Comment Re:Sounds reasonable to me. (Score 1) 573
Or they'd just flat out come out and say, "We don't want your business. Please find another ISP."
Comment Re:Let them choose to go commercial free (Score 1) 297
Your fans are not watching LPs. If they are the game's fans then they are playing the game themselves. People watch LPs for that specific person that they love. They are the LPer's fans, not yours. Your game is just a tool for the comedic effects.
If I made a home video of my family playing Scrabble and it becomes popular on YouTube, do you think Hasbro should be paid? No. People watch because my family is funny not because they want to watch someone play Scrabble.
Comment Re:Bad PR? (Score 1) 160
Rolling back millions of players most of whom haven't even heard of the dupe? Or ban the handful of people who were involved in the dupe and revert any transaction they had with other people? Seems like an easy choice.
Comment Re:Ads (Score 1) 189
I use Chrome + AdBlock and I never see any YouTube ads at all.
DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants 146
Via the EFF comes news that, during a case involving the use of a Stingray device, the DOJ revealed that it was standard practice to use the devices without explicitly requesting permission in warrants. "When Rigmaiden filed a motion to suppress the Stingray evidence as a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the government responded that this order was a search warrant that authorized the government to use the Stingray. Together with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden, noting that this 'order' wasn't a search warrant because it was directed towards Verizon, made no mention of an IMSI catcher or Stingray and didn't authorize the government — rather than Verizon — to do anything. Plus to the extent it captured loads of information from other people not suspected of criminal activity it was a 'general warrant,' the precise evil the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. ... The emails make clear that U.S. Attorneys in the Northern California were using Stingrays but not informing magistrates of what exactly they were doing. And once the judges got wind of what was actually going on, they were none too pleased:"
Comment Re:Really? (Score 5, Insightful) 1145
Only one of the two were fired. The person who was offended was also fired.
But really if she had just said something to them quietly no one would have been fired. But she had to take it to crowds of people who weren't even there.
Comment Re:Seriously? 6-3??? (Score 1) 648
If the shoes you bought were subsidized with taxpayer money would you still feel right about it? What if you go get free food from the homeless shelter and then turn around and sell it for profit?
A lot of countries subsidize textbooks so they cost next to nothing for the general public. This guy is profiting off of public good will.
Comment Re:Outlook (Score 1) 287
It does have its own RSS folder by default...
On top of that you can set up incoming rules to auto sort them (mail too not just RSS) into folders, tag them, mark as read, or just about anything.
Comment Outlook (Score 3, Interesting) 287
*gasp* Yes I use MS Outlook. Just so it's all sorted together with my email.
Comment Re:Clarifying the "server-side calculation" confus (Score 1) 511
I don't know about "simulating properly" when you lose connection to the server. Plenty of people have noticed traffic acting wonky, every single bus lining up to pick up a single passenger, every fire truck going to a single fire when there're other fires in the city, etc. These problems didn't exist during beta.
It's very probable that when the game loses internet connection or when the server is overloaded, the game simply fall back on a "dumb" AI. While this might work for the few minutes the connection is down, in the long term your city will suffer from so much traffic problems it just dies.
Comment Re:I wish I had pirated it lol (Score 2) 511
All current "cracks" are either fake, malware, or an infinite loop of survey sites designed to extract money from you. Writing a server emulator takes time and a lot of effort.
Comment Re:Why the online restriction? DUH! (Score 1) 569
If you want an example... Diablo 3 is exactly the same way. There has yet to be a working emulator that has working quests and mobs for Diablo 3 released to the public.
There are a couple private servers out there but... if you'd still need an internet connection to connect to the private server then you might as well play on the official blizzard server.
Comment Re:Why the online restriction? DUH! (Score 1) 569
Parts of the game engine is on the server. Without the server part nothing would work. That is until someone writes a server emulator.
Comment Re:no (Score 3, Insightful) 250
What you're referring to is more often called information security. Cryptography usually just refers to the methods, algorithms, and protocols of transferring data.
But there's little point in arguing the semantics of words. I think we can all agree the human factor plays a large part in almost all intrusions these days.
Comment Re:no (Score 5, Insightful) 250
I think the point is no encryption is going to protect you from users installing malware, buggy software, or just plain hand over data unknowingly. Next to no attackers would attack the cryptography itself. The weakest link is always somewhere else.
