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"I personally am not a fan of used games (I don't see it as being much better ideologically than piracy, since the people who made the game are not getting compensated on resales which provide an identical experience to one that you get brand new)"

This argument is crazy. No one considers buying a user car grand theft auto, and no one considers being the second (or third, or tenth) owner of a house as some sort of scheme to defraud homebuilders.

Cars, homes, and video games are property. It should be the right of the property owner to do what they chose with their property, including selling it. The prices of new homes and new cars have been adjusted to compensate for the fact that that property will be resold. Why are video games any different?

If game publishers can't make a profit on their wares, they either need to charge more or spend less. The secondhand games market is not the problem, at all. The efforts of the publishers to kill off the secondhand market is a great example of the same sort of crappy, cartel-like practices we decry when it's done by, say, the wireless industry. The game industry shouldn't get a free pass to behave badly like this.
I'd rather our politicians tell us what they want to do. Then, when they are in power, and have the means to do those things, balance it with the knowledge they've gathered from having access to all that power.

What prevents them from sharing that knowledge, so the people who voted for them actually believe them when they say they had good reason for breaking campaign promises? Why is it always nebulous non-information like "there are threats" instead of "we are now tracking XX organizations with Y and Z capabilities and intentions, with exhibits A, B, and C proving this fact"?
Two countries that have never used nuclear weapons against their enemies.
If you are trying to compare games to cars, then the analogy doesn't translate to digital products at all.

Non-digital products degrade as they are used. A car only has a certain number of kilometres in it. The older the car is, the worse it is to drive and the more it costs to run.

Digital goods either work or they don't. If you buy the same digital good used then you get the exact same experience as the person who bought it new.

Things that don't wear out are just different.
Make gifts for people.
Ruby-on-rails Flaw Abused, Botnet of Hijacked Systems Built
With Xbox Live Gold, Microsoft probably made more money, I'd say.
Its going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Its an exciting episode in the new technological age of 'freedom of speech'
The specific instance of the technology might have changed but general phenomena surrounding people's perceptions of technology certainly haven't.
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm all for that. Microsoft has been unclear about how people will be allowed to do that but it would be very unfortunate if that was disallowed.
It takes awhile for a protest movement to actually mobilize, particularly if you're trying to bring in more than the professional protest group everyone ignores without a second thought.

We won't know for a month or two whether this has legs or not.
This seems like an "evergreen" position - one they always have live and collect the resumes from, calling candidates whenever they actually have a need.
Microsoft botnet takedown ultimately counterproductive.
There are lots of waivers to sovereign immunity, some routinely granted by the courts (for injunctive relief) and some granted by Congress. There are specific waivers relating to law enforcement abuses, particularly for abuses of search and seizure powers, written into the law but I won't speculate as to whether they apply.

For those following sovereign immunity issues, the recent Millbrook v. United States should come to mind right away.
FBI and Microsoft Corp in joint assault on £500m fraud botnet
Except there is a difference between the law and morality. In this case, Snowden clearly broke the law, and is a criminal regardless of his moral motivations. This PRISM program, while obviously an overreach of the government, has yet to be determined as illegal by the courts.
Why would you post a screenshot of source code? I don't understand.
I understand that you can't seek psychiatric help, or else you lose your clearance. And other fun stuff like that.

In any case I know quite a few "decent human beings" who would not be able to get a security clearance.
> Anybody going to apply for shiggles?

Just sent in an app for you. No need to thank.
Totally agree with this mindset regarding BitCoin. As with microwave ovens and tablets, some new technologies don't replace old ones, but rather occupy new niches that were previously not feasible.

Put another way, I don't foresee a world in which state-backed currencies and crypto-currencies are not both useful.
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this is one of the reason why the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are making us less safe. We barge into peoples houses and search through their stuff all the time. People seem to forget how important Respect is to people, people will fight revolutions for it. We did, the arab spring is doing it, a persons personal space and thoughts and communications are their most sacred human rights.
So now MS is competing against PS4 & Apple TV with a product that costs as much as the two combined.

Microsoft can't subsidize the HW if they are aiming for the TV audience. I think their strategy is flawed.
def. not snowden - only a secret clearance required. im sure he was TS/SCI
From a mathematician's point of view it is a Fourier series. You have the property that any starting state can be divided into the sum of orthogonal components. No matter how complex the components are, that's still a Fourier series.

A physicist would disagree, I am sure. But to a mathematician, an orthonormal wavelet basis is also a Fourier series.
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And even if we could, I don't think revising it every n years is good policy. We should change the law when it's broken, but more importantly changes to the law must necessarily lag several election cycles behind the needs and expectations of society. A court can actually make the change quicker if need be.

