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Comment Re:get over it (Score 1) 245

You can have unfettered immigration an think pay scale will go up.there is always someone that will due your job for less.you cant have loopside trade deal and think wages will go up. if they pay a guy in china a dollar a hour and US workers want 10.00 and you arent extra 9 dollars for the product wages dont go up.I Miss the days when you we ashamed to buy something not made in the USA, Than there the work ethics of alot of today youth.if i wanted a good paycheck i knew my boss want my best.I didnt run around all day complaining that he wanted me to due my job and i didnt think he should take less pay to give me more .i strive to have what they had but didn't hate them because they lived in the better zip code or could drive a better car than me it was either luck of the gene pool or they better educated or they decided to study while i choose to spend time hacking and phone freaking i was first in many miles to have 3300 baud modem tells you how old iam). It is called life. I feel sorry for my grand kids because i know there going to have to make the choices every generation before them blew off because it was taboo. number one issue everyone needs to start talking about is population control. we need one child for every two poeple for at least two generations than one per person.almost every problem like this can be trace back to one issue there are 2 many poeple. to many for environment,too many for job market and on and on. stop blaming the rich or government take some personal responsibility

sorry it suppposed to be CANT in first line

Comment get over it (Score 1) 245

You can have unfettered immigration an think pay scale will go up.there is always someone that will due your job for less.you cant have loopside trade deal and think wages will go up. if they pay a guy in china a dollar a hour and US workers want 10.00 and you arent extra 9 dollars for the product wages dont go up.I Miss the days when you we ashamed to buy something not made in the USA, Than there the work ethics of alot of today youth.if i wanted a good paycheck i knew my boss want my best.I didnt run around all day complaining that he wanted me to due my job and i didnt think he should take less pay to give me more .i strive to have what they had but didn't hate them because they lived in the better zip code or could drive a better car than me it was either luck of the gene pool or they better educated or they decided to study while i choose to spend time hacking and phone freaking i was first in many miles to have 3300 baud modem tells you how old iam). It is called life. I feel sorry for my grand kids because i know there going to have to make the choices every generation before them blew off because it was taboo. number one issue everyone needs to start talking about is population control. we need one child for every two poeple for at least two generations than one per person.almost every problem like this can be trace back to one issue there are 2 many poeple. to many for environment,too many for job market and on and on. stop blaming the rich or government take some personal responsibility

Comment Re: grandmother reference (Score 1) 468

This doesn't mean your game will make it to next pc. At any moment steam can delete any game it wants. People have to seem to forget instead of owning games and apps anymore you lease them. You have given up all rights to software. No more letting your kid brother play your old games. Or selling your old games at one of the brick and mortar game store and using the credit towards something new. This is like buying a used car and chevy coming to repo the car because I bought it a place cheaper than the chevy dealer. Someone already paid chevy for the car what happens after that shouldn't be any of chevy business . same with software companies . what happens to the game in this case after it was bought at a store or whatever it none of there business after that. Steam has gotten people hooked with lost leaders. It a business term google it. Once you paid that heavy discounted price you gave your rights and I fought for my rights for myself and everyone else in the usa and people are giving them up to these corporation without even a wimper. Stop buying from these digital versions and only buy retail box and suing them when a game or app full of bugs. Software the only thing we seem to buy and think ok if it doesn't work right. If you bought a blender and it didn't work til they sent you a new blade a month later you return it and tell them to fuc. Themselves. You have to stand up for your rights and not take this crap. It time for the revolution and tell corporation we want take this anymore. Don't buy there next game that in uplay oh my you might miss a game. It the only way change will happen is if we duevit with our wallets

Comment i dont understand why we dont have station on mars (Score 1) 59

Lets face it . Earth no matter what we do will not br livable for ever . There are 1000 of asteroid, comets and other space junk that all ready aimed a earth we can make these sci fi that we will just blow it up or we are going to stop the moon from moving away from us every year it a little futher away. So it should be a very high priority in every country to work together and figure out a way to get ourself on another class 5 planet. It to late for my generation also my kids but maybe we can save my grand kids. We have 2 choices figure out away to have several generation long space flight to reach another planet or we just give up the human race and sto p worrying about how we treat the planet. It doesnt matter becuase we screwed anyways. We should take half of every country miltary budget and put it towards space exploration. Just my thoughts on the matter.

