had someone not caught on before hand, i doubt it. A lot of services are near 100% automated. so unless they could prove that they knew the data was in danger then it would be hard to make the charges stick. Now that the flags have been raised have likely been told not to by the FBI then yes.
I gather you are talking about bush? No one loves Obama... not even dems. And it was with Bush that all of this started in the first place. The fact that Obama has not stepped up and done anything about it - and moreover, appears to be fostering it - makes him equally guilty in my eyes. Too bad there aren't any presidential "contestants" that appear to care enough about solving these issues.
Programming, much like math (the type that requires logic, rather than the pure effort of memorization taught in most high schools), is not about knowing how to do the topic itself. It is about maturing of the mind and understanding the logical process. they produce insight into your own logic, and give you the tools to break problems down effectively - which becomes of benefit in any scenario requiring logic. Further, near all people suffer from some form of anxiety when learning or testing in math. In most cases getting over this helps them get over the fear learning in general.
" *Law professors* worry that they could stifle growth and innovation" - how about everyone who knows anything about, well.... anything? (which obviously excludes the folks on capitol hill)
I started my professional career as an engineer, and am now working in tech. And from my perspective most IT managers, and staff, who work for non-tech companies are special just by the sake of being one-off. If you are the IT guy in an engineering firm, you will likely have more pull than 95% of the engineers. That was true in every engineering company that i worked for. It is the same with lawyers and accountants. I would imagine the IT guy at a law firm would have the same position, while the lawyer at an IT firm would have that roll. This is something i've never completely understood, but it is simply the way i've always seen things work.
My point being that ANYONE treated like they are "within the inner circle" acts "aloof." So, the solution seems simple to me - stop treating your one-off staff as if they are somehow more important than your main workforce.
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let me clarify - the realism part was my own rant - not completely directed at you.
the part of your original post that provoked my response was:
it really feels like DICE was trying to imitate the successful single and cooperative player elements from the recent CoD games. Unfortunately not only did they fail to innovate, they failed to even create an acceptable facsimile.
which in my mind the only reason the two are compared so frequently is because they both fall into that "realistic" FPS category. For example, i've yet to see Halo Reach compared to any MW or BF games, at least not in the sense that "one is a poor copy of the other". to me MW and BF shouldn't be compared since one is a strategy FPS and the other is a "who got shot first" FPS. which leads me to the conclusion that the only reason to call one a copy of the other is that both fall into that "realistic FPS" mantra... the rest of my post had to do with my dismay at the lack of good/original FPS games lately - that all of the effort seems to be placed into this realistic style for the past several years, which irks me on various levels.
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Why are you trolling/. with your BF3 vs MW3 babble? both are about "realistic" warfare. but there are only so many ways you can make a FPS before it becomes "just the same old shit". especially if both games have the same visual goals. I've been over FPS since about CoD4. at this point every FPS seems like the same'ol to me (because they are). and it sounds like that may be happening to you too.
on a separate note, i've never understood the desire for an FPS to be "realistic"... i mean, they simply can't be realistic - unless most single shots kill you, or shrapnel from 50m away for that matter. or, at the very least, limit your mobility and senses to a point that you'll be dead soon regardless. and i doubt anyone hardly ever plays in a sleep deprived, hypertensive state - much less with serious crotch rot, athletes foot and scabs/bites from being in dirty/damp places for days without the chance for personal hygiene (your mom's basement does NOT count!). And the most **enjoyable** FPS PvP that I've played were no where near "realistic" (quake, halo, lost planet (yes, the grapple ftw), etc) yet, realism is where all of the push/cash seems to be anymore. it's confusing to me./rant...
did we really need a scientist to tell us this? I think this point has been obvious to every 10 year old since we knew we could into space.
Not to get overly political... But this is one of my personal problems with the dissolution/re-positioning of NASA. IMO, NO for-profit organization will ever spend the money to figure all of the things out that would need to be figured out for this to happen. They *will* figure out how to (cheaply) put satellites into orbit, mine asteroids and potentially inhabit the moon. But anything beyond that would require technologies that they themselves wont have desire/need to research. Thus we will have to depend on college professors working on donation/funding - severely limiting the rate at which such discoveries will be made.
hrm.... not real sure... but I would think you may have benefited from some "ask for forgiveness rather than permission" advice. As once you put that stuff up under GPL and some person had downloaded it, it's out there... and there wouldn't have been much that your employer would have been able to do about it. My thinking is that even if you pulled it down, that one person who downloaded it has the full right, under the GPL, to republish it... and your employer can't control non-sl\\employees.
