Industrial espionage is a lot more widespread than people think. The Chinese are by far the worst offenders. I know several people who had their data stolen in this way. And yes, one time it happened in Europe.
It's good that this is making companies carry less data around. This means that there is less risk involved when a Chinese officer enters your hotel room and makes a copy of your hard drive. Yes, this does actually happen. Oh, sorry, did I say Chinese? I meant to say bad Americans, bad bad, always the worst in the world. Don't know what got into me there for a minute.
Yes, because Slashdot is such a haven for news about vapid celebrities and the people whose empty lives consists of following the latest celebrity gossip.
That's just an excuse. Neither did Australians or Canadians or tons of other people throughout the world. Nonetheless, they removed Nazism from the face of the Earth. Anyone who praised the Nazis is vilified today. But Gandhi somehow gets a pass? It's because he's a hero to pacifists and thus exempt from criticism.
Gandhi praised Hitler. That's a fact, buddy, and unlike Churchill, he didn't resist Nazism in the least. A little deconstruction of our heroes goes a long way, eh?
Uh - dude? Gandhi was a Hindu. And while you're at it, consider this from Gandhi:
"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed?"
Oh, come on now - don't be naive. You know how these work, don't you? Companies make promises like these all the time. When it comes time to recycle, the company will have some excuse, or some dodge, or it will go bankrupt from the recycling costs. Just because they charge extra money up front does NOT mean that it goes into some safe, secure passbook savings account somewhere, to be held in trust when batteries start coming back for disposal. No, the company spends the money now. Management in the future will be responsible for figuring out a plan for how to minimize these unwanted costs, which were just sales promises anyway.
Let's go into these with our eyes open, shall we? There's something about eco-companies that makes otherwise savvy, suspicious customers go into lovey-dovey mode and lose all sense of rationality. If I were smart, I'd get into the business of seperating these people from their money.
Just goes to show you, the more you expect from children, the more they deliver. Our modern society's greatest crime is treating children like an idealized Alice-in-Wonderland stereotype of children.
I wouldn't advise teaching European languages - they'll be obsolete in a generation. Arabic would be a more worthwhile substitute, as it's spoken over a much larger area, and most European children will speak it in 20 years anyway.
Those are games, not simulations. Even if they were simulations, they'd be cheesy COTS simulations. Strangely, an entire world exists outside video games, and if one's horizon is so limited as to only have video games in his life, he might be misled by his experience to think that video games have anything to do with weapons development.
Oh, and as an aside, I searched for random reward skinner just to make sure I was remembering correctly what a Skinner box was, and there were fewer results with rats and pigeons - most of the results had to do with online gaming. Scary, eh?
The whole idea behind online games is twofold: 1) get the reward: better items and more money, and 2) accomplish objective 1 with as little effort as possible. The whole "solve problems creatively" idea is bunk, and besides if anyone actually did provide problems like that, you'd just search online for the answer anyhow. Everybody likes to be ahead of the game, and nobody wants to plod along the old-fashioned way. A sense that you're better than everyone else is expected, and even essential (and not just in video games).
Online games (and any game in which you accumulate posessions) are just variations on a Skinner box. Put a gamer in a box, have him peck away at moving about the world, and give him possessions randomly. It's the same sort of thing that makes people sit in front of slot machines for hours. If they *did* make a hackproof game, only a few people would play it and it would fail financially.
I really feel sorry for a bunch of people who will post here. I mean, what can you say to someone whose first video game experience was "Super Mario Brothers 3"? You lose so much by that. There are so many great games out there that don't require rote memorization or tens of hours of playing. Once upon a time, you could play a complete game in 5-10 minutes, and then let your friend take a turn. And there were no alternate endings, or fatalities, or secret moves that you could only find on the internet...heck, a lot of times, there were no endings at all. The game simply got harder and harder, and demanded more pure skill and downright innovation from you, until you saw your last man get destroyed, probably in a grossly unfair fashion, and then the inevitable "GAME OVER" appeared. No hacks, no save games, no shooting prostitutes in a spray of blood, no choosing Oddjob and gaining an unfair advantage.
The purpose of the sex offender registry is not to rehabilitate. It is to notify the community to beware. So many sex offenders reoffended after being released, and so many parents said that they would have been more careful, had they only known that a predator was in the neighborhood. So, you get pressure on politicians, and bam, democracy in action.
P.S. You might have more success in expressing your opinions if you didn't use so much sarcasm.
P.P.S. You misspelled "definite" in your username.
I work in manufacturing in China, and I would not be surprised in the least to find a worker who accepted a shockingly small bribe to place malware directly into factory produced firmware. Not saying that's what happened, but I sure wouldn't be surprised if it did. I also would not be surprised to discover that a worker's Windows PC transferred its infection to the master used for production.
Corrupt? Oh, come on. America has one of the most transparent systems in the world. I live in a corrupt country. Heck, I'm bribing a public official right now, to allow my business to operate. America isn't corrupt, and if you say it is, you have no idea what *real* corruption is.
It's a perfect example of taking something and twisting it to mean something different. The context was removed. I'm sure the "I hate myself and our culture" crowd had a field day with it, even though the meme was untrue. The narrative was correct, you see.
