To more accurately represent Slashthink, I think maybe it should be:
79% of information is goatse, whose original content should be provided free (as in speech) so that the public can improve upon it for future generations. Also, Fuck Microsoft.
If Apple DO make an iPhone, hopefully they allow you to use any music you upload to it (including iTunes store music) as a ringtone.
Ha-ha, that's a good one! Yeah, I'm sure Apple wouldn't do anything like force people to re-purchase what they already own so that it can be used as a ringtone!/rolleyes
That kind of data is a designer's wet dream. They can see if new engine featuers are being utilized by enough people to make it worthwhile (like HDR), how long on average people sit down to play for (to help them with pacing), how many people are actually finishing the game, or if people are giving up because it gets too difficult. As for logging keystrokes, do you get paranoid that MS also logs your keystrokes? I don't really see the gain for Valve to secretly log your keystrokes (unless they want a huge long list of WWWWWSSAWDSWWWADS) unless everyone else except for me likes to bring down the console and type in all their passwords every 5 minutes.
This is the kind of thing that we should be cracking down on, the commercial pirates, not teenagers and old ladies who download a song or two.
This guy is driving exotic cars and ripping off people at both sides, the companies who actually create the stuff, and the unsuspecting comsumer (read: idiot) who paid for this stuff thinking he was getting a good deal, and winds up getting screwed (not that you can really sympathize with anyone dumb enough to fall for this, but I guess greed overcomes common sense).
Most likely for legal reasons, IANAL but I'm pretty sure the rules for contests and gaming can vary wildly between countries (and even within states/provinces) and if they don't adhere to them they could be in a lot of hot water. Most likely they don't want to spend the money researching/adhering to all these guidlines for everywhere in the world.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That's doubly true when it comes to protecting computers that are connected to the internet.
Yes, and thats generally the thing between the chair and the keyboard, not your firewall. Obviously a personal software firewall can't be perfect, but they do a pretty good job of protecting you from inbound traffic (hell, even the XP SP2 firewall does a decent enough job of this, try connecting an unpatched unfirewalled XP machine directly to the internet and see how long it takes). The best they can do for outbound is provide you with information about it and you can confirm/deny, unfortuneatly most people just click yes to everything. And if a computer has been compromised already and is trying to send outbound info, it was most likely the fault of the person who installed it without knowing what it is.
Also, the article fails to mention which firewalls were tested, or how, but they get on the right track at the end when they talk about malware being at its root a problem that requires a social solution, not just a technological one (though hopefully not having everyday users run as admin 24/7 in vista will help, if only slightly).
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...he's applying the social networking concept to people who have no social lives!
Brilliant!
To more accurately represent Slashthink, I think maybe it should be:
79% of information is goatse, whose original content should be provided free (as in speech) so that the public can improve upon it for future generations. Also, Fuck Microsoft.
If Apple DO make an iPhone, hopefully they allow you to use any music you upload to it (including iTunes store music) as a ringtone.
/rolleyes
Ha-ha, that's a good one! Yeah, I'm sure Apple wouldn't do anything like force people to re-purchase what they already own so that it can be used as a ringtone!
I think you may be in the wrong place, you want http://digg.com/
I think its time to bring out the "selfrigheousidiot" tag!
Not sure how old this news is... but it appears that people not living in the US can finally start using Gametap.
That kind of data is a designer's wet dream. They can see if new engine featuers are being utilized by enough people to make it worthwhile (like HDR), how long on average people sit down to play for (to help them with pacing), how many people are actually finishing the game, or if people are giving up because it gets too difficult. As for logging keystrokes, do you get paranoid that MS also logs your keystrokes? I don't really see the gain for Valve to secretly log your keystrokes (unless they want a huge long list of WWWWWSSAWDSWWWADS) unless everyone else except for me likes to bring down the console and type in all their passwords every 5 minutes.
This is the kind of thing that we should be cracking down on, the commercial pirates, not teenagers and old ladies who download a song or two.
This guy is driving exotic cars and ripping off people at both sides, the companies who actually create the stuff, and the unsuspecting comsumer (read: idiot) who paid for this stuff thinking he was getting a good deal, and winds up getting screwed (not that you can really sympathize with anyone dumb enough to fall for this, but I guess greed overcomes common sense).
"Sony makes good shit"?!? What the hell are you talking about, one of my friends is on his 4th PS2, another on his 3rd
Most likely for legal reasons, IANAL but I'm pretty sure the rules for contests and gaming can vary wildly between countries (and even within states/provinces) and if they don't adhere to them they could be in a lot of hot water. Most likely they don't want to spend the money researching/adhering to all these guidlines for everywhere in the world.
Not only does it cure cancer, if you run Folding@Home on your PS3 24/7, you can also heat your entire house!
That $800 price tag starting to pay for itself already!
Millions of grade schoolers across the nation scramble to redo their third-grade Astronomy projects
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That's doubly true when it comes to protecting computers that are connected to the internet.
Yes, and thats generally the thing between the chair and the keyboard, not your firewall. Obviously a personal software firewall can't be perfect, but they do a pretty good job of protecting you from inbound traffic (hell, even the XP SP2 firewall does a decent enough job of this, try connecting an unpatched unfirewalled XP machine directly to the internet and see how long it takes). The best they can do for outbound is provide you with information about it and you can confirm/deny, unfortuneatly most people just click yes to everything. And if a computer has been compromised already and is trying to send outbound info, it was most likely the fault of the person who installed it without knowing what it is.
Also, the article fails to mention which firewalls were tested, or how, but they get on the right track at the end when they talk about malware being at its root a problem that requires a social solution, not just a technological one (though hopefully not having everyday users run as admin 24/7 in vista will help, if only slightly).