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Huh? You don't need to give them anything except for your email address. They only look for your email address in the compromised databases.
Pivots aren't common in the gaming industry, but I think we just saw one here. Valve has never produced a Korean model, free-to-play game, but they now have converted one of their most popular products into one, transforming a game whose install base has probably plateaued into a potential new revenue stream.

It's a gutsy move, to be sure.
Assume all data on the drives has been cloned.

There's little chance they didn't.
Thanks for linking to that. I had no idea it existed. Judging from the group size, not many others did either.
Very cool. Now hurry up and release it.
I think we're starting to see some land grabs by bigger players in the digital distribution of games. Electronic Arts has just launched their Origins service and Stardock sold off Impulse to Gamestop. Valve is enticing users onto their platform with all of these free-to-play additions.
I love this comment: "The reason why we put it in is not physical data loss, but once in a blue moon you will have a bug that destroys all copies of the online data and your only protection is to have something that is not connected to the same software system." I think that is often overlooked when designing HA storage systems.
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Called my local Sheriffs department about an sql injection in their prisoner look up system. He is actually an on duty police office who just does the work because others cannot. I feel sorry for them as the application in question is used by many departments across the nation.

They did take the site offline; hopefully for a fix.
It's probably a combination of loss-leader, declining server load, and impending TF3 or equivalent.

That is to say, the server maintenance costs have been dropping, are soon to be dominated by another product, and they are willing to take a hit in the interests of their greater business.

They've also certainly made plenty of money from TF2 already, perhaps enough to support the servers for the projected life of the game.
I hope he securely erased the data rather than just deleting it, otherwise it might not be just the FBI who have potentially got a copy...
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For the record, TF2 runs excellently on WINE and that's how I play it. Don't let the non-Linuxness of the game put you off.
freemium is huge. It's why there's been so much movement in that direction.

Anecdotally, I'd heard a tale that one iOS developer thought "what the heck" and added a seemingly absurd $40 in-app tier purchase option, and it turned out to be their biggest money maker.

Also for reference:
http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=iphone

Six out of the Top 10 Grossing iPhone apps are Free to download and rely on in app purchases. Those freemium apps are outearning practically all the paid apps in the app store.
Can someone summarize please? I'm in the middle if nowhere with a slow connection, thanks.
It will definitely be interesting to see how the influx of free users will affect the community and the games. I know that people used to detest free weekends when a lot of non-paid newbies would be allowed to play for free on the weekend of an update. Are we getting into an "Eternal September" for TF2?
Not just SharePoint. Crawling a machine for special files is pretty simple. Here is a little script I used for a while. Could be modified to look for file headers(more specific) but who is going to change a .doc to a .pdf for security reasons?

#!/usr/bin/python

import os,shutil
exts = [".txt",".doc",".docx",".xls",".xlsx",".ppt",".pptx"]

startpath = os.environ['HOMEDRIVE']

def find(none, directory, filenames):
for file in filenames:
for ext in exts:
if file.endswith(ext):
fullfile = os.path.join(directory,file)
try:
shutil.copy(fullfile,file)
except IOError:
pass # access denied
os.path.walk(startpath,find, None)
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Blackberry has this build in. It can also wipe your device if the battery gets too low.
While awesome, this isn't a particularly gutsy move. Mass-market games make the majority of their money in the first three months, generally, I believe. Considering how long TF2 has been out, I think the potential lost sales are vastly smaller than the potential wins here. That said, good job Valve! I'm so glad to see them experimenting with stuff like this.
Google is very good at PR. Their image as being "naive and bad at marketing" might be part of their PR.

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If you care about gaming in any way, you owe it to yourself to give TF2 a try. It's quite complex, with intricate levels and lots of weapons, but it's easy to learn and you don't need to have every concept fully understood before you dive in.

