The organization previously used these exploits against Americans.
Now another organization is using them against Americans.
It's way past time for both of these to change.
You fail to understand that you can't have it both ways.
If someone has the ability, criminals will eventually have the ability.
So now it turns out, instead of preventing criminals from acquiring the ability you don't want them to have, you provided it to them.
This isn't about giggling like children or whatever. This is about a fundamental necessity to shift the thinking of those in charge of these kinds of exploits.
You have a 4000 sq ft home and you like a temp delta of 40+ degrees.
Well, congrats to you on having a super-efficient system. A shining example to us all.
Just find someone who is addicted to single-player turn-based strategy computer games. They'd complain about the trip being too short.
Like... my friend, not me.
Says the Anonymous Coward.
No, the privacy "nuts" are up in arms about someone having every email conversation you have had being tracked and read for zero reason.
If you would like the NSA to read all of your email, bind a BCC rule for admin@nsa.gov to all your outgoing.
I've seen a lot of comments online about microtransactions. They're a dirty word lately, it seems. Gamers are upset that publishers/developers are "nickel and diming them." They're raging at "big and evil corporations who are clueless and trying to steal their money." I'm going to come right out and say it. I'm tired of EA being seen as "the bad guy." I think it's bulls*** that EA has the 'scumbag EA' memes on Reddit and that Good Guy Valve can Do No Wrong.... If you don't like EA, don't buy their games. If you don't like their microtransactions, don't spend money on them. It's that simple.
Cliff says it's okay to not buy DLC from companies you think are trying to screw you over, but I guess you're not allowed talk about it? And also while you're at it, please don't talk about companies you like either. It's just bad form, I suppose.
So since, as a game developer, he isn't happy with the current model: "more talking" and "less spending money", but he isn't advocating "more talking" and also "more spending money." Instead, what he wants is "less talking" and "less spending money."
Because of this, I can only assume that the "more talking" is the part impacting the business in a meaningful way.
Yeah, the writing is terrible, but you should also see the decline in art and music skills!
Most of the techies in my class can't even pick a decent blog theme, never mind compose one from scratch. They have zero sense for color matching and use of white space.
And musically, they're a bunch of absolute no-hopers. The.mp3 lists they put in their audio widgets seldom include any quality classical pieces.
Everything was going well, the human-like computer completing math and English challenges like a champ, but then something inside changed and suddenly it decided to spend all of it's free time watching reality television, voting for the next American Idol and ordering products featured on infomercials. The death knell came when the machine already feeling a bit self-conscious after eating Big Macs and Snickers bars, noticing that it's penis length was inadequate, and wondering why no one had responded to the Match.com or eHarmony profiles posted decided that the better life could be had by simply pouring light beer and spiced rum directly onto it's CPU.
Not a fan of this song in particular, but I like a lot of Coulton's other stuff.
I'm glad (but not surprised) that he's found a clever, creative way to increase his profile and bring some attention to the kind of double standard the big entertainment companies employ daily... screwing artists and consumers both with impunity.
I would think that Universities would also begin to realize that they are essentially the only market for these publishers to begin with. So if the majority of Universities formed some kind of academic association and said play ball or else to the publishers... Where else do the publishers have to market their wares?
Killing a hostile foreign national refugee who has been a declared military target for the past 10 years, who is in hiding in a cooperative country is the same thing as boarding multiple civilian planes and crashing them into civilian structures.
And as far as precedent setting goes, not so much. I was also in complete approval, for example, of Golda Meir sending the Mossad to wax all the members of Black September wherever they were in the world after the killing of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
You're just trolling I imagine, but if you killed 3,000+ North Koreans and released some videos recruiting people to help kill more... I imagine you would be simply stunned that anyone from North Korea would come try to knock you off.
All this will do is to condition these children to accept invasive tracking and surveillance. This is not a question of children's rights, it is a question of what those children will think is normal or acceptable in a decade, when they are adults.
So then, it seems to me like it's the students who attend school every day that should have the GPS devices. I mean, they're the ones we're all concerned about being fully indoctrinated in government mandated group think anyway. They'll go along with it if it means a better chance to get into college, be accepted by their peers, win approval from their parents. Why waste the time on the ditchers who just aren't buying in anyway?
apparently ANYone who upsets american right in some way, end up either as douchebags, or asshats. or some other derogatory adjective. without fail.
im not wondering about general american public. they may be too under the influence of mass media to begin with and sheepish, like the public in many countries of the world.
but, im wondering why some of the people who use slashdot, which is a place for the i.t. related life and people, are not able to stop for a moment and think 'hey, im thinking that anyone who upsets the established order is an asshat. there is something wrong with this' ?
i.t. requires more cognitive power than other fields of life. its mandatory that you have some cause-effect perception and rationalization ability to even work in it. yet, i see some people constantly iterating the same behavior pattern here, over and over, without thinking that they have been conditioned to do so.
has cognition no effect on political views ?
