didn't realize bioware made KOTOR. You're right though, Lucas just merely published it. It does seem like there was a CEO move about... 10 years ago, and that CEO declared the company a mess and I guess spent a decade with his head up his ass like his predecessor, but without the game making part.
Still, as you said though there's plenty of other companies making decent/good star wars games so I don't think LucasArts will be missed much outside of being associated by name and licensing with George Lucas.
That's like saying... imagine a world where i leave my front door open... hope i don't get robbed!
Also, every time somebody argues the definition of hacker, cracker, and script-kiddie you folks are lowering the bar. By definition, neither of these 3 should care less what they're called by the media (real pros define themselves with hats?:P ). In fact, the more obscurity the better.
As a result, as many as 30 percent of breaches in 2013 will be from SQL injection attacks. The research also concluded that the leading cause of security breaches and data loss for organizations is insecure software. The report found that 70 percent of software failed to comply with enterprise security policies on their first submission for security testing.
No!
Email Spear phishing is the leading cause of security breaches, you can patch software all you want, but patching an idiotic user? Good luck on that!
And 70% sounds a little low, on an intense enough audit (there's many levels), it would look more like 95%.
DDOS wouldn't be possible without a botnet, perhaps preventing the latter will prevent the former. Anti-virus, better session awareness from the OS, and good networking practices can all go a long way here.
And equally as big a question is why does the TSA have this information? Who are they to record what people talk about? You'd think the TSA now owns the airports they operate in or something.
1. The lawsuit is based on the student entrepreneur's "feeling", a less credible source cannot possible exist. 2. What he did is called piggybacking, businesses will go to great lengths to prevent it, in this case the business was owned by the university.
Don't get me wrong, they could've let him continue on in good faith, but it was probably inconveniencing them somehow, or the lawyer's a real asshole.
As the younger generations eclipse the older generations the amount of users who can do those things will go up and more infrastructure will be required (servers, cables, etc...)... but that's a decades thing, not a 3 year thing. At present, a ton of people have regular cable with netflix or w/o and still use that primarily. A ton of people still have tvs that aren't flat panels and most people don't want to pay monthly to back up their data (that hopefully will never change).
I agree that eventually it'll double, but nowhere near what's being mentioned in the article marking the article as completely BS.
Perhaps that makes it harder to host malware in China? Duh
Thereby, I'm not surprised at all by the findings. How is the US beating Russia 5-4 on this though, Russian internet has been the black market of the web pretty much and has hosted every single crack, hack, and exploit known to the internet at some point. I wonder if they rounded them all up and sent them to siberia between then and now. They're capable of doing that too.
It might go up a bit... but 4x over 6 years... even 2x over 3 years... complete BS. Most people who are going to be using netflix in 3 years are already using it.
I agree with TFA title btw, not the summary. Traffic is increasing, and there hasn't been a whole lot of new stuff in the way of reducing server power consumption or cooling. Though there was that one DC that used a nearby water source to cool itself... nobody's gonna pack up their DC's foundation and move to the ocean side.
In fact, I doubt this is anything anybody needs to worry about as the consumption increases very slowly and the current energy grid is equipped to provide.
Well... managing infrastructure in the cloud = managing virtualized infrastructure... so it's just like VMWare w a GUI that puts VMWare to shame (the GUI is the cloud OS). So there's still an IT guy that logs into the cloud and sets up the extra sever or db or w/e... and no way is that free as with a private VM stack (if you have the server licensing, you need the licensing either way). So... as your infrastructure grows, your cloud costs grow, but that's almost soley offset by no need to upgrade the hardware.
While I can spend all day making fun of the suits and how out of touch all of them are with IT (especially the ones who think they're in touch w/o writing a single line of code), that's not really a problem in the cloud.
Where the cloud provider would tell the suits to go f' themselves is on cloud provider downtime, AWS's response every time has been "We're working on it, no eta". Which is enough for a top exec to grow some new grey hair.
I know you are, doesn't stop you from trying to strike it rich w a sexual harassment suit though. And compared to most women in IT that I know, in comparison I look like Matt Daemon and behave like Gandhi.
