When tazers were being introduced the mantra was repeated that they would only be used 'as a last resort, in place of a gun'. Also 'they're completely safe'.
Here we are a few years later with regular news blips about kids and the elderly being tased for any reason or no reason at all, and there is a very long list of tazer fatalities.
Time and time and time again, scary shit becomes commonplace because people believe the promises of restraint, safety, public good. Every time, complete bullshit.
I love how this article singles out the iPad for no valid reason whatsoever, just to whore up attention since the iPad is the latest hot topic. Should have thrown in some 9/11 or Obama references for added traffic. Maybe mention Haiti or Thailand a bit.
Sleep patterns blah blah IPAD blah devices IPAD blah blah IPAD blah light intensity blah IPAD blah
Uh, Creative were just as responsible for the stagnation thing. In fact, they've doing it across several different technologies at the same time! Webcams, Audio cards, portable media players.
Creative peddle complete shit.
Yeah you are. PoS systems are rarely able to be adequately physically secured, and located out in public areas, handling financial transactions, and operated by staff with minimal training and accountability.
Not saying that AV is correct in this scenario, but you shouldn't pretend PoS is an environment that can be securely isolated, or that the network is the only vector for an attack.
Bullsh. He's talking about basic text formatting options that are buggy or in some cases, broken. He's dead right about that. Issues abound in Gmail, too... like how signature text and body text are treated differently when composing an email, and often that can bug out and leave you unable to edit the body text because GMail things it's all one big signature. Dumb.
Mind you, similar criticism can be applied to Word, too, it's less buggy than GDocs, but still has problems. Adding a page break then wondering why your new Heading 1 line is also changing the spacing on the previous page... or why you can't seem to move beyond the end of a table at the end of your document to start a new line. Stuff like that.
GDocs has some way to go in terms of usability, even for basic corporate documentation.
A few months back I built a new PC. Once I had the OS installed, I went online and downloaded a copy of my email client. Then I configured the client to talk to my ISPs email servers. That meant digging into my old paper files and finding my ISPs new customer letter where it had my mail server info and username/password that I don't use for anything else (so had forgotten). Then once it was set up I realised that I'd only be receiving new mail from the ISP, and had to turn on the old PC to take a copy of my old emails. Importing took a bit of time. Something about different versions of the program between backing the data up and restoring it.
Just kidding. I opened firefox and logged into GMail.
This would be the same phenomenon where people perceive gamers as wasting time on a childish hobby, then themselves spend hours each day playing bejeweled/mahjong, or sat in front of the tube being fed drivel.
Meanwhile, many gamers spend their time developing teams, honing tactical thinking, collaborating to create new 3d content, socializing, or solving puzzles.
Eh? I have the euro version of this charger because it lets me boost my camera batteries from my netbook. It's perfect for the travelling that I do.
It runs without the software installed, but the software shows the battery charge status, which can be handy.
Not to mention, when I bought it you got a pair of 2400mA AA cells plus the charger for far less than the wall charger cost alone.
Which one of us is ignorant in this matter? Oh, it's you;)
Deciding off your own bat that their password changing policy isn't particularly secure, then deliberately subverting it to use an even weaker password than the spirit of the policy, then attepting to propogate this out to other employees?
Wow, you're an epically arrogant and irresponsible employee.
Its not really Windows Update that's being used in this exploit, its the Background Intelligent Transfer Service which, in a nutshell, is a service that downdaloads data to your PC while minimising disruption to other network activity i.e. surfing the net, gaming, or downloading other files. Its a built-in feature of Windows XP but has only been implemented once or twice.
Windows update makes use of the BITS service. Malware can make use of the BITS service. Its not logical to then say that Malware is exploiting Windows update. Any more than an attack that utilised Java would be exploiting Azureus (A java application).
The reason malware utilising BITS is a problem is because with any application-level firewall, permission for BITS to access the net is already granted and so unlike a regular trojan, the firewall won't spit a potentially suspicious permission request up when it tries to download more malware from the 'net. This same exploit is true of the JVM too.
A solution to the problem might be to instance such services. But by doing that it sort of renders them not services anymore.
So eh, mark my stats +1 pedantry, but to perpetuate this as a Windows Update exploit isn't accurate.
And now they're testing weapons designed to neutralised space weapons.
I don't see this as inconsistent. You're against the weaponisation of space, so you develop tech to counter it. If they were developing space-to-earth weaponry, that would be another story.
Having worked on and in a networked environment for a 24-hour steel mill, I can predict that you'll have just as much trouble with interference as you will with heat. Assuming you overcome the heat issue, whatever's generating it will also be generating so much interference you'll be lucky to get 10mbits from a gigabit line.
Our solution was to use fiber for pretty much everything, to the point that we were using so much that it was simpler to use fiber for every tasks than mix in cat5.
Regarding the heat issue, if you're based as an IT specialist in an industrial environment, then you have to liase with the site engineers for this kind of task. It's outside of your experience/training/knowledge, so don't succumb to vanity and assume that you have the intelligence to pull through it unaided. Such a place will already have other heat and interference-sensitive equipment which has been installed by engineers on-site, and they'll be able to do the same for your equipment.
Expect a hefty price tag for installing a suitable thermal casing and ventilation system. Or after due consideration and consultation, if it can't feasibly be done then that's the end of the discussion.
