Actually, it's more like "I hid the document in what I thought was a secret spot, in a public park. Someone discovered it there and started talking about it with their friends."
Actually, that's something we should be worried about just as much as them. What if the government decides to turn that anger into martial spirit and channel it into war?
The only reason that Google got so pissy over this attack was because apparently the hacker stole some of their proprietary source code during the hack. Until this threat to their actual IP, they didn't give a rat's ass how many people they turned over for imprisonment in China or how much they filtered out words like "democracy" from their search results. This isn't about Google standing up to evil totalitarion China--it's about Google saying "Look, we'll turn over dissidents and censor our search results all you want, BUT YOU THREATEN OUR PROFITS AND WE WILL FUCK YOU UP!"
It's all about money for Google, and this is all just posturing.
Yeah, well Superman is one of the few superheroes I *do* like. The superheroes I find truly annoying are the ones like Batman who have no special powers and yet act totally contrary to any form of rationality. If Superman is *overspecced* to be a superhero, the the exact opposite is true of Batman and other "regular human" superheroes. They fly in the face of every bit of common sense imaginable. They have no superpowers, but refuse to use guns or other practical weaponry which might actually give them an edge (there is a reason cops and soldiers carry those guns). They wear absolutely ridiculous costumes in which no one could possibly fight (Batman's costume is the worst of the lot--with no peripheral vision and that silly cape in the way he would be laughably easy to beat down). They have silly modes of transportation (why would a supposed vigilante who's trying to stay under the radar drive something as gaudy and easy to spot as the Batmobile/Batcopter/etc.?!?). Basically, the only "normal human" superhero who has ever made any sense was The Punisher (closer to what a real-world vigilante superhero would look like than any moron running around with a big cape on).
Superman may have too much Deus ex machina going for him. But at least he makes *some* sense, given his set of superpowers. Sure, it's silly for him to wear a cape too. But at least with him it doesn't matter (Superman could fight in a ballerina costume and still be every bit as effective). With Batman--the cape, the stupid costume, the ridiculous car, etc. are all just fucking stupid. He's supposed to be this smart detective, but he dresses like a drag queen and acts like brain-dead retard.
Physical scarcity means that if I'm a software developer who gets put out of work by a bunch of FOSS idealists, then I'm going to have a scarcity of physical food in my fucking refrigerator.
It's broken because it was never meant to be that powerful. When you have a whole map full of people running around with the default pistol, ignoring the rifles and other (presumably more powerful) weapons, you know there is a problem. Ever seen a war with everyone carrying around.38 revolvers? All you whiny bitches complaining about them "crippling" the pistol in later versions are just mad that you actually have to work for it now, with properly balanced weapons.
Yes, it's true that very few people play primarily for the story. But a compelling or interesting story (and, more particularly, setting) can set a game apart from its peers. "Knights of the Old Republic" was a pretty straightforward RPG, judged exclusively by its gameplay. But the story really set it apart. Ditto for Mass Effect, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, etc.--all pretty unremarkable if judged on straight-up gameplay.
I know that's considered blasphemy on/. But I think it's an excellent question. If giving food and other commodities away for free hurts other for-profit industries, I don't see why a much larger free software movement wouldn't disrupt the mainstream software industry in the same way. If OpenOffice, GIMP, et. al. ever rose to the same level (quality-wise and acceptance-wise) as Office and Photoshop, it's going to be a sad time for all those programmers and developers working at MS and Adobe who get handed a pink slip.
These days, some "school resource officer" (yes, schools today have actual full-time cops on duty) would probably have you in handcuffs and standing before a judge for that. The other day I read about an 11-year-old girl who got arrested by her SRO for writing on her desk with a marker. Hire a cop and he has to justify his job, after all.
That's the same state where they recently busted a couple of family court judges for sending kids to prison because the prison (or, rather, the private company that ran it) was paying them kickbacks. Kid's just *cannot* catch a break in that state.
The bad press about the rootkit never made it to mainstream media, and even so is long since forgotten. This is Sony we're talking about. They ALWAYS put profit and control above everything else. What little bad press they get out of doing stuff like this will pale in comparison to the money they will make if they can effectively used stuff like this to destroy the used game/DVD market.
No, they've found a way to end-run around the law by saying "You're perfectly free to buy or sell used games, they just won't work without the one-time only activation code."
