Wait, so Google managed to collect $5M in revenue in exchange for "virtual" goods (basically, nothing) and still couldn't manage to make Superpoke profitable? Hey Mit Romney, what was that you were saying about about how the Government is so inefficient but private enterprise does a better job?
How long did they run the service for? Did they have big teams working on content / improving the service? At 1$ per player over the lifetime of the service it's not exactly huge revenue, it's not like it was run from somebodies basement...
Most people would easily get their problems solved with Gimp, and if there was a huge user base of simple users they might even make an easier "Lite" version out of it. Adobe knows, so they don't put meaningful copy protection in their applications. They know their target customers are corporations since normal people won't have 500-1000€ to throw into such an application, so they just try to ensure that people are accustomed to their products already before working anywhere. This way once they get a job they'll be asking for photoshop instead of permission to download Gimp.
I even see this at work. Somebody who's only need for editing graphics is resizing a logo from 250*120 pixels to 125*60 pixels will be running photoshop to do it...
It's effective. I have Elisa provided network at the office and when a friend working in their NOC said they turned it on, I could no longer access them. Also it's not just dns, the ip's are null routed. I have to say I'm surprised they also did it for corporate customers, but as the company said, the claim was too broad (and the ISP is trying to be compliant).
Also, if using an object oriented language try storing user provided input in objects rather then passing them around as user provided (and maybe filtered) strings. That way if there is a problem with some variable somewhere you might only have to fix the setter / constructor of the class instead of having to search around for countless places accessing the input data directly.
The OP claimed that Siemens lied about the security of their SIMATIC controllers, but don't you have to know you're lying in order to lie? Having dealt with Siemens over these things in the past (at one point we debated flying someone to Munich to club them repeatedly over the head until they realised there was a serious, showstopper flaw in their control system), it's quite probable that they genuinely believe that they're secure. We ended up using Allen-Bradley gear in the end, which also sucked, but not as much as the Siemens stuff.
That could be used as an explanation to escape just about any lie..:)
I guess the point is, that if a security researcher sends you detailed information on vulnerabilities in your system, then either don't answer, or give a decent reply. If after 6 months the Siemens guy was not lying it means they are not very competent. It's not like this was a complicated issue...
Of Nokia's current offerings, the only one that tempts me is the MeeGo-based N9, which has a decent Linux and 64GB of storage. It also has Nokia's Ovi Maps, which are pretty good, at no extra cost. Alas, it is destined to be an orphan. If Nokia pushed it more broadly, it would be a winner - far better than their W7 Lumia 800 (costs more for slightly fewer screen pixels, similar features, but only 16GB storage) which I also handled in one store.
Nokia already kicked out the MeeGo development team, last ones will go out of the door in a few months time, so I don't really see them pushing that platform... Just goes to show how out of touch they are.
That could be considered an act of war. But then again, some might also consider a terrorist mass-murderer, engineer of an attack killing over 3,000 civilians and some unknown number of other attacks, living in a supposedly allied country, apparently with their implicit permission, to be an act of war as well. While we're at it, allowing "protesters" to attack an embassy in your country and hold everyone inside hostage for years is also generally considered to be an act of war. So is sponsoring attacks against the armed forces of another country.
Basically, there's plenty of acts of war to go around in this area.
And the because these people are so terrible mass-murderers, engineers of attacks killing 3000 civilians etc is why the US has managed to convict so many of them.
Both SCSI and IDE drives have been available for PCs for as long as the technologies were around. It was a matter of whether it made sense to spend the extra money on SCSI for the particular need. Most desktop PCs did not benefit from having SCSI, so it would have been a waste of money.
Apple didn't use the 68K CPU until the Macintosh. By that time PCs had the much more powerful 80386.
Every time I had a SCSI drive on a workstation I felt the benefit was huge. I think it was more of a "not worth it" thing then a question of not benefitting.
Anyway, the point seemed to be that back in the day Apple computers had hardware to back up the high price, these days the price consists mainly of design, marketing and so on.
