In the tradition of such financial windfalls as VideoCD and EPSN Baseball, EA and Bioware are now using "copy protection" as a means to ensure that at some future point, every game they make will be able to be forcibly obsolesced in order to manage their own "classics" channel, much like Sony and Nintendo are now selling all their old titles again, which also ensures that their copyrights on these titles never really expire. Ever.
Basically, the deal is this: For both Spore and Mass Effect, which both are primarily single-player games, you will now be required to do an online authorization for the machine you install it on. It's a near certainty that at some point in the future, they're simply going to declare it not worth their time to continue authorizing installs of these games. It probably won't even be a terribly long time before this happens, as EA has a particularly miserable track record for this... How long exactly was it that SSX3 actually retained it's online multiplayer ability?
Me, I'm probably buying them both (didn't have time to finish Mass Effect on the XBox 360 before I realized I should have gotten a PS3) but I'm going to crack the holy thunderfsck out of them. So much for being sure your grandkids might be able to play a game you enjoyed if you hang onto it long enough.
Note, I say "probably" not because I'm hinting at some other method of obtaining them. I say this because depending on how things turn out, I might just skip dealing with either of them at all just because of this online authentication bullshit. If it isn't worth me paying money to support the people who wrote the game, then screw playing it.
Update: Also, let's not forget what this does to the ability of resellers (or, god forbid, game rental companies) to handle these titles. That's right, you can forget about renting these from Gamefly or picking them up used anywhere.
Here's an NYT article in case you're like me and starting to really get annoyed at stupid people arguing for stupidity instead of against it like any race that is expected to continue breeding should.
Just in case any of the words are just too big for you, double-click on them.
This is old news I know, but my question is, as a service provider are they allowed MIM attacks like this (am I misreading this, isn't that what masquerading as the other computer your talking to and sending false data is?).
New, it cost about 200 British Pounds. It gets almost 100 MPG.
I want the sport version shown at the end.
Frankly, I think someone should try making these again. Something like this that maybe got as fast as 45mph (definitely not safe for this on the interstate) and you could sell for say, $400-$500... You could not keep people out of your showroom without dogs and minefields.
MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with art project
Topic: Miscellaneous
7:25 pm EDT, Sep 22, 2007
She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare told The Associated Press. "And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."
The quote above is a Massachusetts State Police Officer publicly threatening to murder an MIT student who accidentally showed up at the airport wearing an electronic art project. She has, yet again, been charged with carrying out a hoax. Remember kids, anytime a Massachusetts police officer is confused, its your fault for confusing them, and not theirs for being fucking stupid and paranoid, and you are likely to go to prison or worse if it happens.
For standing on stage like a cowardly sack of crap, because in theory you more than anyone else there should have known what was going on in that room was illegal and would have had the power to stop it with a word but didn't.
FUCK YOU.
You're done. As far as a lot of Americans and myself are concerned, you will never be worthy of a vote again. You very obviously don't have our best interests in heart, and even more clearly don't give a crap what happens to your fellow man even when it's right in front of you.
Joy Robinson-Van Gilder is a small-town mom from Earlville, Illinois (population 1,778) who began a one-woman campaign to fight the use of biometrics in the schools — and won.
In August of 2005, the public school in Earlville installed biometric equipment, allowing the school to track students by scanning their fingerprints. Use of the scans for school lunch was apparently mandatory. When Robinson-Van Gilder objected, she was told: “If they don’t scan, they don’t eat.”
We need this to be a Federal Law... to protect our youth.
