the Goverment situation is VERY different from here, they live in pseudo-democratic goverment
Why "pseudo"? Just because we don't make the looser of an election president doesn't make a democracy "pseudo" (Sorry, couldn't resist).
The differences in IT between the US and the german market are quite subtle but strong. There is more technical competence at the reseller level and we have therefor fewer consulting companies.
Espescially the price isn't that much important here as in the US. Trust in the reseller or manufacturer on the other hand is more important.
If you've done a good job you usually get the next deal too, even if you're more expensive (up to certain level). Companies and government agaency prefer to make the deal with someone they know.
usually there is more than one reason. I don't
think, that the DDoS attacks were the main
reason. Sure, they may have been the final drop,
but i guess no company delivering profits when
not attacked would have done the same.
This is only an isolated case. Till now, there
is *NO* consensus between the ISPs and the law
enforcers.
I had a lot of meetings with the BKA (something like the german FBI) about fighting criminality
in the internet. And they underestimate scale
and complexity of the net.
I give you one example. There is a software called
PERKEO. PERKEO is able to checksum files quickly
and has an internal database of known checksums
of child pornography images. They argued, that
most child pornography images (which are exchanged
through the internet) are well known. Somewhat like 95+% shell be in the database.
In the discussion with the ISPs they argued, that
it would be easy to add PERKEO to the proxy server. For every image accessed, the checksum is
created and compared with the database. In case
the checksum matches, the access is blocked.
When i tried to explain, that the introduction
would only result in countermeasure (automatic
modification of images), it was taken as
unwillingness.
Every meeting (i know about) ended with the same
results: Everyone is willing to fight criminals,
but the is no modus operandi. The law enforcement
agencies have wishes the ISPs do not consider
compatible with the law and constitution.
Some politicians and law enforcers are growing
more and more frustrated. So a state (Nordrhein-
Westfalen) tries to work with laws that put more
responisbility on the shoulders of the ISPs.
This generates confusion and the confusion results
in such events like the one discussed.
i have a similar problem on a smaller scale. In our house we had some problems with arson (6 times
in two years). So installed two WebCams and connected them with my LAN. I wrote a small perl-
script on my linux server which gets an image every second and writes it onto the hard disk.
This was quickly done, but even a 30GB hard disk
holds only the data of the two cams for two or three days before it is full (JPG 640*480, medium compression). Single images are also very
difficult to handle when you're looking for some
event.
Encoding it as a MPG reduced the volume significantly but my PI-200 needed more than 6 hours to compress 3600 images to one MPG file.
So i'm looking for some solution. The images
are colored right now, but i wouldn't mind to
have them greyscaled.
Thanks in advance, Martin
P.S. Privacy disclaimer: all people living in the house were informed and wellcomed them. Up to now, no mom/dad asked me to check when the kids came home at night. All images are deleted automagically after 48h.
P.P.S. No arson since then, but one case of burglary (cam pics where no help because i got
informed too late and the images were allready
discarded).
I think it was in Sun Tzu's "The art of war"
where i read something like:
Once there was there was a ruler who figured
out, that the harsher a punishment is, the
less likely it is, that someone will commit that
crime.
So he started to make the punishment for each
crime harsh and harsher. After some time even
the least crime was punished by death.
Months later some peasants, who where called to the arms,
where delayed by foul weather. When one of them
became aware that they were going to be late,
he turned to his fellows and asked "What is the
punishment for being late?"
His mates replied "Death."
So he asked "And what is the punishment for
rebelling?"
"Death" was the answer again.
"So", he said, "i have news for you. We are allready late."
The current idea of Ashcroft is, to use the outrage over the current incidents to get harsher
laws. By doing this, he does a severe damage to
the democratic system. There is a danger, that he
destroys which shell be protected.
This is allways the danger when fighting terrorists. Panic and outrage leads to action which breaks up the foundation of the society.
You win the battle and lose the war.
What most people don't seem to grasp: This is what the terrorists want. Even if they take every Boeing and Airbus ever buildt and crash them into buildings, they cannot destroy the U.S. The terrorists want to split the society. If they manage to make the politicians to take actions against minorities (arabs, geeks, etc.) this will damage a country more severly than any bomb.
If i would do a business and about than 10%
of my goods are stolen by people who invest time
and money in doing so, i would consider myself
doing something wrong.
There may be anomalies in a small business. But
in this case about one million (mostly honest) people are cheating.
You cannot even sue
one million people. The only chance is to pick a
few and serve them a fate so horrible that the
intimidated others comply with your rule. Works
great at least short term (some third world dictators reading this to confirm?)
I've been CEO of an IT company for seven years
and i was most of the time responsible for the hiring.
