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Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:29PM (#34870401)
8 dollars for a TB of storage, man. It still makes me feel awestruck sometimes when I see stufff like a $23 3TB HDD.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:59PM (#15280042)
The fun thing about DRM, is that people love to defeat it.

They (the general public AND 3DM, to TorrentFreak, bunch of whiners IMO) said Denuvo was the death of cracking and piracy. 3DM: No games crackable in 2 years time, said the headline.

now the cracking scene, which was mostly dying, has seen some revival.

It has adapted, but it's a slow moving ship.

Now a new generation (or the older generation, who knows, I'm just relaying my own observations)) are taking everything being thrown at them: encryption, virtualization, obfuscation, changing keys each patch, etc and making it look like light work to crack properly.

They make short, short work of it for the amount of complexity involved. So I hope they continue to throw new things at them with Denuvo, to keep them interested.

One group cracks the base game, sometimes someone else grabs all the updates and rolls them into a cracked patch, etc.

It's nice to see some life return to something that was basically dead, made automated.

how do you know the prescriptions don't exist/weren't verified?
Re:Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary on Sunday May 04, 2014 @06:16PM (#7696051)
because most of the artists are gimmick acts.
Re:Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary on Sunday May 04, 2014 @06:09PM (#7696024)
Always loved that song.

My personal favorite Canibus track is Master Thesis, though.

Re:The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:57PM (#6623545)
thank you for this level-headed response. some of the vitriol around here is toxic.
Re:The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:57PM (#6623539)
It's pretty clear you only have a surface understanding of the e-cig industry, the big tobacco owned e-cig lines are crappy disposables. You might start with one, but pretty soon you move on to a proper personal vaporizer with a decent battery life.

It's not clear how exactly harmful they aren't, either. The truth is, no one knows. They certainly haven't done any harm to me thus far, and we aren't yet hearing reports of vapers dropping dead, so I think it's safe to assume they're relatively harmless. (at least in the short term.)

Re:The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers on Saturday October 26, 2013 @11:29PM (#6620637)
Please be fully aware of the risk of precipitated withdrawal when considering taking bupe. If you're an addict, you shouldn't take it until the withdrawals hit full swing.
Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:21PM (#5972093)
Did you also read the part where it said "If she doesn't, I'm afraid she'll miss out on one of the most important rites of passage."

Psychedelics are a tool to be used for self discovery, not some seedy thing only losers use. Maybe you are the one who is blinded by preconceptions here, not him.

Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:18PM (#5972079)
You are literally spouting bullshit out of your ass. Insanity? Are you fucking kidding me?

Blow it out your ass pops, you're making shit up.

This kind of flatout lying is even worse than people who pretend drugs have no risks. Making risks up to scare people into agreeing with you is no better.

I couldn't be happier with my much, much lower spec phone.

maybe your standards of "usability" are skewed.

Re:Why I Say Dumb Shit on Sunday May 05, 2013 @07:35PM (#5660207)
he did explain why, he says dumb shit so people who are smarter than him will correct him and teach him something they might not have been willing to talk about.
that means someone has to download it, though.
Re:Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:17PM (#5647833)
thanks for this.
Re:Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:16PM (#5647828)
try the flash version. it's pretty goddamn awesome.
Re:An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:25AM (#5632329)
that's because it isn't.
Re:Self-proclaimed LulzSec leader arrested on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @10:27PM (#5599332)
to my dismay, internet cred does not share a 1:1 ratio with street cred.
Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling on Sunday April 21, 2013 @12:24AM (#5583847)
well, I have to give Molyneux some credit where credit is due.

This is incredibly clever and a great way to use IAP-type stuff.

Re:Ask PG: Has HN ever received a DMCA Takedown Notice? on Saturday April 20, 2013 @07:59PM (#5583289)
I'm sure that's when the machine would become unplugged and the fax option stricken from the record.
Re:The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead on Saturday April 20, 2013 @02:52AM (#5580603)
wouldn't iOS be a better term anyway?
Botched the robbery, and panicked?
Re:Mac Makes 45% of PC Industry's Operating Profit on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:00PM (#5559699)
huge markups on cheap hardware leads to profits, Slate reports.
Re:StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs on Saturday April 13, 2013 @01:22AM (#5542665)
even if not, it'd be pretty sweet if there was an option to do so.
Re:US Senate approves proposed Internet Sales Tax on Sunday March 24, 2013 @05:41AM (#5431569)
sounds like VAT, no?

isn't VAT universally hated?

Re:What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:27PM (#5419650)
it's true, most people also aren't willing to throw away what they have built for themselves for an ideal.

is it cowardly? well, yeah. but can you really blame anyone else for not wanting to mess up what they have? I mean, let's be realistic.

Re:Procrastination is Not Laziness on Friday March 15, 2013 @04:56AM (#5379719)
I think he's trying to caricature a certain sub-population.
Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play on Thursday March 14, 2013 @06:03PM (#5377967)
I don't think "how much everyone hates it" has anything to do with the reporting, in fact, just like the rest of us, they were probably operating on information provided to them by the developers, and just like the rest of us, are slowly finding out mechanics of the game are not what they were said to be at all.

some people just see what they want to see, though, I suppose.

Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play on Thursday March 14, 2013 @06:01PM (#5377955)
you know nearly every cracked executable runs in a similar fashion?

they are already nearly indistinguishable from malware.

your average anti-virus program will flag a cracked executable every time, and you can routinely spot the less savvy users by viewing any torrent comment section and looking for "AVG FLAG AS TROJAN DO NOT DOWNLOAD"

Re:Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:07PM (#5371122)
libya's number one is "silver daddies (gay)."

I am curious but also slightly worried about what it will be.

Re:Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:05PM (#5371114)
milf isn't a great acronym to use for your example, it is exclusively used as "milf" and very rarely fulled "spelled out" unless you're quoting American Pie.

good points though.

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