Re:Is This Progress vs Tradition?
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Diablo III Released
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I'm not trolling but honestly looking for insight
Here's the insight: The server for the US zone are offline for "emergency maintenance." This means people who purchased Diablo III cannot play the game in any way shape or form, including launching a single player campaign.
I will repeat that again - On launch day, nobody in the US can play the game because of the DRM.
If you can't see the problem with that, I don't think you will ever see it.
Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration
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Diablo III Released
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No, we shouldn't be celebrating the DRM. This point is driven home even more with the incredibly rocky launch due to the authentication servers breaking under load. Even now, I think they've pulled the D3 servers offline for "emergency maintenance," meaning nobody can play the game in any form.
Maybe we should be celebrating this as a triumph of demonstrating the downfalls of such bad DRM.
I'm not a Sony fan, but didn't the PS3 come stock with a web browser?
Yes, it did, but it was pretty bad. I tried it a few times for various things, I was severely underwhelmed. There's very, very few things that I would want to browse on my TV over my PC, and those few things didn't even work well (eg, streaming video). It's also a pain typing with a controller any of the 3 controllers and an on-screen keyboard.
I always assumed the 360 did as well. Really MS? It took you this long to put a browser on it?
I had the same thought when the current gen of consoles first came out. But at this point, with the prevalence of browsers on smartphones and tablets, I don't think browsers on the console is a good idea, especially given the quality of the PS3/Wii browsers. Throw in the fact that Xbox360, PS3, and to a lesser degree, the Wii, all have native apps to do most things people would want (Hulu, Facebook, Netflix, etc), and browsers on consoles become a very niche feature that will mostly be ignored.
Don't forget about them degrading VoiP traffic when they deployed their own voice service. That warranted an investigation by the government, which they were found in the wrong. No penalty for that finding, mind you.
They blocked all P2P, regardless of source and destination. If what you say is true, and they truly have such a highly capable infrastructure, they shouldn't have banned any Comcast to Comcast P2P on the premise of "high traffic amounts." Nor should any current Comcast to Comcast traffic count against the bandwidth cap hit (say, like connecting to a business network from your home).
But they did block Comcast to Comcast torrent traffic back then. And they do count current Comcast to Comcast traffic against the cap. So your point is invalid about it all being internal, thus not cap-worthy.
Yes, Ron Paul. The same Ron Paul that believes if a free market allows a monopoly to exist, it should be allowed. And would approve of Comcast's behavior because if it shouldn't happen, the free market would have sorted it all out.
Ron Paul, while an interesting candidate, would scare the hell out of me if he ever got elected President due to his naive beliefs in the free market and removal of all regulation.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
It's rare, but Steam has had its share of problems. There's been the occasional authentication server outage (translating you not being able to play any games). Or, if your ISP is having issues, you can't launch games. There is an offline option, but you must already be online to enable a game for offline play.
Strange, Classic ASP doesn't seem to be on the list anywhere
That's probably because "Classic ASP" isn't a language. The languages used in Classic ASP are either VBScript or JScript. I'm not sure how this list is compiled (site's slashdotted), but it's possible that VBScript is counted as Visual Basic.
You keep saying that as if it's not even up for consideration. Remember the SOPA blackout day? That can, and did happen. This is just one country, and not even a country that's a primary income source for youtube, so I don't see why they wouldn't do this.
What can stop hackers to send rogue fw updates over the air ?
One would hope that the update process includes some kind of authentication and cryptographic verification. However, you and I know the reality is that some manager thought this wasn't cost effective to implement.
Also, is it possible to exploit mpeg2 video decoder bugs to take control of tv?
Probably, but I believe it's like writing Mac viruses a decade ago - too specific of a platform with too small of a footprint to monetize by creating exploits. Given the proprietary nature of the hardware and software, you're probably only going see proof of concept exploits, possibly some exploits to run custom software for a niche community.
Or, my employer won't let me install any software on my work machine so I'm stuck with IE(6).