I don't agree about all points with the OP, for example I appreciate the form factor of a Mac Mini / iMac enough to justify the price, but I fully understand you can get something faster consisting of the same components in a beige box for half the price. A few years ago I ended up without a computer for a while and took home a 5 year old G4 tower from work as a loaner. It had a really fast SCSI drive in it, and for most things (where the ~400mhz cpu and 768MB ram where not bottlenecks) it really was still a fully usable machine.
There is very little to watch, and it might not be on at the right time. Sure you can record it if you remember to, but if you don't you are out of luck. I was putting my kid to bed and ran a bit late, missing 15 minutes from the beginning of the last episode of some decent series I've been following. If TV broadcasting worked like it should in this time I could just have started watching it from the beginning, but now I missed a crucial part of it.
Advertisers fund most channels, and the rest get funding from the government (in the country I live in anyway). There is no logical reason for it to still work this way, but it does because
Seems you where looking at their archive / english site. The main finnish site is as bad as most others (ok, it did get a bit better in a recent update)...
Yet, God comes around, lives a life of suffering, restraint, goodness, and then ultimate dies a horrible death while being scored by many... Because he loves us. The result is we can get to Heaven and live forever in peace. If this doesn't make sense, read my article, Why Christianity Makes Sense
Now if you agree finite suffering is less than infinite suffering, God could do anything basically anything he wants in order to let us avoid infinite suffering right? Many people with immature theology can't see this. Maybe this was part of his plan to confuse his spiritual enemies too. There are all sorts of things that might have been headfakes to accomplish the Gospel. Create all the stars in the sky, and even if we don't get there, his opponents need to strategize,"What if humans get to the stars?" Are the stars useless if we never get there then? I mean they give us something to spark our imagination of exploration. God can create infinite universes in Heaven, so if we wanted, we could own a Starship and explore our own personal universe, populated with more intrigue, action and life than Gene Roddenberry could come up with. I can guarantee Heaven will be better than anything you can even imagine. But who wants to listen to me, you know.
No, Jesus came to earth, not god.
It's quite a push to try to show god in good light. He put too extremely naive people on earth together with the most powerful angel at that time. He knew Lucifer would try to attack the humans, yet made no attempt to warn them about his presence. You can argue all you want, but god knew exactly what would happen as did anyone else who saw the whole picture. Sure you can blame the humans since they where told they should not eat from the tree, but the fact is that god knew what would happen, and just spun the events in a way that he could push the blame on humans.
And now, generations later we are still being punished for that spin... But we have the right to choose though right? After all the bad things god did to us we decide to be his friends, we will get to come and play with him in heaven. Unfortunately if we decide not to, he'll make us suffer forever in hell.
There are grown ups who behave like god did during the creation process and first week, and nobody would consider them to have very high moral. There are kids that go to school with my child who try to behave like god is doing now, and everybody understands they are bullies and should be left alone. However now that we are speaking of god we should understand he's just looking out for our best interests...
I think just about everyone had reliability problems with Sandforce based drives, but as OCZ was one of the closest partners to Sandforce they have generally released drives before others; often containing older firmware with more bugs.
It does seem their QA process is not especially robust looking at their track record though, where ever the problem is, you would think they would pick it up and delay shipment until it's fixed (especially seeing how widespread they where).
I would have imagined limited watching of tv and computers would be recommended for people of all ages. Personally I limit tv to one hour a day and computers to a few hours a week even for my older child.
You will always be found, it's always possibly to trace back to the individual, everything leads a trail, data can always be captured; so we will inevitably get to the bottom of who they are, what they've done, on a site or on a system and be able to prove that in a court of law.
Even if they can prove a particular machine was used to commit the offence, how will they prove who used it? That isn't even taking into account things such as TOR. I'd go as far as to say he is downright lying.
Why would they do that?
Obviously that's not true, rather probably somebody trying to scare people from even starting such idiocy. Unfortunately it will probably just cause people wanting to troll to look into methods for hiding their traces.
