Just make sure you have a good network so that players can migrate from server to server as they move about the world, and have a kick-ass Out Of Character infrastructure, also well networked, so that players can chat amongst themselves.
IRC might be a good model for how to structure your login servers, perhaps using a BGQ-esque way of letting everyone else know which servers have which players.
Heck, use a hash table to decide which player logs into which server.
These morons should have had their servers secured well enough that they didn't get hacked in the first place.
An ounce of prevention and all that...and I'm not talking about "taking 2 and call me in the morning" type of prevention where you just take a cold pill. I'm talking about upping your vitamin C so you don't get sick in the first place.
Proper security and alert admins are the antibodies of any network.
These guys are idiots for having their servers hackable and online.
1. Data that is online is by definition not a backup 2. Offline is the best way to secure against hacks 3. A server that can be hacked so easily has sucky security.
This is an EPIC FAIL due to sheer lack of common sense. If the admins are smart enough to "back things up", they should know the basics of making backups.
However, considering the sheer amount of resources required to keep a backup both safe and current, most businesses cannot afford to invest doing so and remain competitive against the million and one other lucky bastards that don't get hit. It's the same reason insurance often doesn't pay off.
These hackers were malicious and determined, and there's a fair chance they would have resorted to social engineering to get past any security on the server or offsite backups if the server had been properly secured in the first place. These guys "just wanted to watch the world burn" so badly that they packed a dozen lighters and would probably have gone back for a blowtorch and a gallon of napalm if that didn't work.
When the devil brings a bazooka, you pretty much don't stand a chance. That is not, however, grounds to settle for body armor made out of tissue paper.
In my state, it's implied consent. Which, for the privilege of using the state road system, I consider reasonable, especially when I am going to be in control of a dangerous piece of equipment...namely, my car.
This is also why liability insurance is mandatory.
Now, if they tried to pull this on me if I was riding a bicycle...in theory I could refuse the test, but in practice it would be more trouble than it's worth and I'd have to pray that an organization like the ACLU would have the time to help me.
And we also have laws against public intoxication.
PostGres competing with MySQL is like alpha competing with Intel.
Even though IMO PG is technically superior in every way, MySQL is more widely supported, both directly and indirectly as a backend for many systems.
In fact, I am building a personal website and I want to add a message board. Guess which database backend every single one of them supports?
And until everyone else above me in the supply chain overcomes their collective inertia, my hands are tied because as of yet I do not have sufficient temporal resources (i.e. spare time) to implement a board myself.
I think we need to industrialize the whole "manufacture your own hydrocarbons" thing that NASA had planned for a Mars mission or something.
The current problem we have with solar is that during the day we get way way more of it than we can use, and there's not enough going around during night when it's needed.
Using solar power during the day to produce fuel that can be burned at night solves the storage problem. Use the insolation to power the grid as needed, and dump the excess into fuel synthesis to generate fuel, which can be shipped to gas stations or sent to power plants as needed.
If solar fuel production is industrialized properly we'll have oil up to our eyeballs and we will be the envy of the Arabs.
A fringe benefit is that putting the carbon in the fuel will take it out of the air, literally reversing global warming.
The only thing standing in the way is politics from Big Oil.
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The fact that we sleep anyway probably means that perpetual wakefulness isn't free.
How could take 2 be a creditor when 3DS never dealt with them?
T2 has a claim against whoever they bought the distro rights from...who probably took the 12 mil and ran.
T2 has no case, as there is no privity of contract.
Or use the stone to bash bloody holes in other people's heads...i.e., establish a lucrative precedent.
Only if an objection to that effect is made...or the judge is gracious enough to blow the whistle on it.
If she fails to object on those grounds:
1. The evidence gets to come in
2. She cannot even appeal based on that, because by failing to object she waived her rights.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works out.
I'm an american and surprisingly I agree with you.
Mugabe
...Kinda like spammers forging From: lines...
Not to mention a fine example of the USPTO not being complete asshats and actually granting a sane patent.
Could this wind up to be the makings of SCO 2.0?
With SCO being replaced by 3DS and Novell being replaced by Take 2?
And a lawsuit induced bankruptcy?
Security and backups go hand in hand. I was hardly suggesting that one be done without the other.
