The "right" doesn't care, for the most part. By and large, they really are about free speech.

They just don't like the hypocrisy that the "left" espouses. If the left is going to say that hate speech should be regulated, then the left has to be held to their own standard. That they aren't is the problem the right sees and exposes.

"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." Wasn't that an Alinsky directive? Ironic that it can be used against his disciples, isn't it?

Nobody expects a system to provide protection forever. Most of a game's sales occur within a window that starts at the release date. I'm not sure what that window is these days, maybe a month? So if you can protect the game from being copied for at least a month, the idea is that you'll sell more during that critical window.

And to this end, some protections have been successful. FIFA 17 was released 7 months ago and hasn't been cracked yet, although with Denuvo being cracked now, it probably won't be long before this one falls. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory went uncracked just over a year.

What bothers me is publishers who don't remove the protection after a time. I'm still pissed that they didn't remove the online activation from Bioshock like they promised they would, instead they diluted that promise into removing the activation limit instead. Not removing the protections causes problems down the road when you want to run the game on newer operating systems (Chaos Theory's Starforce implementation was never updated for 64-bit OS, so you were SOL without a crack) or on alternatives like Wine on Linux.

The laser-hole wasn't designed to tear your drive head off. When you stick a disk in the drive, you don't necessarily know where the head will be, so a deliberate damage setup like this would have a good chance of destroying legitimate user's drive as well.

The burn was there to prevent a successful write attempt to that sector. The protection would write something there, and then read it back. If it read back what it wrote, the damage wasn't there and it's a copy. Of course it would check to make sure you didn't just write-protect the disk, it wasn't that simple.

This type of protection was just hacked out of the code, but there was a device (Central Point Software's Enhanced Option Board) that would simulate the damage by intercepting the drive requests and returning what the program expected.

VM/interpreter/pseudo-code protections have been around for a long time.

Denuvo
SecurROM 7+
Solidshield
StarForce ...
All the way back to Electronic Arts' fat-track scheme on the Commodore 64, which used a VM to obscure the upload of the drive code and check the return value. This was 1983.

If you wanted to destroy a foreign nation without wasting money or your own people's lives on war, and were patient, this would be the way to go about it.

- Infiltrate and infect their education system, media, and a few key political appointments
- Reduce the standards in the education system so that "graduates" are incapable of competing with your country's people or realizing they are being manipulated
- Convince their people they don't need to work and that they should expect everything as a handout
- Make them dependent on authority figures for everything and convince them that they should never do things for themselves or handle their own problems. Lobby for laws that punish those that do
- Tell one half of the people that all of their problems is caused by the other half
- Lobby for laws that grant some groups of people more rights than others. Vilify the others if they complain
- Convince people to believe that their culture is worthless and that being proud of your heritage or country is abhorrent
- Encourage behavior that breaks apart the family unit, which is the cornerstone of society. Degenerate role models, infidelity, easy/beneficial divorces
- Divide, divide, divide

In short, weaken their society and watch it destroy itself from within.

"The people cannot be legislated into morality."

See: The Sordid Origin of Hate Speech Laws

The difference is that it is easier to deal with or vote-out a local, elected figurehead who has to live in the jurisdiction they govern, as compared to dealing with an un-elected (by the people of your country) foreign entity who is detached from what is going on in your country.

These days, the difference may be small, but it is still there. If you might recall, the USA had a revolution over being ruled by a foreign power. The UK managed to do it much more peacefully. All assuming, of course, that May isn't just another puppet of global, behind-the-scenes puppet masters.

I see that approach as an equivalent to the "road closed" sign. Most people will abide by it, but the determined will simply move the sign or drive around it.

But perhaps, in their view, that's sufficient.

That's becoming less and less relevant as power is gradually removed from the states and given to the federal government. Not being enough for those in power, they seek to expand beyond the borders of their country and control other countries as well, currently through treaties, political meddling, and outright assassination of uncooperative foreign leaders.

The end goal is the "one world government", where they no longer need to balance control with freedom.

Finally, a legit criticism of Bannon.

I'm with you on that. It's been said that "once a Goldman Sachs man, always a Goldman Sachs man". Not sure if it's true with Bannon, but keep an eye on things he says or does that might benefit them.

Conservative America has the kid gloves on right now and has given the Left far more tolerance and respect than they have shown to deserve. If you really want to throw down with them, you're not nearly as intelligent as you think.

By "accepts what actual scientists say" you mean "accepts what scientists who we agree with say".

Have Clinton and Obama come out and told these hooligans that are rioting to knock it off? Last I heard, there was nothing but silence from them, which seems to imply consent. That the media isn't demanding this out of them is just more evidence that the collusion between the current admin and the press demonstrated by wikileaks continues.

Has George Soros started one of his pathetic color revolutions in the US now? I hear he's picked purple for this year's fashion. In an honest government, he'd be arrested for sedition and terrorism. Goes to show you the morals of Obama and crew. Maybe the next administration will man up and arrest that treasonous piece of filth. Perhaps even extradite him to Russia.

You mean this briefing?

I prefer the term "used house salesman".