Believe it or not, this is actually a setting in your Netflix options which defaults to "Auto." I had some flaky playback until I told it to use as much as possible, now it's HD all the time.
Can you completely disable/ignore content shared by other users if you're playing against them online?
Yes, nothing shows up during actual gameplay.
You misinterpreted the question. If I don't want any video of my gameplay shared, but I'm playing against some kid who records and shares his uber-mad-leet skillz all the time, does his game not record the gameplay featuring me because of my preferences? I believe I'm SOL in that case and the footage of me gets shared against my wishes.
The only real downside I experienced is that the client will occasionally desync from the server, so your character will seem to be in another place than it really is. It doesn't happen too often, but it's an annoyance when it does
Early on, I had the same thoughts regarding the desync issues ("it's so rare, doesn't seem too bad"). However, as I progressed to higher difficulties with a lot more enemies on screen with a lot more going on, it got really bad. It's nice that there's a workaround if you suspect it's happening ('/oos' in the chat window), but on more than one occasion a boss/mob has murdered me while I was elsewhere in the map.
From what I've found online, it looks like it varied by state (I found that my own state enacted a law in mandating it around 2009). However, since late last year/early this year manufacturers have voluntarily been adding a bittering agent.
Not anymore. According to my mechanic friends, they've started adding something to make the flavor bitter to avoid accidents (ie, pets drinking a small amount of leaked antifreeze and dying).
I currently have AT&T, and this still happens. I can't watch video higher than 480, and it will stop transferring after a certain amount of the buffer loads.
Then why do they keep removing all the heinous features everyone complains about?
They were very stubborn in their defense of the heinous features... until pre-orders opened up for both consoles. The PS4 was trouncing the X1, which likely was their "oh shit" moment. Since then, they've been slowly rolling back the features. I think it's too late to recoup the lost pre-order sales, but may save some face for sales down the road.
move on to an easier target after his first several attacks fail
Of course, it's simply a matter of a lucky attacker choosing one of the "low priority fix" vulnerabilities as an attack vector and figuring out how to use it. Suddenly, that unfixed vulnerability made that difficult target into an easy one.
In terms of your analogy, the lock may be exceedingly difficult to pick until the thief realizes they can crawl into the open window on the second story. They just needed a ladder.
I completely blanked on the fact that you were talking about Ubuntu and not FreeBSD. Have you tried using the kFreeBSD kernel under the Ubuntu userland? I'm not sure how difficult it would be (looks like Ubuntu 10.04 had a package for it, but nothing newer).
This article seems to be talking about newer hardware and the NVIDIA binary blob driver. If you're stuck with Nouveau and an older NVIDIA card, your performance is going to be much worse than Windoze.
How old are you talking? NVIDIA has been providing blob drivers for FreeBSD for a long time. Even your GeForce MX 440 has drivers available.
It was probably even easier than that. Given today's WWW climate of everything being JSON/AJAX driven, you can just query the site and have the seating information delivered ready to use.
After all, if I am innocent, then you have no logical reason to spy on me.
Perhaps you are innocent, but match a behavior profile just enough that they monitor you. What does the profile consist of? That's the beauty of secret programs - we don't know. For all we know, it gets modified to suit a purpose as needed.
A good approach to the problem I've seen is masking the password except for the last character entered, put a timeout on that character (5-10 seconds), then mask it too. It lets you see what you've typed in, and you're no more at risk than someone just watching you type the password.
This is also the reason that EA won over, say, BofA. The majority of the population doesn't notice EA's shenanigans, but banks tend to have a direct (and larger) impact in their lives.
Traditional FBSD practice doesn't place/usr and / on the same partition. I usually take it a step further and put/usr/ports onto its own partition due to the nature of that beast.
It's possible, but we're taking a lot of this "study" on blind faith from Athiest Shoes. They didn't explicitly spell out their methodology. I find a sample size of 168 packages pretty small given the volume of US mail there can be.