I've been saying for years that it was only a matter of time before every game you buy will require online registration before it will even boot and used games will be effectively outlawed. People used to scoff when I said that, but they don't anymore.
What really shocks me, just shocks me, is that Sony is leading this charge. They've always been so open and consumer-oriented in the past, never greedy or proprietary at all. This is more the kind of thing I would expect from those control freaks in the Linux community, not good player like Sony.
Oh man, I wish they had this when I was a teenager. I was smart enough to have passed these tests and wasted most of my time in high school getting my ass kicked by bullies who didn't belong there any more than I did. College was like heaven to me. I was finally at a place where I could learn without having to put up with getting the crap kicked out of me in the hallways. My high school teachers made college out to be so hard, but I found it was a LOT easier. You can actually relax when you realize that half the kids in your class aren't knuckle-dragging, illiterate morons whose only function in school is to waste teachers' time with disciplinary problems and to torment the kids whose gas they will one day be pumping.
It's funny now to go back and look at "Mad Max" and realize that the premise of that movie was that the future of Australia would involve too much lawlessness and a lack of legal enforcement (criminals going free, no law to protect citizens, etc.). Now here we are in the actual future and Australia of late is looking at actively censoring the internet, banning any videogame that shows blood, imposing criminal and civil sanctions on people for modding their videogame consoles, and even banning criticism of lawmakers. It seems that the Australia of 2010 turned out to be more of a police state than a free-wheeling lawless anarchy. Turns Tina Turner was right. We didn't really need Max at all.
I wish I could mod you to +6. This "exercise" was nothing but a partisan attempt to embarrass the Obama Administration, scare the American people, dupe the press, and justify a bunch of heavy-handed neocon anti-civil-liberty measures. Its outcome from forgone before the day even began.
Of course, it was organized by a bunch of Bush neocons. But its primary purpose was to make Obama look weak on security, so every moron in America will piss their pants in fear and check "R" on the ballot in the next election.
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Actually, it's more like "I hid the document in what I thought was a secret spot, in a public park. Someone discovered it there and started talking about it with their friends."
As someone whose own server got rooted once, I sympathize.
Actually, that's something we should be worried about just as much as them. What if the government decides to turn that anger into martial spirit and channel it into war?
The only reason that Google got so pissy over this attack was because apparently the hacker stole some of their proprietary source code during the hack. Until this threat to their actual IP, they didn't give a rat's ass how many people they turned over for imprisonment in China or how much they filtered out words like "democracy" from their search results. This isn't about Google standing up to evil totalitarion China--it's about Google saying "Look, we'll turn over dissidents and censor our search results all you want, BUT YOU THREATEN OUR PROFITS AND WE WILL FUCK YOU UP!"
It's all about money for Google, and this is all just posturing.
Would you have felt more comfortable playing as a pacifist running like hell from the aliens the whole game, trying not to crap yourself?
Actually, that might make for an interesting game.
Yeah, well Superman is one of the few superheroes I *do* like. The superheroes I find truly annoying are the ones like Batman who have no special powers and yet act totally contrary to any form of rationality. If Superman is *overspecced* to be a superhero, the the exact opposite is true of Batman and other "regular human" superheroes. They fly in the face of every bit of common sense imaginable. They have no superpowers, but refuse to use guns or other practical weaponry which might actually give them an edge (there is a reason cops and soldiers carry those guns). They wear absolutely ridiculous costumes in which no one could possibly fight (Batman's costume is the worst of the lot--with no peripheral vision and that silly cape in the way he would be laughably easy to beat down). They have silly modes of transportation (why would a supposed vigilante who's trying to stay under the radar drive something as gaudy and easy to spot as the Batmobile/Batcopter/etc.?!?). Basically, the only "normal human" superhero who has ever made any sense was The Punisher (closer to what a real-world vigilante superhero would look like than any moron running around with a big cape on).
Superman may have too much Deus ex machina going for him. But at least he makes *some* sense, given his set of superpowers. Sure, it's silly for him to wear a cape too. But at least with him it doesn't matter (Superman could fight in a ballerina costume and still be every bit as effective). With Batman--the cape, the stupid costume, the ridiculous car, etc. are all just fucking stupid. He's supposed to be this smart detective, but he dresses like a drag queen and acts like brain-dead retard.
