Yeah...... this was not hacking. That word has been expanded entirely way too much in much the same way Schizophrenia was used a dump bucket for psychological disorders we just did not understand yet.
Hacking, even in this context, implies there was security to begin with.
This was not a SQL injection attack. If they were posting stuff in the URL bar then that means that Citigroup's website was programmed to take the $_GET (or whatever non-PHP equivalent) and just return the data.
No validation, or even a comparison against the user profile held in the session data? Seriously?
Everything we do is AJAX with JQuery. We authenticate a user and from that point on their user profile information is stored in the session. Every API call from that point forward passes their unique ID along with the action request (even just informational requests) that get validated by our own security processes at the API level, especially before a database call is made in the first place to return data from the appropriate database for that customer/process/application. We validate who you are, what you are accessing, and what rights have been assigned to you, before you get an XML/JSON response document back from us.
Anything else, is just unwise and unprofessional. By no means, am I or the people I work with superstars. This is just the basics of anybody that approaches a project with security first, application second mentality.
According to this article, Citigroup was just wide wide WIDE the $*$%(# open. It's not hacking when asking the "question" of the web server does not initiate authentication. Citigroup literally allowed anonymous requests for information by design .
I would not even prosecute the group. Seriously.... for what? Walking into a bakery where a mentally challenged person was just freely giving away cherry pies? Was it unethical to take advantage of the poor idiot and take the cherry pie when you know that normally it cost $5? Probably. Was it stealing? I don't think so.
If anything, there should be class action suit against Citigroup by all of the members for gross negligence. How ironic is it that huge groups like this, with tons of money (some of it stolen through mortgage fraud) pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and get less value than a small time development group that charges 15k-20k for a small site ?
It's deliciously stupid that the biggest groups are programmed by morons, and that the smaller websites are actually programmed to be more secure.
I'd like to say I can't believe it, but I know too many stories where half million dollar websites are running on $50k worth of hardware, with IT budgets that allow judicious use of hookers and blow, and yet they can't program themselves out of a wet cardboard box, let alone prevent SQL injection attacks.
If these guys are that good, then let's make Wikileaks look like an accidental slip on the tongue in a White House press conference.
I want to see them stop fucking around with Sony, because it won't achieve anything, and go after the big ass people. Like the banks, sealed government records, etc.
What respect are they really going to get from us when all they do is annoyance and harm when their skills could get put to very good use. Specifically, and forcefully, creating transparent governments.
THAT I would respect. My only regrets and concerns would be about putting active military personnel in danger and our intelligence network operatives to a degree, but that's it. They should get all the information and just turn it over to the AP or a hundred different news networks, Wikileaks, etc.
So far these people have demonstrated themselves to be nothing but criminals and Slashdot's sympathy or sense of justice allows us to laugh and give them some leeway when they attack targets like Sony, which are also criminals.
Like I said before, this is not helping anything or changing it for the better.
Lulzsec, for fuck's sake put those skills to good use once in awhile and just chalk it up to charity. Then rob the Federal Reserve.
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No, the niquab is the one where you get to see their eyes. Which can be a little sexy because you are just looking at their eyes which I guess does not work for the real hardcore Muslims that cannot allow even the smallest glimpse of a woman to reach their eyes.
The burqa is the head to toe one where you live your life looking out through prison bars so that a man from a distance would find it virtually impossible to see skin, much less eye contact. You could be a few feet away and have a hard time actually looking into her eyes.
So I was imagining a black and white/yellow grid running around in a blue/black robe. It might actually work... but she would have to run over the dot, sit down on it, get back up, then run to the next dot. Not exactly competition for even the most AI retarded Ghosts.
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It's really really sad..... but I have to say you are kinda of wrong about the realism part here.
I have a friend who served in Iraq and he told me that many of the young men would run down the middle of street just spraying AK47 fire everywhere while they took cover behind various objects. He would pop up real quick and put one or two in the guys chest. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The worst part, and one I could tell hurt him quite a bit, is when one of the guys he put two in the chest was a 12 year old.
So perhaps the AI developers were just interviewing soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like I said, sad. Where is a +5 bummed me out where you need huh?
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It's not featureless. You would see some of her eyes through the "bars" on her face. So it would like a dark circle running around with weird Gothic looking eyes.
Not to mention she would have to lift her dress to eat the dots.... at which point she might... *might*... show some ankle. What that looks like is beyond me.
So I would imagine Ms Pac-Man would be easier to imagine as a yellow ball underneath a burqa that gets stoned to death if she does anything on the grid.
It's one way. Give the domains back. The Spanish courts have declared them legal.
How is the Homeland Security Department funded so well in these trying times that they can afford to seize domains and fight legal battles for IP corporations in fucking Spain?
That's the fundamentals here folks. This the US government acting unilaterally without jurisdiction and a complete disregard for the judicial processes, laws, and sovereignty of foreign nations.
Let that sink in.
Then afterwards the rest of the world can get their heads out of their collective asses and take away domain name administration from the US because we clearly do not deserve the ability to do so, and have proven quite remarkably, that we don't have the ethics to do it either.
I don't consider the FDA to be the most reputable organization on Earth. As far as I am concerned they seem to be engaged in a conspiracy with Big Pharma.
Cocaine that was produced in regulated environments? Absolutely. We just import the leaves by the ton from other countries no different than Coffee Beans.
I could run down to my local pharmacy, and obviously narcotics would under some control, but I could purchase the drug according to the delivery method. It's purity would be a lot more credible, its potency predictable and clearly labeled.
What is the difference between killing yourself slowly with McDonald's while being a huge drain on society for the medical costs of your obesity and poor health, cigars, cigarettes, alcohol, etc.?
At you fuck up with cocaine, you just die. Your burden to society ends.
You think the scale of its use is due to scarcity? Hardly. People use it because of the environments they get exposed too. When all the drugs are available to anyone in a controlled environment you will at least see crime drop down considerably. Cocaine could cost you no more than some Starbucks coffee. People abuse that and diet pills, so why not Meth?
The way I look at it, if you are going to decide to use drugs, pharma, or otherwise you have already put yourself down a dangerous path. Why take down the rest of society with you when at least you can get your fix cheaply, safely, and with minimum impact to society.
There are more than enough functioning alcoholics and potheads out there to prove that only a percentage of the drug users will ultimately require intervention and help to stop.
I actually think less people would be doing it, not more one it is legalized.
In any case, we just simply cannot afford to continue as a society. We need to realize that supply will always meet demand, regardless of how dangerous obtaining the supply is, and that scarcity only affects profits and does nothing to stop demand.
I know a restaurant in Houston (a good one) that over 4 years raised its prices by 3 times. Why? There was always a huge line outside. 30-40-50 people waiting out in the heat with just misting systems. The prices, or scarcity, made no difference in the demand for their product. They were that good. Still are.