I've also been surprised by the community that surrounds TF2. People are usually pretty nice about answering questions over chat, as opposed to Xbox Live where all communication comes in the form of racial slurs.
I wonder how they'll deal with cheaters, since you can now have infinite copies for free.
"I have no idea what "post cloud world" means"

I'll use an example:

Client: "I'll be honest we've been looking at some other cloud solutions and they're a lot more competitive on price"

Salesforce: "Yeah if all you want is a cloud solution. What is their post cloud solution?"

Client: "Oh ... umm they didn't even mention that."

Salesforce: "I bet they don't even have one."
This is the web, not a magazine. We don't need information packaged in this form. I don't like this trend; it's abusive to my scrollwheel.
"But what possibilities will it create? Could cars, or for that matter trucks, become like a subscription? You just subscribe and then if at any point and any where you need a ride, you just dial a number and a few minutes later a dirverless vehicle arrives to take you anywhere."

I've heard of this idea before in the context of driverless cars. The thing is, this service already exists and is known as a "taxi". Since driverless taxis would likely be cheaper to operate, this means another source of job loss.
What about linking to the NYT articles, those weren't any less "classified".
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I doubt it will be TF3 since there is really no need to do a major restructuring for TF2. It is excellent and very well balanced the way it is. The only thing I can think of that anyone would even want from TF3 would be a different graphical or techincal approach, which would have only limited interest.

However, I also get an instinct that part of the motivation behind this will be a major new release from Valve, but maybe not. Maybe they are taking TF2 freemium because sales have declined anyway, it will allow greater microtransaction opportunity, and provide a broader userbase for Steam and the advertisements it displays on each boot.
Well, each has a particular use and place. Typically, if you're selling widget software, you should start first with paid search by bidding on various widget related exact-match keywords. Go for people that are searching right now for your kind of product or service.

Facebook comes in to play when you know the sort of person you want. Their age, interests, location, education, etc. You can bid on them there and appeal to their situation, needs and interests directly. If you are selling XYZ service for race car drivers, you can appeal to people that love racing cars with an article and lead form telling them how XYZ service is highly essential for their profession.

Different approaches but still profitable. We spend about 40% of our monthly budget on search and 60% on Facebook. FB is very good when trying to generate leads that you eventually turn into sales. Paid search is very good when you want someone to take out their wallet and buy right the hell now, but you also will pay far more for that person.
I think there's no doubt this is great for Valve.

But as a player who dearly misses vanilla TF2, how is Valve going to combat the influx of greifers and hackers? What stops someone from running TF2 in a VM and continually making new accounts?

I wish there was a way to bring back TF2 as it originally was (no hats, no gimmicks). But I guess the transition to gaming as a service was inevitable. Valve has been going in that direction for a long time.

I hope they do make a proper Half-Life 3.
Luckily, there are lots of use cases where a 5 minute learning curve is entirely reasonable.
These are also known as "taxis".
> I've also been surprised by the community that surrounds TF2. People are usually pretty nice about answering questions over chat, as opposed to Xbox Live where all communication comes in the form of racial slurs.

I think this is a byproduct of the demographic differences between console gaming and PC gaming. Console gamers tend to be younger (and thus less mature) than PC gamers because consoles are cheaper (the parents are paying) and more locked down (parents again).
He is in the wrong because he doesn't recognize that a pixelated version of his iconic photograph of Miles Davis is an incredibly appropriate cover for a CD with 'pixelated' renditions of his music.

Given the circumstances, an album with a very limited audience, available primarily for electronic download (there was only a physical version with this cover for Kickstarter backers), I think the commercial and legal aspects should be considered moot.

Let a thousand of these tiny suns bloom. The world would be better, not worse and that is the only criterion that needs to count. All analogies are off, because we don't need to be arguing the general case. They all fail to consider that this is a work by an accomplished artist whose reputation or commercial interest are in no way threatened by this use of his work. That is the specific case under consideration and that is why he is utterly wrong.
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Increasing staff and relieving the pressure of a 3 year backlog on patent applications could result in a more thorough (read: better) job being done and less "obvious" patents approved.

