I run a blog about Korean video games for foreigners. 5 of the 7 major game portals take foreign IDs for registration. recently the government introduced a new system called I-PIN where you create it using your national ID card, but then use a secure username/pass on the site to create your account there. The I-PIN site informs them that you are legit. Why would the RIAA have anything to do with determining if a Korean ID is stolen?
As for the benefits it ensures someone you kick off the site isn't coming back unless they break the law.
Quite. because you still need to verify the #. Simply having the number isn't enough to create an account in someone's name. Most websites require you have another form of verification which means a cell phone registered with that exact ID, or a bank certificate registered with that ID, etc, which all require you show up with your real ID in hand and create it. IDs are photocopied and sent to head office. Some sketchy cell phone shop isn't going to get away with making many fakes before they're busted.
This has been the norm in South Korea for years. But it isn't public full name that is used. Well some people can if they want, but on most sites you're allowed to set a nickname for display. You can still be anonymous so long as you don't break the law. The government just requires that a real identity be attached to each account. Frankly it does have some benefits. It's much harder to troll if you're banned. You have to steal another ID which is illegal to come back and harass people in games, on forums, etc. The system only applies to sites and servers in Korea though, so if you want to speak out about the government and do something illegal, just do it on another countries servers.
hey still have some anonymity because of name collisions" are correct
No they're not. if it's anything like Korea, then when you register you attach your citizen ID number to it. It's trivial to find out which Mr. Lee you really are.
that's okay. We can't expect Kdawson to know anything that one could easily google in under a minute. At first I thought Slashdot just hired someone's retarded cousin to do this stuff, but now I'm convinced Kdawson is just one of those bobbing birds let loose on a keyboard and attached to one of those spiral drawing toys.
It is just phenomenal that he is continued to allowed to do what he does here.
Apple doesn't care. Even if it was 100% their problem. They don't care. There are currently apps on the app store which are fake. They aren't as described. I grabbed one of them when they had a "Free" day. They're described as epic stickman fighting games. But the screenshots bear no resemblance to what the description is and feature no UI. They're filed under games, but feature no gameplay. They are all the same 4 low res stickman videos they pulled off some site. There are several copies of this app with different names. They've all been reported multiple times but apple has not removed them, made them change the description or even categorize them appropriately.
I have an m1710 I bought in Canada, got the 3 year warranty, I've been gaming with it for years. The 7950GTX still holds up pretty well for most games.
A couple years ago I moved to South Korea. 2 months before the warranty was about to expire, I noticed some blue screening. Did some tests found out the memory on the video card was gone (7900 GTX at the time) contacted Dell Korea, they transferred my warranty, but because it was an old system they don't carry, they didn't have the parts. They ordered it from Taiwan a couple days later a guy was at my place and replaced the video card and motherboard. He came when I wanted, and didn't give me some big time window, but that's more Korean service culture than dell. Still the best experience I've had. Still using the machine a year later..but it's finally going to be replaced soon.
Hate to see it go, love the 17" 1920x1200 display.
This one was bad.. you'd walk along until you were stuck. As soon as you were stuck you knew you had to flip the view to continue on.... it might as well just auto-flipped.
Quality: Torrents don't have ads. However, you do have to deal with crappy rips and mislabeled media so its a tie.
It's trivial to go to a site to make sure the TV show you're downloading is legit, which often includes user opinions on quality. Most shows are ripped at high quality these days, and even in HD.
Equal experience levels doesn't mean employees are doing equal work at equal levels. http://marketing.dice.com/pdf/Dice_2008-09_TechSalarySurvey.pdf here is the actual survey, I see nothing in there which breaks it down by experience level and gender. It is simply a blanket average for genders. Experience level is on page 7 and isn't broken down by gender at all. It is the same as it always has been. misleading statistics to try and make some imaginary point.
We've done these pathetic statistics before. These pay gaps have nothing to do with equal jobs receiving different pay. They have to do with an average of all employees of a gender at every level. All this really means is that on average more women are working at a lower level than men, which is evidenced by their leaving the work force earlier in their lives. There is zero evidence that equal jobs are not receiving equal pay because of gender differences. IT is also a broad field which encompasses things like low-level tech support lines, which often attract part timers and in my experience in my youth these often attracted part time moms and other women the various call centers I worked in were heavily slanted towards women and would skew the results of any survey. And really, so what if women are leaving IT? Let people do what they want. We don't have to create some artificial perfect representation of every facet of society in every job sector. That isn't equality. Equality is that they have the opportunity, not that they are forced to take it.
Why would that make me hate you more? Mexico isn't the one annoying the world right now. Here in South Korea there is plenty of complaining about the Vuvuzelas, the hatred seems pretty universal.