Well, it's a government job - there are racial issues that crop up. Those can influence how severely employees are punished, or indeed if they are to be punished at all.
OK, instead of broadcasting in the clear, the keyboard gets a little encryption algorithm to prevent anyone from listening in. Some blowhard then takes it upon himself to crack the gradeschool encryption, and trumpets it far and wide as a "security breach". Durrrr...
Anyone concerned about security doesn't use a wireless keyboard....Durrrr
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Industrial espionage is a lot more widespread than people think. The Chinese are by far the worst offenders. I know several people who had their data stolen in this way. And yes, one time it happened in Europe.
It's good that this is making companies carry less data around. This means that there is less risk involved when a Chinese officer enters your hotel room and makes a copy of your hard drive. Yes, this does actually happen. Oh, sorry, did I say Chinese? I meant to say bad Americans, bad bad, always the worst in the world. Don't know what got into me there for a minute.
I can't even tell if I'm being sarcastic anymore.
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That's just an excuse. Neither did Australians or Canadians or tons of other people throughout the world. Nonetheless, they removed Nazism from the face of the Earth. Anyone who praised the Nazis is vilified today. But Gandhi somehow gets a pass? It's because he's a hero to pacifists and thus exempt from criticism.
Gandhi praised Hitler. That's a fact, buddy, and unlike Churchill, he didn't resist Nazism in the least. A little deconstruction of our heroes goes a long way, eh?
"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed?"
Let's go into these with our eyes open, shall we? There's something about eco-companies that makes otherwise savvy, suspicious customers go into lovey-dovey mode and lose all sense of rationality. If I were smart, I'd get into the business of seperating these people from their money.
I wouldn't advise teaching European languages - they'll be obsolete in a generation. Arabic would be a more worthwhile substitute, as it's spoken over a much larger area, and most European children will speak it in 20 years anyway.
Have you ever been to a firing range? Of course there's a backstop. Duh.
Those are games, not simulations. Even if they were simulations, they'd be cheesy COTS simulations. Strangely, an entire world exists outside video games, and if one's horizon is so limited as to only have video games in his life, he might be misled by his experience to think that video games have anything to do with weapons development.
Oh, and as an aside, I searched for random reward skinner just to make sure I was remembering correctly what a Skinner box was, and there were fewer results with rats and pigeons - most of the results had to do with online gaming. Scary, eh?
Online games (and any game in which you accumulate posessions) are just variations on a Skinner box. Put a gamer in a box, have him peck away at moving about the world, and give him possessions randomly. It's the same sort of thing that makes people sit in front of slot machines for hours. If they *did* make a hackproof game, only a few people would play it and it would fail financially.
Where did I say I was in love with the Atari 2600? I thought it sucked, even back then. The games were unplayable, even back then.
I really feel sorry for a bunch of people who will post here. I mean, what can you say to someone whose first video game experience was "Super Mario Brothers 3"? You lose so much by that. There are so many great games out there that don't require rote memorization or tens of hours of playing. Once upon a time, you could play a complete game in 5-10 minutes, and then let your friend take a turn. And there were no alternate endings, or fatalities, or secret moves that you could only find on the internet...heck, a lot of times, there were no endings at all. The game simply got harder and harder, and demanded more pure skill and downright innovation from you, until you saw your last man get destroyed, probably in a grossly unfair fashion, and then the inevitable "GAME OVER" appeared. No hacks, no save games, no shooting prostitutes in a spray of blood, no choosing Oddjob and gaining an unfair advantage.
Let me guess - you have a Sony laptop.
I'm sorry, but your opinion has been nullified by the fact that you actually went to a Yanni concert.
The purpose of the sex offender registry is not to rehabilitate. It is to notify the community to beware. So many sex offenders reoffended after being released, and so many parents said that they would have been more careful, had they only known that a predator was in the neighborhood. So, you get pressure on politicians, and bam, democracy in action.
P.S. You might have more success in expressing your opinions if you didn't use so much sarcasm.
P.P.S. You misspelled "definite" in your username.
I work in manufacturing in China, and I would not be surprised in the least to find a worker who accepted a shockingly small bribe to place malware directly into factory produced firmware. Not saying that's what happened, but I sure wouldn't be surprised if it did. I also would not be surprised to discover that a worker's Windows PC transferred its infection to the master used for production.
Corrupt? Oh, come on. America has one of the most transparent systems in the world. I live in a corrupt country. Heck, I'm bribing a public official right now, to allow my business to operate. America isn't corrupt, and if you say it is, you have no idea what *real* corruption is.
Scott Thomas Beauchamp, is that you?
It's a perfect example of taking something and twisting it to mean something different. The context was removed. I'm sure the "I hate myself and our culture" crowd had a field day with it, even though the meme was untrue. The narrative was correct, you see.
The whole reason they were trolling in the first place was to collect samples, obviously. You people are your own worst enemy.
Well, it's a government job - there are racial issues that crop up. Those can influence how severely employees are punished, or indeed if they are to be punished at all.
Anyone concerned about security doesn't use a wireless keyboard....Durrrr