It's not the failure of the security professionals, it's the failure of management to not respect the wishes of the system security. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a perfectly good security solution just get circumvented by management, or else the security people are fired. If management people took security seriously, rules would not be broken that way.
If they're doing that, why don't they hook up a bunch of Tivo's at the local distribution, and tivo everything? That way, you could watch any program at any time. Of course, some programs would be "too busy", and they'd only have x hours/shows in advance, but that would be completely sweet.
Those games should get a new rating of BT, for boner time! ha ha. Seriously, though, how is this different than kids who watch the scrambled Playboy channel, etc.? If you're going through that trouble to hack the game, you know what you're going to get. The fact that the content doesn't show up during regular game play means that you have to look for it to get it. Any kid with access to the internet can likewise type one word into a search engine and produce dirty pictures. So what's the point? You can't stop it from happening, so block what you must, but moreover, educate the kids.
It would be so great if the core 2 duo was just a regular single cpu, single thread chip, and the extreme was the only real dual-processing one. Intel would be my hero! "Our new chip can do 2 threads! (just not both at the same time)."
I think I was seeing smoke from the server for trying to download a/.'ed 200+ MB video file! Good job, people, let's all download a 200+ MB file. Any chance you could reduce that to around 5 MB and just show a clip?!
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This is great for street car times, but for sheer speed it totally sucks. A typical top fuel dragster can do 300 miles an hour in under 5 seconds. Is there an electric version of that? When they have an electric car that can tie an 8000-hp nitro drag car, then electric cars will finally have combustion engines on the run. Otherwise, it's still combustion whipping everyone at the strip.
All the R&D spending in the world won't make you first at something that someone else is already first at. They should either completely spin off R&D so that the mother company doesn't interfere (so that development can go into uncharted waters), or sink that cash back into legal battles and just sue everyone for everything.
If investors perceive Microsoft's "going it alone" as a blow to Yahoo's relationship with them, then the price of Yahoo should go down if Microsoft is the marketshare leader (on the idea that Yahoo will have a tough time competing with Microsoft's immense cash flow). Then once the price of Yahoo is down, Microsoft can swoop in and buy them out. That's pretty much what I was thinking... although IANAFA (financial analyst).
I guess the '07 lineup of sports games just wasnt that markedly different from the '06 lineup, and none of their fanbase bought it. I am a bit surprised it took this long to happen, but I'm not surprised at all, it should happen to any company that revises essentially the same set of games over and over again.
Right, that's because the commercial software development model is broken. It takes longer than they'd care to spend, and that's why the quality of commercial software suffers compared with software properly designed. Of course this costs way more to do, but it should pay off better in the end because of reduced maintenance, etc. costs over the life of the product, which also should be significantly extended because of higher quality.
If being careful makes you miss the deadline, then the deadline is set wrong. Shipping a product with security holes that you knew about + could've fixed with a bit more time is how we got into the position we're in. Pushing back a release date to fix them first should be the rule, not the exception.
They're doing this to drive down the stock price of Yahoo, so it will be easier to purchase. It's just another clever tactic when you want to exercise your monopoly power.
It seems like all these technologies can do for us is to say "there's a good chance this is me." In order to really ID someone, you can't just take an instant in time -- you'd have to have some way of checking their "story", i.e. how do you validate that their id isn't a fraud? We'd be way better off if we could reject any fake id vs. continuing trying to verify that an ID is in fact the actual person it says it is. If you could always tell a fake, then at the very least you'd have to steal the actual ID to use it, meaning if it was reported stolen fast enough, anyone trying to reuse it is just completely busted.
This will obviously be a best seller, because since it comes in white (not ugly grey or etc.), tons of girls will be able to buy it. We can expect to see iPod sales go up symbiotically as the same girls go buy a matching-color iPod. Don't think it matters? Show any girl this vs. those grade school crayon-colored ones, I guarantee they pick the white one.
If they really want to do it right, a digital version of "that spoiled kid's" mom is going to jump out of the screen with a tray of 'ants on logs' for everyone playing. Later, the digital version of "your" dad complains about you getting a job, and to keep playing you have to cleverly word your rebuttal. Now that's a realistic RPG!
They missed a bunch of stuff from the 80's-90's that is VERY hard to find now. For example, anyone remember the Apple II game "Floppy", with the little marshmallow-looking guy? If you have it, let me know... I'd be that the LOC has some freaking trouble finding stuff like that in 2006!
Why am I paying for X MB of access if I can't actually get X MB of access on whatever port I feel like? That's just retarded economics. Eventually a company will offer X MB of access for X dollars, no catch, and that company will become the internet monopoly ISP of all time.
I will smash a bunch of glass vases against the outside of the theater, then I'll go in and watch until the song comes on, when I'll bore a hole in the top inside of the theater and jump out of it onto the glass, thereby saving myself from the pain of ever hearing that song again!
If you're paying someone to show you a good time at a job, I dont care what job it is, it will be a fun job. Its not going to be realistic unless they're paying you to do it. That's the only way you'd see the reality of the job... when you pay them, it's in their interest to make it really "cool". I doubt people would be so interested in how cool it is for you when they're paying you to make swords... in that case, you'd better make the sword the way they want or you're fired, they dont give a crap if you think its fun or not!
"Three hours after Microsoft invests $900 million in China, approximately $900 million in pirated goods appears on the streets of China." Haven't they figured out how things work over there? No one cares. Stopping piracy in China is holding back the ocean with a broom.
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(insert obligatory pr0n reference here)!
100 million pixels of virtual pr0n... nope, no way to hide that at work!
It's not the failure of the security professionals, it's the failure of management to not respect the wishes of the system security. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a perfectly good security solution just get circumvented by management, or else the security people are fired. If management people took security seriously, rules would not be broken that way.
