBScript and JScript. They've been included with Windows since Win 2000 and can be downloaded for 95 & 98.
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Ok, explain this to me...
How is a single chip on a motherboard going to do the following and do it without someone noticing:
1: Intercept data on the server without knowledge of what OS is running and/or without a driver to facilitate OS access?
2: Send that data to some 3rd party, through a firewall, without the bandwidth usage being noticed?
I know someone is going to answer #1 by saying "it'll just send everything in memory / traveling over the bus", but then you wind up hitting #2 because that would use a crap ton of bandwidth.
This looks very improbable and much like another "China is the boogeyman" story. I want hard proof before I believe this. The hysteria around this is like BadUSB all over again, and we all know where that went.
Don't trust Blackburn. It's already leaking out that Comcast's lawyers are the ones writing this legislation. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvw8k5/comcast-fcc-net-neutrality-law
Also you have to remember the cost to transport the parts. Right now most of the parts are semi-local. They come from down the street pretty much. Now all those parts have to be shipped to the US and handled separately through customs thus probably adding almost 50% to that cost at least.
I'd figure everyone would be jumping for joy because there's no systemd in this.
They have the wrong article linked above. This is the right one: http://www.fastcompany.com/3061860/the-future-of-work/how-technology-is-making-doctors-hate-their-jobs
My main box is a couple of years old on the CPU at this point but it still cranks pretty fast. It helps that I upgrade GPUs every 2 years usually.
Core i7-4770K
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX 970
1 LG 34" 21:9
2 Acer 27" 16:9
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD for boot and core apps
2x WD 2TB HDD (RAID 1) for everything else
Windows 10
With 4 versions of Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015) and the rest of the 10+ apps in startup, my time from power on to usable desktop is about 75 seconds. (yay SSD)
Ok, based off what I read, 1 & 3 are true but they are common business practices used in multiple areas. 2 is completely false but market forces make it look true.
A good example of 1 & 3 is Coke. If you decide to have Coke in your business, Coke will give you things as promotional considerations. Signs with you name on it plus the Coke logo, etc. But to get those you have to not carry Pepsi. That's the crux of 1 & 3. If you want to carry both, then you don't get the goodies that go along with them. You can preload Play with something else, but not Maps, Gmail and the other unless you agree to exclusivity for the preinstalled items. (The Play concession was made a while back to satisfy some anti-trust worries). More manufactures don't do that though because of the incentives plus market forces. People want Google's stuff there and ready. Google isn't holding a gun to people's head saying "Use Gmail or else". There are plenty of option and I use one myself in the form of AquaMail to my non-Gmail e-mail.
As for #2, hello, phones being sold running Cyanogen and others based on AOSP derivatives, but they don't have a big market share yet, or maybe ever. Market forces (people) aren't creating a demand for them. Thus the big guys don't make Cyanogen phones because people won't buy them en mass. And it's not for a lack of trying. Look at Samsung and all the times they've tried to do Tizen as an Android alternative. They never got anywhere. The mass market is happy with what they have. Phone OSs are a two horse race (Android and iOS). You're not going to force the market to accept more if they don't want it, but that's seems to be what the EU is angling for with #2.
This is just how I see it. I'm sure someone is going to come along with some conspiracy and collusion theory as to why I'm wrong, but this is a situation where the simple answer is the answer.
Satire.
Dude can sell these t-shirts all he wants because they are satire and that's a protected form of speech. If it wasn't, Weird Al, MAD Magazine, etc would have been out of business a long time ago.
The full mobi format is documented officially so that kind of makes it not proprietary. It's like saying FAT is proprietary compared to ext3 just because Microsoft uses it.
It won't be Microsoft's first trip through Unix land if they do. Anyone remember Microsoft Xenix?
The license only grants though permissions when they "access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service"
I don't think there were playing it live from a YouTube page or through an authorized YouTube API application, so they were in violation of the license.
How many times does it have to be repeated that are no annual fees for Windows 10?
SERVICE != SUBSCRIPTION
Examples:
Steam = Service
Salesforce = Subscription
Figure it out already and quit spouting the nonsense.
The reason for free Windows makes perfect sense. The cost of buying an upgrade has always made upgrades on existing hardware a very low number. So just give it away to end users since it doesn't make any money anyway. It's pretty well known 99% the of income for Windows comes from new PCs and enterprise agreements.
If they try to turn around and start charging annually for Windows after this, piracy will shoot through the roof and patching will go through the floor as people will hack to get it free and stop Windows Update so their hacks won't get blocked. (Remember the Windows Genuine Advantage garbage from XP, that was a lesson learned) This would result in 2 black eyes that Microsoft doesn't want and would lead to increases for Mac, Linux or other alternative. 1st is customer ill will over "pay us or your PC stops" and the 2nd is from getting a reputation about Windows being buggy exploit ridden as a result of people not patching and updating.
