If the claim is true, I would imagine law enforcement may be quite busy solving a lot of cold cases as a result. Crime filmed in BlurryHD has ironically become the video surveillance standard regardless of camera tech.
which effectively forced the Senate to consider the measures together
What a stupid way to legislate. Every bill ought to gave a single, specified purpose.
True, but right now those “stupid” people in charge of making “stupid” legislative decisions, are laughing all the way to the bank. ALL of them. On both “sides” pitted against each other. For profit.
And then we have the people voting to sustain that, re-electing over and over again.
Excellent. Thank you for the detail! I do appreciate it.
Calling it abandonware seems like a strange choice of phrase: it has been open source (GPL2) since the early 2000s, and SDL Sopwith (linked in the post) is based on that source. So it very much still is in active development.
If you think calling it abandonware is strange, imagine what kind of definition you’re going to have to come up with for “active” in relation to “development”.
To be clear, I’m not attacking the game or those who created it. I’m more asking for the current definition of “active” after a claim of 40 years when the game itself appears to have not changed. Having a DOS game run in a current browser doesn’t exactly count as unique in my mind. We have hundreds of old games that can do that.
Wanna know what active development actually looks like? Look at Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The game itself, actually changed across the years. A few times. Again, not attacking those who gave us Sopwith in any way. It’s part of my own memories. Just questioning the 40-year development claim. Seems quite extraordinary. Like clickbait-grade.
(A) How much you think it will actually cost. (B) How long you think it will actually take to build. (B) Whether you think it is a good idea, given (A) and (B)
No. it’s not a good idea to subsidize gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly, with Federal tax dollars. The fuck do you need a survey for. Common sense.
(America) America is building their first high-speed rail!
(Average Citizen) Oh, cool. Sounds like something we could use.
(America) it’s specifically for gambling addicts too drunk/high to drive or fly.
(Average Citizen) Why the fuck do I even bother anymore.
Sure as hell hope casinos are paying for that.
Sopwith is abandonware, and can be played legally online, without any install or registration requirements https://www.retrogames.cz/play...
The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today.
OK, I guess I’ll be the one to question how the hell we’re here celebrating 40 years of ‘active’ development, while using the term abadonware accurately.
I really miss the days when we didn’t have to question EVERY claim.
It doesn't have to be legally enforceable it just has to be a threat to someone who's in a weak position.
And that should be considered a different type of crime unrelated to employment. A threat is a threat. And we DO have crimes against that. Threatening employment is about the most direct form of harm short of physical violence.
The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today.
Then I clicked on the browser-embedded game to see what 40 years of ‘active’ development looked like.
It looked a lot like clickbait.
Sorry, but I was expecting something quite different given the claim. Can someone elaborate?
... and simply mount an automatic rifle on the top. That after all is where this ultimately is all leading but no one dare say it.
The announcement was focused on price. Do you REALLY want to know what taxpayers pay for THAT model, at government pricing?
I don’t.
So you are promoting a plan of more of the same. No. Paying any extortion or blackmail should be the end of the Corporation as a legal entity.
Oh no. I was more promoting a more likely reality that could be far fucking worse. Government mandated cyber insurance taken from your paycheck at the Federal level, while they manufacture a CyberThreatCon annual loss cost to be adjusted quarterly and taxed for next year, pre-paid? Just imagine how many “foreign” APTs you would find working at three-letter agencies on behalf of the Donor Class funding them. Imagine how quickly cyber-taxes would rise. As I said, Federal law mandating illegality has a steep price. One we should consider before literally asking for it.
Sure it would be tough even after such a law could ever be passed, until the first corporation is no more, then it will simply be the law not to negotiate.
Sure. Put the executives in jail even if egregious enough. Of course every company would suddenly find a problem hiring executives after that. Or board members. Not without paying them 10x what we pay them today, thanks to that malpractice-grade Federal executive cyber-insurance policy CE, oh I mean you will ultimately pay for, taxployer.
Today's teachings are all about tolerance, but when it comes to burdens to society there should be NO tolerance. That is why we are currently where we are when it comes to crime.
We are in agreement more than you may assume on this. The answer to cyberattacks is proper fucking DR planning. That’s not a legal matter. It’s more of a we don’t punish executives when they fuck up matter. I don’t want more laws, because I’ve seen what they often do now. Citizens need to be careful what they ask for. My scenarios can easily happen.
Lets get down to the real here.
COVID eradicated HIPAA privacy protections in favor of mass hysteria profiteering, which both government and the Medical Industrial Complex gained handsomely from. Billionaire Daddy Database found flocking to the new Medical gold rush ripe for the picking to be sold to the Insurance Complex happily paying for it. All involved are Platinum members of the Donor Class ensuring corporate profits continue to be shat through a toilet plumbed in Ireland first, to rinse off any of that crappy tax obligation in favor of kicking back higher stock price returns for the lucky lawmakers bestowed with insider trading benefits.
Medical data in the US is a huge gold mine given the way COVID raped privacy, and all involved stand to become very rich from it.
And to think that’s all before we get to the COVID class-action settlements deemed Too Big To Fail. Fuck me sideways, taxpayer.
We would end up with more cyber fuck-ups being deemed Too Big To Fail at taxpayer expense, along with Government-mandated corporate cyber-insurance, taken right out of your paycheck in taxes if we follow your illegal lead.
Be careful what you ask for. Not like we’re suddenly going to start punishing Greed N. Corruption, CEO.
Let apple revel in their current iVision failure, and in many years apple will make a pair just like Google Glass
The reason that Google Glass turned consumers into Glassholes and ultimately became a failure, isn’t lost on me. Maybe you should remember the success of a similar product now, isn’t something to brag about. It’s actually quite fucked up. Like going to a book signing for Orwells 1984 and finding Government cheerleaders working the audience handing out flyers touting the benefits of a Ministry of Truth.
Society doesn’t care about privacy at all anymore. They’ll trade their digital soul for a free price tag, and don’t even realize what that ultimately costs them in real dollars. Not every future product is something to cheer about no matter who makes it.
Not really defending Apple here, but from a design standpoint you should remember that glassholes are part of ancient tech history now. Go figure no one was in a hurry to copy that failure.
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