Anyone being excited to see yet another movies of a game that butchers both, the game story along with any movie you enjoy?
Game stories don't really make great movie stories. First, they are too short. You can do a sensibly sized game with a story that fills about 15-30 minutes of a movie. Why? Because the player fills the other hours. And any more than 15-30 minutes of story is going to bore the player who wants an engaging gaming experience first and good cutscenes later.
A movie is just cutscenes.
And that also means that they can't just be the little icing on the cake to spice things up, they have to BE the cake. Because there is no interactive part.
There is also that problem that the whole action scenes are interactive in a game. Which also means that you get away with making them a lot less intricate and choreographed because not only you cannot (since one part of the choreography is the player, who needs to be given pretty free reign to make playing the game interesting), you can simply offload the excitement part onto the player. No such option with movies where people will just passively watch the action. And that better be more exciting than a battle routine where your enemy goes through phases that you have to learn and react to them.
All that has been tried before. And so far I cannot remember a single time when it was done right. If you want to make a movie, great. If you want to make yet another zombie movie, ok. But please, find something new to write. It's boring to rehash the same old story over and over. We already know how zombies in RE work. There is no way you can make this exciting. The games aren't really getting any more exciting through the story anymore either. The story is written and done.
Considering the many "amateur" pages on the internet, I doubt that the "private quarter" would be necessary. Just offer a live broadcast and a cut of the profits.
The reason is simply that the high paying jobs are rigged in such a way that only men want to do them. So we have to create new C-Level positions that favor women!
Think I'm kidding? Think nobody would demand that?
Just wait 'til the first "gender studies" majors graduate and notice that the best they could hope for with a degree in gender studies is a job that includes the phrase "you want fries with that".
Not true. I heard a brilliant talk by Joanna Rutkowska a while ago. She didn't waste a minute on bullshit.
You get to hear a lot about women in science or technology from women who know neither science nor technology. Those that do know it needn't talk about bullshit, they have something meaningful to talk about.
If you try to give everyone equal chances, independent of their race, gender, sexual preference, planet of origin, you name it, you'll have no bigger supporter than me.
If you want to enforce quotas for equal number of $identification_attribute, independent of their ability to perform whatever has to be done, you'll have no bigger enemy.
Science is not a publicity contest. What it comes down to is whether someone can do it or can't do it. Hey, thinking about it, that's how it is in all fields. And I cannot pull some dead weight because we have to have what has already been named, and pardon the slur, the "quota ni...". That word is already a reality. Along with the "quota bit..".
Is that the environment you want to create? Imagine you're black, female, gay, pick your preferred disadvantaged group. And you study. Hard. And uphill all the way because you have to fight against university profs who still think that women can't do math and blacks shouldn't try to understand literature, and foreigners doubly so (how would they understand the finer nuances of the language?). But you're good, you're a bright person and you actually manage to get your degree. Against all odds. And without playing the race or gender card. Because you're fucking GOOD at what you do!
And then you get into an office and even if you never get to hear it, you get to feel it: You're the quota ni.. Or the quota bit.. Because that's why blacks and women are hired, to fill the damn quota.
How'd you like that? How'd you feel being hired on a H1B because you're actually good at what you're doing, only to be treated as second class because... hey, H1Bs are for cheap Indians stealing our jobs.
Please don't go down that road. It's already hard enough for underprivileged people to get into science, please don't take it away from those that actually manage to get shit done! If you want equality to not just be a token but actually arrive in the heads of people, you have to give them credit. And that pretty much requires that they're not seen as some kind of cripples that need handouts.
How's that problem any different from the other one, where you are told to get paid a fixed amount of $currency, only to see it become less and less valuable?
Oh, right, because it works in favor of the recipient of a salary. How silly of me.
You really think the power cartels will be felled? You are aware that you're governed by a party that has "Christian" in its name and is praying to Saint Vattenfall, yes?
While I agree with a stop to build new ones, it's insane to turn off the ones that are still running reliably. Because whether you turn them off now or at their end of life, the building along with everything inside is radioactive waste you have to take care of. The damage is already done, the nuclear waste already created. You can as well reap the few benefits you gain out of it before throwing it away.
