"Reformed hackers" reminded me of Kevin Mitnick and something that we solely lack as a security measure - social engineering countermeasures.
I honestly think adding in stuff like Challenge/response prompts would do pretty well for greatly reducing the possibility for social engineering towards the end of infiltration. It works for the military...
Did... did you just tell people how to take a FM radio and basically make a Meteor Shower Sonar?
I HEREBY PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING:
1) That "Bill Nye" becomes a title much like Batman or Barney the Dinosaur which is passed on from person to person so that children and adults alike may understand that "Science Rules."
2) That Gordonjcp be nominated for said position, until he elects to resign or otherwise retire.
To be fair, you could use the same argument and say that it's not fair that Firefox extensions don't work in Chrome, Opera, IE, etc.
I mean, I get the web should be all about open standards and everything, but if every browser could the same things as every other browser, why would people even make a choice?
Aside from the retardation that is software and game "licenses", I was actually talking about hardware - as in how you catch shit for modding your console.
I forgot who said it first (and I'm paraphrasing), but one of the most insightful military quotes I've ever heard is, "The military is always preparing for the previous war."
Let's say the only America naval power in the area is a carrier, a destroyer, a crusier, and a couple of patrol boats.
Meanwhile, the enemy sends 500 unarmored patrol boats at this fleet, loaded for bear with anti-armor weaponry and explosives.
The Americans sink 300 of the patrol boats but their entire battle group is lost with all hands. The enemy has a naval power of 200 boats. The Americans have a naval power of 0 boats.
Money matters in things like this, but cost efficiency won't count for shit if you don't have any boots on the ground or keels in the water.
And in related news, Skrillex will be suing for copyright infringement and trademark dilution. Skrillex was quoted as saying, "I own bad electronic music, dammit! I work hard to make loops in Garageband and press Play on my Macbook!"
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income.
Yes, but this is like trying to legislate away drugs, alcohol, etc. Any retailer who is not a moron understands that there is always loss due to theft or missed opportunities. This is the wrong way to handle it.
Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived.
Yeah, and we're being deprived of our ability to reverse engineer things we own and use things we paid for in any way we please, so they can go fuck themselves with an HD-DVD for all I care.
Like it or not, protection of a work is needed to keep the creative process going.
Agreed.
70 years after the death of the artist is too long
Agreed.
and corporations should hold no copyright, only real people named as the artist.
Agreed, but this is an impractical solution. Watch the magic as I keep things exactly the same with this new law!
1) Congress miraculously comes to its senses and declares that corporations can no longer hold copyrights - rather, copyrights have to be held by a person.
2) HR at nearly every corporation in America creates a new position called CCO, or "Chief Copyright Officer" with a decent salary. The CCO holds all of the copyrights for the corporation and answers to the board of directors as it is a junior executive position. The CCO is contractually obligated to transfer all of the company copyrights in his name to the new officer should he be terminated or fired, and his last will and testament must include language to that effect that can never be removed.
I get that it needs to restart. I'm not ignorant of that. But it needs to restart now and pesters me every 5-15 minutes while I'm trying to play a multiplayer game with some friends. Bonus, every time that window comes up it tabs me out of whatever I'm doing! Oh look, I was typing and just happened to hit enter when the Restart window popped up.
Since there isn't a way to permanently defer it until I elect to restart, I instead entirely stop the service so it stops bugging me when I'd really rather not tab out or accidentally restart my computer in the middle of typing an essay. When I'm done with the things I"m doing at the moment, then I'll restart. An option to defer to a convenient time for me flat out does not exist in any other way than shutting the service off.
When you have your system appropriately hardened, yes. I spend the vast majority of my time approving UAC than it saving my ass from malware trying to do something nasty.
It's just a wee bit overzealous and could be finer tuned in my opinion.
A novice user in the presence of experienced users will ask what they should do about a UAC question they don't understand,
No, no they won't. It depends. If the person strives to be technically literate and wants to learn the hows and whys, then they will ask themselves "Why am I clicking yes on UAC?"
Most average users will see a UAC popup and say, "Oh, this is the annoying thing I have to click Yes on all the time."
Actually, this has the American military very worried. In the Millenium Challenge 2002, Red used exactly this tactic and wiped the floor with us in a wargame - 20,000 (virtual) service personnel dead. The military basically said "NUH UH! DO OVER DO OVER!" and restarted the exercise with new rules that would have made such tactics impossible. The leader of OPFOR (retired Marine Corps. Lt. General Paul K. Von Riper) resigned his position as commander of OPFOR in protest.