If they're doing that, why don't they hook up a bunch of Tivo's at the local distribution, and tivo everything? That way, you could watch any program at any time. Of course, some programs would be "too busy", and they'd only have x hours/shows in advance, but that would be completely sweet.
Those games should get a new rating of BT, for boner time! ha ha. Seriously, though, how is this different than kids who watch the scrambled Playboy channel, etc.? If you're going through that trouble to hack the game, you know what you're going to get. The fact that the content doesn't show up during regular game play means that you have to look for it to get it. Any kid with access to the internet can likewise type one word into a search engine and produce dirty pictures. So what's the point? You can't stop it from happening, so block what you must, but moreover, educate the kids.
It would be so great if the core 2 duo was just a regular single cpu, single thread chip, and the extreme was the only real dual-processing one. Intel would be my hero! "Our new chip can do 2 threads! (just not both at the same time)."
I think I was seeing smoke from the server for trying to download a /.'ed 200+ MB video file! Good job, people, let's all download a 200+ MB file. Any chance you could reduce that to around 5 MB and just show a clip?!
Life may suck sometimes. Sometimes it sucks for me, other times maybe life sucks for you. Consider it a blessing if you get through any period of time without encountering something that sucks about life. This website is not responsible for the suckiness of your computer, your internet experience at large, or anything else you may encounter that sucks.
This is great for street car times, but for sheer speed it totally sucks. A typical top fuel dragster can do 300 miles an hour in under 5 seconds. Is there an electric version of that? When they have an electric car that can tie an 8000-hp nitro drag car, then electric cars will finally have combustion engines on the run. Otherwise, it's still combustion whipping everyone at the strip.
All the R&D spending in the world won't make you first at something that someone else is already first at. They should either completely spin off R&D so that the mother company doesn't interfere (so that development can go into uncharted waters), or sink that cash back into legal battles and just sue everyone for everything.
If investors perceive Microsoft's "going it alone" as a blow to Yahoo's relationship with them, then the price of Yahoo should go down if Microsoft is the marketshare leader (on the idea that Yahoo will have a tough time competing with Microsoft's immense cash flow). Then once the price of Yahoo is down, Microsoft can swoop in and buy them out. That's pretty much what I was thinking... although IANAFA (financial analyst).
I guess the '07 lineup of sports games just wasnt that markedly different from the '06 lineup, and none of their fanbase bought it. I am a bit surprised it took this long to happen, but I'm not surprised at all, it should happen to any company that revises essentially the same set of games over and over again.
Right, that's because the commercial software development model is broken. It takes longer than they'd care to spend, and that's why the quality of commercial software suffers compared with software properly designed. Of course this costs way more to do, but it should pay off better in the end because of reduced maintenance, etc. costs over the life of the product, which also should be significantly extended because of higher quality.
If being careful makes you miss the deadline, then the deadline is set wrong. Shipping a product with security holes that you knew about + could've fixed with a bit more time is how we got into the position we're in. Pushing back a release date to fix them first should be the rule, not the exception.
They're doing this to drive down the stock price of Yahoo, so it will be easier to purchase. It's just another clever tactic when you want to exercise your monopoly power.
It seems like all these technologies can do for us is to say "there's a good chance this is me." In order to really ID someone, you can't just take an instant in time -- you'd have to have some way of checking their "story", i.e. how do you validate that their id isn't a fraud? We'd be way better off if we could reject any fake id vs. continuing trying to verify that an ID is in fact the actual person it says it is. If you could always tell a fake, then at the very least you'd have to steal the actual ID to use it, meaning if it was reported stolen fast enough, anyone trying to reuse it is just completely busted.
This will obviously be a best seller, because since it comes in white (not ugly grey or etc.), tons of girls will be able to buy it. We can expect to see iPod sales go up symbiotically as the same girls go buy a matching-color iPod. Don't think it matters? Show any girl this vs. those grade school crayon-colored ones, I guarantee they pick the white one.
If they really want to do it right, a digital version of "that spoiled kid's" mom is going to jump out of the screen with a tray of 'ants on logs' for everyone playing. Later, the digital version of "your" dad complains about you getting a job, and to keep playing you have to cleverly word your rebuttal. Now that's a realistic RPG!
I wasted most of 5th grade on that game, I think! Wow. I never thought I'd see that again.
That's the one, dang, that brings back some memories! Too bad it runs 5000 times too fast on my test emulator.
Nope, that's not it either. It was an action game, the little marshmallow guy walked around on the screen and did stuff.
They missed a bunch of stuff from the 80's-90's that is VERY hard to find now. For example, anyone remember the Apple II game "Floppy", with the little marshmallow-looking guy? If you have it, let me know... I'd be that the LOC has some freaking trouble finding stuff like that in 2006!
Why am I paying for X MB of access if I can't actually get X MB of access on whatever port I feel like? That's just retarded economics. Eventually a company will offer X MB of access for X dollars, no catch, and that company will become the internet monopoly ISP of all time.
I will smash a bunch of glass vases against the outside of the theater, then I'll go in and watch until the song comes on, when I'll bore a hole in the top inside of the theater and jump out of it onto the glass, thereby saving myself from the pain of ever hearing that song again!
If you're paying someone to show you a good time at a job, I dont care what job it is, it will be a fun job. Its not going to be realistic unless they're paying you to do it. That's the only way you'd see the reality of the job... when you pay them, it's in their interest to make it really "cool". I doubt people would be so interested in how cool it is for you when they're paying you to make swords... in that case, you'd better make the sword the way they want or you're fired, they dont give a crap if you think its fun or not!
"Three hours after Microsoft invests $900 million in China, approximately $900 million in pirated goods appears on the streets of China." Haven't they figured out how things work over there? No one cares. Stopping piracy in China is holding back the ocean with a broom.