If Manfred found an exploit in the NPC shop protocol that allowed him to process sales for items he didn't actually have, then he could easily generate a lot of in-game money very quickly.
This point is a possible case. If he somehow edited the value of an item which could be sold back to a NPC, then the NPC will give the money to the client and this could be done on the client side. The information of selling and gaining money would then be sent to update on the server data.
I agree with you that the server usually does not monitor every transaction from clients because it is MMO. If a server has to verify every transaction, the game server could be easily overloaded which could cause lags and even crash. The optimization could be to verify at the login and only certain events/requests. Simple transactions with NPC are too common and/or frequent to be verified.
Except DefCon is where he's talking and last I looked presenters don't really get paid. And he's planning on ghosting after the one talk so it's not like he's setting up a lecture circuit with this appearance, so I doubt that.
I think you misunderstood the AC GP. It is about human nature. Why would he all of the sudden want to disclose the things he had been (illegally) doing for 20 years? There must be something changed in his life recently that makes him decide to come out to DefCon. If he is a bragger, he would have disclosed this long time ago because bragger can't resist to brag. Though, this isn't the case because he had kept the secret for 20 years (per what he said).
Now he wants to brag about what he had been doing, so there should be something for him to be gained. It makes logical sense. The gain he is looking for (or seeing) may not be what you are thinking.
Who is the "blacked out" defendant in that indictment? Why is their name blacked out?
It makes me wonder if the other defendant is a juvenile...
It is call "redact" version where certain information needs to remain secret until it is the right time to release to public (or when all actors are indict). Thus the person doesn't need to be a juvenile but rather be kept as secret for now for some reasons. You shouldn't be over thinking yet when you don't really have enough information.
There are other reasons. In many large companies, bugs are assigned a priority, and something like "app size too large" would fall well below segfaults and operational bugs. While management and programmer alike may agree that resource utilization is a problem, it is often a difficult issue to resolve because it's an open-ended task, and it can be difficult to tell what "done" means - does it mean reduction of 50%? 90%?
poor software engineer who has no idea how to design, code and use resources properly
Yes, but try telling management that they should fire a guy who makes his deadlines more often than not, and who works for a song...
Some issues are organizational. The guy who ships on time will always be more favored than the one who makes no mistakes.
Storage utilization is the user's problem, not the software engineer's.
So the storage utilization should NOT be pushed to users as their problem then.
While simultaneously replacing jobs that U.S. citizens might take.. after a computer-focused IT education provides them what they thought was the means to a career....
Yet you fail to understand the "argument" that the United States is failing to provide qualified tech workers... even with years of STEM programs.
So if they don't get the overworked-underpaid H1B temp employees they want and they for some reason can't find local talent... its time to ship jobs beyond our shores!
This is corporate greed funded by legislation.. and nothing more.
And you confirmed the GP point -- abuse of the program. Those companies that hire H1Bs in order to import them into this country are to be blamed (they keep 2 books similar to accounting). Those employers that outsource their work to a company which hires H1Bs are to be blamed. How hard is it to see that the program is not really the culprit, but companies that intend to cut their cost in order to make more profits are? Most of them are Indian companies, but one Australian based company caught on the loophole and now has been abusing it due to the growth in the industrial that is still a big problem in this country -- Health Care.
Of course I would. And every time I would say "I told you so yesterday!", and then go back and do it.
And you could have changed your present. Then you may not be able to say "I told you so yesterday!" because the person may not see or talk to you again.
Not according to the terms from Klarna. Only if you never make that payment will the interest kick in.
According to their ToS, there is a one time $10 late fee if the debtor doesn't pay within 10th day of the due date. And I suppose the deal will be paid through digital invoice anyway...
Due Date: When paying through digital invoice, you will have a period of 7 or more days (as will be disclosed at the time of checkout) to pay with no interest or fees. This period commences when the merchant ships the goods, and the last day of such period is the “Due Date.” As soon as an item ships, Klarna will receive notification from the merchant and Klarna will then send you an e-mail informing you of the date by which payment is to be made, along with details about how payment must be made. Your payment is due to Klarna by 8:00PM Eastern Time on your Due Date. If you fail to make a payment in full by the 10th day following the Due Date, a one-time delayed payment fee of up to $10USD (but no more than 20% of the original purchase amount), or such lesser amount as required by applicable law, will be added to the amount you owe to us. If the Due Date passes and Klarna has not received your payment, Klarna will send you a reminder email informing you that the payment is late and you will owe us a delayed payment fee unless the payment is made in full within 10 days of the Due Date.
