There may not be any malware currently in the wild that does this, but if these sort of laws/regulations become common place you'll see some people make malware such as this just to have some fun screwing with people.
A lot of people are jerks and like seeing others suffer, sad but true.
I'd agree with you, except most of these "mom & pop" type businesses would have no clue how a SEO works. As far as they are concerned these companies will do "magic" to make them appear higher on google (or engine of your choice). They'll also be the type of people to complain about the link farms, but have no idea its the company they hired that is helping to create those.
I don't see why not. I give it 5/5 for graphics/gameplay/story, but -4 stars for DRM. Its part of what you get when you pay for it, and it can and should take a negative toll on the game.
Not that all games with drm should get -4 stars, it should depend on what the person buying it thinks and not what everyone else thinks it should be. (ie I hate limited installs, but could care less, even for single player about online verification of the game)
Well lets say your about to unlock your door (car, house, whatever...) and someone takes a picture of you and then posts that picture online. Its entirely possible your keys will be in the picture. Of course I did not read TFA so I don't know what kind of picture they need of your keys.
Even saying games would be bought more if they couldn't be pirated is hard to say. Just because something right now gets downloaded 100,000 times, doesn't mean those 100,000 people have access to the money to purchase said software. Lets say you take 1 of those pirates, who downloads 20 games in a year, for the price of $49.99 (spore/warhammer in Canada), that would be $1000. Realistically a lot of people aren't going to be spending that much income on games throughout a year.
For me I like games that provide a nice level of modification (ie Oblivion, Space Empires). These are games I've bought, I'm thinking really hard about Fallout 3 because of the lack of mod tools, so at least in the first several months I won't be purchasing it, but I also won't be downloading it.
As well I'll pick up a lot of indy games, if they have a demo and provide a good 10-20 hours of entertainment and cost around the $20 mark. Even then I'm probably looking at 3-5 games a year, and I have the disposable income to be able to buy more but I don't feel the need to play every game that comes out, I just pick and choose.
No idea, my father was military, and just went along for the ride (very close to the weather station), he wasn't really interested in what was inside of the things they were filling up:)
actually no they aren't manned, there is a bigger manned station near by, but they fly out in helicopters to re-fuel the smaller stations all the time (my father went along for a ride a few times while working up there).
Except the exec who pulled out some BS numbers is a Google Exec, so suing them for what they said it was worth seems about right (at least if they have any of that in writing).
I've never understood the argument that consoles are harder to pirate. The only thing I can see is until a mod chip (or bug, etc) is produced, yes you can't pirate (yeah ps3). But once they become available its trivial to pirate a console game (360 and Wii for the win).
Then do without the product, just because they don't offer it how YOU want it doesn't give you the right to use it without paying for it. Heck I don't even call it stealing, but your enjoying the efforts of other people without compensating them the price they set.
Heck I'll admit I pirate stuff all the time, but I'm not going to sugar coat it. I can't afford all the stuff I download, its as simple as that. Would I buy more if I had more money? Probably, but who can really say (if you'd like to give me money to test it out I'm open for that).
The location bar is for URLs, not searches through my bookmarks or wildcard searches through the titles of pages I visited last week.
Why? Because that is the way he would like it, as someone said they had the ability to turn off how it works so it works more like FF2... why take a option out? Especially when its in about:config, and not actually under tools->options.
I think they maybe referring more to your connection speed (ie yes its upto 5Mb or whatever, but what is it actually syncing at?)
Line Status: In Service UpTime:
Line Profile Name: al2_d2496-2496-256_u640-640-256 Last State Change: Wed May 28 22:00:29 EDT 2008
Operational Status Speed (Kbs) Relative Capacity Occupation (%) Noise Margin (0..31 dB) Signal Power (0-20 dBm) Attenuation (0-60 dB) Block count
UpStream 640 71 16.0 12.0 32.0 1.4006229E7
DownStream 2496 68 13.0 15.0 60.0 3.5324464E7
Thats for my home connection, its a little hard to read, but you can see my profile "al2_d2496-2496-256_u640-640-256". So basically I pay for up to 5Mb and I sync at 2.5Mb... hardly seems fair (well I get it free from work, but we pay for it as 5Mb;). Since its completely impossible for me to get even 5Mb back to the ISP.
Oh and on a side note, only the ISP your with can give you this info (as far as I know) not another DSL provider.
A. There were 119,117,000 housing units in the United States in 2001. Approximately 106,261,000 were occupied as regular residences and 12,855,000 were vacant or seasonal.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/ahsfaq.html
US$2,500 non-refundable application fee, to be submitted with application.
US$4,000 yearly accreditation fee due upon approval and each year thereafter.
Variable fee (quarterly) billed once you begin registering domain names or the first full quarter following your accreditation approval, whichever occurs first. This fee represents a portion of ICANN's operating costs and, because it is divided among all registrars, the amount varies from quarter to quarter. Recently this fee has ranged from US$1,200 to S$2,000 per quarter.
Transaction-based gTLD fee (quarterly). This fee is a flat fee (currently $0.20) charged for each new registration, renewal or transfer. This fee can be billed by the registrar separately on its invoice to the registrant, but is paid by the registrar to ICANN.
So yeah you pay $4000 per year, and then $4800-8000 a year in operating fees, then $0.20 per domain name, or $200,000 for 1 Million domain names.