In 1981, a computer scientist from Stanford University named Doug Lenat entered the Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron tournament, in San Mateo, California. It was a war game. The contestants had been given several volumes of rules, well beforehand, and had been asked to design their own fleet of warships with a mythical budget of a trillion dollars. The fleets then squared off against one another in the course of a weekend. “Imagine this enormous auditorium area with tables, and at each table people are paired off,” Lenat said. “The winners go on and advance. The losers get eliminated, and the field gets smaller and smaller, and the audience gets larger and larger.”
Lenat had developed an artificial-intelligence program that he called Eurisko, and he decided to feed his program the rules of the tournament. Lenat did not give Eurisko any advice or steer the program in any particular strategic direction. He was not a war-gamer. He simply let Eurisko figure things out for itself. For about a month, for ten hours every night on a hundred computers at Xerox PARC, in Palo Alto, Eurisko ground away at the problem, until it came out with an answer. Most teams fielded some version of a traditional naval fleet—an array of ships of various sizes, each well defended against enemy attack. Eurisko thought differently. “The program came up with a strategy of spending the trillion on an astronomical number of small ships like P.T. boats, with powerful weapons but absolutely no defense and no mobility,” Lenat said. “They just sat there. Basically, if they were hit once they would sink. And what happened is that the enemy would take its shots, and every one of those shots would sink our ships. But it didn’t matter, because we had so many.” Lenat won the tournament in a runaway.
The next year, Lenat entered once more, only this time the rules had changed. Fleets could no longer just sit there. Now one of the criteria of success in battle was fleet “agility.” Eurisko went back to work. “What Eurisko did was say that if any of our ships got damaged it would sink itself—and that would raise fleet agility back up again,” Lenat said. Eurisko won again.
Eurisko was an underdog. The other gamers were people steeped in military strategy and history. They were the sort who could tell you how Wellington had outfoxed Napoleon at Waterloo, or what exactly happened at Antietam. They had been raised on Dungeons and Dragons. They were insiders. Eurisko, on the other hand, knew nothing but the rule book. It had no common sense. As Lenat points out, a human being understands the meaning of the sentences “Johnny robbed a bank. He is now serving twenty years in prison,” but Eurisko could not, because as a computer it was perfectly literal; it could not fill in the missing step—“Johnny was caught, tried, and convicted.” Eurisko was an outsider. But it was precisely that outsiderness that led to Eurisko’s victory: not knowing the conventions of the game turned out to be an advantage.
“Eurisko was exposing the fact that any finite set of rules is going to be a very incomplete approximation o
Just look at how you can get funding for any crazy military weapon system but our soldiers are paid so damned shitty their families are on food stamps, why?
Because our government is a bunch of cunts.
That said, has there ever been a time in any country ever that a soldier wasn't paid a mediocre wage? A US Army soldier got paid roughly $700 a month (adjusted for inflation) in WW2. A paratrooper got paid twice that. A manager at McDonald's can end up making $1400+ a month - that's honestly depressing.
I've been seeing stuff like this happen more often to me. I use Windows XP at home but I've been using 7 at a friend's house for the last week or so. There's a lot of stuff that's sorta helpful to newbie uses (UAC, for instance) but a waste of time for experienced people.
Hell, even XP has it. I've had to memorize things like sc stop wuauserv just so it will shut the hell up about restarting every 15 minutes.
The problem isn't good stories. The problem is how executive meddling will change things.
By the time this story you've related hits theaters, it's about a mutant baby riding a ten meter tall KKK mecha named KKKollusus with a miniguns for arms.
"It's an honor to work for you Mr. Hawking. Now you could please help me go over my high school physics textbook? I still don't know the fucking difference between an Ohm and a Watt. Something about the resistance? Are they talking about Solidarity?
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"Reformed hackers" reminded me of Kevin Mitnick and something that we solely lack as a security measure - social engineering countermeasures.
I honestly think adding in stuff like Challenge/response prompts would do pretty well for greatly reducing the possibility for social engineering towards the end of infiltration. It works for the military...
Did... did you just tell people how to take a FM radio and basically make a Meteor Shower Sonar?
I HEREBY PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING:
1) That "Bill Nye" becomes a title much like Batman or Barney the Dinosaur which is passed on from person to person so that children and adults alike may understand that "Science Rules."
2) That Gordonjcp be nominated for said position, until he elects to resign or otherwise retire.
They named their country after a cocktail?! Classy.
