Precisely, pretty much any time that a bullet proof vest proves to be inadequate you would've been dead anyways, but in some cases they do save lives and hence they get used. Same goes for firewalls, if something gets through your firewall it would've gotten through without it, but at least some things are blocked by it, which is the point.
It would be a lot easier if it weren't for broken protocols like FTP and services which don't provide a clear indication of what ports they're wanting to use. A basic standard firewall isn't that complicated to set up, it's just when you star having to worry about weird things like DRM that things start to get complicated.
Admittedly, that's just for a basic set up where somebody doesn't want to do much more than browse the web and do email, obviously when it can and does get more complicated.
I might be wrong, but hasn't Firefox had a lot of this since they introduced canvas with version 1.5 back in 2005? Firefox History Just scroll down to the release history, couldn't find an appropriate anchor.
Indeed, I was on the Vista beta relatively late on and it was generally pretty good. However using them it on a daily basis is a bit more of a challenge. I've had to figure out why profiles got corrupted and why the network connection is limited to the local network except on random chance when it suddenly gets through to the internet.
We'll see how IE9 does once people are using a final production version on a regular basis. Pretty much all software will have quirks when it hits that stage, it's mostly a question of how significant are they.
So, there's less competition if IE goes away? I'm sorry, but I don't see it. Firefox, Chrome and Opera do represent competition, and that doesn't include the other lesser known browsers. On top of that competition tends to spring up when people are dissatisfied with the options. Considering Firefox is OSS it's hard to believe that if they truly stagnated somebody wouldn't fork them or start a competitor.
It's not standards compliant at least not completely. If you got to beautyoftheweb.com they specifically say that it works with all modern browsers but not as beautifully on browsers other than IE9. I couldn't let me copy the text.
I'm a bit curious as to what exactly would be in the MPAAs interest here. I'm having a hard time seeing any incentive for them to ask, which really implies that there's something fishy. Hollywood isn't exactly known for being Republican territory.
Which is why some retailers actually have multiple warehouses located throughout the country. Netflix and Gamefly are good examples, but Tigerdirect also does that and I'm sure that there's others. In fact shopatron makes that it's business model, handling and distributing orders based upon geography.
If you happen to live in an apartment, that's largely the case. But not entirely, Fed Ex will always use at least 2 trucks to service a building in the US. One for Fed Ex ground and one for Fed Ex special, or whatever it is that they call their air unit.
Nope, they only handle international packages in the US. They used to do local delivery, but the management ignored all the advice they received about how to handle the US market. They closed domestic service late in 2008, IIRC.
Worse, or better depending upon your perspective, is when the questions list is limited and one of them is completely useless. There's a fair number of people born in the late 40s, who have no middle name, as in they were named in part after President Truman, leaving you in the position of making up a name you won't remember or having a single letter answer.
That's not even remotely realistic. Besides being overly cumbersome, it just changes the strategy needed to break into the account. And ultimately it doesn't solve the problem of having all the credentials anyways, because that doesn't evencome into play until you've lost them.
Unless you're seriously suggesting that they randomly contact somebody that you may or may not know for approval. Which is far, far more likely to end up in shenanigans than just trusting Google.
Indeed, apart from DoD and intelligence work with sensitive documents, I don't think it's terribly useful to have a non-networked computer in this day and age. Perhaps you could make it really secure and super glue the cup holder shut, and perhaps do the same to the USB ports and network jack, but at some point you're going to need to actually use the computer at which point security becomes rather moot. After all there's little point in securing a computer with no data on it.
CSS wasn't DRM, CSS was about shaking down hardware and software providers for a licensing fee. It didn't do a damned thing about copy protection, just ensured that the pirated media was played using a licensed player. Well, up until somebody cracked it.
Indeed, but more than that it's a convenient way of replacing games that got tossed or sold in the past, and the install files include the necessary bits in many cases to make the game run with Dos BOX meaning that even if they don't update them, it's that much easier to run them on other OSes or on newer versions of Win.
