Mamoulian War

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html here is the full story about how a person was located based only on anonymous searching trends...

You didn't read the part where it said that the investigation was carried out with permission from the patients? Gfted at least posted a specific news item to make his case. You are just fearmongering. Any installation you don't consent to is illegal. Search engines can only detect patterns in search trends, but they cannot track the activites of individual users. As for privacy scandals on social networks... maybe you should be more careful about whom you give access to your personal data? Just a thought. Then check this out http://www.youtube.com/user/karansri27#p/u The Virtual Revolution - The Cost of Free Look all the parts... in one of them you can see how it was possible to locate the exact person with the help of AOL anonymous patterns in search trends it was published in some of the US news aswell... EDIT: it's in part 5 starts at 4:10... user 4417749...

...and closed eyes

Seems innocent enough, right? Not so much. I think this is an excellent example of how anytime, anywhere, the government can overstep its boundries and mine every last detail of your life. Do you seriously think, that for example Microsoft and Google cannot trace you with even bigger accuracy, just by the things you type into google or bing search forms??? Or any other big corporation where you just filled out the registration and allowed them to install any kind of application into your computer??? And that they never oversteped it? just browse for some Google Buzz or Facebook privacy scandals... And you'll se how you and your privacy is absorbed and abused from your computer just to make more revenue for someone without you even knowing about it...

Games are luxury items so it's no wonder that they take big hit on worldwide depression (or recession if you accept the virtual GPD growth tricks). This brings us back to original argument - Would people buy significantly more games if piracy wasn't possible? Based on PS3 info and consumer behaviour during this depression, I'd say no. Yes, there are rich bastards who pirate everything just because they can but based on the data they can't be the largest group. Yes, that's exactly what i do think aswell, the people just dont conjure the money out of air... if their yearly budget to gaming is 250USD/year atm (including the money which they get back from selling games 2nd hand), their gaming budget will be still 200USD per year after piracy and secondhand sales are eliminated... which will mean less game sales in total due to elimination of possibility to get some money back from secondhand sales... luxury items are not needed for human life, they are nice bonus, but when you put enough of hurdles in the way to the nice bonus, the bonus just stops to be worth the hassle at some point... @cronicler... for me SC2 is in grey area aswell, going more towards no buy area atm... i am not going to play it competitivly so when i waited 10 years to see it released i can wait another 3 until it gets into BattleChest category... so at that point i might be persuaded to buy it... and hopefully 3 years will be enough to see some group to remove this sily DRM aswell, if Blizz does not remove it by themselves... Anyway... anyone knows if Ubi's servers are still down???

If Krezack would hire you or asked you to do the dirty work for him, he would be same or more guilty than you, same with the corporations who hire/pay government to do the dirty work for them

Krezack, the DRM for SC2 might be very similar to this at least for multiplayer But still no one knows how Single Player campaign will be handled...

*drools*

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/1...illion_shipped/

The article i linked is not only about PC gaming... It's about all gaming including consoles... even Wii is 40% down compared to february 2009... people have less money, they buy less stuff... giving them more hurdles in their way to spent their cash on games does not help to get into black numbers in yearly earning reports...

I am not sure, if it was the main reason, but it indeed fueled the decay of human behaviour and thinking...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the people in court do not give a **** about mediocrity of gameplay, bugs and glitches... They do care only about big $ numbers... And MW2 is atm still the most succesful thing in all entertainment combined... It still doesn't change the fact, that's it **** game though as much as i am FF fan FFXIII will not beat MW2... and SC2... hard to say... it's easier to shoot **** than to do micro but you know... if every WoW player buys a copy, it will conquer all charts...

The biggest difficulty to make a profit is the current financial crisis not the pirates... http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27556/A...ins_For_PS3.php making it more difficult for your customers to play your games is an economical suicide... People think now 10times over when deciding which game they should buy

Obviously the Ubisoft top-managment didn't see it comming Else they would never come up with this kind of **** That's what you get when you let your company directed by someone who thinks that sending emails is a top IT achievment

Yes... i loved that you could craft a party of your choice, and the overland map... Last time i did have that feeling was in Icewind Dale 2 the story is ofc not so deep as MotB, but imo it's still worth getting it, just for the fun of rolling a party of 4 svirfneblins who gets owned by the 1st group of enemies

I always prefered Sony consoles over their competition, because i like more japanese games than western games, but i am wondering if this realy becomes reality in the end... http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27563/A..._127M_Units.php

Socialism in a heartbeat. Assuming it is democratic socialism. Otherwise anarchy, since it'd be easier to eventually form a government from an anarchy then it would be to regain democracy in a totalitarian state. Human nature says, that if you have everything handed to you on golden plate, you do not need democracy Why would you care about who is ruling over you, if he gives you everything you want and need without asking questions? What if he doesn't give you everything you want and need? He asked for maximum freedom or maximum care... in hypothetical maximum freedom, you can do anything you wish, without fear of prosecution... in hypothetical maximum care, you get anything you want because the leader cares... but that gives a nice paradox what if you would ask of your leader in maximum care community to grant you maximum freedom?

Socialism in a heartbeat. Assuming it is democratic socialism. Otherwise anarchy, since it'd be easier to eventually form a government from an anarchy then it would be to regain democracy in a totalitarian state. Human nature says, that if you have everything handed to you on golden plate, you do not need democracy Why would you care about who is ruling over you, if he gives you everything you want and need without asking questions?

The number 3 might work for some banana republic, but i really doubt that it could be done for theocracy... how is the chance that the people in charge who have very strict theological beliefs, would ever allow anyone in their ranks who is not 100% loyal and would without hesitation put his life for their cause? we have already seen that 1 "holy" person can persuade hundreds of their closest followers to mass suicide... the fanatical religion is the biggest power known to mankind and it's ****ing hard to break...

Even if it is true, which i highly doubt, that's one of the reasons, why such DRMs should be avoided like a plague

hahaha

That would be an awesome bussiness model.. Is your competition releasing a new best selling game? Want the customers to rather buy your product? Just call us 1-800-PROCHINAHACKERZ. We will DDoS them for you!!! Now offering special discounts on long time subscriptions...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27501/W...Film_Rights.php seriously... how can anyone even get an idea to turn this: into a movie??? liek WTF???

Don't tell that loud, you make some people here cry

Then don't be surprised that many middle east people are advocating to nuke the USA double standards for the win...