You seem to imply limits on what we legalize. You need to balance out and consider a much larger number of factors, the most important ones being the impact to our civil rights, search and seizure laws, wiretapping laws, etc.
It's just not worth it. Legalize all of it. The amount of money we need to spend on the people that are too impulsive and abuse the drugs will be a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of the Drug War, the financial damages against society through crime, etc.
Think about how much money we spend on disabled people right now to provide them with social services, medical care, etc. Trust me. Dump half the budget of the War on Drugs into that and you will have all the real addicts taken care of.
At least consider this.... if you have a meth, cocaine, heroin addicted person that can no longer function to the point they become homeless then at least it is an hour or two of begging for money so they can afford to walk into a pharmacy and get their fix. They don't have to rob, stab, or kill people when their fix is $6.85. A crack addict hooker with a $20 blow job could afford drugs for a day or two.
Jesus did not have the last dinner with a mountain dew and did not turn water into coca cola. He very well damned had a glass of wine and in that particular wedding he brought more booze for everyone to party the fuck on. I sure do hope you guys get that through your thick heads before the cartels find out that they have to force american authorities on their soil to fuck off so they can continue doing bussiness.
That just about says it all. I have quite a few Mexican friends up here who confide in me quite a bit about their fears for their country, families and friends about this bullshit all the time. I met a businessman recently over a poker game and he was really scared. He had been threatened quite a bit and had already moved his family to some out of the way backwater place in the US. His plan is to sell everything he has in Mexico and open up some new businesses in the US. That part is easy. As I am told, as long you are a rich, whiter looking Mexican you can get special treatment and those pesky things like visas and green cards are for the really brown and poor people.
It is all about money. We have more than enough resources to make free healthcare for everyone on US soil, regardless if you are an American citizen. We are so goddamn rich in resources that we could literally put a person into a hospital and give them all the care in the world... if they could just make it to America. There are doctors here that care so much... they go on missions to other countries to perform surgeries to make people's lives better.
The reason why America is so damn poor right now and literally falling apart is the inefficiencies and greed. Anybody really think we are that different from Saudi Arabia? Pleaseeee....
You take all the money you make each month (US citizens), which is tied to your production (resources), and you would be surprised about the percentage of it that ends up in the hands of just a few thousand people. The rest ends up in share holder's hands... and those people are just basically compulsive gamblers at best.
We are all just slaves in a Feudal society. It is wrapped up in a different skin, we have the illusions of Freedom, but the truth is far different than the carefully constructed reality to keep us satiated. Basically, the standard of living is on average so much higher than the Feudalistic societies hundreds of years ago that we don't complain as much.
Seriously. As long as we get to eat Fast Food, smoke a blunt (at greatly inflated prices) and fuck each other high on something, we tend to not complain as much, or seriously get ambitious about changing our world. We are happy little slaves. It ain't a blunt, it is government approved pharma happy pills. They love you then.
Those that really are serious about change ?:)
They are marginalized and labeled as crackpots..... or you sport a team jersey. Just one big fight about ideals, that don't really matter, to distract all of those political people into yelling at each other and blaming the other sides for our problems. If just those damn Republicans would all die at the same time we would be better of right?
It's sick. Really sick.
Your country Mexico should be fucking grateful. Be glad you are not Afghanistan (Oil, Gas, and rich rare mineral resources), or Pakistan and Iraq. Or for that matter.... any country in Africa. The US of A exploits the crap out of the world to be the fat Romans that we are.
Funny thing is..... hardly anybody in America is even aware of any of this at any level. They have no idea the amount of suffering involved in their purchases from Walmart or the drug dealer on the street. It's kind of hard to be really angry at them. I mean if your life was relatively stable and you had very little to worry about, meaning, serious stuff like being kidnapped, killed, and having your head placed on a pike, you would probably slip into blissful ignorance as well.
Your ante is an obscure reference in a video game that could be a software bug?:P
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were deliberately mixing the two movies for sarcasm and to see if anybody could get the reference.... but ante? Hardly..........
That's like saying sunlight and the Sun don't have anything to with each other. Photons and Plants? I guess not either?
Public Domain means that it is freely available to the public. A patent expires.... and guess what? The technology, methods, and more legally specific, the *claims* are no longer a publicly granted legal entitlement covering their profit and use.................. and that means it is available. To the Public. Available to the Public.
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All patents, copyrights, trademarks, whatever return to the Public Domain once they expire.
Likewise, the interactions would prevent the blades from passing through each other and also account for occasional 'sabre lock' where two blades are periodically joined and must be separated.
Gimme your geek card. Right now. RIGHT now.
You were talking about Star Wars at first.... then went straight to Space Balls. I'm pretty sure that two people fighting with light sabers are not going to casually cooperate with each other to get one foot on the other guys knee to pull the entwined light sabers apart.
Not to mention in Space Balls, it was NOT a sabre. They were rings you got from some Yogurt merch. Which brings up whole other questions of why Yogurt would be putting insanely powerful weapons in Yogurt Cereal.
So now they have a good reason to change the system they've been abusing for the last decade.
Maybe it was second nature, or just the context of your point, but what you said is corporations changing the system they have been abusing.
What is tragic to me is that it is not the citizens being represented here. The whole system does not work at all for the consumer or society. We need major reform of the entire copyright/patent/trademark system starting with the fundamentals...... that public domain is the most valuable thing we own and that it needs to be protected first.
The way corporations want it, and that includes MS (and especially Disney), is that the public domain does not exist at all. They keep pushing for permanent ownership of ideas and expressions without the possibility of being put *back* into the public domain.
It really depends on what you are talking about, which is a good point you made.
Solar and Wind are perfectly acceptable for point source generators of power that can sustain an average sized house. The challenge is that is has to be in the base design and costs of the house construction to begin with.
Just like a data center, if you plan ahead and amortize your costs out over 30 years Solar and Wind can be perfectly fine. Flywheels, or basically any type of battery storage will allow you to maintain power regardless of weather conditions. Add small scale geothermal to it, and you are even better off. SF did a study that found there was something like an ~40 degree F difference between just freezing water pumped down a 1500 foot closed water loop and the water coming back up to the surface. They used it for heating and hot water.
We can do it without Nuclear at the consumer level. There are a ton of pilot projects in Southwest US that are creating homes using these ideas, and they work.
I am willing to spend $75-200K on the power subsystem for my house. In a nanosecond. I still have the ability to fall back to municipal power if needed, I can charge them for anything extra I put out on the grid, and my power is CLEAN. CLEAN I TELL YOU. How much would you save in stupid battery backups, surge protectors, and line conditioners when the whole house is a battery backup, surge protector, and line conditioner?