He does have a point. We declared the war on drugs. No one else. And barring the war drugs, legit pharmaceutical companies would be who provided the dugs (of a much higher quality) - NOT cartels. Cartels wouldn't have a chance at even competing with big business Add to that both the Netherlands and Portugal who have (basically) stopped the war on drugs, and have found that their drug problems drastically decreased. (You can start here if you aren't already aware of what i'm trying to explain: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html) and it should be clear that we are definitely partly to blame for these problems. i suppose human nature and greed would be where the rest of the blame falls....
that is why i stopped playing. not any of the reasons they think. RMT from the dev is stupid and immoral. it takes the challenge out of games like Eve. this coming from someone who can afford it even.
firstly, for as long as men have been working they've been playing. there are tons of pointless things that have been done in excess throughout society. at the least gaming lends its self to a future. I mean, lots of people got into technology becuase of their gaming experience. tinkering with cars can have a similar effect as gaming - although most in that case end up mechanics rather than engineers. yet, no one has ever truly elevated society via shooting the perfect basket. if anything i think they lower it on the whole - people spend more time watching the games than playing them. this usually involves beer and fatty foods. and the ratio of person being active to persons becoming obese on the count of that active person is *huge*. not to mention aspects like (retarded) rivalry that leads to fights, murders and even full blown riots.
you may want to think that since in the gaming and watching sports case they both are staring at a screen that they are somehow the same, but this is simply not true. there is no interaction with watching sports. there is no chance to get in and think your way through how the game works to tweek/hack something - or research how to perform said hack. people don't figure out how to build custom TV's from scratch to better their sports-watching experience. rather, the typical sports fan simply sits and watches mindlessly, occasionally making one noise or another from their gut.
and PS not everyone is "genetically programmed to run around and play."
I had a college buddy who studied forensics (hence - i dont know how FoS he was) but he claimed that strong magnets and even physical destruction could be at leasr partially recovered. enough for it to be still an issue - if say they were looking for something like like a CC number.
so if i had something that i was serious about destroying to a point that NOTHING could ever be recovered from it would i go with a variety of the suggestions pointed out above - that is some or all of: overwrite, magnet, drill, acid, steel wool, hammer, heat. probably in that order.
I'm going to patent the concept of patenting vague things that can't be possibly invented yet, much less by my company and/or self. this way i will get loyalties every time one of these trolls files such a patent. further, the patent will include the concept of sueing those who actually manage to create the concept so that i get to skim a little of the top of each lawsuit:)
i still have a hard time being convinced that the FBI actually capture the correct people. i mean, if i were a hacker i would go to great lengths to make everything point to someone else. likely another hacker whom i dont get along with. of course, all of those indications would appear like that person attempted to hide themselves - to make it seem more likey. ans short of having a hardware keylogger on the suspects machine where the commands used to perform the attacks originated from, i can't see how they ever prove that wasn't the case.
actually, his statement about intelligent design made perfect sense. unless you presume that something is in direct control of what traits we do and don't develop then evolution is basically random. which it is. and having a good memory or extra smarts wouldn't seem to be something that would lend itself to propagating into our species well (as most of the/. crowd is likely well aware of:P ) so the chances of something like this mutating on its own seem fairly slim to me.
i have to say you have made one of the best posts i have seen on/. . and i'm not even a fan of the tea party! (quite the opposite really)... someone mod this guy up.
okay.... i'll agree. as case modding in-and-of itself goes this was a decent feat. but my point was more a matter of "that would be news worthy, this is not"
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had someone not caught on before hand, i doubt it. A lot of services are near 100% automated. so unless they could prove that they knew the data was in danger then it would be hard to make the charges stick. Now that the flags have been raised have likely been told not to by the FBI then yes.
