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[PATV] Monday, October 29, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 26: Games are Really Big
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All we know about Dragon Age 3 is that it's big. We guess that's good?
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I can't even tell if you're trying to be insulting or not.
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You guys are rad though! Keep making videos and we'll keep telling you what you did wrong! That's the internet right?
Dunno what Tuna Melt is saying but Kathleen's earrings are boss.
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Because women are goals/prizes to be won instead of people, right?
Anyway I'd be highly suspicious of any lady who falls head over heels because of things said in a comment forum.
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Did none of the plaintiffs even point out that noone reads that crap, Sony knows noone reads that crap, and people know that Sony knows, that noone reads that crap.
EULAs need to go.
Also both of your haircuts look very nice.
And besides, there have been plenty of creepy and downright odd statements made that weren't sarcastic at all.
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She's quite pretty in my opinion, but yes, some commenters are being total creepsters. Welcome to the internet.
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Kathleen too. Just not like Graham's. But it's okay. It's not a race.
Not reading isn't grounds for a lawsuit. If you don't want to read the EULA, it's on your head, not theirs.
And honestly the expectation that something will be "unhackable" is just plain ridiculous. With enough time and effort, someone will be able to break into any system. There's just not enough security to stop a determined and knowledgeable person from breaking in.
To cut off the inevitable retort of "But it was an easy hack", the vast majority of users, programmers, and hackers who both used the system and worked with it, had no knowledge of the flaw that got exploited until it did. Maybe it seems "simple" to you since you heard about it or because you really don't know what you're talking about, but it was small enough for a lot of very knowledgeable people to miss.
Hell, they built a damn supercomputer using nothing but off-the-shelf, unmodified, PS3s and didn't catch the flaw in the system.
There is no perfect security. But there is certainly flawed security. And the difficulty is often a mater of operational excellience (aka making sure employees follow process) and money.
I have also worked with a number of companies that have experienced a security breach and the most probable cause I have seen if failure to check up on employees. I can't tell you the number of times I have seen somone setup a password of "Password1" just as a temp process and forgot they did it and suddenly that server is hacked. So it helps to try to hack yourself every now and then. Pay security consultants to try to break in to your systems and give them all the advantages they might get if you had a sys admin go bad. Assume the worse case and see how well your security stands up. Then do it again in 6 months, and again, and again.
Just saying.
- someone with IT Management and system security experience.
Ignorance of the law is neither a defense or grounds for a lawsuit. But don't confuse EULAs with laws that were passed by elected representatives, as opposed to scrawled by a corporation's lawyers and made purposefully vast and impenetrable to evade scrutiny. Although, the distinction is getting to be a finer point these days, so on reflection I see a finer point here than when I started typing this paragraph...
That said, Checkpoint is over-simplifying the issue, perhaps to a greater extent than I do above. These users weren't required to fork over credit card details to use the service, only to buy content offered on the service. Even Microsoft in such a position, with their monthly fees, would likely counter that buying annual 12 Month subscription cards is actually cheaper than paying monthly for a year, so no one is being penalized for withholding their credit card details. They probably wouldn't be quick to point out that the Gold version of the dash sucks worse than the Silver version, though.
I remember the game well. It was long and boring, and you did a million fetch quests. Then you got to the city and were asked to do a million more fetch quests, and then you took the game out of the Xbox and you played something else.
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