You seem to be implying some kind of quantum state of security in which your door is as secure with a broken lock no one knows is broken as it would be with an unbroken lock.
That quantum state of security is exactly what "security through obscurity" is. Don't worry, you perfectly understood what I was trying to say:), it's that it doesn't make sense.
I don't think that they're bozos, I think they're trying to shed the responsability for having security flaws by placing the blame on those that openly discuss and publicize vulnerabilities in their products.
Correction on your analogy : If you don't tell anyone that you lock doesn't work terribly well it's just as safe as it was working fine, and you can get around fixing it 6 months from now, because it's not really a problem since nobody knows.
Until someone tries to open the door to see if it is actually properly locked, or gets a tip that it isn't.
Therein lies the flaw of "security through obscurity".
I know exactly the point that he wants to make, it's that if no one talks or reports the security holes it's not a problem. But it IS!
An unlocked door is safe until someone sees you lock it. Therefore everybody just leave all your door unlocked, since we do not know that they're unlocked there is no danger.
Reply to this post with your street adress and your usual work hours, thanks!
Because the guy that accepted to be killed had some psychological/psychiatric probems, so did the freak that was doing the cannibalism.
A sane, modern society would : A) Help the guy that got killed with his mental problems, and minimize threat to people like this by making the cannibal's behavior illegal and morally unacceptable. B) Try to fix whatever is wrong with the cannibal's brain/social behavior, and/or handle people like that by removing them from society to prevent harm.
Something cannot be considered "consentual" if it can only be consented by someone with serious psychiatric problems. There's a huge difference between most consentual acts, like sex (straight and otherwise), drinking, smoking (tobacco or otherwise) and getting killed by someone for his own pleasure.
Yesyer I was hearing a colleague curse at his computer yesterday because he was looking for something specific.
"Man, Goggle SUCKS now!, I'll try yahoo."
"DAMN! Yahoo sucks even more!"
I have to admit that I used to think google was incredible just after it came out, but nowadays I'm used to wading through 10-15 pages of results before finding something relevant to what I need.
No kidding. A quick perusal of their site comes up with articles on global warming, how to be an activist, the evils of SUVs, and other non-sense. Little wonder such a group would condemn the policies of the current administration.
For that first paragraph I thought that your sarcasm was perfectly dosed. Then I realized you weren't being sarcastic.
So basically you're saying that there is no global warming, SUVs are safe and get 30 mpg, and letting governments do whatever they say without standing up for any cause is the right thing to do.
Videotron was the brainchild of Claude Chagnon, a very successful businessman in Quebec, who had a lot of interest in medias. Videotron had interactive TV in the late eighties, and invested a lot of money into bringing out cable internet to cover the most customers possible.
All changed when he decided to merge with Rogers Cable. Quebecor saw this as an opportunity and used nationalistic rantings and political influence to get the "Caisse et Placement du Quebec" to invest with Quebecor and avoid having a Quebec company join up with one from out west. I couldn't believe people actually believed all that BS but it worked. Instead of winding up with a coast-to-coast network with tons of users, a media giant wound up getting the biggest cable and high-speed internet provider in Quebec.
I was a tech support monkey when that happenend, and I couldn't believe it. We quickly saw where it was gonna go. Pierre K. Peladeau (that's french for Darl McBride, he's the a-hole son of one of the richest man ever in quebec, who passed away in the nineties) started complaining that the management of Videotron was one of the worst one he ever saw. He proceeded to turn almost all of the cable installation/service call work to sub-contractor, to get rid of the highly payed and qualified techs. He also wanted to lower the salary of the tech support people (making barely 15 bucks an hour on average), and transferring some of the load to his 8 bucks an hour slave call centers. The techs went on strike for a year (I was gone at that point), but Quebecor had the infrastructure to make it work without them (with the help of scabs).
Of interest is that our IP telephony project was in highly advanced stages before the buy-out, with techs using it at home for beta testing. That was quickly thrown out the window after Quebecor stepped in, along with many interesting R&D projects. That could have been big in a few years, but thank to the short sightedness of greedy PK Peladeau, Videotron will miss the boat. PKP managed to suck the soul out of the company to make it the most profitable for his short-sighted, greedy, spoiled kid mind.
I don't know if you can tell, but I don't like him too much either.
