A person's house caught on fire, and they filed for an insurance claim. An investigation found the person had checked out a book titled "Plausible Deniability - How to get money from insurance". An example in the book matched the house fire. The fact the book was checked out is used as evidence that the house fire was not an accident.
I don't think it is likely. How much crossover is there between Activision and Blizzard? None that I know of. In any case I don't think Blizzard wants King's reputation.
Telemetry doesn't detect it. People who analyze the telemetry do. E.g. if Microsoft sends back thumbprints of programs you run, then they can later match those thumbprints against found malware. By the time they add a virus definition to stop it it is too late.
Microsoft came to the realization that building an impenetrable system for common use is impossible and attempting it will just make it unusable. So instead they focus on reactive solutions. I have a secure laptop at work with a white list of programs and websites I can visit I only use it if I need to preform a secure operation though. Even then this isn't a perfect solution and nothing is.
I'm a developer for Azure. The service I develop doesn't have a DBA or any test team. Could I screw things up? Yes, quite easily, however since the DBs are on XStore, we can just pick a date and time within the last week and snap the DB back to that state. I don't run a big enough or impactful enough service to warrant this level of support.
DRM has worked pretty well for WoW. It's taken pirates years to make a somewhat close copy of server code.
If your willing to dish out server time to host most of your code, and have players willing to deal with latency and internet issues you can have working DRM. As a bonus, you can use non-Affero GLP code.
PS I don't advocate the use of DRM, I'm just pointing out that it isn't 100% broken.
Basically, take Pokemon Go, slap a VR headset, add enough social elements to make it into an MMO.
I think the biggest challenge is convincing people to walk outside with a VR headset on. But, who knows, maybe Microsoft is making the next Google Glass.
Or, maybe I'm totally wrong, and this is just VR game in your TV room as an MMO.
I used to work for Amazon, they store your gift card balance as a double. I don't recall it being an issue. It is good practice to avoid floating point when you care about accuracy, but unless your in banking it isn't a big deal.
Depends on the software. In many cases, the server trusts the client to determine if a hit happened to mitigate lag issues. This is why in Gears of War you can have double KO with rifle weapons.
Bleem! may have won in court, but the legal costs are one of the reasons they went out of business. Microsoft just doesn't want to be involved in any potential legal challenges.
My comment only applies to XBox, which Microsoft isn't as big in. For Windows, you are free to install anything you want and for the most part pretty easily. That's not going to change anytime soon.
It's their store, they can choose what to host on it. Letting people install non-approved software is a different topic of discussion, and is not limited to just Microsoft in the console market.
1. Part of the presidents job description is talking to the people, this includes twitter
2. The president isn't a "paid by the hour" job.
That being said this job might allow various small breaks, and as long as he is not using government equipment he should be fine as far as conduct goes.
The government might have a case if they think he is a threat to national security though. As you really don't want to take chances with someone who might bend the rules.
I think a time bomb would be better. An internal clock will count down 1 week, and if no key is given in that time it wipes the decryption key. The courts should be held up long enough to permit this too occur, if not you can reduce the time.
It's more about some port being open which is exploitable to attacks, maybe something like a bug in the system clock that will brick your computer on a certain date, or maybe they need to revoke a trusted cert.
No matter what you do, when you manage a system that is widely used, you will negatively impact someone.
The hate for MS is real. This isn't inherently a bad idea. If a 50K update patches a security hole that would allow someone to turn your computer into a member of a bot net, you'd be glad you got that update.
It's all relative to how much you make. I pay $1600 rent to live 15 minute walk from work (1 bedroom) and still manage to have 20K left over every year in my entry level job (that includes generous contributions to retirement). If I had a family, I probably would take that $1000 house rental that is an hour drive away.
Protip: leave for work at 6:30, you can beat traffic that way.
1. 3D 2. Better sound and video (I remember some movies being limited to complaint movie theaters) 3. Chairs (reclining) 4. More previews (and annoying pre-screening stuff) 5. Online ticket purchases
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That's a bad analogy. Try this one:
A person's house caught on fire, and they filed for an insurance claim. An investigation found the person had checked out a book titled "Plausible Deniability - How to get money from insurance". An example in the book matched the house fire. The fact the book was checked out is used as evidence that the house fire was not an accident.
I don't think it is likely. How much crossover is there between Activision and Blizzard? None that I know of. In any case I don't think Blizzard wants King's reputation.
