I have no doubt that there will be numerous unhappy people that Red Hat is going to keep a hardness on the Fedora project. Perhaps other community members will express interest in setting up the foundation: It's a good idea to have a open source project not intended to be incorporated into Red Hat not being governed by Red Hat.
I don't know whether this is sarcasm or a joke: I really don't see or feel like there are many cheaters in BF2.
There's just cheapass stuff at every turn like spawn-raping, armor-whoring, the recently-nerfed PKM sniping...
However, there is, of course, the fact that PunkBuster and their own anti-cheating methods DO slow the game down. A LOT.
You know where it says 'Verifying Files' for about a half hour before you get in game?
That's PB religiously checking every bit of the 1-2 gigs of memory that is recommended for BF2 for cheats, every game file for MD5, etc etc. HD Intensive RAM Intensive. Try playing Single Player and then compare that File Verification to a live server.
I just click here and upload this and click here and badda bing badda bang, Boing Boing now is hosting 'illegal pirated content' right in this foobs personal directory.......... The next day...
(unsure about channel names; American here.)
Welcome to G4! Welcome to CNN live from America! Welcome to BBC2! Welcome to BBC! As we can see, the only people who have a objection to Digital Rights Management often have something to lose when a secure and stable solution such as BBC's IMP player are released to the market. The average consumer has no worry to be concerned about Digital Rights Management: The average pirate, who steals money the PEOPLE who make the great movies and television shows, does.
Since they cannot bribe everyone who looks at GNOMEs source to ignore a Magic Lantern-esque backdoor, as was done with the oh-so-respected PGP product line once apon a time... (Before the derail, yes, PGP makes goodies. Blah blah blah.)
Threaten to involve or claim to involve the FBI (Cybercrime)? Really, I swore they had better things to do than investigate petty sites using legally protected free speech to label corporate interests as having malicious intent with their product. Like, I dunno. Child Porn? I hope so.
And then, of course, comes the OMG LAWSUIT brigade, claiming libel and slander when, again, opinions of a entities buisness practices are protected free speech...Hoping to tie up critics in a huge and costly (in the short term) legal battle to silence them. (PriceRitePhoto scandal, anyone?)
It just goes to show the sort of people behind this company that, instead of making logical arguments against their critics, they choose to take the 'dirty route' with the aforementioned threats...360, Claira, Jack Thompson, PriceRitePhoto..
I really, really, really hope someone gets up the gonads to take one of these foolish corporations, PARTICULARY so a adware/spyware corporation or someone with similar malicious intent to court when they issue a groundless Cease and Desist in a attempt to hold face and further their own intent.
Fin.
It's like (Stereo/Color), but better!
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RIAA, MPAA, and other affected corporations stifled research into DRM in the past with legal threats and social threats, even though, the last time I checked, there is a exemption in the DMCA for bypassing DRM and other such content protection in the interests of reasearch. And the United States government didnt seem to care. And they wont care with this.
Ill be truthful here: I have absolutely no idea what will come of VeriSign taking over.com initative. I dont really give a flying...damn about finding out either. Chances are things will adapt soon and domain maintenance will be taken care of as usual, and the only people who will end up affected are domain name companies, and even then, those appear not to be affected that much. But, whatever it is, at whatever time it is, for whatever publically broadcast reason, it is made to benefit the corporate interest: In this case, Verisign.
Let the Flamebait, Offtopic, and Political downvoting begin!
The Sims, World of Warcraft, and a thousand others who display at least partial/censored nudity which have third-party modifications which show full nudity of characters.
[assorted remarks regarding detection of Stop Badware by Microsoft AntiSpyware/Onecare and vice versa, and their views towards Claria/360/assorted other 'Badware' providers and packagers who are really legitimate buisnesses with legitimate buisness models who are given a bad name by their devilish affiliates who are still mysteriously taking paychecks from aforementioned companies]
The information of millions of citizens, including employment, financial, contact, and other personal information all in the hands of a third party corporation who has to make next to nil security checks with the government, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, I too play BF2. Admittedly, it isnt something I would do if I were a developer (Im not.) However, Special Forces, European Forces, etc, dont have much press, as they are just booster packs. They're a small additional drop of content for a small price, and not that many people check BF2s webpage or such often. At least the ads are directly related to the game, instead of advertising other non-related products.
Thrice before there has been product placement within the Sims (Dont have Sims 2); None of the instances were bundled with the game, but were available as downloadable content which had desirable stastics.
The first was the Pepsi Vending Machine, the second the McDonald's Food Kiosk, and the third a Intel-branded computer.
They were fairly well accepted and it was quite a good tradeoff: Receiving new content or a way to modify previous content in exchange for corporate branding. Better than pre-packaging the branding, placing a price-tag on the tools, etc.
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Was a good game. I would gladly buy a new version of it with aliens or zombies or fascists or whatever stereotypical villan this comes with.
Kiss that, you stupid alien-undead dog that snickers at me!
*Headshotted Animal Carcass in beautiful 3D flies at monitor*
And I was hoping for Video Game Characters going to bootcamp with hilarious and sexual results.