Once scenario is that someone saw the tape and used that as a visual reference to organize the packages. If all of those were sent out as a group in a single shipment, that would skew results to appear that the labeling causes the delay (technically, yes, it did, but not because of some misguided religious notion). The other packages were simply not labeled at all, and wouldn't have been lumped into a single group using the same visual indicator (the tape) above.
So package group A (with the tape) would act as a single shipment, and a single delay causes a delay for everything. Package group B gets dispersed among many shipments, allowing more tolerance for delays - a single delayed shipment affects a smaller percentage of Group B.
We could sit here and pick apart each others' analysis, but the bottom line is we're looking at a pretty vague inforgraphic and extrapolating some pretty sweeping generalizations from it.
If weather conditions or other natural factors played into the shipment delays, wouldn't you expect the delay to affect both packages sent on the same day to the same address?
No. It's possible that the two packages were split into 2 separate shipments due to truck capacity (as an example). Shipment #1 ships out on the last truck at the end of a business day. Overnight, a snowstorm could hit, causing Shipment #2 on the first truck out the next day to be delayed because of poor road conditions.
Considering I'm equally anonymous on Slashdot whether I'm logged in or not (having never supplied any real information for my account), Slashdot would still have problems with laws forbidding anonymity. As far as this site's concerned, I'm a username, password, and throwaway e-mail address.
Why they can't just let me upgrade using standard internal hard drives like the PS3.
This feature was removed a couple of revisions ago. My original PS3 started having extreme noise and heat issues (yep, got one from that batch), so I intended just to buy a new one and do a drive swap. No such luck.
No, but refusing to sign the release form due to something that the agent may not have the authority to modify on the fly doesn't constitute seizure, either. It's just something being held a little longer at customs because of an error.
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hit and miss [...] streaming video on netflix
Believe it or not, this is actually a setting in your Netflix options which defaults to "Auto." I had some flaky playback until I told it to use as much as possible, now it's HD all the time.
Can you completely disable/ignore content shared by other users if you're playing against them online?
Yes, nothing shows up during actual gameplay.
You misinterpreted the question. If I don't want any video of my gameplay shared, but I'm playing against some kid who records and shares his uber-mad-leet skillz all the time, does his game not record the gameplay featuring me because of my preferences? I believe I'm SOL in that case and the footage of me gets shared against my wishes.
The only real downside I experienced is that the client will occasionally desync from the server, so your character will seem to be in another place than it really is. It doesn't happen too often, but it's an annoyance when it does
Early on, I had the same thoughts regarding the desync issues ("it's so rare, doesn't seem too bad"). However, as I progressed to higher difficulties with a lot more enemies on screen with a lot more going on, it got really bad. It's nice that there's a workaround if you suspect it's happening ('/oos' in the chat window), but on more than one occasion a boss/mob has murdered me while I was elsewhere in the map.
From what I've found online, it looks like it varied by state (I found that my own state enacted a law in mandating it around 2009). However, since late last year/early this year manufacturers have voluntarily been adding a bittering agent.
Not anymore. According to my mechanic friends, they've started adding something to make the flavor bitter to avoid accidents (ie, pets drinking a small amount of leaked antifreeze and dying).
when i had att this never happened.
I currently have AT&T, and this still happens. I can't watch video higher than 480, and it will stop transferring after a certain amount of the buffer loads.
I'd say so, since you bought a PS3 exclusive for your Xbox.
Then why do they keep removing all the heinous features everyone complains about?
They were very stubborn in their defense of the heinous features... until pre-orders opened up for both consoles. The PS4 was trouncing the X1, which likely was their "oh shit" moment. Since then, they've been slowly rolling back the features. I think it's too late to recoup the lost pre-order sales, but may save some face for sales down the road.
move on to an easier target after his first several attacks fail
Of course, it's simply a matter of a lucky attacker choosing one of the "low priority fix" vulnerabilities as an attack vector and figuring out how to use it. Suddenly, that unfixed vulnerability made that difficult target into an easy one.