Or rather, driving it around Europe hoping to find some place to stow it. Maybe Moldova will allow you to dump it there if you throw enough money at them, they sure need it.
I usually sell good advice. Actually, that's my job. This one is just for you, and it's free: Don't even try.
In the end, what you will get if you actually go through with your plan is heaps of cost, very little gain and lots and lots of pissed off people who break any law you try to make in this area with impunity. And, to make matters worse, you create a society that doesn't take you or your state serious anymore when it comes to its ability to pass sensible laws.
What you're heading for is essentially what fell the East Bloc: That the people you are trying to govern do not believe in your ability to govern anymore. Now, in a truly democratic society, this problem can be solved: You'll be voted out and someone who the people believe in gets voted in. Sadly, this option is not really a viable one anymore since whoever would get voted in would only continue to abuse the system you are trying to create just as much as you do.
What people do in such a case is to simply create a society outside yours. A parallel society that lives with your laws, but basically ignore them. And such societies rarely stop at ignoring those laws that they (rightfully) identified as evil, useless and detrimental. The problem with such parallel societies is that once they start breaking laws, they cannot rely on your legal system and executive anymore to protect them against breaking other laws.
Mrs. May, don't make the same mistake the East Bloc made. You still have a working country, despite your government, don't squander that.
Twice the spam and half as much time to notice that there is zero content but the top 10 will BLOW YOUR MIND!
I'd gladly wait again to actually get what I am looking for instead of having to click through 20 pages of rubbish only to find out in the end that I got tricked into going to a page that offers anything but what I wanted.
In this case the certificate (along with pinning) does less for your security than for your ability to detect that the connection is compromised. That's the whole point behind CA-signed certificates. They don't encrypt any better than self signed, they only tell you that the encryption isn't between you and who you think you are connecting to.
And yes, verifying the authenticity of self-signed certificates isn't feasible in most circumstances, unless the required security warrants the disproportionally insane overhead. But yes, such applications exist. They are rare and certainly not something you do for your average online server, but I have traveled myself just to deliver a key in person to ensure that all important authenticity.
What I cannot agree to is that TLS isn't sufficient to encrypt sensitive data. Its actual weakness currently is mostly to verify the authenticity of the other end, the encryption part is actually pretty decent.
Servers, at least when used professionally, usually not only have administrators that at least have a hint of an idea what they're doing, often these people also have patching schedules and processes to follow. Not to mention that few of those servers, even when running Windows, are used to surf to questionable sites, open mail attachments or engage in other activities that result in a compromised system.
Also, these servers are usually guarded by firewall systems that make such attacks way harder and less likely to succeed.
Compare this to the average home PC, "administrated" by someone who thinks TCP is the Chinese secret service and who would gladly trade security for more dancing pigs. If its patch level is current, then mostly because Win10 doesn't offer any choice. This PC is used for everything the server is not, i.e. engaging in a lot of insecure and potentially harmful activities.
And there is many, many more like this one. Insecure, used by idiots that click everything and anything you send them. And since you're, as an attacker, usually more interested in identity theft and compromising a large number of systems. Consumer PCs are the low hanging fruit, all right, but more due to the users than the OS used.
Actually, most of the recent big exploits in Windows are not directly attributable to MS but rather to widely used third party programs, mostly from Adobe. PDF-Reader and Flash are security atrocities that usually eclipse anything MS does in our monthly security reports.
Yes, believe it or not, PDF and Flash alone usually have more and way more severe security flaws in our monthly roundup than all version of Windows and Office combined.
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You are aware that the air we breathe is actually highly corrosive? That stuff once killed nearly everything that lived on this planet!
Seriously, don't mess with Oxygen. It's poisonous.
It it me or does he look like a Bab5 Centauri?
So, essentially, Falling Down?
If Starship Troopers is any gauge, it isn't even enough plot for one movie.
Like which one?
Anyone being excited to see yet another movies of a game that butchers both, the game story along with any movie you enjoy?