Some people will tell you that the municipal power grid will only pay you up to a certain amount. That's fine. Play hardball. If I spent 200K on a power system you don't think I could not "trickle charge" the municipal grid to give them just the right amount of power they paid for? Get a whole neighborhood designed from the beginning like that and all of the sudden *YOU* become a green power provider to the municipal power companies. They will pay you, or you will just let it bleed off into the nothingness, or even better.... tell them you will just give all your extra power away to the homes near you without Solar. You will cost them money in lost revenue when they could be purchasing it from you wholesale and making a profit.
Over here in reality, not everything is black and white. We can have our cake and eat it too.
I am not an anti-nuke nut. I am smart enough to know we have made tremendous advances and the only way we can sustain large scale industry, transportation, and businesses is with Nuclear. Otherwise you have to use huge amounts of real estate to build solar farms, perhaps even using molten sodium as a battery, and huge wind farms. Then add in the incredible inefficiencies introduced in pushing A/C power over the lines. Hence, the extreme value of point source is the amount of energy you *didn't* lose on its trip from the Nuclear reactor to your house.
Nuclear is the only way to go. We can build Solar, Wind, and Geothermal into the homes to make them vastly more self sufficient and sustainable, but for everything else it is Nuclear or Fossil Fuels. Pick one.
Yeah, Nuclear can go wrong. Let's put in perspective here. We are so fucking screwed from so many angles that adding the risk of Nuclear energy to our lives is less risk than shoving all that high fructose corn syrup, processed food, chemical laden, BPA infected crap into our mouths everyday.
I am pretty sure the number 1 killer of people the last 100 years and the next 100 years will not be from Nuclear side effects but our own greed and stupidity and how we take care of ourselves.
People need to understand that they take a greater risk running down to Walmart to buy the latest BlueRay disc and we can actually mitigate the Nuclear power risk with advanced technology. How the hell do you mitigate Buford running the red light because he has too many that night?
If you were a shop keeper that was already being pushed around and extorted from (Sony to its customers) how much do you really care when a mob turf war erupts and the Triads are attacking the Cosa Nostra?
You're still in the same situation. Just worse, because now as an innocent bystander your shop is riddled with bullets because "Sony" just happened to be there.
Sure there is a sense of justice in that the you get to see the guys that caused you so much pain dead or bleeding out on the floor, but that is all it is. A sense of justice or revenge.
This does not change anything towards the positive for Sony customers. Sony will just fight back or defend itself, Lulzsec will just keep attacking, and the same ol' bullshit will continue, and probably get worse for Sony customers.
Really think about it.... is Sony going to ease up and give back the OtherOS and open their platform up? Or they going to put even more crap in the next update in their cold war with the "hackers"?
The best solution? It requires some resolve, but the best solution is to take your PS3, open it up, and destroy the CELL processor in it and then throw it on to the nearest Sony held property. Sony losing over half its market share in 30 days might be what it takes to finally make them *consider* the consumer's position on rightful property ownership, reasonable copyrights, privacy, etc.
None of that will happen.
PS3 customers will continue to bitch, gripe, and whine about how they are getting shafted by Sony. PS3 customers will continue to be angry at different people and targets on a daily basis because their services are impacted. Sony will continue to stubbornly defend the line against the attackers and only get more ruthless with their resources. Lulzsec and other such like minded "organizations" (criminals or not) will continue to attack Sony for revenge, extortion, or just plain laughs.
Well if it is..... then it means that they will shut down LAS (Las Vegas Airport).
Are you kidding me? Half the people come in shit faced already prepared to party, and half leave hungover and barely able to walk, while the other half leaves "under the influence". Not to mention I can't tell you how many times I have been in a bathroom hearing a bunch of guys laughing at their friend ripping off the tape he used to keep a bag of pot taped up near his testicles.
If they detect it on me? It does not even mean anything. It could of have just meant that I was at a club or good party and it was contact.
False Positives here we come............
I bet it will be no faster than the lines simply due to that alone. People will get picked out left and right and subjected to worse measures than they are now for plain stupidity.
Wow. I thought the reply from weaselgrease was funny already, but your signature is hilarious.
I can't understand it.
It's like you want a wizardly (sorcerers don't need words) way to influence somebodies butthole.
I have this image of you in a basement with a cat performing "controlled studies" like a Wizard would do in some School of Magic.
Except, I don't think the butthole spell will be as popular as you think.
In any case, you are correct. It *IS* all aspects of our personalities. The fact you want to touch buttholes with your "mind" and that I find it so funny and curious that I just replied to it. We should go to a bar together and see who gets laid first arguing about something. I expect multiple visits. Perhaps Tequila will help.
All of my passwords are more than 20 characters, with the exceptions being sites and service that limit me. The Visa challenge/response for instance only allows 10 characters I think, and it is retarded that ATM pin codes are limited to 4 in most cases. Wells Fargo, before I left them for good reason, actually allowed 6, but it was an unsaid and unpublished policy.
I think most of the TrueCrypt passwords are 40-60 characters in length and I always have keyboards and the ability to use the "unprintable" characters (Above 127 in ASCII).
So most of us on Slashdot are going to be different. I don't care what kind of multi-million dollar GPU farm you have got going. You will still need a damn long time to crack one of my passwords.
That being said, your point, is that statistically we don't matter. Unfortunately, you are correct. Although my passwords are intensely secure, the executives and marketers (of which I am now convinced share memory attributes with that of gold fish) use passwords so weak as to be pointless.
I have even been asked, in frustration, why their passwords could not just be blank. Additionally, since I am a sysadmin I have been able to see a lot of password stats for just what I administrate and the average password length is 8. Which is the requirement. On one of the systems where the users are particularly cranky and difficult to deal with it is 6 characters, or basically a PIN code.
Thankfully, we limit their access quite a bit, but some of them still have access to sensitive data and there does not seem to be anything we can do about forcing them to use strong password practices since the pushback is tremendous and IT is *always* seen as replaceable, out-sourceable, easily ignored. After all, when an attack finally does happen through one of the executives laptops because he uses it to surf for porn it will be IT's fault either way.
So, we can argue about exponential this and that, numbers... blah blah blah, but you nailed it by simply pointing out that (once again) Slashdot does not represent most of the users out there to any extent, and that is where the vulnerability will always be.
Well they are not assured victory in this case. Trademark gives you certain rights and remedies, but I think there is wiggle room here:
If a party owns the rights to a particular trademark, that party can sue subsequent parties for trademark infringement. 15 U.S.C. 1114, 1125. The standard is "likelihood of confusion." To be more specific, the use of a trademark in connection with the sale of a good constitutes infringement if it is likely to cause consumer confusion as to the source of those goods or as to the sponsorship or approval of such goods. In deciding whether consumers are likely to be confused, the courts will typically look to a number of factors, including: (1) the strength of the mark; (2) the proximity of the goods; (3) the similarity of the marks; (4) evidence of actual confusion; (5) the similarity of marketing channels used; (6) the degree of caution exercised by the typical purchaser; (7) the defendant's intent. Polaroid Corp. v. Polarad Elect. Corp., 287 F.2d 492 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 368 U.S. 820 (1961).