And speaking of profits and impact, if I were the customer, I certainly would not be paying for service during an outage. I'd be demanding a refund and consider leaving for another provider.
Well, we are talking about India here. I am not so sure that their country would have a similar way of dealing with bad services. If you have ever lived in one of the 3rd world countries, you may get some ideas how disadvantage consumers are having...
Insightful? Seriously? Those who want a completely deregulation are ignorance. Those who want more regulations are also ignorance.
No one should completely trust any private companies to do the right thing all the time. If you do, I have a bridge to sell you because those companies are there to make money. If they can find a way to gain more profits, some of them (if not most) will do whether it is the right thing to do. That's why regulations are there in attempt to block them from doing so.
Too many regulations would also cause more problems and make the situation more complicated. More regulations may also open up more new ways of exploitations. When it becomes too much, it could block the "right" way of doing business as well. So more regulations is not the way to solve the problem.
I understand that regulations may not be able to cover every exploitation, but that's why we should revise regulation instead of getting rid of it. Think of exploitation as bugs in a software. And think of regulations as patches. When you patch a software, it may open up new bugs. Sadly in this case, you can't complete rewrite the whole software (even though I think it could be a better solution) because you can't completely and simply throw away the current business model. That's why revision is a better option.
Moderate way is the way to go in anything in lives.
Well in this case, the claim "by demonstrating that it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes", is a bit fat lie. The only way that it is possible to demonstrate that is to allow the experiment to reach maturity. You might have managed your change but it is extremely hard to tell how much damage you have down especially to what they used to call junk genes, which in reality are a complex set of interrelated genes that don't turn stuff on or off but adjust how much they are turned off or on. Do not claim value or safety until the experimental subject has achieved maturity, else it is a lie.
I completely agree. Though, scientists nowadays like advertising so that they can get more grants to do things they want to do. I am not saying it is a bad thing, but many of them are abusing the Internet to make fame before the real result from their researches are in...
True in many industries. I have found some items cheaper at specialty stores than in chain stores. The same is true for Amazon. The differences are many and, in effect, you are comparing apples and oranges. I have to drive to the brick & mortar store, wait in lines, pay, and drive home. Whereas with Amazon, I shop in the comfort of my own home and Amazon brings my purchases to me. The B&Ms are just stores, while Amazon is a shopping & delivery service. The difference is important for folk who cannot leave home.
You also have to account the time for Amazon delivery. For store front, you may use it when you urgently need something. For Amazon, you may have to wait. If you don't want to wait, pay extra for their service plan that they will deliver the goods at your location in a couple hours (if available).
Yes, but what Reggie Middleton said, the $8.4m could become $0 in a blink because what they were trading were VERI tokens...
Without the Veritaseum team, the tokens are literally wortheless! If someone were to someone confiscate 100% of the available tokens, all we need to do is refuse to stand behind them and recreate the token under a new contract.
And that's begging a question. Though, GP didn't offer any solution but rather made a complaint. I have no solution or suggestion of how to break the power of wealth either. But for sure, enough money will get you power. Enough power will get you wealth. It is a vicious cycle.
Why should TSA even make a statement about that?
Do they fear that checked in comic books can radicalize travelers to the extent that they become violent?
This seems like a case where TSA should have realized that it wasn't their job and that they shouldn't take every opportunity to expand their responsibilities.
You need to think out of the box a little bit here. Have you ever known anyone who values their comic books? Checked luggages may be inspected (you wouldn't know and you found out later) and that could damage their books because those who inspect your luggage will not be careful or mercy. If the books are damaged, what do you think how the owner would feel?
Yeah, he was a Democrat. But you can't say he was a Democrat, you have to also say that a person's political affiliation could have changed, and we don't know what was in his heart, and-and... OBVIOUSLY THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE GOOD GUYS, SO HE WASN'T A TRUE DEMOCRAT, OKAY???