Game stories don't really make great movie stories. First, they are too short. You can do a sensibly sized game with a story that fills about 15-30 minutes of a movie. Why? Because the player fills the other hours. And any more than 15-30 minutes of story is going to bore the player who wants an engaging gaming experience first and good cutscenes later.
A movie is just cutscenes.
And that also means that they can't just be the little icing on the cake to spice things up, they have to BE the cake. Because there is no interactive part.
There is also that problem that the whole action scenes are interactive in a game. Which also means that you get away with making them a lot less intricate and choreographed because not only you cannot (since one part of the choreography is the player, who needs to be given pretty free reign to make playing the game interesting), you can simply offload the excitement part onto the player. No such option with movies where people will just passively watch the action. And that better be more exciting than a battle routine where your enemy goes through phases that you have to learn and react to them.
All that has been tried before. And so far I cannot remember a single time when it was done right. If you want to make a movie, great. If you want to make yet another zombie movie, ok. But please, find something new to write. It's boring to rehash the same old story over and over. We already know how zombies in RE work. There is no way you can make this exciting. The games aren't really getting any more exciting through the story anymore either. The story is written and done.
Considering the many "amateur" pages on the internet, I doubt that the "private quarter" would be necessary. Just offer a live broadcast and a cut of the profits.
Of Mice and Men, Part 2 (and this time the title even makes sense).
Yeah, it will get a lot harder to "sell" those jobs where you break your back for pennies.
Here, allow me to play the world's tiniest violin for you.
Get used to the doublethink if you want to continue down that rabbit hole.
The reason is simply that the high paying jobs are rigged in such a way that only men want to do them. So we have to create new C-Level positions that favor women!
Think I'm kidding? Think nobody would demand that?
Just wait 'til the first "gender studies" majors graduate and notice that the best they could hope for with a degree in gender studies is a job that includes the phrase "you want fries with that".
Not true. I heard a brilliant talk by Joanna Rutkowska a while ago. She didn't waste a minute on bullshit.
You get to hear a lot about women in science or technology from women who know neither science nor technology. Those that do know it needn't talk about bullshit, they have something meaningful to talk about.
Not in India, China, some countries the name of which ends in -stan...
If you try to give everyone equal chances, independent of their race, gender, sexual preference, planet of origin, you name it, you'll have no bigger supporter than me.
If you want to enforce quotas for equal number of $identification_attribute, independent of their ability to perform whatever has to be done, you'll have no bigger enemy.
Science is not a publicity contest. What it comes down to is whether someone can do it or can't do it. Hey, thinking about it, that's how it is in all fields. And I cannot pull some dead weight because we have to have what has already been named, and pardon the slur, the "quota ni...". That word is already a reality. Along with the "quota bit..".
Is that the environment you want to create? Imagine you're black, female, gay, pick your preferred disadvantaged group. And you study. Hard. And uphill all the way because you have to fight against university profs who still think that women can't do math and blacks shouldn't try to understand literature, and foreigners doubly so (how would they understand the finer nuances of the language?). But you're good, you're a bright person and you actually manage to get your degree. Against all odds. And without playing the race or gender card. Because you're fucking GOOD at what you do!
And then you get into an office and even if you never get to hear it, you get to feel it: You're the quota ni.. Or the quota bit.. Because that's why blacks and women are hired, to fill the damn quota.
How'd you like that? How'd you feel being hired on a H1B because you're actually good at what you're doing, only to be treated as second class because ... hey, H1Bs are for cheap Indians stealing our jobs.
Please don't go down that road. It's already hard enough for underprivileged people to get into science, please don't take it away from those that actually manage to get shit done! If you want equality to not just be a token but actually arrive in the heads of people, you have to give them credit. And that pretty much requires that they're not seen as some kind of cripples that need handouts.
152% you say. Hmm. If you bought bitcoins a few years ago...
Oh please, like stocks ain't basically gambling these days. Buy shares from a startup, I dare you.
How's that problem any different from the other one, where you are told to get paid a fixed amount of $currency, only to see it become less and less valuable?
Oh, right, because it works in favor of the recipient of a salary. How silly of me.