Sure, there needs to be a low pass filter of some kind to prevent wild oscillations in the law due to delayed feedback, but we're getting oscillations now in the form of party swapping every 4-8 years. There must be some way to make the law less like a moving average filter and more like an adaptive Kalman filter so it can react quickly when necessary without throwing out the entire USC every election (though I have, in the past, proposed rewriting the entire body of laws from scratch once per generation, with a generational opt-in-based transition from the old set to the new set). Courts should be a last measure, IMO, due to the insane costs of facing one, rather than an integral process of deciding what the law actually is.
Sony did a terrible job advertising it, but PlayTV filled exactly the same role that this fills, and had dvr functionality, along with the same eternal hardware required requirements. Im surprised that they haven't done something similar for the ps4 yet.
Cars degrade but not by very much. You sometimes have to repair new cars, you sometimes have to repair old cars.

Ignoring the fact that discs go bad, digital goods depreciate FAR faster than cars. A 15 year old car in good shape retains most of the value it had the day it was sold. A 15 year old game is barely worth anything.
> A weather app is really a 3-hour project;

Someone recommended that pg flash the HN title bar whenever such insightful comments are made. I would like to +1 that idea.
* The foregoing instructional video applies only to disc based games *

PS4 multi-player online access requires PSN account & PS Plus subscription.

Kind of a buzz kill.
> Linux namespaces allows namespacing almost any subsystem

Namespacing has nothing to do with it. Not even a decent try.
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We aren't even sure if the TV integration works yet, even in the US. Every other attempt at it has failed (Google TV, etc). Sony's video after their conference showed multitasking while playing a game, on par with what Microsoft has showed us so far. So if those were your only points to pick an XBone over a PS4, you may want to hold on a second.
It's $399 because it doesn't include the camera [0]. You can also use other apps without paying it's $50/year to play multiplayer games / PS+. We'll have to wait a year or so though for it's exclusive to catch up with Microsoft's. In two years when tablets get more RAM and cores, and if tablet games get serious the death of consoles AND handhelds will be increased. After all, unless you have people over, personally I would rather play outside, PS Vita style remotely connected to my PC. So. There. Instant startup opportunity. The closest I've found, is what I use with my PS3 controller [1]. I'm looking for something like the Vita, but for the PC because I'm done with consoles. Unless it gets 10+ games that I'm interested in, there's no point. Who wants to be forced to buy the camera, and be monitored like that. IMO, Japan's morals and culture continues to be the best choice when it comes to gaming.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-4-Camera/dp/B00BGAA3S2
[1] http://buy.thegameklip.com/
That's not entirely fair, we're talking about premium entertainment devices with a minimum price of $399, the difference is only 20% of that.
Today, Apple publicly confirmed that they’ve forgotten why they exist.
Relevant.
"We're Indie, we like Microsoft. Too Controversial?"

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JamesSilva/20130523/192832/Were_I...
If you stop playing the game Civilization and look back at history, you'll see that there are a lot of very bad people in the world who do very bad things. All of the freedoms that we enjoy in Western democracies were hard-won and continue to be backed up by guns, bombs, codes, and secrets. It's not pretty, but that's how things are.

It might well be that the current approach to domestic surveillance is out of balance and these agencies (and contractors!) need to be better controlled, but this pseudo-libertarian nihilism about government betrays an ignorance of realities that are much more fundamental than who is tracking phone call metadata.
If you treat writing software as a business decision as opposed to something to stroke the programmer's ego, writing software for Apple would make sense.
If you're going to be a stickler for detail, it's not "clear" he broke the law just because you say so - not until he is convicted in court.
The problem is the subpoenas come stapled to a gag order. "Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?" is really not the right question to ask, and not the one the thread answers. They couldn't "blow the whistle" without going to jail.

The right question to ask is "Why didn't tech companies fight the orders in court", and the answer is, of course, if you're in a heavily regulated industry the government can crush you without involving the judiciary. You could win the court battle and go out of business, even if regulators don't attack you personally over "three felonies a day".
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A Hero's Welcome for Snowden on Chinese Internet. 在中国互联网,英雄般的欢迎。
Well it's a tie technically. But you're right in the USA. Lifetime sales for PS3 are 70-77 million, Xbox 360 sales are 77 million. Consider that 1 in 3 people I know with a 360 got the red ring of death and bought another one I'd say a PS3 and 360 are more than tied.
I'm pretty bummed about the new Mac Pro, I really want / need my dev work station purchase this summer to have a Haswell generation CPU, plus NVidia Cuda support. Which this seems to lack.

(context, I'm doing a lot of Dev work on high peformance numerical algorithms, and the fewer machines i need to test all the different substrates, the better.)
i have never heard of something not getting a secret clearance, as long as they were honest about the skeletons in their closet (drug use in the past, etc). i have heard a DUI or arrest makes it very hard-to-impossible to get one. TS+ is a whole different story, but who the hell would want one of those anyways
> Their record was mixed to say the least.

