Hm, following news of high volatility, major security problems, and the fact that one compromised account panicked an entire exchange, can anyone claim they are surprised by this?
We have to read about something besides house fires, car crashes and political scandals, how else are we to know it's news?
Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.
Je suid d'accord. I was searching for some specs on Heat Shrink Tubing when I encountered "Approcations" I wasn't familiar with the word, thinking it was "Engrish", so I did a search on Approcations and found it not to be not just one misspelling/misuse/confusion, but at least two. In this instance it should be Applications and in at least one other the meaning was for Appreciation.
So they went after the LulzSec mouthpiece instead of after someone involved with their illicit activities. Certainly the weakest link in the chain, but I wonder realistically how much this will limit LulzSec.
So you're comparing him to OBL? He effectively was just a talker once he carried out his chief ambition and had to go into hiding. This bloke is all the more fool for blathering and calling attention to himself. At least he wasn't shot trying to get away with $250 sewn into his shirt.
Know anything about Larry Ellison? He thinks he's a Samurai. You have underestimated his determination to bring Google to their knees.
Eating sushi does not make you a Samurai.
Building in Woodside, CA, a multi-million dollar estate, modeled on feudal Japanese architecture (i.e. no nails) and hand built by builders brought over from Japan to do the job, just might.
He's also been photographed wearing a kimono.
Probably has a suit of armor and blades in his office.
He was known at one time to be working out some form of management based upon Bushido - no word on any underlings committing seppuku.
You aren't alone, but it's just personal preference.
I like unpredictability and misery in my movies. I like my comedies dark. I am a big fan of unhappy endings.
My wife likes predictability.
To me, her movies seem like watching the same movie over and over. To her, she can't possibly see why I'd want to watch something that isn't relaxing and removed from reality.
Other than causing endless conversations about how much each other's tastes suck, it's not a big deal. Just taste.
Hollywood loves your wife's tastes and is catering to them, not yours. Interesting bit on the BBC this weekend, in analysis - many films are being geared to be friendly to the Chinese audiences - Hollywood knows where the money is.
Even if your strategy wasn't impractical, what would make you think that Google would want to make Java public domain?
Google, for all their recent goofs, still believes in making things available - grow through acceptance and use of technology, rather than standing over customers and developers with a fee schedule and a large club.
I can't see how they spent $200 million on that turkey. There aren't that many sets, and the big ones are obviously green-screen work. The alien city (?) is so fuzzy that it looks like bad video game art.
Psst! Hollywood accounting. "Sorry we can't pay your bonus, the film lost money. Lolz."
I read somewhere that one of the first signs of a civilization deterioration is the inability/unwillingness to repair infrastructure.
While looking for a reference online, I found this, and it's eerily accurate.
What's fascinating is seeing how much infrastructure was build in the US from the 1950's to the 1960's and how little has been done since. Further, it takes a major effort to repair and maintain what was built - bit of a burden on the resources of the people, isn't it? In the midwest, did we really need a road every mile??
You are absolutely not alone. One of the things that stuck out for me about I am Legend was the hero's ongoing sacrifices. He lost his family. He lost his dog, the last vestiges of his humanity, and finally his life. The story goes on after the movie, but there's no hint of a Legend 2: Zombie Will Smith Fights Back.
Even Black Swan was great in that way. NP gives her all--she gives her very life--to be the perfect white+black swan.
I hate it when movies don't commit.
Sounds like you, too, are ready to move on to Indy Cinema - those films where you have good cast, good direction and a story which could end in any way possible. Much more impressive than anything at the corporate cinemas these days, where you see the trailer, you see the film.
Here's a thought for a Super Hero film.. someone suddenly is born with super powers/finds a rune which grants powers/is bitten by a radioactive leech/what have you, they're SUPER now, in some capacity. They are the only one like them in the world of ordinary mortals. Have them explore their own moral code with what they could get away with or what wrongs they could right ("That b**tard Gahaffi, I'll just fly over and grab him and take him to the Hague! Up, up and away!") and finally have the film end on a note of remorse, loss or even death - (what will the world do now that Superperson is dead?)
