I s'pose the governments just won't be content til we live in a V for Vendetta crossed with George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother world.
Only then, in that world, will I happily be able to go on Gaiaonline and go fishing whilst chatting away to other users.
Until then, we shall have to live in fear of terrorists communicating in Neopets with their fluffy cartoon pets or on Habbo with little Lego people.
Heh.. I work at a game console service center at the moment. What we do there is repair and service consoles.
The very first Nintendo that ever came through our doors for repairs was NES sometime last year. The old thing started playing up after over 20 years and wouldn't read some cartridges.
Sony however is another story... The PS2s populate our shelves quite regularly. I can't count how many laser replacements we've done in the past because there's just too many (which would explain the testing of different color discs you've done).
So yea... makes sense why the gameboy's practically indestructible. Nintendo makes good quality products. And I see proof of it every day I go into work...
I think it's safe to say that default firewalls should be on for all machines. Regardless of whether they are to be turned on manually or they're on by default when the OS is installed.
Otherwise, it makes things a bit too easy. The contest is run by a security company to locate security holes inside the OSs. And well, pointing out the painfully obvious, firewall being turned off is a big hole in security.
As for other installations, well, if they just kept the average joe's computer in mind it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what to put on it and keep it both fair and challenging. For instance a windows machine could be equipped with your typical antivirus software, windows firewall, MSoffice and plug ins and such installed for happy browsing and file viewing (JS, flash, quicktime, acrobat etc.)
That's probably what i'd do anyway... otherwise, the purpose of the research could quite easily be defeated since not many people really use their computer with only what was on it when they first put the OS onto it.
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I s'pose the governments just won't be content til we live in a V for Vendetta crossed with George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother world. Only then, in that world, will I happily be able to go on Gaiaonline and go fishing whilst chatting away to other users. Until then, we shall have to live in fear of terrorists communicating in Neopets with their fluffy cartoon pets or on Habbo with little Lego people.
Heh.. I work at a game console service center at the moment. What we do there is repair and service consoles.
The very first Nintendo that ever came through our doors for repairs was NES sometime last year. The old thing started playing up after over 20 years and wouldn't read some cartridges.
Sony however is another story... The PS2s populate our shelves quite regularly. I can't count how many laser replacements we've done in the past because there's just too many (which would explain the testing of different color discs you've done).
So yea... makes sense why the gameboy's practically indestructible. Nintendo makes good quality products. And I see proof of it every day I go into work...
I think it's safe to say that default firewalls should be on for all machines. Regardless of whether they are to be turned on manually or they're on by default when the OS is installed.
Otherwise, it makes things a bit too easy. The contest is run by a security company to locate security holes inside the OSs. And well, pointing out the painfully obvious, firewall being turned off is a big hole in security.
As for other installations, well, if they just kept the average joe's computer in mind it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what to put on it and keep it both fair and challenging. For instance a windows machine could be equipped with your typical antivirus software, windows firewall, MSoffice and plug ins and such installed for happy browsing and file viewing (JS, flash, quicktime, acrobat etc.)
That's probably what i'd do anyway... otherwise, the purpose of the research could quite easily be defeated since not many people really use their computer with only what was on it when they first put the OS onto it.