You really think the power cartels will be felled? You are aware that you're governed by a party that has "Christian" in its name and is praying to Saint Vattenfall, yes?
While I agree with a stop to build new ones, it's insane to turn off the ones that are still running reliably. Because whether you turn them off now or at their end of life, the building along with everything inside is radioactive waste you have to take care of. The damage is already done, the nuclear waste already created. You can as well reap the few benefits you gain out of it before throwing it away.
Or rather, driving it around Europe hoping to find some place to stow it. Maybe Moldova will allow you to dump it there if you throw enough money at them, they sure need it.
DDoSing and astroturfing the FCC is fair game, did I get that right?
A totally unrelated question, is that LOIC thingamajig still operational?
I usually sell good advice. Actually, that's my job. This one is just for you, and it's free: Don't even try.
In the end, what you will get if you actually go through with your plan is heaps of cost, very little gain and lots and lots of pissed off people who break any law you try to make in this area with impunity. And, to make matters worse, you create a society that doesn't take you or your state serious anymore when it comes to its ability to pass sensible laws.
What you're heading for is essentially what fell the East Bloc: That the people you are trying to govern do not believe in your ability to govern anymore. Now, in a truly democratic society, this problem can be solved: You'll be voted out and someone who the people believe in gets voted in. Sadly, this option is not really a viable one anymore since whoever would get voted in would only continue to abuse the system you are trying to create just as much as you do.
What people do in such a case is to simply create a society outside yours. A parallel society that lives with your laws, but basically ignore them. And such societies rarely stop at ignoring those laws that they (rightfully) identified as evil, useless and detrimental. The problem with such parallel societies is that once they start breaking laws, they cannot rely on your legal system and executive anymore to protect them against breaking other laws.
Mrs. May, don't make the same mistake the East Bloc made. You still have a working country, despite your government, don't squander that.
Twice the spam and half as much time to notice that there is zero content but the top 10 will BLOW YOUR MIND!
I'd gladly wait again to actually get what I am looking for instead of having to click through 20 pages of rubbish only to find out in the end that I got tricked into going to a page that offers anything but what I wanted.
In this case the certificate (along with pinning) does less for your security than for your ability to detect that the connection is compromised. That's the whole point behind CA-signed certificates. They don't encrypt any better than self signed, they only tell you that the encryption isn't between you and who you think you are connecting to.
And yes, verifying the authenticity of self-signed certificates isn't feasible in most circumstances, unless the required security warrants the disproportionally insane overhead. But yes, such applications exist. They are rare and certainly not something you do for your average online server, but I have traveled myself just to deliver a key in person to ensure that all important authenticity.
What I cannot agree to is that TLS isn't sufficient to encrypt sensitive data. Its actual weakness currently is mostly to verify the authenticity of the other end, the encryption part is actually pretty decent.
Sorry, fallacy.
Servers, at least when used professionally, usually not only have administrators that at least have a hint of an idea what they're doing, often these people also have patching schedules and processes to follow. Not to mention that few of those servers, even when running Windows, are used to surf to questionable sites, open mail attachments or engage in other activities that result in a compromised system.
Also, these servers are usually guarded by firewall systems that make such attacks way harder and less likely to succeed.
Compare this to the average home PC, "administrated" by someone who thinks TCP is the Chinese secret service and who would gladly trade security for more dancing pigs. If its patch level is current, then mostly because Win10 doesn't offer any choice. This PC is used for everything the server is not, i.e. engaging in a lot of insecure and potentially harmful activities.
And there is many, many more like this one. Insecure, used by idiots that click everything and anything you send them. And since you're, as an attacker, usually more interested in identity theft and compromising a large number of systems. Consumer PCs are the low hanging fruit, all right, but more due to the users than the OS used.
Actually, most of the recent big exploits in Windows are not directly attributable to MS but rather to widely used third party programs, mostly from Adobe. PDF-Reader and Flash are security atrocities that usually eclipse anything MS does in our monthly security reports.
Yes, believe it or not, PDF and Flash alone usually have more and way more severe security flaws in our monthly roundup than all version of Windows and Office combined.