If he doesn't work there anymore, that pretty much answers your question. You can't hold him accountable for what a company he used to work for does in the future. Never know, that might even have been part of why he left.
Because that's what all the cool kids do in their malware these days, specifically to avoid getting filtered out. Sadly, the spam kids learned this long ago, and the crimeware kids picked up from there more recently and had a running start
Once some websites actually did start implementing javascript tests to filter spam bots, even the last of the latest to the party malware writers started using the standard render engine already present on the infected machine.
Better question, why would you think IE is NOT involved? Why create your own render engine, when one is on the system for use already? It would only make the malware larger, easier to signature match, be needless duplication of work that takes time, and provide an opportunity to do something differently enough to be detected on the webserver side and get filtered.
At best, you waste time writing code into your malware, that the malware can't spend stealing money from people. At worse, you get filtered out and are able to steal less money.
The massive botnets these days are pretty complex pieces of software, available to anyone out there with cash, and sad to say are pretty top of the line little bundles of code. They are more of a pain to clean off a system and more of a pain to block anything coming from them, be it spam, capcha breaking, password stealing, or (d)dos attacks.
The attacks seen here combined not just massive amount of raw packets being sent, but application layer attacks aimed at overloading the web servers and load balancers specifically. It only makes sense they are using the current generation botnet software that have all of these capabilities.
I don't see why you would think Internet Explorer, all jokes about the browser aside, couldn't run some javascript.
Tens of millions of infected PCs are performing the attack, and the infection is using the same rendering engine as any other of the banks customers would. The infected PCs are no different than the PCs their real customers use (outside of being infected), there is nothing what so ever about the two that looks any different.
Anything they add to prevent an infected computer from doing, they will also be preventing their real customers from doing as well.
Consumer PCs today are so powerful, with so much ram and so many cores, that there is next to nothing you could require them to do computationally that wouldn't block over 99% of your legit customers (who have exactly as powerful of computers available to them)
- When will the artists see any of these millions they must've collected so far. Every single artist should be a billionaire with the amount of media carriers produced in the world.
If I purchase a CD I want, I am buying from the artist the rights to listen to the music on that CD.
If the government forcibly takes my money to give to the artist because they have a CD, do I have the same rights to that music?
In the end its still my money going to the artist purely because they created something. Sounds like in the end I should have the right to have and listen to their music (if i wanted it or not)
I guess I should thank the government for giving me more music than I would have purchased willingly! Time to fill up that cloud storage with mp3s.
Many of IBMs mainframe systems work in a similar way. It gets delivered and installed at your location loaded with resources, as well as a modem and phone line to contact IBM.
If you purchase a certain number of CPUs, RAM, and storage, the actual hardware has much more in it only disabled.
When the system detects a hardware failure, it can disable the failed device and use a spare. Saves a trip for a tech most times. When you call up IBM to upgrade your hardware, they can change some settings and woot you are upgraded, also without a trip from a tech.
However if you don't pay for it, those other resources are just sitting idle and wasted, unavailable to you.
That is one reason the second hand mainframe market is pretty small. (Of course the physical space, cooling, and specialized usages play a big part in that too)
It is specifically sold as a development board, the only people that claim it is a general purpose computer such as yourself have literally made that up and pulled it from their ass.
When you buy an item that is named "refrigerator magnet", then yes it will make a poor car and a poor airplane and a poor life boat. Fucking Duh!
So let me get this straight. You expect them to include all these useless extras we already own simply to push the price up for the rest of us?
When you went to the store and bought your computer, did you go back the next day to stand in the return line and bitch at the poor guy at the counter because that computer didn't come with an LCD, keyboard, mouse, etc?
Do you purchase a car and return it the next day because you need to purchase gas and oil and have regular maintenance done?
Do you sue your landlord for selling you a house that you can't live in without also paying for electric, water, and gas service?
The raspberry Pi is exactly a $35 computer. With nothing else. Nor did they claim it came with anything else (and specifically state it does not)
It is no ones fault but your own that you are not equipped to use it properly.
