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> Custom JS on your subdomains is a bad idea

What is the difference between allowing users to put custom JS on a subdomain, vs. someone just opening up the developer console and running whatever JS they like? Does JS loaded from the server have different privileges to JS entered at the console?
It is BS, of course. I was disconnected and was able to play for hours. Literally all they need to add is local saving of your city.*

*When I quit the game and came back the next day, my city was gone.
Why would you buy a game you know before hand must be played online if you don't have a good Internet connection or would want to play while in an airplane? You shouldn't be mad at EA you should pissed at yourself for letting that happen.
1) In the case of CD Projekt you're ignoring the part about how their DRM was cracked in about 48 hours. If I remember correctly, that's one of the major reasons they abandoned it.

2) Most of the "fervent anti-DRM crowd" are actually the people who pay for the games. Real pirates could care less about traditional DRM schemes; they could always circumvent them until now.

3) As algorias already mentioned there are multiple communities in gaming. I'm sure video game piracy stats also greatly vary by country. I'm going to take a wild guess that it's the worst in Asia (excluding Japan) due to the culture.
Another big disclaimer:

I didn't clone github/github, steps are theoretical
The 'cage' appears to be so that resident can lock their belongings inside when they aren't there (you can see padlocks hanging on the doors of some).

I can't really offer much of a useful statement on the realities of being chronically homeless (which is what these men essentially are) in a big city or on the root causes of the situation in Hong Kong, both social and economic. But I can say that the immediate needs of shelter, which come with a lack of space, privacy and security, are very likely to exist very close to home for anyone living in a big city. Here are some examples of sleeping arrangements for homeless in Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles (some are emergency shelters, some are permanent):

http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2012/01/16/Homel...

http://triblocal.com/glen-ellyn/files/cache/2011/08/OTE-sea-...

http://commongroundwa.org/people/images/portlet-images/Portl...

http://test.housing1000sv.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/she...
What this means is that every Hypercard stack is a movie
and can be played by ANY existing movie player, including
(and demoed) MoviePlayer, WordPerfect, Netscape and
OpenDoc's movie part.

Yeah, that'll be useful for all of those OpenDoc applications that flooded the market in the late '90s... /sarcasm
Religion and science becomes at odds if religion makes falsifiable claims about the natural world which is contradicted by scientific evidence. Many religions does that. Liberal theology tries to explain such claims away as metaphorical. The counter-reaction against liberal theology is fundamentalism.

There are a lot of religions which doesn't have the idea of a single God or Godhead. The concept of "underlying energy" sounds like New Age mythology - which is fine, but New Age is not every religion.
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"Being able to scale 130% in a week, having an easily shardable problem and having frontend server CPU starvation tells me personally, that adding more machines could be possible (but maybe not economically feasible)."

I strongly feel that this is the real problem, especially since Amazon as extra large instances available now.
I mean isn't that twice the size of a dorm room? It could not have been that bad.
Guys, the cause of security is not helped by speculating wildly.

First of all, the Sun JVM is written in C++, not C. Second of all, the recent security problems are not the result of buffer overflows or other C++ coding problems, but design choices in the Java security model coupled with poor library coding. These vulnerabilities existed for a long time. The fact that they're only coming to light now is just a historical accident more than anything else. Oracle's response has been slow, but they did not create the problem. Sun did. (And I say that as a big fan of the old Sun Microsystems.)

The Java security model is supposed to allow you to keep both trusted and untrusted code in the same process space. Unfortunately, if any trusted library is poorly coded, you can use it to escalate your privileges. You can basically get something a lot like "eval" using the classloader and reflection.

This was a tradeoff that the Java language designers made. They chose to implement a powerful, but complex, sandboxing scheme. It would have been a lot simpler just to run the untrusted code in a separate process, like Chrome does. But that would have required interprocess communication. A lot of these 0-days have used this mechanism, or something like it, to exploit their privileges.

Another decision the Java web plugin designers made was to give plugins the ability to do almost everything native applications could do-- manipulate the filesystem, send network traffic, etc. This was another design choice that could have been made differently-- for example, Javascript historically never offered these kinds of abilities.

There have been a ton of Java 0-days and I don't have time to explain or research them all. But most of them flow directly out of the underinvestment in Java plugins over the last decade (a policy Sun started, and Oracle continued), and the fundamental design decisions made in the early days. I haven't seen any of them that were related to C or C++ (although I haven't examined all of them in detail so maybe there was one somewhere.)
I can only buy some beer and snacks for this compensation
no difference. but running XSS in console is shooting your leg
He's referring to the HTML5 DRM, which Google, Microsoft and Netflix are supporting (I think Apple, too).
This falls prey to the classic fallacy of "piracy" critics, that all instances of piracy are effectively lost sales.

