"We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data to our server. Nothing unusual or harmful. Heaps of games/apps do this and we use it to better understand how the game is played. It’s absolutely anonymous and you are covered by our privacy policy. "
Yes, you want our sympathy because you're indie, but yet you have no qualms in playing big brother and monitoring your users without explictly stating that you do so. Yeah, a "privacy policy" makes it okay.
Sorry, in my book you guys are assholes just like EA by merely doing that. Not that you deserve having your game "pirated", but you're still assholes. Not mutually exclusive.
A while back you did a bunch of issues of The Brave and The Bold. I have to say, all of them were outstanding and brought some unusual/forgotten characters to the fore.
Were there any DC characters that you had wished you had the opportunity to tackle?
We decided that MongoDB was adequate but didn't leverage the synergies we were trying to harvest from our development methodologies.
We looked at GumboDB and found it was lacking in visualization tools to create a warehouse for our data that would provide a real-time dashboard of the operational metrics we were seeking.
Next up was SuperDuperDB which was great from a client-server-man-in-the-middle perspective but required a complex LDAP authentication matrix that reticulated splines within our identity management roadmap.
After that I quit. I hear they are using Access 95 with VBA.
When you scramble to monetize your product by pimping off your CEO you know it's downhill from here on.
Next: - for 5 euros they will attach the head of one of your friends on a porn star - charge 1 cent every time you use your FB login with another site - charge $5 to add 50 new friends for the socially inept or people you need to get that extra mile - for $1,000 bump someone off FB with the same name and get exclusive rights for 12 months - $5 for audio greetings, $10 for video -$1 to send a text message
Limited exemptions for protecting, upgrading and updating computer networks The proposed Regulations include an exemption for telecommunications service providers (TSPs) from the requirement to have consent to install a computer program for the limited purposes of preventing illegal activities that present an imminent risk to the security of its network.
The proposed Regulations also include an exemption for TSPs from the requirement to have consent to install software on devices across an entire network for update and upgrade purposes.
Does this mean that Rogers/Bell can start pushing agents/SW on their subscribers computers which in turn allow them to control your access?
This is pretty messed up.
They should be within their rights to cut off access to the node. I suppose the TSPs need to have a higher level of assurance that the node is no longer compromised.
Oops, I just been paged. it's on vibrate, which is why you didn't hear. I have to Go off-site. See you tomorrow unless I'm up late working on this emergency, in which case I may be working from home.
I have a catch-all inbox that I use for various disposable e-mails. It's a popular domain.
In a typical week I get: - 10+ people trying (and succeeding) creating FB accounts plus any updates and invites and comments and... - ~5 e-mails from Gmail to activate an account - ~5 e-mails from Windows Live to activate an account - two library notifications about overdue books - a backup of the financial database from a company that has set the incorrect e-mail - Someone sending baby pictures of their newborn child to a co-worker to a similarly-named company - ~4 e-mails from patients for another similarly-named clinic - One or two e-mails from an insurance company with confidential data sent to the incorrect domain - LOTS of e-mails from people signing up on web sites that don't verify e-mails (horroscopes, matching sites, industrial newsletters, etc)
Xmas was pretty busy with a lot of kids registering WIndows Live accounts for their XBOX. Out of courtesy I usually tell people that they have the wrong domain...
You should read Soccernomics. A lot of the principles that Sabermetics has applied to soccer as well which is as a team sport as well. Specifically teams like Lyon and FC Porto have been doing something similar and exceeding expectations for many years. Manchester City who also have a ton of money, have now published their players' stats.
I hear you. He answered my question as well in a similar fashion, and perhaps I'm too cynical but "fighting malware" = "disrupting botnets" = "ticking off organized crime". One cannot operate in Moscow and dodge that crowd.
Nonetheless I appreciate the guy taking time to answer the questions and provide his views. Can't say I was expecting anything controversial although I was hoping for a surprise or two.
Hey Editors, how about getting Mikko Hyppönen to answer some questions next time?
Fred is server tech and spends his days setting up servers, installing and configuring the necessary services, and configuration management. In addition a third of his time is taken by meetings and change/problem/incident management crap. Most days his work is planned well ahead with some occasional changes. He's pretty much the only person that does what he does.
He gets a request to attend a meeting on Tuesday so that some requirements get finalized for a new implementation. No documentation or agenda, basically like 80% of his meetings, he's expected to provide answers and estimates on the spot.
He calls sick on Tuesday, he informs his manager and tells him about the meeting. Manager asks him if he can call in, but he's seriously ill so he politely declines.
He is also sick on Wednesday.
He returns on Thursday. At 9am sharp he gets hauled into a meeting asking why he did not do his part on Tuesday. He says calmly that he was sick. Blank stares. The "project director" informs him that due to his lack of contribution the project missed a milestone. Fred's manager sits there quietly and says nothing.
