I also thought the CC info was stored on Microsoft's servers. You can't even buy stuff on an Xbox without being logged into your Live account.
The point, I think, is that it's naive not to assume some engineer decided to store the info in *both* places. If you were trying to make the customer experience as smooth as possible, and you had 99% confidence that the home box was in possession of the Real User, you might want to make the process a little more "foolproof".
Say the billing server glitches and corrupts their copy of the CC... Poll the console, get the number, transaction approved. The alternative is pop up a CC entry screen, which has a non-zero chance to frustrate the Real User to the point of cancelling the sale. Bad for a market built on instant gratification.
Any goodheart engineer who cries foul from a system security training point of view, has probably never had to answer to a Director more concerned with their department operating at a loss for years. Xbox division regularly dipped into and out of the red until the last couple of years.
And the bigger point is, with all the revisions to the Dashboard, it may be impossible to know when this purported "feature" was added, taken away, or actively used. I bet you 2800 MS Points that the next dash update roots out and purges this data. Won't stop the class-actions though.
I don't see any indication that spinal cord or brain injuries or birth defects will be gone in fifty years.
I'm sure MIT has an academic advocacy group for students with disabilities (most North American universities do) and I'm sure that these kinds of articles leave desk marks on their executive foreheads. Whether or not they have stodgy dinosaur professors who actually believe disabilities are simply physical limitations, the perception that they are is a constant struggle internally and externally.
I keep my iOS devices set to wipe after 10 fails just in case I lose them. Doesn't Android have that option? Surely it must. I'm not kidding myself that it's an industry grade wipe that will stand up to forensics, but between that and remote wipe option it makes me feel a little better about only having 4 to 8 numbers between a lock screen and most of my data.
Who knows what shenanigans someone can get up to by modifying the original.
This happens now. And before. The technology doesn't matter. Two perfectly modified copies to both appear authentic won't do either of you much good in court. If nothing else it's another great way for lawyers to get rich and get you out of a contract.
Try adding purposefully misspelled words or bad grammar and it makes shoulder surfing hu23 sekane in the despondingly overstitch. Side effects of using passphrases like that include speaking random gibberish on occasion.
I think this is always the key point. Other than the usual 1337 to text substitutions, which are easily predictable, I have never seen or heard of a "typo dictionary" attack. At that point it diminishes to raw permutations unless you start scripting likely pairs of consonant and vowels, which would differ between languages no matter their character set (ie. Hawaiian vs. French). Even lolcat is a language of randomness, ackshuilly.;)
Because the do-gooders don't trust the homeless to spend the money the "right" way, most likely.
Yet they trust them to carry what I assume is a very valuable device. I wonder what the "going rate" will be to "swap shirts". Guaranteed we'll see these hotspot devices (and probably shirts) on eBay.
2015? That seems like plenty of time for a couple million trekkers to sign a petition to preserve a chunk of it. How's CBS doing? They got some spare cash?
If only that were the case. I would GLADLY pay 47 cents a week to opt out of all the tracking databases.
Except for the database that tracks you paid your 47 cents. I wonder how much THAT data breach would be worth?;) You see how this goes? This is why Do Not Call registries are so much political idiocy. Canada's was and is a joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_List
The politicians are proposing "Don't think about elephants." In reality it's "Best block, no be there."
I noticed from the logs that google spidered that website within minutes of me sending that email. Not much of a surprise that google would do it (although a bit chilling to see it in practice), but the problem with your approach is that not only do I need to know that Google will suck up everything I send to
I'm not sure why it's chilling either. Spidering the link immediately delivers "relevant" ads to your Gmail window right away. That is how Gmail is meant to be.
Chilling would be if your robots.txt is set to turn down spiders and they do it anyway. Chilling is when they don't play by their own rules, not the rules themselves.
