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Gironika
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 Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:42 pm |
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| remote wrote: |
| https://twitter.com/CollarDuty |
wonderful post, thanks.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 7:32 pm |
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| remote wrote: |
| if that's sarcasm and you had already linked it, oops D: |
no, I honestly enjoyed that link very much. Re: my avatar.
| Rokkan wrote: |
| fine, creating an emulator is not illegal, downloading ROMs as far as I know is. I'll put the blame on my own choice of words. |
iirc, Reverse Engineering is actually forbidden in some EULA-thingies … and I do not even want to imagine who has some weird patent on that.
Kinda like Mr DotCom/Megaupload decides to go after everyone due to two-factor-authentification, I imagine someone crashing the party at some point.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 7:10 pm |
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| RobotRocker wrote: |
| There's a real delusion of grandeur with people who think their lives are so important that Microsoft's going to pry in to their lives. Because they are just that important. Even though Microsoft's detailed that all it can do in low power mode is read motion. I lived in London, the city with the most security cameras in the world for a few years and you learn to know that there's 10 million people in here and they only will look for you if they want you for a very good reason. But people are so freaked out about the "Orwellian" nature that they are convinced they are coming for them. If Microsoft has 10 million Bones in the wild. There not going to comb through the masses and say "Oh God Spiders No just showed up naked on camera again, better throw some window blind catalogues to him in the mail. And maybe some viagra samples". |
it's not like facebook et al are going anywhere with their face recognition software these days, nor does google with ads, auto-complete or user profiles, right?
As the king mentions, there's no need to browse your data manually, algorithms are doing that pretty well already. Tracking certain key words ("time to b*mb some dodongos!") and preferences (shows you watch, information you browse) is nothing that needs extraordinary computing power.
A bit more interesting is connecting the dots, but that is already supported by auto-login on several services - shared accounts on google, googlemail, google+, hangouts, youtubes, flickr, facebook, your console-live-service etc. are doing that quite ok already.
Finally, your mobile phone alone provides more than enough location data to trace where you have been, what you have been doing, and to predict where you are going. See this article I've already linked in 2011 and on several occasions since then.
And the best thing about this whole thing?
Everytime a new way to track people is presented, the reaction is pretty much the same: people are overreacting, it's not as bad etc.
Indeed, it's not as bad as people make it look like. Machines already do know better than we do (e.g. ever wondered about what ESP and ABS do? Have a crack at the systems offered by the current S-class model of Mercedes Benz then, which already knows whether it will crash and takes precautionary action before you realize what's happening) and it's foolish to think that someone will decide "hey guys, let's stop collecting data!" at one point and we're back to the status quo.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:53 pm |
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Collardog has crashed the XBONE?
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Gironika
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:56 pm |
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confirmed.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:58 pm |
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what's worse, it'll hit the average consumer that got used to things like "buy the UK-version on amazon because it is 1/3 cheaper" and has no idea about what's happening. I can see this causing trouble for amazon-shops waaaa~aaay before it happens.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 4:54 pm |
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| Takashi wrote: |
| Are people so attached to their gamerscore that they won't consider the PS4? Or is it a matter of controller and established friend circles? |
It'd be kinda sad if the absence of consumer-lockdown-technology will be the only reason to switch to the PS4, so I guess that people are still waiting for titles.
And tbh, in my case it actually is ^^^ that'll probably make me switch into the Sony-camp.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:45 pm |
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that underlines the point Loki made: locking down things makes people go the (perceived?) easier route, pirate the shit out of it. Even if they actually do not consume it, which, if you think about it, is a bit crazy. Still, on every LAN-party, there's the guy having 5+ drives with stuff he's never seen yet stored away.
Company owning IP cries that people are killing them sales, thus they have no other choice than to ramp up copytheft-schemes which leads to an arm race that offers pretty much ace entertainment value if you are on the sunny (=pirating) side instead of the other one, that side where you can't play your game because of some Error 37-textbox. Might kinda seal the deal for a big chunk of the former-core-audience (=gamers) that has experienced something like the Sim City Server Problems and that is eyeing a console-purchase.
and btw:
Today it is kinda unbelievable that someone would try (again) to introduce region locked mp3s (or DRMed ones. Never mind that companies try to use trojan horse tactics (WMV, that sony format, that apple AAC-or-so-thing + all the AACRXXCoreAlphaX-copies) to introduce their "feature rich media content format that offers better quality and marketing blurb language options for exciting new content bla blub."