I gather you are talking about bush? No one loves Obama... not even dems. And it was with Bush that all of this started in the first place. The fact that Obama has not stepped up and done anything about it - and moreover, appears to be fostering it - makes him equally guilty in my eyes. Too bad there aren't any presidential "contestants" that appear to care enough about solving these issues.
Programming, much like math (the type that requires logic, rather than the pure effort of memorization taught in most high schools), is not about knowing how to do the topic itself. It is about maturing of the mind and understanding the logical process. they produce insight into your own logic, and give you the tools to break problems down effectively - which becomes of benefit in any scenario requiring logic. Further, near all people suffer from some form of anxiety when learning or testing in math. In most cases getting over this helps them get over the fear learning in general.
meh, those people will simply believe the claims are fake - until some priest comes out with a great sounding "this is proof of god" speech...
I don't understand why there are not any pictures with this story.
" *Law professors* worry that they could stifle growth and innovation" - how about everyone who knows anything about, well.... anything? (which obviously excludes the folks on capitol hill)
^^this. hacking is the best teacher - period.
I started my professional career as an engineer, and am now working in tech. And from my perspective most IT managers, and staff, who work for non-tech companies are special just by the sake of being one-off. If you are the IT guy in an engineering firm, you will likely have more pull than 95% of the engineers. That was true in every engineering company that i worked for. It is the same with lawyers and accountants. I would imagine the IT guy at a law firm would have the same position, while the lawyer at an IT firm would have that roll. This is something i've never completely understood, but it is simply the way i've always seen things work.
My point being that ANYONE treated like they are "within the inner circle" acts "aloof." So, the solution seems simple to me - stop treating your one-off staff as if they are somehow more important than your main workforce.
the part of your original post that provoked my response was:
it really feels like DICE was trying to imitate the successful single and cooperative player elements from the recent CoD games. Unfortunately not only did they fail to innovate, they failed to even create an acceptable facsimile.
which in my mind the only reason the two are compared so frequently is because they both fall into that "realistic" FPS category. For example, i've yet to see Halo Reach compared to any MW or BF games, at least not in the sense that "one is a poor copy of the other". to me MW and BF shouldn't be compared since one is a strategy FPS and the other is a "who got shot first" FPS. which leads me to the conclusion that the only reason to call one a copy of the other is that both fall into that "realistic FPS" mantra...
the rest of my post had to do with my dismay at the lack of good/original FPS games lately - that all of the effort seems to be placed into this realistic style for the past several years, which irks me on various levels.
Why are you trolling /. with your BF3 vs MW3 babble? both are about "realistic" warfare. but there are only so many ways you can make a FPS before it becomes "just the same old shit". especially if both games have the same visual goals. I've been over FPS since about CoD4. at this point every FPS seems like the same'ol to me (because they are). and it sounds like that may be happening to you too.
/rant...
on a separate note, i've never understood the desire for an FPS to be "realistic"... i mean, they simply can't be realistic - unless most single shots kill you, or shrapnel from 50m away for that matter. or, at the very least, limit your mobility and senses to a point that you'll be dead soon regardless. and i doubt anyone hardly ever plays in a sleep deprived, hypertensive state - much less with serious crotch rot, athletes foot and scabs/bites from being in dirty/damp places for days without the chance for personal hygiene (your mom's basement does NOT count!). And the most **enjoyable** FPS PvP that I've played were no where near "realistic" (quake, halo, lost planet (yes, the grapple ftw), etc) yet, realism is where all of the push/cash seems to be anymore. it's confusing to me.
did we really need a scientist to tell us this? I think this point has been obvious to every 10 year old since we knew we could into space.
Not to get overly political... But this is one of my personal problems with the dissolution/re-positioning of NASA. IMO, NO for-profit organization will ever spend the money to figure all of the things out that would need to be figured out for this to happen. They *will* figure out how to (cheaply) put satellites into orbit, mine asteroids and potentially inhabit the moon. But anything beyond that would require technologies that they themselves wont have desire/need to research. Thus we will have to depend on college professors working on donation/funding - severely limiting the rate at which such discoveries will be made.
hrm.... not real sure... but I would think you may have benefited from some "ask for forgiveness rather than permission" advice. As once you put that stuff up under GPL and some person had downloaded it, it's out there... and there wouldn't have been much that your employer would have been able to do about it. My thinking is that even if you pulled it down, that one person who downloaded it has the full right, under the GPL, to republish it... and your employer can't control non-sl\\employees.
lol, exactly what I came here to say!
