...but this whole thing about "unrealistic" and yada-yada is very foreign to someone who has grown up in Sweden. I have had a 100/100 Mbit/s unmetered connection for the last 3 years. It costs me about 45-50 USD / month. This is not uncommon, rather it's the rule. It's also quite rare to see services below 10 Mbit/s unless you are in a rural area.
The reason you don't see 100 Mbit conenctions in the US is because the big telcos are not feeling the heat, they are lazy.
Having taken "Informatics" (which I still consider a useless course as this is the first time I have had a chance to use it in everyday life) at the university I studied at, I feel obligated to point out the fact that "information" only exists when you take "data" and put it together with a "frame of reference". Hence, the "recievers" are getting so and so many gigabytes of "data" as opposed to information.
Actually I am more curious about the decomipiling process than the actual vulnerability scanner.
I am thinking about learning just a little flash to see "what it's all about" and I (partially due to being lazy) would really like to see if the output of this program is useful in any way.
So wait... you want me to trust the TSA employee (who gets suspicious about the fact that I have two cellphones with me) to accurately read a machine that picks up biometrics? Give me a fucking break.
"We don't want you to feel like you are being interrogated." Yea and the nazi's didn't want the jews to feel prosecuted either.
I completely agree, this is like walking down Memory Lane. Hostile Waters, Giants: Citizen Kabuto etc.
But the most interesting thing is this: Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. This game used to have Starforce on it. Wouldn't it be great if it sold more now than before the DRM was removed? Seriously, check the game out, the level of destruction and interaction is almost crazy.
Call me a Schneier fanboy, but I practice security on my home network like a process, not as in buying a product and be done with it.
Security for me begins with sensible configuration of the router and the PC's on the network, then it moves to access rights and regular patching of said computers. This includes regular checkups and glancing at logs every three days or so to look for obviously suspicious traffic. Finally, after all of these steps, I use Kaspersky (since I had heard good things about it) together with rootkit detector. (Oh, and Firefox with NoScript)
All of this prevents pretty much all the scriptkiddies from getting in (I hope), but then again, the best thing you can do is to not download anything you don't know what it is.
Uh? I thought the whole idea of stem cells was that they could be made into any other cell and since you use the dna of the receiver to grow the fetus, you have a perfect match?
It seems to me that we (well, you in the US really) have two choices:
1. Spend lots of money and have lousy security. 2. Spend little money and have lousy security.
To go with number two and save cash while implementing procedures that actually work (or at least work better) is however, something that will never happen. Simply because of what Schneier says: The security theater is there to protect officials from criticism.
"Normally, only final judgments are appealable, and appeals are not permissible in federal court from 'interlocutory' orders of that nature."
The RIAA is of course, expecting special treatment in this case too. (Oh cmon, do you really think that any other organization would be able to pull this whole 5/10-year running lawsuit crap? Of course they have gotten special treatment.)
To think that the DMCA defenders would actually change their minds over this is ridiculous. They wont care about the DMCA since it doesn't affect them for the most part. Once the videos are back, the DMCA will once again be "a much needed weapon to save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the US, it said so right here in this report".
I can vouch for the parent answer. It's about internships and worksamples.
I got an internship during my third/final year. An internship - I think - is almost like a year-long work sample where you can, over time, show the company what you can do. If you don't get hired you can usually get a good reference.
Also, worksamples are king. Someone at that particular company told me that "a degree only shows you can pull off an education. Doing something completely on yourself and _finishing_ it, is a lot more impressive". So, make a small demo, doesn't have to be mega-fancy. Do something as simple as tetris but put an extra little feature in there. Maybe port a common app to another platform, cross-language ports are also cool.
In the end, it doesn't have to be big or beautiful, but it has to be _done_.
It's interesting to see that when you type in "RIAA" almost all content range from blogs that report on the RIAA's losses, to the one that report on how much they hate the RIAA.
Since Lawrence Lessig tend to write sensible arguments whenever he writes something, I would hardly call this and outbreak of common sense.
Then again, the Wall Street Journal publishing a story like this could point to a sudden outbreak of common sense in the editor. Or maybe they just want to sell more copies, who knows.
I believe it is of interest due to the US election coming up soon, the use of voting machines with closed source on those machines and the tampering discussion.
