Yep. And Google Earth *might* even become the future of home pages, if people keep geotagging their content when they put it online, so that it makes sense to highlight hotspots which are relevant to your search etc.
"It is a javascript api...Nothing to do with markup of any kind"
You mean... there's no XML version of Javascript yet?
<script language="javascript"> <dereference object="document"> <call method="write">Hello, People? Get with the program!!</call> </dereference> </script>
But not their website. And since TV might one day be replaced by online media, that could be a legitimate worry. Still, I agree that preventing people from obtaining a TV schedule is not an option.
Well, most SSL certificates are meaningless crap, so your encryption is also crap, and easily faked. In other words, you can think you're connecting securely to the site, when in fact you're connecting securely to the exact person you don't want a connection to. Far from ideal.
Besides that, anyone with access to the network traffic (aforesaid kiddie) can easily see what sites you connect to, and for how long. Taking a sequence of sites, even if the sites themselves contained content of all kinds, would let the kiddie piece together what pages you were on on each site. By estimating your stay on each page, a profile could be built up.
But even just knowing the sites is enough to know which organisation to issue a warrant for records from, and then read the server logs for matching timestamps.
SSL, as implemented, really only works within securely admin'd organisations, for providing the level of security those admins choose to create.
I do hate it in this day and age, where people speculate before people die.
As opposed to in the past, where a mammoth would rip out the village elder's guts, and the rest of the the village would be all, "Let's not jump to conclusions now..."?;)
No, the reason services like this suck is that real anonymity is costly, especially when you're one of the few who believe in it. A good analogy would be how you would send a private message through snail mail, if the norm was to send only publicly readable postcards, and anything else was immediately considered suspicious enough to examine in detail. What you'd probably end up doing is (slowly) sending the normal amount of postcards, but spreading a hidden message out between them all, with some sort of embedded code that's difficult to detect.
That's certainly an aspect of it I'm sure, but you might not be aware that many kids (and adults) live on trash heaps, finding and selling scraps for a living (if you can call a bowl of gruel every day or two, shared between a family, a living). I could be wrong, but those images look like a fairly typical instance of it. There are less usual instances too, such as the poor people in Bangladesh who make a living selling scrap from (dangerous) old ships that are sent there from all over the world.
you have to be a wannabe ankle-biter to download and run anything you don't know exactly what it is.
If you know without doubt exactly what any program is before you've ran it** at least once, I'm impressed by your quite unearthly powers. If you've ran it and know every possible code path it'll take in every other run without a code audit, I'm equally impressed.
If you consider the server-side backend to be a part of the product, and it is,
I don't, and you're wrong. If that came for free, for life, with what was in the box, then yes. But it doesn't. It's sold seperately, and can be implemented seperately, just like any other client/server architecture. They may package them together and force you to use them together, but that is simply false scarcity. Additionally, it is possible to play demigod in single-player mode.
Have I managed to untwist the mystery or what?
In your own words, you're not as bright as you think you are. But since we both think that of each other, it's probably best to just agree to disagree and drop it. I really don't find the topic of yet another MMO's failure that interesting anyway.
You're really telling me[...]you were NOT claiming that there is clear and present damage from warm currents?
I was not, no. I really couldn't care either way if there is; personally I think global warming is an issue for all sorts of reasons, and currents, if they're a problem, are far from the biggest one. My only intent was to make the point that the article's logic might be flawed. You could even argue that we're on the same side, if you're against hystericalism for hystericalism's sake.
I was really hoping you'd be able to think it through for yourself, but I'll try to break it down then.
What the guy I replied to said was "The publisher has to physically distribute something far and wide ahead of time to allow those customers to get it WITHOUT waiting for regional release dates". So he's saying that, to allow customers to get something "without waiting", the items should be distributed "ahead of time". "Ahead of time" implies that some fake, future time will be set, whereupon customers can actually buy the item (and indeed, this agrees with the flow of the arguments beforehand). So his "twisted logic" is quite clear: he's saying that a false delay should be imposed, so that people don't have to wait.
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I can imagine. Many of the official UK sites for TV schedules are horrible too.
Yep. And Google Earth *might* even become the future of home pages, if people keep geotagging their content when they put it online, so that it makes sense to highlight hotspots which are relevant to your search etc.
"It is a javascript api...Nothing to do with markup of any kind"
You mean... there's no XML version of Javascript yet?
