1. Write software that works 90% of the time and crashes randomly 10% of the time (who cares the 10% is during critical computing) 2. Wait, release patches. 3. Release new version of OS so crappy the public will be happy to use the 90% ware and pay to downgrade 4. Profit
In the event of a "Cyber Attack" (read we go after them) would the task force secure source code, to search for hidden vectors of attack?
I realize this is based on the assumption that we know what OS and programs they are running, but Windows for instance, it's reasonable to assume that most computer users use some form of it either legally aquired or illegally.
Surely a country as limited as China who is more than capable of building the single largest most ambitious damn ever conceived by man lacks the know how to probe foreign governments via a computer.
Hell even the AOL'ers of old knew how to h4x0r a Gibson, or at least probe it.
I live in Va, on the south side of the river. What the post and tfa fail to mention is that the area where his congregation are is a heavy drug crime related area. search Wickham Ave
Some more interesting data, the average income in this area is less than half the states average income. Income and home value tables
With numbers like these the problem is not video games or violent music, the true problem is socio-economical.
Would a photograph of someone be substantial enough to fool a facial recognition program? How would it distinguish between a 2d photo and a 3d person seeing a camera photos in 2d anyway.
Well I dropped out of high school 2nd time in 10th grade. Stayed out of school for 7 years, without cracking a book or studying went and took my GED exam, passed first round, I was amazed that there were people on their 4th and 5th tries taking the GED test. Another 7 years pass, I decide to go to college to further my education and to get a job in computers. Again, without opening a book or studying in 7 years I'm in remedial classes, which I expected but what I saw there I had never expected. Fresh high school students that had graduated the year before in courses equivalent to what should have been Junior and Senior year Maths and English.
In a world where it's been survival of the fittest since the beginning of time, why in education is the policy "No child left behind"?
In the end it's the other 97% of students that suffer, and ultimately every other industry from lack of well educated people.
Or parents that have to pay tuition for their child to take Junior and Senior year Maths and English so that they are ready for college.
To the parents of those children that have learning disabilities, I feel for you, but at the same time I do not feel that my child should suffer a lesser education so that your child feels better about themselves. The real world doesn't work like that, and not everyone gets a trophy for playing.
"[Any] VoIP [user] or online gamer who has a roommate or a family member who uses BitTorrent (or any P2P application) knows what a nightmare it is when BitTorrent is in use. The ping (round trip latency) goes through the roof and it stays there making VoIP packets drop out and game play impossible."
I regularly download gigs of data via Bittorrent and my wife simultaneously uses a java based IRC client, while I play COD4 and I still get on average no more than a 40 ping in my fave server. Normal ping is around 33, so a whopping 7 ms latency surely that's acceptable, at least to me. Oh yeah, I've also done all that and run my own audio stream server, all from my home network, and my games are still very much playable. Using cable medium bandwidth tier.
My question is the fact that it looks like he was turned in by his bank. With current terrorist financial alerts that are present, IE moving $10,000 or more at a time, this is what flagged him. Had he done this pre 9/11, I'd wager he would have gotten away with it.
The times have changed. Maybe it's time for them (RIAA/MPAA) to rethink their business strategies and distribution models. The internet is a tool, they should make use of it as such.
Imagine a movie being released, first run, not only in theaters, but you pay $15 you can stream it to your PC. There are those that would only watch it that one time, but then there are still those that love the feeling that only the gianormous celluloid screen can deliver.
Methods like homestead act, the land grabs of the late 1800's and such. Squaters rights pretty much. For that matter I shall claim I personally own the sun and now everyone in the world must pay me a tariff on the light, warmth and energy my sun produces for them.
Without some sort of limit on what we say we own, this is how ridiculously absurd the whole cockup could be.
This guy made 100k for probably something that took him less than a year to produce. Now I'm not sure about voice overs for feature films, but a voice over for a game is not a Hollywood blockbuster by no stretch. He should be happy that he made out like a bandit, and run with what he got. If he is upset about it or feels he was ripped off, he should either not do game voice overs or simply startup a movement to get that deficit changed.
Our first contact with interstellar life will be an adolescent alien playing their version of Counter Strike Source and screaming "STFU you noob, I DON'T HACK"
They did classify PC Tools as being behavioral based. This could count cookies as you said, PunkBuster, a NOCD game crack, a VOIP product, like Skype, Teamspeak or such. I know for a fact the first 2 years I used Teamspeak my AV kept flagging it as a keylogger due to the "Push To Talk" feature.
Back when I was using dialup I tested a default install of Windows and a default install of SuSe on my ISP connection. I was surprised to find that on average my Linux box loading up MSN.com beat out my Windows box. I tested Windows using IE, Netscape, and at the time the upstart Mozilla. On Linux, I used Konquerer and Mozilla, Konquerer had the fastest load times of all browsers I tested.
With the point n click ease of Linux these days, if all they do is send email and chat over the web, this may be the way to go. With the ease of running dual boot as well they could keep Windows just for those things, they feel they can't deal without.
While this is true, take into account all the failed attempts to protect copyrighted materials, even MS attempt at XP and Vista, which have both already fallen prey to being cracked. Encryption or not, only be a matter of time before someone pops it like a grape.
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MS business model
1. Write software that works 90% of the time and crashes randomly 10% of the time (who cares the 10% is during critical computing)
2. Wait, release patches.
3. Release new version of OS so crappy the public will be happy to use the 90% ware and pay to downgrade
4. Profit
That "FUBAR" project is Duke Nuke Em Forever.
They damn sure did.
