That article read a bit like an advertorial for Verano (some Linux SCADA security company), with the "Oh, if we only had Linux all this wouldn't have happened!" conclusion.
However, reading the text, the problem seemed more that the plant operators had indiscriminately attached critical systems to the Internet without proper firewall security in place, which seems to me to be a human, not a computer or OS, flaw.
...in the Offline Online Game graveyard? I see that The Sims Online seems to have died horribly. We're now getting all the pre-release hype about Ultima X: Origins (or whatever), but will that be yet another EA online flop?
It's ironic (yes, I'm using it wrongly, just to annoy all you're grammer Nazis) that the first title is some sort of Chinese-themed beat-em-up, a genre that was invented in Japan.
Anyway, it seems a bit silly to try to make something useful out of rather old hardware. What next? RAID-5 using a stack of 8 inch floppies? A beowolf cluster of Sinclair ZX-80s?
First let me say it's the best FPS I ever played, including the original DOOM in all its innovative glory.
However, the story started out rather good, but then just got onto the tired old Urban Legends Illuminati-are-taking-over-the-world conspiracy theories. At least, however, it fitted into the game well, rather than the usual tacked-on-at-the-end-to-justify-shooting-everythin g feel that most FPS have.
I also never felt the RPG element was as strong as everyone made out. Sure, you could play a few different ways (kill everything/hand-to-hand-ninja/hacker/etc), but then again you could play Quake in Axeman/QDQ/etc modes as well, I suppose. However, it was also ill-balanced - by the end you had just about everything useful maxed out and were pretty invincible, but if you started as a ninja/sneak type, the mid-game was just frustrating/impossible due to lack of strength against some unavoidable monsters - the big robo-cop thingies near some warehouses spring to mind.
Thank you for reposting this for about the millionth time on Slashdot. I'm sure there's one or two readers who haven't quite memorised it all yet.
However, my argument is that Cringley's scheme never mentions any payment to artists at all. Your post mentions band members getting a net $4,000 each from the record company. Cringley gives them not just nothing (OK, one solitary sale), in fact -$500 per hour reward for stocking his pyramid scheme.
This may make RIAA extinct, but there's no revenue stream for musicians, and it's worse than Napster/KaZaA as presumably all the titles will be perfectly ripped and organised, thus providing even less incentive for people to go out and buy.
Coupled with the dismissive "Oh, it only takes $500 per hour to do a recording", and with profits being skimmed to support the pyramid scheme, Cringely sounds like one of these guys who think the cost of the average recording looks like this:
If you have a kid that doesn't want to learn in the classroom environment, but instead only wants to play games, then, yes, playing strategy, RPG or simulation games is better than just deathmatching Quake for hours on end.
However, if you're wanting to teach that problem kid, there's surely better ways than sitting them in front of a computer with a stack of games.
What's next, computer training by downloading pr0n - think about it - learn all about caching, searching for passwords, virus checking for trojan pr0n, proxies, ad blocking, ftp, IRC, KaZaA, etc. Excuse me, I must go now to write my book and get interviewed on GameZone...
So with the removable media, you don't need to upload any of the pics through the phone.
However, a few months ago there was one of these legal advice shows on Japanese telly, with the case of someone reading the mag in the shop and phoning some number from an ad, and the legal opinion of the show was that since the mags are open and readable for free, it was OK. Although the shop keeper can still kick you out for whatever reason, no law has been broken. Therefore, by extension snapping the page is possibly a copyright offense, but between you and the publisher, not the shop. By extension, if you use barcodes from the mag, that should be OK too.
I don't see how having a fibre-optic network is supposed to help a community. We can make stereotyped jokes about how it will just enable people to be even more comfortabl living in their basement, shut off from the outside physical world. Community P2P (ignoring the legal issues) will be just one more excuse not to go out of the house and see people at the video rental store.
Sure, you may be able to hold your virtual LAN party with V(oice/ideo)oIP at any time of the day or night, but unless the population is going to be 100% glued-to-the-screen geeks, how will the stereotypical Soccer Mom get community benefit from fibre optic?
The amendment has been strongly supported by authors and
collecting societies but on the other hand; it has been
rejected by the industry.
