The problem here is not that Google screwed up, it is that so many news agencies were happy to reprint a story with no error checking.
Why do we have thousands of newspapers if all they do is regurgitate what Google tells them it found?
Because data changes between backups and outages. Even if you are running incremental backups every 15 minutes, that is 14 minutes worth of data you might lose. In a high transaction database environment, 14 minutes is a lot of data.
If you are using some sort of "any time data changes back it up" system, you still have to deal with the fact that you aren't getting your backups onto removable media immediately. If your power outage ruins a disk, and the backup server doesnt write its cache out fast enough, you just had a loss. If the outage ruins a disk and a disk on your backup storage, you had a loss.
Good backup practices go a long way, but they don't make you bulletproof.
Yes, its offputing, but the McNugget is a huge feat of engineering.
The chemical engineering involved in turning corn in to McNugget is amazing.
The social engineering involved in convincing people to eat the crap is even more amazing.
The political engineering to get the government to subsidize McDonald's is simply staggering.
Really? Because I kind of remember a company called Time Warner offering both internet service and crappy records.
I have a vague recollection of Comcast trying to buy Disney. They failed, but I'm sure they'd love to try again.
Cox owns 79 radio stations.
The dream of owning the content and the delivery system is alive in the ISP markets, don't for a second forget that.
I was going to mod you insightful or informative, but some jerks already topped you off with funny.
This works very well. I've heard several former TSA guys tell stories about looking at something on the xray screen, not being able to figure out what it was, calling over a supervisor and realizing it was nipple clamps or a creatively shaped vibrator. As soon as they realized what they were looking at, the pushed the bag on through as fast as they could.
Name address and phone number. What's the problem? Its all the same crap that is in the phone book. Or yellowpages.com, or whitepages.com, or phonebook.com.
Sorry, meant to mention this too:
When you hear about police raids for RIAA or MPAA, they are happening because those agencies are willing to take a bulk of the costs onto themselves.
Very often they do not. They will come, file a report so you can give a report to your insurance company, and say goodbye. Very little "investigation" is done.
No, the conclusion is not to use the same password on different sites.
Never trust that the software package properly safeguards your password from the administrator. This may be poor crypto, but in many cases, software packages just don't bother to encrypt the password at all. I've seen several websites that store password in plaintext or rot13 (actually it was ROT3).
That's not true. The user can generate a string with something like dd if=/dev/urandom bs=21 count=1|openssl base64 , store that string, and append it the the true password each time the log in. This has exactly the same results as the site correctly implementing salting. So what you are saying is the best defense is to use a crazy fucking password?
The article is specifically about Antivirus products missing things they should catch, because someone took the time to "hide" the code. Every AV should catch this, even if the "hidden" code is hello world, an AV should detect that someone is trying to execute code on your PC that they feel should be hidden.
AV software should not be limited to viruses, trojans, worms etc. It should take care of any crap that comes your way. An average user (or slightly above average user, since they took the time to install AV) shouldn't have to track all the different forms of malware and purchase new protection for each one. One product should protect them from all Evil (TM) Software.
He's probably posting anonymously because he's really a pro, and doesn't want to jeopardize his endorsement contracts.
Professional badminton sponsors are a touchy bunch, with lots of mainstream media connections.
Any insight into how AOL had 164 billion dollars?
I mean, even if they started with 300 billion, after sending me all those Floppies and CDs over the years how could they have anything left over?
3. Children who saved their allowance for such a game.
In the second two examples, the 'child' showed remarkable maturity and in that case, should meet the requirements of the MA rating.
A 12 year old who can save 10 dollars a week for 2 weeks to get an MA game off the discount rack shows "remarkable maturity" to you?
Not to mention that kids get money for birthdays, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/3 Kings Day/Winter Solstice (quite the haul if you are Black Jewish Catholic Pagan.
I'm not trying to take a stand on one side or the other here, but your argument doesn't hold water.
Ah, see there's the disconnect. You have to be able to seperate discussions about law and discussions about culture. The original topic is about online gaming culture, not laws. If we had been talking about law (maybe you mentioned it in another post and I just missed it) I'd have been much more likely to be on your side of the discussion (although with a different approach).
I appreciate the back and forth with you today, Cheers.
Warnings, loss of chat privs for a time, temp bans. All of these can be used without resorting to an outright ban. If repeated warnings dont teach said 14 year old to change their behavior, then perhaps a ban is a good idea. Children need to learn that they are subject to consequences, some adults could use the same lesson.
He's not comparing rape to basketball, he's appalled by the ease with which you blame the victim.
You are absolutely right that you cannont control how everyone will interpret what you say, but in online games a general sense of courtesy is missing. The lowest common denominator should be polite respect, even if that means that a few funny jokes are never told.
