I mean WTF? lets be honest here, 360 has the better online community, and after the month long PS3 network downtime, they still want to make this game exclusive with Sony?
I was seriously thinking of picking up this game, but if its PS3 only, there is no chance regardless of how "amazing" the game is.
Its pretty simple if you used zigbee or similar for the remote aspects.
Think about a outlet plug that has a slot above the plugs you slide in a zigbee board too (like a compactFlash card gets slid into a camera).
Then, that zigbee can control both of those plugs without issues... toss in a Current Sensor and you could also have the zigbee monitor the power usage as you turn on and off devices.
Make the slots in everything, hardware related, switches, a thermostat, etc... I am thinking if you toss em into plugs, you can basically cover everything as long as the plugs aren't connected to power strips.
I suggest we all buy grow lights and grow some tomatoes / vegetables.
once they are growing well, we can all call the FBI on each other and drop some anonymous tips about locations.
If we have enough people growing, we can then calculate the estimated time spent / money spent on worthless investigations. Include some audio / video clips.
It like taking the digital honeypot idea, and using it against the cops to see where the inefficiencies / corruption is.
I wasn't using AWS at the time, so no first hand knowledge... So far I've just been messing around with various setups using various AWS tools / features / products.
I highly recommended this book if you are looking into it.
It may be a bit outdated, but it does a great job of going through everything. Just enough code to show you what is going on and how to create stuff with AWS using the command line, but also a real in-depth look into each tool and some suggestions on how to combine them.
I would say the bot masters would have more fun using these as their stepping stones to contact their command and control servers. As long as you are only sending simple command line driven instructions, you could hop through tens or hundreds of phones all using a mix of wifi / 3g. The chances of finding where it started from would be nil.
With everything in the cloud, it was as simple as taking down the unresponsive EC2 instances, and spinning up the latest snapshots that I stored in S3.
If we are talking an important site, then change that to: I turned off the EC2 instance in the East, and let the elastic load balancer pass all the traffic to my AWS West instances.
Regardless of how "android works" I still use it simply to kill "useless" "tasks" because I'd rather not have my camera / sprintzone / mint / etc running unless I specifically say it should be running. Considering some of these applications have access to coarse or fine grained GPS information, I would rather that I _KNOW_ it is running instead of just letting it start / stop / pause whenever the app feels like it.
I think most people use ATK and such for CONTROL, more than anything else.
Depends, are you acting as a Officer of the law or are you acting as a civilian?
If they thought I was a drug dealer for instance, but don't have enough evidence to get a warrant, they can still tail me, or increase patrols around my place to start gathering evidence... That is 100% within their bounds.
However, if say this was a civilian following me everywhere I go, and breaking whatever law or statute that details the difference between a stalker and say a PI, then there would be a problem.
Keep in mind these cars would be more of a roaming database of scanned plates... They wouldn't know your exact movements from point A to B and path that got you there (at least not at the same detail a GPO unit would provide), but it would let them get a fragment of what you may have been doing as a police car drove by (maybe they see that a recent car from a drug bust was seen on your street multiple times?
It is merely another tool in their arsenal to actually do their jobs legally. I am all for them doing their jobs, and being productive, but without breaking someones privacy. I don't want them to say abuse their power and start tagging (with a GPS device) someone they suspect is sleeping with their wife.
They NEVER said that those plate scanning cameras weren't going to be used for that purpose.
In fact, I bet it was the primary selling point for the companies that make them.
If they cost 50,000 to install, the easiest way for the police station to recoup the costs is to use to to help ticket. They can recoup the cost of the system in as little as a year, assuming each install helps bring in an additional 2 tickets per day ($75 dollar ticket).
Don't forget the ability of them to store the scanned data. If every police car had the system installed, they could create a database of PLATE + TIME STAMP + GPS COORD.