/=\ Help an Old Lady Across the Information Superhighway/=\
"No Gramma don't click the red button... No don't click Confirm, that warning is lying to you." "No mom it's in the menu bar. The menu. At the top. Of the screen... Just let me remote in..." "Left-click. With the mouse. What? How big is the button? No, use the button on the top of the mouse, not the side."
I would've earned every damn one of those badges. >_
This often seems to come up in video game development discussions. ESRB and publishers (regardless of platform) require licensing logos, title screens, etc. all manner of prestitial things to lead into a game.
In a system with commonalities and expectations for the user-experience, title screens serve a purpose, loading screens serve a purpose, and immersion serves a purpose. For every Borderlands with it's "2K" assault on the senses, Rockstar and Bethesda games are known for autoloading right into the gameplay where we left off, and I somehow get that feeling when I boot up OSX Lion and it restores all my windows. Not that I always want those windows restored.
Yet now, with SSD drives, loading times have been brought down to nothing in some cases. Certain games put *useful* information on interstitial loading screens, and don't have a minimum time value set. We need the equivalent of a VARISLOW TSR to keep software usable as hardware speeds increase.
Starbreeze wanted The Darkness to start immediately with a story cutscene. Jonathan Blow wants to do whateverthefuck he wants the user to experience, whether the user understands it or not. I personally don't believe software should be treated like a movie, but I'm open to new mediums giving new experiences.
How about publishing your game on the pc platform eh ? No fee for publishing, no fee for patches, you can make download content free or otherwise for your customer base to enjoy etc....
While Steam and 360 declare approximately the same number of registered accounts, Steam just hit 5 million concurrent online users across all games. Xbox LIVE has 2 to 3 million people *playing just the latest Call of Duty* after its release. From a marketplace standpoint, PC isn't the big leagues.
I care a bit more about unpatched OS exploits than unpatched game exploits.
I think that's debatable. You have some control over which websites you visit and what software you run. You have absolutely no control about who winds up in your ranked matchmaking lobby. That is a core feature of what people spend $50+ on a multiplayer game for.
(Sure you can stick to private matches, if you have 15 other friends who all play at the same time you do, and don't care about public ranking.)
It makes a whole lot more sense to put the effort into getting the right code onto the disc before it ships.
Stop making sense. It's never going to be that way again and we all bloody well know it. What you're doing is the equivalent of telling kids to eat their vegetables. They're going to flip you off and go back to the entertainment center and cheap junk food in their bedroom.
I downloaded and played the Mass Effect 3 demo today. In the Options menu under "Online" there is an "Upload Gameplay Feedback" switch. It says, and I quote:
Turn this on to provide BioWare with valuable feedback on how you play the game. This helps us fix bugs and improve future content.
Since the demo is a 30 minute vertical slice, and the retail code HAS GONE GOLD, I believe it's safe to assume the same option will be in the full retail release.
The ME3 franchise has one of the largest budgets in gaming history. The industry just flipped us off. Patches are the reality now.
Now, this doesn't necessary mean you'll be doing a lot of contributions upstream to the open-source community, but you will be working with a lot of OSS components, and developing proprietary software that interacts with them.
I don't mean that as a sling at Rovio, honest. Read the article and you'll see they were pretty good about dealing with it. But having more developers working in the industry who really do give a damn about OSS can only be a good thing. I noticed the credits of Ghost Trick have 3 pages of OSS licensing. Keep at 'er.
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I also thought the CC info was stored on Microsoft's servers. You can't even buy stuff on an Xbox without being logged into your Live account.
The point, I think, is that it's naive not to assume some engineer decided to store the info in *both* places. If you were trying to make the customer experience as smooth as possible, and you had 99% confidence that the home box was in possession of the Real User, you might want to make the process a little more "foolproof".
Say the billing server glitches and corrupts their copy of the CC... Poll the console, get the number, transaction approved. The alternative is pop up a CC entry screen, which has a non-zero chance to frustrate the Real User to the point of cancelling the sale. Bad for a market built on instant gratification.