You mean that browser that MS itself rates as a critical security vulnerability and highly recommends upgrading (and even pushes a new version out as a critical update)? I fully understand the support for already in place legacy systems, but that browser had better not be on workstation with unfettered Internet access.
If you're browsing the web with that bad boy, your IT needs to take a good, hard look at its policies, or at least rethink their risk assessment.
I agree that nobody should give up their passwords, but walking out isn't the best course of action. Rather, refuse and give them a reason about why your refusal makes you a better candidate than everyone who willingly hands over password. Basically, use it as a springboard to demonstrate how your information security views and policies are better than Johnny and Suzy Looselips who they just interviewed.
However, when you sum them, you would add the measured values (including the estimated decimal value)
Emphasis mine. That's not what a '=' means in mathematics. Equal means equal, not an approximation. There is an approximation symbol ('wavy equal sign') that should be used when approximating values in mathematics like you describe. You might thank the chemistry teacher, but your math teacher is probably not too happy.
Sure, you and I know that. The GP and anyone seeing your link (directly or indirectly) will find that out. But they don't mention the rules for legally creating copies on that page encouraging you to scan your money. They should, otherwise this could potentially get some people into a lot of trouble.
Ignoring the whole DRM is bad/repurchasing argument that will be covered to death in these comments, why would anyone trust Walmart with this? Didn't they learn when Walmart shut down their audio DRM servers?
The thing with Alex Jones is he usually does have some kind of facts to back up his initial points. It's when he makes enormous leaps in (*ahem*) "logic" that he loses credibility in a hurry.
My friends and I have a running joke that Alex Jones is, in fact, a government plant to derail things by taking a real "conspiracy theory" and going crazy with it. The final conclusion he reaches is so out there that no one would believe the original theory in the first place.
The windows 7 start menu is much more sensible: and alphabetical list with clickable folders. It scales well, it doesn't require any dexterity to manipulate it. Just pin your most used applications and you're set. What is so difficult about that?
I'm not seeing how the old WinXP Start Menu can't do the same. I am rarely in my start menu on XP systems - most programs I commonly use are in the Quick Launch Toolbar (which is exactly the same as "Pinning" programs). The Start menu is an alphabetical list with folders - they just fly out instead of replace the current list. I also have preference to the flyout version since I don't need to scroll to view all of my available options.
It's also easier to navigate with a keyboard - Win7's search bar makes a guess about what you want, and if it's not one of the 5 things listed, I need to grab my mouse and click around anyway. The WinXP menu lets me just navigate the flyout lists without the mouse.
As for scaling, I organize my programs in the menu (XP or Win7) into categories - Development, Office, Internet, etc, which alleviates the "so many programs, takes up my whole screen" problem. The WinXP menu becomes large and unwieldy only if you refuse to organize it - and the Win7 can become just as unwieldy for the same reasons.
This is dependent on location. For example, it's not uncommon to commute (via train) from the suburbs into Chicago for work, then home again. That can easily get close to 100 miles round trip.
In theory, this is why warrants exist. They would need to get a warrant to force that decryption. That means they must convince a judge that there's reasonable suspicion they will find exactly what they're searching for. It's similar to how police can't come force themselves in my door, tell me there's a body in my house, and go looking for evidence of anything illegal.
However, given how the whole civil rights thing has been going these days, the warrants may just turn into a rubber-stamp process, and you may be right in the end.
It's even more preposterous that Google claims the standard is impractical. If you don't have a P3P policy, the correct course of action the standard states is to, literally, do nothing. If doing nothing is too impractical, I'm curious what Google feels is a practical solution.
Yea, that End-User Allow/Deny thing did wonders for ActiveX security. How about if it's malformed, throw it out entirely and treat the request as if the P3P was not present?
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I'm not trolling but honestly looking for insight
Here's the insight: The server for the US zone are offline for "emergency maintenance." This means people who purchased Diablo III cannot play the game in any way shape or form, including launching a single player campaign.