They paused Linux and Mac OS development to focus on Windows because that's where the MAJORITY of PC users are. Once they have that end of it all nice and tight and made some money, then they can look at finishing the Linux and Mac support. If you want to come back with "oh, they have Facebook's billions", that's not true. Facebook isn't stupid and they won't blindly pump cash into a subsidiary (remember, they weren't absorbed, they still operate as an independent entity) without a plan to profitability. Getting up, running and selling on Windows ASAP is the best plan for that.
I think some bad guys did that in an episode of Almost Human a year or so ago.
I don't see this as a Twitch competitor.
Does it support cams? Does it support streaming from broadcasting software? Does it support archiving recordings? Does it support headset input if the game doesn't have voice support to begin with? The answer to all of these is no and Valve doesn't seem to have plans to add those items either.
What this really is doing is filling a hole that Twitch isn't concerned about: The casual easy stream to my friends/community. I don't know about other's experiences, but my experience with streaming to Twitch casually was a massive pain in the ass. This feature was probably a no-brainer thing to do since it was more than likely just a tweak to their in-home streaming function. So woo-hoo, new feature, not much work required. (Developer mantra.)
Is Twitch concerned about this hole? Probably not. They see it as small potatoes at this point or they would have done something directly to make setting up streaming easier. Also when you have the "professional" streamers who are half game / half talk show drawing in 100-10,000 viewers plus the eSport leagues using their platform for broadcast, they don't care about a casual gamer who may have 0-10 people watching. Even if it's 1000 gamers pulling 0-10 viewers, those aren't sexy numbers for ad sales and that's what drives them.
Best Buy used to take Google Wallet and other NFC payments then they did a similar thing a few months ago and started blocking them. They are on the merchant list for CurrentC. Question answered.
But now my big question is: Why doesn't the big 4 (Visa, MC, Discover and Amex) just smack them around and say "this is how it's going to be"? I'm sure their member banks would rather have one secure payment standard floating around out there too. This CurrentC thing just looks like a big identity theft cluster f*** data breach waiting to happen.
When I saw this I had to make sure it wasn't April 1st and that the article wasn't from The Onion.
Sprint is CDMA.
I'm sorry, but Linux distros have worse forced upgrade policies than XP. How well does Ubuntu 13.10 run on 10 year old PCs with 10 year old graphics hardware? Not well. How does it run on 5 year old PCs? Not well either. But that is your only real option for Ubuntu since they only support releases for a YEAR AND A HALF! Ok, the LTS versions get 5 years, but still that's much shorter than XP and the system requirements move forward with each release for the GUI.
OpenSUSE, Cent OS, Mint all of them are the same way.
If you're running a PC that is 5 years old or less with XP, quit the whining and goto Win 7 (the new XP for corp) or 8. If it's older than 5, get a new PC because you've probably replaced your TV and got a new game console in that time which cost about as much if not more.
These guys suing Kickstarter makes about as much sense as Apple suing Wal-Mart for selling Samsung tablets and phones. Are we going to expect Wal-Mart, Best Buy and eBay to start doing patent checks on everything they put on their shelves or list on their site? If by some strange quirk this case moves forward with Kickstarter attached, that will be the legal expectation by precedent.
IANL, but in the complaint they may have already given Kickstarter cause to get removed. They mention Kickstarter's TOS and the judge should see that as a safe harbor establishment.
There are a few docs in the VMware knowledge base about clock drift on AMD CPUs. 90% of the issues are solved by turning off "Quiet'n'Cool" or any other power saving feature in the BIOS that alters the clock speed. The same advice goes for Intel chips with SpeedStep. The clock fluctuation really screw with the VM's VCPU emulation. I turned it off and my drift dropped to a minute or so a week which is easily fixable with a NTP service on Linux.
They don't, it's just taking Nexon's argument to the extremes. Things such as that are governed by the EULAs, which still begs the question, does a EULA violation constitute a DMCA circumvention. Did UStory break a DRM lock that's not being mentioned?
But if you take that logic to it's extreme you wind up with Microsoft or Google suing the whole net because you're using their intellectual property (the browser) to access a services other than a Microsoft or Google one without getting their permission and making money. I know this thought will never happen, but it's still a extension of the logic.
Back to the crux of this though, The UMaple people clean room reverse engineered the MapleStory server to run a completely separate environment. There was no true profit, it looks like they were getting donations to keep it running. I just can't see the DMCA circumvention here, but I believe Blizzard used this same threat against some users a few years ago who were trying to reverse engineer the WoW server.
It's all out of control. Adapt or die has become adapt or litigate and heading towards litigate or litigate. Shakespeare was right.
So does this mean a wyse60 emulation now becomes a dell60 emulation. Oh the poor termcap databases, how will it ever deal. :)
Windows does have a built-in language. More precisely, it has 2 of them, VBScript and JScript. They've been included with Windows since Win 2000 and can be downloaded for 95 & 98.