Did you just post a completely unfounded and unsupported generalization while at the same time counting yourself among the slashdot intellectual elite for real?
Brick and mortar game retailers have been the architects of their own demise on this one. For years they have devoted the majority of their stores to the various different console platforms and their customers upped sticks and left.
I've watched the PC section in my local Game store go from 8 panels back in the days of the XBox and Playstation to 2 panels today. Why would I want to buy a game from a store like this? The choice is more or less limited to the latest chart games and new releases. Steam lets me choose from a vast catalogue and find the games I want to play.
The convenience of the games stores was their main driving force, if I wanted a game I had only to go into town and buy it. It was faster than Steam and you also got a nice box and manual, or at least you used to. These days if you want a boxed PC game you have to order it online as the local shop won't have it in stock. If you're going to have to order it online, you might as well use Steam, you'll get it faster.
This is absolutely the case. The retailers have been at the forefront of the masses chanting "PC gaming is dead" and treating the platform as niche at best.
(I remember a local store near me, "System Eyes," whose entire stock was Amiga games. I may have single-handedly kept them in business for a few years there... Now those were the golden days!)
Personally, I have never bought anything labeled as "DLC" for a game I had previously paid full price (or close to full price) for because I never felt like I absolutely needed to have that extra set of armor, or quest or whatnot.
However, I have purchased "expansions" to many games. Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency was quite possibly the best game expansion I have ever purchased.
How this is differentiated even in my own mind is not immediately clear.
I also have purchased "unlockables" in games that asked for no money upfront to play: Like Riot Games' League of Legends.
So I guess I am saying, the presentation matters (to me, anyway) and also the amount invested up front or in total for one set of collective game experiences probably has some kind of perceived value maximum IMHO.
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The organization previously used these exploits against Americans.
Now another organization is using them against Americans.
It's way past time for both of these to change.
You fail to understand that you can't have it both ways. If someone has the ability, criminals will eventually have the ability. So now it turns out, instead of preventing criminals from acquiring the ability you don't want them to have, you provided it to them. This isn't about giggling like children or whatever. This is about a fundamental necessity to shift the thinking of those in charge of these kinds of exploits.
Didn't you read the stub?
It was created by "a group of hardcore gamers."
I have asthma and burn wood.
If wood burners bother you so much do what I did when I was a kid... live in a plastic air tent.
You have a 4000 sq ft home and you like a temp delta of 40+ degrees. Well, congrats to you on having a super-efficient system. A shining example to us all.
Just find someone who is addicted to single-player turn-based strategy computer games. They'd complain about the trip being too short. ... my friend, not me.
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Says the Anonymous Coward.
No, the privacy "nuts" are up in arms about someone having every email conversation you have had being tracked and read for zero reason.
If you would like the NSA to read all of your email, bind a BCC rule for admin@nsa.gov to all your outgoing.
Is this reply comment blinking?
My grandfather was Jackson Pollock, so I own 25% of my genes due to prior art.
I've seen a lot of comments online about microtransactions. They're a dirty word lately, it seems. Gamers are upset that publishers/developers are "nickel and diming them." They're raging at "big and evil corporations who are clueless and trying to steal their money." I'm going to come right out and say it. I'm tired of EA being seen as "the bad guy." I think it's bulls*** that EA has the 'scumbag EA' memes on Reddit and that Good Guy Valve can Do No Wrong. ... If you don't like EA, don't buy their games. If you don't like their microtransactions, don't spend money on them. It's that simple.
Cliff says it's okay to not buy DLC from companies you think are trying to screw you over, but I guess you're not allowed talk about it? And also while you're at it, please don't talk about companies you like either. It's just bad form, I suppose.
So since, as a game developer, he isn't happy with the current model: "more talking" and "less spending money", but he isn't advocating "more talking" and also "more spending money." Instead, what he wants is "less talking" and "less spending money."
Because of this, I can only assume that the "more talking" is the part impacting the business in a meaningful way.
DIE HARD OF HEARING
Yeah, the writing is terrible, but you should also see the decline in art and music skills!
Most of the techies in my class can't even pick a decent blog theme, never mind compose one from scratch. They have zero sense for color matching and use of white space.
And musically, they're a bunch of absolute no-hopers. The .mp3 lists they put in their audio widgets seldom include any quality classical pieces.
