"Four researchers from the French National Institute of Computer Science"...worked out what any single regular person with an ounce of common sense already knew. Well done, researchers.
"if you saw an option on the build-your-own-laptop build site that said "Clean O/S Install - No Advertising or Bloat" with a price tag of $99.95 would you check the box?"
Nope. I'd order it as-is and do hat I've always done with pre-built systems: first boot directly to install media.
Some of those games aren't very violent at all. Try The Punisher's (2005, PC) interrogation segments on for size; much more brutal and violent than anything in GTA3.
You're a retard, and so is the retard who modded you insightful.
Geohot's exploit has nothing to do with piracy, and anyone spending one minute on some of the PS3 news sites out there would have seen the masses of people complaining that they couldn't play backups after applying his hack. No backups = no piracy.
What his exploit did do was pave the way for devs like graf_chokolo, who has made Hypervisor his bitch and found a way to dual-boot a custom linux install and GameOS.
"Why don't DMVs have driving simulators where you train to handle adverse situations well?"
Because most governments can't even afford books for schools (the taxpayers having voted to give that money to private sports franchises). I don't see them springing for driving sims.
The crapware is there because the crapware authors pay Dell/HP/et. al. to put it there, subsidizing your low hardware prices. Smart people don't bother booting the default config and just throw an install disk in the drive from the get-go.
If you don't have an install disk and only "restore" disks, you're on your own. Disabling bloatware isn't generally hard.
Please design basic security into it from the ground up this time. The last thing we need is for some bored 13-year-old to change the instructions for folding laundry to "kill all humans."
I was thinking something along those same lines just the other day. Why do we run mug shots of people accused of soliciting hookers, but not those of CEOs whose illegal actions ruin the lives of thousands?
DM: "You see a hoopty rolling up on you. The tinted window is coming down slowly." Player: "I jump into the bushes and grab my strap." DM: "Roll for initiative."
Pulled this list off of some forum a couple of days ago (I'd give attribution if I remembered where, but google one of the lines and it should come up). This guy sniffed packets and came up with these. Note that many of these actually resolve to akamai servers:
fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > Update Server (sys updates) mercury.dl.playstation.net > What's new ads nsx.np.dl.playstation.net > playstation store preview nsx-e.np.dl.playstation.net > ads (main file exchange connections) us.np.stun.playstation.net > on boot initiates connection ena.net.playstation.net > SSLv3 connection after above connection dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > secondary update attempt (could force updates) auth.np.ac.playstation.net > SSLv3 authentication server (destination servers) service.playstation.net (has multiple IPs if only the ip address is blocked) (Error Reporting) creepo.ww.hl.playstation.net (uploads crash reports etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
Pick one that other people won't:
<hipster>My favorite color is infrared. It's pretty obscure.</hipster>
"Four researchers from the French National Institute of Computer Science" ...worked out what any single regular person with an ounce of common sense already knew. Well done, researchers.
"and the result is that the only music that gets promoted is over-produced over-hyped generic dogshit."
So business as usual, then, like they've been doing for the past 50 years. Gotcha.
"if you saw an option on the build-your-own-laptop build site that said "Clean O/S Install - No Advertising or Bloat" with a price tag of $99.95 would you check the box?"
Nope. I'd order it as-is and do hat I've always done with pre-built systems: first boot directly to install media.
Some of those games aren't very violent at all. Try The Punisher's (2005, PC) interrogation segments on for size; much more brutal and violent than anything in GTA3.
You're a retard, and so is the retard who modded you insightful.
Geohot's exploit has nothing to do with piracy, and anyone spending one minute on some of the PS3 news sites out there would have seen the masses of people complaining that they couldn't play backups after applying his hack. No backups = no piracy.
What his exploit did do was pave the way for devs like graf_chokolo, who has made Hypervisor his bitch and found a way to dual-boot a custom linux install and GameOS.
Hey, if Narus equipment is good enough to spy on American citizens, it's good enough to spy on Egyptians.
Narus. Ask for it by name when you don't give a fuck about your citizens.
"Why don't DMVs have driving simulators where you train to handle adverse situations well?"
Because most governments can't even afford books for schools (the taxpayers having voted to give that money to private sports franchises). I don't see them springing for driving sims.
The crapware is there because the crapware authors pay Dell/HP/et. al. to put it there, subsidizing your low hardware prices. Smart people don't bother booting the default config and just throw an install disk in the drive from the get-go.
If you don't have an install disk and only "restore" disks, you're on your own. Disabling bloatware isn't generally hard.
Please design basic security into it from the ground up this time. The last thing we need is for some bored 13-year-old to change the instructions for folding laundry to "kill all humans."
"Who should we place more blame in though? The journalists making American Idol news such a priority or a populous ripe with apathy?"
The journalists. It's not their job to cater to the lowest common denominator, it's their job to report the fucking news.
"publicly named" (etc.)
I was thinking something along those same lines just the other day. Why do we run mug shots of people accused of soliciting hookers, but not those of CEOs whose illegal actions ruin the lives of thousands?
SHOCKED! SHOCKED I AM AT--no, wait. I'm not shocked in the slightest.
"I wonder how they got hold of a 130-year-old platinum iridium cylinder 130 years ago?"
Well, they used one from 1751. And then they went and fucked up the official definition, if the summary is to be believed.
"In everyday conversation it could be fine, but not a slashdot article on physics"
You must be new here.
DM: "You see a hoopty rolling up on you. The tinted window is coming down slowly."
Player: "I jump into the bushes and grab my strap."
DM: "Roll for initiative."
Yes, because no one has ever accessed the X360 files, or put a JTAG console online, or found glitches in retail code on XBL.
Pulled this list off of some forum a couple of days ago (I'd give attribution if I remembered where, but google one of the lines and it should come up). This guy sniffed packets and came up with these. Note that many of these actually resolve to akamai servers:
fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > Update Server (sys updates)
mercury.dl.playstation.net > What's new ads
nsx.np.dl.playstation.net > playstation store preview
nsx-e.np.dl.playstation.net > ads
(main file exchange connections)
us.np.stun.playstation.net > on boot initiates connection
ena.net.playstation.net > SSLv3 connection after above connection
dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > secondary update attempt (could force updates)
auth.np.ac.playstation.net > SSLv3 authentication server
(destination servers)
service.playstation.net (has multiple IPs if only the ip address is blocked)
(Error Reporting)
creepo.ww.hl.playstation.net (uploads crash reports etc.)
It's also sometimes referred to as "kids are stupid."
"We'll probably never see an adaptation of something like Neuromancer or Snow Crash"
I sincerely hope we never do. Hollywood would rape either of those so violently that even die-hard fans of mrhands.mpg would look away squeamishly.
Porn isn't NC-17. Happy to help.
What, he couldn't use branches?
Why, the electricity would be so cheap you could afford to play Duke Nukem Forever for 24 hours per day!
Why you write like Chinese stereotype?
And yet the rate of instances in which I want to punch these texting douchebags repeatedly in the face is trending upwards.