i picked up a wii for the kids to play with. Discovered all of the drm issues, plus a whole bunch of other issues limiting all the basic things i could do with it....realized that my 6 year old and younger couldn't even figure out the controllers for half the games.
No hdmi, weird, propretary connections which insured maximum heading when integrating it into the rest of the system. Wiimotes, Motion plus, nunchucks...asssorted asshattery and nonsense....
Realized that even rooting it to play some homebrew games was difficult and could brick it.
Couldn't even use it to stream music from the rest of my network.
Decided there and then that i'd never bother with another nintendo product. we're getting an ouya in the spring, and they'll be playing mario brothers on pc emulators.
how dare you speak truth to power? Throwing people under the bus for not toeing the party line pretty well sums up their attitude toward and relationship with reality though.
the only business model i'm supporting these days is netflix. on demmand, on any platform, at any time, for a reasonable price. If it's not on netflix, it gets pirated. draw what conclusions you like from that, but the fact that i'm ok with paying for a good VPN, and 2 netflix accounts to cover all the devices and people that might be watching at once, pretty well proves that i'm willing to pay, on my terms.
that makes it a distribution problem imo. well, maybe not entirely, i won't pay for hulu because of who owns it. so distribution, plus not being worthless dicks who's business we want to see die.
i'm not sure it was even that. Here's the thing...the only thing i've really got linking the film to... well, anything. is the word of mainstream media, which is often wrong, usually misinformed, and occasionally just making shit up to fit the narrative.
I don't speak egyptian, or any other middle eastern language, i can't go check and see what the forums and news feeds are saying over there, i can't reconstruct a narrative or timeline. What i can see, is that the trailer was up on youtube for ages, and then suddenly, supposedly the arab world was up in arms about it. The trailer and the film were in english, i don't even remember any subtitles...so i'm a little confused about how it would have caused mass indignation. It's not like you have to look far to find something on youtube that's offensive to the arab world.
Frankly the whole thing feels like a story being spun, and i don't have nearly enough information to be able to decode who's playing this troll out. Then when they start digging into the shit surrounding and BEHIND the movie, it gets even murkier. Fake names, lying to actors, general asshattery and jiggery pokery...smells all conspiracy like. Except...it's a youtube trailer for some shit that doesn't exist. I can't see anyway for the guy to make money off it, so fraud seems out.
and yet, why go to the massive amount of trouble this guy went to, and risk violating the terms of his probation, if there wasn't money involved? sure, so he might have been an extremist of some sort, so what? Where was the payoff, unless it was just a massive wank job as a platform to get his hate on...but it still seems like an awful lot of effort for what should have been zero return, given the hundreds of hours of video uploaded to the tube daily.
none of it hangs together, it just doesn't pass my bullshit filter. It's not about needing to calm down, i'm simply saying that we'll likely never know what the actual narrative around all this was.
because the only thing that ever existed was the 15 minute "trailer" honestly, i don't think anyones real clear on just what kind of clusterfuck of trolling, bigotry, fraud, or all of the above that whole deal was built upon.
umm. title is misleading. "permanent" i can't find anything in either the linked blog, or the torrentfreak article (where i saw this originally) that says this isn't fixable. In fact the blog you link has a possible fix listed.
not a huge deal, but it's the kind of detail that's likely to cause blowback.
i just did a quick google search for oatmeal cards.
the oatmeal came up first, these guys were the rest of the page. i can see a chance for consumer confusion, but i don't think that's worth protectionism.
My understanding of stuxnet was that it was very, very precisely targetted, to cause a certain model of centrifuge to destroy itself, right?
So...while i tmight have spread, what would it actually do on any other machine? does it open the machine further to other threats? can it be hijacked? I know these aren't the kind of security questions techdirt normally deals with, but without some discussion of ACTUAL harm, the article reeks of FUD.
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No hdmi, weird, propretary connections which insured maximum heading when integrating it into the rest of the system. Wiimotes, Motion plus, nunchucks...asssorted asshattery and nonsense....
Realized that even rooting it to play some homebrew games was difficult and could brick it.
Couldn't even use it to stream music from the rest of my network.
Decided there and then that i'd never bother with another nintendo product. we're getting an ouya in the spring, and they'll be playing mario brothers on pc emulators.
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that makes it a distribution problem imo. well, maybe not entirely, i won't pay for hulu because of who owns it. so distribution, plus not being worthless dicks who's business we want to see die.
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I don't speak egyptian, or any other middle eastern language, i can't go check and see what the forums and news feeds are saying over there, i can't reconstruct a narrative or timeline. What i can see, is that the trailer was up on youtube for ages, and then suddenly, supposedly the arab world was up in arms about it. The trailer and the film were in english, i don't even remember any subtitles...so i'm a little confused about how it would have caused mass indignation. It's not like you have to look far to find something on youtube that's offensive to the arab world.
Frankly the whole thing feels like a story being spun, and i don't have nearly enough information to be able to decode who's playing this troll out. Then when they start digging into the shit surrounding and BEHIND the movie, it gets even murkier. Fake names, lying to actors, general asshattery and jiggery pokery...smells all conspiracy like. Except...it's a youtube trailer for some shit that doesn't exist. I can't see anyway for the guy to make money off it, so fraud seems out.
and yet, why go to the massive amount of trouble this guy went to, and risk violating the terms of his probation, if there wasn't money involved? sure, so he might have been an extremist of some sort, so what? Where was the payoff, unless it was just a massive wank job as a platform to get his hate on...but it still seems like an awful lot of effort for what should have been zero return, given the hundreds of hours of video uploaded to the tube daily.
none of it hangs together, it just doesn't pass my bullshit filter. It's not about needing to calm down, i'm simply saying that we'll likely never know what the actual narrative around all this was.
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not a huge deal, but it's the kind of detail that's likely to cause blowback.
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the oatmeal came up first, these guys were the rest of the page. i can see a chance for consumer confusion, but i don't think that's worth protectionism.
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So...while i tmight have spread, what would it actually do on any other machine? does it open the machine further to other threats? can it be hijacked? I know these aren't the kind of security questions techdirt normally deals with, but without some discussion of ACTUAL harm, the article reeks of FUD.
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dafuq man. if you want to be all 1337 on teh interwebz, get your shit together.
also why u mad bro?
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cognitive dissonance is nearly overwhelming.
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