Really? Authors and their estate managers want longer copyright, but the industry doesn't. Isn't it usually the other way round in the USA? Does anyone who understands the issue in detail wish to comment on why?
leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email.
As The Reg article says, it was used by these two companies, for example, to catch people who typed http://www.amazon.uk.co by accident. Both these two still have their co.uk versions working successfully.
Looking at what they stand for it looks as if these companies are just wanting to implement their own DRM solution (or more likely, solutionS), not have a standard imposed from above by the law or Hollywood.
Anyway, I wonder how much they will be teaching what they think anime should be, versus what it really is? I ask as I've read this book on Takarazuka Revue which describes it basically as a hot-bed of azn lezbo tranny pr0n, whereas everyone Japanese who I've spoken to (including my wife, who studied at the associated drama school and college) says it's just fantasy escapism, especially because the average real-life Japanese man is so crap, the otokoyaku[*] provide an idealised view of what men could be.
[*] Obligatory Japanese word inserted to pretend I know what I'm talking about.
Looking at the catalogue page, I see the album Oh Taco, with the tantalaisingly katakana-ised sub-title Golden Cups, and other mentions of the E-Cup's.
I still get spam addressed to my old company's two old obsolete domains (I can't persuade them to turn that off!), plus my old company's current, my current company's current address (I transferred from a subsiduary company, so get to see both email servers) and now both companies are in the processes of changing their domain names again, so it looks like another two servings of spam for me.
Fortunately, I use filters which catch 90% of the 25 or so daily spams.
As comparative data points, my home email (freely used in Usenet, etc) gets about 50+ spam per day, but as I use POBox.com, they kill 75% at the server, and another 20% gets forwarded with a spam tag, to get binned at my home PC.
Oh, and my Hotmail address (an obvious [firstname]_[lastname]) gets almost zero spam, filtered or unfiltered - I think I get more messages from M$ than junk (well, non-M$ junk anyway!)
Now watch his web site go from 0 to 60Gb/month
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However, reading the text, the problem seemed more that the plant operators had indiscriminately attached critical systems to the Internet without proper firewall security in place, which seems to me to be a human, not a computer or OS, flaw.
...in the Offline Online Game graveyard? I see that The Sims Online seems to have died horribly. We're now getting all the pre-release hype about Ultima X: Origins (or whatever), but will that be yet another EA online flop?
It's ironic (yes, I'm using it wrongly, just to annoy all you're grammer Nazis) that the first title is some sort of Chinese-themed beat-em-up, a genre that was invented in Japan.
That would explain why it's slashdotted already!
Anyway, it seems a bit silly to try to make something useful out of rather old hardware. What next? RAID-5 using a stack of 8 inch floppies? A beowolf cluster of Sinclair ZX-80s?
What's with the headline writer hyping it up even more by extracting "key" passages? Of course it's going to say the PS2 is wonderful!
First let me say it's the best FPS I ever played, including the original DOOM in all its innovative glory.
n g feel that most FPS have.
However, the story started out rather good, but then just got onto the tired old Urban Legends Illuminati-are-taking-over-the-world conspiracy theories. At least, however, it fitted into the game well, rather than the usual tacked-on-at-the-end-to-justify-shooting-everythi
I also never felt the RPG element was as strong as everyone made out. Sure, you could play a few different ways (kill everything/hand-to-hand-ninja/hacker/etc), but then again you could play Quake in Axeman/QDQ/etc modes as well, I suppose. However, it was also ill-balanced - by the end you had just about everything useful maxed out and were pretty invincible, but if you started as a ninja/sneak type, the mid-game was just frustrating/impossible due to lack of strength against some unavoidable monsters - the big robo-cop thingies near some warehouses spring to mind.
Eh? What's that supposed to mean? A 33% percent improvement where? And yes, I did RTFA, but I didn't see any mention of it.
Thank you for reposting this for about the millionth time on Slashdot. I'm sure there's one or two readers who haven't quite memorised it all yet.
However, my argument is that Cringley's scheme never mentions any payment to artists at all. Your post mentions band members getting a net $4,000 each from the record company. Cringley gives them not just nothing (OK, one solitary sale), in fact -$500 per hour reward for stocking his pyramid scheme.
