As advanced and modular papolar DAW have become nothing will replace a live performance. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about recorded sounds that are assembled to create a score. It's still valid and the composer still put hard work into composing arranging this piece of music.
They have tasted the Cool-Aid and they like it. From now until the end of time every thing that you do on any public network, using any public software is tracked.
Your GPS location Your e-mail Your phone calls Your online transactions. Your Facebook friends
Everything.
NSA spying on people is like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon except it's 2 degrees and it's you and the rest of the world. (If I knew how to make a tag line this would be it)
If they are following a member of Al-Qaida in the US and you come within 10 feet of him knowingly or not. Your phone will be tagged.
They turned a good stand alone game, Diablo 2 into a semi MMO grind. With a real money auction house and short content.
They basically sucked all the fun out of the game.
Blizzard changed about 3 or 4 years ago when they wanted to implement Real ID. They wanted to make WoW a Facebook of sort. Ever since it's all been about how to extract more money from their game than making a game shine on it;s own merits.
The day of the stand alone game is over. They all want you connected. You;re a revenue stream.
I believe that many of the unpleasantness that came with the latest expansion has also had a major impact on subscribers. I have friends that I have made over the years in WoW, they may not be the best players but they truly are good people. The skill needed for the beginning dungeons in Cataclysm was a bit too steep. You could not avoid the mechanics of a fight anymore as in the previous expansion.
Blizzard put in minimal gear requirements for doing harder dungeons and I believe that they might not have been quite high enough.So many of my friends are just not playing anymore. The players you encountered using Blizzard's random group matching system became unbelievably rude and intolerant.
Then some people got offended when they reduced the difficulty on previous raid content. (This to me was just childish).
The total revamp of all classes did not help either. You had to re-learn a class that you have been playing for the past 5 years.
But as others have said previously, this expansion sure does feel much more of a grind than the previous. WoW, when it first started removed many of the old style MMO grind. The death penalty was just some gold, items did not decay, you did not lose experience when dying.
For Cataclysm it seems that they are heading in the opposite direction the started in.
I have played Dark Age of camelot for 5 years, World of warcraft for 5 years, EvE Online on and of for a while, Acheron's call, City of Heros City of Villans and other to a lesser extent.
None of these MMO's came out done. NONE. It is the nature of MMO's to be works in progress. Sure they have to have some sort of playability and having played my Zealot to 31 in Warhammer at release it was a good game. The public quests worked the battleground worked, the quests worked.
they added some classses later, but so did Wow they added BRD and other dungons after relese date. Darkness falls in DAOC. I did not play EvE from the begining but I am sure the same thing happened as changes are made after every patch.
I also understand that publishers want a product to release or else you could be faced with George Broussard's 10 year excursion of development.
The lack of details in the paper makes it so that it is impossible to know exactly what they found. Scanners such as Nessus, Foundstone, Languard are really noisy and can report normal system operation as a high vulnerability irregardless of system configuration.
Something like telnet will be a high, but put the proper mitigation such as access list, 2 factor authentication and you can show it as a medium or low.
You can think of Top Secret as a governmental NDA. Breaking this one will land you in jail instead of a fine or other penalties. Worst case senario is that you will be charged with treason and all that could possibly imply.
Not all people who have Top secret work for projects related to terrorism.
Mostly it's a requirement to interact with that particular agency.
Most good developers, but if like me you belong in a very large company and developpers are hired by contract the end result can always be suprising. Because most don't care. They are given a timeline and no matter what the sales dept. will have their way.
oh yes we do vulnerability assessments and code review, but if someone invents the magic wand to make all the bad go away we would surly invest in it.
Oh look it's summer, here comes the students to work on all those special projects.
I am sure the insurance company will love you, we either kill him and we stop his treatment or we save him and stop his treatment.
Don't get me wrong I have seen my mother die of cancer and if it ever happens to me , well I've made my choice but in no way will I endorse such failure rate.
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SAS on Z/OS ?
Good luck with your python code.
I think you should learn SAS.
I can use all my memory all my cpu's, I don't want latency while v-cpu's are switching over and memory gets allocated.
I am sure he signed plenty of NDA's
If he didn't like what he was doing he should have quit.
I don't beleive he deserves jail time but he is no hero either,
But whoever went in front of congress and lied about data collection, that guy needs some repercussions for that!
Why make one when you can have two at twice the price!
As advanced and modular papolar DAW have become nothing will replace a live performance. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about recorded sounds that are assembled to create a score. It's still valid and the composer still put hard work into composing arranging this piece of music.
Our program is under scrutiny as being unconstitutional, so lets spread FUD.
60 Minutes is really going in the tank.
Way to go guys
Privacy my ass.
Theywill just resell the stats to the marketers.
Being a Canadian
I have had a few prescription in my 50 years on this earth.
I have never seen ANY of my prescriptions with the diagnosis on it.
