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Living Room / Re: Da Vinci is my hero (or villain as the case may be)
« on: March 07, 2010, 09:57 AM »
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RE: The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably WorkWell, I personally agree with Tycho over at PA... nobody wins on this one, and it just leans towards the death of PC gaming.Ubisoft's notorious "uncrackable" unfair game DRM falls in less than 24hhttp://www.boingboin...fts-notorious-u.html
-Edvard (March 05, 2010, 09:51 AM)
I don't see why they don't just see that it's not pirate or purchase. Most pirates wouldn't have purchased anyway, and most purchasers are going to purchase anyway. The only way this changes is if the publisher's contract with the purchaser is unreasonable (i.e. publish crap, and I'm not going to pay, make me inconvenienced and I'm not going to pay, make a crappy port and I'm not going to pay, etc). But for some reason this is beyond some publishers. I wonder what their response is going to be.I just can't stand having to send out that canned response + threat to people I know and generally like.-app103 (March 04, 2010, 10:34 AM)
Use firefox, keep it up to date, its usually fixed for exploits sooner than any use of exploit appears in the wild (which is also sooner than antivirus responds). Geez."Drive-by" a really cute buzzword loved by paranoid people since it means WHATEVER amount of common sense you have, you can still be screwed! = BUY a sucurity package, you MUST. Almost entirely BS...
Scary in it's coincidence, but I almost got screwed by a drive-by this morning. AVG saved me from it... so I don't know about that BS claim. It was my first time running afoul of a virus in a long time, and I hate to think what would have happened had I browsed to the site on my desktop that doesn't have AV software installed...-wraith808 (February 19, 2010, 12:11 PM)-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 04:50 AM)
We were supposed to start on the 1st...
VS always installs butt load of stuff on my computer, I can almost call it bloatware.It's a pretty big and fully-featured IDE - wouldn't call it bloatware, though. Don't install functionality you don't need-kartal (February 26, 2010, 04:25 PM)-f0dder (February 26, 2010, 05:49 PM)
It really happens. My wife picked up malware that did that at myspace. I was thankfully able to get rid of it with a combination of system restore and the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.-wraith808 (February 26, 2010, 12:20 PM)
... and kept the wife, I assume :-)-PhilB66 (February 26, 2010, 12:44 PM)
The real question ofcourse is: Do the improvements warrant the upgrade-price?-Ath (February 26, 2010, 11:00 AM)
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...but don't fsck your legitimate customers.-f0dder (February 25, 2010, 05:29 PM)
The best illustration of this was the UK release of Charlie Wilson's War - there was a 10 minute film about UNICEF before the menu appeared (along with all the other crap mentioned above). Not only was the film unskippable but you couldn't fast forward it or even stop it (apart from ejecting the disk) - plus if you press title menu it played again before the menu!!! This was so irritating the only solution was to look for a ripped copy so that you can actually watch the film you bought without having to cook a four course meal, eat it, spend the eveing in the local pub getting pissed just to avoid the crap. Maybe the DVD designer was just saying get a life - in which case he is probably correct.-Carol Haynes (February 25, 2010, 01:48 PM)
Not so funny when you see your applications pirated.-mrainey (February 25, 2010, 09:53 AM)