As is post-"scientific revolution", whatever that means.

> The revolution of science was to say we don't need Truth

Do you have anything real to say?
US Supreme Court: no warrant needed to collect phone metadata
But the price of that used car is also adjusted to reflect the wear/warranty/uncertainty. In an efficient market, the price of a car, used or new, reflects the actual value of that car.

Why should games be considered any different?

You also don't get an "identical experience" to a person who purchased the game new. The bits on the disc may be identical, but the experience isn't. For example, a game bought new in 2009 might look great in 2009, but by 2013 you've come to expect more. Likewise, there may be fewer players online for multiplayer experiences. There's also all sort of additional intangibles -- you probably won't be the first person in your peer group to play the game, so you can't brag how you beat it faster than someone else, or have the same feeling of shared experience when you ask "did you get past level X? How did you beat the lava golem?", and their response is "I don't know, I did that like two years ago."

The analogy isn't perfect, but hopefully it's illustrative enough. At the end of the day, both cars are video games have a certain value when new, and a certain, probably lessened, value when "used". The characteristics by which the value has decreased from new to used are different, but they're extant in both cases.
I prefer peace as well, but this needs to get physical for it to get real.

Hacker News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Medium, etc. will never overpower CNN, NBC, et al.

TPTB have a lock on the media. Do you recall how they ignored Ron Paul's early victories in the 2012 election? It doesn't matter that he ACTUALLY had a chance early on, because the mainstream media never let it be.

Peaceful negotiation cannot take place because the ruling political class is in denial. Meaningful education cannot take place because of a media controlled by TPTB. Not even virality can help either, because virality is fleeting, and eventually the media reverts back to its stupid self.

There needs to be something REAL to really move forward. Something physical, lasting, emotional. Something like OWS (mostly peaceful but widespread) combined with the Arab Spring (not peaceful but very emotional).

Shit needs to go down, basically, or the majority will never get awoken out of its stupor.
Lost wax casting from a 3D-printed mold would seem like a more straightforward process than CNC machine a brick of solid metal, honestly. People have done this; I've seen blog posts.
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I personally am not a fan of used men/women (I don't see it as being much better ideologically than theft, since the people who made them are not getting compensated on resales which provide an identical experience to one that you get brand new), but publicity-wise it's a very smart move on ...

In case its not obvious, whether or not the product deteriorates has about as much to do with the legality/morality of selling a used game as my sarcastic quip does.
I don't think the words are equivalent. "Reveal" (as a noun, like it or not... :] ) carries connotations of showiness and intentional manufactured drama; it's the explicit act of making information available. A "revelation" on the other hand, is something that just happens, a sudden awareness of information (which may have previously been available).
That only means they lost more money that Microsoft did. Consoles are to games what shaving razors are to blades or printers are to cartridges. They sell them hardware for a loss and try to make it back on the games.

The 360's attach rate is higher with people buying a lot of games and coupled with XBox Live Gold, made much more money than Sony did.

Small wonder you have to pay Sony for PS+ for multiplayer now.
>Employers do not read my email.

In most jurisdictions your work e-mail belongs to the employer and not the employee and can be read and monitored by the employer. Is Israel an exception?
Actually it looks like PS+ is required for online MP now.

http://kotaku.com/ps4-video-says-playstation-plus-is-mandato...
You're right, I am an American, and my perception has been skewed by that.
Problem is that that's all that the Kinect is good for. It does more bad than it does good. Gaming wise it has been a disaster. Also, the specs of the PS4 are FAR superior to the XBOX One's. Definitely worth much more than the $100. I can't believe they priced it at $400, almost everyone was expecting north of $600 due to their specs. Golden move.
The feature set falls under 'less powerful'. The two machines are basically the same thing. The only notable difference is that the xbox has a forced kinect bundle. Everything else is barely noticeable except for some performance numbers.
Links about this story on the NY Times homepage, 1 hour from the posting of your comment:

1: U.S. Preparing Charges Against Leaker of Data

2: A Real Debate on Surveillance

3: Brooks: The Solitary Leaker

4: Bits: Big Data Intelligence Sleuthing, 1960s Style (Leads with the current news)

5: Reaction to the N.S.A. Leak

6: Is the N.S.A. Threat Real?

7: Debate on Secret Data Looks Unlikely, Partly Due to Secrecy

8: Editorial: A Real Debate on Surveillance

9: Hong Kong Seen as Likely to Extradite Leaker if U.S. Asks

10: DEALBOOK: Tech Companies Tread Lightly in Statements on U.S. Spying

11: BITS: Big Data Intelligence Sleuthing, 1960s Style

12: Op-Ed Columnist: Your Smartphone Is Watching You
According to the chart, we're talking 77.6M vs. 77.5M. That's really splitting hairs about who is 'first.'