Programming like most *real* IT jobs requires a
solid education. There may be exceptions, but they are execptions. Highly educated and trained people
in any "new" area have allways been scarce.
But IT companies get swamped by applications from people who read two or three books an wrote a VBA script. Companies, under the pressure to grow and to satisfy the demand, which hire those goons will go under.
So they, especially big companies, try to get those scarce ressources form all over the world.
But this is a short term strategy:
First, it's allways a difficult taks to integrate someone who grew up under totally different circumstances. In the US this kind of integration seems to work better than in other countries, but there a still a lot of problems.
Second, it lowers the pressure to educate and train people. Today we have a high output of people who can use a computer. But the percentage
of "freaks" who truly understand what they are doing seems to be as low as during my highschool days (mid 1980's).
So i think green cards or H1B visas will not solve these problems.
I think you're not being fair. Event though i live in Germany (and not in PA) i heard a lot about Pope, saw a lot of pressure applied to the russian government and i also heard international protest.
I believe the US sate department put some thought
into it, how to handle that case. It may not
allways be the best idea to fire with the big guns
(i.e. the president) first.
A possible result may be, that the other side tries to raise the price for his freeing. It's
allways a tragedy for a human beeing to be
caught inside political clash between two countries or systems.
In the Sklyarov case i also believe that he being
a russian "hacker" made him an jummy target for the prosecution. Just imagine him trying to defend
himself in front of a jury speeking with russian
accent. That must be a nightmare after fifty years
of movies with half of the bad guys speaking like that.
You can't win the mission. If you're good you
get out (alive) and picked up by a chopper. That one gets shot down and you bail just to land right
in front of an enemy squad. There the demo ends.
The release will play havoc with a lot of social
lives (where remaining).
What stuns most is the AI. Enemies flank you,
call tanks (and they come) in for fire support and hide behind bushes, trees and inside houeses.
From the tactical viewpoint it's quite realistic.
A tank for example has a lot of fire power, but
without infantry it stands no chance to survive.
It's one of the top five games i've ever seen.
The Release in Europe is expected tomorrow. The
techies are allready lining up at the stores.
In the US you can take a look at the demo for which about 200 homemade missions are allready
available.
Has anyone ever tried on a C64? They seemed pretty resistant for their size and weight. Mine survived a breakup my brothers aqurium which send 50 gallonsof water right through him. Today (ten years) later the C64 still works even the keyboard is a little bit incooperatve now. I guess i missed a guppy still inside.
Re:It's not like we had a choice in Tomb Raider.
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That's not working against experienced players.
I did a long research which HalfLife model had best comouflage. But next time we played i found my colleague to have all models replaced locally on his machine by a Homer Simpson model.
I was a sitting duck and as visible as a nav beacon.
Slashdot Mirror
Why "pseudo"? Just because we don't make the looser of an election president doesn't make a democracy "pseudo" (Sorry, couldn't resist).
The differences in IT between the US and the german market are quite subtle but strong. There is more technical competence at the reseller level and we have therefor fewer consulting companies.
Espescially the price isn't that much important here as in the US. Trust in the reseller or manufacturer on the other hand is more important. If you've done a good job you usually get the next deal too, even if you're more expensive (up to certain level). Companies and government agaency prefer to make the deal with someone they know.
CU, Martin
This is not the same as making profits.
CU, Martin
usually there is more than one reason. I don't think, that the DDoS attacks were the main reason. Sure, they may have been the final drop, but i guess no company delivering profits when not attacked would have done the same.
CU, Martin
I had a lot of meetings with the BKA (something like the german FBI) about fighting criminality in the internet. And they underestimate scale and complexity of the net.
I give you one example. There is a software called PERKEO. PERKEO is able to checksum files quickly and has an internal database of known checksums of child pornography images. They argued, that most child pornography images (which are exchanged through the internet) are well known. Somewhat like 95+% shell be in the database.
In the discussion with the ISPs they argued, that it would be easy to add PERKEO to the proxy server. For every image accessed, the checksum is created and compared with the database. In case the checksum matches, the access is blocked.
When i tried to explain, that the introduction would only result in countermeasure (automatic modification of images), it was taken as unwillingness.
Every meeting (i know about) ended with the same results: Everyone is willing to fight criminals, but the is no modus operandi. The law enforcement agencies have wishes the ISPs do not consider compatible with the law and constitution.
Some politicians and law enforcers are growing more and more frustrated. So a state (Nordrhein- Westfalen) tries to work with laws that put more responisbility on the shoulders of the ISPs.
This generates confusion and the confusion results in such events like the one discussed.