I'd like to see that.. done in a very serious manner, not with a bunch potty humor and in-jokes.
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This past weekend I watched Twelve O'clock High. There's a movie about heroes and sacrifice. Probably one of the most honest war movies of the era.
This is the problem with growing up - you return one day to see what they have done with your old comic book heroes. Nothing looks familiar, so you pass.
If it were quirky or fun to watch I might go for it, but these very purposeful heroes of today's cinema are so preposterous I can't really stomach it (plus the cost of admission would buy me a pizza, which I'm sure to enjoy more fully.)
Here's an exercise - stand on a street corner in your downtown area and try to visualize any of these "heroes" at work. Takes a heck of a leap of imagination, doesn't it? Works much better if you read the comics in your bedroom or treehouse.
I find it extremely hard to believe that Microsoft would exist anywhere near its current dominant position if we actually did have capitalism. Instead, we have government protection of intellectual property, which is essentially the foundation of Microsoft's entire business model. Government force is not capitalism.
Know any history of Microsoft? Here it is in a nutshell -
Microsoft's fortune was built on business standardizing on MS-DOS. Once businesses committed to Microsoft they were made, millions and millions of dollars rolled in for copies of a relatively simple operating system. They imitated all and sunder. Then they made a half-a**ed copy of MacOS and called it Windows 95, started bundling free half-a**ed versions of other's software to expand influence - the companies and innovation they killed are legion. Like a heroin addict, business has found it now has to have Windows operating system and support, as Microsoft rolls out a new version every two years - what results in "The Microsoft Tax," as it is called - which ensures the billions keep rolling in, no matter how bad the product. Every version is promised to be better than the last, but every version needs more resources - if it weren't for Moore's Law you'd never get your PC to boot up in a day.
Microsoft is now a "Mature" company - their product releases are perfunctory (you really don't need a newer version of anything, except that they cut off support for older software.) They buy, rather than innovate - their own core product line is finally losing influence - lots of mis-steps, like Vista and notorious for poor coding practices leaving security holes by the hundreds - tablets and smart phones are eating away a once unassailable market position and Microsoft's own forays in the arena have been laughable at best.
Patents? Intellectual Property? Not so much, really, unless they want to tango with the likes of Google. Microsoft's key challenge is remaining relevant and necessary in a world were Apple has returned from the near-death with products which Microsoft can't match. Google has taken giant strides in new directions while Microsoft, who had easy early success based upon luck, can't figure out their next move.
What will Microsoft do with Skype? Probably try to find a way to force everyone to use it, bundle it with the XBox or something. I don't have high hopes. I think it's a poor acquisition for them.
the spooks are already well along in backtracking the traffic.
So you're saying that LulzSec dun goofed, and consequences will never be the same?!
There's a lesson to take from Fight Club - never talk about Fight Club.
The real sinister hackers are the ones who keep their heads down and seek anonymity, not notoriety - those who see self glorification are much easier to catch.
Either everyone is cutting costs or seeing how much slack they can get away with.
Fukushima was a wake-up call - seems we stupid simians need one every 20 or so years, to remind us we can poison our own air, water and food supply if we don't take it seriously.
There's also a good chance the American Way of trying to maximize profit has encouraged everyone to cut corners, where much of it was just common practice of American public and private sector before. The difference between public is cutting spending, where private wants to keep the money for that big check for the CEO and to look all pretty to Wall Street.
I work in a bank and I'll confirm this. There has been a big "security" push around here lately but it only consists of stupid shit like imposing the most ridiculous password policies for the 5 or so different incompatible systems in use plus a slew of sites and applications that don't use any of the centralized systems. The end result predictably being that everyone has taken to writing down their passwords. Banks are all about the semblance of security, not actual security.