Everything was going well, the human-like computer completing math and English challenges like a champ, but then something inside changed and suddenly it decided to spend all of it's free time watching reality television, voting for the next American Idol and ordering products featured on infomercials. The death knell came when the machine already feeling a bit self-conscious after eating Big Macs and Snickers bars, noticing that it's penis length was inadequate, and wondering why no one had responded to the Match.com or eHarmony profiles posted decided that the better life could be had by simply pouring light beer and spiced rum directly onto it's CPU.
Goose: No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea!
Maverick: Sorry, Goose, but it's time to buzz a tower.
Not a fan of this song in particular, but I like a lot of Coulton's other stuff. I'm glad (but not surprised) that he's found a clever, creative way to increase his profile and bring some attention to the kind of double standard the big entertainment companies employ daily... screwing artists and consumers both with impunity.
wait five more seconds to find out via any of the other normal media streams?
I would think that Universities would also begin to realize that they are essentially the only market for these publishers to begin with. So if the majority of Universities formed some kind of academic association and said play ball or else to the publishers... Where else do the publishers have to market their wares?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27sludge.html?scp=1&sq=kingston%20coal&st=cse
Nuclear, I guess.
This was such an enlightening post.
Killing a hostile foreign national refugee who has been a declared military target for the past 10 years, who is in hiding in a cooperative country is the same thing as boarding multiple civilian planes and crashing them into civilian structures.
And as far as precedent setting goes, not so much. I was also in complete approval, for example, of Golda Meir sending the Mossad to wax all the members of Black September wherever they were in the world after the killing of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
You're just trolling I imagine, but if you killed 3,000+ North Koreans and released some videos recruiting people to help kill more... I imagine you would be simply stunned that anyone from North Korea would come try to knock you off.
All this will do is to condition these children to accept invasive tracking and surveillance. This is not a question of children's rights, it is a question of what those children will think is normal or acceptable in a decade, when they are adults.
So then, it seems to me like it's the students who attend school every day that should have the GPS devices. I mean, they're the ones we're all concerned about being fully indoctrinated in government mandated group think anyway. They'll go along with it if it means a better chance to get into college, be accepted by their peers, win approval from their parents. Why waste the time on the ditchers who just aren't buying in anyway?
apparently ANYone who upsets american right in some way, end up either as douchebags, or asshats. or some other derogatory adjective. without fail. im not wondering about general american public. they may be too under the influence of mass media to begin with and sheepish, like the public in many countries of the world. but, im wondering why some of the people who use slashdot, which is a place for the i.t. related life and people, are not able to stop for a moment and think 'hey, im thinking that anyone who upsets the established order is an asshat. there is something wrong with this' ? i.t. requires more cognitive power than other fields of life. its mandatory that you have some cause-effect perception and rationalization ability to even work in it. yet, i see some people constantly iterating the same behavior pattern here, over and over, without thinking that they have been conditioned to do so. has cognition no effect on political views ?
Did you just post a completely unfounded and unsupported generalization while at the same time counting yourself among the slashdot intellectual elite for real?
Brick and mortar game retailers have been the architects of their own demise on this one. For years they have devoted the majority of their stores to the various different console platforms and their customers upped sticks and left. I've watched the PC section in my local Game store go from 8 panels back in the days of the XBox and Playstation to 2 panels today. Why would I want to buy a game from a store like this? The choice is more or less limited to the latest chart games and new releases. Steam lets me choose from a vast catalogue and find the games I want to play. The convenience of the games stores was their main driving force, if I wanted a game I had only to go into town and buy it. It was faster than Steam and you also got a nice box and manual, or at least you used to. These days if you want a boxed PC game you have to order it online as the local shop won't have it in stock. If you're going to have to order it online, you might as well use Steam, you'll get it faster.
This is absolutely the case. The retailers have been at the forefront of the masses chanting "PC gaming is dead" and treating the platform as niche at best.
(I remember a local store near me, "System Eyes," whose entire stock was Amiga games. I may have single-handedly kept them in business for a few years there... Now those were the golden days!)
I think it depends.
Personally, I have never bought anything labeled as "DLC" for a game I had previously paid full price (or close to full price) for because I never felt like I absolutely needed to have that extra set of armor, or quest or whatnot.
However, I have purchased "expansions" to many games. Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency was quite possibly the best game expansion I have ever purchased.
How this is differentiated even in my own mind is not immediately clear.
I also have purchased "unlockables" in games that asked for no money upfront to play: Like Riot Games' League of Legends.
So I guess I am saying, the presentation matters (to me, anyway) and also the amount invested up front or in total for one set of collective game experiences probably has some kind of perceived value maximum IMHO.