That's pretty clear. Intent is big part of the decision process as well as marketing channels.
Some courts have recognized a somewhat different, but closely-related, fair-use defense, called nominative use. Nominative use occurs when use of a term is necessary for purposes of identifying another producer's product, not the user's own product. For example, in a recent case, the newspaper USA Today ran a telephone poll, asking its readers to vote for their favorite member of the music group New Kids on the Block. The New Kids on the Block sued USA Today for trademark infringement. The court held that the use of the trademark "New Kids on the Block" was a privileged nominative use because: (1) the group was not readily identifiable without using the mark; (2) USA Today used only so much of the mark as reasonably necessary to identify it; and (3) there was no suggestion of endorsement or sponsorship by the group. The basic idea is that use of a trademark is sometimes necessary to identify and talk about another party's products and services. When the above conditions are met, such a use will be privileged. New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc., 971 F.2d 302 (9th Cir. 1992).
That's some precedence against Apple. If XYZ store was giving away 10 iPads in a giveaway for all purchases over a certain amount, Apple would have to fight very hard against preventing that and would most likely lose the case.
If you're not selling the product, but just giving it away, then Apple is not automatically correct here. IANAL, but I can read the portions of the laws above. I don't think Apple is right to be messing around with free giveaways when their is no intent to damage a trademark (ie, the Anal Bead store giving away anal bead wrapped iPad boxes), and the likelihood of the consumer believing that all free give aways are explicit evidence of Apple's sponsorship of the event.
I can't agree with your assessment. Sure they might have IP staff, but that does not mean they also don't play the strategy of "we can just bully the smaller people even when we know we are wrong". Many many corporations do so. Nissan, Monsanto, Oil & Gas, Walmart, etc.
So I don't think it works because of what I understand and can read about trademark law.
Genuine copy might not be valuable. However, I own the very very last remaining distribution copy of Rampart for PC. I remember calling some company, I believe Atari, and asking if I could purchase a copy of Rampart from them. The guy was so puzzled because I was asking this in something like 96 or 97. He put me on hold for 10 minutes and came back and said he found a copy in the store room. He said it was the last one in the box. I offered to pay him for it, and he said that was okay. Just cover the shipping charges. I had it Fedex'd to me. A few days later I had a 3.5" floppy with the rampart logo and graphics.
It's probably in a box somewhere (I hope), but at the time I had a 54" computer monitor (big bucks) for 3D presentations that took weeks to render. Before the tube blew in 99' a bunch of us would play Rampart on it for hours at a time after work. They wanted 4k to replace the tube and we passed. Sweet monitor.
It did support multiplayer and I hooked up several track ball mice to play it.
Like you said, something that has to be original or unique for it to have true value.
Don't take this the wrong way please. I mean it in the nicest way possible.
However, I am laughing so hard I am tears right now. I remember those times, and my geek friends and I used to snicker at some guy that had a Tandy. Tandy was never in high regard or the coolest system you could own.
So I find it deeply, deeply, hilarious that two posters are trying so hard to restore one.
It's like a man spending 75k to restore a Ford Pinto.
That will only help you so much. By helping, I mean not really that much at all.
The systems that I have set up I purposely create a whole other wifi network that people can connect their smart phones and personal equipment into. What I tell my clients, and their employees, is that every major website and activity they do on the web represents at minimum a medium risk to the business. Which is why they connect their personal equipment to this separate network that has no possibility of interacting or interfering with their business network.
That is a fact. This is not 20 years ago where somebody thought it was funny to make a cookie monster virus that forced you to type cookie to stop it. Innocence has been lost, and it has been quite awhile. Back in the days of our innocence I infected several computers that would turn the screen upside down when a certain key was pressed. It did not propagate and was just fun office humor. However, we have long since left the funny antics of Val Kilmer in Real Genius. It is dangerous, destructive, and costly to consumers and businesses.
Malware is HUGE business. SPAM is just one method of delivery, or a tool in the tool box. That needs to be understood first before you can even handle the problem. Organized Crime *WANTS* your equipment. Your are a commodity to them. You possess:
1) Possible banking information that could be valuable depending on just how much money you have. 2) Earning potential through surreptitious purchases on your behalf. Premium SMS, 900 phone calls, App purchases, etc. 3) A tool in their tool box. Attacks on VISA, MasterCard, and Amazon were mostly conducted by other people's equipment without their knowledge. 4) The rare gem. A piece of equipment that has a LOT of valuable data on it already. A couple thousand or million credit cards or customer profiles. A piece of equipment that has secure access back into multiple other systems that manage consumer services and banking transactions. From their it can escalate to an incredible, and sometimes unsurvivable, level of impact against major businesses.
There is a reason why I think it was Michigan or some other state put serious penalties when a company has consumer information released.
Letting an employee bring in personal equipment, when their level of sophistication can be dramatically less than the IT department, represents nothing less than insanity.
This is, yet again, a decision where you balance the ease of use and friendliness of a system or environment against its security. However, if you let employees bring equipment in, that is not vetted, inspected, and controlled by the IT department, you might as well just close up shop.
When I have been brought in for disaster management, 9/10 times it was an infected "foreign" system that was brought into the network and/or the complete lack of any security or content management from what the employees could do. Stuff like scare ware, Pandora, Limewire, Kazaa, and endless other stupidity on not just personal machines, but the business machines, and in one instance their entire server infrastructure was infected because somebody decided the best place to surf for questionable porn was a remote desktop session on a 2003 windows server.
I get asked why their bandwidth is so slow, and when they have VOIP phones their quality is so low, when they only have 3 Mb/s symmetric and everybody is on YouTube, FaceBook, Pandora, and downloading videos. That and an executive is on Netflix trying to watch something in HD in his office.
If you are going to run a business seriously, that has any contact with confidential consumer data, you DO NOT ALLOW PERSONAL DEVICES ON THE CORPORATE NETWORK. Everything is controlled. You disable USB ports on the thin terminals and fat clients the employees use, give them a viable option to FaceBook through their phones without eating up their data plans, and lock the crap down. Whether or not it is Windows or Linux, you don't allow employees the right
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Yeah...... this was not hacking. That word has been expanded entirely way too much in much the same way Schizophrenia was used a dump bucket for psychological disorders we just did not understand yet.
Hacking, even in this context, implies there was security to begin with.
This was not a SQL injection attack. If they were posting stuff in the URL bar then that means that Citigroup's website was programmed to take the $_GET (or whatever non-PHP equivalent) and just return the data.
