this model of free gaming but pay (i.e. subscriber-based) content turns the corner of making all the content available on a copyable disk. Thus, although I know personally how crazy the MMO and internet cafes are throughout asia, it seems to me the growth isn't necessarily an upsurgance of interest, but rather a business model that can drive revenue in a heavily pirated environment.
Other music games that I can think of
One of the first (that I can remember) where music played an integral part of how the game was played was Loom from lucas arts. Unfortunately not a lot of people played it, and when people think of early Lucas Arts now, they only recall Maniac Mansion.
Microsoft Cardspace is in Internet Explorer 7, and it does something similar to what you're talking about except that it adds several more layers of trust and security assertions before releasing the stored credentials. It's a high-powered form filler that does some background checking. Microsoft Cardspace
isn't the point that it has a new feature and now it's available? It's really only up to the fanboy on whether they are going to buy it twice, or if they wanted it so bad, why they bought a non-HDMI one in the first place. To everyone else, it is simply a new feature, not a conspiracy.
with webmail, you still have to download the file in order for it to cause problems, wheras if you force your users to POP it, it will be on their computer for sure.
The people I see with the biggest problems of Blackberry dependency are the ones who set the alerts to ring/vibrate for every single communication. It's terribly annoying to have a conversation with someone and see that person turn away because they have a new email.
I have my blackberry set with a custom profile for no alerts whatsoever except for phone calls and SMS/PIN. That way, I choose when I want to do work, but it won't otherwise bother me.
The Kensington solution is designed to be just what you're using it for - a simple personal two factor authentication system. It's stronger than using a bio screen lock, easier to use than a smart card (which requires a reader, not all that common yet except for Dells and IBMs), and it probably keeps out most of the garden variety hackers.
However, it is not the same as a USB key with a SIM card or smart chip, such as from ActivIdentity, Aladdin, VeriSign, among others. First off, these systems are based on a SIM chip with a PKI backing it up, so many enterprise-quality features are now available, such as separating the authentication key (in escrow) from the signing key. That Kensington device appears to just archive the key on its web site, making its ability to effectively escrow questionalble at best.
Other PKI-based functions include digital signatures, strong authentication to other applications besides the desktop, and real non-repudiation (because the device has to be issued to a verified person).
The Kensington device appears proprietary too, which makes it questionable how deep into the boot process it can protect. On the other hand, open standard devices with PKI are being implemented into protecting the system from boot.
In other words - I bet it's a good personal solution, but not good enough for government work.
Yes, I know that it's not a true blue Populous game, and it plays like warcraft-lite. But I still find this game incredibly fun because the god powers are integrated into the game play with your shaman, not set outside of the field of play that acts upon the people. The strategies that involve sculpting the geography are a great deal of fun.
For a game that came out in 1998 with online play, it still lives on today with homebrew folks working on it. Too bad it hasn't had a true blue sequel though
I know this is only annecdotal, but my good friend works at Asian nursing home. They hire billigual people to help the elderly, because after the onset of dementia, many of the patients only remember their native tongue. Their children who were raised in the US without being trained in their parent's language often find themselves unable to communicate with their elderly parents.
I found the gambit system to operate similar to games like Robot Odyssey. Essentially you are programming the non-player characters in your party to do an activity instead of directing them yourselves. You grow more powerful with the gambit system by earning new conditionals for your "IF" statement, and they can perform new activities based on your abilities.
There's way too much stuff that's going on in intense fights to tell each character what to do for that round (the concept of a round doesn't exist).
It's also a fun programming exercise to figure out how to get someone to do something without leaving them stuck in a loop. For instance, do you want to steal from a enemy but only try it a few times? set the gambit to steal when the enemy is below 20% health and about to die.
The license system is very confusing at first and it takes quite a bit of time to manage equipment, licenses, and gil. Like FFVIII, you can make any player become anything with the appropriate licenses, but unlike FFVIII, you don't switch abilities from one player to another, you have to build the characters up smartly.
I read the previous story and I know that Lik Sang BLAMES sony for putting them out of business. But reselling sony equipment is only a part of the mix of the products that they sold, and they've been stopped from selling products by other manufacturers as well.
Couldn't it be possible that Lik Sang is just taking advantage of negative Sony feedback over the past year to send another f-u to Sony? I find it hard to believe they'd be put out of business over this single issue, and the whole time not point any blame at the quasi grey market business that they were operating under.