Besides, without security, backups are useless, since you might have malicious and well disguised data corruption.
And without backups, security is insufficient, as it will first of all never be perfect, and it doesn't prevent operator error.
Why not split the world among multiple servers?
That keeps the world consistent.
Just make sure you have a good network so that players can migrate from server to server as they move about the world, and have a kick-ass Out Of Character infrastructure, also well networked, so that players can chat amongst themselves.
IRC might be a good model for how to structure your login servers, perhaps using a BGQ-esque way of letting everyone else know which servers have which players.
Heck, use a hash table to decide which player logs into which server.
Backups can only do so much.
These morons should have had their servers secured well enough that they didn't get hacked in the first place.
An ounce of prevention and all that...and I'm not talking about "taking 2 and call me in the morning" type of prevention where you just take a cold pill. I'm talking about upping your vitamin C so you don't get sick in the first place.
Proper security and alert admins are the antibodies of any network.
These guys are idiots for having their servers hackable and online.
1. Data that is online is by definition not a backup
2. Offline is the best way to secure against hacks
3. A server that can be hacked so easily has sucky security.
This is an EPIC FAIL due to sheer lack of common sense. If the admins are smart enough to "back things up", they should know the basics of making backups.
However, considering the sheer amount of resources required to keep a backup both safe and current, most businesses cannot afford to invest doing so and remain competitive against the million and one other lucky bastards that don't get hit. It's the same reason insurance often doesn't pay off.
These hackers were malicious and determined, and there's a fair chance they would have resorted to social engineering to get past any security on the server or offsite backups if the server had been properly secured in the first place. These guys "just wanted to watch the world burn" so badly that they packed a dozen lighters and would probably have gone back for a blowtorch and a gallon of napalm if that didn't work.
When the devil brings a bazooka, you pretty much don't stand a chance. That is not, however, grounds to settle for body armor made out of tissue paper.
The "linus torvalds" method I presume?
Who runs a realtime game inside a VM anyway?
In my state, it's implied consent. Which, for the privilege of using the state road system, I consider reasonable, especially when I am going to be in control of a dangerous piece of equipment...namely, my car.
This is also why liability insurance is mandatory.
Now, if they tried to pull this on me if I was riding a bicycle...in theory I could refuse the test, but in practice it would be more trouble than it's worth and I'd have to pray that an organization like the ACLU would have the time to help me.
And we also have laws against public intoxication.
PostGres competing with MySQL is like alpha competing with Intel.
Even though IMO PG is technically superior in every way, MySQL is more widely supported, both directly and indirectly as a backend for many systems.
In fact, I am building a personal website and I want to add a message board. Guess which database backend every single one of them supports?
And until everyone else above me in the supply chain overcomes their collective inertia, my hands are tied because as of yet I do not have sufficient temporal resources (i.e. spare time) to implement a board myself.
Name one employee whose willing to lose his job over his "rights" and throw the judicial dice, especially in this economy.
cactus, cactii
Microsoft is trying to do this with Office.
Concentration of power is not my cup of tea.
Remember what happened with the Kindle?
I think we need to industrialize the whole "manufacture your own hydrocarbons" thing that NASA had planned for a Mars mission or something.
The current problem we have with solar is that during the day we get way way more of it than we can use, and there's not enough going around during night when it's needed.
Using solar power during the day to produce fuel that can be burned at night solves the storage problem. Use the insolation to power the grid as needed, and dump the excess into fuel synthesis to generate fuel, which can be shipped to gas stations or sent to power plants as needed.
If solar fuel production is industrialized properly we'll have oil up to our eyeballs and we will be the envy of the Arabs.
A fringe benefit is that putting the carbon in the fuel will take it out of the air, literally reversing global warming.
The only thing standing in the way is politics from Big Oil.
My ISP recently started pulling this crap.
In response, I installed bind9 and resolvconf to get data directly from the authoritative name servers.
It's the old adage "If you want something done right, do it yourself"
Demolition man era restrictions...*shivers*
Personally I would consider it a geek demerit for slashdot not to use UTF-8 in the first place.
Dealing with network failures isn't actually a trivial issue from the POV of an application, let alone an OS supporting it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem