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Comment: Betting the farm .. (Score 1) 315

by Linux-Fiend (#36572428) Attached to: <em>EVE Online</em> Players Rage, Protest Over Microtransactions

CCP currently has over six hundred employees spread across three international offices who are developing three videos games. They made commitments to strategic partners. That all amounts to many deep promises to keep. The subscriptions from EVE Online pays for the development of all three games.

Incarna was designed to introduce the EVE to a new generation of potential EVE players. A bold new universe that would appeal to gamer whom want to see their character avatars and apparently would put real dollars to purchase pixel apparel for the prices that are greater than the tangible goods located in the in online merchandise shop. CCP upper management sought the professional opinions of game industry consultants outside of the player community and company.

So with the advice of such esteemed outsiders it seems that pixel Monocles for $68 dollars would sell and it understandable that the playerbase emo rages and mass cancel subscriptions now. Let them blew off some steam. No need to communicate. Eventually everyone will drink the cool aid and buy the designer pants that CCP owns on their servers

Betting the farms on pixel Monocles and pants like this ...
It's just crazy.

Comment: Another Evil Corporation? (Score 1) 357

by Linux-Fiend (#33264590) Attached to: Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad

I am spiritual but I don't agree with religion but that is beside the point.

I do wholeheartly agree with freedom of religion and freedom of speech. More frequently corporations and special interest groups manipulate and create laws to gain power and control over public rights while exploring ways for the taxpayer to pay for it.

How is Best Buy right to claim that citizens do not have the right to put a logo on a Volkswagen. How does a corporation own any combination of words "x + squad". It simply does not.

It would be interesting if Volkswagen sent Best Buy a cease and desist order to stop using the Beattle to promote Geek Squad (unless Best Buy pays Volkswagen an exorbitant amount of licencing fees)

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ATM hack gives cash on demand->

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes "Windows CE-based ATMs can easily be made to dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines at Black Hat, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. Jack believes a large number of ATMs have remote management tools that can be accessed over a telephone. After experimenting with two machines he purchased, Jack developed a way of bypassing the remote authentication system and installing a homemade rootkit, named Scrooge,"
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Windows Flaws Lead to Black Hat ATM Hack->

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An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder what operating system most ATM's use? In a session at the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference, researcher Barnaby Jones hacked a pair of ATMs with cash literally flying out of them when he was done.

Jones explained that most ATM's run Microsoft Windows CE on ARM processors and they all tend to have remote updating capabilities. Jones wrote a remote exploitation program called Dilinger to remotely exploit the ATM. Then once the ATM is exploited he has another program called Scrooge which is a root kit for the ATM. With those tools, Jones — much to the delight of the massive Black Hat crowd that gathered to see him — he used his tools to exploit a pair of ATMs on stage — Live.

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