In the event of a "Cyber Attack" (read we go after them) would the task force secure source code, to search for hidden vectors of attack?
I realize this is based on the assumption that we know what OS and programs they are running, but Windows for instance, it's reasonable to assume that most computer users use some form of it either legally aquired or illegally.
Surely a country as limited as China who is more than capable of building the single largest most ambitious damn ever conceived by man lacks the know how to probe foreign governments via a computer.
Hell even the AOL'ers of old knew how to h4x0r a Gibson, or at least probe it.
tar -cfz baggage.tar.gz /home/luggage/
I live in Va, on the south side of the river. What the post and tfa fail to mention is that the area where his congregation are is a heavy drug crime related area.
search Wickham Ave
Some more interesting data, the average income in this area is less than half the states average income. Income and home value tables
With numbers like these the problem is not video games or violent music, the true problem is socio-economical.
Would a photograph of someone be substantial enough to fool a facial recognition program?
How would it distinguish between a 2d photo and a 3d person seeing a camera photos in 2d anyway.
Well I dropped out of high school 2nd time in 10th grade. Stayed out of school for 7 years, without cracking a book or studying went and took my GED exam, passed first round, I was amazed that there were people on their 4th and 5th tries taking the GED test. Another 7 years pass, I decide to go to college to further my education and to get a job in computers. Again, without opening a book or studying in 7 years I'm in remedial classes, which I expected but what I saw there I had never expected. Fresh high school students that had graduated the year before in courses equivalent to what should have been Junior and Senior year Maths and English.
In a world where it's been survival of the fittest since the beginning of time, why in education is the policy "No child left behind"?
In the end it's the other 97% of students that suffer, and ultimately every other industry from lack of well educated people.
Or parents that have to pay tuition for their child to take Junior and Senior year Maths and English so that they are ready for college.
To the parents of those children that have learning disabilities, I feel for you, but at the same time I do not feel that my child should suffer a lesser education so that your child feels better about themselves. The real world doesn't work like that, and not everyone gets a trophy for playing.
I regularly download gigs of data via Bittorrent and my wife simultaneously uses a java based IRC client, while I play COD4 and I still get on average no more than a 40 ping in my fave server. Normal ping is around 33, so a whopping 7 ms latency surely that's acceptable, at least to me. Oh yeah, I've also done all that and run my own audio stream server, all from my home network, and my games are still very much playable. Using cable medium bandwidth tier.
are enjoying rum being brought back aboard ship en masse.
My question is the fact that it looks like he was turned in by his bank.
With current terrorist financial alerts that are present, IE moving $10,000 or more at a time, this is what flagged him. Had he done this pre 9/11, I'd wager he would have gotten away with it.
I blame the internet for this one too. Mars Climate Orbiter
Seriously do we really need the extra tax dollars spent, man hours, and all that goes with it so the government can get more money?
I'll tell you if it doesn't pass, you will see it sooner or later under the guise of "searching for terrorist finances".
I'm curious how this goes 0-60 in 3 seconds when high performance sports cars do it in 4 with larger engines.
The times have changed. Maybe it's time for them (RIAA/MPAA) to rethink their business strategies and distribution models. The internet is a tool, they should make use of it as such.
Imagine a movie being released, first run, not only in theaters, but you pay $15 you can stream it to your PC. There are those that would only watch it that one time, but then there are still those that love the feeling that only the gianormous celluloid screen can deliver.
To quote Gordon Ramsay "Change or DIE!".
Methods like homestead act, the land grabs of the late 1800's and such. Squaters rights pretty much.
For that matter I shall claim I personally own the sun and now everyone in the world must pay me a tariff on the light, warmth and energy my sun produces for them.
Without some sort of limit on what we say we own, this is how ridiculously absurd the whole cockup could be.
This guy made 100k for probably something that took him less than a year to produce.
Now I'm not sure about voice overs for feature films, but a voice over for a game is not a Hollywood blockbuster by no stretch.
He should be happy that he made out like a bandit, and run with what he got.
If he is upset about it or feels he was ripped off, he should either not do game voice overs or simply startup a movement to get that deficit changed.
By the way larger names than his appeared in the San Andreas installment and I didn't hear them complain.
I can resell it back to any restaurant establishment and prosper. Waiters and waitresses the world over will sing my praises.
Our first contact with interstellar life will be an adolescent alien playing their version of Counter Strike Source and screaming "STFU you noob, I DON'T HACK"
They did classify PC Tools as being behavioral based. This could count cookies as you said, PunkBuster, a NOCD game crack, a VOIP product, like Skype, Teamspeak or such. I know for a fact the first 2 years I used Teamspeak my AV kept flagging it as a keylogger due to the "Push To Talk" feature.
Back when I was using dialup I tested a default install of Windows and a default install of SuSe on my ISP connection. I was surprised to find that on average my Linux box loading up MSN.com beat out my Windows box. I tested Windows using IE, Netscape, and at the time the upstart Mozilla. On Linux, I used Konquerer and Mozilla, Konquerer had the fastest load times of all browsers I tested.
With the point n click ease of Linux these days, if all they do is send email and chat over the web, this may be the way to go. With the ease of running dual boot as well they could keep Windows just for those things, they feel they can't deal without.
While this is true, take into account all the failed attempts to protect copyrighted materials, even MS attempt at XP and Vista, which have both already fallen prey to being cracked. Encryption or not, only be a matter of time before someone pops it like a grape.
All I can picture is Leia saying "Help me Nikko Home Electronics, you're my only hope"
I don't see why it would be any different in the UK.