Ok, here is the content at the top of the link you gave...
In 2006 Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen registered to vote as a Democrat, but his recent political leanings are unknown.
And if you scroll down further, it has "claim" and the rating is mixture (not either true or false). So what are you trying to show here???
Power here costs about £1/W/year. If you're expecting to keep your router for 2 years, it's worth spending up to £20 to reduce the power consumption by 10W. A typical old desktop will draw around 60W, an embedded router board will draw around 6W. That works out at a saving of £108 over two years, which is about the total cost of the embedded router board (PC-Engines or Soekris). After three years, even if you got the old PC for free, it's still more expensive. I used a PC-Engines WRAP board as my home router for around 5 years before needing to upgrade.
I'm not sure if your unit is correct... I am quite sure that you meant £1 per kWh (Kilo Watt Hour) per year.
A 6 wH router would require 52.56 kW to operate in a year (24/7 and 365 days a year)... So, I don't get the part where you are talking about saving.:-?
It's colloquial. Some people view their forum responses as literal "speech", rather than a formal written argument.
Get over it.
Then they shouldn't be writing and also stop assuming that everyone else knows it. Speaking language is often time ambiguous. If you want to write, do it properly.
None of that should matter. Either these devices are built to be safe for people to use (knowing that people do dumb things with electrical appliances), or they are not. If they aren't built with the anticipated 'dumb user factor', then they should never have been released.
It does matter to this case. Apple has attempted to control their own product and has stated long ago that their product (device) should (or must) be used with their own charger/adapter. They knew that there will be those who are described by you, so they wanted to ensure that they are not liable if these people did dumb things with their product.
The law suit did not state what charger the plaintiff used when charging. It just said that the cause of the fire was found to be from the iPhone battery. Also, she bought it way back in 2014 but the fire was in April 2016. Besides, the law suit did not even have any detail of where she bought the phone from. Could it be refurbished and sold by individual/shop seller that was not affiliated to Apple? Or was it sold directly from an Apple or affiliated phone company? These would be important in the law suit because you can't simply point your finger to the manufacturer when there is a potential tampering to the device before it was sold to the user.
So, they refuse to release the text of complaints that nobody actually wants to read, and someone is complaining.
You assume that "nobody" actually wants to read. That's a very dangerous assumption in most cases because of "there exists" cases...
How is it dangerous in this particular case? Do you really think there is something contained in 40,000 complaints that hasn't already been pounded to death? I'm just being realistic. Who wants to read them?
No the flood TV and Radio channels that shows how the other guy is so bad.
Not really nowadays. There is a better medium than just TV and radio -- Internet. Social network can accelerate anything much faster and has better impact on people especially younger generations. However, media, such as TV, radio, and Internet are simply tools and should not be blamed on. So could you please stop blaming media as a whole but rather point out specific person/group when anything like this happen? Simply making a generalization is misleading and actually make things worse.
A dead body doesn't automatically mean there's a murder (hence autopsies to see if it was or natural causes)...
You example about the dead body. You are stating that if they found a dead body and a person next too it. They will just take his word that he had nothing to do about it, and do no further investigation, and no autopsy. If there is an allegation or some evidence it should be investigated.
I don't understand how you come into your conclusion from the parent post regarding the dead body??? The parent only said there should be an autopsy and it does not matter if there was a person next to the body or what the person said. Your interpretation surprised me a lot...
It's not rich. Rich people don't have to work. That's rich. Rich people have people to do their yards, clean their pool, cook their food, clean their houses and drive them where they want to go in a car that cost more than I'll make in my lifetime. That's rich. 250K is living comfortably with no worries.
From TFA, it is unclear whether the $250k is for an individual or for a house hold. If it is an individual, I quite agree that it is for a rich (or lower bound rich). If it is for a house hold, I would say that it is not enough to be called rich...
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If Manfred found an exploit in the NPC shop protocol that allowed him to process sales for items he didn't actually have, then he could easily generate a lot of in-game money very quickly.
This point is a possible case. If he somehow edited the value of an item which could be sold back to a NPC, then the NPC will give the money to the client and this could be done on the client side. The information of selling and gaining money would then be sent to update on the server data.
