From TFA: In Check Point's case, CSRF was possible when a user was logged onto https://my.firewall/ at the same time he or she was connected to a malicious Website, according to the company's patch release information.
This bad, sure, but hardly the internet-destroying calamity the article makes it sound like. When you're connected to the web interface of something critical, make sure you trust the other websites you're viewing at the same time. Am I missing something, or is this Calyptix company just trying to get its name on everyone's lips?
Speaking of games that came free with sound cards... years and years ago Creative Labs mailed me a game for registering my Sound Blaster Pro.
It was called Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs.
If anyone else here has played the game, I don't need to tell you how bad it was. If you haven't played it, well.. it was kind of the video game equivalent of Vogon poetry. It was -that- bad.
Ah, the Discovery Channel. Also known as the Alaskan Crab channel. Seems like that's the only show they have any more. Even the eternally-likable Mike Roe, even -Mythbusters- (the closest thing to a science show Discovery has) lost airtime to those stupid crab boats. It's no wonder they don't have time to show any actual science (or even discovery) any more, they have to fit in 30 episodes of "World's Deadliest Catch" a day.
I've got nothing to contribute, here, just bitching.
I've done tech support for years for family as well as professionally. It's true that there are a lot of people who remain ignorant of the features their bought-and-paid-for gizmos provide because they can't be bothered or don't have the time. I refuse to accept that as an excuse. Non-technical people -can- learn to work their own stuff, or they can call someone with the technical knowledge to do it for them. I've had dozens of parents bring computers or other equipment into my shop to do just that. These are non-technical people that still take responsibility for their children. If someone is serious about keeping their kid away from the bits of the internet they don't like, then they will do this. Otherwise, they obviously weren't that serious about it to begin with.
Oh, and as far as resetting the router with a paperclip and then blaming a power outage, that's a great way to lose one's computer-in-the-room privileges, as my friend's son found out.
Every router on the market has connection logging functionality, along with blacklists, whitelists, and password-protected access. It's all the tools you need to keep your kid from seeing what you don't want them to see, provided you're willing to spend the time to set things up.
Or you can practice what my mom did: Pop into the computer room (no computer in -my- room, my parents knew they'd never see me again) at random intervals to see what her rotten kid was up to.
Of course this was all back before the general internet was "dangerous" and at that time only AOL chat rooms were the source of all that was evil in the world. Funny how the magazines never mentioned the far more evil IRC... I suppose before that it was Usenet, and before that it was BBSes. Wow, what was the source of all evil before there were BBSes? Was the world just a good and happy place?
And there was yet another that allowed you to mix music and create synthesized effects in real time by arranging various oddly-shaped prisms on the surface. I have two (large) videos of that but I don't know where they came from.
I've actually cut myself on that second kind of plastic. It's like a paper cut, except I swear I'm allergic to the stuff because the cut swells up something fierce.
On many corporate VM systems, you can skip the "X is not here. To leave a message, wait for the tone. Press 0 for the operator. Press *473 to use our automated directory, which not only won't work, but is pointless since you already direct-dialed the extension of the person you're trying to reach." message by hitting *.
Unless, of course, it's a system that disconnects you when you hit *.
I didn't find jack by searching for common numbers on Google. But, by search Altavista for the first 8 digits of my expired Sears Mastercard, I found links to PDFs of filed bankruptcy claims with loads of personal information.
Trying a few of the other CC numbers listed in such a PDF found me an absolute treasure trove of numbers, complete with all the info I'd need to make purchases with those cards, including the little "security codes" (which I thought were not even supposed to be recorded).
When holding it like a remote control, the pointing interface is so horrible that I can't believe they bothered. It's fine for menus, but any time that it's used interactively, it's horrid. Red Steel is a great example of horrid pointing.
I can't help wondering if this is something software-specific. Case-in-point: Zelda's pointer interface is smoother and more responsive than the actual Wii menus. When it comes to firing the bow in Zelda, it's easy to snipe even tiny targets from a tremendous distance using the pointer interface.
I haven't played Red Steel so I'll take your word that the pointing interface sucks in that game, but I don't think it's a problem with the controller.
Zelda 2 was an RPG. You gained experience points, assigned them to certain stats. Granted, there were only 3 stats and 8 magical spells, but nevertheless...
Of course it was also a platform game of sorts. And it was a part of Nintendo's "Adventure" game series, back when they tried to put all their games into an official Nintendo-approved genre. Remember the "Education" series? Had all of 2 games, I think.
Fortunately, as Mitch Fatel observed, "... most of us are pleasant-looking. There aren't really very many ugly people. You know a person is ugly when you see them, and you want to hit them. 'Why did you come out?!'".
Also, that's the first time I've ever ended a sentence with five punctuation marks. And my placement of the period is the only really questionable one.
The original Tactics is being ported to the PSP, and a completely new Tactic game is being developed for the DS.
With you on the Chrono series, though. Hopefully they can release a sequel to Chrono Trigger that -doesn't- kill off all the main characters and utterly destroy the significance of anything done in the previous game....
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From TFA:
In Check Point's case, CSRF was possible when a user was logged onto https://my.firewall/ at the same time he or she was connected to a malicious Website, according to the company's patch release information.
This bad, sure, but hardly the internet-destroying calamity the article makes it sound like. When you're connected to the web interface of something critical, make sure you trust the other websites you're viewing at the same time. Am I missing something, or is this Calyptix company just trying to get its name on everyone's lips?
