robinh | 13 years ago | on: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
Could you post a link to this study?
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robinh | 13 years ago | on: Maxis Insider: SimCity Servers Not Necessary
I've done some reversing, and this is EA, so... let's say it's not going to be something that'll be cracked in a weekend.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: GitHub is getting DDoSed again
Honest quess: information and code from private repositories?
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop
Fair enough. When I'm looking for a keyboard, I always try to make sure that at least the keys are all in the right place and are of the right size. (For example, I should not be able to accidentally hit '\' because some hippo thought the return key was too big.)
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
I didn't mean any of that. I meant that DRM is the reason one would implement constant-onlineness into a game that should also (mostly, even) work as a single player game. My apologies if my use of the word 'issue' suggested something different.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
There is a significant difference between wanting to do something locally and an internet connection being required and wanting to do something on the internet because it works better than what you have locally.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
"I mean, besides the DRM."
But that's the core issue, really.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop
What exactly counts as a good keyboard? I've never had any trouble with my XPS, and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard (then again, I haven't had that many laptops). Although some of the cheaper laptop's keyboards seem clunky.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously
I think the solution to this problem probably doesn't involve trying to track down these bad nodes. Rather, more people should host Tor nodes, so as to reduce the chance of someone connecting to a bad one. As big as intelligence agencies are, they cannot operate too many nodes easily - the more nodes they operate, the bigger the chance that someone notices suspicious activity going on. On the other hand, there are a lot more civilians who can host Tor nodes without it being suspicious, thus dealing with the threat of intelligence agencies.
I'm curious about what the exact ratios would be, if there were a way to find this out (probably not).
robinh | 13 years ago | on: VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously
Unfortunately, even Tor is not perfect. It obviously cannot prevent end-to-end correlation, and it also turns out to be very hard to do Tor right (e.g. not leaking information in the data streams).
robinh | 13 years ago | on: VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously
Eh, I was mostly responding to the 'grandma using an iPad' part. It's quite possible that Tor will eventually be what everyone uses for anonymity on the internet, but it might well turn out out to be something different. Hence the 'something like'. ;)
robinh | 13 years ago | on: VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously
But wasn't there something a while back about how people had to comply with US law if they owned a .com/.net/.org domain, since these were managed in the US?
robinh | 13 years ago | on: VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously
The answer might be something like Tor.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Soviet gamification
Would in-game achievements also count?
robinh | 13 years ago | on: How Search Works
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as it seems like a legitimate question, but...
I don't think so. It seems logical that Google's been keeping statistics about this sort of thing, so it doesn't surprise me that they keep track of such things as 'average queries per second'.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Why was my email leaked?
While it's an interesting idea, you're basically just basing that on a load of unfounded assumptions about the people who manage these companies.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code
Hm... What would be easier to convince schools to do:
A.) download this software package (say, Python) that allows kids to learn how to program. B.) buy a dozen $40 mini-computers kids can use to learn how to program.
Most schools I know of would pick option A.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Bullying has to stop, now.
Not a bully, but a bullied person who is still forced to sometimes interact with his former bullies. In my case, these people are quite functional in society, and when confronted laugh it off - seeing it is one big joke that isn't to be taken too seriously.
It may be understandable that to this day, I honestly still feel my blood boil when bullying gets mentioned.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: Bullying has to stop, now.
I think it may very well be the other way around. Example: I used to do sports. Then the bullies came. Then I stopped doing sports because that's where they were.
robinh | 13 years ago | on: We Aren’t the World
Also, American and Western culture are used practically interchangeably. I find this quite ironic.