However for trolling on something like facebook, using tor would probably not be sufficient. They will probably be using a lot of fingerprinting techniques to identify the computer the user is connecting from, not just the IP address. It would probably not be very hard to link a fake account connecting via tor to any other regular accounts connecting from that same physical computer...
That still leaves the question of who used the computer, but I would imagine most trolls are not actually hard boiled criminals who will stand up to a lot of interrogation, or even demand a lawyer to be present when they are questioned..
Why did the public-facing servers have the CA private certificates on them at all?
I don't think that was the case, rather the network was accessed via unpatched public-facing servers. Aparently the subnet (assuming they where not in the same network segment) with the more crucial servers and certs was accessable from those public-facing servers, and authentication was successfull with that joke of a password.
BTW, I would find it quite a strech to say an IDS protects, rather it monitors and notifies of potential problems (unless you mean IPS). However in this case it could have picked up the attack.
Maybe if you see Apple as a company providing a solution to a wider computing need rather then a hardware and sofware manufacturer, but I would say no.
That said, I do welcome a complete approach, and also taking radical steps on the desktop (despite using Ubuntu on my HTPC and work computer I'm not a huge fan of Gnome or KDE). I tried installing Ubuntu 11.04 on a vmware virtual today and never even managed to get it to boot to the desktop. I guess I would not have managed to test Unity even if I reached the Desktop, so can't really comment on how well thought out the experience will be, but looking at history I don't expect anything as polished as OSX from a usability point of view.
I agree, timemachine has to be the only backup solution that even my grandmom could use. Kind of like rsnapshot with a proper gui easing recovery or system restore.
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Wait, so Google managed to collect $5M in revenue in exchange for "virtual" goods (basically, nothing) and still couldn't manage to make Superpoke profitable? Hey Mit Romney, what was that you were saying about about how the Government is so inefficient but private enterprise does a better job?
How long did they run the service for? Did they have big teams working on content / improving the service? At 1$ per player over the lifetime of the service it's not exactly huge revenue, it's not like it was run from somebodies basement...
Somebody who's only need for editing graphics is resizing a logo from 250*120 pixels to 125*60 pixels will be running photoshop to do it...
Coincidentally, rescaling is one of the few areas Photoshop isn't very good at, compared to what is possible with some free applications.
But it's the corporate standard... :)
Photoshop anyone?
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Most people would easily get their problems solved with Gimp, and if there was a huge user base of simple users they might even make an easier "Lite" version out of it. Adobe knows, so they don't put meaningful copy protection in their applications. They know their target customers are corporations since normal people won't have 500-1000€ to throw into such an application, so they just try to ensure that people are accustomed to their products already before working anywhere. This way once they get a job they'll be asking for photoshop instead of permission to download Gimp.
I even see this at work. Somebody who's only need for editing graphics is resizing a logo from 250*120 pixels to 125*60 pixels will be running photoshop to do it...
It's effective. I have Elisa provided network at the office and when a friend working in their NOC said they turned it on, I could no longer access them. Also it's not just dns, the ip's are null routed. I have to say I'm surprised they also did it for corporate customers, but as the company said, the claim was too broad (and the ISP is trying to be compliant).
I think the idea is to slowly promote an idea that caps and traffic shaping are good for the vast majority of customers.
Also, if using an object oriented language try storing user provided input in objects rather then passing them around as user provided (and maybe filtered) strings. That way if there is a problem with some variable somewhere you might only have to fix the setter / constructor of the class instead of having to search around for countless places accessing the input data directly.
The OP claimed that Siemens lied about the security of their SIMATIC controllers, but don't you have to know you're lying in order to lie? Having dealt with Siemens over these things in the past (at one point we debated flying someone to Munich to club them repeatedly over the head until they realised there was a serious, showstopper flaw in their control system), it's quite probable that they genuinely believe that they're secure. We ended up using Allen-Bradley gear in the end, which also sucked, but not as much as the Siemens stuff.