I've been very curious for more details on this new game as well. From the video you linked, this is not what I was expecting at all. Not to imply that is a bad thing however.
Ironically, I've lately been spending most of my gaming time in Minecraft using the ComputerCraft and RedPower mods.
One provides computers in-game that run Lua, and can control redstone creations as well as newer items provided by other mods (such as Red Power, Industrial Craft, Rail Craft, etc.) Red Power itself provides computers that emulate a 6502 CPU and run Forth, which can provide the same type of control.
All of these things expand on Minecraft creations we have come to expect and love. There ends up being a shift from playing Minecraft, to automating everything one normally does in Minecraft, to new machines most vanilla players wouldn't think possible.
I was almost expecting 0x10c to be along these lines, but more "forced" into automating your game to play for you. Of course I assumed you wouldn't actually be forced to code every last detail yourself, and expected some sort of in-game trading of programs and resources. It's good to hear that is what he has in mind.
Part of the problems with the Minecraft in-game computer mods is that each have a relatively tiny community without much sharing of programs, mainly due to the fact that software and builds are tightly linked. You almost need to give your game world away with the code as a full package, which isn't nearly as fun (and makes little sense for multiplayer servers)
If this game provide for the creation/machine part as mostly standard (ships, weapons, mining gear, etc) with more-or-less standard APIs for the software, I could easily envision a massive trading scene for software. Allowing programmers to sell/trade their code to non-coders to gain more resources would be a huge plus.
I'm really hoping for a best-of-both-worlds sort of thing. I definitely can't wait for the alpha releases!
As did I, and have quite a few older favorite titles from my younger years sitting in my GoG shelf.
Another thing I love is how they repackage older games to support newer OS/hardware setups. I have a 10k text file of directions I wrote up to remind myself all the convoluted steps to install Planescape Torment from the original CDs to my Windows XP/7 systems, all the settings to change just to get it to run, not to mention bypassing the disc changing handlers.
I recently repurchased the game from GoG, which consists of clicking download, double-clicking the setup, hitting next twice, and that is is. A start menu entry ready to run without having to mutz about with ini files or messing with the games directory structure.
The extras are a nice touch too, as it's packaged with the hint guide and walkthrough. All for ten bucks. Well worth the money to me, despite already owning the original release of the game.
I also purchased Fallout 1 and 2 after the original release, and at some point lost my original media. GoG was running a special at the time selling both games together for $6, which I also picked up. I could have easily torrented the games and felt little guilt, as I've already bought them both, but would have had to deal with the same installation issues and problems. Buying them this way was a no brainer.
I too was very happy with my CPC order. I placed the order on a Monday afternoon and recieved them Friday, so only 4 days total from UK to the USA.
Right now they are showing having units in stock. The moment I checked before, they must have been overloaded with traffic with all the recent Pi announcements. I never heard anything back from the original person I replied to about if he finally found one. One can never know on/. if someone was serious about purchasing one or not.
color me impressed with their extensive research. Why do people rush to publish such limited results?
So they put this device in a blind person and now he can read. You are seriously arguing that something ELSE might be the cause of his being able to read? What else are you convinced is causing this instead?
They know exactly what method the device works by, and so know exactly which forms of blindness this will and will not work with. Those who's retinas do not function but the neurons still do.
Do you make more than one prototype once your first prototype shows the basic method works? Why would you do that?
No problems, I felt the same way once I noticed and had to do the same double-reply thing. Sucks I couldn't edit it or even take it back. With so few left I wanted the parent poster to have a good shot at it.
Ah my mistake, that ebay listing was just another case seller. Looks like the actual Pis are all going up in price, $50 or more. Not sure if you wanted to spend that much yet
I bought my first two from CPC http://cpc.farnell.com/ Unfortunately their "check stock" link isn't loading for me, so assuming the worst they may be sold out now.
I seriously doubt a kid intending to shoplift would willingly swipe his badge by your reader before proceeding to steal stuff:P
These RFID tags are rated at 3-5cm, but my own experence with the badges issued at work, the damn things can fail to read through my wallet and needs the card to almost physically touch the reader, let alone be within a cm or two.
