"SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?”
Are these hackers this disjointed from reality they believe this? Does everyone wear a bullet proof vest 100% of the time? Guess its their fault they get shot for simply walking down the street.
Blaming Sony for these hacks are in the same league as blaming a rape victim for the assault because she was dressed and acting like a slut. Sure Sony is an evil corporation, but you never get to blame the victim of a crime, for the crime.
No means no, whether its a girl telling you no when you try and cop a feel, or a cooperation saying no to using their service unless you play by their rules.
Both are so varied on their forms and delivery methods, that the only way they could be compared is at the 100% purity level, when that happens, they start to look startlingly similar.
Those numbers are in line with the amount of people you would expect to lie about the use of drugs
The next 10+ years will give us a real idea, providing nothing bad happens to the people who admitted they used drugs, if admitting it suddenly makes you a target for social workers harassing you to 'get clean' people will just start to lie again and we wont have usable data.
Unfortunately facts mean very little to lobbyists. And my point was, when you have the greedy, able to take a moral high ground stance. You will not stop them.
Ide wager that asbestos have saved way more lives than they've ended. When you do the research, the only real asbestos deaths where from industry workers who either mined the stuff, or the installers who worked with materials with very high asbestos content, its a very hyped toxin which you can find trace amounts of in the air you're breathing right now.
Also bear in mind that the rats which grew 'alarming' chest tumors after asbestos exposure, where subjected to the equivalent of putting a human into a sealed prison cell with 2kg of asbestos being ground on a grinding wheel several times. I wonder what other materials when inhaled at such a large quantity would produce chest tumors, my layman opinion would be, "Most"
Should we take precautions? Yup. but we shouldn't demonize a very useful substance.
In the same universe that outlaws peanuts in schools because one kid is allergic. The same universe that outlaws booze, because of one groups moral beliefs.
Fact of the matter, is the people against GMO are a vocal minority. And only in extreme liberal places do we see vocal minority assuaged at the expense of the majority.
From the ethical point of view, its too obvious of a solution when it comes to the problem of world hunger, and yes, most rational people will allow for a biodiversity hit, to feed billions of people. As pen and teller said, I would personally execute ever single chimp on the planet, to save one human life. So would I.
From the greed point of view, making an existing farm produce 2-10x as much from the same land will spark some pretty high priced lobbying from the farming industry. Sure, some extreme liberal EU country's may outlaw them for a time, but once they realize the rest of the world is growing GMO, they will overturn the decisions.
I can communicate just fine with a child who doesn't know, or use proper terms. Doesn't mean I think they're using the proper words / terms.
I view people who call Macs non PC's as the same way, I understand them just fine, I just do not think they are using the proper terms is all. By strict definition, they're not. A Mac is indeed a personal computer, just not, until recently, one capable of running a Windows OS.
My Apple IIe was a PC, so was my Commodore 64.
With that being said, I would also consider it as rude to correct someone on this, just like I think its rude to correct someones grammar in casual conversation.
Also, if you present the argument as "We need to take away this access so they don't try to install pirated software" management tends to agree in a heart beat. It's even better if you have evidence that someone has already installed "unauthorized software".
Have done this.. got the guy fired.. policy change didn't get approved. I hate this company.
Your analogy is flawed, homes are not designed to be burglar proof, while software is (theoretically). A proper analogy would be to liken this to someone breaking out of prison, without a trace, and refusing to tell anyone how they did it without being paid, which I would call very reasonable, especially if this person in question is not a convict, just a security consultant.
If 5$ was enough for them to wait on buying the game, the game wasn't worth 49.99.. or usually 39.99 for that matter. Make your games better, and stop churning out regurgitated graphics, engines and ideas. Or at least price the stuff accordingly.
Its only disputable to people who have illogical minds.
Here is why its indisputable;
Apple OS is worth 300$ MSRP. Period. This is a fact, it is for sale in stores, and this is what Apple says its worth. Therefor, you can subtract 300 from the price of any apple computer with the OS included to get the hardware cost. You can apply this same technique to a PC, using the retail cost of the Windows OS.
Do the math, its a fact man, sorry to break it to you, Apple rips people off on hardware, you're delusional if you think otherwise, especially when anyone can figure out the prices, its not rocket science. Go play with the "Customize your own Mac" section of their website. The prices they charge are criminal, $3000 for a quad core machine with a few TB of space and a mediocre video card? I can build the same machine, with the same brand of parts, at 160$/ hour labor, and still come out over a thousand dollars ahead. And it will still run the mac OS if you want it to.