PIV and CAC aren't the same thing? Isn't the PIV FIPS 201 standard used to define a card that can be used across federal government and contractors? The Common Access Card, if I'm not mistaken, is only used by the department of defense.
make sure you don't equate a symptom with causality. For instance, even if you do discover there is a higher rate of divorce in IT, it doesn't mean the job did it. It could be that the right applicant for the job leads to a skewed population, of which certain traits leave them prone towards divorce.
but the general unwillingness of people in the US to report winnings on their taxes through means that they shouldn't be using. How do you report gambling income if it's not legal to gamble online?
Ultimately this comes down to who are users going to flock to as their primary id on the internet - and thus users will use it to log into 3rd party applications which lie outside of microsoft/google/yahoo. The bigger question, though, is how come these companies are going to "own" your id instead of federate it.
The DVD "feature" that prevents you from skipping the FBI warning and the trailers at the beginning of your DVD is called User Operationg Prohibition When you rip your dvd's and reburn them, the software removes the flag so your palyer will let you skip those sections.
But back when I was looking for an all-region dvd player, i found that some players have hacks to remove recognition of UOP flags. I'm glad I did - I find UOP Flag more annoying than the region locking, since I have to deal with UOP with every DVD I watch.
How 'bout the way in the re-imaged Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, when Starbuck figures out how to launch, fly, and land a Cylon raider that's piloted by genetic material? There's no interface for any human-sized person to fly it, yet with a little tendon pulling, a leg jab here and there, and the raider is off and going? BTW, doesn't she need some viewscreen or two to see what's going on?
Or does it not count once there's enough science fiction involved to override any "common sense" of what a human can do with the science available?
Although this was JUST announced a few weeks ago, ANSI and the Better Business Bureau are setting up a working group to define standards and best practices for how to address identity theft. The scope is to first catalogue what standards and best practices exist, and then go beyond and define what else needs to be documented.
Whether or not this results in the answer to your question (how long notification should be given), at least this is a step in the right direction for some centralized thinking instead of everyone doing it on their own.
Yes, I'm sure that there's plenty of shielding on these wiring systems. But I still hear my engineering teacher telling me that short & direct wiring that's easily services always beats the neat layouts that can't be modified easily. And cross talk becomes a problem when too many wires are lined up in neat straight lines.
Of course, we were talking about bus lines, not network cable, just didn't know if the same rules applied.
The news is that 2.2M Active Duty personnel data was also on the laptop.The previously reported story was about the 26.5M Veteran's Data personnnel was stolen.
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Wesley Crusher testified that the squadron was in Diamond Slot formation around Titan.
this model of free gaming but pay (i.e. subscriber-based) content turns the corner of making all the content available on a copyable disk. Thus, although I know personally how crazy the MMO and internet cafes are throughout asia, it seems to me the growth isn't necessarily an upsurgance of interest, but rather a business model that can drive revenue in a heavily pirated environment.
I think it has to do with the numeber of platforms it was available on, including consoles such as NES.
Frankly, I think that Loom is a real masterpiece, and nobody really played it all that much.
A more recent example was Rez, which came out on Dreamcast which too relegated it to cult status, and the PS2 version is very rare considering how high the demand for the game remains. Music didn't change the gameplay, but rather the music was paced by the players actions. A very short, very fun and highly visual game (I'm sure Tempest 2000 fans would be proud), one that deserves a sequel.
Microsoft Cardspace is in Internet Explorer 7, and it does something similar to what you're talking about except that it adds several more layers of trust and security assertions before releasing the stored credentials. It's a high-powered form filler that does some background checking. Microsoft Cardspace
now maybe he could get past the resume screeners and get a job at Google? It's good to see him do something with his life now.
isn't the point that it has a new feature and now it's available? It's really only up to the fanboy on whether they are going to buy it twice, or if they wanted it so bad, why they bought a non-HDMI one in the first place. To everyone else, it is simply a new feature, not a conspiracy.
with webmail, you still have to download the file in order for it to cause problems, wheras if you force your users to POP it, it will be on their computer for sure.
The people I see with the biggest problems of Blackberry dependency are the ones who set the alerts to ring/vibrate for every single communication. It's terribly annoying to have a conversation with someone and see that person turn away because they have a new email.
I have my blackberry set with a custom profile for no alerts whatsoever except for phone calls and SMS/PIN. That way, I choose when I want to do work, but it won't otherwise bother me.