I will repeat that again - On launch day, nobody in the US can play the game because of the DRM.
If you can't see the problem with that, I don't think you will ever see it.
No, we shouldn't be celebrating the DRM. This point is driven home even more with the incredibly rocky launch due to the authentication servers breaking under load. Even now, I think they've pulled the D3 servers offline for "emergency maintenance," meaning nobody can play the game in any form.
Maybe we should be celebrating this as a triumph of demonstrating the downfalls of such bad DRM.
I think the OP was leaning more towards something like the drug cartels - which put Anonymous in its place when they poked the wrong beehive.
I'm not a Sony fan, but didn't the PS3 come stock with a web browser?
Yes, it did, but it was pretty bad. I tried it a few times for various things, I was severely underwhelmed. There's very, very few things that I would want to browse on my TV over my PC, and those few things didn't even work well (eg, streaming video). It's also a pain typing with a controller any of the 3 controllers and an on-screen keyboard.
I always assumed the 360 did as well. Really MS? It took you this long to put a browser on it?
I had the same thought when the current gen of consoles first came out. But at this point, with the prevalence of browsers on smartphones and tablets, I don't think browsers on the console is a good idea, especially given the quality of the PS3/Wii browsers. Throw in the fact that Xbox360, PS3, and to a lesser degree, the Wii, all have native apps to do most things people would want (Hulu, Facebook, Netflix, etc), and browsers on consoles become a very niche feature that will mostly be ignored.
Don't forget about them degrading VoiP traffic when they deployed their own voice service. That warranted an investigation by the government, which they were found in the wrong. No penalty for that finding, mind you.
They blocked all P2P, regardless of source and destination. If what you say is true, and they truly have such a highly capable infrastructure, they shouldn't have banned any Comcast to Comcast P2P on the premise of "high traffic amounts." Nor should any current Comcast to Comcast traffic count against the bandwidth cap hit (say, like connecting to a business network from your home).
But they did block Comcast to Comcast torrent traffic back then. And they do count current Comcast to Comcast traffic against the cap. So your point is invalid about it all being internal, thus not cap-worthy.
Yes, Ron Paul. The same Ron Paul that believes if a free market allows a monopoly to exist, it should be allowed. And would approve of Comcast's behavior because if it shouldn't happen, the free market would have sorted it all out.
Ron Paul, while an interesting candidate, would scare the hell out of me if he ever got elected President due to his naive beliefs in the free market and removal of all regulation.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
It's rare, but Steam has had its share of problems. There's been the occasional authentication server outage (translating you not being able to play any games). Or, if your ISP is having issues, you can't launch games. There is an offline option, but you must already be online to enable a game for offline play.
4 hours? If you look at http://games.slashdot.org/ they're literally consecutive stories. That's some fine duping!
Strange, Classic ASP doesn't seem to be on the list anywhere
That's probably because "Classic ASP" isn't a language. The languages used in Classic ASP are either VBScript or JScript. I'm not sure how this list is compiled (site's slashdotted), but it's possible that VBScript is counted as Visual Basic.
You keep saying that as if it's not even up for consideration. Remember the SOPA blackout day? That can, and did happen. This is just one country, and not even a country that's a primary income source for youtube, so I don't see why they wouldn't do this.
What can stop hackers to send rogue fw updates over the air ?
One would hope that the update process includes some kind of authentication and cryptographic verification. However, you and I know the reality is that some manager thought this wasn't cost effective to implement.
Also, is it possible to exploit mpeg2 video decoder bugs to take control of tv?
Probably, but I believe it's like writing Mac viruses a decade ago - too specific of a platform with too small of a footprint to monetize by creating exploits. Given the proprietary nature of the hardware and software, you're probably only going see proof of concept exploits, possibly some exploits to run custom software for a niche community.
Did I say waterboarding? I mean, um... shit
I think the phrase you're looking for is "political re-education."