You know... if you don't like the culture you can always start your own gig.
I don't like the culture from either sex, so maybe I'm being a bit narcissistic, thankfully this is a community that's a shadow of what it once was, so I could care less.
That's hilarious, but 100% true, the main allure of the cloud right now is infrastructure automation... but what's that done through?
Cloud OS / software.
Say due to future outages the cloud providers aren't found reliable anymore, that cloud OS / software will go right back in-house to the businesses in a thousand different flavors again.
It does tend to get a bit better each time though as hardware advances and software follows suite.
Rofl, why is this discussion at the bottom, and a bunch of newbs asking why a bunch of open DNS admins haven't doing anything about it up top. I don't get slashdot techies anymore, except the consensus they're all stupid.
There's no point to spoofing out IP addresses at the edge of the network when the throughput is choked, it won't do anything, you can keep dropping them and turn off SYN to keep internal communication up with the edge, but the way out is clogged.
In regards to Open DNS servers and not doing IP verification, I'd imagine that has to do with the amount of resources available to them.
Rate limiting would help, but one day may block legitimate users as internet use expands.
Out of all those though, rate limiting seems to make the most sense and is the lesser of the evils.
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didn't realize bioware made KOTOR. You're right though, Lucas just merely published it. It does seem like there was a CEO move about... 10 years ago, and that CEO declared the company a mess and I guess spent a decade with his head up his ass like his predecessor, but without the game making part.
Still, as you said though there's plenty of other companies making decent/good star wars games so I don't think LucasArts will be missed much outside of being associated by name and licensing with George Lucas.
but... how else can the doctor perform surgery from the beach? You don't want any sand in your open wound do you?
That's like saying... imagine a world where i leave my front door open... hope i don't get robbed!
Also, every time somebody argues the definition of hacker, cracker, and script-kiddie you folks are lowering the bar. By definition, neither of these 3 should care less what they're called by the media (real pros define themselves with hats? :P ). In fact, the more obscurity the better.
As a result, as many as 30 percent of breaches in 2013 will be from SQL injection attacks. The research also concluded that the leading cause of security breaches and data loss for organizations is insecure software. The report found that 70 percent of software failed to comply with enterprise security policies on their first submission for security testing.
No!
Email Spear phishing is the leading cause of security breaches, you can patch software all you want, but patching an idiotic user? Good luck on that!
And 70% sounds a little low, on an intense enough audit (there's many levels), it would look more like 95%.
Let's think about this...
They haven't made a game in 10 years and they're a game studio. That's probably why they're being gutted.
Also how does TFA not mention Star Wars.... LucasArt's most lucrative license and some of the best SW games ever made. X-wing? KOTOR?
Predicted that this would happen: http://news.cnet.com/Report-FBIs-snooping-did-not-follow-rules/2100-1028_3-6166015.html absolutely nobody.
Title isn't leading at all, just your imagination.
Seriously though, this debate is a lot older than TFA implies.
is Linux Unix?
As well as the birthrate...
DDOS wouldn't be possible without a botnet, perhaps preventing the latter will prevent the former. Anti-virus, better session awareness from the OS, and good networking practices can all go a long way here.
The ugly fat guy doesn't care. It's the people who want Linux to go mainstream that need to understand this.
And equally as big a question is why does the TSA have this information? Who are they to record what people talk about? You'd think the TSA now owns the airports they operate in or something.
1. The lawsuit is based on the student entrepreneur's "feeling", a less credible source cannot possible exist.
2. What he did is called piggybacking, businesses will go to great lengths to prevent it, in this case the business was owned by the university.
Don't get me wrong, they could've let him continue on in good faith, but it was probably inconveniencing them somehow, or the lawyer's a real asshole.
...there are no real stories on slashdot.
As the younger generations eclipse the older generations the amount of users who can do those things will go up and more infrastructure will be required (servers, cables, etc...)... but that's a decades thing, not a 3 year thing. At present, a ton of people have regular cable with netflix or w/o and still use that primarily. A ton of people still have tvs that aren't flat panels and most people don't want to pay monthly to back up their data (that hopefully will never change).