I'm responding to a random thread but most of them bring up some points that Blizzard adressed with their upcoming MMORPG, World of Warcraft. Now mind you, Blizzard's Warcraft series is a good example of their work which involve taking ideas from other companies, making an incredibly good interface and polishing the concept. Then you sell 3-5 million copies of it. (Warcraft 1 was basically Command & Conquer Lite w/ orcs).
In WoW, they're using a variation of the Diablo 2 drop system. Meaning the level of the mob will determine the base item and the magic properties will be semi-random. There will be dungeon instancing, meaning your group will be the only one waiting to see that special mob in the deep part of the dungeon.
As far as class balance goes, Blizzard is coming out with only nine classes, with feats and talents (that's not how they call it, but that's what it is) that can be used by different classes for costumization. Blizzard are pretty good at balancing class, and they were smart enough not to go with 48 classes like Everquest 2.
I've been gone for two months, and the game was so horrible that talking about it is like talking about a car wreck I was a passenger in. I don't want to go into details, but off the top of my head, the major problems are:
1- Totally player economy. No vendor buys or sell to keep the market in check, and no monsters drop equipment. In FFXI the common items can be bought at npc's, capping prices at AH, and they can be sold to npc's for reasonable amounts, keeping a minimum value to goods. 2- Armor and equipment system. Putting on armor reduces stats, and the stats system is awful by itself, Health/Action/Mind system is something that should be buried and never dug up. 3- Special moves that kill yourself. Using a knockdown move with a Knuckler could bring you from 100% to less than 50% health at a point in time. As a general rule the fact that the special move lower pools that kill you if they get to 0 is pretty bad. Action pool should have been used for specials and NOT incap you at 0. 4- Pointless and endless maps. You have eight huge squares, that's your map. Everything is dynamic, but not really programmed to make it fun for the player that is part of the equation. Compare this to FFXI where you can be in a great plain, follow down into a canyon and discover a strange cave. 5- Retarded concepts like you need skills to be able to go up slopes without crawling. That must have seemed good on paper, but it sure as hell does not work. 6- Creatures&Vehicles : AFAIC, too little, too late.
I could go on. But I won't. My experience disgusted my.
I find that Halo totally pales in comparison to BF1942 and Call of Duty. I got on Halo and IMHO the game has been way too much Console-ified. The graphics are not that great. However, I disagree with another person that replied about performance. On my Athlon 2600+ (A7N8X mobo), 1 gig of ram and Radeon 9800 pro it runs totally smooth at 1600X1200.
Yup, but once one of these players gets on the punkbusted list, he's gone from all servers using the global ban list. Cheaters on a good punkbuster-enabled server are just waiting to get caught, and that's great because you know they'll be gone. Admins can take screenshots off the player's screen, or they can just record a demo or start watching that guy that headshots everyone with every bullet in his clip. Same goes for that guy that always seems to know you're behind that wall.
The nicest feature is that they globally ban people that try to interfer or modify punkbuster. No more playing on punkbuster servers for these punks.
On a more personnal note, there are two types of people that I despise in this world, cheaters and thieves. I don't get the guys that get a kick out of playing the game and using aimbots to kill everyone. Like this BF1942 game I was playing on a random server where they had killed us 130 times and we killed them 5 times. Nobody's that good. There is also a special place in hell for team-killers, you know that retard on the deck of the carrier killing people of his own team and blowing up the carrier with grenades. Of course man, you're really "pwning" us, your teammates.
This will surely give them enough funding from high-risk investors that don't mind losing a few hundred k's for a chance of a big payout.
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Let me get this right, you'd shoot and kill the person who's job it is to perform the search?
Personally my father is a 30 year veteran in law enforcement in canada, and as other/.ers with friends/family involved in law enforcement, I have a problem with what you're suggesting here.
Would killing my father make you feel very good about the NRA and pirating music?
Well, a ferrari 360 is 47" high from the ground to the top of the car. You're grandma would have no problems seeing over the steering wheel, it's your 6'6" uncle that would have issues with the car. By comparison a civic is 55 inches high, and that's a minuscule car by american SUVesque standards.
That's exactly the filter. The ones we installed were engineered to required a special tool for installation/removal and had a metal casing. I've never worked on them but I'd spoken to a few road techs about it.