In fact, there's little evidence this is so for most games. It makes sense that a game that can be pirated will be so by a higher number of people than those who pay for it, but this alone does not support the conclusion that the rates of purchase for a game that is extensively pirated are necessarily lower than if that wasn't the case.

In the case of The Witcher 2, after the patch that removed the onerous SecuROM DRM fully 4 million additional copies of the game have been purchased to date, compared to around 1 million copies total purchased during the few months after release while the DRM was still in place.
The difference is, I can put custom JS on my Github page and send you a link, when you open it you run code I authored.
Developer console is just me running code, and is also on any arbitrary domain on any site.
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Yep. I think this is the future of gaming according to EA and a few of the other traditional AAA studios. Not every Publisher is this hostile to users or treats them the way EA or Ubisoft does. Publishers such as Valve, Square Enix, 2k Games have been friendly and respectful to PC gamers for the most part in recent years by using only Steam DRM and avoiding too much "consolitis[1]" in PC games (some of 2k games titles are iffy, but overall they have more hits than misses).

Then we have all the really great indie games coming out, like the successor to Dungeon Keeper Series[2] that looks good enough to be AAA (though no where near the price range), but is crowd funded. We also have a great alternative to Blizzard's Diablo with Torchlight. Some studios will go the way of EA and others I think will be the opposing side. Who will win though I think is up for debate, but I prefer to be optimistic.

[1] http://www.firingsquad.com/games/Firing_Points_Consolitis/

[2] https://wftogame.com/
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It's not a criminal matter. Mens rea -- "guilty conscience", the intention to act unlawfully -- is a component of crime. But it's not necessary for lots of civil legal matters.

For example, if we both enter into a contract, you can hold me to my end. If I fail to hold up my end without intending to fail, then you can still insist that I make right or seek remedies for my failure.

(IANAL, TINLA).
But you can bet money will be intelligently routed to their pockets
+1 for Reynholm Industries in the slide deck.
the roku box came out of Netflix - I won't be surprised if they still have stakes there.

it's more about keeping their data for themselves, sharing is caring and they just don't :)
I don't know what US dorms are like, but I'd guess they have some shared space to stretch out in. Maybe a kitchen or lounge. But what we're talking about is the room, and nothing else.

That's not a great way to live.
Just tell Google not to index these questions. Don't censor whole ranges of questions for an arbitrary and mostly wrong definition of quality.
You can test all you like on a staging environment, but until you have tested your prod you can never be 100% sure.

That said, I wasn't thinking of DOSing yourself and bringing your servers down. But I could definitely see a use for a service where it gradually increases the load till response times hit some threshold.
At least I could play D3 on launch day.

But Blizzard has been "always online" for a while now. It's not really new to them. And they have a fuck ton of servers.
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Having commuted from Shenzhen for a few months, it seems a lot of people do actually do this.

Mostly younger people though.

The night buses from wanchai are full of HKers heading home to SZ.
Looks good. I am going to signup now.
Valve's free to play is done well, because they don't force you to purchase items in the game in order to compete or find the game fun. They're aesthetic items that let one customize their characters, instead of crippling gameplay.

If others followed this model, free to play would not be given anywhere close to the bad name it typically conveys.
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I think the money for this class action lawsuit would be better used if it would go for a sysadmin/devops person to actually deploy the systems involved.

"Bait and switch"? If a couple of Dynos is not enough for your load, you should be moving to self-managed hosts
JUST WONDER,

how much would someone pay for this vuln? We can discuss it... homakov@gmail.com
Answer: Looks like it applies equally to non-citizens. Will feel better about bringing my laptop across the border now. https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/fourth-amendment
Team Fortress 2, but that's another Valve game, so it doesn't exactly count :)
The problem is that Heroku made claims about their architecture and subsequent performance characteristics that were flatly untrue.

The further problem it looks as if they knew the claims were untrue.

These are not matters of internal consideration. They cut directly to the heart of the Heroku marketing material: "Write for our platform, our expensive secret sauce will make your stuff linearly scalable."

In which case people expect that it will be linearly scalable. Not exponentially anti-scalable.
"A lot more people logged on than we expected"

So? The whole idea of 'the cloud' is that you are able to quickly (automatically) add capacity to handle temporary high demand for computing resources. With a capable provider like Amazon or Windows Azure, computing resources should not be a problem if you are actively taking care of provisioning.
Additional DRM measures are usually stated, but sometimes things are omitted or notifications not removed when the additional DRM gets removed. I've bought a few games before that said they still had the DRM, but they no longer did (things like secure rom, games for windows live, etc).