Any goodheart engineer who cries foul from a system security training point of view, has probably never had to answer to a Director more concerned with their department operating at a loss for years. Xbox division regularly dipped into and out of the red until the last couple of years.
And the bigger point is, with all the revisions to the Dashboard, it may be impossible to know when this purported "feature" was added, taken away, or actively used. I bet you 2800 MS Points that the next dash update roots out and purges this data. Won't stop the class-actions though.
Yes, we know. That was true in 2006 and it's true today.
I don't see any indication that spinal cord or brain injuries or birth defects will be gone in fifty years.
I'm sure MIT has an academic advocacy group for students with disabilities (most North American universities do) and I'm sure that these kinds of articles leave desk marks on their executive foreheads. Whether or not they have stodgy dinosaur professors who actually believe disabilities are simply physical limitations, the perception that they are is a constant struggle internally and externally.
Why so skeptical? If you can't trust an internet comment from THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER, what *can* you trust?
P.S. Clams got legs!
Wish I had some mod points for you good sir.
They would if Mr. Dears ever worked for them.
I'm not wishing to troll, I just think stranger things have happened...
Like for instance, Google asking for partial SSN's for a kid's art contest...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been-colle_b_825754.html
I think assuming there is information Google *doesn't* have is the first mistake.
That's exactly what happened
I keep my iOS devices set to wipe after 10 fails just in case I lose them. Doesn't Android have that option? Surely it must.
I'm not kidding myself that it's an industry grade wipe that will stand up to forensics, but between that and remote wipe option it makes me feel a little better about only having 4 to 8 numbers between a lock screen and most of my data.
Who knows what shenanigans someone can get up to by modifying the original.
This happens now. And before. The technology doesn't matter.
Two perfectly modified copies to both appear authentic won't do either of you much good in court. If nothing else it's another great way for lawyers to get rich and get you out of a contract.
Try adding purposefully misspelled words or bad grammar and it makes shoulder surfing hu23 sekane in the despondingly overstitch. Side effects of using passphrases like that include speaking random gibberish on occasion.
I think this is always the key point. Other than the usual 1337 to text substitutions, which are easily predictable, I have never seen or heard of a "typo dictionary" attack. At that point it diminishes to raw permutations unless you start scripting likely pairs of consonant and vowels, which would differ between languages no matter their character set (ie. Hawaiian vs. French). Even lolcat is a language of randomness, ackshuilly. ;)
I'm modding this -1, Per se.
I am 12 and what is specious? ;)
Because the do-gooders don't trust the homeless to spend the money the "right" way, most likely.
Yet they trust them to carry what I assume is a very valuable device.
I wonder what the "going rate" will be to "swap shirts". Guaranteed we'll see these hotspot devices (and probably shirts) on eBay.
2015? That seems like plenty of time for a couple million trekkers to sign a petition to preserve a chunk of it.
How's CBS doing? They got some spare cash?
If only that were the case. I would GLADLY pay 47 cents a week to opt out of all the tracking databases.
Except for the database that tracks you paid your 47 cents. ;)
I wonder how much THAT data breach would be worth?
You see how this goes? This is why Do Not Call registries are so much political idiocy. Canada's was and is a joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_List
The politicians are proposing "Don't think about elephants."
In reality it's "Best block, no be there."
I noticed from the logs that google spidered that website within minutes of me sending that email. Not much of a surprise that google would do it (although a bit chilling to see it in practice), but the problem with your approach is that not only do I need to know that Google will suck up everything I send to
I'm not sure why it's chilling either. Spidering the link immediately delivers "relevant" ads to your Gmail window right away. That is how Gmail is meant to be.
Chilling would be if your robots.txt is set to turn down spiders and they do it anyway. Chilling is when they don't play by their own rules, not the rules themselves.
/=\ Help an Old Lady Across the Information Superhighway /=\
"No Gramma don't click the red button... No don't click Confirm, that warning is lying to you."