A lot of times a tech would go on the road to fix a problem with a client, and they're able to check what services the neighbor are supposed to have (or they could just call in to know). If you removed the filter, you were commiting fraud and could be prosecuted as such. At the time though the lawyers weren't set on "kill" mode so they'd just offer the client the opportunity so subscribe to cable tv instead of being sued and prosecuted in a criminal court.
FYI the next big thing (tm) that ATI fanatics are looking forward too is the R420, not the R400. Rage 3d reports that the Xbox2 VPU will be based off the R500.
There's now way that ATI will cannibalize their PC graphics card market by making the xbox VPU on par with their top PC VPU for a fraction of the price (IMHO).
"If you have a cable modem, you'll still get analog cable if its offered in your area, regardless of what the cable company may tell you."
That's quite untrue. I've worked for 3 years for Tech Support for Videotron in Montreal. When we sent techs to install cable internet at a location with no cable TV, we'd make a note for them to install a high pass filter with a cut-off that takes the analog cable frequencies out.
There's also plenty of posts in this thread about cable internet being reliable. My experience (6000+ tech support calls when I was there) is that a reliable cable modem with good RX/TX levels and S/N ratio is rock steady. I could poll the modems to get their signal ration from our support apps to check them. If a problem exist in the transmission levels, you send a tech over to find the problem and fix it.
Of course, there's no cure for people putting crap-tastic splitters (especially non-bidirectional) and ruining their transmission. Double that if the client keeps removing it when the tech comes over to check and puts it back on when he leaves. "The tech said the reception was ok! Waahhh!"
"Filters are used to screen out items containing certain pornographic or politically sensitive terms"
See, if they had stopped at stifling free expression and political opinion exchange they would have been allright. They went after porn, and in technology, porn ALWAYS win. An army of horny men will find a way through their defenses like a knife through hot butter.
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You just wait until dentists start spamming, we'll see who's #1 :)
You seem to be implying some kind of quantum state of security in which your door is as secure with a broken lock no one knows is broken as it would be with an unbroken lock.
:), it's that it doesn't make sense.
That quantum state of security is exactly what "security through obscurity" is. Don't worry, you perfectly understood what I was trying to say
I don't think that they're bozos, I think they're trying to shed the responsability for having security flaws by placing the blame on those that openly discuss and publicize vulnerabilities in their products.
Correction on your analogy : If you don't tell anyone that you lock doesn't work terribly well it's just as safe as it was working fine, and you can get around fixing it 6 months from now, because it's not really a problem since nobody knows.
Until someone tries to open the door to see if it is actually properly locked, or gets a tip that it isn't.
Therein lies the flaw of "security through obscurity".
I know exactly the point that he wants to make, it's that if no one talks or reports the security holes it's not a problem. But it IS!
An unlocked door is safe until someone sees you lock it. Therefore everybody just leave all your door unlocked, since we do not know that they're unlocked there is no danger.
Reply to this post with your street adress and your usual work hours, thanks!
Make sure you have enough tin foil to wrap your beer after completing your hat.
Because the guy that accepted to be killed had some psychological/psychiatric probems, so did the freak that was doing the cannibalism.
A sane, modern society would :
A) Help the guy that got killed with his mental problems, and minimize threat to people like this by making the cannibal's behavior illegal and morally unacceptable.
B) Try to fix whatever is wrong with the cannibal's brain/social behavior, and/or handle people like that by removing them from society to prevent harm.
Something cannot be considered "consentual" if it can only be consented by someone with serious psychiatric problems. There's a huge difference between most consentual acts, like sex (straight and otherwise), drinking, smoking (tobacco or otherwise) and getting killed by someone for his own pleasure.
Yesyer I was hearing a colleague curse at his computer yesterday because he was looking for something specific.
"Man, Goggle SUCKS now!, I'll try yahoo."
"DAMN! Yahoo sucks even more!"
I have to admit that I used to think google was incredible just after it came out, but nowadays I'm used to wading through 10-15 pages of results before finding something relevant to what I need.
I'm sure James Bond and MacGiver have been doing this very technique for quite some time now.
For that first paragraph I thought that your sarcasm was perfectly dosed. Then I realized you weren't being sarcastic.