I agree with you that the server usually does not monitor every transaction from clients because it is MMO. If a server has to verify every transaction, the game server could be easily overloaded which could cause lags and even crash. The optimization could be to verify at the login and only certain events/requests. Simple transactions with NPC are too common and/or frequent to be verified.
Except DefCon is where he's talking and last I looked presenters don't really get paid. And he's planning on ghosting after the one talk so it's not like he's setting up a lecture circuit with this appearance, so I doubt that.
I think you misunderstood the AC GP. It is about human nature. Why would he all of the sudden want to disclose the things he had been (illegally) doing for 20 years? There must be something changed in his life recently that makes him decide to come out to DefCon. If he is a bragger, he would have disclosed this long time ago because bragger can't resist to brag. Though, this isn't the case because he had kept the secret for 20 years (per what he said).
Now he wants to brag about what he had been doing, so there should be something for him to be gained. It makes logical sense. The gain he is looking for (or seeing) may not be what you are thinking.
Who is the "blacked out" defendant in that indictment? Why is their name blacked out?
It makes me wonder if the other defendant is a juvenile...
It is call "redact" version where certain information needs to remain secret until it is the right time to release to public (or when all actors are indict). Thus the person doesn't need to be a juvenile but rather be kept as secret for now for some reasons. You shouldn't be over thinking yet when you don't really have enough information.
There are other reasons. In many large companies, bugs are assigned a priority, and something like "app size too large" would fall well below segfaults and operational bugs. While management and programmer alike may agree that resource utilization is a problem, it is often a difficult issue to resolve because it's an open-ended task, and it can be difficult to tell what "done" means - does it mean reduction of 50%? 90%?
poor software engineer who has no idea how to design, code and use resources properly
Yes, but try telling management that they should fire a guy who makes his deadlines more often than not, and who works for a song...
Some issues are organizational. The guy who ships on time will always be more favored than the one who makes no mistakes.
Storage utilization is the user's problem, not the software engineer's.
So the storage utilization should NOT be pushed to users as their problem then.
While simultaneously replacing jobs that U.S. citizens might take.. after a computer-focused IT education provides them what they thought was the means to a career....
Yet you fail to understand the "argument" that the United States is failing to provide qualified tech workers... even with years of STEM programs.
So if they don't get the overworked-underpaid H1B temp employees they want and they for some reason can't find local talent... its time to ship jobs beyond our shores!
Wait.. do I hear an echo from Disney-world?
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
California dreaming!
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3117602/it-outsourcing/university-of-california-to-send-some-it-jobs-to-india.html
This is corporate greed funded by legislation.. and nothing more.
And you confirmed the GP point -- abuse of the program. Those companies that hire H1Bs in order to import them into this country are to be blamed (they keep 2 books similar to accounting). Those employers that outsource their work to a company which hires H1Bs are to be blamed. How hard is it to see that the program is not really the culprit, but companies that intend to cut their cost in order to make more profits are? Most of them are Indian companies, but one Australian based company caught on the loophole and now has been abusing it due to the growth in the industrial that is still a big problem in this country -- Health Care.
Of course I would. And every time I would say "I told you so yesterday!", and then go back and do it.
And you could have changed your present. Then you may not be able to say "I told you so yesterday!" because the person may not see or talk to you again.
Not according to the terms from Klarna. Only if you never make that payment will the interest kick in.
According to their ToS, there is a one time $10 late fee if the debtor doesn't pay within 10th day of the due date. And I suppose the deal will be paid through digital invoice anyway...
Due Date: When paying through digital invoice, you will have a period of 7 or more days (as will be disclosed at the time of checkout) to pay with no interest or fees. This period commences when the merchant ships the goods, and the last day of such period is the “Due Date.” As soon as an item ships, Klarna will receive notification from the merchant and Klarna will then send you an e-mail informing you of the date by which payment is to be made, along with details about how payment must be made. Your payment is due to Klarna by 8:00PM Eastern Time on your Due Date. If you fail to make a payment in full by the 10th day following the Due Date, a one-time delayed payment fee of up to $10USD (but no more than 20% of the original purchase amount), or such lesser amount as required by applicable law, will be added to the amount you owe to us. If the Due Date passes and Klarna has not received your payment, Klarna will send you a reminder email informing you that the payment is late and you will owe us a delayed payment fee unless the payment is made in full within 10 days of the Due Date.