But you can watch a guy's head explode fairly graphically at the end of Bionic Commando.
Speaking of games that came free with sound cards... years and years ago Creative Labs mailed me a game for registering my Sound Blaster Pro.
It was called Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs.
If anyone else here has played the game, I don't need to tell you how bad it was. If you haven't played it, well.. it was kind of the video game equivalent of Vogon poetry. It was -that- bad.
Ah, the Discovery Channel. Also known as the Alaskan Crab channel. Seems like that's the only show they have any more. Even the eternally-likable Mike Roe, even -Mythbusters- (the closest thing to a science show Discovery has) lost airtime to those stupid crab boats. It's no wonder they don't have time to show any actual science (or even discovery) any more, they have to fit in 30 episodes of "World's Deadliest Catch" a day.
I've got nothing to contribute, here, just bitching.
It's not far from the 4 big volcanoes apparently. Could it be the remains of a subsumed lava tube with the roof collapsed?
I've done tech support for years for family as well as professionally. It's true that there are a lot of people who remain ignorant of the features their bought-and-paid-for gizmos provide because they can't be bothered or don't have the time. I refuse to accept that as an excuse. Non-technical people -can- learn to work their own stuff, or they can call someone with the technical knowledge to do it for them. I've had dozens of parents bring computers or other equipment into my shop to do just that. These are non-technical people that still take responsibility for their children. If someone is serious about keeping their kid away from the bits of the internet they don't like, then they will do this. Otherwise, they obviously weren't that serious about it to begin with.
Oh, and as far as resetting the router with a paperclip and then blaming a power outage, that's a great way to lose one's computer-in-the-room privileges, as my friend's son found out.
Every router on the market has connection logging functionality, along with blacklists, whitelists, and password-protected access. It's all the tools you need to keep your kid from seeing what you don't want them to see, provided you're willing to spend the time to set things up.
Or you can practice what my mom did: Pop into the computer room (no computer in -my- room, my parents knew they'd never see me again) at random intervals to see what her rotten kid was up to.
Of course this was all back before the general internet was "dangerous" and at that time only AOL chat rooms were the source of all that was evil in the world. Funny how the magazines never mentioned the far more evil IRC... I suppose before that it was Usenet, and before that it was BBSes. Wow, what was the source of all evil before there were BBSes? Was the world just a good and happy place?
Game Gear FTW!
They'll follow you wherever you go.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
From TFA, this sounds less like teleportation and more like another extension to the distance quantum cryptography has been successfully sent.
That would be it. Thanks!
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/
There ya go.
And there was yet another that allowed you to mix music and create synthesized effects in real time by arranging various oddly-shaped prisms on the surface. I have two (large) videos of that but I don't know where they came from.
It obviously needs the date so it can properly adjust leap seconds at the beginning of the year. And how else is it supposed to adjust for DST?
I've actually cut myself on that second kind of plastic. It's like a paper cut, except I swear I'm allergic to the stuff because the cut swells up something fierce.
That stuff is -evil-.
On many corporate VM systems, you can skip the "X is not here. To leave a message, wait for the tone. Press 0 for the operator. Press *473 to use our automated directory, which not only won't work, but is pointless since you already direct-dialed the extension of the person you're trying to reach." message by hitting *.
Unless, of course, it's a system that disconnects you when you hit *.
I didn't find jack by searching for common numbers on Google. But, by search Altavista for the first 8 digits of my expired Sears Mastercard, I found links to PDFs of filed bankruptcy claims with loads of personal information.
Trying a few of the other CC numbers listed in such a PDF found me an absolute treasure trove of numbers, complete with all the info I'd need to make purchases with those cards, including the little "security codes" (which I thought were not even supposed to be recorded).
Oops.
When holding it like a remote control, the pointing interface is so horrible that I can't believe they bothered. It's fine for menus, but any time that it's used interactively, it's horrid. Red Steel is a great example of horrid pointing.
I can't help wondering if this is something software-specific. Case-in-point: Zelda's pointer interface is smoother and more responsive than the actual Wii menus. When it comes to firing the bow in Zelda, it's easy to snipe even tiny targets from a tremendous distance using the pointer interface.
I haven't played Red Steel so I'll take your word that the pointing interface sucks in that game, but I don't think it's a problem with the controller.
Zelda 2 was an RPG. You gained experience points, assigned them to certain stats. Granted, there were only 3 stats and 8 magical spells, but nevertheless...
Of course it was also a platform game of sorts. And it was a part of Nintendo's "Adventure" game series, back when they tried to put all their games into an official Nintendo-approved genre. Remember the "Education" series? Had all of 2 games, I think.
Fortunately, as Mitch Fatel observed, "... most of us are pleasant-looking. There aren't really very many ugly people. You know a person is ugly when you see them, and you want to hit them. 'Why did you come out?!'".
Also, that's the first time I've ever ended a sentence with five punctuation marks. And my placement of the period is the only really questionable one.
You can't possibly be a vampire. Everyone knows of the vampire's deep-rooted fear of the letter "w".
Why? What happened?
The original Tactics is being ported to the PSP, and a completely new Tactic game is being developed for the DS.
With you on the Chrono series, though. Hopefully they can release a sequel to Chrono Trigger that -doesn't- kill off all the main characters and utterly destroy the significance of anything done in the previous game....
Which Tetris for the NES? The original Tengen version or Nintendo's copy?
The man invented MARIO. Mario's gotta be one of the most widely-recognized characters in the world. I'd call that fairly influential.