No validation, or even a comparison against the user profile held in the session data? Seriously?
Everything we do is AJAX with JQuery. We authenticate a user and from that point on their user profile information is stored in the session. Every API call from that point forward passes their unique ID along with the action request (even just informational requests) that get validated by our own security processes at the API level, especially before a database call is made in the first place to return data from the appropriate database for that customer/process/application. We validate who you are, what you are accessing, and what rights have been assigned to you, before you get an XML/JSON response document back from us.
Anything else, is just unwise and unprofessional. By no means, am I or the people I work with superstars. This is just the basics of anybody that approaches a project with security first, application second mentality.
According to this article, Citigroup was just wide wide WIDE the $*$%(# open. It's not hacking when asking the "question" of the web server does not initiate authentication. Citigroup literally allowed anonymous requests for information by design .
I would not even prosecute the group. Seriously.... for what? Walking into a bakery where a mentally challenged person was just freely giving away cherry pies? Was it unethical to take advantage of the poor idiot and take the cherry pie when you know that normally it cost $5? Probably. Was it stealing? I don't think so.
If anything, there should be class action suit against Citigroup by all of the members for gross negligence. How ironic is it that huge groups like this, with tons of money (some of it stolen through mortgage fraud) pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and get less value than a small time development group that charges 15k-20k for a small site ?
It's deliciously stupid that the biggest groups are programmed by morons, and that the smaller websites are actually programmed to be more secure.
I'd like to say I can't believe it, but I know too many stories where half million dollar websites are running on $50k worth of hardware, with IT budgets that allow judicious use of hookers and blow, and yet they can't program themselves out of a wet cardboard box, let alone prevent SQL injection attacks.
The wonderful stupidity....
Yeah. No Shit.
If these guys are that good, then let's make Wikileaks look like an accidental slip on the tongue in a White House press conference.
I want to see them stop fucking around with Sony, because it won't achieve anything, and go after the big ass people. Like the banks, sealed government records, etc.
What respect are they really going to get from us when all they do is annoyance and harm when their skills could get put to very good use. Specifically, and forcefully, creating transparent governments.
THAT I would respect. My only regrets and concerns would be about putting active military personnel in danger and our intelligence network operatives to a degree, but that's it. They should get all the information and just turn it over to the AP or a hundred different news networks, Wikileaks, etc.
So far these people have demonstrated themselves to be nothing but criminals and Slashdot's sympathy or sense of justice allows us to laugh and give them some leeway when they attack targets like Sony, which are also criminals.
Like I said before, this is not helping anything or changing it for the better.
Lulzsec, for fuck's sake put those skills to good use once in awhile and just chalk it up to charity. Then rob the Federal Reserve.
No, the niquab is the one where you get to see their eyes. Which can be a little sexy because you are just looking at their eyes which I guess does not work for the real hardcore Muslims that cannot allow even the smallest glimpse of a woman to reach their eyes.
The burqa is the head to toe one where you live your life looking out through prison bars so that a man from a distance would find it virtually impossible to see skin, much less eye contact. You could be a few feet away and have a hard time actually looking into her eyes.
So I was imagining a black and white/yellow grid running around in a blue/black robe. It might actually work... but she would have to run over the dot, sit down on it, get back up, then run to the next dot. Not exactly competition for even the most AI retarded Ghosts.
It's really really sad..... but I have to say you are kinda of wrong about the realism part here.
I have a friend who served in Iraq and he told me that many of the young men would run down the middle of street just spraying AK47 fire everywhere while they took cover behind various objects. He would pop up real quick and put one or two in the guys chest. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The worst part, and one I could tell hurt him quite a bit, is when one of the guys he put two in the chest was a 12 year old.
So perhaps the AI developers were just interviewing soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like I said, sad. Where is a +5 bummed me out where you need huh?
It's not featureless. You would see some of her eyes through the "bars" on her face. So it would like a dark circle running around with weird Gothic looking eyes.
Not to mention she would have to lift her dress to eat the dots.... at which point she might... *might*... show some ankle. What that looks like is beyond me.
So I would imagine Ms Pac-Man would be easier to imagine as a yellow ball underneath a burqa that gets stoned to death if she does anything on the grid.
Really?
It's one way. Give the domains back. The Spanish courts have declared them legal.
How is the Homeland Security Department funded so well in these trying times that they can afford to seize domains and fight legal battles for IP corporations in fucking Spain?
That's the fundamentals here folks. This the US government acting unilaterally without jurisdiction and a complete disregard for the judicial processes, laws, and sovereignty of foreign nations.
Let that sink in.
Then afterwards the rest of the world can get their heads out of their collective asses and take away domain name administration from the US because we clearly do not deserve the ability to do so, and have proven quite remarkably, that we don't have the ethics to do it either.
Except when the online fitbot says, "Sorry I not configured to become that large... fatass", "large" might not be as good as it is in your context :)
Well since he was referring to "protean" I am pretty sure the following video will be quite informative:
"Protean"
Yes.
I don't consider the FDA to be the most reputable organization on Earth. As far as I am concerned they seem to be engaged in a conspiracy with Big Pharma.
Cocaine that was produced in regulated environments? Absolutely. We just import the leaves by the ton from other countries no different than Coffee Beans.
I could run down to my local pharmacy, and obviously narcotics would under some control, but I could purchase the drug according to the delivery method. It's purity would be a lot more credible, its potency predictable and clearly labeled.
What is the difference between killing yourself slowly with McDonald's while being a huge drain on society for the medical costs of your obesity and poor health, cigars, cigarettes, alcohol, etc.?
At you fuck up with cocaine, you just die. Your burden to society ends.
You think the scale of its use is due to scarcity? Hardly. People use it because of the environments they get exposed too. When all the drugs are available to anyone in a controlled environment you will at least see crime drop down considerably. Cocaine could cost you no more than some Starbucks coffee. People abuse that and diet pills, so why not Meth?
The way I look at it, if you are going to decide to use drugs, pharma, or otherwise you have already put yourself down a dangerous path. Why take down the rest of society with you when at least you can get your fix cheaply, safely, and with minimum impact to society.
There are more than enough functioning alcoholics and potheads out there to prove that only a percentage of the drug users will ultimately require intervention and help to stop.
I actually think less people would be doing it, not more one it is legalized.
In any case, we just simply cannot afford to continue as a society. We need to realize that supply will always meet demand, regardless of how dangerous obtaining the supply is, and that scarcity only affects profits and does nothing to stop demand.
I know a restaurant in Houston (a good one) that over 4 years raised its prices by 3 times. Why? There was always a huge line outside. 30-40-50 people waiting out in the heat with just misting systems. The prices, or scarcity, made no difference in the demand for their product. They were that good. Still are.