In terms of your analogy, the lock may be exceedingly difficult to pick until the thief realizes they can crawl into the open window on the second story. They just needed a ladder.
I completely blanked on the fact that you were talking about Ubuntu and not FreeBSD. Have you tried using the kFreeBSD kernel under the Ubuntu userland? I'm not sure how difficult it would be (looks like Ubuntu 10.04 had a package for it, but nothing newer).
This article seems to be talking about newer hardware and the NVIDIA binary blob driver. If you're stuck with Nouveau and an older NVIDIA card, your performance is going to be much worse than Windoze.
How old are you talking? NVIDIA has been providing blob drivers for FreeBSD for a long time. Even your GeForce MX 440 has drivers available.
It was probably even easier than that. Given today's WWW climate of everything being JSON/AJAX driven, you can just query the site and have the seating information delivered ready to use.
After all, if I am innocent, then you have no logical reason to spy on me.
Perhaps you are innocent, but match a behavior profile just enough that they monitor you. What does the profile consist of? That's the beauty of secret programs - we don't know. For all we know, it gets modified to suit a purpose as needed.
A good approach to the problem I've seen is masking the password except for the last character entered, put a timeout on that character (5-10 seconds), then mask it too. It lets you see what you've typed in, and you're no more at risk than someone just watching you type the password.
The regular package management for BSDs, the ports collection
The regular package management for BSDs is the pkg utilities, the ports collection is a source control tree of available software that you compile yourself.
This is also the reason that EA won over, say, BofA. The majority of the population doesn't notice EA's shenanigans, but banks tend to have a direct (and larger) impact in their lives.
Traditional FBSD practice doesn't place /usr and / on the same partition. I usually take it a step further and put /usr/ports onto its own partition due to the nature of that beast.
It's possible, but we're taking a lot of this "study" on blind faith from Athiest Shoes. They didn't explicitly spell out their methodology. I find a sample size of 168 packages pretty small given the volume of US mail there can be.
Once scenario is that someone saw the tape and used that as a visual reference to organize the packages. If all of those were sent out as a group in a single shipment, that would skew results to appear that the labeling causes the delay (technically, yes, it did, but not because of some misguided religious notion). The other packages were simply not labeled at all, and wouldn't have been lumped into a single group using the same visual indicator (the tape) above.
So package group A (with the tape) would act as a single shipment, and a single delay causes a delay for everything. Package group B gets dispersed among many shipments, allowing more tolerance for delays - a single delayed shipment affects a smaller percentage of Group B.
We could sit here and pick apart each others' analysis, but the bottom line is we're looking at a pretty vague inforgraphic and extrapolating some pretty sweeping generalizations from it.
If weather conditions or other natural factors played into the shipment delays, wouldn't you expect the delay to affect both packages sent on the same day to the same address?
No. It's possible that the two packages were split into 2 separate shipments due to truck capacity (as an example). Shipment #1 ships out on the last truck at the end of a business day. Overnight, a snowstorm could hit, causing Shipment #2 on the first truck out the next day to be delayed because of poor road conditions.
Logging IP addresses happens regardless if I'm logged into an account or not.
Considering I'm equally anonymous on Slashdot whether I'm logged in or not (having never supplied any real information for my account), Slashdot would still have problems with laws forbidding anonymity. As far as this site's concerned, I'm a username, password, and throwaway e-mail address.
Why they can't just let me upgrade using standard internal hard drives like the PS3.
This feature was removed a couple of revisions ago. My original PS3 started having extreme noise and heat issues (yep, got one from that batch), so I intended just to buy a new one and do a drive swap. No such luck.
(Sony removing features? You dont say...)
No, but refusing to sign the release form due to something that the agent may not have the authority to modify on the fly doesn't constitute seizure, either. It's just something being held a little longer at customs because of an error.
Hell yes we do! Beer specials and $10 all-you-can-play for a night? Good times.
Bungie made two more Halo games after breaking away from Microsoft (back in 2007), so I wouldn't say they immediately jumped on new ideas.