They were short and to the point.
A video game is made by many people practicing many artistic disciplines. It is absurd to think that the final product isn't art.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238
They started a discussion group right on the Cooks Source Facebook page. 5 pages of links showing Cooks Source republishing content stolen from elsewhere. There's a blog somewhere else that took it further, I'll have to look for that.
The internet detectives went back through previous issues and found that almost every article ever published in this mag was lifted from somewhere else. They never had an ounce of original content.
All they did was take other's work and try to profit off it. Eventually they got caught.
How anyone can feel sorry for them is mind boggling.
It's not Verizon's responsibility to do anything unless people on their network are breaking laws. Last time I checked, general trolling was not against the law. (If it were, half the internet would be shutdown.:) )
Wikipedia needs to get their act together and secure their own site better. The fact that they're even considering blocking editing from/6s and/8s is absurd.
Apple was well into their lawsuits against Pystar in October. Why would you purchase a product that from a company that was getting them sued, especially when most reporting at the time was that Pystar was probably going to lose?
Arrington isn't suing for breach of contract. He isn't suing for on any grounds related to the IP.
To me, this suit is simply intended to sic legal costs on Fusion Garage since they backed out of whatever verbal or implied deal that they had with Arrington, and he's mad about it.
The claims aren't frivolous, but they're pretty weak, and not what Arrington has said the actual problems were.
The problem with that thinking is that Blizzard knows how much traffic is generated per logged in user per realm. With the 1.9 patch, they reduced the amount of traffic the game client sends in an attempt to reduce overall load on their end of the equation. This was clearly done to delay the need for infrastructure upgrades, be it out of no avaliability or financial considerations.
The problems they have created are twofold. The existing network infrastructure cannot handle the amount of traffic that is being pushed. This could have been avoided. They have had a year to say that Player X on average Y Kbps of traffic at any given time. Therefore, if they sign up, 2000 new players, they need to allow for a maximum of 2000Y Kbps of additional traffic. Granted, you'd assume that not all of these users would be on at any given time, but over 12 months you could have been able to determine the ratio of subscribed users to loggd in users, and adjust as needed.
They also have back end authentication issues. Auth waits have been more and more common in the past weeks, and if a scalable auth solution wasn't in place to start with, what were they thinking?
I don't blame the Blizz IT guys who are probable putting in 80 hour weeks. I blame management and sales who continue to push signups and sales without giving the IT guys time or resources to keep things running right.
Creating a DDoS attack against a known spam source, although stress reliving and good clean fun, is not worth the potential legal risk. Aside from that, any action taken against spam retailiators takes attention away from the true problem, the spammers themselves.
Courts are already ruling in favor of scumware vendors based on esoteric loopholes in laws that aren't to par with the technology they regulate, the last thing we need to do is getting people in trouble for taking shots at these morons.
Once the laws of the land tell me I can use every avaliable bit on my internet pipes to blow these dirtbags out of the water, I won't do it. I hate spam, but I hate lawyers more.
Save the death penalty for those that deserve it, like kid touchers. This is quite possiblly the stupidest idea ever (aside from Windows ME that is...)
Wagons wheels cost somewhat less than a shuttle. Are 107 cameras to view a muilti-billion dollar shuttle launch is well worth it to save a couple hundred million bucks? I say yes.
I think you are missing the point. How can you say that a sex scene embedded in the code is worse than chopping up cops with a chainsaw IN THE COURSE OF NORMAL GAMEPLAY ????
There's a valid bitch here if we were talking about a game T at release, and easter eggs/hidden code that would have brought out an M rating was discovered later. But the entire premise of the game is based on extreme violence and mayhem. I don't see how burying it balls deep in some virtual skank makes it any worse.
But why should anyone be forced to pick a suck-ass TLD just because Verisign has control over.com and.net? What site is Joe Consumer going to go to first, www.mybiz.com or www.mybiz.web?.com and.net are universially recognized and accepted.
Verisign should lose it's monopoly on.net if they are going to be able to jack up prices, allow some competition, somehting they are afraid of.
Since the registrar (GoDaddy,Network Solutions, Dotster, etc) has to pay Verisign to register a.net domain, any price increase will be passed along by the registrar to the end comsumer registering the domain.
Of course, this announcement only says that Verisign CAN raise prices in Jan, doesn't say they will. Although based on Verisign's past practices, I'd expect an annoucement on Jan 2nd that starts the 6 month grace period mentioned in the article.
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They were short and to the point. A video game is made by many people practicing many artistic disciplines. It is absurd to think that the final product isn't art.