You seem to imply limits on what we legalize. You need to balance out and consider a much larger number of factors, the most important ones being the impact to our civil rights, search and seizure laws, wiretapping laws, etc.
It's just not worth it. Legalize all of it. The amount of money we need to spend on the people that are too impulsive and abuse the drugs will be a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of the Drug War, the financial damages against society through crime, etc.
Think about how much money we spend on disabled people right now to provide them with social services, medical care, etc. Trust me. Dump half the budget of the War on Drugs into that and you will have all the real addicts taken care of.
At least consider this.... if you have a meth, cocaine, heroin addicted person that can no longer function to the point they become homeless then at least it is an hour or two of begging for money so they can afford to walk into a pharmacy and get their fix. They don't have to rob, stab, or kill people when their fix is $6.85. A crack addict hooker with a $20 blow job could afford drugs for a day or two.
Jesus did not have the last dinner with a mountain dew and did not turn water into coca cola. He very well damned had a glass of wine and in that particular wedding he brought more booze for everyone to party the fuck on. I sure do hope you guys get that through your thick heads before the cartels find out that they have to force american authorities on their soil to fuck off so they can continue doing bussiness.
That just about says it all. I have quite a few Mexican friends up here who confide in me quite a bit about their fears for their country, families and friends about this bullshit all the time. I met a businessman recently over a poker game and he was really scared. He had been threatened quite a bit and had already moved his family to some out of the way backwater place in the US. His plan is to sell everything he has in Mexico and open up some new businesses in the US. That part is easy. As I am told, as long you are a rich, whiter looking Mexican you can get special treatment and those pesky things like visas and green cards are for the really brown and poor people.
It is all about money. We have more than enough resources to make free healthcare for everyone on US soil, regardless if you are an American citizen. We are so goddamn rich in resources that we could literally put a person into a hospital and give them all the care in the world... if they could just make it to America. There are doctors here that care so much... they go on missions to other countries to perform surgeries to make people's lives better.
The reason why America is so damn poor right now and literally falling apart is the inefficiencies and greed. Anybody really think we are that different from Saudi Arabia? Pleaseeee....
You take all the money you make each month (US citizens), which is tied to your production (resources), and you would be surprised about the percentage of it that ends up in the hands of just a few thousand people. The rest ends up in share holder's hands... and those people are just basically compulsive gamblers at best.
We are all just slaves in a Feudal society. It is wrapped up in a different skin, we have the illusions of Freedom, but the truth is far different than the carefully constructed reality to keep us satiated. Basically, the standard of living is on average so much higher than the Feudalistic societies hundreds of years ago that we don't complain as much.
Seriously. As long as we get to eat Fast Food, smoke a blunt (at greatly inflated prices) and fuck each other high on something, we tend to not complain as much, or seriously get ambitious about changing our world. We are happy little slaves. It ain't a blunt, it is government approved pharma happy pills. They love you then.
Those that really are serious about change ? :)
They are marginalized and labeled as crackpots..... or you sport a team jersey. Just one big fight about ideals, that don't really matter, to distract all of those political people into yelling at each other and blaming the other sides for our problems. If just those damn Republicans would all die at the same time we would be better of right?
It's sick. Really sick.
Your country Mexico should be fucking grateful. Be glad you are not Afghanistan (Oil, Gas, and rich rare mineral resources), or Pakistan and Iraq. Or for that matter.... any country in Africa. The US of A exploits the crap out of the world to be the fat Romans that we are.
Funny thing is..... hardly anybody in America is even aware of any of this at any level. They have no idea the amount of suffering involved in their purchases from Walmart or the drug dealer on the street. It's kind of hard to be really angry at them. I mean if your life was relatively stable and you had very little to worry about, meaning, serious stuff like being kidnapped, killed, and having your head placed on a pike, you would probably slip into blissful ignorance as well.
As for the cartels?
Come on now :)
Your ante is an obscure reference in a video game that could be a software bug? :P
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were deliberately mixing the two movies for sarcasm and to see if anybody could get the reference.... but ante? Hardly..........
I respect the attempt though.
Wow.
Really?
That's like saying sunlight and the Sun don't have anything to with each other. Photons and Plants? I guess not either?
Public Domain means that it is freely available to the public. A patent expires.... and guess what? The technology, methods, and more legally specific, the *claims* are no longer a publicly granted legal entitlement covering their profit and use.................. and that means it is available. To the Public. Available to the Public.
LOL
All patents, copyrights, trademarks, whatever return to the Public Domain once they expire.
ROFL.
Likewise, the interactions would prevent the blades from passing through each other and also account for occasional 'sabre lock' where two blades are periodically joined and must be separated.
Gimme your geek card. Right now. RIGHT now.
You were talking about Star Wars at first.... then went straight to Space Balls. I'm pretty sure that two people fighting with light sabers are not going to casually cooperate with each other to get one foot on the other guys knee to pull the entwined light sabers apart.
Not to mention in Space Balls, it was NOT a sabre. They were rings you got from some Yogurt merch. Which brings up whole other questions of why Yogurt would be putting insanely powerful weapons in Yogurt Cereal.
Fingers? Wow.
Okay. Sit down. I am little surprised we have to have this talk because you are on the Internet... but...
You see Johnny, when two people really like each other......
So now they have a good reason to change the system they've been abusing for the last decade.
Maybe it was second nature, or just the context of your point, but what you said is corporations changing the system they have been abusing.
What is tragic to me is that it is not the citizens being represented here. The whole system does not work at all for the consumer or society. We need major reform of the entire copyright/patent/trademark system starting with the fundamentals...... that public domain is the most valuable thing we own and that it needs to be protected first.
The way corporations want it, and that includes MS (and especially Disney), is that the public domain does not exist at all. They keep pushing for permanent ownership of ideas and expressions without the possibility of being put *back* into the public domain.
It really depends on what you are talking about, which is a good point you made.
Solar and Wind are perfectly acceptable for point source generators of power that can sustain an average sized house. The challenge is that is has to be in the base design and costs of the house construction to begin with.
Just like a data center, if you plan ahead and amortize your costs out over 30 years Solar and Wind can be perfectly fine. Flywheels, or basically any type of battery storage will allow you to maintain power regardless of weather conditions. Add small scale geothermal to it, and you are even better off. SF did a study that found there was something like an ~40 degree F difference between just freezing water pumped down a 1500 foot closed water loop and the water coming back up to the surface. They used it for heating and hot water.
We can do it without Nuclear at the consumer level. There are a ton of pilot projects in Southwest US that are creating homes using these ideas, and they work.
I am willing to spend $75-200K on the power subsystem for my house. In a nanosecond. I still have the ability to fall back to municipal power if needed, I can charge them for anything extra I put out on the grid, and my power is CLEAN. CLEAN I TELL YOU. How much would you save in stupid battery backups, surge protectors, and line conditioners when the whole house is a battery backup, surge protector, and line conditioner?