And speaking of profits and impact, if I were the customer, I certainly would not be paying for service during an outage. I'd be demanding a refund and consider leaving for another provider.
Well, we are talking about India here. I am not so sure that their country would have a similar way of dealing with bad services. If you have ever lived in one of the 3rd world countries, you may get some ideas how disadvantage consumers are having...
Insightful? Seriously? Those who want a completely deregulation are ignorance. Those who want more regulations are also ignorance.
No one should completely trust any private companies to do the right thing all the time. If you do, I have a bridge to sell you because those companies are there to make money. If they can find a way to gain more profits, some of them (if not most) will do whether it is the right thing to do. That's why regulations are there in attempt to block them from doing so.
Too many regulations would also cause more problems and make the situation more complicated. More regulations may also open up more new ways of exploitations. When it becomes too much, it could block the "right" way of doing business as well. So more regulations is not the way to solve the problem.
I understand that regulations may not be able to cover every exploitation, but that's why we should revise regulation instead of getting rid of it. Think of exploitation as bugs in a software. And think of regulations as patches. When you patch a software, it may open up new bugs. Sadly in this case, you can't complete rewrite the whole software (even though I think it could be a better solution) because you can't completely and simply throw away the current business model. That's why revision is a better option.
Moderate way is the way to go in anything in lives.
Well in this case, the claim "by demonstrating that it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes", is a bit fat lie. The only way that it is possible to demonstrate that is to allow the experiment to reach maturity. You might have managed your change but it is extremely hard to tell how much damage you have down especially to what they used to call junk genes, which in reality are a complex set of interrelated genes that don't turn stuff on or off but adjust how much they are turned off or on. Do not claim value or safety until the experimental subject has achieved maturity, else it is a lie.
I completely agree. Though, scientists nowadays like advertising so that they can get more grants to do things they want to do. I am not saying it is a bad thing, but many of them are abusing the Internet to make fame before the real result from their researches are in...
True in many industries. I have found some items cheaper at specialty stores than in chain stores. The same is true for Amazon. The differences are many and, in effect, you are comparing apples and oranges. I have to drive to the brick & mortar store, wait in lines, pay, and drive home. Whereas with Amazon, I shop in the comfort of my own home and Amazon brings my purchases to me. The B&Ms are just stores, while Amazon is a shopping & delivery service. The difference is important for folk who cannot leave home.
You also have to account the time for Amazon delivery. For store front, you may use it when you urgently need something. For Amazon, you may have to wait. If you don't want to wait, pay extra for their service plan that they will deliver the goods at your location in a couple hours (if available).
$8.4 millon * ( 100 / 0.07% ) = $12 billions
Easy money.
Yes, but what Reggie Middleton said, the $8.4m could become $0 in a blink because what they were trading were VERI tokens...
Without the Veritaseum team, the tokens are literally wortheless! If someone were to someone confiscate 100% of the available tokens, all we need to do is refuse to stand behind them and recreate the token under a new contract.
And that's begging a question. Though, GP didn't offer any solution but rather made a complaint. I have no solution or suggestion of how to break the power of wealth either. But for sure, enough money will get you power. Enough power will get you wealth. It is a vicious cycle.
Why should TSA even make a statement about that? Do they fear that checked in comic books can radicalize travelers to the extent that they become violent?
This seems like a case where TSA should have realized that it wasn't their job and that they shouldn't take every opportunity to expand their responsibilities.
You need to think out of the box a little bit here. Have you ever known anyone who values their comic books? Checked luggages may be inspected (you wouldn't know and you found out later) and that could damage their books because those who inspect your luggage will not be careful or mercy. If the books are damaged, what do you think how the owner would feel?
Books are heavy.
Aha! So people can use books as weapons, so books must be banned! :p
Here's an example: http://www.snopes.com/orlando-shooter-was-democrat/
Yeah, he was a Democrat. But you can't say he was a Democrat, you have to also say that a person's political affiliation could have changed, and we don't know what was in his heart, and-and... OBVIOUSLY THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE GOOD GUYS, SO HE WASN'T A TRUE DEMOCRAT, OKAY???
Ok, here is the content at the top of the link you gave...