Quite surprised by this, but I suppose I shouldn't be.
Back about 15 years ago the banks were extremely reluctant to have anything beyond modems as they needed to see that the budding internet was secure before they exposed anything to it.
Now, consider the way businesses have been working, slashing workerbees (including those who provided auditing and safety nets) to maximize payouts a the top, plus the willingness to take on preposterous investment and lending strategies, which eventually collapsed and you can see they're pretty careless, feckless even.
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Have to agree here. Sounds like a bunch of n00bs who have had some lucky success with sloppy security. Just a matter of time before they're dragged into the daylight, all sniveling about how they didn't really mean to cause any harm.
After the CIA attack it's safe money the spooks are already well along in backtracking the traffic.
One thing to remember - keep abusing the internet and the government will begin passing laws, with the sheeple all too willing to let it happen, which clamps down on network communications. With only a few large providers of most traffic, they'll just order them to put some stuff in place (assuming it isn't already, they did find that Craigslist killer pretty fast, eh?) and then one morning we'll read about the swoop in the news, between forest fires in the next idiot in government scandal.
CmdrTaco if you're in the Seattle area within the next two months I can give you a tour of the Microsoft Redmond campus;-)
Can't really see that being your scene though!
August 20th (IIRC) Groundspeak (Geocaching.com) is having a blockparty/open house in Seattle. He'd have a lot more fun there, along with 3,500+ other geocachers.
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So after they put out a Tweet, do believe fake LulzSec releases.
What is your first clue these people need to get out more, or at least away from the screen?
Hm, following news of high volatility, major security problems, and the fact that one compromised account panicked an entire exchange, can anyone claim they are surprised by this?
We have to read about something besides house fires, car crashes and political scandals, how else are we to know it's news?
Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.
Je suid d'accord. I was searching for some specs on Heat Shrink Tubing when I encountered "Approcations" I wasn't familiar with the word, thinking it was "Engrish", so I did a search on Approcations and found it not to be not just one misspelling/misuse/confusion, but at least two. In this instance it should be Applications and in at least one other the meaning was for Appreciation.
How do we know anyone is speaking for the real LulzSec?
let's see some ID
So they went after the LulzSec mouthpiece instead of after someone involved with their illicit activities. Certainly the weakest link in the chain, but I wonder realistically how much this will limit LulzSec.
So you're comparing him to OBL? He effectively was just a talker once he carried out his chief ambition and had to go into hiding. This bloke is all the more fool for blathering and calling attention to himself. At least he wasn't shot trying to get away with $250 sewn into his shirt.
A co-worker has been vocal about this practice. Makes me all the more smug with my el-cheapo pay-as-you-go program.
Know anything about Larry Ellison? He thinks he's a Samurai. You have underestimated his determination to bring Google to their knees.
Eating sushi does not make you a Samurai.
Building in Woodside, CA, a multi-million dollar estate, modeled on feudal Japanese architecture (i.e. no nails) and hand built by builders brought over from Japan to do the job, just might.
He's also been photographed wearing a kimono.
Probably has a suit of armor and blades in his office.
He was known at one time to be working out some form of management based upon Bushido - no word on any underlings committing seppuku.
You aren't alone, but it's just personal preference.
I like unpredictability and misery in my movies. I like my comedies dark. I am a big fan of unhappy endings.
My wife likes predictability.
To me, her movies seem like watching the same movie over and over. To her, she can't possibly see why I'd want to watch something that isn't relaxing and removed from reality.
Other than causing endless conversations about how much each other's tastes suck, it's not a big deal. Just taste.
Hollywood loves your wife's tastes and is catering to them, not yours. Interesting bit on the BBC this weekend, in analysis - many films are being geared to be friendly to the Chinese audiences - Hollywood knows where the money is.
Even if your strategy wasn't impractical, what would make you think that Google would want to make Java public domain?