He does have a point. We declared the war on drugs. No one else. And barring the war drugs, legit pharmaceutical companies would be who provided the dugs (of a much higher quality) - NOT cartels. Cartels wouldn't have a chance at even competing with big business
Add to that both the Netherlands and Portugal who have (basically) stopped the war on drugs, and have found that their drug problems drastically decreased. (You can start here if you aren't already aware of what i'm trying to explain: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html) and it should be clear that we are definitely partly to blame for these problems. i suppose human nature and greed would be where the rest of the blame falls....
I thought the fluid dynamics problem was solved a couple of years ago. Some Russian who turned down the money or something along those lines...
that is why i stopped playing. not any of the reasons they think. RMT from the dev is stupid and immoral. it takes the challenge out of games like Eve. this coming from someone who can afford it even.
firstly, for as long as men have been working they've been playing. there are tons of pointless things that have been done in excess throughout society. at the least gaming lends its self to a future. I mean, lots of people got into technology becuase of their gaming experience. tinkering with cars can have a similar effect as gaming - although most in that case end up mechanics rather than engineers.
yet, no one has ever truly elevated society via shooting the perfect basket. if anything i think they lower it on the whole - people spend more time watching the games than playing them. this usually involves beer and fatty foods. and the ratio of person being active to persons becoming obese on the count of that active person is *huge*. not to mention aspects like (retarded) rivalry that leads to fights, murders and even full blown riots.
you may want to think that since in the gaming and watching sports case they both are staring at a screen that they are somehow the same, but this is simply not true. there is no interaction with watching sports. there is no chance to get in and think your way through how the game works to tweek/hack something - or research how to perform said hack. people don't figure out how to build custom TV's from scratch to better their sports-watching experience. rather, the typical sports fan simply sits and watches mindlessly, occasionally making one noise or another from their gut.
and PS not everyone is "genetically programmed to run around and play."
I had a college buddy who studied forensics (hence - i dont know how FoS he was) but he claimed that strong magnets and even physical destruction could be at leasr partially recovered. enough for it to be still an issue - if say they were looking for something like like a CC number.
so if i had something that i was serious about destroying to a point that NOTHING could ever be recovered from it would i go with a variety of the suggestions pointed out above - that is some or all of: overwrite, magnet, drill, acid, steel wool, hammer, heat. probably in that order.
I'm going to patent the concept of patenting vague things that can't be possibly invented yet, much less by my company and/or self. this way i will get loyalties every time one of these trolls files such a patent. further, the patent will include the concept of sueing those who actually manage to create the concept so that i get to skim a little of the top of each lawsuit :)
i still have a hard time being convinced that the FBI actually capture the correct people. i mean, if i were a hacker i would go to great lengths to make everything point to someone else. likely another hacker whom i dont get along with. of course, all of those indications would appear like that person attempted to hide themselves - to make it seem more likey. ans short of having a hardware keylogger on the suspects machine where the commands used to perform the attacks originated from, i can't see how they ever prove that wasn't the case.
so, you're saying that most woman will go after, say, a computer programmer (or engineer of some sort) sooner than a jock? really~ :P
actually, his statement about intelligent design made perfect sense. unless you presume that something is in direct control of what traits we do and don't develop then evolution is basically random. which it is. and having a good memory or extra smarts wouldn't seem to be something that would lend itself to propagating into our species well (as most of the /. crowd is likely well aware of :P ) so the chances of something like this mutating on its own seem fairly slim to me.
i have to say you have made one of the best posts i have seen on /. . and i'm not even a fan of the tea party! (quite the opposite really)... someone mod this guy up.
AFAIK we can't sue them, but apperently they can sue us? something doesn't seem right here.
okay.... i'll agree. as case modding in-and-of itself goes this was a decent feat. but my point was more a matter of "that would be news worthy, this is not"