So basically you're saying that there is no global warming, SUVs are safe and get 30 mpg, and letting governments do whatever they say without standing up for any cause is the right thing to do.
Great, now after SCO accusing /.ers of writing the mydoom worms, we'll be accused of planning air strikes on them.
Thanks a lot.
Videotron was the brainchild of Claude Chagnon, a very successful businessman in Quebec, who had a lot of interest in medias. Videotron had interactive TV in the late eighties, and invested a lot of money into bringing out cable internet to cover the most customers possible.
All changed when he decided to merge with Rogers Cable. Quebecor saw this as an opportunity and used nationalistic rantings and political influence to get the "Caisse et Placement du Quebec" to invest with Quebecor and avoid having a Quebec company join up with one from out west. I couldn't believe people actually believed all that BS but it worked. Instead of winding up with a coast-to-coast network with tons of users, a media giant wound up getting the biggest cable and high-speed internet provider in Quebec.
I was a tech support monkey when that happenend, and I couldn't believe it. We quickly saw where it was gonna go. Pierre K. Peladeau (that's french for Darl McBride, he's the a-hole son of one of the richest man ever in quebec, who passed away in the nineties) started complaining that the management of Videotron was one of the worst one he ever saw. He proceeded to turn almost all of the cable installation/service call work to sub-contractor, to get rid of the highly payed and qualified techs. He also wanted to lower the salary of the tech support people (making barely 15 bucks an hour on average), and transferring some of the load to his 8 bucks an hour slave call centers. The techs went on strike for a year (I was gone at that point), but Quebecor had the infrastructure to make it work without them (with the help of scabs).
Of interest is that our IP telephony project was in highly advanced stages before the buy-out, with techs using it at home for beta testing. That was quickly thrown out the window after Quebecor stepped in, along with many interesting R&D projects. That could have been big in a few years, but thank to the short sightedness of greedy PK Peladeau, Videotron will miss the boat. PKP managed to suck the soul out of the company to make it the most profitable for his short-sighted, greedy, spoiled kid mind.
I don't know if you can tell, but I don't like him too much either.
I'm responding to a random thread but most of them bring up some points that Blizzard adressed with their upcoming MMORPG, World of Warcraft. Now mind you, Blizzard's Warcraft series is a good example of their work which involve taking ideas from other companies, making an incredibly good interface and polishing the concept. Then you sell 3-5 million copies of it. (Warcraft 1 was basically Command & Conquer Lite w/ orcs).
In WoW, they're using a variation of the Diablo 2 drop system. Meaning the level of the mob will determine the base item and the magic properties will be semi-random. There will be dungeon instancing, meaning your group will be the only one waiting to see that special mob in the deep part of the dungeon.
As far as class balance goes, Blizzard is coming out with only nine classes, with feats and talents (that's not how they call it, but that's what it is) that can be used by different classes for costumization. Blizzard are pretty good at balancing class, and they were smart enough not to go with 48 classes like Everquest 2.
I think it's great that a mugging strategy got modded interesting on /.
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Still on the web years after the in-episode joke.
I've been gone for two months, and the game was so horrible that talking about it is like talking about a car wreck I was a passenger in. I don't want to go into details, but off the top of my head, the major problems are :
1- Totally player economy. No vendor buys or sell to keep the market in check, and no monsters drop equipment. In FFXI the common items can be bought at npc's, capping prices at AH, and they can be sold to npc's for reasonable amounts, keeping a minimum value to goods.
2- Armor and equipment system. Putting on armor reduces stats, and the stats system is awful by itself, Health/Action/Mind system is something that should be buried and never dug up.
3- Special moves that kill yourself. Using a knockdown move with a Knuckler could bring you from 100% to less than 50% health at a point in time. As a general rule the fact that the special move lower pools that kill you if they get to 0 is pretty bad. Action pool should have been used for specials and NOT incap you at 0.
4- Pointless and endless maps. You have eight huge squares, that's your map. Everything is dynamic, but not really programmed to make it fun for the player that is part of the equation. Compare this to FFXI where you can be in a great plain, follow down into a canyon and discover a strange cave.
5- Retarded concepts like you need skills to be able to go up slopes without crawling. That must have seemed good on paper, but it sure as hell does not work.
