I could see this being a hoax if his name was Mike Rotch...or Harry Balzac, but Hugh Barrass? It could be one of those fruity British names that's pronounced B'rass.
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I have to take issue with whether or not EP1 was enjoyable. It was missing many of the elements which made the original films so enjoyable. What happened to the aliens that *didn't* speak english? Are we so dense that we can't read subtitles? Instead we get retarded chinese and jewish accents. Like an alien race learning english is gonna end up sounding chinese. Gimme a break.
What happened to characters that the audience feels compelled to care about? Nobody cares about a little Life-cereal commercial reject yelling Yippee! as if he's prodded with a cow shocker. Nobody had time to care about Obi-Wan's master because the dialog was so thin and he died like a chump. If all the Jedi Masters fought like him, well, there's no wonder the Jedi Masters died out. I've seen more compelling battle between He-Man and Skeletor.
What happened to daring space battles? That's about 50% of the original movies. Instead EP1 gave us Mikey accidentally hitting the Patented Self Destruct mechanism in the mothership his first try. Bravo! Nice battle.
What happened to the mysticism of the Force? Now it was discovered, many decades predating the original movies, that the Force is the result of genetic makeup and it can be measured with a Palm Pilot. Stupid.
I could go on but EP1 is full of so many flaws that make it boring and unwatchable I'd need about 300 pages to critique it. It sucked, the new movies will suck, Lucas sucks, end of story. We can always enjoy the old ones though.
I haven't seen any horrors of real-life war, just strafing and bombing runs, a 4 second clip of a b2 or something similar rearraging rubble on the Afghani landscape. Actually probably not even that detailed, just a clip of something flying. Very 1984-ish.
I doubt you'd never put a DVD into the drive, considering most of the bigger, newer games like Devil May Cry ship on DVD media. It's there for the storage space, not to reap cash from unwitting owners.
Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE and other have been selling distros for years. There's nothing in the GPL that prevents anyone from making money from code. I think you have Open Source confused with something else.
I agree with you wholeheartedly about the gold bricks, but the insurance company will not cover 100% of their value due to your negligence because you didn't arm the alarm. They'll find you at partial fault. That was the point I was making. Karma points, yeah!
Where's my troll moderator point when I need it *sigh*.
I agree with your blame someone else policy though..people do love to point fingers anywhere but at themselves most of the time. Like I said in an earlier post, security is a 2 way street.
You must be magical because you keep getting mod points and I don't:( Oh well, blow me moderators.
Your point regarding giving skript kiddies jobs creating more skript kiddies isn't very realistic. It's a job, yes, but it's not a job they'd be proud to have. No convicts commit a crime hoping to be making license plates, there's just no incentive. But rather than a pointless punishment (i.e. imprisonment), make it productive. If you do a little research, you'll find that alot of IT security companies have real hackers on board. It makes perfect sense. Alot of insurance companies hire ex-burglars, to see how easy it was to break into someone's home/business. Security is always a 2 way street. It's the responsibility of both the individual and the company/service that provides them with security. Think if you get a 10 million dollar home and have gold bricks lying around in each room. A burglar discovers this from outside. Also you have a million dollar, state-of-the-art security system, but you don't arm it each time you leave the house. Who is at fault when you come home and all your gold bricks are gone?
Isn't that like saying that we shouldn't arrest arsonists just because someone was stupid enough to be asleep in the house when it burned down?
What an asinine analogy. Is today Morons Who Post Bad Analogies day? A more appropriate analogy would be 'we shouldn't give speeding tickets to people who choose to speed even though they see a speed limit sign every 2 miles and there are cops all over the highway'. Ignoring warning signs doesn't absolve you from the fallout, it just makes you guilty AND stupid.
I mostly agree with your points. However, these kids are just exploiting defects in security measures like any other criminal. Bank robbers look for holes in security, just like muggers, rapists, etc. The mindset is what's important here. You have to be a little more clever than the average nimrod to find a security hole and exploit it. Human virii exploit security holes in the human immune system. There's virtually no difference.
I think the punishment for these kids should be to patch holes on all the target machines for FREE. If patching those holes amounts to converting a shop's mail servers to linux, so be it. The point here is that if someone has the knowledge, part of their punishment should be exposing that knowledge and channeling it into good places where it's useful rather than destructive. If Kevin was made a security expert and hired by a Large Corporation, rather than banned from ever using a computer the rest of his life, he'd be serving his sentence in a very positive way. Society would reap the benefits of his punishment. Just like convicts making license plates...