Submission + - Tesla Model S has hidden ethernet port, user runs Firefox on the 17" Screen (dragtimes.com) 1

FikseGTS writes: A Tesla Model S owner located a 4 pin connector on the left side of the Tesla Model S dashboard that turns out to be a disguised ethernet networking port. After crafting his owns patch cable to connect with the Tesla’s port, a networking connection was established between the Tesla Model S and a laptop computer.

The Model S is running a 100 Mbps, full duplex ethernet network and 3 devices were found with assiged IP addresses in the 192.168.90.0 subnet. Some ports and services that were open on the devices were 22 (SSH), 23 (telnet),53 (open domain), 80 (HTTP), 111 (rpcbind), 2049 (NFS), 6000 (X11). Port 80 was serving up a web page with the image or media of the current song being played. The operating system is modified version of Ubuntu using an ext3 filesystem. Using X11 it also appears that someone was able to somewhat run Firefox on both of the Model S screens.

Is a jailbroken Tesla Model S on the way?

Submission + - Federal Revenge Porn Bill Will Look To Criminalize Websites (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: My own representative in Congress, Jackie Speier, has apparently decided to introduce a federal "revenge porn" bill, which is being drafted, in part, by Prof. Mary Anne Franks, who has flat out admitted that her goal is to undermine Section 230 protections for websites (protecting them from liability of actions by third parties) to make them liable for others' actions. Now, I've never written about Franks before, but the last time I linked to a story about her in a different post, she went ballistic on Twitter, attacking me in all sorts of misleading ways. So, let me just be very clear about this. Here's what she has said:

"The impact [of a federal law] for victims would be immediate," Franks said. "If it became a federal criminal law that you can't engage in this type of behavior, potentially Google, any website, Verizon, any of these entities might have to face liability for violations."

That makes it clear her intent is to undermine Section 230 and make third parties — like "Google, any website, Verizon... face liability."

Submission + - New U.S. Atmoic Clock Goes Live (cnn.com)

PaisteUser writes: CNN writes: "A new atomic clock, so accurate it will lose or gain only one second every 300 million years, was unveiled Thursday by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The NIST-F2 had been in development for about a decade and is three times more accurate than the F1, which has been in use since 1999. The institute will continue operating both clocks for now at its campus in Boulder, Colorado."

Encryption

Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates 378

Sam writes "A former Ubisoft exec believes that Sony will not be able to combat piracy on the PlayStation 3, which was recently hacked. Martin Walfisz, former CEO of Ubisoft subsidiary Ubisoft Massive, was a key player in developing Ubisoft's new DRM technologies. Since playing pirated games doesn't require a modchip, his argument is that Sony won't be able to easily detect hacked consoles. Sony's only possible solution is to revise the PS3 hardware itself, which would be a very costly process. Changing the hardware could possibly work for new console sales, though there would be the problem of backwards compatibility with the already-released games. Furthermore, current users would still be able to run pirated copies on current hardware." An anonymous reader adds commentary from PS3 hacker Mathieu Hervais about Sony's legal posturing.
Wii

New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again 258

Nintendo has tried to block homebrew during firmware updates in the past, often unsuccessfully. Now, as it rolls out version 4.3 of the Wii System Menu, stopping homebrew modifications once again seems to be its primary goal. From Nintendo's support site: "Because unauthorized channels or firmware may impair game play or the Wii console, updating to Wii Menu version 4.3 will check for and automatically remove such unauthorized files." Since it's hard to bill that as an upgrade, they vaguely add, "In addition, there are some behind the scenes enhancements that do not affect any prominently-used features or menus but will improve system performance."
Software

Preserving Virtual Worlds 122

The Opposable Thumbs blog has an interview with Jerome McDonough of the University of Illinois, who is involved with the Preserving Virtual Worlds project. The goal of the project is to recognize video games as cultural artifacts and to make sure they're accessible by future generations. Here McDonough talks about some of the technical difficulties in doing so: "Take, for example, Star Raiders on the Atari 2600. If you're going to preserve this, you've got a couple of problems. The first is that it is on a cartridge that is designed to work on a particular system that is no longer manufactured. And as long as you've got a hardware dependency there, you're really not going to be able to preserve this material very long. What we have been looking at is how feasible is it for things that fundamentally all have some level of hardware dependency there — even Doom has dependencies on DLLs with an operating system, and on particular chipsets and architectures for playing. How do you take that and turn it into something that isn't as dependent on a particular physical piece of hardware. And to do that, you need information about that platform. You need technical specifications that allow you to basically reproduce a virtualization that may enable you to run the software in its original form in the future. So what we're trying to do is preserve not only the games, but preserve the knowledge that you would need to create a virtualization platform to play the game."

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