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Comment Re:So much for pirate ethics (Score 2, Informative) 613

by SWCommand on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:59AM (#27625289) Attached to: How Piracy Affected the Launch of <em>Demigod</em>

Well they didn't let them play online. From my understanding what happened is that the pirated copies all sent a request to the servers asking if there was an update. There was one but the pirated copies couldn't get it, nor play online. So while they could play single player it still dropped the servers to their knees just due to the shear number of update check requests the servers got. They only planed for ~50,000 on release and they had only planned on the beta testers to have access on Monday but Gamestop destroyed that plan.

Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up 272

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 07, 2008 @09:19AM from the can't-charge-that dept.

The Wall Street Journal is covering developments in the gathering battle between manufacturers and retailers / discounters, especially online ones, over minimum prices. Earlier this year the Supreme Court upheld the right of manufacturers to enforce price floors for their products. Since then, manufacturers have increasingly been employing service companies like NetEnforcers to snitch on discounters who offer goods below "minimum advertised prices" (or MAPs), and to send DMCA takedown notices to the likes of eBay and Craigslist for below-minimum offers. Separately, the Journal reports that a coalition of discounters and retailers is using eBay as a stalking-horse in a campaign to get consumers, and then politicians, fired up enough to pass legislation outlawing MAPs.

Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings? 258

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 23, 2008 @09:38AM from the of-course-not dept.

Slatterz writes "It seems nobody can agree on a universal set of tests for rating anti-virus software, with Eugene Kaspersky the latest to weigh in on the topic, criticizing the well-known Virus Bulletin 100. Kaspersky is one of several big anti-virus brands to fall foul of the VB100 tests, reportedly failing to pass a recent test of security software on Windows Server 2008, along with F-Secure and Computer Associates. At Kaspersky, bloggers have pointed out that they don't focus on detecting PoCs, calling it a 'dead end,' and saying their anti-virus database focuses on 'real threats and exploits.' 'I don't want to say it's rubbish,' Kaspersky told PC Authority. 'But the security experts don't pay attention to these tests. It doesn't reflect the real level of protection.'"

Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security 200

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:15PM from the worse-than-you-thought dept.

TechDirt notes the publication of the New Jersey voting machine study, the attempted suppression of which we have been discussing for a while now. The paper that the Princeton and Lehigh University researchers are releasing, as permitted by the Court, is "the same as the Court's redacted version, but with a few introductory paragraphs about the court case, Gusciora v. Corzine." What's new is the release of a 90-minute evidentiary video — the researchers have asked the court for permission to release a shorter version that hits the high points, as the high-res video is about 1 GB in size. See TechDirt's article for the report's executive summary listing eight ways the AVC Advantage 9.00 voting machine can be subverted.

Comment Re:My suggestion (Score 1) 250

by SWCommand on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:41AM (#24929267) Attached to: Brad Wardell's Plan To Save PC Gaming

And yet you don't have to have it installed to play the game it doesn't need to be running to play the game all it does it update your game. Now it can do a lot more then that but it isn't going to try to force you to use it. Your game/app is updated, you install impulse update and then uninstall it. It is as simple as that. But if you lose the disk you can always install it and download your game, as long as you registered it with them you can download it from them.

Truth be told it was never meant to be a "bait-and-switch" impulse just was not ready at the time. When it was ready they tried to move everyone over to it. Was it a smooth roll out? Not exactly but from what they have told us it was a lot smoother then StarDock Central's roll out.

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