If it wasn't such old news, the way that Hazbro and Wizards of the Coast mangled Magic the Gathering online would be a perfect case study of Tech Dirt.
There's no reason someone couldn't do this on a website using currently available information. Autopaste logos onto paper doll suits with congress-critter head shots.
If it's obvious enough to people like Blackstone it should be obvious enough to industry analysts and thus managers of mutual funds and public employee pension funds. Why don't those managers raise bloody hell?
This article actually mentions Steam but doesn't mention that the same exploit happens in Steam so it makes it sound as if it only happens in EA and thus diminishes the article's objectivity. I know it's popular to kick EA this month but #candobetter.
He'll testify to finding Manning-Assange documents on the terrorist leader's computer.
The Seals who killed bin Laden were definitely not browsing through his computer during the raid and almost certainly not the ones performing forensic analyses later.
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It's things like this that annoy me when Americans accuse other countries of being corrupt. America is just as corrupt if not more so, but it's at a much higher level.
At the end of the movie, just before they thank all the people who helped, they should give a list of all the people who refused to help and not thank them.
There's a difference between an encyclopedia and a database. But yes, there should be a publicly owned and accessible database, probably just not Wikipedia.
I have always believed, and many of my law enforcement friends and family agree, that the penalty for prosecutorial misconduct should be equal to the sentence that the accused would have faced if convicted. So, 35 years for Heymann, or just seven months if he agrees to cop to a felony.
I don't see any difference between: "Oops, we did't get a warrant. Here, you hold this evidence until we get one" and "Oops, here comes the fuzz. Hold these drugs for me."
Where's the end of the story? Did they have that brew? Maybe meeting face to face got them both to cool down and hear each others' feelings now they're friends and the tweeter is the boxer's biggest fan.
Let's remember that when you view a web page, everything you see is in a file on your disk. You asked for it and they gave it to you, for free. Then, for them to run their program on your computer asking for money is outrageous.
It's a perfectly fine thing to have private equity. Your safety is based on your own due diligence and personal relationships. Once you take the public's money you have a greater duty of disclosure. This hybrid model seems to give businesses the opportunity to have their cake and eat it too. So, it's another form of corruption but for some reason since it's out in the open people can't see that. Thanks to dealbreaker for bringing this to our attention. Your articles are content-ful and your call-a-spade-a-spade prose style is refreshing and entertaining.
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Scenario 2: Insiders put their thumb on the scale to make a company look worse than it is so they can buy it cheap (Dell).
Why do the people in Scenario 1 go to jail while the people in Scenario 2 still roam the streets?
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The Seals who killed bin Laden were definitely not browsing through his computer during the raid and almost certainly not the ones performing forensic analyses later.
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U S A! U S A!
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He makes it sound like that's a bad thing.
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As for workarounds, C-u View Source much?
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So, video games DO cause violence!
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