Yeah it's got some special chips in it to handle 3d. It'll do your typical 2d Z scaling and whatnot for fake 3d as well as a chip that'll handle polygons and rendering. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 uses actual polygon characters, for example.
I normally don't feed trolls but in this case, I will.
I was born in '74. I started with a trs80 and went from there to an appleII, a commodore64, a commodore 128, an amiga 500, 600, 4000, MacOS 7.x, 8.x, then to a proper PC running windows95. From then on I started tooling with linux, while keeping windows just in case. So yeah, I know a little bit about computers and operating systems to boot. I think you're the ignorant fuckwit here, young troll. My tagline always catches the nimrods when they're not looking. Thanks for falling for it.
The cost of hundreds of doorknobs is far greater than coding a patch and making everyone download it from your server. Maybe with MS's monolithic bearaucracy it costs millions, but that's their fault, isn't it?
To answer your multiple-choice-quiz, I'd get that LoTR poster and sell it asap.
Q: So, you're the chief security officer here at Microsoft?
A: Yes I am. I'm Ex-FBI, Ex-cop, Ex-lover of Liberace.
Q. Ok, I didn't need to know that last part. So what does your job require of you?
A. Well, in the morning I get coffee and donuts. Then I usually spend the next 8 hours or so watching CCTV monitors.
Q. So, you watch monitors with software and code? Interesting.
A. No. I watch monitors of people coming and going in different hallways. There's this little hottie secretary on floor 5 in the XP wing that's really got a nice..
Q. What? You're just a security GUARD and not a software security expert?
A. Yeah, who the hell told you otherwise? Well this was real fun and all but I gotta get back to watching the bathrooms.
What's even worse is if you built that lock, later realized it sucked, and rather than redesign it and replace it, you keep it quiet, hoping that nobody will learn about it and it'll come back on you. This has been Microsoft's policy for quite awhile.
Where does the world get this opinion that Americans think they own the world? Every country has Nationalism flowing through their citizen's veins. I doubt you'll find any Japanese guy that doesn't say that Japan is great. Rephrase that for any country on the planet...except for maybe Afghanistan and some other third-world countries.
I theorize that it's because the way Americans act abroad. Generally the people that travel on vacation are rich assholes who don't know how to act HERE let alone anywhere else. I could be wrong, but that's my theory.
Quote: or propped against the wall when not in use; with the lights off, those three extra LEDs on the keyboard add to the girlfriend-impressing "Starship Enterprise" look'n'feel.
You know, this reminds me of a really cool hardware hack. There was once a plugin for XMMS that used the 3 lights on the keyboard as an equalizer. Pretty novel idea and it was a rad idea. Dunno if it still exists or what.
True. It won critical acclaim based on it's technical merits. The story blew, which is ironic considering Square's legendary powers of storytelling. I guess it should've been written in english because I think alot was lost in the Japanese translation.
Yeah the AA implementation in the PS2 is so low-level that the earlier games would've needed a complete rebuild from the ground up to implement it. That's why none of the early titles had it. Do some research on PS2 development and you'll find out.
The GC should have it. You really can't judge a system based on its first generation games, they're little more than an example of the fact that the developers were able to meet tight deadlines and have code that's pretty bugfree.
Halo is a great example of this. It's slow as hell in 2 player when any kind of action is happening. I'm sure Bungie would've brought the framerate up if they had time, and I bet they were pissed that the game had to be released so early. It's pretty but it's no showcase.
Next year we'll begin to see the true power of the PS2, the power of the Xbox with 2nd gen games, and the 1st gen of GC games. God I hope they're nothing like the N64 games.
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I could see this being a hoax if his name was Mike Rotch...or Harry Balzac, but Hugh Barrass? It could be one of those fruity British names that's pronounced B'rass.
I have to take issue with whether or not EP1 was enjoyable. It was missing many of the elements which made the original films so enjoyable. What happened to the aliens that *didn't* speak english? Are we so dense that we can't read subtitles? Instead we get retarded chinese and jewish accents. Like an alien race learning english is gonna end up sounding chinese. Gimme a break.