Physical scarcity means that if I'm a software developer who gets put out of work by a bunch of FOSS idealists, then I'm going to have a scarcity of physical food in my fucking refrigerator.
It's broken because it was never meant to be that powerful. When you have a whole map full of people running around with the default pistol, ignoring the rifles and other (presumably more powerful) weapons, you know there is a problem. Ever seen a war with everyone carrying around .38 revolvers? All you whiny bitches complaining about them "crippling" the pistol in later versions are just mad that you actually have to work for it now, with properly balanced weapons.
Yes, it's true that very few people play primarily for the story. But a compelling or interesting story (and, more particularly, setting) can set a game apart from its peers. "Knights of the Old Republic" was a pretty straightforward RPG, judged exclusively by its gameplay. But the story really set it apart. Ditto for Mass Effect, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, etc.--all pretty unremarkable if judged on straight-up gameplay.
I know that's considered blasphemy on /. But I think it's an excellent question. If giving food and other commodities away for free hurts other for-profit industries, I don't see why a much larger free software movement wouldn't disrupt the mainstream software industry in the same way. If OpenOffice, GIMP, et. al. ever rose to the same level (quality-wise and acceptance-wise) as Office and Photoshop, it's going to be a sad time for all those programmers and developers working at MS and Adobe who get handed a pink slip.
These days, some "school resource officer" (yes, schools today have actual full-time cops on duty) would probably have you in handcuffs and standing before a judge for that. The other day I read about an 11-year-old girl who got arrested by her SRO for writing on her desk with a marker. Hire a cop and he has to justify his job, after all.
They're video now.
That's the same state where they recently busted a couple of family court judges for sending kids to prison because the prison (or, rather, the private company that ran it) was paying them kickbacks. Kid's just *cannot* catch a break in that state.
Congratulations, you sir win /.!
The bad press about the rootkit never made it to mainstream media, and even so is long since forgotten. This is Sony we're talking about. They ALWAYS put profit and control above everything else. What little bad press they get out of doing stuff like this will pale in comparison to the money they will make if they can effectively used stuff like this to destroy the used game/DVD market.
No, they've found a way to end-run around the law by saying "You're perfectly free to buy or sell used games, they just won't work without the one-time only activation code."
I've been saying for years that it was only a matter of time before every game you buy will require online registration before it will even boot and used games will be effectively outlawed. People used to scoff when I said that, but they don't anymore.
What really shocks me, just shocks me, is that Sony is leading this charge. They've always been so open and consumer-oriented in the past, never greedy or proprietary at all. This is more the kind of thing I would expect from those control freaks in the Linux community, not good player like Sony.
Because Macheads are too proud to use Windows.
Oh man, I wish they had this when I was a teenager. I was smart enough to have passed these tests and wasted most of my time in high school getting my ass kicked by bullies who didn't belong there any more than I did. College was like heaven to me. I was finally at a place where I could learn without having to put up with getting the crap kicked out of me in the hallways. My high school teachers made college out to be so hard, but I found it was a LOT easier. You can actually relax when you realize that half the kids in your class aren't knuckle-dragging, illiterate morons whose only function in school is to waste teachers' time with disciplinary problems and to torment the kids whose gas they will one day be pumping.
It's funny now to go back and look at "Mad Max" and realize that the premise of that movie was that the future of Australia would involve too much lawlessness and a lack of legal enforcement (criminals going free, no law to protect citizens, etc.). Now here we are in the actual future and Australia of late is looking at actively censoring the internet, banning any videogame that shows blood, imposing criminal and civil sanctions on people for modding their videogame consoles, and even banning criticism of lawmakers. It seems that the Australia of 2010 turned out to be more of a police state than a free-wheeling lawless anarchy. Turns Tina Turner was right. We didn't really need Max at all.
I wish I could mod you to +6. This "exercise" was nothing but a partisan attempt to embarrass the Obama Administration, scare the American people, dupe the press, and justify a bunch of heavy-handed neocon anti-civil-liberty measures. Its outcome from forgone before the day even began.
Of course, it was organized by a bunch of Bush neocons. But its primary purpose was to make Obama look weak on security, so every moron in America will piss their pants in fear and check "R" on the ballot in the next election.
They got grandfathered in.
Literally