"No mom it's in the menu bar. The menu. At the top. Of the screen... Just let me remote in..."
"Left-click. With the mouse. What? How big is the button? No, use the button on the top of the mouse, not the side."
I would've earned every damn one of those badges. >_
Am I the only one who secretly hoped his wife was named Kim Dotnet?
No, 'Kwanza' means 'post' and 'post' means first. Both are Swahili.
And yet, if 1P had said "Post Kwanza" we would've immediately looked at our calendars to check. :)
Income:
- Nada
I'm sure they have a Google Adwords account and a PayPal tip jar. No problemo. ;)
Wait... that's so 2002 isn't it? Has to be a Kickstarter page now.
This often seems to come up in video game development discussions.
ESRB and publishers (regardless of platform) require licensing logos, title screens, etc. all manner of prestitial things to lead into a game.
In a system with commonalities and expectations for the user-experience, title screens serve a purpose, loading screens serve a purpose, and immersion serves a purpose. For every Borderlands with it's "2K" assault on the senses, Rockstar and Bethesda games are known for autoloading right into the gameplay where we left off, and I somehow get that feeling when I boot up OSX Lion and it restores all my windows. Not that I always want those windows restored.
Yet now, with SSD drives, loading times have been brought down to nothing in some cases. Certain games put *useful* information on interstitial loading screens, and don't have a minimum time value set. We need the equivalent of a VARISLOW TSR to keep software usable as hardware speeds increase.
Starbreeze wanted The Darkness to start immediately with a story cutscene. Jonathan Blow wants to do whateverthefuck he wants the user to experience, whether the user understands it or not. I personally don't believe software should be treated like a movie, but I'm open to new mediums giving new experiences.
How about publishing your game on the pc platform eh ?
No fee for publishing, no fee for patches, you can make download content free or otherwise for your customer base to enjoy etc....
And no fee for the millions of players that "can click 4 buttons over here" to pirate it to enjoy it.
While Steam and 360 declare approximately the same number of registered accounts, Steam just hit 5 million concurrent online users across all games. Xbox LIVE has 2 to 3 million people *playing just the latest Call of Duty* after its release. From a marketplace standpoint, PC isn't the big leagues.
I care a bit more about unpatched OS exploits than unpatched game exploits.
I think that's debatable. You have some control over which websites you visit and what software you run.
You have absolutely no control about who winds up in your ranked matchmaking lobby. That is a core feature of what people spend $50+ on a multiplayer game for.
(Sure you can stick to private matches, if you have 15 other friends who all play at the same time you do, and don't care about public ranking.)
It makes a whole lot more sense to put the effort into getting the right code onto the disc before it ships.
Stop making sense. It's never going to be that way again and we all bloody well know it. What you're doing is the equivalent of telling kids to eat their vegetables. They're going to flip you off and go back to the entertainment center and cheap junk food in their bedroom.
I downloaded and played the Mass Effect 3 demo today.
In the Options menu under "Online" there is an "Upload Gameplay Feedback" switch. It says, and I quote:
Turn this on to provide BioWare with valuable feedback on how you play the game. This helps us fix bugs and improve future content.
Since the demo is a 30 minute vertical slice, and the retail code HAS GONE GOLD, I believe it's safe to assume the same option will be in the full retail release.
The ME3 franchise has one of the largest budgets in gaming history. The industry just flipped us off. Patches are the reality now.
The Papal and Italian agencies turn to their roots for cipher strength: IIIIIIIVV
Now, this doesn't necessary mean you'll be doing a lot of contributions upstream to the open-source community, but you will be working with a lot of OSS components, and developing proprietary software that interacts with them.
Get a job with Rovio and you can use OSS without even giving credit to them!
I don't mean that as a sling at Rovio, honest. Read the article and you'll see they were pretty good about dealing with it.
But having more developers working in the industry who really do give a damn about OSS can only be a good thing. I noticed the credits of Ghost Trick have 3 pages of OSS licensing.
Keep at 'er.