Frankly, I think that is a legit use of the tech, much rather see them have that information vs an individual GPS device on each civilian car. It would basically give them an incentive to have cars out patrolling as it means more data for their database. Given a large enough time frame and good patrol routes, you could get a nice view into movement without needing to break any privacy laws (since it was collected in real time from the patrol cars themselves).
Make sure to check the reviews to make sure it works with your setup.
The advantage of this is that you can take it wherever you want. Since most Laptops / Desktops these days support dual monitors out of the box, this is a easy way to add a 3rd:)
How is it that Class action lawsuits are OPT-OUT instead of OPT-IN?
What happens if I moved and they sent it to an old address? Could I still make my own claim?
If they aren't sending the letter using registered mail, how am I able to prove I never received it? How can THEY prove that I actually received the letter if they have no confirmation it was even delivered?
Did you think that this may have something to do with management? IF they are micromanaging us, prioritizing our projects, tasks, requests, incidents, etc, how can we ever spend time on documentation? They see it as a waste of time ("why should I pay you to document? You will be here to do it again anyways").
I would love to NOT be a gatekeeper of information, and frankly, I technically am NOT a gatekeeper. The problem is management not properly following the procedures, and instead coming directly to me for anything "IT". 80% of the information they ask me is either already documented in some system (sharepoint primarily) or a simple ticket to our support desk could get the ball rolling on getting the information from the proper group.
Management keeps forgetting that the more people you add in the middle when trying to get information, it becomes outdated, less reliable, and takes longer to procure.
Licensing? Licensing for WHAT? Do you think Facebook is running windows on these machines? Maybe they are running Oracle Linux?
Clearly if we are trying to save money by running commodity hardware, we are going to load up Server 2008 R2 on every box with some MSSQL. I think you need to go reread all the posts above yours... - rate of failure doesn't matter if its commodity hardware - licensing clearly won't matter if you are using open-source software - clustering? Easier to use BigTables, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc (yes this may be clustering to you, but it sure as hell isn't "garbage" clustering)
So on top of destroying hardware, most of which is not replaceable under warranty (I doubt Dells 4hr business service accommodates water damage), they are trying to put out electrical fires with water. I think we can assume the majority of fires in a data center will be electrical.
You explain that morons are purchasing software that cannot properly work in a standards compliant browser, or come with retarded activeX plugins that are a security risk.
You tell him that spending money now to work on getting all internal applications up to standards will allow future upgrades to go much smoothly.
You could also try and push Application virtualization such as Symantec Workspace Virtualization to virtualize IE6 / 7 / 8 or whatever old crummy legacy apps we are still using. (not a Symantec employee, though their application virtualization software works with the most software currently).
Or if you already have some awesome deals with MS, you could run with their TS application virtualization.
Or start priming him for a full Linux environment to help reduce license costs (that can partially go to fund high-quality developers or architects).
Why are you judging? Maybe he has more than one kid? One child is watching the new pixar movie, while another is upstairs working on a online college course that has them running through some online lectures.
Then, you have the Mom, who is a work at home mom and has to constantly keep up-to-date with their training materials.
Now, this mom that works from home, always has to have some type of white noise in the background so jumps onto a hulu channel herself.
250GB is easy to burn through if you are single, and EVEN EASIER to burn though if you are married and have kids.
When everything is done, you will actually have 3 passwords: 1) Hidden OS password - used @ the TC bootloader 2) Decoy OS password - used @ the TC bootloader 3) secondary partition truecrypt password - used from the TC application to unencrypt this secondary partition.
That is the problem right there... The people that write articles like this clearly were asleep during their physics / mathematics / chemistry / other science classes.
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Is that Dust514 is going to be PS3 exclusive!
I mean WTF? lets be honest here, 360 has the better online community, and after the month long PS3 network downtime, they still want to make this game exclusive with Sony?
I was seriously thinking of picking up this game, but if its PS3 only, there is no chance regardless of how "amazing" the game is.
Its pretty simple if you used zigbee or similar for the remote aspects.
Think about a outlet plug that has a slot above the plugs you slide in a zigbee board too (like a compactFlash card gets slid into a camera).