That could be used as an explanation to escape just about any lie.. :)
I guess the point is, that if a security researcher sends you detailed information on vulnerabilities in your system, then either don't answer, or give a decent reply. If after 6 months the Siemens guy was not lying it means they are not very competent. It's not like this was a complicated issue...
Of Nokia's current offerings, the only one that tempts me is the MeeGo-based N9, which has a decent Linux and 64GB of storage. It also has Nokia's Ovi Maps, which are pretty good, at no extra cost. Alas, it is destined to be an orphan. If Nokia pushed it more broadly, it would be a winner - far better than their W7 Lumia 800 (costs more for slightly fewer screen pixels, similar features, but only 16GB storage) which I also handled in one store.
Nokia already kicked out the MeeGo development team, last ones will go out of the door in a few months time, so I don't really see them pushing that platform... Just goes to show how out of touch they are.
Plenty of adverts on tv for selling 50€ RC helicopters with webcams this christmas season. :)
That could be considered an act of war. But then again, some might also consider a terrorist mass-murderer, engineer of an attack killing over 3,000 civilians and some unknown number of other attacks, living in a supposedly allied country, apparently with their implicit permission, to be an act of war as well. While we're at it, allowing "protesters" to attack an embassy in your country and hold everyone inside hostage for years is also generally considered to be an act of war. So is sponsoring attacks against the armed forces of another country.
Basically, there's plenty of acts of war to go around in this area.
And the because these people are so terrible mass-murderers, engineers of attacks killing 3000 civilians etc is why the US has managed to convict so many of them.
Then there should be no problem with apologizing.
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Both SCSI and IDE drives have been available for PCs for as long as the technologies were around. It was a matter of whether it made sense to spend the extra money on SCSI for the particular need. Most desktop PCs did not benefit from having SCSI, so it would have been a waste of money. Apple didn't use the 68K CPU until the Macintosh. By that time PCs had the much more powerful 80386.
Every time I had a SCSI drive on a workstation I felt the benefit was huge. I think it was more of a "not worth it" thing then a question of not benefitting.
Anyway, the point seemed to be that back in the day Apple computers had hardware to back up the high price, these days the price consists mainly of design, marketing and so on.
I don't agree about all points with the OP, for example I appreciate the form factor of a Mac Mini / iMac enough to justify the price, but I fully understand you can get something faster consisting of the same components in a beige box for half the price. A few years ago I ended up without a computer for a while and took home a 5 year old G4 tower from work as a loaner. It had a really fast SCSI drive in it, and for most things (where the ~400mhz cpu and 768MB ram where not bottlenecks) it really was still a fully usable machine.
This.
There is very little to watch, and it might not be on at the right time. Sure you can record it if you remember to, but if you don't you are out of luck. I was putting my kid to bed and ran a bit late, missing 15 minutes from the beginning of the last episode of some decent series I've been following. If TV broadcasting worked like it should in this time I could just have started watching it from the beginning, but now I missed a crucial part of it. Advertisers fund most channels, and the rest get funding from the government (in the country I live in anyway). There is no logical reason for it to still work this way, but it does because
Seems you where looking at their archive / english site. The main finnish site is as bad as most others (ok, it did get a bit better in a recent update)...
http://www.hs.fi/
Yet, God comes around, lives a life of suffering, restraint, goodness, and then ultimate dies a horrible death while being scored by many... Because he loves us. The result is we can get to Heaven and live forever in peace. If this doesn't make sense, read my article, Why Christianity Makes Sense Now if you agree finite suffering is less than infinite suffering, God could do anything basically anything he wants in order to let us avoid infinite suffering right? Many people with immature theology can't see this. Maybe this was part of his plan to confuse his spiritual enemies too. There are all sorts of things that might have been headfakes to accomplish the Gospel. Create all the stars in the sky, and even if we don't get there, his opponents need to strategize,"What if humans get to the stars?" Are the stars useless if we never get there then? I mean they give us something to spark our imagination of exploration. God can create infinite universes in Heaven, so if we wanted, we could own a Starship and explore our own personal universe, populated with more intrigue, action and life than Gene Roddenberry could come up with. I can guarantee Heaven will be better than anything you can even imagine. But who wants to listen to me, you know.