What happened to characters that the audience feels compelled to care about? Nobody cares about a little Life-cereal commercial reject yelling Yippee! as if he's prodded with a cow shocker. Nobody had time to care about Obi-Wan's master because the dialog was so thin and he died like a chump. If all the Jedi Masters fought like him, well, there's no wonder the Jedi Masters died out. I've seen more compelling battle between He-Man and Skeletor.
What happened to daring space battles? That's about 50% of the original movies. Instead EP1 gave us Mikey accidentally hitting the Patented Self Destruct mechanism in the mothership his first try. Bravo! Nice battle.
What happened to the mysticism of the Force? Now it was discovered, many decades predating the original movies, that the Force is the result of genetic makeup and it can be measured with a Palm Pilot. Stupid.
I could go on but EP1 is full of so many flaws that make it boring and unwatchable I'd need about 300 pages to critique it. It sucked, the new movies will suck, Lucas sucks, end of story. We can always enjoy the old ones though.
Yeaarrggh matey, so there be, so there be. Ye be an angel to the landlubbin' moderators today, like ye olde beacon in ye foggy nite.
I haven't seen any horrors of real-life war, just strafing and bombing runs, a 4 second clip of a b2 or something similar rearraging rubble on the Afghani landscape. Actually probably not even that detailed, just a clip of something flying. Very 1984-ish.
I doubt you'd never put a DVD into the drive, considering most of the bigger, newer games like Devil May Cry ship on DVD media. It's there for the storage space, not to reap cash from unwitting owners.
Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE and other have been selling distros for years. There's nothing in the GPL that prevents anyone from making money from code. I think you have Open Source confused with something else.
A 6 year old in the front yard at 10pm in Compton = homocide statistic.
Even if she was inside she could've been hit by a stray.
I agree with you wholeheartedly about the gold bricks, but the insurance company will not cover 100% of their value due to your negligence because you didn't arm the alarm. They'll find you at partial fault. That was the point I was making. Karma points, yeah!
Where's my troll moderator point when I need it *sigh*.
I agree with your blame someone else policy though..people do love to point fingers anywhere but at themselves most of the time. Like I said in an earlier post, security is a 2 way street.
You must be magical because you keep getting mod points and I don't :( Oh well, blow me moderators.
Your point regarding giving skript kiddies jobs creating more skript kiddies isn't very realistic. It's a job, yes, but it's not a job they'd be proud to have. No convicts commit a crime hoping to be making license plates, there's just no incentive. But rather than a pointless punishment (i.e. imprisonment), make it productive. If you do a little research, you'll find that alot of IT security companies have real hackers on board. It makes perfect sense. Alot of insurance companies hire ex-burglars, to see how easy it was to break into someone's home/business. Security is always a 2 way street. It's the responsibility of both the individual and the company/service that provides them with security. Think if you get a 10 million dollar home and have gold bricks lying around in each room. A burglar discovers this from outside. Also you have a million dollar, state-of-the-art security system, but you don't arm it each time you leave the house. Who is at fault when you come home and all your gold bricks are gone?
Isn't that like saying that we shouldn't arrest arsonists just because someone was stupid enough to be asleep in the house when it burned down?
What an asinine analogy. Is today Morons Who Post Bad Analogies day? A more appropriate analogy would be 'we shouldn't give speeding tickets to people who choose to speed even though they see a speed limit sign every 2 miles and there are cops all over the highway'. Ignoring warning signs doesn't absolve you from the fallout, it just makes you guilty AND stupid.
I mostly agree with your points. However, these kids are just exploiting defects in security measures like any other criminal. Bank robbers look for holes in security, just like muggers, rapists, etc. The mindset is what's important here. You have to be a little more clever than the average nimrod to find a security hole and exploit it. Human virii exploit security holes in the human immune system. There's virtually no difference.
I think the punishment for these kids should be to patch holes on all the target machines for FREE. If patching those holes amounts to converting a shop's mail servers to linux, so be it. The point here is that if someone has the knowledge, part of their punishment should be exposing that knowledge and channeling it into good places where it's useful rather than destructive. If Kevin was made a security expert and hired by a Large Corporation, rather than banned from ever using a computer the rest of his life, he'd be serving his sentence in a very positive way. Society would reap the benefits of his punishment. Just like convicts making license plates...
