So we have:
in development.
…Assuming the flash drive isn’t loaded to the gills with malware alongside of every game it offers to install…that sounds fair.
But let’s be real; No legitimate company stands a chance of doing this without getting sued into oblivion. Unfortunately that means the risk of getting viruses and malware with your purchase, likely ransomware or cryptominer droppers, is really high.
…but let’s assume you’re technical enough that you can disarm all the malware on the USB stick and clean the cruft out of it. Then; yeah…maybe you’ll get your value’s worth.
I should point out that pellet guns do not have a ‘Day-Glo Safety Orange/Red’ tip.
As they do eject actually harmful projectiles; they look much like other guns until you get close to them. Reasonable parenting would have included making sure the child understood that under no circumstances do you point that at people.
That doesn’t make this less of a tragedy, but it does provide some context to the situation. Cops are, sadly, trained out of necessity not to try to discern when on the receiving end of any gun barrel. While it’s difficult to expect a child to know not to point weapons at police; doing so is in fact dangerous.
This actually doesn’t surprise me. Valve is getting greedy.
But; to be clear; by using these tools, to unlock the DLC without paying for it, you are cheating in the game. That’s a mere fact; and not a moral judgement of anyone choosing to do so.
Personally, I don’t judge anyone for doing so; and would use these tools myself if I thought a DLC were too predatory, expensive or otherwise unfair to not have it available.
That’s not saying it’s fair or right for Valve to do so; nor is it saying the VAC bans or account suspensions are deserved. If you get hit by this; you absolutely should pirate every title you already own/purchased via Steam right away, and pirate anything else you want in the future.
The only way to make them regret doing things like this is voting with your wallet; and asking others to do the same. Stop spending money on Valve. Once their earnings fall they’ll be forced to hear people’s concerns.
Amen.
These tools should be secured so that only a properly Appointed, Licensed and Barred Judge may use the facial recognition software. It’s clear that Officers shouldn’t be allowed…they misuse the tools too often.
It’s clear that they made an end run around the rules, laws and agreements they made.
I hope some judge throws the book in their face for it and forces them to pay out of their profits to the artists at the rate they agreed was fair before they began selling audiobooks.
Just because it “Works For Me!” does not mean it will work.
Beeper very much does not currently allow new users to access the functioning legacy iMessage infrastructure; and Apple itself is making it impractical as well.
From the Beeper Community chatroom on Matrix:
Beeper no longer provides support for iMessage-related issues.
It has become known that Apple has targeted users of legitimate Mac computers for using Beeper to generate iMessage registration data. Beeper has commented about this situation on Twitter/X here and coverage of this issue has been reported in the New York Times here.
As a result of this media pressure, many of those affected have been successful in having their hardware bans lifted. If you are still affected by a ban that you believe is related to generating a registration code on a Mac computer to use iMessage through Beeper please report it to Beeper Help here and please contact Apple Support as well.
As of this time Beeper has removed support for iMessage from Beeper Cloud due to Apple’s actions. It is suggested that those still using registration data generated from a Mac computer to access iMessage through Beeper delete their existing iMessage bridge in Beeper Cloud.
For any further questions related to iMessage please visit our helpful Discord community.
Ah. This smells like a classic Russian poisoning.
Officially; No.
Informally; there’s a few mods of the stock Discord client; however they’re all closed source because they cannot possibly be fully open source as the stock Discord client is Closed Source.
Basically; alternatives exist; However they are not FOSS, FLOSS, OS or even fully Source Available.
Beeper exists but this is not strictly a Discord-only client and it is not fully Open Source; as some client/server code is only “Source Available”. Beeper is also not fully “Free”; unless you self-host it. Furthermore access to Beeper is heavily join-gated. You will have to source an invitation code from someone you know. (No, I will not provide one.)
If you do get invited to Beeper; use Beeper Cloud, and be aware that iMessage integration does not work.
They absolutely are political prisoners! By strict technical definition.