No, Jesus came to earth, not god.
It's quite a push to try to show god in good light. He put too extremely naive people on earth together with the most powerful angel at that time. He knew Lucifer would try to attack the humans, yet made no attempt to warn them about his presence. You can argue all you want, but god knew exactly what would happen as did anyone else who saw the whole picture. Sure you can blame the humans since they where told they should not eat from the tree, but the fact is that god knew what would happen, and just spun the events in a way that he could push the blame on humans.
And now, generations later we are still being punished for that spin... But we have the right to choose though right? After all the bad things god did to us we decide to be his friends, we will get to come and play with him in heaven. Unfortunately if we decide not to, he'll make us suffer forever in hell.
There are grown ups who behave like god did during the creation process and first week, and nobody would consider them to have very high moral. There are kids that go to school with my child who try to behave like god is doing now, and everybody understands they are bullies and should be left alone. However now that we are speaking of god we should understand he's just looking out for our best interests...
I think just about everyone had reliability problems with Sandforce based drives, but as OCZ was one of the closest partners to Sandforce they have generally released drives before others; often containing older firmware with more bugs.
It does seem their QA process is not especially robust looking at their track record though, where ever the problem is, you would think they would pick it up and delay shipment until it's fixed (especially seeing how widespread they where).
That's funny, there was lots of talk about the code being out there. I never had much interest in looking for it though... I guess it was all BS.
I thought there was a lot of talk about the code, not about it being out there. You can get pretty far by just looking at the binaries.
How did it get access to your hotmail contact list?
I would have imagined limited watching of tv and computers would be recommended for people of all ages. Personally I limit tv to one hour a day and computers to a few hours a week even for my older child.
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You will always be found, it's always possibly to trace back to the individual, everything leads a trail, data can always be captured; so we will inevitably get to the bottom of who they are, what they've done, on a site or on a system and be able to prove that in a court of law.
Even if they can prove a particular machine was used to commit the offence, how will they prove who used it? That isn't even taking into account things such as TOR. I'd go as far as to say he is downright lying.
Why would they do that?
Obviously that's not true, rather probably somebody trying to scare people from even starting such idiocy. Unfortunately it will probably just cause people wanting to troll to look into methods for hiding their traces.
However for trolling on something like facebook, using tor would probably not be sufficient. They will probably be using a lot of fingerprinting techniques to identify the computer the user is connecting from, not just the IP address. It would probably not be very hard to link a fake account connecting via tor to any other regular accounts connecting from that same physical computer...
That still leaves the question of who used the computer, but I would imagine most trolls are not actually hard boiled criminals who will stand up to a lot of interrogation, or even demand a lawyer to be present when they are questioned..
Why did the public-facing servers have the CA private certificates on them at all?
I don't think that was the case, rather the network was accessed via unpatched public-facing servers. Aparently the subnet (assuming they where not in the same network segment) with the more crucial servers and certs was accessable from those public-facing servers, and authentication was successfull with that joke of a password.
BTW, I would find it quite a strech to say an IDS protects, rather it monitors and notifies of potential problems (unless you mean IPS). However in this case it could have picked up the attack.
Maybe if you see Apple as a company providing a solution to a wider computing need rather then a hardware and sofware manufacturer, but I would say no.
That said, I do welcome a complete approach, and also taking radical steps on the desktop (despite using Ubuntu on my HTPC and work computer I'm not a huge fan of Gnome or KDE). I tried installing Ubuntu 11.04 on a vmware virtual today and never even managed to get it to boot to the desktop. I guess I would not have managed to test Unity even if I reached the Desktop, so can't really comment on how well thought out the experience will be, but looking at history I don't expect anything as polished as OSX from a usability point of view.
I'm sure some Sun engineers would disagree.
I agree, timemachine has to be the only backup solution that even my grandmom could use. Kind of like rsnapshot with a proper gui easing recovery or system restore.