You imply a ring of material around the door way would be capable of reading such cards in the first place. I'm not sure what you expect the other readers installed in your store to be doing.
It's just like the existing "customer loyalty" cards in stores today. They only use barcodes over RFID due to the existing barcode readers already installed at the registers that the clerks know how to operate. Just because the card is on your keychain, perhaps even visible, they still ask you to present it to be scanned because the range is very very limited.
Not only would you require the students cooperation to scan their RFID cards, but would need to purchase extra hardware to be integrated into your system to do so. While possible to do of course, it would be cheaper to issue new cards to scan with existing hardware. The level of cooperation required will remain the same.
AdaFruit makes an enclosure that attaches to the wall-mount screw holes of a monitor, that you snap the Pi in. Perfect for an XBMC setup.
I've also interfaced mine to an 8 port relay board and a USB camera. The relays are controllable from levers in my Minecraft server, and the camera is viewable on the web. Next step is to setup a christmas light scene controllable by the other players online, hopefully in time for chrismas!
I ordered two monday last week and got them friday. This monday I went by the local computer store to pickup some more SD cards and they had over 20 on the shelf in bubble packs, so I picked up my 3rd.
Some of the distributers even have over night shipping for $30, including the one I used, which had hundreds in stock.
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If he doesn't work there anymore, that pretty much answers your question.
You can't hold him accountable for what a company he used to work for does in the future.
Never know, that might even have been part of why he left.
He's still a clown with no credibility.
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Pot, meet kettle.
Because that's what all the cool kids do in their malware these days, specifically to avoid getting filtered out. Sadly, the spam kids learned this long ago, and the crimeware kids picked up from there more recently and had a running start
Once some websites actually did start implementing javascript tests to filter spam bots, even the last of the latest to the party malware writers started using the standard render engine already present on the infected machine.
Better question, why would you think IE is NOT involved? Why create your own render engine, when one is on the system for use already? It would only make the malware larger, easier to signature match, be needless duplication of work that takes time, and provide an opportunity to do something differently enough to be detected on the webserver side and get filtered.
At best, you waste time writing code into your malware, that the malware can't spend stealing money from people. At worse, you get filtered out and are able to steal less money.
The massive botnets these days are pretty complex pieces of software, available to anyone out there with cash, and sad to say are pretty top of the line little bundles of code.
They are more of a pain to clean off a system and more of a pain to block anything coming from them, be it spam, capcha breaking, password stealing, or (d)dos attacks.
The attacks seen here combined not just massive amount of raw packets being sent, but application layer attacks aimed at overloading the web servers and load balancers specifically.
It only makes sense they are using the current generation botnet software that have all of these capabilities.
I don't see why you would think Internet Explorer, all jokes about the browser aside, couldn't run some javascript.
Tens of millions of infected PCs are performing the attack, and the infection is using the same rendering engine as any other of the banks customers would.
The infected PCs are no different than the PCs their real customers use (outside of being infected), there is nothing what so ever about the two that looks any different.
Anything they add to prevent an infected computer from doing, they will also be preventing their real customers from doing as well.
Consumer PCs today are so powerful, with so much ram and so many cores, that there is next to nothing you could require them to do computationally that wouldn't block over 99% of your legit customers (who have exactly as powerful of computers available to them)
How does that get good results?
If you do nothing about the attack, your site is down. /dev/null, your site is still down.
If you pipe all traffic to
Being down is not better than being down, those two things are the same thing.
- When will the artists see any of these millions they must've collected so far. Every single artist should be a billionaire with the amount of media carriers produced in the world.
If I purchase a CD I want, I am buying from the artist the rights to listen to the music on that CD.
If the government forcibly takes my money to give to the artist because they have a CD, do I have the same rights to that music?
In the end its still my money going to the artist purely because they created something. Sounds like in the end I should have the right to have and listen to their music (if i wanted it or not)
I guess I should thank the government for giving me more music than I would have purchased willingly! Time to fill up that cloud storage with mp3s.
Many of IBMs mainframe systems work in a similar way.
It gets delivered and installed at your location loaded with resources, as well as a modem and phone line to contact IBM.