To be fair, you could use the same argument and say that it's not fair that Firefox extensions don't work in Chrome, Opera, IE, etc.
I mean, I get the web should be all about open standards and everything, but if every browser could the same things as every other browser, why would people even make a choice?
There was lots of crime involving bootleg alcohol when it was banned too. All that went away when alcohol was legalized.
Yes, but I can easily see a world where drugs are legal and gang members are doing drive-bys over bootleg Gucci purses and bootleg DVDs.
It's about what's the most convenient profit that isn't legal.
Agreed. All the best tech practices in the world won't help your network function well if your users are drooling morons (also known as executives).
How is it stuff like Sandboxie can exist but Microsoft can't, you know, just start from scratch with a new OS and just run previous editions in a VM?
Aside from the retardation that is software and game "licenses", I was actually talking about hardware - as in how you catch shit for modding your console.
All it takes is one or two to get through to sink a billion dollar ship.
I forgot who said it first (and I'm paraphrasing), but one of the most insightful military quotes I've ever heard is, "The military is always preparing for the previous war."
Okay, let's put it this way.
Let's say the only America naval power in the area is a carrier, a destroyer, a crusier, and a couple of patrol boats.
Meanwhile, the enemy sends 500 unarmored patrol boats at this fleet, loaded for bear with anti-armor weaponry and explosives.
The Americans sink 300 of the patrol boats but their entire battle group is lost with all hands. The enemy has a naval power of 200 boats. The Americans have a naval power of 0 boats.
Money matters in things like this, but cost efficiency won't count for shit if you don't have any boots on the ground or keels in the water.
They can generate mediocre techno
And in related news, Skrillex will be suing for copyright infringement and trademark dilution. Skrillex was quoted as saying, "I own bad electronic music, dammit! I work hard to make loops in Garageband and press Play on my Macbook!"
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income.
Yes, but this is like trying to legislate away drugs, alcohol, etc. Any retailer who is not a moron understands that there is always loss due to theft or missed opportunities. This is the wrong way to handle it.
Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived.
Yeah, and we're being deprived of our ability to reverse engineer things we own and use things we paid for in any way we please, so they can go fuck themselves with an HD-DVD for all I care.
Like it or not, protection of a work is needed to keep the creative process going.
Agreed.
70 years after the death of the artist is too long
Agreed.
and corporations should hold no copyright, only real people named as the artist.
Agreed, but this is an impractical solution. Watch the magic as I keep things exactly the same with this new law!
1) Congress miraculously comes to its senses and declares that corporations can no longer hold copyrights - rather, copyrights have to be held by a person.
2) HR at nearly every corporation in America creates a new position called CCO, or "Chief Copyright Officer" with a decent salary. The CCO holds all of the copyrights for the corporation and answers to the board of directors as it is a junior executive position. The CCO is contractually obligated to transfer all of the company copyrights in his name to the new officer should he be terminated or fired, and his last will and testament must include language to that effect that can never be removed.
3) Everything basically stays exactly the same.
I get that it needs to restart. I'm not ignorant of that. But it needs to restart now and pesters me every 5-15 minutes while I'm trying to play a multiplayer game with some friends. Bonus, every time that window comes up it tabs me out of whatever I'm doing! Oh look, I was typing and just happened to hit enter when the Restart window popped up.
Since there isn't a way to permanently defer it until I elect to restart, I instead entirely stop the service so it stops bugging me when I'd really rather not tab out or accidentally restart my computer in the middle of typing an essay. When I'm done with the things I"m doing at the moment, then I'll restart. An option to defer to a convenient time for me flat out does not exist in any other way than shutting the service off.
When you have your system appropriately hardened, yes. I spend the vast majority of my time approving UAC than it saving my ass from malware trying to do something nasty.
It's just a wee bit overzealous and could be finer tuned in my opinion.
A novice user in the presence of experienced users will ask what they should do about a UAC question they don't understand,
No, no they won't. It depends. If the person strives to be technically literate and wants to learn the hows and whys, then they will ask themselves "Why am I clicking yes on UAC?"
Most average users will see a UAC popup and say, "Oh, this is the annoying thing I have to click Yes on all the time."
Actually, this has the American military very worried. In the Millenium Challenge 2002, Red used exactly this tactic and wiped the floor with us in a wargame - 20,000 (virtual) service personnel dead. The military basically said "NUH UH! DO OVER DO OVER!" and restarted the exercise with new rules that would have made such tactics impossible. The leader of OPFOR (retired Marine Corps. Lt. General Paul K. Von Riper) resigned his position as commander of OPFOR in protest.
