Natural monopolies have nothing to do with natural resources. They exist when the barrier to entering a specific market is fundamentally high enough that it’s unreasonable to expect anyone to be able to enter the market and compete against an established player.
A couple of good examples would be utilities and ISPs.
Is there a link to the code? I know I could probably search for it, but if you’re going post about the code being public you could at least include a link to it.
Nah, WoW. Off the company RAID.
I think it should also be noted that the games industry is not audited for security to the same degree as a lot of other industries. So vulnerabilities may not be found until years after launch and then go unpatched indefinitely because the company has already moved on to the next thing.
Hell, one of the older CoD games had an RCE vulnerability that as far as I’m aware is still not patched.
Plus, major publishers like EA are now pushing to create their own kernel-level anticheat in-house. Why should anyone trust them to create a secure piece of software that runs with the highest permissions possible when they can’t even be trusted to create stable, functional games?
Ginger is just a descriptor. He’s a cunt who happens to be ginger and unloved.
I kind of miss nosleep.
Also, mice used to be a novel way to interact with a computer that nobody was comfortable with.
There aren’t a lot of people left who are comfortable in a pure keyboard environment. Much less the flip switches on early PDPs.
Computer interfaces change. Being uncomfortable using an interface that’s new to you is indicative of nothing.
The cinematic trailers for OG Guild Wars.
Bezos is the example they were using to illustrate their point. Which isn’t a strawman argument by any definition of the term.
That’s a statistic that can, in fact, be proven. They should probably cite a source for it, but given how you set the level of the discussion, I can see why they’d think that level of effort is unnecessary.
Posing a question can be a way to make a point. It’s called a rhetorical question. It helps the argument if you follow up with an answer to the question, but the question on its own is enough to make a point.
Ah, it’s one of those. I was thinking it was the TV’s OS.
I don’t have a lot of experience with those smaller dongles, but as I understand it they’re fairly low power devices that are more meant for streaming relatively low bitrate media from the internet or from a phone. It may not have the horsepower for playing back high bitrate media from Jellyfin or Plex.
Others may have a solution that’ll work for that device, but my gut response is to say you should consider replacing it with something more powerful.
Unless you have a commitment to only using open source software, I’d recommend Plex over Jellyfin. Mostly because I’ve found the client software for Jellyfin to be lacking, especially on AppleTV.
For the issues with the GoogleTV, you mention that it’s on WiFi, would it be possible to use a wired connection or get another set top box for it? Some TVs have the WiFi antenna behind the screen causing interference, so even though other devices get a strong signal the TV doesn’t.
Also, how’s the hardware on your server? Is the CPU powerful enough or do you have a GPU for transcoding? Also, is the server on WiFi or wired?
It’s worth noting that a lot of settop boxes have limited codec support, which might be forcing transcoding even if everything should otherwise support direct play.
Not if you’re using your card. The card can still be cloned with a few seconds of physical access. Also, with a card, there’s no PIN verification with tap to pay and no signature requirements. Because of that most countries have transaction size limits for tap to pay. Usually in the $50-$100 USD range. The US, notably has no such limits. So, if someone steals your card they can use it up to your balance/credit limit, or up to the transaction limit your bank sets, typically about $10,000 USD.
Tap to pay using a phone, apple watch, or similar device is more secure because they have actual 2FA and generate unique payment information for each transaction on top of the already existing encryption of the transaction data. Additionally, cloning the underlying payment info would require being able to access the secure enclave on the phone.
Also, the chips aren’t that much better than the stripe. It’s harder to clone the chip and much harder to do en masse, but far from impossible. On top of that, the measure that is supposed to prevent cloning from being viable is almost never actually required, that being the PIN.
It’s called “Chip and PIN” for a reason. It’s a 2FA system where one of the factors just isn’t required and the other can be readily compromised. It’s baffling how we have a functioning system for digital payments when seemingly no one is willing to properly implement and then use a secure standard.
I also haven’t worked food service myself, but I’ve had a number of friends, family members, and acquaintances who have. Out of those people the only ones who have said it was easy money are the friends who worked it in High School and College while living with their parents and being of an age where they were still covered by their parents health insurance and the people who were much older, already retired, and had a sizable nest egg set aside.
Everyone I’ve known who worked food service after college and/or prior to retirement has said it was some of the most financially stressful work they’ve ever done. In large part, because they were universally considered part time employees, meaning no health insurance; they were forced to treat even the most unruly of customers with respect and courtesy, which because of the finances attached to customer satisfaction was almost dehumanizing; and even factoring in tips they were paid very little, which wasn’t a problem when living with their parents or having most of their living expenses covered by a student loan, scholarship, or grant, but once they had to live on their own and pay their own way through life was barely enough to get by much less live comfortably.
For the few people I’ve known who worked food service in retirement, it was more for something to do and a way to get some kind of human interaction. The money was a nice side benefit, but far from enough to pay for their living expenses.
It’s been that long? My sister has a 5yr old and a 4yr old that I babysit on the weekends and I made the mistake of showing them The Nightmare Before Christmas last year. For my sister and I it was our Christmas movie and I wanted to continue the tradition.
I only see my nieces for two days out of every week, but over the last year I’ve seen that movie so many times that I frequently wake up with “This is Halloween” stuck in my head or catch myself humming “Oogie Boogie’s song.”
I keep trying to show them other movies but it’s seemingly the only thing they want to watch, and they’re so polite about it that it’s basically impossible to say no. I keep hoping they’ll grow out of it or find something else, but it seems like I’m stuck watching this one movie forever.
That song goes hard though. Felt bad ending it.
Yeah, there was a great video on YouTube I saw a few days ago that went over why Sony is backing Pocket Pair, why Nintendo is making this case about patents, why that’s a massive risk for Nintendo, and why Nintendo is willing to take that risk.
It largely seemed to come down to the Nintndo-Sony rivalry that started when Nintendo backed out of the SNES era deal to create the PlayStation. Nintendo is trying to crush Sony’s potentially viable competitor to their largest franchise and are making the case a patent case because that’s the only route they can pursue. If they lose, Nintendo stands to lose those patents.
And context usually gives away whether something is being used innocently or not.
Don’t assign moral values to words or numbers. Those things are morally neutral. Look at how they’re being used and the context surrounding their use then use that to determine the morality of the individual using them on a case by case basis.
Hell, as long as it’s consensual, go full Emperor’s Children. Deny yourself no experience for all sensation is delectable.
I think the word you’re looking for is “racist.”