Or it could water down the standards even further as undertrained people come in and rubber stamp whatever's in front of them.
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XMPP is much more extensible than SIP. Presence, messaging, and IM work much better in XMPP. There are extensions for archiving messages, return receipts, etc. There are extensions for file transfer.

There are extensions for vCards. There are extensions for PubSub.

XMPP works over HTTP using BOSH. It can also work over SOCKS.

Apache/Google Wave uses XMPP for federation. It is just flat out more extensible and featureful. Just like the acronym stands for: Extensible Messaging and Presence. It does a whole lot more than just IM or just VoIP.

http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/xmpp-extensions/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave#Federation_Protocol
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Hi Pud, Mike from card.io here. I totally agree, and thanks for the criticism. This video goes up tomorrow, courtesy of @zumpangofilms: http://youtu.be/7lg0nMH4NFk?hd=1
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How are credit cards more flexible than a computer in your hand? Worst case your phone acts exactly like your credit card where you read numbers off of it.

Also, how would a phone lead to more fraud? You could authorize each transaction by cryptographically signing it after entering a passphrase. With a credit card anyone that steals your numbers can charge to it.
There's been a lot of controversy over this. In short, it isn't a "lost" tribe, it's just isolated. Its existence has been known since 1910.

The guy who made the initial footage was accused of making a hoax. But he says he never claimed to have discovered a new tribe. He just made the video to show people that such tribes do exist and they have to be protected from invasors.

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Would there not also be backups at DigitalOne?
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Combined with a good backup policy (you can setup your iPhone to backup each sync), this would be workable.
Ehhh... There are a lot of dicks in PC pub servers too..
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know how volume-level encryption (like dm-crypt) holds up against this sort of thing? I find myself wondering what I'd tell customers if my server were seized as collateral damage like Instapaper's were. Will that sort of encryption serve as a plausible safeguard of customer data, or is it more of a padlock (easily broken with the right tools)?
Ironically, you can probably get the purest TF2 experience today on its least-preferred platform, the PS3. I don't think that version was ever updated with even the earliest tweaks.
The graphic style also turns away the typical tough-guy attitude that seems to pervade most FPSs.
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This seems to be a really clever hack. By increasing supply as the market is adjusting back down, it should force the market to adjust down even faster, potentially costing speculators substantially. This risk should reduce future speculation because at any time the government could flood the market and tank prices. This should keep the long term price of oil closer to the price of the underlying commodity.
Close - It will update to "Yup." The source code reads:

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And, it even comes with a warranty:

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Old video from Iraq of a gunship returning fire. These are passed along A LOT from police office to office. Nothing news breaking.
Huh?

This should be an HTML document – if only to make it at least a tiny bit more accessible and also to allow you to, for example, copy text. So sure, that’s not so nice.

But what’s your problem with packaging information this way? Scrolling (and not paging) is one of the most elemental properties of the web. They could have added interactivity but that’s additional work you can’t really demand.

I don’t understand what you want.
"all you need to do is call eval on a JSON string to obtain a first-class Javascript object"

need i say more?
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An invention disclosure is just the actual description of the invention that an inventor writes used by a lawyer to write a patent. Its the actual description of the invention before its translated into patent speak.