Some people will tell you that the municipal power grid will only pay you up to a certain amount. That's fine. Play hardball. If I spent 200K on a power system you don't think I could not "trickle charge" the municipal grid to give them just the right amount of power they paid for? Get a whole neighborhood designed from the beginning like that and all of the sudden *YOU* become a green power provider to the municipal power companies. They will pay you, or you will just let it bleed off into the nothingness, or even better.... tell them you will just give all your extra power away to the homes near you without Solar. You will cost them money in lost revenue when they could be purchasing it from you wholesale and making a profit.
Over here in reality, not everything is black and white. We can have our cake and eat it too.
I am not an anti-nuke nut. I am smart enough to know we have made tremendous advances and the only way we can sustain large scale industry, transportation, and businesses is with Nuclear. Otherwise you have to use huge amounts of real estate to build solar farms, perhaps even using molten sodium as a battery, and huge wind farms. Then add in the incredible inefficiencies introduced in pushing A/C power over the lines. Hence, the extreme value of point source is the amount of energy you *didn't* lose on its trip from the Nuclear reactor to your house.
Nuclear is the only way to go. We can build Solar, Wind, and Geothermal into the homes to make them vastly more self sufficient and sustainable, but for everything else it is Nuclear or Fossil Fuels. Pick one.
Yeah, Nuclear can go wrong. Let's put in perspective here. We are so fucking screwed from so many angles that adding the risk of Nuclear energy to our lives is less risk than shoving all that high fructose corn syrup, processed food, chemical laden, BPA infected crap into our mouths everyday.
I am pretty sure the number 1 killer of people the last 100 years and the next 100 years will not be from Nuclear side effects but our own greed and stupidity and how we take care of ourselves.
People need to understand that they take a greater risk running down to Walmart to buy the latest BlueRay disc and we can actually mitigate the Nuclear power risk with advanced technology. How the hell do you mitigate Buford running the red light because he has too many that night?
I question the whole point of it.
If you were a shop keeper that was already being pushed around and extorted from (Sony to its customers) how much do you really care when a mob turf war erupts and the Triads are attacking the Cosa Nostra?
You're still in the same situation. Just worse, because now as an innocent bystander your shop is riddled with bullets because "Sony" just happened to be there.
Sure there is a sense of justice in that the you get to see the guys that caused you so much pain dead or bleeding out on the floor, but that is all it is. A sense of justice or revenge.
This does not change anything towards the positive for Sony customers. Sony will just fight back or defend itself, Lulzsec will just keep attacking, and the same ol' bullshit will continue, and probably get worse for Sony customers.
Really think about it.... is Sony going to ease up and give back the OtherOS and open their platform up? Or they going to put even more crap in the next update in their cold war with the "hackers"?
The best solution? It requires some resolve, but the best solution is to take your PS3, open it up, and destroy the CELL processor in it and then throw it on to the nearest Sony held property. Sony losing over half its market share in 30 days might be what it takes to finally make them *consider* the consumer's position on rightful property ownership, reasonable copyrights, privacy, etc.
None of that will happen.
PS3 customers will continue to bitch, gripe, and whine about how they are getting shafted by Sony.
PS3 customers will continue to be angry at different people and targets on a daily basis because their services are impacted.
Sony will continue to stubbornly defend the line against the attackers and only get more ruthless with their resources.
Lulzsec and other such like minded "organizations" (criminals or not) will continue to attack Sony for revenge, extortion, or just plain laughs.
Nothing good is happening here.
Well if it is..... then it means that they will shut down LAS (Las Vegas Airport).
Are you kidding me? Half the people come in shit faced already prepared to party, and half leave hungover and barely able to walk, while the other half leaves "under the influence". Not to mention I can't tell you how many times I have been in a bathroom hearing a bunch of guys laughing at their friend ripping off the tape he used to keep a bag of pot taped up near his testicles.
If they detect it on me? It does not even mean anything. It could of have just meant that I was at a club or good party and it was contact.
False Positives here we come............
I bet it will be no faster than the lines simply due to that alone. People will get picked out left and right and subjected to worse measures than they are now for plain stupidity.
Wow. I thought the reply from weaselgrease was funny already, but your signature is hilarious.
I can't understand it.
It's like you want a wizardly (sorcerers don't need words) way to influence somebodies butthole.
I have this image of you in a basement with a cat performing "controlled studies" like a Wizard would do in some School of Magic.
Except, I don't think the butthole spell will be as popular as you think.
In any case, you are correct. It *IS* all aspects of our personalities. The fact you want to touch buttholes with your "mind" and that I find it so funny and curious that I just replied to it. We should go to a bar together and see who gets laid first arguing about something. I expect multiple visits. Perhaps Tequila will help.
Hint: These arguments might be why we don't get laid that much.
You have a great point.
All of my passwords are more than 20 characters, with the exceptions being sites and service that limit me. The Visa challenge/response for instance only allows 10 characters I think, and it is retarded that ATM pin codes are limited to 4 in most cases. Wells Fargo, before I left them for good reason, actually allowed 6, but it was an unsaid and unpublished policy.
I think most of the TrueCrypt passwords are 40-60 characters in length and I always have keyboards and the ability to use the "unprintable" characters (Above 127 in ASCII).
So most of us on Slashdot are going to be different. I don't care what kind of multi-million dollar GPU farm you have got going. You will still need a damn long time to crack one of my passwords.
That being said, your point, is that statistically we don't matter. Unfortunately, you are correct. Although my passwords are intensely secure, the executives and marketers (of which I am now convinced share memory attributes with that of gold fish) use passwords so weak as to be pointless.
I have even been asked, in frustration, why their passwords could not just be blank. Additionally, since I am a sysadmin I have been able to see a lot of password stats for just what I administrate and the average password length is 8. Which is the requirement. On one of the systems where the users are particularly cranky and difficult to deal with it is 6 characters, or basically a PIN code.
Thankfully, we limit their access quite a bit, but some of them still have access to sensitive data and there does not seem to be anything we can do about forcing them to use strong password practices since the pushback is tremendous and IT is *always* seen as replaceable, out-sourceable, easily ignored. After all, when an attack finally does happen through one of the executives laptops because he uses it to surf for porn it will be IT's fault either way.
So, we can argue about exponential this and that, numbers... blah blah blah, but you nailed it by simply pointing out that (once again) Slashdot does not represent most of the users out there to any extent, and that is where the vulnerability will always be.