CU, Martin
All patent lawywers are aplauding...
I would, but i've bought this apartment :-(.
i have a similar problem on a smaller scale. In our house we had some problems with arson (6 times in two years). So installed two WebCams and connected them with my LAN. I wrote a small perl- script on my linux server which gets an image every second and writes it onto the hard disk.
This was quickly done, but even a 30GB hard disk holds only the data of the two cams for two or three days before it is full (JPG 640*480, medium compression). Single images are also very difficult to handle when you're looking for some event.
Encoding it as a MPG reduced the volume significantly but my PI-200 needed more than 6 hours to compress 3600 images to one MPG file.
So i'm looking for some solution. The images are colored right now, but i wouldn't mind to have them greyscaled.
Thanks in advance, Martin
P.S. Privacy disclaimer: all people living in the house were informed and wellcomed them. Up to now, no mom/dad asked me to check when the kids came home at night. All images are deleted automagically after 48h.
P.P.S. No arson since then, but one case of burglary (cam pics where no help because i got informed too late and the images were allready discarded).
The current idea of Ashcroft is, to use the outrage over the current incidents to get harsher laws. By doing this, he does a severe damage to the democratic system. There is a danger, that he destroys which shell be protected.
This is allways the danger when fighting terrorists. Panic and outrage leads to action which breaks up the foundation of the society. You win the battle and lose the war.
What most people don't seem to grasp: This is what the terrorists want. Even if they take every Boeing and Airbus ever buildt and crash them into buildings, they cannot destroy the U.S. The terrorists want to split the society. If they manage to make the politicians to take actions against minorities (arabs, geeks, etc.) this will damage a country more severly than any bomb.
CU, Martin
Bet some guys could argue this kind of graphic could be used to train the reflexes of some lybian fighter pilots.
There may be anomalies in a small business. But in this case about one million (mostly honest) people are cheating.
You cannot even sue one million people. The only chance is to pick a few and serve them a fate so horrible that the intimidated others comply with your rule. Works great at least short term (some third world dictators reading this to confirm?)
CU, Martin
and i was most of the time responsible for the hiring.
Programming like most *real* IT jobs requires a
solid education. There may be exceptions, but they are execptions. Highly educated and trained people
in any "new" area have allways been scarce.
But IT companies get swamped by applications from people who read two or three books an wrote a VBA script. Companies, under the pressure to grow and to satisfy the demand, which hire those goons will go under.
So they, especially big companies, try to get those scarce ressources form all over the world.
But this is a short term strategy:
of "freaks" who truly understand what they are doing seems to be as low as during my highschool days (mid 1980's).
So i think green cards or H1B visas will not solve these problems.
CU, Martin
I think you're not being fair. Event though i live in Germany (and not in PA) i heard a lot about Pope, saw a lot of pressure applied to the russian government and i also heard international protest.
I believe the US sate department put some thought into it, how to handle that case. It may not allways be the best idea to fire with the big guns (i.e. the president) first.
A possible result may be, that the other side tries to raise the price for his freeing. It's allways a tragedy for a human beeing to be caught inside political clash between two countries or systems.
In the Sklyarov case i also believe that he being a russian "hacker" made him an jummy target for the prosecution. Just imagine him trying to defend himself in front of a jury speeking with russian accent. That must be a nightmare after fifty years of movies with half of the bad guys speaking like that.
CU, Martin
It's all there. Just read http://www.seventh.com.au/ofp/Review_Contents.htm.
The release will play havoc with a lot of social lives (where remaining).
What stuns most is the AI. Enemies flank you, call tanks (and they come) in for fire support and hide behind bushes, trees and inside houeses.
From the tactical viewpoint it's quite realistic. A tank for example has a lot of fire power, but without infantry it stands no chance to survive.
Bye, Martin
http://www.operation-flashpoint.net/
It's one of the top five games i've ever seen. The Release in Europe is expected tomorrow. The techies are allready lining up at the stores. In the US you can take a look at the demo for which about 200 homemade missions are allready available.
CU on the battlefield, Martin
Has anyone ever tried on a C64? They seemed
pretty resistant for their size and weight.
Mine survived a breakup my brothers aqurium
which send 50 gallonsof water right through
him. Today (ten years) later the C64 still works
even the keyboard is a little bit incooperatve
now. I guess i missed a guppy still inside.
I did a long research which HalfLife model had best comouflage. But next time we played i found my colleague to have all models replaced locally on his machine by a Homer Simpson model.
I was a sitting duck and as visible as a
nav beacon.
A 17 year old CTO is not allowed to visit the
comdex but a 11 year old gets chained and
handcuffed. Anyone out there to explain me
the logic?