This. It isn't just the damn horn. It is their attitude that goes with it. In the early days all the news reports were quoting officials saying "We haven't heard any complaints, everyone loves it!" in the later days they've been quoting people saying "If we came to your place and told you not to do cultural thing X how would you feel?" So they've gone from acting oblivious, to clueless assholedness. There is a big difference between some of the cultural things other countries might do and this annoying thing. If my cultural activity of choice was annoying people around the world 24/7 to the degree this is, I'd want someone to come along and tell me to fuck off.
People routinely pay for cam quality DVDs here in Korea. Brand new movies are available in the subway stations 5 for about $8 with exchange. They don't pay a lot. Later those cam quality DVDs become DVD quality, but it is very unlikely they're selling actual DVD quality movies the same day the movie comes out.
Currently on the app store is a game called "Doodle Cartoon Wars" The description lists it as some kind of epic stickman fighting game that somehow involves castle defense. it costs $1.99, but it was on sale for free a while ago. I grabbed it. It isn't a game at all. it's 4 shitty and blurry stickman videos. Every review for the "game" says the same thing and it's been reported multiple times as misleading and fake. It's been about 3 or 4 weeks and it's still on the store.
Doodle Stick War is a fast-paced, action-packed game animation that requires lightning-fast fingers and cunning strategy. Defend your kingdom against the invading stick figure army. Tap, flick, and shake your way to victory in the top castle defense game for iPhone/iPod touch.
This description makes it very clear that this is some kind of game, but there is no actual playing involve. The Developers support and web sites are 404. For all the times this has been reported, Apple is as much a party to the fraud as whoever it is that put this on the store.
You assume that they would just all show up for work one day and the place would be locked up and guarded and no one would have any access to anything. If steam was failing they'd have some idea it was coming. Someone in the company would make the exes available.
This was an entirely different article. Several other sites still had the article, searching the text I had quoted on FB for it I found hundreds of copies. Yahoo just up and changed it though with no notice that I could find.
I've found that yahoo routinely changes the links to their articles. After sharing on one facebook I clicked it to show it to someone else on MSN the next day and found that the story at the page was drastically different than the one that I had posted. in fact it was an entirely different article.
Is this guy not a tech writer or am I just hopelessly lost? The most exciting thing I've heard done on a Smartphone is Skype.
are you not a geek, or just a basement dweller who hasn't found google?
Video calls are incredibly popular outside America. Here in South Korea, I usually randomly see at least one person a day doing it, and the cell phone game market here is huge, including full mmorpg style games. This was before the iphone even came here (imagine the data fees on that kind of game)
heck the iphone has full multiplayer 3D FPSs on it.
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I run a blog about Korean video games for foreigners. 5 of the 7 major game portals take foreign IDs for registration. recently the government introduced a new system called I-PIN where you create it using your national ID card, but then use a secure username/pass on the site to create your account there. The I-PIN site informs them that you are legit. Why would the RIAA have anything to do with determining if a Korean ID is stolen?
As for the benefits it ensures someone you kick off the site isn't coming back unless they break the law.
Quite. because you still need to verify the #. Simply having the number isn't enough to create an account in someone's name. Most websites require you have another form of verification which means a cell phone registered with that exact ID, or a bank certificate registered with that ID, etc, which all require you show up with your real ID in hand and create it. IDs are photocopied and sent to head office. Some sketchy cell phone shop isn't going to get away with making many fakes before they're busted.
This has been the norm in South Korea for years. But it isn't public full name that is used. Well some people can if they want, but on most sites you're allowed to set a nickname for display. You can still be anonymous so long as you don't break the law. The government just requires that a real identity be attached to each account. Frankly it does have some benefits. It's much harder to troll if you're banned. You have to steal another ID which is illegal to come back and harass people in games, on forums, etc.
The system only applies to sites and servers in Korea though, so if you want to speak out about the government and do something illegal, just do it on another countries servers.
No they're not. if it's anything like Korea, then when you register you attach your citizen ID number to it. It's trivial to find out which Mr. Lee you really are.
that's okay. We can't expect Kdawson to know anything that one could easily google in under a minute. At first I thought Slashdot just hired someone's retarded cousin to do this stuff, but now I'm convinced Kdawson is just one of those bobbing birds let loose on a keyboard and attached to one of those spiral drawing toys.
It is just phenomenal that he is continued to allowed to do what he does here.
Apple doesn't care. Even if it was 100% their problem.
They don't care.
There are currently apps on the app store which are fake. They aren't as described. I grabbed one of them when they had a "Free" day. They're described as epic stickman fighting games. But the screenshots bear no resemblance to what the description is and feature no UI. They're filed under games, but feature no gameplay. They are all the same 4 low res stickman videos they pulled off some site.
There are several copies of this app with different names. They've all been reported multiple times but apple has not removed them, made them change the description or even categorize them appropriately.
I have an m1710 I bought in Canada, got the 3 year warranty, I've been gaming with it for years.
The 7950GTX still holds up pretty well for most games.
