I actually find it hard to believe that this is an intrusion. I think that they were working on the upgrade to the new "PSN": http://kotaku.com/#!5785451/yes-your-playstation-network-account-is-changing-hands-sort-of. They screwed something up, lost their database, and didn't have proper backups. They are probably trying to rebuild the database and in the meantime use a convenient scapegoat to blame the outage on so they don't look quite as bad. In fact, all of the recent problems have been since this announced change of account management for PSN.
I agree with the concept that you can't shape traffic to give priority to certain things over certain things, that helps everyone. What I don't agree with in the bill is the subsidizing of broadband and turning it into a "right" that all citizens should have. I enjoy working hard to pay for premium services like quality broadband. As soon as you start giving it away, the losses incurred by the providers of said service will jack up the prices to the people that pay, ala what will happen with health care if the current legislation isn't repealed. I also don't want my tax dollars going to that crap.
They need to re-work that part of the bill then introduce it again.
When I went to the interview for my job, I brought source code and the compiled executables along. These were independent studies and small group projects where we weren't spoon fed like normal class projects, so it reflected well my coding abilities. The interviewers really liked the code and the fact that I provided it to them so I ended up getting the job and am now making over 50K a year at an "entry-level" position. I strongly recommend this route.
Piracy will never be stopped. Every possible security measure companies take will 100% be broken. They might as well save their money they'd use for implementing some nasty DRM and spend it on making a better game.
The only way to make sure this doesn't happen is to do something like an MMO where you have to log in to a server with a legitimate account. Also, any heavy multiplayer game people will more than likely buy anyways so they can actually experience the fun of how the game is meant to be played.
I used to work at Gamestop and we could only check out console games for obvious reasons. Everything else is true though, except my manager pushed that we check out used games as much as possible and he inspected new games when we brought them back. If it was scratched at all, you got the pleasure of buying it.
It was a pretty sweet perk to have though. Obviously Gamestop's thinking is that they want a staff who knows what they are selling.
You get what you pay for, what did you expect? Someone who can talk intelligible would be able to get a job that pays a dollar more. If he can write, two bucks more. If he can think past his next lunch, he's promoted to store manager.
Interesting since everyone I worked with when I worked at a Gamestop was in college at some stage including myself. If you don't want to do much except talk about games and ring people up for a few hours a week, it's a fantastic job.
then take it and be happy. I'm in a paying internship myself at roughly 12.50/hour for web application development. I have a lot of friends who are also in internships required for their major and earn zip, zilch, nada.
I'm not aware of any listing of standard pay rates, but anything over $10 an hour should be more than you would make jockeying a register at Radioshack and you will be earning valuable work experience which is worth much, much more than any monetary compensation. When you go for that first job interview that work experience will shine through. I'm sure any employer would want someone with experience over someone without any day of the week.
and it doesn't sound like anything illegal, just a bit questionable maybe. I say count your blessings you even have a job in this economy and do it unless you feel you are breaking the law. I don't have my copy of the ACM code of ethics, but this seems pretty borderline to me.
that this would even be a good thing for the governments involved. What about covert operatives working for a government that travel to another country? They would be instantly flagged if any one nation had the knowledge of their covert status.
Well it's $99 to a year to join the "Developer's Club" and they offer you 70% of the profit. I'm sure a lot of people might have some incentive to jump on the bandwagon at that price point.
I'm personally 100% for this since fantastic games like Age of Booty and Castle Crashers were made by small developers, but having to pay for "community" work doesn't sound so "community" to me. If the game is good enough to be published, then make people pay for it, otherwise, distribute it for free.
You know that after this launches and little Johnny visits his friends planet with giant penii walking around and his Mom and Dad see it there is going to be a meltdown in the parent sector. I think if GTA San Andreas proves anything, it's fine for our children to shoot cops all day long and beat up hookers, but as soon as they get a glimpse of something sexual the parents' heads start spinning a la the Exorcist.
the only reason I was planning on buying a PS3 at all is to get Final Fantasy XIII. I've been playing the FF series since FF3 (US) and it is by far my favorite RPG franchise. Now that it is coming to 360, I have no reason to buy a PS3, which I was planning on doing when XIII launched. I'm sure i'm not the only one who was planning this.
360 really has PS3 beat in its online system, which I'm more than willing to pay my 7.99 a month for because it's worth it for the quality. The only saving grace that the PS3 has is the built in Blu-Ray player. Sony may as well license it to Microsoft and say good night.
I have a friend in my CS classes who works as a computer repair tech for Circuit City. While in the process of cleaning an infected computer he stumbled across a stash of child porn while searching down viruses. He didn't open the pictures, but it had thumbnail images so it was kind of hard to miss.
They went to trial and the guy pled guilty but not as much because of my friend finding the stuff, but they raided his house and found tons of other things as well. Chances are if it was only on his computer, they guy could have potentially gotten the entire case thrown out.
There is fine print in the document you sign when you drop your computer off for repairs that covers Circuit City's ass. Basically, it says that they will not search your computer specifically looking for anything illegal, BUT if they find something illegal while completing their task they will report it.
Storm had a good run but I'm sure eventually fixes will be found for all of these botnets. It's kind of like drug dealers and our war on drugs. We go out and shut down a smuggling/selling ring only to have another pop up in its place to take over that market we shut down. It's the same thing with botnets, as we shut down things like Storm another will pop up in its place, i.e. Kraken. As long as there is a demand for malicious use of these botnets, there will always be a supplier.
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...as soon as the US switches to using the metric system that the rest of the civilized world uses.