Well they are not assured victory in this case. Trademark gives you certain rights and remedies, but I think there is wiggle room here:
If a party owns the rights to a particular trademark, that party can sue subsequent parties for trademark infringement. 15 U.S.C. 1114, 1125. The standard is "likelihood of confusion." To be more specific, the use of a trademark in connection with the sale of a good constitutes infringement if it is likely to cause consumer confusion as to the source of those goods or as to the sponsorship or approval of such goods. In deciding whether consumers are likely to be confused, the courts will typically look to a number of factors, including: (1) the strength of the mark; (2) the proximity of the goods; (3) the similarity of the marks; (4) evidence of actual confusion; (5) the similarity of marketing channels used; (6) the degree of caution exercised by the typical purchaser; (7) the defendant's intent. Polaroid Corp. v. Polarad Elect. Corp., 287 F.2d 492 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 368 U.S. 820 (1961).
That's pretty clear. Intent is big part of the decision process as well as marketing channels.
Some courts have recognized a somewhat different, but closely-related, fair-use defense, called nominative use. Nominative use occurs when use of a term is necessary for purposes of identifying another producer's product, not the user's own product. For example, in a recent case, the newspaper USA Today ran a telephone poll, asking its readers to vote for their favorite member of the music group New Kids on the Block. The New Kids on the Block sued USA Today for trademark infringement. The court held that the use of the trademark "New Kids on the Block" was a privileged nominative use because: (1) the group was not readily identifiable without using the mark; (2) USA Today used only so much of the mark as reasonably necessary to identify it; and (3) there was no suggestion of endorsement or sponsorship by the group. The basic idea is that use of a trademark is sometimes necessary to identify and talk about another party's products and services. When the above conditions are met, such a use will be privileged. New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc., 971 F.2d 302 (9th Cir. 1992).
That's some precedence against Apple. If XYZ store was giving away 10 iPads in a giveaway for all purchases over a certain amount, Apple would have to fight very hard against preventing that and would most likely lose the case.
If you're not selling the product, but just giving it away, then Apple is not automatically correct here. IANAL, but I can read the portions of the laws above. I don't think Apple is right to be messing around with free giveaways when their is no intent to damage a trademark (ie, the Anal Bead store giving away anal bead wrapped iPad boxes), and the likelihood of the consumer believing that all free give aways are explicit evidence of Apple's sponsorship of the event.
I can't agree with your assessment. Sure they might have IP staff, but that does not mean they also don't play the strategy of "we can just bully the smaller people even when we know we are wrong". Many many corporations do so. Nissan, Monsanto, Oil & Gas, Walmart, etc.
So I don't think it works because of what I understand and can read about trademark law.
Genuine copy might not be valuable. However, I own the very very last remaining distribution copy of Rampart for PC. I remember calling some company, I believe Atari, and asking if I could purchase a copy of Rampart from them. The guy was so puzzled because I was asking this in something like 96 or 97. He put me on hold for 10 minutes and came back and said he found a copy in the store room. He said it was the last one in the box. I offered to pay him for it, and he said that was okay. Just cover the shipping charges. I had it Fedex'd to me. A few days later I had a 3.5" floppy with the rampart logo and graphics.
It's probably in a box somewhere (I hope), but at the time I had a 54" computer monitor (big bucks) for 3D presentations that took weeks to render. Before the tube blew in 99' a bunch of us would play Rampart on it for hours at a time after work. They wanted 4k to replace the tube and we passed. Sweet monitor.
It did support multiplayer and I hooked up several track ball mice to play it.
Like you said, something that has to be original or unique for it to have true value.
Don't take this the wrong way please. I mean it in the nicest way possible.
However, I am laughing so hard I am tears right now. I remember those times, and my geek friends and I used to snicker at some guy that had a Tandy. Tandy was never in high regard or the coolest system you could own.
So I find it deeply, deeply, hilarious that two posters are trying so hard to restore one.
It's like a man spending 75k to restore a Ford Pinto.
That will only help you so much. By helping, I mean not really that much at all.
The systems that I have set up I purposely create a whole other wifi network that people can connect their smart phones and personal equipment into. What I tell my clients, and their employees, is that every major website and activity they do on the web represents at minimum a medium risk to the business. Which is why they connect their personal equipment to this separate network that has no possibility of interacting or interfering with their business network.
That is a fact. This is not 20 years ago where somebody thought it was funny to make a cookie monster virus that forced you to type cookie to stop it. Innocence has been lost, and it has been quite awhile. Back in the days of our innocence I infected several computers that would turn the screen upside down when a certain key was pressed. It did not propagate and was just fun office humor. However, we have long since left the funny antics of Val Kilmer in Real Genius. It is dangerous, destructive, and costly to consumers and businesses.
Malware is HUGE business. SPAM is just one method of delivery, or a tool in the tool box. That needs to be understood first before you can even handle the problem. Organized Crime *WANTS* your equipment. Your are a commodity to them. You possess:
1) Possible banking information that could be valuable depending on just how much money you have.
2) Earning potential through surreptitious purchases on your behalf. Premium SMS, 900 phone calls, App purchases, etc.
3) A tool in their tool box. Attacks on VISA, MasterCard, and Amazon were mostly conducted by other people's equipment without their knowledge.
4) The rare gem. A piece of equipment that has a LOT of valuable data on it already. A couple thousand or million credit cards or customer profiles. A piece of equipment that has secure access back into multiple other systems that manage consumer services and banking transactions. From their it can escalate to an incredible, and sometimes unsurvivable, level of impact against major businesses.
There is a reason why I think it was Michigan or some other state put serious penalties when a company has consumer information released.
Letting an employee bring in personal equipment, when their level of sophistication can be dramatically less than the IT department, represents nothing less than insanity.
This is, yet again, a decision where you balance the ease of use and friendliness of a system or environment against its security. However, if you let employees bring equipment in, that is not vetted, inspected, and controlled by the IT department, you might as well just close up shop.
When I have been brought in for disaster management, 9/10 times it was an infected "foreign" system that was brought into the network and/or the complete lack of any security or content management from what the employees could do. Stuff like scare ware, Pandora, Limewire, Kazaa, and endless other stupidity on not just personal machines, but the business machines, and in one instance their entire server infrastructure was infected because somebody decided the best place to surf for questionable porn was a remote desktop session on a 2003 windows server.
I get asked why their bandwidth is so slow, and when they have VOIP phones their quality is so low, when they only have 3 Mb/s symmetric and everybody is on YouTube, FaceBook, Pandora, and downloading videos. That and an executive is on Netflix trying to watch something in HD in his office.
If you are going to run a business seriously, that has any contact with confidential consumer data, you DO NOT ALLOW PERSONAL DEVICES ON THE CORPORATE NETWORK. Everything is controlled. You disable USB ports on the thin terminals and fat clients the employees use, give them a viable option to FaceBook through their phones without eating up their data plans, and lock the crap down. Whether or not it is Windows or Linux, you don't allow employees the right