If you purchase a certain number of CPUs, RAM, and storage, the actual hardware has much more in it only disabled.
When the system detects a hardware failure, it can disable the failed device and use a spare. Saves a trip for a tech most times.
When you call up IBM to upgrade your hardware, they can change some settings and woot you are upgraded, also without a trip from a tech.
However if you don't pay for it, those other resources are just sitting idle and wasted, unavailable to you.
That is one reason the second hand mainframe market is pretty small.
(Of course the physical space, cooling, and specialized usages play a big part in that too)
He was never IN solitary confinement
You have an interesting description of being locked in a small room for 23 hours a day and not being allowed visitors, including his lawyer.
What pray tell do you personally believe solitary confinement would be?
Augmented reality? What the fuck are you smoking? I want some.
I don't. I suspect it's dish soap.
it completely fails as a general purpose computer
And a screw driver completely fails as a hammer.
It is specifically sold as a development board, the only people that claim it is a general purpose computer such as yourself have literally made that up and pulled it from their ass.
When you buy an item that is named "refrigerator magnet", then yes it will make a poor car and a poor airplane and a poor life boat. Fucking Duh!
So let me get this straight. You expect them to include all these useless extras we already own simply to push the price up for the rest of us?
When you went to the store and bought your computer, did you go back the next day to stand in the return line and bitch at the poor guy at the counter because that computer didn't come with an LCD, keyboard, mouse, etc?
Do you purchase a car and return it the next day because you need to purchase gas and oil and have regular maintenance done?
Do you sue your landlord for selling you a house that you can't live in without also paying for electric, water, and gas service?
The raspberry Pi is exactly a $35 computer. With nothing else. Nor did they claim it came with anything else (and specifically state it does not)
It is no ones fault but your own that you are not equipped to use it properly.
I've been very curious for more details on this new game as well. From the video you linked, this is not what I was expecting at all. Not to imply that is a bad thing however.
Ironically, I've lately been spending most of my gaming time in Minecraft using the ComputerCraft and RedPower mods.
One provides computers in-game that run Lua, and can control redstone creations as well as newer items provided by other mods (such as Red Power, Industrial Craft, Rail Craft, etc.) Red Power itself provides computers that emulate a 6502 CPU and run Forth, which can provide the same type of control.
All of these things expand on Minecraft creations we have come to expect and love. There ends up being a shift from playing Minecraft, to automating everything one normally does in Minecraft, to new machines most vanilla players wouldn't think possible.
I was almost expecting 0x10c to be along these lines, but more "forced" into automating your game to play for you. Of course I assumed you wouldn't actually be forced to code every last detail yourself, and expected some sort of in-game trading of programs and resources. It's good to hear that is what he has in mind.
Part of the problems with the Minecraft in-game computer mods is that each have a relatively tiny community without much sharing of programs, mainly due to the fact that software and builds are tightly linked. You almost need to give your game world away with the code as a full package, which isn't nearly as fun (and makes little sense for multiplayer servers)
If this game provide for the creation/machine part as mostly standard (ships, weapons, mining gear, etc) with more-or-less standard APIs for the software, I could easily envision a massive trading scene for software. Allowing programmers to sell/trade their code to non-coders to gain more resources would be a huge plus.
I'm really hoping for a best-of-both-worlds sort of thing. I definitely can't wait for the alpha releases!
As did I, and have quite a few older favorite titles from my younger years sitting in my GoG shelf.
Another thing I love is how they repackage older games to support newer OS/hardware setups.
I have a 10k text file of directions I wrote up to remind myself all the convoluted steps to install Planescape Torment from the original CDs to my Windows XP/7 systems, all the settings to change just to get it to run, not to mention bypassing the disc changing handlers.
I recently repurchased the game from GoG, which consists of clicking download, double-clicking the setup, hitting next twice, and that is is. A start menu entry ready to run without having to mutz about with ini files or messing with the games directory structure.
The extras are a nice touch too, as it's packaged with the hint guide and walkthrough. All for ten bucks. Well worth the money to me, despite already owning the original release of the game.