I actually find it hard to believe that this is an intrusion. I think that they were working on the upgrade to the new "PSN": http://kotaku.com/#!5785451/yes-your-playstation-network-account-is-changing-hands-sort-of. They screwed something up, lost their database, and didn't have proper backups. They are probably trying to rebuild the database and in the meantime use a convenient scapegoat to blame the outage on so they don't look quite as bad. In fact, all of the recent problems have been since this announced change of account management for PSN.
If I had mod points this would be modded up for sure. Hilarious.
I agree with the concept that you can't shape traffic to give priority to certain things over certain things, that helps everyone. What I don't agree with in the bill is the subsidizing of broadband and turning it into a "right" that all citizens should have. I enjoy working hard to pay for premium services like quality broadband. As soon as you start giving it away, the losses incurred by the providers of said service will jack up the prices to the people that pay, ala what will happen with health care if the current legislation isn't repealed. I also don't want my tax dollars going to that crap. They need to re-work that part of the bill then introduce it again.
When I went to the interview for my job, I brought source code and the compiled executables along. These were independent studies and small group projects where we weren't spoon fed like normal class projects, so it reflected well my coding abilities. The interviewers really liked the code and the fact that I provided it to them so I ended up getting the job and am now making over 50K a year at an "entry-level" position. I strongly recommend this route.
Piracy will never be stopped. Every possible security measure companies take will 100% be broken. They might as well save their money they'd use for implementing some nasty DRM and spend it on making a better game. The only way to make sure this doesn't happen is to do something like an MMO where you have to log in to a server with a legitimate account. Also, any heavy multiplayer game people will more than likely buy anyways so they can actually experience the fun of how the game is meant to be played.
I used to work at Gamestop and we could only check out console games for obvious reasons. Everything else is true though, except my manager pushed that we check out used games as much as possible and he inspected new games when we brought them back. If it was scratched at all, you got the pleasure of buying it. It was a pretty sweet perk to have though. Obviously Gamestop's thinking is that they want a staff who knows what they are selling.
You get what you pay for, what did you expect? Someone who can talk intelligible would be able to get a job that pays a dollar more. If he can write, two bucks more. If he can think past his next lunch, he's promoted to store manager.
Interesting since everyone I worked with when I worked at a Gamestop was in college at some stage including myself. If you don't want to do much except talk about games and ring people up for a few hours a week, it's a fantastic job.
then take it and be happy. I'm in a paying internship myself at roughly 12.50/hour for web application development. I have a lot of friends who are also in internships required for their major and earn zip, zilch, nada. I'm not aware of any listing of standard pay rates, but anything over $10 an hour should be more than you would make jockeying a register at Radioshack and you will be earning valuable work experience which is worth much, much more than any monetary compensation. When you go for that first job interview that work experience will shine through. I'm sure any employer would want someone with experience over someone without any day of the week.
Security through obscurity.
I'd personally rather have them sniff my packets than outright block things I love. Australia obviously missed the memo: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645&hl=en
and it doesn't sound like anything illegal, just a bit questionable maybe. I say count your blessings you even have a job in this economy and do it unless you feel you are breaking the law. I don't have my copy of the ACM code of ethics, but this seems pretty borderline to me.
that this would even be a good thing for the governments involved. What about covert operatives working for a government that travel to another country? They would be instantly flagged if any one nation had the knowledge of their covert status.
Well it's $99 to a year to join the "Developer's Club" and they offer you 70% of the profit. I'm sure a lot of people might have some incentive to jump on the bandwagon at that price point. I'm personally 100% for this since fantastic games like Age of Booty and Castle Crashers were made by small developers, but having to pay for "community" work doesn't sound so "community" to me. If the game is good enough to be published, then make people pay for it, otherwise, distribute it for free.
arrr! Find ye some bottles o' grog this weekend in Guild Wars! They'll get you drunk me mateys!
You know that after this launches and little Johnny visits his friends planet with giant penii walking around and his Mom and Dad see it there is going to be a meltdown in the parent sector. I think if GTA San Andreas proves anything, it's fine for our children to shoot cops all day long and beat up hookers, but as soon as they get a glimpse of something sexual the parents' heads start spinning a la the Exorcist.
FF6 remake? Holy crap! That's news to me and it's by far my favorite in the series, yay!
the only reason I was planning on buying a PS3 at all is to get Final Fantasy XIII. I've been playing the FF series since FF3 (US) and it is by far my favorite RPG franchise. Now that it is coming to 360, I have no reason to buy a PS3, which I was planning on doing when XIII launched. I'm sure i'm not the only one who was planning this. 360 really has PS3 beat in its online system, which I'm more than willing to pay my 7.99 a month for because it's worth it for the quality. The only saving grace that the PS3 has is the built in Blu-Ray player. Sony may as well license it to Microsoft and say good night.
I have a friend in my CS classes who works as a computer repair tech for Circuit City. While in the process of cleaning an infected computer he stumbled across a stash of child porn while searching down viruses. He didn't open the pictures, but it had thumbnail images so it was kind of hard to miss. They went to trial and the guy pled guilty but not as much because of my friend finding the stuff, but they raided his house and found tons of other things as well. Chances are if it was only on his computer, they guy could have potentially gotten the entire case thrown out. There is fine print in the document you sign when you drop your computer off for repairs that covers Circuit City's ass. Basically, it says that they will not search your computer specifically looking for anything illegal, BUT if they find something illegal while completing their task they will report it.
Storm had a good run but I'm sure eventually fixes will be found for all of these botnets. It's kind of like drug dealers and our war on drugs. We go out and shut down a smuggling/selling ring only to have another pop up in its place to take over that market we shut down. It's the same thing with botnets, as we shut down things like Storm another will pop up in its place, i.e. Kraken. As long as there is a demand for malicious use of these botnets, there will always be a supplier.