Google, for all their recent goofs, still believes in making things available - grow through acceptance and use of technology, rather than standing over customers and developers with a fee schedule and a large club.
Isn't this a standard tactic, ask for some obscenely high figure and then settle for much much less?
Know anything about Larry Ellison? He thinks he's a Samurai. You have underestimated his determination to bring Google to their knees.
1. Buy Oracle
2. Sack those who are responsible for the suit.
3. Open Java to the Public Domain
4. Sell Oracle.
I can't see how they spent $200 million on that turkey. There aren't that many sets, and the big ones are obviously green-screen work. The alien city (?) is so fuzzy that it looks like bad video game art.
Psst! Hollywood accounting. "Sorry we can't pay your bonus, the film lost money. Lolz."
I read somewhere that one of the first signs of a civilization deterioration is the inability/unwillingness to repair infrastructure.
While looking for a reference online, I found this, and it's eerily accurate.
What's fascinating is seeing how much infrastructure was build in the US from the 1950's to the 1960's and how little has been done since. Further, it takes a major effort to repair and maintain what was built - bit of a burden on the resources of the people, isn't it? In the midwest, did we really need a road every mile??
You are absolutely not alone. One of the things that stuck out for me about I am Legend was the hero's ongoing sacrifices. He lost his family. He lost his dog, the last vestiges of his humanity, and finally his life. The story goes on after the movie, but there's no hint of a Legend 2: Zombie Will Smith Fights Back.
Even Black Swan was great in that way. NP gives her all--she gives her very life--to be the perfect white+black swan.
I hate it when movies don't commit.
Sounds like you, too, are ready to move on to Indy Cinema - those films where you have good cast, good direction and a story which could end in any way possible. Much more impressive than anything at the corporate cinemas these days, where you see the trailer, you see the film.
Here's a thought for a Super Hero film .. someone suddenly is born with super powers/finds a rune which grants powers/is bitten by a radioactive leech/what have you, they're SUPER now, in some capacity. They are the only one like them in the world of ordinary mortals. Have them explore their own moral code with what they could get away with or what wrongs they could right ("That b**tard Gahaffi, I'll just fly over and grab him and take him to the Hague! Up, up and away!") and finally have the film end on a note of remorse, loss or even death - (what will the world do now that Superperson is dead?)
I'd like to see that .. done in a very serious manner, not with a bunch potty humor and in-jokes.
This past weekend I watched Twelve O'clock High. There's a movie about heroes and sacrifice. Probably one of the most honest war movies of the era.
This is the problem with growing up - you return one day to see what they have done with your old comic book heroes. Nothing looks familiar, so you pass.
If it were quirky or fun to watch I might go for it, but these very purposeful heroes of today's cinema are so preposterous I can't really stomach it (plus the cost of admission would buy me a pizza, which I'm sure to enjoy more fully.)
Here's an exercise - stand on a street corner in your downtown area and try to visualize any of these "heroes" at work. Takes a heck of a leap of imagination, doesn't it? Works much better if you read the comics in your bedroom or treehouse.
I find it extremely hard to believe that Microsoft would exist anywhere near its current dominant position if we actually did have capitalism. Instead, we have government protection of intellectual property, which is essentially the foundation of Microsoft's entire business model. Government force is not capitalism.
Know any history of Microsoft? Here it is in a nutshell -
Microsoft's fortune was built on business standardizing on MS-DOS. Once businesses committed to Microsoft they were made, millions and millions of dollars rolled in for copies of a relatively simple operating system. They imitated all and sunder. Then they made a half-a**ed copy of MacOS and called it Windows 95, started bundling free half-a**ed versions of other's software to expand influence - the companies and innovation they killed are legion. Like a heroin addict, business has found it now has to have Windows operating system and support, as Microsoft rolls out a new version every two years - what results in "The Microsoft Tax," as it is called - which ensures the billions keep rolling in, no matter how bad the product. Every version is promised to be better than the last, but every version needs more resources - if it weren't for Moore's Law you'd never get your PC to boot up in a day.