Also, it's a convenient way of voting for DRM free games.
It's possible, but it's also possible that what they're doing is changing the format. It wouldn't surprise me if this isn't a convenient way of changing their format to one which allows for a larger catalog of games. The only problem that I could find with their current format is that it doesn't include new games that are DRM free and the pricing scheme might have kept some older but popular games out when the publisher wanted more money for them.
The store is gone, they are planning to make the downloads available again, but it looks like their not opening up again in their current form. What exactly they mean by the end of an era is somewhat up for interpretation and conjecture.
I suspect what they're going to try to do is change formats a bit, probably include newer indie games and anything that is DRM free. I suspect that they were profitable, as the licensing cost couldn't have been too high for them, and it's been seriously hard for me to control my purchases.
Indeed. I'm glad that I've been keeping my own backups of my games. They are planning on giving some option for those that purchased, but still. These sorts of things tend to make it harder for whoever tries this next to gain any customer trust.
I'm a bit curious as to the timing, in the middle of their weekly sale.
If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod you insightful. While a small number of people doing it would look suspicious, a large number of people would make it really hard to deal with.
Reminds me of that old joke, where's the best place to hide a leaf? In a pile of leaves.
I think the thing is that unless a lot of people start going around with huge files of random bits, that it's hard to hide more than the smallest things. Even a 50mb wav file can only contain a very small fraction of that amount of information without making it obvious. Likewise a full move isn't going to be that much better.
A better strategy in most parts of the world is to acknowledge that there's encrypted data and just go with a hidden volume within it.
Sorry, but no. The reason why they put the protection in place is to prevent piracy and the playing of unauthorized games. They really and truly don't care about total control beyond that.
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Precisely, pretty much any time that a bullet proof vest proves to be inadequate you would've been dead anyways, but in some cases they do save lives and hence they get used. Same goes for firewalls, if something gets through your firewall it would've gotten through without it, but at least some things are blocked by it, which is the point.
It would be a lot easier if it weren't for broken protocols like FTP and services which don't provide a clear indication of what ports they're wanting to use. A basic standard firewall isn't that complicated to set up, it's just when you star having to worry about weird things like DRM that things start to get complicated.
Admittedly, that's just for a basic set up where somebody doesn't want to do much more than browse the web and do email, obviously when it can and does get more complicated.
I might be wrong, but hasn't Firefox had a lot of this since they introduced canvas with version 1.5 back in 2005? Firefox History Just scroll down to the release history, couldn't find an appropriate anchor.
Indeed, I was on the Vista beta relatively late on and it was generally pretty good. However using them it on a daily basis is a bit more of a challenge. I've had to figure out why profiles got corrupted and why the network connection is limited to the local network except on random chance when it suddenly gets through to the internet.
We'll see how IE9 does once people are using a final production version on a regular basis. Pretty much all software will have quirks when it hits that stage, it's mostly a question of how significant are they.
So, there's less competition if IE goes away? I'm sorry, but I don't see it. Firefox, Chrome and Opera do represent competition, and that doesn't include the other lesser known browsers. On top of that competition tends to spring up when people are dissatisfied with the options. Considering Firefox is OSS it's hard to believe that if they truly stagnated somebody wouldn't fork them or start a competitor.
By the time they dropped below 70% or so web devs couldn't ignore the competition the way that they did when it was up at 90%.
It's not standards compliant at least not completely. If you got to beautyoftheweb.com they specifically say that it works with all modern browsers but not as beautifully on browsers other than IE9. I couldn't let me copy the text.
It was for testing purposes, it's just that somebody later had the brilliant idea that people would pay for it.
I'm a bit curious as to what exactly would be in the MPAAs interest here. I'm having a hard time seeing any incentive for them to ask, which really implies that there's something fishy. Hollywood isn't exactly known for being Republican territory.