This may make RIAA extinct, but there's no revenue stream for musicians, and it's worse than Napster/KaZaA as presumably all the titles will be perfectly ripped and organised, thus providing even less incentive for people to go out and buy.
Coupled with the dismissive "Oh, it only takes $500 per hour to do a recording", and with profits being skimmed to support the pyramid scheme, Cringely sounds like one of these guys who think the cost of the average recording looks like this:
1. CD and box, 10 cents
2. ???
$19.90. Profit!!!
If you have a kid that doesn't want to learn in the classroom environment, but instead only wants to play games, then, yes, playing strategy, RPG or simulation games is better than just deathmatching Quake for hours on end.
However, if you're wanting to teach that problem kid, there's surely better ways than sitting them in front of a computer with a stack of games.
What's next, computer training by downloading pr0n - think about it - learn all about caching, searching for passwords, virus checking for trojan pr0n, proxies, ad blocking, ftp, IRC, KaZaA, etc. Excuse me, I must go now to write my book and get interviewed on GameZone...
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2003/98/news10. html
So with the removable media, you don't need to upload any of the pics through the phone.
However, a few months ago there was one of these legal advice shows on Japanese telly, with the case of someone reading the mag in the shop and phoning some number from an ad, and the legal opinion of the show was that since the mags are open and readable for free, it was OK. Although the shop keeper can still kick you out for whatever reason, no law has been broken. Therefore, by extension snapping the page is possibly a copyright offense, but between you and the publisher, not the shop. By extension, if you use barcodes from the mag, that should be OK too.
Sure, you may be able to hold your virtual LAN party with V(oice/ideo)oIP at any time of the day or night, but unless the population is going to be 100% glued-to-the-screen geeks, how will the stereotypical Soccer Mom get community benefit from fibre optic?
The amendment has been strongly supported by authors and collecting societies but on the other hand; it has been rejected by the industry.
Really? Authors and their estate managers want longer copyright, but the industry doesn't. Isn't it usually the other way round in the USA? Does anyone who understands the issue in detail wish to comment on why?
As The Reg article says, it was used by these two companies, for example, to catch people who typed http://www.amazon.uk.co by accident. Both these two still have their co.uk versions working successfully.
Looking at what they stand for it looks as if these companies are just wanting to implement their own DRM solution (or more likely, solutionS), not have a standard imposed from above by the law or Hollywood.
Anyway, I wonder how much they will be teaching what they think anime should be, versus what it really is? I ask as I've read this book on Takarazuka Revue which describes it basically as a hot-bed of azn lezbo tranny pr0n, whereas everyone Japanese who I've spoken to (including my wife, who studied at the associated drama school and college) says it's just fantasy escapism, especially because the average real-life Japanese man is so crap, the otokoyaku[*] provide an idealised view of what men could be.
[*] Obligatory Japanese word inserted to pretend I know what I'm talking about.
Looking at the catalogue page, I see the album Oh Taco , with the tantalaisingly katakana-ised sub-title Golden Cups, and other mentions of the E-Cup's.
I still get spam addressed to my old company's two old obsolete domains (I can't persuade them to turn that off!), plus my old company's current, my current company's current address (I transferred from a subsiduary company, so get to see both email servers) and now both companies are in the processes of changing their domain names again, so it looks like another two servings of spam for me.
Fortunately, I use filters which catch 90% of the 25 or so daily spams.
As comparative data points, my home email (freely used in Usenet, etc) gets about 50+ spam per day, but as I use POBox.com, they kill 75% at the server, and another 20% gets forwarded with a spam tag, to get binned at my home PC.
Oh, and my Hotmail address (an obvious [firstname]_[lastname]) gets almost zero spam, filtered or unfiltered - I think I get more messages from M$ than junk (well, non-M$ junk anyway!)
...in under 13 seconds. Sadly, no X-10 camera is available to see that resulting crash!
You've not been here long, have you?
1. No profit ...
2.
3. Profit!
and, from the sound of this story, add the final step of:
4. Go to jail!
Ugly little beastie, isn't it?
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-hav2.htm
Plan v1.0
1. Employ "World-class Management"
2. ???
3. Profit!
Oops, that didn't work, let's try v2.0
1. ???
2. ???
3. Profit!
2.5 correct, 4 wonky spellings. +1 Funny only surely!