Alas.
Impossible!
That patent HAS to be fraudulent.
I have no doubt that there will be numerous unhappy people that Red Hat is going to keep a hardness on the Fedora project. Perhaps other community members will express interest in setting up the foundation: It's a good idea to have a open source project not intended to be incorporated into Red Hat not being governed by Red Hat.
Who knows, they could be the next M$!
Let the flaming commense.
I don't know whether this is sarcasm or a joke: I really don't see or feel like there are many cheaters in BF2.
There's just cheapass stuff at every turn like spawn-raping, armor-whoring, the recently-nerfed PKM sniping...
However, there is, of course, the fact that PunkBuster and their own anti-cheating methods DO slow the game down. A LOT.
You know where it says 'Verifying Files' for about a half hour before you get in game?
That's PB religiously checking every bit of the 1-2 gigs of memory that is recommended for BF2 for cheats, every game file for MD5, etc etc. HD Intensive RAM Intensive. Try playing Single Player and then compare that File Verification to a live server.
I just click here and upload this and click here and badda bing badda bang, Boing Boing now is hosting 'illegal pirated content' right in this foobs personal directory. ... ... ...
The next day...
(unsure about channel names; American here.)
Welcome to G4!
Welcome to CNN live from America!
Welcome to BBC2!
Welcome to BBC!
As we can see, the only people who have a objection to Digital Rights Management often have something to lose when a secure and stable solution such as BBC's IMP player are released to the market. The average consumer has no worry to be concerned about Digital Rights Management: The average pirate, who steals money the PEOPLE who make the great movies and television shows, does.
Thank you.
Since they cannot bribe everyone who looks at GNOMEs source to ignore a Magic Lantern-esque backdoor, as was done with the oh-so-respected PGP product line once apon a time... (Before the derail, yes, PGP makes goodies. Blah blah blah.)
A large blue screen saying there was a critical error at 0x000000 is a 'A challenge over perception.' as well? /had to be done.
It's the Minesweeper of the future!
Threaten to involve or claim to involve the FBI (Cybercrime)? Really, I swore they had better things to do than investigate petty sites using legally protected free speech to label corporate interests as having malicious intent with their product. Like, I dunno. Child Porn? I hope so.
And then, of course, comes the OMG LAWSUIT brigade, claiming libel and slander when, again, opinions of a entities buisness practices are protected free speech...Hoping to tie up critics in a huge and costly (in the short term) legal battle to silence them. (PriceRitePhoto scandal, anyone?)
It just goes to show the sort of people behind this company that, instead of making logical arguments against their critics, they choose to take the 'dirty route' with the aforementioned threats...360, Claira, Jack Thompson, PriceRitePhoto..
I really, really, really hope someone gets up the gonads to take one of these foolish corporations, PARTICULARY so a adware/spyware corporation or someone with similar malicious intent to court when they issue a groundless Cease and Desist in a attempt to hold face and further their own intent.
Fin.
Its simple-licious!
RIAA, MPAA, and other affected corporations stifled research into DRM in the past with legal threats and social threats, even though, the last time I checked, there is a exemption in the DMCA for bypassing DRM and other such content protection in the interests of reasearch. And the United States government didnt seem to care. And they wont care with this.
Boy, do I feel anti-captialist today.
Ill be truthful here: I have absolutely no idea what will come of VeriSign taking over .com initative. I dont really give a flying...damn about finding out either. Chances are things will adapt soon and domain maintenance will be taken care of as usual, and the only people who will end up affected are domain name companies, and even then, those appear not to be affected that much. But, whatever it is, at whatever time it is, for whatever publically broadcast reason, it is made to benefit the corporate interest: In this case, Verisign.
Let the Flamebait, Offtopic, and Political downvoting begin!
The Sims, World of Warcraft, and a thousand others who display at least partial/censored nudity which have third-party modifications which show full nudity of characters.
[assorted remarks regarding detection of Stop Badware by Microsoft AntiSpyware/Onecare and vice versa, and their views towards Claria/360/assorted other 'Badware' providers and packagers who are really legitimate buisnesses with legitimate buisness models who are given a bad name by their devilish affiliates who are still mysteriously taking paychecks from aforementioned companies]
The information of millions of citizens, including employment, financial, contact, and other personal information all in the hands of a third party corporation who has to make next to nil security checks with the government, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, I too play BF2. Admittedly, it isnt something I would do if I were a developer (Im not.) However, Special Forces, European Forces, etc, dont have much press, as they are just booster packs. They're a small additional drop of content for a small price, and not that many people check BF2s webpage or such often. At least the ads are directly related to the game, instead of advertising other non-related products.
Thrice before there has been product placement within the Sims (Dont have Sims 2); None of the instances were bundled with the game, but were available as downloadable content which had desirable stastics.
The first was the Pepsi Vending Machine, the second the McDonald's Food Kiosk, and the third a Intel-branded computer.
They were fairly well accepted and it was quite a good tradeoff: Receiving new content or a way to modify previous content in exchange for corporate branding. Better than pre-packaging the branding, placing a price-tag on the tools, etc.