Yet the gaming-sphere seems surprisingly relaxed about this. Maybe because they trust their fellow h4xx0r5 for cracking that stuff after a while? Don't care? Won't buy?
Will be an interesting year, that's for sure.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:33 pm |
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to everyone that is disappointed that they won't see how the XB1 would fare: Rest assured, since MS is (still?) clinging to their cloud-supported-gaming-plan, it will be interesting enough to see how this pans out.
Some month(s) ago my ISP has announced that they would introduce a bandwith-cutting scheme from 2016 on (and has been backpedaling last week as well - instead of 3xx kbps, 2xxxx kbps - at least that's what they "promise", sure …) , and I just cannot see how this won't happen in america/rest of the world as well (everyone should read that wsj-article about this very thing btw).
Now we have a company that wants to move everything to the cloud™ <-> ISPs that want bigger profits. Surely Microsoft isn't going to be paying the constantly-inching-higher-fees that ISPs will enforce, so it'd be a no-brainer to ramp up PS+ XBL-fees every time that happens.
Is it just me? I'm fearing how always-online-devices will fare some years down the road, and I am less-than-impressed by digital-dl-only consoles atm.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:39 am |
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| tacotaskforce wrote: |
| Weirdly, if that family share thing is legit, it's already more limited than what Sony already does. If you have PS+ you can download any disc game that's available on PSN and play it for one hour. Your save file and achievements will carry over if you decide to buy the game. |
There is this things that has been around for some time now. What was it ……… ah, a "trial version." And you could play these back in 199x, unbelievable, indeed. I wonder how these salespeople think they can pitch a thing that has been around forever by talking of A BRAND NEW THING.
Reading that crybaby-complaint that evil consumers can go to hell if they do not understand the wonderful aspects of their marketing-schemes sounds like a bad joke, so I'd like some confirm/deny update on whether that excerpt is canon.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:01 am |
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| The Troops wrote: |
| i hope this doesn't interrupt cooperation with the NSA |
rest assured that it won't. It's a team sport, after all.
re NSA:
I just love how everyone assumes that everbody is using facebook or twitter and always brings up the same thing - "why complaining about the NSA, kinect2.0 etc. etc. if you are using fb and twitter to tell the whole world what you are doing?" Well, some people actually do not use fb and twitter, who'd have thought! And some people just want to play a game, not watch a nike or red bull ad pestering you in the lower right corner - woah, breaking news material here.
And here's MS still trying to sell the idea that ads are "part of the experience" -
- what an experience, indeed. Kinda like the undeleteable singstar-button on the PS3?
The experience basically is that I end up assembling an ever growing list of "will never buy" products. No nike, no redbull, no singstar for me.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:06 pm |
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| This Machine Kills Fascis wrote: |
| You should probably also stop using Google, then too. |
guess what I have been doing for a while now … but as it turns out, the difference is just that google doesn't get its hands on data before the NSA gets it, soooo~~
| The King wrote: |
| Yeah, it's got an IR feed, the dark won't hide you. |
afair Kinect 1 also had an IR-feed?
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Gironika
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:01 pm |
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| RobotRocker wrote: |
| Why can't Samsung wipe them from the face of the earth already? |
Man, it's only now that I realise that I have lost that bet I've had with a friend of mine (re: Samsung Playstation 4). D'oh!
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Gironika
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| Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:31 pm |
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And we all know how awesome clouds function when you have no internet access, yes.
But still, we can always buy another 360 for our trip in our submarine, right?
(guess what, I am no friend of cloud-storage! But then I'm from a country that asks the NSA for 2nd hand data after they gave them free access, so …… kind of a theme going on here, yup. Still, I don't see what was so excellent about doing away with memory card+game you could take with you when visiting a friend. Never needed amazing online-friend systems for that.)
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