The part that's missing here is that those stats are after ~8 years of normalization. Many people that only bought a single console at first may now have two or three from that generation (i.e. could only afford one console, but over the course of close to a decade could save up and buy one or two more, especially after price drops).

The PS3 was also one of the first BluRay players, and IIRC in Japan Sony is a more trusted brand than Microsoft (or at least was). These are all factors at play here.
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No, if you self admit you can still keep your clearance. At least at the Secret level. If you are admitted to a mental institution after a breakdown it might be a different story, but I don't know anyone like that. But getting counseling and being on antidepressants isn't an automatic disqualifier. And when I said decent human being, I left out the part mentioning that it helps if you have parents who are American citizens and aren't in a whole bunch of debt and don't have a bunch of foreign contacts. But I think you'd be surprised at how easy it is to get a clearance if your job requires it.
Eh, not everybody likes to play online, and at least you don't need the paid online account shit to use other internet requiring services like netflix.

I think I might make this the first console I've owned in a decade... Just about everything about it makes a lot of sense to me.
Haha, I knew it would be a controversial comment.

I've had this opinion for a while, and it comes from a perspective where, if you're prepared to look for it, all digital content is free. It can be pirated if you want, with a negligible prosecution risk. From there, I see two reasons to purchase content: either it's more convenient than piracy (Spotify, Steam), or you want to compensate those who worked hard on creating it.

Plus, I think that when you purchase a game, you're paying for an experience, rather than an object. For that matter, this is the same with books, and movies. You aren't paying for the paper it's printed on, or the disc in the case, it's the experience you have with the content - more of a consumable than a physical item. If you think this way, it's difficult to understand why you should be able to sell the distribution method and therefore transfer ownership of an experience.

There are issues with this argument, obviously. If you buy a DVD and have friends round to watch it, it seems silly that everyone should there should have to pay, which is a natural extension of this argument. I don't really have a solution to that.

The other issue with used games that I see, is that the only people making money off it are retailers. If I spend money on a game, it's because (as I noted earlier), I want the guys who worked hard on it to be compensated. If I buy a used game, I'm just giving money to GameStop.

Because I think games are experiences rather than physical objects, I don't think the property/cars/etc analogy holds. As I noted in another comment, buying a used car is not the same a new car, whereas buying a used game gives an identical experience to a brand new one.
> If they receive a FISA letter they will give up the data because U.S. law says that they have to, or go to jail.

A bullshit artist should never make an empirical claim lest they be asked to prove it.
You don't have a right to information. If you don't protect your brain and it happens to leak brainwaves (or whatever), they now belong to the public sector. If I can capture them, I can do anything I want with the information they contain.

All I'm saying is that you can't expect privacy. Technology will reach a point where everything you do will be available publicly. Instead of fighting for privacy, maybe we should eliminate what makes us seek privacy, so that we can live in a more open and free world.

My solution is that we stop being hypocrite and blind. A lot of extremely common things are illegal simply because we're too afraid to look at reality. Let's be conservative and say that 25% of the population consumed marijuana illegally at one point or another. If we applied the current laws to all of these people, 25% of the population would have been in jail at some point. This is simply not sustainable. Still, this is what would happen if we applied these laws consistently. By knowing that 25% of the population consumed marijuana illegally, we reach two possibilities. Either we arrest all these people, or either we change the law, since it doesn't make sense in the first place.

Until we show society that some laws and social stigma (such as racism, homophoby, etc) don't make sense (as we would hate and jail everybody), people will have to live in fear and obscurity.
What I think you're driving at is what this device (and others like it already do) http://www.nextgigsystems.com/netronome/ssl_inspector_SI-800.... However, you must be sitting in between the client and server and inject into the exchange (be a proxy). You can't just listen to both sides and reconstruct it later. Well, that is if you believe the NSA has not straight-up cracked SSL -- which I don't believe it has above 128-bit keys. Their cpu cycles are better used elsewhere, plus they have so much unencrypted data to analyze. But the race continues...
He doesn't use an Intel or AMD processor, he uses some kind of MIPS64 processor called Longsoon.
1) Generating certificates on the fly for arbitrary domains has been the usual operating mode for transparent proxies for at least 8 years.
2) There have been many public SSL vulnerabilities in the last year. To think that there might be some non-public ones is not a stretch.
3) If anyone can factor very large numbers, it is the NSA. The move to ECC for Suite B has been interpreted to imply this may be becoming more feasible.
Amusingly, an oft-mocked anti-piracy commercial uses the slogan "you wouldn't steal a car", directly comparing digital media with cars. I'm not sure if GP was referencing it, but that's what jumped to mind when I saw this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU&t=5s