Or, my employer won't let me install any software on my work machine so I'm stuck with IE(6).
You mean that browser that MS itself rates as a critical security vulnerability and highly recommends upgrading (and even pushes a new version out as a critical update)? I fully understand the support for already in place legacy systems, but that browser had better not be on workstation with unfettered Internet access.
If you're browsing the web with that bad boy, your IT needs to take a good, hard look at its policies, or at least rethink their risk assessment.
I agree that nobody should give up their passwords, but walking out isn't the best course of action. Rather, refuse and give them a reason about why your refusal makes you a better candidate than everyone who willingly hands over password. Basically, use it as a springboard to demonstrate how your information security views and policies are better than Johnny and Suzy Looselips who they just interviewed.
However, when you sum them, you would add the measured values (including the estimated decimal value)
Emphasis mine. That's not what a '=' means in mathematics. Equal means equal, not an approximation. There is an approximation symbol ('wavy equal sign') that should be used when approximating values in mathematics like you describe. You might thank the chemistry teacher, but your math teacher is probably not too happy.
Sure, you and I know that. The GP and anyone seeing your link (directly or indirectly) will find that out. But they don't mention the rules for legally creating copies on that page encouraging you to scan your money. They should, otherwise this could potentially get some people into a lot of trouble.
Ignoring the whole DRM is bad/repurchasing argument that will be covered to death in these comments, why would anyone trust Walmart with this? Didn't they learn when Walmart shut down their audio DRM servers?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
The thing with Alex Jones is he usually does have some kind of facts to back up his initial points. It's when he makes enormous leaps in (*ahem*) "logic" that he loses credibility in a hurry.
My friends and I have a running joke that Alex Jones is, in fact, a government plant to derail things by taking a real "conspiracy theory" and going crazy with it. The final conclusion he reaches is so out there that no one would believe the original theory in the first place.
The windows 7 start menu is much more sensible: and alphabetical list with clickable folders. It scales well, it doesn't require any dexterity to manipulate it. Just pin your most used applications and you're set. What is so difficult about that?
I'm not seeing how the old WinXP Start Menu can't do the same. I am rarely in my start menu on XP systems - most programs I commonly use are in the Quick Launch Toolbar (which is exactly the same as "Pinning" programs). The Start menu is an alphabetical list with folders - they just fly out instead of replace the current list. I also have preference to the flyout version since I don't need to scroll to view all of my available options.
It's also easier to navigate with a keyboard - Win7's search bar makes a guess about what you want, and if it's not one of the 5 things listed, I need to grab my mouse and click around anyway. The WinXP menu lets me just navigate the flyout lists without the mouse.
As for scaling, I organize my programs in the menu (XP or Win7) into categories - Development, Office, Internet, etc, which alleviates the "so many programs, takes up my whole screen" problem. The WinXP menu becomes large and unwieldy only if you refuse to organize it - and the Win7 can become just as unwieldy for the same reasons.
This is dependent on location. For example, it's not uncommon to commute (via train) from the suburbs into Chicago for work, then home again. That can easily get close to 100 miles round trip.
It's like you've just won a rusted out 1992 Geo Metro with a broken radio.
In theory, this is why warrants exist. They would need to get a warrant to force that decryption. That means they must convince a judge that there's reasonable suspicion they will find exactly what they're searching for. It's similar to how police can't come force themselves in my door, tell me there's a body in my house, and go looking for evidence of anything illegal.
However, given how the whole civil rights thing has been going these days, the warrants may just turn into a rubber-stamp process, and you may be right in the end.
It's even more preposterous that Google claims the standard is impractical. If you don't have a P3P policy, the correct course of action the standard states is to, literally, do nothing. If doing nothing is too impractical, I'm curious what Google feels is a practical solution.
Yea, that End-User Allow/Deny thing did wonders for ActiveX security. How about if it's malformed, throw it out entirely and treat the request as if the P3P was not present?