Fortinet did an analysis of this. http://blog.fortinet.com/all-your-drives-are-belong-to-us/ It simply backs up the partiton table and rewrites the MBR. It's fixable without paying the ransom.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238 They started a discussion group right on the Cooks Source Facebook page. 5 pages of links showing Cooks Source republishing content stolen from elsewhere. There's a blog somewhere else that took it further, I'll have to look for that.
The internet detectives went back through previous issues and found that almost every article ever published in this mag was lifted from somewhere else. They never had an ounce of original content. All they did was take other's work and try to profit off it. Eventually they got caught. How anyone can feel sorry for them is mind boggling.
It's not Verizon's responsibility to do anything unless people on their network are breaking laws. Last time I checked, general trolling was not against the law. (If it were, half the internet would be shutdown. :) )
Wikipedia needs to get their act together and secure their own site better. The fact that they're even considering blocking editing from /6s and /8s is absurd.
Slashdot isn't always the most timely place to see things, but it's usually at least accurate. Too bad this made it through today.
Apple was well into their lawsuits against Pystar in October. Why would you purchase a product that from a company that was getting them sued, especially when most reporting at the time was that Pystar was probably going to lose?
Arrington isn't suing for breach of contract. He isn't suing for on any grounds related to the IP. To me, this suit is simply intended to sic legal costs on Fusion Garage since they backed out of whatever verbal or implied deal that they had with Arrington, and he's mad about it. The claims aren't frivolous, but they're pretty weak, and not what Arrington has said the actual problems were.
Have we got a great deal for you!!
The problem with that thinking is that Blizzard knows how much traffic is generated per logged in user per realm. With the 1.9 patch, they reduced the amount of traffic the game client sends in an attempt to reduce overall load on their end of the equation. This was clearly done to delay the need for infrastructure upgrades, be it out of no avaliability or financial considerations.
The problems they have created are twofold. The existing network infrastructure cannot handle the amount of traffic that is being pushed. This could have been avoided. They have had a year to say that Player X on average Y Kbps of traffic at any given time. Therefore, if they sign up, 2000 new players, they need to allow for a maximum of 2000Y Kbps of additional traffic. Granted, you'd assume that not all of these users would be on at any given time, but over 12 months you could have been able to determine the ratio of subscribed users to loggd in users, and adjust as needed.
They also have back end authentication issues. Auth waits have been more and more common in the past weeks, and if a scalable auth solution wasn't in place to start with, what were they thinking?
I don't blame the Blizz IT guys who are probable putting in 80 hour weeks. I blame management and sales who continue to push signups and sales without giving the IT guys time or resources to keep things running right.
Creating a DDoS attack against a known spam source, although stress reliving and good clean fun, is not worth the potential legal risk. Aside from that, any action taken against spam retailiators takes attention away from the true problem, the spammers themselves. Courts are already ruling in favor of scumware vendors based on esoteric loopholes in laws that aren't to par with the technology they regulate, the last thing we need to do is getting people in trouble for taking shots at these morons. Once the laws of the land tell me I can use every avaliable bit on my internet pipes to blow these dirtbags out of the water, I won't do it. I hate spam, but I hate lawyers more.
Save the death penalty for those that deserve it, like kid touchers. This is quite possiblly the stupidest idea ever (aside from Windows ME that is...)
Wagons wheels cost somewhat less than a shuttle. Are 107 cameras to view a muilti-billion dollar shuttle launch is well worth it to save a couple hundred million bucks? I say yes.
The Soyuz capsule only has a capcity of 3, so there would be no way to get the entire crew back without launching an additional shuttle or Soyuz.
I think you are missing the point. How can you say that a sex scene embedded in the code is worse than chopping up cops with a chainsaw IN THE COURSE OF NORMAL GAMEPLAY ???? There's a valid bitch here if we were talking about a game T at release, and easter eggs/hidden code that would have brought out an M rating was discovered later. But the entire premise of the game is based on extreme violence and mayhem. I don't see how burying it balls deep in some virtual skank makes it any worse.
But why should anyone be forced to pick a suck-ass TLD just because Verisign has control over .com and .net? What site is Joe Consumer going to go to first, www.mybiz.com or www.mybiz.web? .com and .net are universially recognized and accepted.
Verisign should lose it's monopoly on .net if they are going to be able to jack up prices, allow some competition, somehting they are afraid of.
Since the registrar (GoDaddy,Network Solutions, Dotster, etc) has to pay Verisign to register a .net domain, any price increase will be passed along by the registrar to the end comsumer registering the domain.
Of course, this announcement only says that Verisign CAN raise prices in Jan, doesn't say they will. Although based on Verisign's past practices, I'd expect an annoucement on Jan 2nd that starts the 6 month grace period mentioned in the article.
U2 sold out a long time ago, what are you talking about...