The Kensington solution is designed to be just what you're using it for - a simple personal two factor authentication system. It's stronger than using a bio screen lock, easier to use than a smart card (which requires a reader, not all that common yet except for Dells and IBMs), and it probably keeps out most of the garden variety hackers.
However, it is not the same as a USB key with a SIM card or smart chip, such as from ActivIdentity, Aladdin, VeriSign, among others. First off, these systems are based on a SIM chip with a PKI backing it up, so many enterprise-quality features are now available, such as separating the authentication key (in escrow) from the signing key. That Kensington device appears to just archive the key on its web site, making its ability to effectively escrow questionalble at best.
Other PKI-based functions include digital signatures, strong authentication to other applications besides the desktop, and real non-repudiation (because the device has to be issued to a verified person).
The Kensington device appears proprietary too, which makes it questionable how deep into the boot process it can protect. On the other hand, open standard devices with PKI are being implemented into protecting the system from boot.
In other words - I bet it's a good personal solution, but not good enough for government work.
Yes, I know that it's not a true blue Populous game, and it plays like warcraft-lite. But I still find this game incredibly fun because the god powers are integrated into the game play with your shaman, not set outside of the field of play that acts upon the people. The strategies that involve sculpting the geography are a great deal of fun.
For a game that came out in 1998 with online play, it still lives on today with homebrew folks working on it. Too bad it hasn't had a true blue sequel though
I know this is only annecdotal, but my good friend works at Asian nursing home. They hire billigual people to help the elderly, because after the onset of dementia, many of the patients only remember their native tongue. Their children who were raised in the US without being trained in their parent's language often find themselves unable to communicate with their elderly parents.
There's way too much stuff that's going on in intense fights to tell each character what to do for that round (the concept of a round doesn't exist).
It's also a fun programming exercise to figure out how to get someone to do something without leaving them stuck in a loop. For instance, do you want to steal from a enemy but only try it a few times? set the gambit to steal when the enemy is below 20% health and about to die.
The license system is very confusing at first and it takes quite a bit of time to manage equipment, licenses, and gil. Like FFVIII, you can make any player become anything with the appropriate licenses, but unlike FFVIII, you don't switch abilities from one player to another, you have to build the characters up smartly.
Great game so far, but I've got a ways to go!
Couldn't it be possible that Lik Sang is just taking advantage of negative Sony feedback over the past year to send another f-u to Sony? I find it hard to believe they'd be put out of business over this single issue, and the whole time not point any blame at the quasi grey market business that they were operating under.
Why, haven't you seen Star Trek Next Generation episode - The Chase?
PIV and CAC aren't the same thing? Isn't the PIV FIPS 201 standard used to define a card that can be used across federal government and contractors? The Common Access Card, if I'm not mistaken, is only used by the department of defense.
make sure you don't equate a symptom with causality. For instance, even if you do discover there is a higher rate of divorce in IT, it doesn't mean the job did it. It could be that the right applicant for the job leads to a skewed population, of which certain traits leave them prone towards divorce.
How many .gov hits are hitting /. every day?
but the general unwillingness of people in the US to report winnings on their taxes through means that they shouldn't be using. How do you report gambling income if it's not legal to gamble online?
Ultimately this comes down to who are users going to flock to as their primary id on the internet - and thus users will use it to log into 3rd party applications which lie outside of microsoft/google/yahoo. The bigger question, though, is how come these companies are going to "own" your id instead of federate it.
BTW, Yahoo has offered authentication services through other apps back in March.
But back when I was looking for an all-region dvd player, i found that some players have hacks to remove recognition of UOP flags. I'm glad I did - I find UOP Flag more annoying than the region locking, since I have to deal with UOP with every DVD I watch.
How 'bout the way in the re-imaged Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, when Starbuck figures out how to launch, fly, and land a Cylon raider that's piloted by genetic material? There's no interface for any human-sized person to fly it, yet with a little tendon pulling, a leg jab here and there, and the raider is off and going? BTW, doesn't she need some viewscreen or two to see what's going on?
Or does it not count once there's enough science fiction involved to override any "common sense" of what a human can do with the science available?
Whether or not this results in the answer to your question (how long notification should be given), at least this is a step in the right direction for some centralized thinking instead of everyone doing it on their own.
Of course, we were talking about bus lines, not network cable, just didn't know if the same rules applied.
The news is that 2.2M Active Duty personnel data was also on the laptop.The previously reported story was about the 26.5M Veteran's Data personnnel was stolen.