The difference between one of these and a patent is best summed up by one of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes: "It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_disclosure
TF2 on 360 actually had a remarkably good community, at least for a year or year and a half until many people moved over to PC as that version started evolving significantly. The nature of the community was especially pronounced since it was released at about the same time as Halo 3, which was the hypocenter of bad behavior on xbox live.
I am really unhappy about the move towards premium-content, DLC, IAP or however you want call what's happening in the gaming industry right now. When I play a game I do not want to make financial real world decisions and I don't want my gaming experience to be altered by my real world wallet. Isn't it the point of gaming to get away from worries like that?!
I also want to be able to experience the game as it was originally intended by the game designer. That last point is not so much of an issue with a game like TF2, but more so with RPGs like Dragon Age or Mass Effect. Is the game balanced right with the stronger bonus armor that I got for per-ordering or does this make the game too easy??
My point was that the choice is sometimes not left in the user's direct control. If I thought I could choose an absurdly strong password (e.g., to overcome the shortcomings of the developer's choice of SHA1), I would always do that – except if I'm going to need to enter that password from memory a bunch of times per day.
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This is one of the candlelit scenes Kubrik shot with those lenses.

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Did you find success with this approach? Is it enough to get 95%?
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I agree with cookiecaper. I don't see Valve doing TF3 for some time. Whenever it does happen (and I think it will eventually) it will only be with large fundamental changes that the TF2 tech can't handle on reasonable machines. Valve has become genius in their new approach of "games as service" imo.

I think we'll see them going GOIP (Gaming Over IP, that's right, I just coined that. And what?) by the end of next year, too.
For the record: the pixelated image was hand drawn by a pixel art artist. But actually, I don't care about that: lets assume it was a computer-pixelated version that anyone could make with Photoshop. Then Maisel is still wrong.

This tiny project doesn't threaten his firmly established reputation or commercial interests in any way. The audience is severely limited and the pixelated image has only appeared on the cover of an even smaller number of physical CD's and otherwise was simply displayed on the website as the visual representation of the music. For which it was incredibly appropriate. It wasn't used to 'sell the music': you couldn't even buy that pixelated image.

Maisel should allow a thousand of these tiny suns to bloom, even if that requires a thousand of his photographs to be pixelated and use in tiny projects that make a few people happy. All analogies are off, specifically because Maisel is in a supreme position to ignore all commercial and legal interests. That makes his legal action petty and unartistic and makes the world a worse place.
What's next, Ron Paul clips?
Interesting that the limited the law to highways (edit: the law limited the use of autonomous vehicles to highways) (section 2, paragraph 1). I suppose it makes sense since highway driving is more predictable but its also higher speed and thus accidents are more dangerous. Also, this limitation would require the presence of a human driver to get the car to the highway.
"I still think many people "DIY'ing" shouldn't."

Chuckle. Agreed 100% however folks want to be independent, even when they aren't as good at it as they might think they are. From the psychology perspective if you can make a system that "feels" DIY but really isn't so DIY that the final product looks DIY, that is the value proposition in this market. You sell people the notion they can "do it themselves, no need for techno-nerds telling you how you're doing it wrong!" and then you give them a design system on rails for which the 'exit' points are all decent web sites.
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+1 to the attitude. It's all about getting the service back up and making it better. We (collectively) tend to spend too much time trying to figure out who to blame instead of just doing the cool shit that needs to be done. Kudos!
It's actually kind of rare that cops lose their jobs for not upholding the law. Check out the front page of reddit.com/r/bad_cop_no_dounut, and you'll get a sampling of how cops regularly brutalize the law and the people they're meant to serve.
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He should absolutely assume that the data has been cloned, but there is about a 99% chance that it wasn't.

If the data was cloned on-site, then we wouldn't have heard about the search warrant (there'd have been a gag order).

And as this happened yesterday, there's almost no chance that the server could have been taken to the lab, imaged, and then returned to be reconnected today.

I would bet 100 dollars that the actual target server of the raid is still sitting on a dolly in the forensics cage while a tech is waiting for someone to tell him what he's supposed to be looking for.
Maisel is in the comfortable position where he doesn't need to do that anymore and hasn't needed to for a long time. That is why this was wrong of him. He doesn't need to protect his reputation or commercial interests against some tiny project doing an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis. He gains nothing: the net effect is that this guy, that tried to do something nice that made a few people happy, get slapped. Nothing else has come of this lawsuit.
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Just seems kind of tasteless, I guess.