But I guess you consider a 300% markup normal. Most of us dont.
If only it was.. Try speccing out the most expensive apple tower you can design. Look at the price tag. Now research what you can get for the same amount of money from ANY other computer manufacturer.
Did you think I was implying that the computer where for children? Umm no. Im referring to charging 99.99 for 2$ worth of plastic, which is what Fisher Price does on a daily basis. You should'nt assume things, it makes you look simple.
This is what apple if guilty of. And this is an indisputable FACT.
Ide wager a random person is more resourceful than most TV personalities, especially the idiots on the news these days.
60 mins used to be respectable, they're just puppets now.
No, I'm talking about market share, Apple was the defacto PC back then. Yes I'm talking about a time when upgrading RAM required a soldering iron, and the only platform DOS ran on was an Apple.
Kids these days.
Apple are PC's, So were all their competitors, Amiga, Commodore, IBM, and the countless "IBM Clone" Manufacturers sure as heck where not unified.
IBM Won that War, because they did NOT try to use legislation to kill clones of their hardware, like Apples does.
They need to learn the lesson MS learned, its better to have the whole world running your software(or hardware) and only have 5% pay you. Then only control 5% of the market and 100% of those people pay you.
It has a favorable side effect of making your product a household name, and opens up business use. It makes your product the "Standard" that everything else is measured up against. Its why alot refer to Apple PC's as Fisher Price PC's, because when compared to an equally cost point PC, they do look like a Fisher Price toy in comparison.
If Apple had kept a hold on their 90% share, we may have ended up in a world were MS was the trendy hipster thing to own, while Apple is for the real world. Instead of the opposite we have today.
How so? Fragmentation didn't work out well for them in the past, remember when they had a 90+% hold on the PC market? They have what now? 5~%? After Amiga, Commodore and IBM and the rest fractured the market.
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From TFA:
"SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?”
Are these hackers this disjointed from reality they believe this? Does everyone wear a bullet proof vest 100% of the time? Guess its their fault they get shot for simply walking down the street.
Blaming Sony for these hacks are in the same league as blaming a rape victim for the assault because she was dressed and acting like a slut. Sure Sony is an evil corporation, but you never get to blame the victim of a crime, for the crime.
No means no, whether its a girl telling you no when you try and cop a feel, or a cooperation saying no to using their service unless you play by their rules.
With the Great Firewall, I have a hard time believing that an attack originating from a Chinese IP was not government backed.
Depends on your definition of 'Harder drug'
Both are so varied on their forms and delivery methods, that the only way they could be compared is at the 100% purity level, when that happens, they start to look startlingly similar.
Those numbers are in line with the amount of people you would expect to lie about the use of drugs
The next 10+ years will give us a real idea, providing nothing bad happens to the people who admitted they used drugs, if admitting it suddenly makes you a target for social workers harassing you to 'get clean' people will just start to lie again and we wont have usable data.
Nowadays its a pipe bomb covered in nails, unfortunately.
I prefer George Carlins outlook; You have the right to say whatever you want, and I can kill you for it.
They're used because they have fired every IT personnel with a clue.
Unfortunately facts mean very little to lobbyists. And my point was, when you have the greedy, able to take a moral high ground stance. You will not stop them.
What business service did you think he was talking about? Advertisement IS a business service.
I hate to say it, but even people with paper MCSE's and no knowledge, think MCSA is worthless..
Ide wager that asbestos have saved way more lives than they've ended. When you do the research, the only real asbestos deaths where from industry workers who either mined the stuff, or the installers who worked with materials with very high asbestos content, its a very hyped toxin which you can find trace amounts of in the air you're breathing right now.
Also bear in mind that the rats which grew 'alarming' chest tumors after asbestos exposure, where subjected to the equivalent of putting a human into a sealed prison cell with 2kg of asbestos being ground on a grinding wheel several times. I wonder what other materials when inhaled at such a large quantity would produce chest tumors, my layman opinion would be, "Most"
Should we take precautions? Yup. but we shouldn't demonize a very useful substance.
In the same universe that outlaws peanuts in schools because one kid is allergic. The same universe that outlaws booze, because of one groups moral beliefs.
Fact of the matter, is the people against GMO are a vocal minority. And only in extreme liberal places do we see vocal minority assuaged at the expense of the majority.
Wont ever happen, heres why;
From the ethical point of view, its too obvious of a solution when it comes to the problem of world hunger, and yes, most rational people will allow for a biodiversity hit, to feed billions of people. As pen and teller said, I would personally execute ever single chimp on the planet, to save one human life. So would I.