Telemetry doesn't detect it. People who analyze the telemetry do. E.g. if Microsoft sends back thumbprints of programs you run, then they can later match those thumbprints against found malware. By the time they add a virus definition to stop it it is too late.
Microsoft came to the realization that building an impenetrable system for common use is impossible and attempting it will just make it unusable. So instead they focus on reactive solutions. I have a secure laptop at work with a white list of programs and websites I can visit I only use it if I need to preform a secure operation though. Even then this isn't a perfect solution and nothing is.
My guess would be to try and sell them
I'm a developer for Azure. The service I develop doesn't have a DBA or any test team. Could I screw things up? Yes, quite easily, however since the DBs are on XStore, we can just pick a date and time within the last week and snap the DB back to that state. I don't run a big enough or impactful enough service to warrant this level of support.
DRM has worked pretty well for WoW. It's taken pirates years to make a somewhat close copy of server code.
If your willing to dish out server time to host most of your code, and have players willing to deal with latency and internet issues you can have working DRM. As a bonus, you can use non-Affero GLP code.
PS I don't advocate the use of DRM, I'm just pointing out that it isn't 100% broken.
Basically, take Pokemon Go, slap a VR headset, add enough social elements to make it into an MMO.
I think the biggest challenge is convincing people to walk outside with a VR headset on. But, who knows, maybe Microsoft is making the next Google Glass.
Or, maybe I'm totally wrong, and this is just VR game in your TV room as an MMO.
I used to work for Amazon, they store your gift card balance as a double. I don't recall it being an issue. It is good practice to avoid floating point when you care about accuracy, but unless your in banking it isn't a big deal.
At infinite speed a value may arrive at an indefinite state, and you would need a way to inspect this.
Depends on the software. In many cases, the server trusts the client to determine if a hit happened to mitigate lag issues. This is why in Gears of War you can have double KO with rifle weapons.
Um.. no. Just like you can't just re encode a movie, you can't do a sentence by sentence translation, as the original material is copied in a form.
Automatic translation would be fine as long as they weren't transferred.
"Gag dubs" should also be fine.
I see your static media and raise you an animated Dilbert: https://youtu.be/7MqhBL9eEts?t...
Bleem! may have won in court, but the legal costs are one of the reasons they went out of business. Microsoft just doesn't want to be involved in any potential legal challenges.
My comment only applies to XBox, which Microsoft isn't as big in. For Windows, you are free to install anything you want and for the most part pretty easily. That's not going to change anytime soon.
It's their store, they can choose what to host on it. Letting people install non-approved software is a different topic of discussion, and is not limited to just Microsoft in the console market.
What is more likely to cause a lawsuit: allowing illegal use, or preventing legal use?
You mean avoiding a lawsuit.There is a lot of emulator use to play pirated old console games. This is a legal gray area.
Um... no due to:
1. Part of the presidents job description is talking to the people, this includes twitter
2. The president isn't a "paid by the hour" job.
That being said this job might allow various small breaks, and as long as he is not using government equipment he should be fine as far as conduct goes.
The government might have a case if they think he is a threat to national security though. As you really don't want to take chances with someone who might bend the rules.
I think a time bomb would be better. An internal clock will count down 1 week, and if no key is given in that time it wipes the decryption key. The courts should be held up long enough to permit this too occur, if not you can reduce the time.
It's more about some port being open which is exploitable to attacks, maybe something like a bug in the system clock that will brick your computer on a certain date, or maybe they need to revoke a trusted cert.
No matter what you do, when you manage a system that is widely used, you will negatively impact someone.
If your at the point where 50Kb will push you over, just turn off internet completely.
In any case you will always find someone negatively impacted by any change that affects millions (if not billions) of people.
The hate for MS is real. This isn't inherently a bad idea. If a 50K update patches a security hole that would allow someone to turn your computer into a member of a bot net, you'd be glad you got that update.
It's all relative to how much you make. I pay $1600 rent to live 15 minute walk from work (1 bedroom) and still manage to have 20K left over every year in my entry level job (that includes generous contributions to retirement). If I had a family, I probably would take that $1000 house rental that is an hour drive away.
Protip: leave for work at 6:30, you can beat traffic that way.
1. 3D
2. Better sound and video (I remember some movies being limited to complaint movie theaters)
3. Chairs (reclining)
4. More previews (and annoying pre-screening stuff)
5. Online ticket purchases