I agree that eventually it'll double, but nowhere near what's being mentioned in the article marking the article as completely BS.
Perhaps that makes it harder to host malware in China? Duh
Thereby, I'm not surprised at all by the findings. How is the US beating Russia 5-4 on this though, Russian internet has been the black market of the web pretty much and has hosted every single crack, hack, and exploit known to the internet at some point. I wonder if they rounded them all up and sent them to siberia between then and now. They're capable of doing that too.
It might go up a bit... but 4x over 6 years... even 2x over 3 years... complete BS. Most people who are going to be using netflix in 3 years are already using it.
I agree with TFA title btw, not the summary. Traffic is increasing, and there hasn't been a whole lot of new stuff in the way of reducing server power consumption or cooling. Though there was that one DC that used a nearby water source to cool itself... nobody's gonna pack up their DC's foundation and move to the ocean side.
In fact, I doubt this is anything anybody needs to worry about as the consumption increases very slowly and the current energy grid is equipped to provide.
Also... seeing as the world population isn't going to double every three years, how is internet traffic?
Another junk article.
Go speculate on lemmings and leave technology to the people who can actually conceptualize it.
Well... managing infrastructure in the cloud = managing virtualized infrastructure... so it's just like VMWare w a GUI that puts VMWare to shame (the GUI is the cloud OS). So there's still an IT guy that logs into the cloud and sets up the extra sever or db or w/e... and no way is that free as with a private VM stack (if you have the server licensing, you need the licensing either way). So... as your infrastructure grows, your cloud costs grow, but that's almost soley offset by no need to upgrade the hardware.
While I can spend all day making fun of the suits and how out of touch all of them are with IT (especially the ones who think they're in touch w/o writing a single line of code), that's not really a problem in the cloud.
Where the cloud provider would tell the suits to go f' themselves is on cloud provider downtime, AWS's response every time has been "We're working on it, no eta". Which is enough for a top exec to grow some new grey hair.
I know you are, doesn't stop you from trying to strike it rich w a sexual harassment suit though. And compared to most women in IT that I know, in comparison I look like Matt Daemon and behave like Gandhi.
You know... if you don't like the culture you can always start your own gig.
I don't like the culture from either sex, so maybe I'm being a bit narcissistic, thankfully this is a community that's a shadow of what it once was, so I could care less.
That's hilarious, but 100% true, the main allure of the cloud right now is infrastructure automation... but what's that done through?
Cloud OS / software.
Say due to future outages the cloud providers aren't found reliable anymore, that cloud OS / software will go right back in-house to the businesses in a thousand different flavors again.
It does tend to get a bit better each time though as hardware advances and software follows suite.
Right, the post I was talking about was saying that the traffic should be filtered at the edge of the network, my point is that wouldn't do anything.
I meant...
There's no point to filtering out spoofed IP addresses
w proper sentence structure lol.
AC didn't specific which network the ISP's or spamhaus. I agree the ISP can fix it though, getting them to do so carries its own set of challenges.
Here's a good read for anybody still confused: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-to-internet-threatening-size/
Basically restates the above post + politics.
Rofl, why is this discussion at the bottom, and a bunch of newbs asking why a bunch of open DNS admins haven't doing anything about it up top. I don't get slashdot techies anymore, except the consensus they're all stupid.
There's no point to spoofing out IP addresses at the edge of the network when the throughput is choked, it won't do anything, you can keep dropping them and turn off SYN to keep internal communication up with the edge, but the way out is clogged.
In regards to Open DNS servers and not doing IP verification, I'd imagine that has to do with the amount of resources available to them.
Rate limiting would help, but one day may block legitimate users as internet use expands.
Out of all those though, rate limiting seems to make the most sense and is the lesser of the evils.
But seriously, sending several hundred IDE drives away to be shredded sounds a lot more attractive at that point.
I'd argue you can save the company money by doing it yourself, but meh, you'd save many life hours and get paid exactly the same.
I suppose you can incorporate a process that prevents several hundred IDEs from stacking up in the first place.
This:
http://mashable.com/2011/09/13/hard-drive-creations/
nobody would think to recover data from my skyline replica!