From the greed point of view, making an existing farm produce 2-10x as much from the same land will spark some pretty high priced lobbying from the farming industry. Sure, some extreme liberal EU country's may outlaw them for a time, but once they realize the rest of the world is growing GMO, they will overturn the decisions.
I can communicate just fine with a child who doesn't know, or use proper terms. Doesn't mean I think they're using the proper words / terms.
I view people who call Macs non PC's as the same way, I understand them just fine, I just do not think they are using the proper terms is all. By strict definition, they're not. A Mac is indeed a personal computer, just not, until recently, one capable of running a Windows OS.
My Apple IIe was a PC, so was my Commodore 64.
With that being said, I would also consider it as rude to correct someone on this, just like I think its rude to correct someones grammar in casual conversation.
Also, if you present the argument as "We need to take away this access so they don't try to install pirated software" management tends to agree in a heart beat. It's even better if you have evidence that someone has already installed "unauthorized software".
Have done this.. got the guy fired.. policy change didn't get approved. I hate this company.
Your analogy is flawed, homes are not designed to be burglar proof, while software is (theoretically). A proper analogy would be to liken this to someone breaking out of prison, without a trace, and refusing to tell anyone how they did it without being paid, which I would call very reasonable, especially if this person in question is not a convict, just a security consultant.
If 5$ was enough for them to wait on buying the game, the game wasn't worth 49.99.. or usually 39.99 for that matter. Make your games better, and stop churning out regurgitated graphics, engines and ideas. Or at least price the stuff accordingly.
It makes you a member, not a senior member.
If you had said "Im in anonymous" back in 2008-ish, ide call you a senior member today.
Senior just means old, whats the big deal? All they're saying is "Im an old member of anonymous" which is accurate isnt it?
Its only disputable to people who have illogical minds.
Here is why its indisputable;
Apple OS is worth 300$ MSRP. Period. This is a fact, it is for sale in stores, and this is what Apple says its worth. Therefor, you can subtract 300 from the price of any apple computer with the OS included to get the hardware cost. You can apply this same technique to a PC, using the retail cost of the Windows OS.
Do the math, its a fact man, sorry to break it to you, Apple rips people off on hardware, you're delusional if you think otherwise, especially when anyone can figure out the prices, its not rocket science. Go play with the "Customize your own Mac" section of their website. The prices they charge are criminal, $3000 for a quad core machine with a few TB of space and a mediocre video card? I can build the same machine, with the same brand of parts, at 160$/ hour labor, and still come out over a thousand dollars ahead. And it will still run the mac OS if you want it to.
But I guess you consider a 300% markup normal. Most of us dont.
If only it was.. Try speccing out the most expensive apple tower you can design. Look at the price tag. Now research what you can get for the same amount of money from ANY other computer manufacturer. Did you think I was implying that the computer where for children? Umm no. Im referring to charging 99.99 for 2$ worth of plastic, which is what Fisher Price does on a daily basis. You should'nt assume things, it makes you look simple. This is what apple if guilty of. And this is an indisputable FACT.
Ide wager a random person is more resourceful than most TV personalities, especially the idiots on the news these days. 60 mins used to be respectable, they're just puppets now.
Yes I did, thank you for the correction, its been a long time.
No, I'm talking about market share, Apple was the defacto PC back then. Yes I'm talking about a time when upgrading RAM required a soldering iron, and the only platform DOS ran on was an Apple. Kids these days.
Apple are PC's, So were all their competitors, Amiga, Commodore, IBM, and the countless "IBM Clone" Manufacturers sure as heck where not unified. IBM Won that War, because they did NOT try to use legislation to kill clones of their hardware, like Apples does.
They need to learn the lesson MS learned, its better to have the whole world running your software(or hardware) and only have 5% pay you. Then only control 5% of the market and 100% of those people pay you.
It has a favorable side effect of making your product a household name, and opens up business use. It makes your product the "Standard" that everything else is measured up against. Its why alot refer to Apple PC's as Fisher Price PC's, because when compared to an equally cost point PC, they do look like a Fisher Price toy in comparison.
If Apple had kept a hold on their 90% share, we may have ended up in a world were MS was the trendy hipster thing to own, while Apple is for the real world. Instead of the opposite we have today.
How so? Fragmentation didn't work out well for them in the past, remember when they had a 90+% hold on the PC market? They have what now? 5~%? After Amiga, Commodore and IBM and the rest fractured the market.