Microsoft is now a "Mature" company - their product releases are perfunctory (you really don't need a newer version of anything, except that they cut off support for older software.) They buy, rather than innovate - their own core product line is finally losing influence - lots of mis-steps, like Vista and notorious for poor coding practices leaving security holes by the hundreds - tablets and smart phones are eating away a once unassailable market position and Microsoft's own forays in the arena have been laughable at best.
Patents? Intellectual Property? Not so much, really, unless they want to tango with the likes of Google. Microsoft's key challenge is remaining relevant and necessary in a world were Apple has returned from the near-death with products which Microsoft can't match. Google has taken giant strides in new directions while Microsoft, who had easy early success based upon luck, can't figure out their next move.
What will Microsoft do with Skype? Probably try to find a way to force everyone to use it, bundle it with the XBox or something. I don't have high hopes. I think it's a poor acquisition for them.
Always seems to be carrying a very sharp sword.
There's always voting with your dollars, take them elsewhere - helps blunt such swords.
So you're saying that LulzSec dun goofed, and consequences will never be the same?!
There's a lesson to take from Fight Club - never talk about Fight Club.
The real sinister hackers are the ones who keep their heads down and seek anonymity, not notoriety - those who see self glorification are much easier to catch.
Either everyone is cutting costs or seeing how much slack they can get away with.
Fukushima was a wake-up call - seems we stupid simians need one every 20 or so years, to remind us we can poison our own air, water and food supply if we don't take it seriously.
There's also a good chance the American Way of trying to maximize profit has encouraged everyone to cut corners, where much of it was just common practice of American public and private sector before. The difference between public is cutting spending, where private wants to keep the money for that big check for the CEO and to look all pretty to Wall Street.
I work in a bank and I'll confirm this. There has been a big "security" push around here lately but it only consists of stupid shit like imposing the most ridiculous password policies for the 5 or so different incompatible systems in use plus a slew of sites and applications that don't use any of the centralized systems. The end result predictably being that everyone has taken to writing down their passwords. Banks are all about the semblance of security, not actual security.
Quite surprised by this, but I suppose I shouldn't be.
Back about 15 years ago the banks were extremely reluctant to have anything beyond modems as they needed to see that the budding internet was secure before they exposed anything to it.
Now, consider the way businesses have been working, slashing workerbees (including those who provided auditing and safety nets) to maximize payouts a the top, plus the willingness to take on preposterous investment and lending strategies, which eventually collapsed and you can see they're pretty careless, feckless even.
Dear Slashdot,
Don't feed the trolls.
Thanks,
Metalliqaz
Have to agree here. Sounds like a bunch of n00bs who have had some lucky success with sloppy security. Just a matter of time before they're dragged into the daylight, all sniveling about how they didn't really mean to cause any harm.
After the CIA attack it's safe money the spooks are already well along in backtracking the traffic.
One thing to remember - keep abusing the internet and the government will begin passing laws, with the sheeple all too willing to let it happen, which clamps down on network communications. With only a few large providers of most traffic, they'll just order them to put some stuff in place (assuming it isn't already, they did find that Craigslist killer pretty fast, eh?) and then one morning we'll read about the swoop in the news, between forest fires in the next idiot in government scandal.
My extremely stupid Motorola phone will record everything Steve Jobs is afraid of.
Bwah ha ha haaaah!
Come on! Spock had copper-based blood and his vulcan father and earthan mother were able to combine DNA and produce him.
Better Science Through TOS
CmdrTaco if you're in the Seattle area within the next two months I can give you a tour of the Microsoft Redmond campus ;-)
Can't really see that being your scene though!
August 20th (IIRC) Groundspeak (Geocaching.com) is having a blockparty/open house in Seattle. He'd have a lot more fun there, along with 3,500+ other geocachers.