<script language="javascript">
<dereference object="document">
<call method="write">Hello, People? Get with the program!!</call>
</dereference>
</script>
But not their website. And since TV might one day be replaced by online media, that could be a legitimate worry. Still, I agree that preventing people from obtaining a TV schedule is not an option.
Such as?
Tell the directors "I warned you about this years ago", and resign? ;)
Well, most SSL certificates are meaningless crap, so your encryption is also crap, and easily faked. In other words, you can think you're connecting securely to the site, when in fact you're connecting securely to the exact person you don't want a connection to. Far from ideal.
Besides that, anyone with access to the network traffic (aforesaid kiddie) can easily see what sites you connect to, and for how long. Taking a sequence of sites, even if the sites themselves contained content of all kinds, would let the kiddie piece together what pages you were on on each site. By estimating your stay on each page, a profile could be built up.
But even just knowing the sites is enough to know which organisation to issue a warrant for records from, and then read the server logs for matching timestamps.
SSL, as implemented, really only works within securely admin'd organisations, for providing the level of security those admins choose to create.
I think we passed that point a long time ago.
As opposed to in the past, where a mammoth would rip out the village elder's guts, and the rest of the the village would be all, "Let's not jump to conclusions now..."? ;)
No, the reason services like this suck is that real anonymity is costly, especially when you're one of the few who believe in it. A good analogy would be how you would send a private message through snail mail, if the norm was to send only publicly readable postcards, and anything else was immediately considered suspicious enough to examine in detail. What you'd probably end up doing is (slowly) sending the normal amount of postcards, but spreading a hidden message out between them all, with some sort of embedded code that's difficult to detect.
That's certainly an aspect of it I'm sure, but you might not be aware that many kids (and adults) live on trash heaps, finding and selling scraps for a living (if you can call a bowl of gruel every day or two, shared between a family, a living). I could be wrong, but those images look like a fairly typical instance of it. There are less usual instances too, such as the poor people in Bangladesh who make a living selling scrap from (dangerous) old ships that are sent there from all over the world.
What? You end up on Nine Mile Island?
If you know without doubt exactly what any program is before you've ran it** at least once, I'm impressed by your quite unearthly powers. If you've ran it and know every possible code path it'll take in every other run without a code audit, I'm equally impressed.
I don't, and you're wrong. If that came for free, for life, with what was in the box, then yes. But it doesn't. It's sold seperately, and can be implemented seperately, just like any other client/server architecture. They may package them together and force you to use them together, but that is simply false scarcity. Additionally, it is possible to play demigod in single-player mode.
In your own words, you're not as bright as you think you are. But since we both think that of each other, it's probably best to just agree to disagree and drop it. I really don't find the topic of yet another MMO's failure that interesting anyway.
Except for that whole resembling a strip of crispy bacon thing.
True, but that was in the form of heat due to the lousy construction.
Actually, it's not the submitter's fault, and he's not the only one to be caught out. All of the press kits were sent out with faulty abaci.
Except all that junk was created by wealthy, wasteful people, and poor people are living off and essentially recycling every part of it that they can.
Yeah. At the end of the day, they're both guitar amps that'll blow you across the workshop.
Doesn't sound half bad when you put it like that :)
I was not, no. I really couldn't care either way if there is; personally I think global warming is an issue for all sorts of reasons, and currents, if they're a problem, are far from the biggest one. My only intent was to make the point that the article's logic might be flawed. You could even argue that we're on the same side, if you're against hystericalism for hystericalism's sake.
Since most ISPs are now metering (and arguably DRMing) by GB transferred rather than just going by bandwidth, the same thing will happen anyway.
No, this means you can live in another, RIAA-free dimension, where the Intarwebs have never reached more than 2Kbps ;)
I was really hoping you'd be able to think it through for yourself, but I'll try to break it down then.
What the guy I replied to said was "The publisher has to physically distribute something far and wide ahead of time to allow those customers to get it WITHOUT waiting for regional release dates". So he's saying that, to allow customers to get something "without waiting", the items should be distributed "ahead of time". "Ahead of time" implies that some fake, future time will be set, whereupon customers can actually buy the item (and indeed, this agrees with the flow of the arguments beforehand). So his "twisted logic" is quite clear: he's saying that a false delay should be imposed, so that people don't have to wait.
Whatever conflict you imagine between "doesn't mean" and "possibilities" is only in your intepretation, I'm afraid.