However, the fact of the matter remains that they committed crimes knowingly, knowing fully well that their political beliefs do not pardon their insurrection or their crimes.
You know, when you try to pull off an insurrection and you absolutely and utterly fail at it, you gotta expect there to be some consequences. Thank goodness America isn’t an absolute dictatorship which would put dissidents to death. The punishment at least fits the crimes of each one of them. They get a fair trial and everything. What more could a criminal reasonably ask for?
I don’t feel sorry for the yahoos who gathered on Jan 6th and caused mass chaos. I feel like if the feds rounded them up; they probably did something undeniably stupid.
Plenty of people who “Showed up” for the January 6th protest who actually stayed out of the way and did not engage in the rioting and such actually don’t happen to be in jail…they were released at least 3 months later after nobody could find anything to charge them with. It’s part of how the justice system works.
They had to know they would all have to be rounded up after the chaos and be sorted out. Hell; if they were smart, they left when things got hot and heavy and didn’t get arrested at all, and at worst only had to speak to the FBI or the cops a little bit to prove they didn’t join in the chaos.
It’s not a crime for them to have been there protesting. The crimes were all the people breaking into the building(s) and trying to interfere with the process. Trying to terrorize and intimidate chosen people who were working to certify the election; which by the way; Trump lost. Unfortunately the protestors do not get to decide who our president is. The election does. It’s democracy.
Unfortunately a small group of people got a little too salty about losing.
I mean…Why the hell are we sparing 1.5 Trillion dollars of our future income on jet fighters when we won’t spare even 10% of that on our own fucking people at home without a god damned 3 ring circus about how much we’re already spending?
Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
Low key though; taping a fish to a cop car isn’t very classy and it only invites the cops to come after you instead of looking the other way.
At the risk of sounding like an old dragon;
The world just ain’t like it used to be…these days you can’t get away with half of what you could 10, 20 or even 30 years ago…even if what you did was largely completely harmless.
As for damages…what damages? Maybe a little cleanup would be necessary, but I doubt any of these ATMs were actually physically harmed by the prank(s). I will admit that it’s a little bit irresponsible for the child to have actually done this internationally; but I suspect it wasn’t the same kid. I doubt one kid could’ve traveled the world to fish-tape ATMs thousands of miles away; and instead this is a rather large “group” of kids doing this for the lulz, and they only caught the one kid and are trying to make an example of him. >_>
No, there’s other problems we need to address too. Dealing with racism isn’t a quick fix, it’s something everyone has to work together to stamp out.
You didn’t convert a hex number into Base64, you Base64 encoded the hex string.
TL;DR, you used the wrong tool.
Ah; but did you forget you pay income tax on top of capital gains taxes?
On the other hand; would you personally make that choice if you were in their situation? I am willing to bet you, nor any other reader, would not. While that doesn’t excuse the greed aspect of it; it does cast at least some light upon why they are refusing to sell and take a loss on it.
If you only paid $100,000 and you made $1,000,000; you’d have $900,000 profit; of which you’d probably only see ~60% to ~40% of, if Capital Gains taxes are anything near what I think they are. If we assume a “worst case”, where the Federal Government takes 40% and the State takes about 20% more, that means your tidy profit is only about $390,000. That means you’ve probably got to secure another $140,000 in financing on average to pick up a more modest $500,000 home (in today’s market) to retire in.
But villainizing the boomers isn’t going to solve the housing crisis easier either. We legitimately need more homes. We. Need. Them. Yesterday. So maybe the policy needs to lean towards bigger developments that cost less. We did it during WW2; where massive amounts of homes were built cheaply. We probably need to achieve that again, and do better than we did during a war that was diverting supplies away from the effort.
How do we achieve that? I don’t know.
You fail to see that we want the same outcome; only that we disagree on how to do it. Do you truly care about abolishing racism, or are you just caring about what benefits one race? That’s racist in and of itself.
It’s like playing Uno; but with reverse cards only.