Fred loses his coolness. He tells them that if the project managers were any good they would have done these items way ahead of time. He also asks his manager why he didn't attend the call or asked someone else in IT to at least to assist? He also asks what is the impact of the "missed milestone". Fred is told that his tone is not appreciated. The meeting ends.
Fred hands in his resignation Friday morning. He finds another job with similar pay, a tad more structure and closer to home. The project never happens due to some "scope change". The IT manager is let go 4 months after a "re-structuring". The "project director" is promoted to CIO a year later.
Thank you; I was just curious, except for the typical keystroke logger and the Adsense phishing e-mail, I hadn't seen or heard of actively heard of any "Chinese" into Gmail.
Even though you may have not actively been on top of your password, it didn't strike me that were the kind of person that would also been oblivious if something funny was happening.
Thanks again, just thought that the successful Adsense phishing happened to someone else.
Err, not even. MSDN costs an arm and a leg now as well. I was shocked when I found how much they charge for MSDN Professional. Seems like it pretty much doubled in costs in the last 2-3 years. When you had Visio and the Office Suite so that you can interact with the rest of the corporate lemmings, you're in $5k worth of MS licenses, which is crazy.
I thought Embarcadero's suites were pricey. Not anymore compared to MS.
If I didn't have my expenses covered, I'd be dropping VS2012/C# and making a strong case to use Java with Eclipse or something like that.
Your operating out of the same country that has a ton of botnet operators and raking in some decent dought with cheap pharmaceutical sales thanks to people desperate or naive enough to do so.
There are have been some interesting stories hailing from your corner of your world. How do you feel with your ability to run your company the way you want and without any threats to you or your staff?
Slashdot Mirror
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx
Well, at least it's not "man-in-the-middle" because that would be bad.
Would be one ... for the other two:
US patent office
FIFA
Can they force you to open a safe?
Or to use a car analogy; can they ask to unlock the car door?
There is a 4K hack of Pac-Man:
http://www.atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1010
Video of it playing at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYuBcuvIww
By all means, please DO NOT link us to http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146679n .
May not work on an iPad or Windows 8 tablet.
"We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data to our server. Nothing unusual or harmful. Heaps of games/apps do this and we use it to better understand how the game is played. It’s absolutely anonymous and you are covered by our privacy policy. "
Yes, you want our sympathy because you're indie, but yet you have no qualms in playing big brother and monitoring your users without explictly stating that you do so. Yeah, a "privacy policy" makes it okay.
Sorry, in my book you guys are assholes just like EA by merely doing that. Not that you deserve having your game "pirated", but you're still assholes. Not mutually exclusive.
A while back you did a bunch of issues of The Brave and The Bold. I have to say, all of them were outstanding and brought some unusual/forgotten characters to the fore.
Were there any DC characters that you had wished you had the opportunity to tackle?
We decided that MongoDB was adequate but didn't leverage the synergies we were trying to harvest from our development methodologies.
We looked at GumboDB and found it was lacking in visualization tools to create a warehouse for our data that would provide a real-time dashboard of the operational metrics we were seeking.
Next up was SuperDuperDB which was great from a client-server-man-in-the-middle perspective but required a complex LDAP authentication matrix that reticulated splines within our identity management roadmap.
After that I quit. I hear they are using Access 95 with VBA.
Fair enough; still a LOT better than what you typically experience in Cuba.
When you scramble to monetize your product by pimping off your CEO you know it's downhill from here on.
Next:
- for 5 euros they will attach the head of one of your friends on a porn star
- charge 1 cent every time you use your FB login with another site
- charge $5 to add 50 new friends for the socially inept or people you need to get that extra mile
- for $1,000 bump someone off FB with the same name and get exclusive rights for 12 months
- $5 for audio greetings, $10 for video
-$1 to send a text message
Limited exemptions for protecting, upgrading and updating computer networks
The proposed Regulations include an exemption for telecommunications service providers (TSPs) from the requirement to have consent to install a computer program for the limited purposes of preventing illegal activities that present an imminent risk to the security of its network.
The proposed Regulations also include an exemption for TSPs from the requirement to have consent to install software on devices across an entire network for update and upgrade purposes.
Does this mean that Rogers/Bell can start pushing agents/SW on their subscribers computers which in turn allow them to control your access?
This is pretty messed up.
They should be within their rights to cut off access to the node. I suppose the TSPs need to have a higher level of assurance that the node is no longer compromised.
Shhh, don't give away all of our secrets.
Oops, I just been paged. it's on vibrate, which is why you didn't hear. I have to Go off-site. See you tomorrow unless I'm up late working on this emergency, in which case I may be working from home.
I have a catch-all inbox that I use for various disposable e-mails. It's a popular domain.
In a typical week I get: ...