A couple years ago I moved to South Korea. 2 months before the warranty was about to expire, I noticed some blue screening. Did some tests found out the memory on the video card was gone (7900 GTX at the time)
contacted Dell Korea, they transferred my warranty, but because it was an old system they don't carry, they didn't have the parts. They ordered it from Taiwan a couple days later a guy was at my place and replaced the video card and motherboard. He came when I wanted, and didn't give me some big time window, but that's more Korean service culture than dell. Still the best experience I've had. Still using the machine a year later..but it's finally going to be replaced soon.
Hate to see it go, love the 17" 1920x1200 display.
This one was bad.. you'd walk along until you were stuck. As soon as you were stuck you knew you had to flip the view to continue on.... it might as well just auto-flipped.
It's trivial to go to a site to make sure the TV show you're downloading is legit, which often includes user opinions on quality. Most shows are ripped at high quality these days, and even in HD.
Equal experience levels doesn't mean employees are doing equal work at equal levels.
http://marketing.dice.com/pdf/Dice_2008-09_TechSalarySurvey.pdf
here is the actual survey, I see nothing in there which breaks it down by experience level and gender. It is simply a blanket average for genders. Experience level is on page 7 and isn't broken down by gender at all.
It is the same as it always has been. misleading statistics to try and make some imaginary point.
We've done these pathetic statistics before.
These pay gaps have nothing to do with equal jobs receiving different pay. They have to do with an average of all employees of a gender at every level.
All this really means is that on average more women are working at a lower level than men, which is evidenced by their leaving the work force earlier in their lives.
There is zero evidence that equal jobs are not receiving equal pay because of gender differences.
IT is also a broad field which encompasses things like low-level tech support lines, which often attract part timers and in my experience in my youth these often attracted part time moms and other women the various call centers I worked in were heavily slanted towards women and would skew the results of any survey.
And really, so what if women are leaving IT? Let people do what they want. We don't have to create some artificial perfect representation of every facet of society in every job sector. That isn't equality. Equality is that they have the opportunity, not that they are forced to take it.
Why would that make me hate you more? Mexico isn't the one annoying the world right now.
Here in South Korea there is plenty of complaining about the Vuvuzelas, the hatred seems pretty universal.
This. It isn't just the damn horn. It is their attitude that goes with it.
In the early days all the news reports were quoting officials saying "We haven't heard any complaints, everyone loves it!" in the later days they've been quoting people saying "If we came to your place and told you not to do cultural thing X how would you feel?"
So they've gone from acting oblivious, to clueless assholedness. There is a big difference between some of the cultural things other countries might do and this annoying thing. If my cultural activity of choice was annoying people around the world 24/7 to the degree this is, I'd want someone to come along and tell me to fuck off.
oh btw south africa, fuck off.
People routinely pay for cam quality DVDs here in Korea. Brand new movies are available in the subway stations 5 for about $8 with exchange. They don't pay a lot. Later those cam quality DVDs become DVD quality, but it is very unlikely they're selling actual DVD quality movies the same day the movie comes out.
The backup is not mandatory.
It can be canceled/avoided before syncing to save time.
!xabbu was a central character in one of Tad Williams books.
Currently on the app store is a game called "Doodle Cartoon Wars" The description lists it as some kind of epic stickman fighting game that somehow involves castle defense. it costs $1.99, but it was on sale for free a while ago. I grabbed it. It isn't a game at all. it's 4 shitty and blurry stickman videos. Every review for the "game" says the same thing and it's been reported multiple times as misleading and fake. It's been about 3 or 4 weeks and it's still on the store.
This description makes it very clear that this is some kind of game, but there is no actual playing involve. The Developers support and web sites are 404. For all the times this has been reported, Apple is as much a party to the fraud as whoever it is that put this on the store.
I'm convinced Kdawson killed Timothy in his sleep and has been posting as him for quite some time.
What asset would they be giving away? There was no plan to sell the unlocked exes. Valve makes no additional money from the product being locked.
Those workers had been working for free for months if I recall correctly. That wasn't a surprise to anyone.
You assume that they would just all show up for work one day and the place would be locked up and guarded and no one would have any access to anything. If steam was failing they'd have some idea it was coming. Someone in the company would make the exes available.
This was an entirely different article. Several other sites still had the article, searching the text I had quoted on FB for it I found hundreds of copies. Yahoo just up and changed it though with no notice that I could find.
I've found that yahoo routinely changes the links to their articles. After sharing on one facebook I clicked it to show it to someone else on MSN the next day and found that the story at the page was drastically different than the one that I had posted. in fact it was an entirely different article.
why is it that every time we turn around an American finds a new way to show us how clueless they are?
are you not a geek, or just a basement dweller who hasn't found google?
Video calls are incredibly popular outside America. Here in South Korea, I usually randomly see at least one person a day doing it, and the cell phone game market here is huge, including full mmorpg style games. This was before the iphone even came here (imagine the data fees on that kind of game)
heck the iphone has full multiplayer 3D FPSs on it.