6- Creatures&Vehicles : AFAIC, too little, too late.
I could go on. But I won't. My experience disgusted my.
Battle.net...
You will never see such a wretched hive of scum and villainy anywhere else in the galaxy. We have to be careful not to be pwned.
I find that Halo totally pales in comparison to BF1942 and Call of Duty. I got on Halo and IMHO the game has been way too much Console-ified. The graphics are not that great. However, I disagree with another person that replied about performance. On my Athlon 2600+ (A7N8X mobo), 1 gig of ram and Radeon 9800 pro it runs totally smooth at 1600X1200.
Yup, but once one of these players gets on the punkbusted list, he's gone from all servers using the global ban list. Cheaters on a good punkbuster-enabled server are just waiting to get caught, and that's great because you know they'll be gone. Admins can take screenshots off the player's screen, or they can just record a demo or start watching that guy that headshots everyone with every bullet in his clip. Same goes for that guy that always seems to know you're behind that wall.
The nicest feature is that they globally ban people that try to interfer or modify punkbuster. No more playing on punkbuster servers for these punks.
On a more personnal note, there are two types of people that I despise in this world, cheaters and thieves. I don't get the guys that get a kick out of playing the game and using aimbots to kill everyone. Like this BF1942 game I was playing on a random server where they had killed us 130 times and we killed them 5 times. Nobody's that good. There is also a special place in hell for team-killers, you know that retard on the deck of the carrier killing people of his own team and blowing up the carrier with grenades. Of course man, you're really "pwning" us, your teammates.
They've posted another story that states that SCO's claims have reached 5 billion (yes, this really is a news.com link).
This will surely give them enough funding from high-risk investors that don't mind losing a few hundred k's for a chance of a big payout.
Let me get this right, you'd shoot and kill the person who's job it is to perform the search?
/.ers with friends/family involved in law enforcement, I have a problem with what you're suggesting here.
Personally my father is a 30 year veteran in law enforcement in canada, and as other
Would killing my father make you feel very good about the NRA and pirating music?
Well, a ferrari 360 is 47" high from the ground to the top of the car. You're grandma would have no problems seeing over the steering wheel, it's your 6'6" uncle that would have issues with the car. By comparison a civic is 55 inches high, and that's a minuscule car by american SUVesque standards.
That's exactly the filter. The ones we installed were engineered to required a special tool for installation/removal and had a metal casing. I've never worked on them but I'd spoken to a few road techs about it.
A lot of times a tech would go on the road to fix a problem with a client, and they're able to check what services the neighbor are supposed to have (or they could just call in to know). If you removed the filter, you were commiting fraud and could be prosecuted as such. At the time though the lawyers weren't set on "kill" mode so they'd just offer the client the opportunity so subscribe to cable tv instead of being sued and prosecuted in a criminal court.
FYI the next big thing (tm) that ATI fanatics are looking forward too is the R420, not the R400. Rage 3d reports that the Xbox2 VPU will be based off the R500.
There's now way that ATI will cannibalize their PC graphics card market by making the xbox VPU on par with their top PC VPU for a fraction of the price (IMHO).
"If you have a cable modem, you'll still get analog cable if its offered in your area, regardless of what the cable company may tell you."
That's quite untrue. I've worked for 3 years for Tech Support for Videotron in Montreal. When we sent techs to install cable internet at a location with no cable TV, we'd make a note for them to install a high pass filter with a cut-off that takes the analog cable frequencies out.
There's also plenty of posts in this thread about cable internet being reliable. My experience (6000+ tech support calls when I was there) is that a reliable cable modem with good RX/TX levels and S/N ratio is rock steady. I could poll the modems to get their signal ration from our support apps to check them. If a problem exist in the transmission levels, you send a tech over to find the problem and fix it.
Of course, there's no cure for people putting crap-tastic splitters (especially non-bidirectional) and ruining their transmission. Double that if the client keeps removing it when the tech comes over to check and puts it back on when he leaves. "The tech said the reception was ok! Waahhh!"
"Filters are used to screen out items containing certain pornographic or politically sensitive terms"
See, if they had stopped at stifling free expression and political opinion exchange they would have been allright. They went after porn, and in technology, porn ALWAYS win. An army of horny men will find a way through their defenses like a knife through hot butter.