Then, that zigbee can control both of those plugs without issues... toss in a Current Sensor and you could also have the zigbee monitor the power usage as you turn on and off devices.
Make the slots in everything, hardware related, switches, a thermostat, etc... I am thinking if you toss em into plugs, you can basically cover everything as long as the plugs aren't connected to power strips.
I suggest we all buy grow lights and grow some tomatoes / vegetables.
once they are growing well, we can all call the FBI on each other and drop some anonymous tips about locations.
If we have enough people growing, we can then calculate the estimated time spent / money spent on worthless investigations. Include some audio / video clips.
It like taking the digital honeypot idea, and using it against the cops to see where the inefficiencies / corruption is.
Don't forget True Lies.
At level 4, all you need is to fill out your annual PCI SAQ, as well as perform quarterly scans by some approved vendor.
There is no requirement for your "server" to be stored in a locked room, with a dedicated, read-only server keeping all transactions and logs.
99% of all merchants fall under Level 4.
I wasn't using AWS at the time, so no first hand knowledge... So far I've just been messing around with various setups using various AWS tools / features / products.
I highly recommended this book if you are looking into it.
It may be a bit outdated, but it does a great job of going through everything. Just enough code to show you what is going on and how to create stuff with AWS using the command line, but also a real in-depth look into each tool and some suggestions on how to combine them.
I would say the bot masters would have more fun using these as their stepping stones to contact their command and control servers. As long as you are only sending simple command line driven instructions, you could hop through tens or hundreds of phones all using a mix of wifi / 3g. The chances of finding where it started from would be nil.
With everything in the cloud, it was as simple as taking down the unresponsive EC2 instances, and spinning up the latest snapshots that I stored in S3.
If we are talking an important site, then change that to: I turned off the EC2 instance in the East, and let the elastic load balancer pass all the traffic to my AWS West instances.
That was his point... All other goods are on par with US prices, EXCEPT the game...
thought about getting Enterprise protection.
You must not be reading the comments.
Regardless of how "android works" I still use it simply to kill "useless" "tasks" because I'd rather not have my camera / sprintzone / mint / etc running unless I specifically say it should be running. Considering some of these applications have access to coarse or fine grained GPS information, I would rather that I _KNOW_ it is running instead of just letting it start / stop / pause whenever the app feels like it.
I think most people use ATK and such for CONTROL, more than anything else.
Depends, are you acting as a Officer of the law or are you acting as a civilian?
If they thought I was a drug dealer for instance, but don't have enough evidence to get a warrant, they can still tail me, or increase patrols around my place to start gathering evidence... That is 100% within their bounds.
However, if say this was a civilian following me everywhere I go, and breaking whatever law or statute that details the difference between a stalker and say a PI, then there would be a problem.
Keep in mind these cars would be more of a roaming database of scanned plates... They wouldn't know your exact movements from point A to B and path that got you there (at least not at the same detail a GPO unit would provide), but it would let them get a fragment of what you may have been doing as a police car drove by (maybe they see that a recent car from a drug bust was seen on your street multiple times?
It is merely another tool in their arsenal to actually do their jobs legally. I am all for them doing their jobs, and being productive, but without breaking someones privacy. I don't want them to say abuse their power and start tagging (with a GPS device) someone they suspect is sleeping with their wife.
They NEVER said that those plate scanning cameras weren't going to be used for that purpose.
In fact, I bet it was the primary selling point for the companies that make them.
If they cost 50,000 to install, the easiest way for the police station to recoup the costs is to use to to help ticket. They can recoup the cost of the system in as little as a year, assuming each install helps bring in an additional 2 tickets per day ($75 dollar ticket).
Don't forget the ability of them to store the scanned data. If every police car had the system installed, they could create a database of PLATE + TIME STAMP + GPS COORD.