Oh and also you need to prove $70,000 in assets and have $500,000 in insurance.
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There may not be any malware currently in the wild that does this, but if these sort of laws/regulations become common place you'll see some people make malware such as this just to have some fun screwing with people.
A lot of people are jerks and like seeing others suffer, sad but true.
I'd agree with you, except most of these "mom & pop" type businesses would have no clue how a SEO works. As far as they are concerned these companies will do "magic" to make them appear higher on google (or engine of your choice). They'll also be the type of people to complain about the link farms, but have no idea its the company they hired that is helping to create those.
I don't see why not. I give it 5/5 for graphics/gameplay/story, but -4 stars for DRM. Its part of what you get when you pay for it, and it can and should take a negative toll on the game.
Not that all games with drm should get -4 stars, it should depend on what the person buying it thinks and not what everyone else thinks it should be. (ie I hate limited installs, but could care less, even for single player about online verification of the game)
Well lets say your about to unlock your door (car, house, whatever ...) and someone takes a picture of you and then posts that picture online. Its entirely possible your keys will be in the picture. Of course I did not read TFA so I don't know what kind of picture they need of your keys.
Even saying games would be bought more if they couldn't be pirated is hard to say. Just because something right now gets downloaded 100,000 times, doesn't mean those 100,000 people have access to the money to purchase said software. Lets say you take 1 of those pirates, who downloads 20 games in a year, for the price of $49.99 (spore/warhammer in Canada), that would be $1000. Realistically a lot of people aren't going to be spending that much income on games throughout a year.
For me I like games that provide a nice level of modification (ie Oblivion, Space Empires). These are games I've bought, I'm thinking really hard about Fallout 3 because of the lack of mod tools, so at least in the first several months I won't be purchasing it, but I also won't be downloading it.
As well I'll pick up a lot of indy games, if they have a demo and provide a good 10-20 hours of entertainment and cost around the $20 mark. Even then I'm probably looking at 3-5 games a year, and I have the disposable income to be able to buy more but I don't feel the need to play every game that comes out, I just pick and choose.
Car-resistant walls won't help unless you have a plane proof roof.
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No idea, my father was military, and just went along for the ride (very close to the weather station), he wasn't really interested in what was inside of the things they were filling up :)
actually no they aren't manned, there is a bigger manned station near by, but they fly out in helicopters to re-fuel the smaller stations all the time (my father went along for a ride a few times while working up there).
Actually, at least some of the weather stations up north (Ellesmere Island) are powered by diesel generators.
Except the exec who pulled out some BS numbers is a Google Exec, so suing them for what they said it was worth seems about right (at least if they have any of that in writing).
I've never understood the argument that consoles are harder to pirate. The only thing I can see is until a mod chip (or bug, etc) is produced, yes you can't pirate (yeah ps3). But once they become available its trivial to pirate a console game (360 and Wii for the win).
People are saying its the console version he reviewed, which doesn't need to activate since consoles are super secure ;)
Then do without the product, just because they don't offer it how YOU want it doesn't give you the right to use it without paying for it. Heck I don't even call it stealing, but your enjoying the efforts of other people without compensating them the price they set.
Heck I'll admit I pirate stuff all the time, but I'm not going to sugar coat it. I can't afford all the stuff I download, its as simple as that. Would I buy more if I had more money? Probably, but who can really say (if you'd like to give me money to test it out I'm open for that).
Who wants to read the article, but at least in the summary they could have indicated what unit they were using.
I think you proved his point here. Either you have to download a add on, or go int about:config, why isn't it a option under Tools->Options?
*sigh* Hate replying to my own, I should have used preview as it all went together ;)
I think they maybe referring more to your connection speed (ie yes its upto 5Mb or whatever, but what is it actually syncing at?) Line Status: In Service UpTime: Line Profile Name: al2_d2496-2496-256_u640-640-256 Last State Change: Wed May 28 22:00:29 EDT 2008 Operational Status Speed (Kbs) Relative Capacity Occupation (%) Noise Margin (0..31 dB) Signal Power (0-20 dBm) Attenuation (0-60 dB) Block count UpStream 640 71 16.0 12.0 32.0 1.4006229E7 DownStream 2496 68 13.0 15.0 60.0 3.5324464E7 Thats for my home connection, its a little hard to read, but you can see my profile "al2_d2496-2496-256_u640-640-256". So basically I pay for up to 5Mb and I sync at 2.5Mb ... hardly seems fair (well I get it free from work, but we pay for it as 5Mb ;). Since its completely impossible for me to get even 5Mb back to the ISP.
Oh and on a side note, only the ISP your with can give you this info (as far as I know) not another DSL provider.
I had the exact same thought, I was wondering how many phone lines he had. :(
A. There were 119,117,000 housing units in the United States in 2001. Approximately 106,261,000 were occupied as regular residences and 12,855,000 were vacant or seasonal.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/ahsfaq.html
I notice you said before you could upgrade it, were you able to play the game without updating it?
They don't care about your needs, they care about your freedom.
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-financials.htm
So yeah you pay $4000 per year, and then $4800-8000 a year in operating fees, then $0.20 per domain name, or $200,000 for 1 Million domain names.
Oh and also you need to prove $70,000 in assets and have $500,000 in insurance.
Then again he is independent from the power grid ..