- 10+ people trying (and succeeding) creating FB accounts plus any updates and invites and comments and
- ~5 e-mails from Gmail to activate an account
- ~5 e-mails from Windows Live to activate an account
- two library notifications about overdue books
- a backup of the financial database from a company that has set the incorrect e-mail
- Someone sending baby pictures of their newborn child to a co-worker to a similarly-named company
- ~4 e-mails from patients for another similarly-named clinic
- One or two e-mails from an insurance company with confidential data sent to the incorrect domain
- LOTS of e-mails from people signing up on web sites that don't verify e-mails (horroscopes, matching sites, industrial newsletters, etc)
Xmas was pretty busy with a lot of kids registering WIndows Live accounts for their XBOX. ...
Out of courtesy I usually tell people that they have the wrong domain
You should read Soccernomics. A lot of the principles that Sabermetics has applied to soccer as well which is as a team sport as well. Specifically teams like Lyon and FC Porto have been doing something similar and exceeding expectations for many years. Manchester City who also have a ton of money, have now published their players' stats.
Not a rumour; it actually happened.
I hear you. He answered my question as well in a similar fashion, and perhaps I'm too cynical but "fighting malware" = "disrupting botnets" = "ticking off organized crime". One cannot operate in Moscow and dodge that crowd.
Nonetheless I appreciate the guy taking time to answer the questions and provide his views. Can't say I was expecting anything controversial although I was hoping for a surprise or two.
Hey Editors, how about getting Mikko Hyppönen to answer some questions next time?
Good for the Spider guys to discover this problem. It would be more helpful if they named/shamed the companies that are exploiting this.
Anyone have this info?
Yes, interesting.
I'll give you semi-recent example of b).
Fred is server tech and spends his days setting up servers, installing and configuring the necessary services, and configuration management. In addition a third of his time is taken by meetings and change/problem/incident management crap. Most days his work is planned well ahead with some occasional changes. He's pretty much the only person that does what he does.
He gets a request to attend a meeting on Tuesday so that some requirements get finalized for a new implementation. No documentation or agenda, basically like 80% of his meetings, he's expected to provide answers and estimates on the spot.
He calls sick on Tuesday, he informs his manager and tells him about the meeting. Manager asks him if he can call in, but he's seriously ill so he politely declines.
He is also sick on Wednesday.
He returns on Thursday. At 9am sharp he gets hauled into a meeting asking why he did not do his part on Tuesday. He says calmly that he was sick. Blank stares. The "project director" informs him that due to his lack of contribution the project missed a milestone. Fred's manager sits there quietly and says nothing.
Fred loses his coolness. He tells them that if the project managers were any good they would have done these items way ahead of time. He also asks his manager why he didn't attend the call or asked someone else in IT to at least to assist? He also asks what is the impact of the "missed milestone".
Fred is told that his tone is not appreciated. The meeting ends.
Fred hands in his resignation Friday morning. He finds another job with similar pay, a tad more structure and closer to home.
The project never happens due to some "scope change". The IT manager is let go 4 months after a "re-structuring". The "project director" is promoted to CIO a year later.
Thank you; I was just curious, except for the typical keystroke logger and the Adsense phishing e-mail, I hadn't seen or heard of actively heard of any "Chinese" into Gmail.
Even though you may have not actively been on top of your password, it didn't strike me that were the kind of person that would also been oblivious if something funny was happening.
Thanks again, just thought that the successful Adsense phishing happened to someone else.
Forgot to include the Apple numbers reference:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/9/3232018/confidential-apple-samsung-sales-numbers-trial
... that they're a late player in the tablet game and have had terrible experience with their smartphone OS.
Apple shifted two million in its first quarter.
Even the stupid playbook shifted a large number (shipped, not sold, half a million in Q1) and then its numbers went off a cliff.
I think the Q2 numbers will be more insightful.
Serious question; do you use Adsense? A lot of accounts were compromised with some pretty impressive (well, compared to others) phishing accounts.
Yeah, I've had a close call that made me change my approach as well.
Err, not even. MSDN costs an arm and a leg now as well. I was shocked when I found how much they charge for MSDN Professional. Seems like it pretty much doubled in costs in the last 2-3 years. When you had Visio and the Office Suite so that you can interact with the rest of the corporate lemmings, you're in $5k worth of MS licenses, which is crazy.
I thought Embarcadero's suites were pricey. Not anymore compared to MS.
If I didn't have my expenses covered, I'd be dropping VS2012/C# and making a strong case to use Java with Eclipse or something like that.
Mr. Kaspersky are you safe?
Your operating out of the same country that has a ton of botnet operators and raking in some decent dought with cheap pharmaceutical sales thanks to people desperate or naive enough to do so.
There are have been some interesting stories hailing from your corner of your world. How do you feel with your ability to run your company the way you want and without any threats to you or your staff?