I also purchased Fallout 1 and 2 after the original release, and at some point lost my original media.
GoG was running a special at the time selling both games together for $6, which I also picked up.
I could have easily torrented the games and felt little guilt, as I've already bought them both, but would have had to deal with the same installation issues and problems. Buying them this way was a no brainer.
Yea I'm pretty positive I would choose death as well. Much better than the ruined life of routine and regular torture that would follow otherwise.
I too was very happy with my CPC order. I placed the order on a Monday afternoon and recieved them Friday, so only 4 days total from UK to the USA.
Right now they are showing having units in stock. The moment I checked before, they must have been overloaded with traffic with all the recent Pi announcements. /. if someone was serious about purchasing one or not.
I never heard anything back from the original person I replied to about if he finally found one. One can never know on
You didn't pay me for the content in this post, so by your own admission you are a thieving stealing hypocritical bastard. Send me your money NOW!
If you read a bit further in the article, you'll note the part you quoted is the description of the PREVIOUS model device.
The CURRENT model, which the summary is talking about, being an improvement to the original, CAN read street signs and at one letter a second.
I use caps since you don't obviously don't read everything presented :P
color me impressed with their extensive research. Why do people rush to publish such limited results?
So they put this device in a blind person and now he can read.
You are seriously arguing that something ELSE might be the cause of his being able to read? What else are you convinced is causing this instead?
They know exactly what method the device works by, and so know exactly which forms of blindness this will and will not work with. Those who's retinas do not function but the neurons still do.
Do you make more than one prototype once your first prototype shows the basic method works? Why would you do that?
But darknets aren't illegal in the US anyway. We are talking about Germany here.
No problems, I felt the same way once I noticed and had to do the same double-reply thing.
Sucks I couldn't edit it or even take it back. With so few left I wanted the parent poster to have a good shot at it.
Never a good deed goes unpunished I guess
Ah my mistake, that ebay listing was just another case seller.
Looks like the actual Pis are all going up in price, $50 or more. Not sure if you wanted to spend that much yet
I bought my first two from CPC http://cpc.farnell.com/
Unfortunately their "check stock" link isn't loading for me, so assuming the worst they may be sold out now.
Checking eBay though, here are 4 of them including a very nice case, for $35 each using buy-it-now (not an auction)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-ABS-Case-NEW-U-S-Manufacture-and-Seller-HDMI-/150928193043?pt=US_Computer_Cases&hash=item2324057613
I admit it's getting annoying searching ebay, with all the new case sellers that have popped up.
I hope this helps though.
I seriously doubt a kid intending to shoplift would willingly swipe his badge by your reader before proceeding to steal stuff :P
These RFID tags are rated at 3-5cm, but my own experence with the badges issued at work, the damn things can fail to read through my wallet and needs the card to almost physically touch the reader, let alone be within a cm or two.
You imply a ring of material around the door way would be capable of reading such cards in the first place. I'm not sure what you expect the other readers installed in your store to be doing.
It's just like the existing "customer loyalty" cards in stores today. They only use barcodes over RFID due to the existing barcode readers already installed at the registers that the clerks know how to operate.
Just because the card is on your keychain, perhaps even visible, they still ask you to present it to be scanned because the range is very very limited.
Not only would you require the students cooperation to scan their RFID cards, but would need to purchase extra hardware to be integrated into your system to do so. While possible to do of course, it would be cheaper to issue new cards to scan with existing hardware. The level of cooperation required will remain the same.
AdaFruit makes an enclosure that attaches to the wall-mount screw holes of a monitor, that you snap the Pi in. Perfect for an XBMC setup.
I've also interfaced mine to an 8 port relay board and a USB camera. The relays are controllable from levers in my Minecraft server, and the camera is viewable on the web.
Next step is to setup a christmas light scene controllable by the other players online, hopefully in time for chrismas!
I ordered two monday last week and got them friday.
This monday I went by the local computer store to pickup some more SD cards and they had over 20 on the shelf in bubble packs, so I picked up my 3rd.
Some of the distributers even have over night shipping for $30, including the one I used, which had hundreds in stock.