Now, of course you could modify a linux machine as well, but with a potential army of hackers the security risks are handled much like the security in Linux: Assuming that for every one hacker that is malicious there is usually one or at least two that spot a problem and bring it to light.
Well I luckily am not _required_ by my employer to go to the US. I do feel sorry for some of my colleagues who are forced to go since they have expertise that is needed.
Why do I feel extra sorry for them? Well, because they are not all white. And don't pretend like there isn't any racial profiling going on in airports in the US. If I as a white person refuse to go there to avoid unneccessary searches, imagine what these guys/girls have to go through.
I finally understand why people hate lawyers now! Thanks RIAA. You actually did something good. Now shoo, the new market is going to kill off the companies you work for no matter what legislation are passed, since piracy isn't killing music.
I sort of see the whole "Violent games on the Wii" issue as the video game violence debate in sandbox mode:
It used to be that people were fine with violence in movies (after a while). But then games came along. Interactive violence. Now, the new and unspoiled ground is the wii (even though there are already violent games on the wii that have gotten a "T" rating). People are used to seeing wii as a friendly console and as such they don't want that image destroyed. They don't care about the fact that they don't HAVE to buy it, it's their own fantasy they want to maintain.
Heck, I can buy Viva Pinata for my 360 period, and then call it a family friendly console. Hypocrisy is the name for this "debate".
To be fair, usually it is the publisher and not the developer who is pushing the DRM. (This is also reflected in the fact that the DRM-developers mainly market their DRM schemes to publishers).
But yeah, I agree with the others:
1. Lose the damn drm. 2. Online selling and download, I would buy so many games on impulse it's insane. 3. Keep these price ranges: $10, $20 and $50. Period.
Do this and I will buy so many games I will make my savings account go deep into the red.
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...but this whole thing about "unrealistic" and yada-yada is very foreign to someone who has grown up in Sweden. I have had a 100/100 Mbit/s unmetered connection for the last 3 years. It costs me about 45-50 USD / month.
This is not uncommon, rather it's the rule. It's also quite rare to see services below 10 Mbit/s unless you are in a rural area.
The reason you don't see 100 Mbit conenctions in the US is because the big telcos are not feeling the heat, they are lazy.
No, just being "irked" and "miffed" by not having any use for some university courses.
Having taken "Informatics" (which I still consider a useless course as this is the first time I have had a chance to use it in everyday life) at the university I studied at, I feel obligated to point out the fact that "information" only exists when you take "data" and put it together with a "frame of reference". Hence, the "recievers" are getting so and so many gigabytes of "data" as opposed to information.
Actually I am more curious about the decomipiling process than the actual vulnerability scanner.
I am thinking about learning just a little flash to see "what it's all about" and I (partially due to being lazy) would really like to see if the output of this program is useful in any way.
So wait... you want me to trust the TSA employee (who gets suspicious about the fact that I have two cellphones with me) to accurately read a machine that picks up biometrics? Give me a fucking break.
"We don't want you to feel like you are being interrogated." Yea and the nazi's didn't want the jews to feel prosecuted either.
I completely agree, this is like walking down Memory Lane. Hostile Waters, Giants: Citizen Kabuto etc.
But the most interesting thing is this: Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. This game used to have Starforce on it. Wouldn't it be great if it sold more now than before the DRM was removed? Seriously, check the game out, the level of destruction and interaction is almost crazy.
Call me a Schneier fanboy, but I practice security on my home network like a process, not as in buying a product and be done with it.
Security for me begins with sensible configuration of the router and the PC's on the network, then it moves to access rights and regular patching of said computers.
This includes regular checkups and glancing at logs every three days or so to look for obviously suspicious traffic. Finally, after all of these steps, I use Kaspersky (since I had heard good things about it) together with rootkit detector. (Oh, and Firefox with NoScript)
All of this prevents pretty much all the scriptkiddies from getting in (I hope), but then again, the best thing you can do is to not download anything you don't know what it is.
Uh? I thought the whole idea of stem cells was that they could be made into any other cell and since you use the dna of the receiver to grow the fetus, you have a perfect match?
Huh, that should hopefully make their stock price go up a little bit. Whatever mitigates the financial crisis is great...