I'm always paranoid and check both the Big Steam DRM List[1] and also the Steam Forums to make sure there isn't any additional DRM not listed. Especially since refunds are hard to deal with on Steam.

[1] http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?page=DRM_Lists/T...
The careful decomposition of problem domain into solution domain followed by recursive search of the solution domain is the lawyer's job. If they don't analyse to death, they are breaching their fiduciary duty.

Don't like the legal method? Don't hire a lawyer. Try doing it yourself. See how far you get when the other guy's lawyers have done the exhaustive analysis and found the deciding element buried in a logical node on a distant subgraph you didn't even know was there to be explored.
It surfaced in 1819: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustees_of_Dartmouth_College_v...
Obviously in no way does each instance of piracy equate to a lost sale, but even a moderate percentage of instances of piracy that actually lost a sale would be a disappointing total sum lost by the developer, considering the enormous overall rate of piracy.

Also, the 4 million figure is total sales of the first and second games on all released platforms, not solely PC nor following the removal of the DRM, unless you have a source that wildly disagrees with mine. It would certainly be an impressive vote of no confidence in DRM if 4 PC million sales had occurred subsequent to the removal of the DRM, however that appears not to be the case. http://gamespot.com/news/the-witcher-series-sales-hit-4-mill...
This is different than a security check. TSA is looking for dangerous, or banned items - "is this safe to fly?". If they happen to find signs of criminal activity, they will turn you over to the police. TSA can examine your laptop, but they can't force you to open files or give them the password. They also claim that this is voluntary (you're flying instead of driving).

Border agents are making sure you are not a criminal from the get-go. They have asserted that they can take your laptop bag from you nearly-indefinitely to do a full forensic analysis, without your consent. This is certainly not voluntary as all means of transport can result in a border check, and I have a right to enter my own country.
Hmm, not a great start. Service isn't sending me a confirmation email, so can't get an account.
I grabbed it on Steam last year after losing my hard copy some years ago. If one waits for a big Steam sale or adds Sim City 4 to their wish list, they get notified when it goes on sale and the typical price is 4.99 with all the addons as well. Lots of community mods out there for the game for anyone interested that fix some bugs like traffic issues.
That it's now accepted to pay $60 for a service instead of a product in gaming. A service they can shut down whenever they want (e.g. when the customer refuses to be ripped off by the DLC anymore). The cities created by the players could (or probably will) be lost. For some games like MMOs this is normal. For simulation games it was not.
If you want to go directly to a visualization of the solutions: http://suki.ipb.ac.rs/3body/
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Yes I can, though it's a good question! Probably better couched as "deliberate oversight". Think in a political situation where you don't want to deal with an issue because it'll open a can of worms. 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' in the US ilitary was one such thing. Here's an example f he use of the term in a blog about Apple products: http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2011/12/os-x-understanding-enab...
Mongolia's capital Ulaan Baatar is also called the coldest capital in the world. Harsh temperatures during the winters force the poorest people to live in the canalization, where are heating pipes:

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/mongolian-homeless-l...

I think, it cannot get worse than that.
Yeah, other developed countries are all going downhill for not being overlawyered up like in US.

It's a system set by lawyers for lawyers so of course you need a lawyer more than in many other countries. "Everyone" sues over everything
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It took me a while to find the actual patterns. Shouldn't the list of patterns be visible on the home page or at least accessible from the menu?
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Unsurprisingly, Pepsi and Coca-Cola strongly disagree, saying there is nothing in the drinks that can be used in pest control.

Coming soon: You drink Coke? Are you nuts? It's so toxic, they use it as a pesticide.
I guess you could use the Konami Code on this one.
No it's not ethical. When I see it as I'm checking out I CANCEL MY ORDER AND LEAVE! I'm not going to do business with a company that is trying to scam me.
I prefer Testacular for exactly this reason. It allows you to capture any number of browsers. I've attached my physical iPad to it, and IE 8 out of a VM.

JsTestDriver and Test'em 'Scripts do too. (I haven't tried Test'em yet, but that's what I hear.)

Granted, these aren't tools for functional testing like Selenium and (apparently) CasperJS, but functional tests are something you want to minimize as much as possible. They're slow-running and brittle.
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Passwords encourage people to use the same password across sites