Then, of course, there was the Trillion Credit Challenge (start at the bolded "I"):
In 1981, a computer scientist from Stanford University named Doug Lenat entered the Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron tournament, in San Mateo, California. It was a war game. The contestants had been given several volumes of rules, well beforehand, and had been asked to design their own fleet of warships with a mythical budget of a trillion dollars. The fleets then squared off against one another in the course of a weekend. “Imagine this enormous auditorium area with tables, and at each table people are paired off,” Lenat said. “The winners go on and advance. The losers get eliminated, and the field gets smaller and smaller, and the audience gets larger and larger.”
Lenat had developed an artificial-intelligence program that he called Eurisko, and he decided to feed his program the rules of the tournament. Lenat did not give Eurisko any advice or steer the program in any particular strategic direction. He was not a war-gamer. He simply let Eurisko figure things out for itself. For about a month, for ten hours every night on a hundred computers at Xerox PARC, in Palo Alto, Eurisko ground away at the problem, until it came out with an answer. Most teams fielded some version of a traditional naval fleet—an array of ships of various sizes, each well defended against enemy attack. Eurisko thought differently. “The program came up with a strategy of spending the trillion on an astronomical number of small ships like P.T. boats, with powerful weapons but absolutely no defense and no mobility,” Lenat said. “They just sat there. Basically, if they were hit once they would sink. And what happened is that the enemy would take its shots, and every one of those shots would sink our ships. But it didn’t matter, because we had so many.” Lenat won the tournament in a runaway.
The next year, Lenat entered once more, only this time the rules had changed. Fleets could no longer just sit there. Now one of the criteria of success in battle was fleet “agility.” Eurisko went back to work. “What Eurisko did was say that if any of our ships got damaged it would sink itself—and that would raise fleet agility back up again,” Lenat said. Eurisko won again.
Eurisko was an underdog. The other gamers were people steeped in military strategy and history. They were the sort who could tell you how Wellington had outfoxed Napoleon at Waterloo, or what exactly happened at Antietam. They had been raised on Dungeons and Dragons. They were insiders. Eurisko, on the other hand, knew nothing but the rule book. It had no common sense. As Lenat points out, a human being understands the meaning of the sentences “Johnny robbed a bank. He is now serving twenty years in prison,” but Eurisko could not, because as a computer it was perfectly literal; it could not fill in the missing step—“Johnny was caught, tried, and convicted.” Eurisko was an outsider. But it was precisely that outsiderness that led to Eurisko’s victory: not knowing the conventions of the game turned out to be an advantage.
“Eurisko was exposing the fact that any finite set of rules is going to be a very incomplete approximation o
Just look at how you can get funding for any crazy military weapon system but our soldiers are paid so damned shitty their families are on food stamps, why?
Because our government is a bunch of cunts.
That said, has there ever been a time in any country ever that a soldier wasn't paid a mediocre wage? A US Army soldier got paid roughly $700 a month (adjusted for inflation) in WW2. A paratrooper got paid twice that. A manager at McDonald's can end up making $1400+ a month - that's honestly depressing.
Of course they know this, he just advertised it on a the goddamned Slashdot frontpage!
So your entire point is demonstrably false.
Or, in layman's terms:
"Bitch, please!"
I've been seeing stuff like this happen more often to me. I use Windows XP at home but I've been using 7 at a friend's house for the last week or so. There's a lot of stuff that's sorta helpful to newbie uses (UAC, for instance) but a waste of time for experienced people.
Hell, even XP has it. I've had to memorize things like sc stop wuauserv just so it will shut the hell up about restarting every 15 minutes.
Iif i ask them to delete all pics and status' when I delete my account, and they dont..its ok that they dont?
In Europe, generally no. Nearly everywhere else, yes.
In latin, "et" means "plus" or "and". You'll occasionally see "et" pop up in things like legal documents or academic papers.
The ampersand (&) is basically the current evolution of writing "et" in cursive. There are some interesting pictures on the subject.
The problem isn't good stories. The problem is how executive meddling will change things.
By the time this story you've related hits theaters, it's about a mutant baby riding a ten meter tall KKK mecha named KKKollusus with a miniguns for arms.
"It's an honor to work for you Mr. Hawking. Now you could please help me go over my high school physics textbook? I still don't know the fucking difference between an Ohm and a Watt. Something about the resistance? Are they talking about Solidarity?