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I don't see why we need it to be slashdot specific, I've yet to find a site/paper/channel that is innocent of YAIMH.
I'm sorry, but I think the phrase you are looking for is "More Cromulent".
The problem here is not that Google screwed up, it is that so many news agencies were happy to reprint a story with no error checking. Why do we have thousands of newspapers if all they do is regurgitate what Google tells them it found?
Because data changes between backups and outages. Even if you are running incremental backups every 15 minutes, that is 14 minutes worth of data you might lose. In a high transaction database environment, 14 minutes is a lot of data. If you are using some sort of "any time data changes back it up" system, you still have to deal with the fact that you aren't getting your backups onto removable media immediately. If your power outage ruins a disk, and the backup server doesnt write its cache out fast enough, you just had a loss. If the outage ruins a disk and a disk on your backup storage, you had a loss. Good backup practices go a long way, but they don't make you bulletproof.
Because a good keylogger captures the screen at every click.
Yes, its offputing, but the McNugget is a huge feat of engineering. The chemical engineering involved in turning corn in to McNugget is amazing. The social engineering involved in convincing people to eat the crap is even more amazing. The political engineering to get the government to subsidize McDonald's is simply staggering.
Good point. If I buy two, is that enough power to watch American Idol and Milf Island?
Sexy like someone with a HAM license? I better start studying faster.
Really? Because I kind of remember a company called Time Warner offering both internet service and crappy records. I have a vague recollection of Comcast trying to buy Disney. They failed, but I'm sure they'd love to try again. Cox owns 79 radio stations. The dream of owning the content and the delivery system is alive in the ISP markets, don't for a second forget that.
I was going to mod you insightful or informative, but some jerks already topped you off with funny. This works very well. I've heard several former TSA guys tell stories about looking at something on the xray screen, not being able to figure out what it was, calling over a supervisor and realizing it was nipple clamps or a creatively shaped vibrator. As soon as they realized what they were looking at, the pushed the bag on through as fast as they could.
Name address and phone number. What's the problem? Its all the same crap that is in the phone book. Or yellowpages.com, or whitepages.com, or phonebook.com.
Sorry, meant to mention this too: When you hear about police raids for RIAA or MPAA, they are happening because those agencies are willing to take a bulk of the costs onto themselves.
Very often they do not. They will come, file a report so you can give a report to your insurance company, and say goodbye. Very little "investigation" is done.
That is totally unfair to the wordpress developers. Just because they don't care doesn't mean they don't understand.
No, the conclusion is not to use the same password on different sites. Never trust that the software package properly safeguards your password from the administrator. This may be poor crypto, but in many cases, software packages just don't bother to encrypt the password at all. I've seen several websites that store password in plaintext or rot13 (actually it was ROT3).
The article is specifically about Antivirus products missing things they should catch, because someone took the time to "hide" the code. Every AV should catch this, even if the "hidden" code is hello world, an AV should detect that someone is trying to execute code on your PC that they feel should be hidden. AV software should not be limited to viruses, trojans, worms etc. It should take care of any crap that comes your way. An average user (or slightly above average user, since they took the time to install AV) shouldn't have to track all the different forms of malware and purchase new protection for each one. One product should protect them from all Evil (TM) Software.
Actually, by telling us not to use WTF in the subject, he saved himself a lot of time. He can now filter and forward all WTF subjects to CmdrTaco.
He's probably posting anonymously because he's really a pro, and doesn't want to jeopardize his endorsement contracts. Professional badminton sponsors are a touchy bunch, with lots of mainstream media connections.
I'm late to this conversation, but you are all offending me very much!
Any insight into how AOL had 164 billion dollars? I mean, even if they started with 300 billion, after sending me all those Floppies and CDs over the years how could they have anything left over?
Ah, see there's the disconnect. You have to be able to seperate discussions about law and discussions about culture. The original topic is about online gaming culture, not laws. If we had been talking about law (maybe you mentioned it in another post and I just missed it) I'd have been much more likely to be on your side of the discussion (although with a different approach).
I appreciate the back and forth with you today, Cheers.
Warnings, loss of chat privs for a time, temp bans. All of these can be used without resorting to an outright ban. If repeated warnings dont teach said 14 year old to change their behavior, then perhaps a ban is a good idea. Children need to learn that they are subject to consequences, some adults could use the same lesson.
He's not comparing rape to basketball, he's appalled by the ease with which you blame the victim.
You are absolutely right that you cannont control how everyone will interpret what you say, but in online games a general sense of courtesy is missing. The lowest common denominator should be polite respect, even if that means that a few funny jokes are never told.