I've heard this said about difficult passwords, but I think this is putting too fine a point on it. Passwords don't encourage anything on their own, except perhaps a consciousness of the basics of security. It's akin to saying that pizza encourages eating it for every meal. I don't think we've yet seen a gene that selfish.
I've had this lock for months and it's never failed me. I didn't even want it since it was more expensive than most locks but it was the only one at my gym's shop.
Well if that really works, then Indian farmers have done a good hack at pest control. But how that excess sugar affect soil, plantation and local ecology than those other pesticides, should be further studied.
But you do lose many of your responsibilities behind the corporate veil. That's the thing that's so weird. Corporations don't merely give their constituent people a vehicle to exercise their rights. Corporations are totally separate people from any person inside the corporation.
Ah ok good point.
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The overlawyered US is the richest and most powerful country on Earth by a country mile.
Chaos monkey simulates servers going down. That wasn't the issue here. This was just too much demand (i.e., not enough servers deployed) combined with what sounds like terribly inefficient algorithms...
They probably want us to treat it as a feature :)
I am not an expert in security but when I started using github pages a week ago. When I realized I could put any Javascript on the github.com domain I thought: good luck with making this secure.
Rossie's hand are hilarious. Too bad I don't at sausages.. I'll gladly wait for the pastry cook version though
there is no way to make it secure, lol :D
"The overlawyered US is the richest and most powerful country on Earth by a country mile."

Thanks to the lawyers, no doubt. I am sure you didn't meant to say that if we pass some tort reform and limit some nonsense lawsuits (IP, malpractice etc) the country will lose it's wealth /power rank.
Moral of the story: having "www." in your canonical site URL is back in fashion?
That may be true, if and only if, Mir turns out worse than X11. If it turns out better, then it is a step in the right direction.

I really don't see how it could be worse than being stuck in X11-land though.

Sure, Wayland may(or may not) end up even better. But why should I care, as long as there is a great improvement to the current situation?
It would be very interesting to try sugared water vs cola vs pesticides - scientifically. It should be some public-funded research though, as no private company could benefit from this study (unless it is to disprove that sugar works).
It's a good call for action, but from my own experiences the cost of rebuilding things (time,money,breaking stuff) is so great, and there's no real incentive for anyone within the company to do so. On the bright side - this does open a window for new enterprise start ups to redo these kind of systems and win over large and legacy software.
It seems like a strategy these days. Start out by giving out API's to get as many other companies to use it and therefore promote your service, then when you're big enough and don't think they are needed anymore, cut them off.
I'm pretty sure there were a lot of businesses who banned cell phones 10 years ago. We'll wait and see how Glass goes.
Ah, my bad, I've misread the question
When you know what you are doing you can dress how ever you want. Your experience is in the tone of your voice, doesn't matter how you look.

One of my co workers dress all metal and may look like someone you don't take seriously but I'm amazed how when he says "this technology doesn't exist" nobody questions him, even when he is just joking.
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That all sounds right to me, but I think you've mistsken my meaning. The point wasn't that they lack mens rea, but that the decision to misrepresent the product can't have been made before the acquisition because that decision was never made at all. It was misrepresented by reality gradually changing out from under initially truthful statements.
What does need have to do with it? If people want to live in a "cozy" apartment in the heart of a bustling city or if they want to live on a ranch home with 20 acres, and can afford to do so, why shouldn't they?
this won't help. .site.com will be sent anyway
I think this is the 6th time this link has been posted here. The site is 4 years old already.
There's no Amazon back door. The search string gets sent to Canonical, they search amazon using that string and return results with their snazin affiliate link.
There was no System 7.2 or 7.3.5. They went from 7.1.2 to 7.5. You may be thinking of 7.1.2 (the first PowerPC release) or 7.5.3 (the last full version posted as a free download).
There's a nice PDF that discusses the mechanism

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The rule of law is a key part of the mix of institutions, geography, culture and luck that have made the USA the richest country that has ever been.

And with the rule of law comes lawyers. I know it's fashionable to hate lawyers, but they're a necessary profession.

Law is a field in which small details can have very large consequences once the full line of reasoning is unfolded. Because of the importance of exhaustively covering all lines of argument to the maximal possible depth, lawyers are required to do so.

They don't do it to bill you more. It is their legal duty.

If you don't like that lawyers are required on pain of loss of income, loss of profession and potentially loss of personal liberty to give you the fullest and most complete service that they are able to give you, then you are entitled to represent yourself.
There's a whole community around the idea of tiny houses. For example, check out this 89 sq foot home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM

Obviously it's different to choose this lifestyle vs being forced into it due to poverty.
How does the amazon shopping lens spy on users? The search string gets sent to Canonical, they search amazon using that string and return results with their Amazon affiliate link.
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I used to work with people who commute from Island South to SZ, but they only do it on Friday night and come back on Monday morning. In general, people living cages neither have the money nor time to commute.
Considering how vastly pirated copies usually outnumber purchased copies, I hope you don't consider "a moderate percentage" to be something high, like 30% would be.
Not if you don't set it right?
As someone who is moving from the UK to HK in 3 months, with no job or visa secured, and attempting to bootstrap my (first) startup; this scares the crap out of me!