It seems to me that we (well, you in the US really) have two choices:
1. Spend lots of money and have lousy security.
2. Spend little money and have lousy security.
To go with number two and save cash while implementing procedures that actually work (or at least work better) is however, something that will never happen. Simply because of what Schneier says: The security theater is there to protect officials from criticism.
"Normally, only final judgments are appealable, and appeals are not permissible in federal court from 'interlocutory' orders of that nature."
The RIAA is of course, expecting special treatment in this case too. (Oh cmon, do you really think that any other organization would be able to pull this whole 5/10-year running lawsuit crap? Of course they have gotten special treatment.)
When you said you wanted to be like the USA, we didn't think you would take the worst parts!
To think that the DMCA defenders would actually change their minds over this is ridiculous. They wont care about the DMCA since it doesn't affect them for the most part. Once the videos are back, the DMCA will once again be "a much needed weapon to save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the US, it said so right here in this report".
I can vouch for the parent answer. It's about internships and worksamples.
I got an internship during my third/final year. An internship - I think - is almost like a year-long work sample where you can, over time, show the company what you can do. If you don't get hired you can usually get a good reference.
Also, worksamples are king. Someone at that particular company told me that "a degree only shows you can pull off an education. Doing something completely on yourself and _finishing_ it, is a lot more impressive". So, make a small demo, doesn't have to be mega-fancy. Do something as simple as tetris but put an extra little feature in there. Maybe port a common app to another platform, cross-language ports are also cool.
In the end, it doesn't have to be big or beautiful, but it has to be _done_.
It's interesting to see that when you type in "RIAA" almost all content range from blogs that report on the RIAA's losses, to the one that report on how much they hate the RIAA.
They really have no friends anymore.
Since Lawrence Lessig tend to write sensible arguments whenever he writes something, I would hardly call this and outbreak of common sense.
Then again, the Wall Street Journal publishing a story like this could point to a sudden outbreak of common sense in the editor. Or maybe they just want to sell more copies, who knows.
I, for one, welcome our new elderly robotic overlords.
I believe it is of interest due to the US election coming up soon, the use of voting machines with closed source on those machines and the tampering discussion.
Now, of course you could modify a linux machine as well, but with a potential army of hackers the security risks are handled much like the security in Linux: Assuming that for every one hacker that is malicious there is usually one or at least two that spot a problem and bring it to light.
Does this mean Pandora can come back online? Or does the RIAA still have their boot on their throats?
Well I luckily am not _required_ by my employer to go to the US. I do feel sorry for some of my colleagues who are forced to go since they have expertise that is needed.
Why do I feel extra sorry for them? Well, because they are not all white. And don't pretend like there isn't any racial profiling going on in airports in the US. If I as a white person refuse to go there to avoid unneccessary searches, imagine what these guys/girls have to go through.
I finally understand why people hate lawyers now! Thanks RIAA. You actually did something good. Now shoo, the new market is going to kill off the companies you work for no matter what legislation are passed, since piracy isn't killing music.
I am sorry to be so cynical as to suggest that if the claim had been brought by the MPAA, the result would have been different.
I sort of see the whole "Violent games on the Wii" issue as the video game violence debate in sandbox mode:
It used to be that people were fine with violence in movies (after a while). But then games came along. Interactive violence.
Now, the new and unspoiled ground is the wii (even though there are already violent games on the wii that have gotten a "T" rating). People are used to seeing wii as a friendly console and as such they don't want that image destroyed. They don't care about the fact that they don't HAVE to buy it, it's their own fantasy they want to maintain.
Heck, I can buy Viva Pinata for my 360 period, and then call it a family friendly console. Hypocrisy is the name for this "debate".
To be fair, usually it is the publisher and not the developer who is pushing the DRM. (This is also reflected in the fact that the DRM-developers mainly market their DRM schemes to publishers).
But yeah, I agree with the others:
1. Lose the damn drm.
2. Online selling and download, I would buy so many games on impulse it's insane.
3. Keep these price ranges: $10, $20 and $50. Period.
Do this and I will buy so many games I will make my savings account go deep into the red.
Yup, those are all great games. You are totally right. I guess the shitty ones stick in my memory longer.