They have tasted the Cool-Aid and they like it.
From now until the end of time every thing that you do on any public network, using any public software is tracked.
Your GPS location
Your e-mail
Your phone calls
Your online transactions.
Your Facebook friends
Everything.
NSA spying on people is like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon except it's 2 degrees and it's you and the rest of the world.
(If I knew how to make a tag line this would be it)
If they are following a member of Al-Qaida in the US and you come within 10 feet of him knowingly or not. Your phone will be tagged.
They turned a good stand alone game, Diablo 2 into a semi MMO grind. With a real money auction house and short content.
They basically sucked all the fun out of the game.
Blizzard changed about 3 or 4 years ago when they wanted to implement Real ID. They wanted to make WoW a Facebook of sort. Ever since it's all been about how to extract more money from their game than making a game shine on it;s own merits.
The day of the stand alone game is over. They all want you connected. You;re a revenue stream.
It's all sad really
Don't feed the trolls
Facebook?
Really?
Are you fucking nuts?
I feel like watching a bad episode of the Flintstones where Fred gets one of his stupid ideas.
This is so true :-(
So when John Boner says "He got 90% of what he wanted" in the debt celing debate, that was bi-partisan?
And not following any of my recomendations. It keeps me employed.
I believe that many of the unpleasantness that came with the latest expansion has also had a major impact on subscribers. I have friends that I have made over the years in WoW, they may not be the best players but they truly are good people. The skill needed for the beginning dungeons in Cataclysm was a bit too steep. You could not avoid the mechanics of a fight anymore as in the previous expansion.
Blizzard put in minimal gear requirements for doing harder dungeons and I believe that they might not have been quite high enough.So many of my friends are just not playing anymore. The players you encountered using Blizzard's random group matching system became unbelievably rude and intolerant.
Then some people got offended when they reduced the difficulty on previous raid content. (This to me was just childish).
The total revamp of all classes did not help either. You had to re-learn a class that you have been playing for the past 5 years.
But as others have said previously, this expansion sure does feel much more of a grind than the previous. WoW, when it first started removed many of the old style MMO grind. The death penalty was just some gold, items did not decay, you did not lose experience when dying.
For Cataclysm it seems that they are heading in the opposite direction the started in.
I have played Dark Age of camelot for 5 years, World of warcraft for 5 years, EvE Online on and of for a while, Acheron's call, City of Heros City of Villans and other to a lesser extent.
None of these MMO's came out done. NONE. It is the nature of MMO's to be works in progress. Sure they have to have some sort of playability and having played my Zealot to 31 in Warhammer at release it was a good game. The public quests worked the battleground worked, the quests worked.
they added some classses later, but so did Wow they added BRD and other dungons after relese date. Darkness falls in DAOC. I did not play EvE from the begining but I am sure the same thing happened as changes are made after every patch.
I also understand that publishers want a product to release or else you could be faced with George Broussard's 10 year excursion of development.
Is it trying to push a browser vulnerability!!!
Yes actually I do this quaterly.
We divide the vulnerabilities in 3 category.
OS patching.
OS Hardening.
Application Patching.
By doing this you can focus to the root cause of the issues. System owners, Application owners. It's a nice 2 page report with colours. they love it.
Administrators who care and are not tied up in red tape tend to really shine in these reports.
Another thing to realise is that in a corporate production environment, nothing will ever be 100% secure 100% of the time.
The lack of details in the paper makes it so that it is impossible to know exactly what they found. Scanners such as Nessus, Foundstone, Languard are really noisy and can report normal system operation as a high vulnerability irregardless of system configuration.
Something like telnet will be a high, but put the proper mitigation such as access list, 2 factor authentication and you can show it as a medium or low.
It's all subjective.
You can think of Top Secret as a governmental NDA. Breaking this one will land you in jail instead of a fine or other penalties. Worst case senario is that you will be charged with treason and all that could possibly imply.
Not all people who have Top secret work for projects related to terrorism.
Mostly it's a requirement to interact with that particular agency.
it's regular FUD journalisim.
Most good developers, but if like me you belong in a very large company and developpers are hired by contract the end result can always be suprising. Because most don't care. They are given a timeline and no matter what the sales dept. will have their way.
oh yes we do vulnerability assessments and code review, but if someone invents the magic wand to make all the bad go away we would surly invest in it.
Oh look it's summer, here comes the students to work on all those special projects.
I am sure the insurance company will love you, we either kill him and we stop his treatment or we save him and stop his treatment.
Don't get me wrong I have seen my mother die of cancer and if it ever happens to me , well I've made my choice but in no way will I endorse such failure rate.
I use blink which is a home version of the Retina scanner by eEye. It has a virus and firewall and other stuff.
Futurama is filled with gems but the one that got me the most was Zoidberg at a party saying
"I fertilized the caviar for ya!"