called piracy the MPAA's #1 issue Really?
it cost[s] the studios $6 billion annually. Why is that our problem? I'm sure user-generated video costs them lots of money too. It isn't anyone else's job to ensure the MPAA's membership makes money.
The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this I really, really don't see that happening...
they have everything to lose and nothing to gain What the fuck is he talking about? Ceasing to be a common carrier is not good news for an ISP.
... and I think that's a great opportunity. For whom? 1) ISPs spend money to implement filtering of traffic 2) ??? 3) ISPs profit!
It costs money, customers won't like the idea, and the potential for backlash remains high
As Wine proves, any reimplementation of the Win32 API is inevitably not going to be as good as the real thing. Odd logic there - "There is an A that is B, therefore all A's are B". By your logic, all humans are men.
How could anyone believe for a second this wouldn't be a privacy issue? How the fuck do they intend to discover and then report information that would identify someone sharing files illegally WITHOUT violating those people's privacy?
Some people might be referring to HL1 from memory, but having replayed HL1 somewhat recently, it has levels, or at least 'acts', where the screen cuts out and then fades in from black, displaying a 'level name' in white. Planet HalfLife's walkthrough refers to them as Episodes: Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Office Complex, We've got Hostiles, Blast Pit, Power Up, On A Rail, Apprehension, Residue Processing, Questionable Ethics, Surface Tension, Forget About Freeman, Lambda Core, Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper, Nihilanth.
Côte-d'Ivoire = The Ivory Coast
Strange they would be so interested in this, considering 1.67% of their population even uses the internet. (CIA factbook numbers)
Don't see why the addition of Sonic would mark "making fans of 16-bit games happy". If I remember correctly, a majority of the characters in SSBM were from games that started in the 16-bit era. Zelda, all the Mario characters, the Ice Climbers, etc. Most are OLDER than Sonic.
Parent = +1 funny. Maybe if it existed, +1 observant or astute, but INSIGHTFUL? What? I would be the most insightful person in the world if correcting grammatical errors was insightful. Seems like everything gets modded insightful nowadays.
Perhaps a decision is only made after a pause to consider all possible choices? (or the situation must be defined in advance to be picking one from a selection of choices?)
If I stare at a bookcase for awhile, I may decide to read one book over the others. But if I walk past a table and see an interesting-looking magazine, I may react by picking it up and browsing it, without thinking "should I read this, or should I do X". On a third hand altogether, I could be looking through that bookshelf and see a Zelazny (one of my favorite authors), and instantly pick it out and start reading it. I guess that could be a reaction forcing a decision? Or maybe just a reaction the killed the decision process. I like this train of thought though...
Reminds me of trying to uninstall "legitimate" spyware like Zango. They would have a series of 5 or so prompts asking "Are you really sure?", followed by redirecting to a webpage where you pressed Ok, followed by more prompts, then several "Surveys", then you would be sent back to another webpage, where you clicked the last uninstall button, and there would be a mysterious error.
The problem with this is that we end up with everyone having 'perfect' genes, then we have no ginetic diversity, then BAM, a flu* comes along that kills us all in a couple days, because no one is resistant. It took a gene that causes a slightly week heart** to be resistant.
Security through obscurity can work to one degree or another, but is a shoddy approach. It can be seen again and again that there is always someone who can wade through the obscurity to break through it. Also, I would say without doubt that, if obscurity was essential enough to their security that the code would need to be rewritten to maintain that obscurity, then the non-obscured design is not secure enough itself. For examples of this, look at the plethora of closed-source games (with no source leak either) that are widely exploited by people tracing through disassembled code or reverse-engineering the game's networking.
I always find it interesting when jokes get modded horribly wrong.
However, if they need to rewrite the source code when someone malicious has seen it... well then it already needed to be rewritten, because all it had was "security through obscurity".
Agenda != grand conspiracy.
Microsoft sure has an agenda of slowing things fueled by/supporting open source. See SCO vs IBM.
Not only that, but Bill Gates spent awhile trying to talk the guy organizing OLPC into using Microsoft, so he is probably frustrated that he failed.
But, the $100 dollar laptop is designed to minimize price. Meaning it ships with the minimum resource-eating software required, meaning open source. Those laptops CANT run windows.
So no Third World Countries can get MS software super cheap - just like before, but now with real licenses! Hooray.
Also, they will need to spend $x more on hardware!
On the otherhand, they can go with the variety of people working very hard to provide them cheap hardware and free software.
Tough Choice.
I myself am not calling it progressive (I was just saying, it could be a sign of internal progress), but I would prefer IETab to launching IE seperately for a variety of reasons (I have to do this for certain horrible game websites, and haven't actually gotten IETab) - I hate having a seperate window with a seperate icon open, that slows my usage speed when I need to switch between windows quickly (as I don't associate "E with swoop" with "view web pages", that is what "fox in fetal position" is for). Also, I hate the clutter on IE and am too lazy/don't use it enough to get rid of that clutter. So, it is informative - better than not mentioning IETab at all.
Better yet - someone I know works at a corporation where IE7 + their laptop security software causes instant BSOD's.
And, companies should look in to using Firefox extensions for the same things they use ActiveX for.
Perhaps they are developing cross-platform site code, and in the meantime, have adjusted their "IE only" message to recommend a temporary alternative for Firefox users.