Which is why some retailers actually have multiple warehouses located throughout the country. Netflix and Gamefly are good examples, but Tigerdirect also does that and I'm sure that there's others. In fact shopatron makes that it's business model, handling and distributing orders based upon geography.
If you happen to live in an apartment, that's largely the case. But not entirely, Fed Ex will always use at least 2 trucks to service a building in the US. One for Fed Ex ground and one for Fed Ex special, or whatever it is that they call their air unit.
Nope, they only handle international packages in the US. They used to do local delivery, but the management ignored all the advice they received about how to handle the US market. They closed domestic service late in 2008, IIRC.
Worse, or better depending upon your perspective, is when the questions list is limited and one of them is completely useless. There's a fair number of people born in the late 40s, who have no middle name, as in they were named in part after President Truman, leaving you in the position of making up a name you won't remember or having a single letter answer.
That's not even remotely realistic. Besides being overly cumbersome, it just changes the strategy needed to break into the account. And ultimately it doesn't solve the problem of having all the credentials anyways, because that doesn't evencome into play until you've lost them.
Unless you're seriously suggesting that they randomly contact somebody that you may or may not know for approval. Which is far, far more likely to end up in shenanigans than just trusting Google.
Indeed, apart from DoD and intelligence work with sensitive documents, I don't think it's terribly useful to have a non-networked computer in this day and age. Perhaps you could make it really secure and super glue the cup holder shut, and perhaps do the same to the USB ports and network jack, but at some point you're going to need to actually use the computer at which point security becomes rather moot. After all there's little point in securing a computer with no data on it.
CSS wasn't DRM, CSS was about shaking down hardware and software providers for a licensing fee. It didn't do a damned thing about copy protection, just ensured that the pirated media was played using a licensed player. Well, up until somebody cracked it.
Indeed, but more than that it's a convenient way of replacing games that got tossed or sold in the past, and the install files include the necessary bits in many cases to make the game run with Dos BOX meaning that even if they don't update them, it's that much easier to run them on other OSes or on newer versions of Win.
Also, it's a convenient way of voting for DRM free games.
It's possible, but it's also possible that what they're doing is changing the format. It wouldn't surprise me if this isn't a convenient way of changing their format to one which allows for a larger catalog of games. The only problem that I could find with their current format is that it doesn't include new games that are DRM free and the pricing scheme might have kept some older but popular games out when the publisher wanted more money for them.
The store is gone, they are planning to make the downloads available again, but it looks like their not opening up again in their current form. What exactly they mean by the end of an era is somewhat up for interpretation and conjecture.
I suspect what they're going to try to do is change formats a bit, probably include newer indie games and anything that is DRM free. I suspect that they were profitable, as the licensing cost couldn't have been too high for them, and it's been seriously hard for me to control my purchases.
Indeed. I'm glad that I've been keeping my own backups of my games. They are planning on giving some option for those that purchased, but still. These sorts of things tend to make it harder for whoever tries this next to gain any customer trust.
I'm a bit curious as to the timing, in the middle of their weekly sale.
If I hadn't already posted, I'd mod you insightful. While a small number of people doing it would look suspicious, a large number of people would make it really hard to deal with.
Reminds me of that old joke, where's the best place to hide a leaf? In a pile of leaves.
I think the thing is that unless a lot of people start going around with huge files of random bits, that it's hard to hide more than the smallest things. Even a 50mb wav file can only contain a very small fraction of that amount of information without making it obvious. Likewise a full move isn't going to be that much better.
A better strategy in most parts of the world is to acknowledge that there's encrypted data and just go with a hidden volume within it.
Sorry, but no. The reason why they put the protection in place is to prevent piracy and the playing of unauthorized games. They really and truly don't care about total control beyond that.
Which is why the quietly removed support and didn't bother to actually advertise it on their boxes?
The problem tends to be the lack of agreement amongst drivers and the tendency of drivers to not let in drivers that they perceive as cheating.