In 2006 Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen registered to vote as a Democrat, but his recent political leanings are unknown.
And if you scroll down further, it has "claim" and the rating is mixture (not either true or false). So what are you trying to show here???
Power here costs about £1/W/year. If you're expecting to keep your router for 2 years, it's worth spending up to £20 to reduce the power consumption by 10W. A typical old desktop will draw around 60W, an embedded router board will draw around 6W. That works out at a saving of £108 over two years, which is about the total cost of the embedded router board (PC-Engines or Soekris). After three years, even if you got the old PC for free, it's still more expensive. I used a PC-Engines WRAP board as my home router for around 5 years before needing to upgrade.
I'm not sure if your unit is correct... I am quite sure that you meant £1 per kWh (Kilo Watt Hour) per year.
A 6 wH router would require 52.56 kW to operate in a year (24/7 and 365 days a year)... So, I don't get the part where you are talking about saving. :-?
It's colloquial. Some people view their forum responses as literal "speech", rather than a formal written argument.
Get over it.
Then they shouldn't be writing and also stop assuming that everyone else knows it. Speaking language is often time ambiguous. If you want to write, do it properly.
None of that should matter. Either these devices are built to be safe for people to use (knowing that people do dumb things with electrical appliances), or they are not. If they aren't built with the anticipated 'dumb user factor', then they should never have been released.
It does matter to this case. Apple has attempted to control their own product and has stated long ago that their product (device) should (or must) be used with their own charger/adapter. They knew that there will be those who are described by you, so they wanted to ensure that they are not liable if these people did dumb things with their product.
The law suit did not state what charger the plaintiff used when charging. It just said that the cause of the fire was found to be from the iPhone battery. Also, she bought it way back in 2014 but the fire was in April 2016. Besides, the law suit did not even have any detail of where she bought the phone from. Could it be refurbished and sold by individual/shop seller that was not affiliated to Apple? Or was it sold directly from an Apple or affiliated phone company? These would be important in the law suit because you can't simply point your finger to the manufacturer when there is a potential tampering to the device before it was sold to the user.
So, they refuse to release the text of complaints that nobody actually wants to read, and someone is complaining.
You assume that "nobody" actually wants to read. That's a very dangerous assumption in most cases because of "there exists" cases...
How is it dangerous in this particular case? Do you really think there is something contained in 40,000 complaints that hasn't already been pounded to death? I'm just being realistic. Who wants to read them?
You have proven my point (see bold).
So, they refuse to release the text of complaints that nobody actually wants to read, and someone is complaining.
You assume that "nobody" actually wants to read. That's a very dangerous assumption in most cases because of "there exists" cases...
Doesn't fake news about fake news return back to actual news? Oh wait, lies are more complicated than Boolean logic :(((
The truth is, this is not a boolean logic (or mathematics). What you are looking for is "two wrongs don't make a right."
No the flood TV and Radio channels that shows how the other guy is so bad.
Not really nowadays. There is a better medium than just TV and radio -- Internet. Social network can accelerate anything much faster and has better impact on people especially younger generations. However, media, such as TV, radio, and Internet are simply tools and should not be blamed on. So could you please stop blaming media as a whole but rather point out specific person/group when anything like this happen? Simply making a generalization is misleading and actually make things worse.
A dead body doesn't automatically mean there's a murder (hence autopsies to see if it was or natural causes) ...
You example about the dead body. You are stating that if they found a dead body and a person next too it. They will just take his word that he had nothing to do about it, and do no further investigation, and no autopsy. If there is an allegation or some evidence it should be investigated.
I don't understand how you come into your conclusion from the parent post regarding the dead body??? The parent only said there should be an autopsy and it does not matter if there was a person next to the body or what the person said. Your interpretation surprised me a lot...
It's not rich. Rich people don't have to work. That's rich. Rich people have people to do their yards, clean their pool, cook their food, clean their houses and drive them where they want to go in a car that cost more than I'll make in my lifetime. That's rich. 250K is living comfortably with no worries.
From TFA, it is unclear whether the $250k is for an individual or for a house hold. If it is an individual, I quite agree that it is for a rich (or lower bound rich). If it is for a house hold, I would say that it is not enough to be called rich...