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... and I think that's a great opportunity. For whom?1) ISPs spend money to implement filtering of traffic
2) ???
3) ISPs profit!
It costs money, customers won't like the idea, and the potential for backlash remains high
*cough*MDK2*cough*
How could anyone believe for a second this wouldn't be a privacy issue? How the fuck do they intend to discover and then report information that would identify someone sharing files illegally WITHOUT violating those people's privacy?
Some people might be referring to HL1 from memory, but having replayed HL1 somewhat recently, it has levels, or at least 'acts', where the screen cuts out and then fades in from black, displaying a 'level name' in white. Planet HalfLife's walkthrough refers to them as Episodes: Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Office Complex, We've got Hostiles, Blast Pit, Power Up, On A Rail, Apprehension, Residue Processing, Questionable Ethics, Surface Tension, Forget About Freeman, Lambda Core, Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper, Nihilanth.
~nog_lorp
And why not sexist sow?
Write a legitimate program to remote-control your computer with IRC. Bet you get a false positive then.
As an American, I think it goes "Fool me once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again." -GWB
Côte-d'Ivoire = The Ivory Coast Strange they would be so interested in this, considering 1.67% of their population even uses the internet. (CIA factbook numbers)
Don't see why the addition of Sonic would mark "making fans of 16-bit games happy". If I remember correctly, a majority of the characters in SSBM were from games that started in the 16-bit era. Zelda, all the Mario characters, the Ice Climbers, etc. Most are OLDER than Sonic.
Parent = +1 funny. Maybe if it existed, +1 observant or astute, but INSIGHTFUL? What? I would be the most insightful person in the world if correcting grammatical errors was insightful. Seems like everything gets modded insightful nowadays.
What? I'm speechless. Read how BitTorrent works. From a distribution standpoint BT is infinitely more efficient than FTP.
Perhaps a decision is only made after a pause to consider all possible choices? (or the situation must be defined in advance to be picking one from a selection of choices?)
If I stare at a bookcase for awhile, I may decide to read one book over the others. But if I walk past a table and see an interesting-looking magazine, I may react by picking it up and browsing it, without thinking "should I read this, or should I do X". On a third hand altogether, I could be looking through that bookshelf and see a Zelazny (one of my favorite authors), and instantly pick it out and start reading it. I guess that could be a reaction forcing a decision? Or maybe just a reaction the killed the decision process. I like this train of thought though...
~nog_lorp
Reminds me of trying to uninstall "legitimate" spyware like Zango. They would have a series of 5 or so prompts asking "Are you really sure?", followed by redirecting to a webpage where you pressed Ok, followed by more prompts, then several "Surveys", then you would be sent back to another webpage, where you clicked the last uninstall button, and there would be a mysterious error.
The problem with this is that we end up with everyone having 'perfect' genes, then we have no ginetic diversity, then BAM, a flu* comes along that kills us all in a couple days, because no one is resistant. It took a gene that causes a slightly week heart** to be resistant.
* insert infectious disease here
** insert imperfection here
For more on confusion between insight and humor, see http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232907&cid =18936065
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Security through obscurity can work to one degree or another, but is a shoddy approach. It can be seen again and again that there is always someone who can wade through the obscurity to break through it.
Also, I would say without doubt that, if obscurity was essential enough to their security that the code would need to be rewritten to maintain that obscurity, then the non-obscured design is not secure enough itself. For examples of this, look at the plethora of closed-source games (with no source leak either) that are widely exploited by people tracing through disassembled code or reverse-engineering the game's networking.
Dear god, now anyone will be able to read public records. What is the world coming to?
I always find it interesting when jokes get modded horribly wrong.
However, if they need to rewrite the source code when someone malicious has seen it... well then it already needed to be rewritten, because all it had was "security through obscurity".
Agenda != grand conspiracy.
Microsoft sure has an agenda of slowing things fueled by/supporting open source. See SCO vs IBM.
Not only that, but Bill Gates spent awhile trying to talk the guy organizing OLPC into using Microsoft, so he is probably frustrated that he failed.
But, the $100 dollar laptop is designed to minimize price. Meaning it ships with the minimum resource-eating software required, meaning open source. Those laptops CANT run windows.
So no Third World Countries can get MS software super cheap - just like before, but now with real licenses! Hooray. Also, they will need to spend $x more on hardware! On the otherhand, they can go with the variety of people working very hard to provide them cheap hardware and free software. Tough Choice.
I myself am not calling it progressive (I was just saying, it could be a sign of internal progress), but I would prefer IETab to launching IE seperately for a variety of reasons (I have to do this for certain horrible game websites, and haven't actually gotten IETab) - I hate having a seperate window with a seperate icon open, that slows my usage speed when I need to switch between windows quickly (as I don't associate "E with swoop" with "view web pages", that is what "fox in fetal position" is for). Also, I hate the clutter on IE and am too lazy/don't use it enough to get rid of that clutter. So, it is informative - better than not mentioning IETab at all.
Better yet - someone I know works at a corporation where IE7 + their laptop security software causes instant BSOD's. And, companies should look in to using Firefox extensions for the same things they use ActiveX for.
Perhaps they are developing cross-platform site code, and in the meantime, have adjusted their "IE only" message to recommend a temporary alternative for Firefox users.