Yeah it's got some special chips in it to handle 3d. It'll do your typical 2d Z scaling and whatnot for fake 3d as well as a chip that'll handle polygons and rendering. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 uses actual polygon characters, for example.
"2. The Church (all true believers in Jesus) will be instantly raptured and will simply disappear from the earth."
Sweet. Rush hour traffic will be a thing of the past. When is this rapture gonna happen again?
I normally don't feed trolls but in this case, I will.
I was born in '74. I started with a trs80 and went from there to an appleII, a commodore64, a commodore 128, an amiga 500, 600, 4000, MacOS 7.x, 8.x, then to a proper PC running windows95. From then on I started tooling with linux, while keeping windows just in case. So yeah, I know a little bit about computers and operating systems to boot. I think you're the ignorant fuckwit here, young troll. My tagline always catches the nimrods when they're not looking. Thanks for falling for it.
So is John Travolta, and he rocks.
Don't judge a person by her religion, jackass.
(woops I'm feeding the trolls again)
The flaw in your analogy is this:
The cost of hundreds of doorknobs is far greater than coding a patch and making everyone download it from your server. Maybe with MS's monolithic bearaucracy it costs millions, but that's their fault, isn't it?
To answer your multiple-choice-quiz, I'd get that LoTR poster and sell it asap.
Say hello to the minions of Hooterville for me. It's been a long time since I've seen those simple folk clowning around on Green Acres and whatnot.
Jeez. Leaving keys in your car IS stupid. I guess if I had a shite car and was desperate to be rid of it, I'd do that here in Dallas.
Q: So, you're the chief security officer here at Microsoft?
A: Yes I am. I'm Ex-FBI, Ex-cop, Ex-lover of Liberace.
Q. Ok, I didn't need to know that last part. So what does your job require of you?
A. Well, in the morning I get coffee and donuts. Then I usually spend the next 8 hours or so watching CCTV monitors.
Q. So, you watch monitors with software and code? Interesting.
A. No. I watch monitors of people coming and going in different hallways. There's this little hottie secretary on floor 5 in the XP wing that's really got a nice..
Q. What? You're just a security GUARD and not a software security expert?
A. Yeah, who the hell told you otherwise? Well this was real fun and all but I gotta get back to watching the bathrooms.
What's even worse is if you built that lock, later realized it sucked, and rather than redesign it and replace it, you keep it quiet, hoping that nobody will learn about it and it'll come back on you. This has been Microsoft's policy for quite awhile.
Where does the world get this opinion that Americans think they own the world? Every country has Nationalism flowing through their citizen's veins. I doubt you'll find any Japanese guy that doesn't say that Japan is great. Rephrase that for any country on the planet...except for maybe Afghanistan and some other third-world countries.
I theorize that it's because the way Americans act abroad. Generally the people that travel on vacation are rich assholes who don't know how to act HERE let alone anywhere else. I could be wrong, but that's my theory.
True dat. What are a billion pesos worth these days? $100 dollars?
Quote: or propped against the wall when not in use; with the lights off, those three extra LEDs on the keyboard add to the girlfriend-impressing "Starship Enterprise" look'n'feel.
You know, this reminds me of a really cool hardware hack. There was once a plugin for XMMS that used the 3 lights on the keyboard as an equalizer. Pretty novel idea and it was a rad idea. Dunno if it still exists or what.
True. It won critical acclaim based on it's technical merits. The story blew, which is ironic considering Square's legendary powers of storytelling. I guess it should've been written in english because I think alot was lost in the Japanese translation.
Yeah the AA implementation in the PS2 is so low-level that the earlier games would've needed a complete rebuild from the ground up to implement it. That's why none of the early titles had it. Do some research on PS2 development and you'll find out.
The GC should have it. You really can't judge a system based on its first generation games, they're little more than an example of the fact that the developers were able to meet tight deadlines and have code that's pretty bugfree.
Halo is a great example of this. It's slow as hell in 2 player when any kind of action is happening. I'm sure Bungie would've brought the framerate up if they had time, and I bet they were pissed that the game had to be released so early. It's pretty but it's no showcase.
Next year we'll begin to see the true power of the PS2, the power of the Xbox with 2nd gen games, and the 1st gen of GC games. God I hope they're nothing like the N64 games.