Frankly, I think that is a legit use of the tech, much rather see them have that information vs an individual GPS device on each civilian car. It would basically give them an incentive to have cars out patrolling as it means more data for their database. Given a large enough time frame and good patrol routes, you could get a nice view into movement without needing to break any privacy laws (since it was collected in real time from the patrol cars themselves).
You would want something like this: USB External Monitor
Make sure to check the reviews to make sure it works with your setup.
The advantage of this is that you can take it wherever you want. Since most Laptops / Desktops these days support dual monitors out of the box, this is a easy way to add a 3rd :)
deduplication FTW
My question is always, how can that be legal?
How is it that Class action lawsuits are OPT-OUT instead of OPT-IN?
What happens if I moved and they sent it to an old address? Could I still make my own claim?
If they aren't sending the letter using registered mail, how am I able to prove I never received it? How can THEY prove that I actually received the letter if they have no confirmation it was even delivered?
Did you think that this may have something to do with management? IF they are micromanaging us, prioritizing our projects, tasks, requests, incidents, etc, how can we ever spend time on documentation? They see it as a waste of time ("why should I pay you to document? You will be here to do it again anyways").
I would love to NOT be a gatekeeper of information, and frankly, I technically am NOT a gatekeeper. The problem is management not properly following the procedures, and instead coming directly to me for anything "IT". 80% of the information they ask me is either already documented in some system (sharepoint primarily) or a simple ticket to our support desk could get the ball rolling on getting the information from the proper group.
Management keeps forgetting that the more people you add in the middle when trying to get information, it becomes outdated, less reliable, and takes longer to procure.
Licensing? Licensing for WHAT? Do you think Facebook is running windows on these machines? Maybe they are running Oracle Linux?
Clearly if we are trying to save money by running commodity hardware, we are going to load up Server 2008 R2 on every box with some MSSQL. I think you need to go reread all the posts above yours...
- rate of failure doesn't matter if its commodity hardware
- licensing clearly won't matter if you are using open-source software
- clustering? Easier to use BigTables, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc (yes this may be clustering to you, but it sure as hell isn't "garbage" clustering)
So on top of destroying hardware, most of which is not replaceable under warranty (I doubt Dells 4hr business service accommodates water damage), they are trying to put out electrical fires with water. I think we can assume the majority of fires in a data center will be electrical.
You explain that morons are purchasing software that cannot properly work in a standards compliant browser, or come with retarded activeX plugins that are a security risk.
You tell him that spending money now to work on getting all internal applications up to standards will allow future upgrades to go much smoothly.
You could also try and push Application virtualization such as Symantec Workspace Virtualization to virtualize IE6 / 7 / 8 or whatever old crummy legacy apps we are still using. (not a Symantec employee, though their application virtualization software works with the most software currently).
Or if you already have some awesome deals with MS, you could run with their TS application virtualization.
Or start priming him for a full Linux environment to help reduce license costs (that can partially go to fund high-quality developers or architects).
Because Al Gore invented the internet, and thus the US should have the best internet infrastructure in the world.
Here is a quick comparison for ya:
Twenty 56k modems (say throughput of 5KB/sec @ 24/7) would be able to pass this cap.
Why are you judging? Maybe he has more than one kid? One child is watching the new pixar movie, while another is upstairs working on a online college course that has them running through some online lectures.
Then, you have the Mom, who is a work at home mom and has to constantly keep up-to-date with their training materials.
Now, this mom that works from home, always has to have some type of white noise in the background so jumps onto a hulu channel herself.
250GB is easy to burn through if you are single, and EVEN EASIER to burn though if you are married and have kids.
Regarding the Hidden OS,
When everything is done, you will actually have 3 passwords:
1) Hidden OS password - used @ the TC bootloader
2) Decoy OS password - used @ the TC bootloader
3) secondary partition truecrypt password - used from the TC application to unencrypt this secondary partition.
All the info is here.
Ditto as well Chrome @ 11.0.696.16 beta
That is the problem right there... The people that write articles like this clearly were asleep during their physics / mathematics / chemistry / other science classes.