Sure. Games, simulators, business systems, educational programs.
Once virtual world software goes through the initial period of being peddled in various forms by various vendors, and the realisation of a mapped virtual model of earth starts being treated as a single data source from which other systems can draw information, then it could be channelled into a whole host of applications.
Unfortunately, this vision kinda falls down on one point - Unlike teh intarnets, which could survive and expand without needing much of a central host to run on, a full-on virtual earth allowing the kind of thankless data serving described here would probably be too much of a challenge for not enough reward for any single group. And I doubt we'll be lucky enough to have such a task picked up as a government service.
The point is kinda drilled home right in the topic itself, because Google Earth is named specifically. We're at a state of technological development now that can support the creation of a digital clone of our world, yet in terms of a civilisation, we don't have any structures in place that would allow us to reap the max benefit from it.
I still don't understand why they don't just use a single higher res camera, mount it facing upwards, then stick a curved lens above it to give a 360 view all round.
As popular as it is to hate on large corporations, it's often overlooked that large corporations are formed from large bodies of employed persons. While one might be entirely guilt-free in hoping a corporation does not entirely dominate their market, it would only be to the detriment of the 'little people' if a corporation got into serious trouble.
Mass layoffs aren't something anyone should be cheering on, IMO. Most of the anti-sony noise started out (I believe) as a hope that Sony would have its wings clipped and its arrogance tamed, rather than wishing the wholesale destruction of the 'evil corporation' and the massive job losses that would accompany it.
There's been a fair bit of noise in the development community over the work involved in porting games to the cell architecture, too. No doubt this is going to hinder developers since more and more are moving towards cross-platform releases as a way to capture enough market to recover cost/increase revenue.
Sony could pull off something fantastic by enabling its range of SOE titles to interact from the PS3 to the currently existing servers. Planetside, for a start, had pretty high system requirements which limited adoption... if it became open to the console crowd as well I think that would boost both the PS3 sales and SOE's dominance in the face of WoW.
But this seems a pipe dream. Unless they're going to shock everyone including their shareholders and reveal a slew of surprise facts surrounding the PS3, it simply looks like a complete dog.
This isn't such a surprising strategy. If you can convince the masses to do something to the least favoured members of society, then you can start to gradually argue the case for doing it to everyone.
All they had to find was the lowest rung on the ladder of american society.
Surprised they didn't go with pedophiles TBH. It's probably because they were already on with the immigrant thing.
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Or 2 buildings, 16 rooms and 64 dividers. Plus with Hyperthreading probably a water cooler and some pot plants.
When tazers were being introduced the mantra was repeated that they would only be used 'as a last resort, in place of a gun'. Also 'they're completely safe'.
Here we are a few years later with regular news blips about kids and the elderly being tased for any reason or no reason at all, and there is a very long list of tazer fatalities.
Time and time and time again, scary shit becomes commonplace because people believe the promises of restraint, safety, public good. Every time, complete bullshit.
Because 'portable devices' is way too difficult to convey.
I love how this article singles out the iPad for no valid reason whatsoever, just to whore up attention since the iPad is the latest hot topic. Should have thrown in some 9/11 or Obama references for added traffic. Maybe mention Haiti or Thailand a bit. Sleep patterns blah blah IPAD blah devices IPAD blah blah IPAD blah light intensity blah IPAD blah
Uh, Creative were just as responsible for the stagnation thing. In fact, they've doing it across several different technologies at the same time! Webcams, Audio cards, portable media players. Creative peddle complete shit.
Proves it? The two points you mentioned are valid but not related.
Yeah you are. PoS systems are rarely able to be adequately physically secured, and located out in public areas, handling financial transactions, and operated by staff with minimal training and accountability. Not saying that AV is correct in this scenario, but you shouldn't pretend PoS is an environment that can be securely isolated, or that the network is the only vector for an attack.
You mean Experts Exchange's 'scroll to the bottom and you get the answers anyway' intelligence-wall?
Bullsh. He's talking about basic text formatting options that are buggy or in some cases, broken. He's dead right about that. Issues abound in Gmail, too... like how signature text and body text are treated differently when composing an email, and often that can bug out and leave you unable to edit the body text because GMail things it's all one big signature. Dumb.
Mind you, similar criticism can be applied to Word, too, it's less buggy than GDocs, but still has problems. Adding a page break then wondering why your new Heading 1 line is also changing the spacing on the previous page... or why you can't seem to move beyond the end of a table at the end of your document to start a new line. Stuff like that.
GDocs has some way to go in terms of usability, even for basic corporate documentation.
A few months back I built a new PC. Once I had the OS installed, I went online and downloaded a copy of my email client. Then I configured the client to talk to my ISPs email servers. That meant digging into my old paper files and finding my ISPs new customer letter where it had my mail server info and username/password that I don't use for anything else (so had forgotten). Then once it was set up I realised that I'd only be receiving new mail from the ISP, and had to turn on the old PC to take a copy of my old emails. Importing took a bit of time. Something about different versions of the program between backing the data up and restoring it.
Just kidding. I opened firefox and logged into GMail.
This would be the same phenomenon where people perceive gamers as wasting time on a childish hobby, then themselves spend hours each day playing bejeweled/mahjong, or sat in front of the tube being fed drivel. Meanwhile, many gamers spend their time developing teams, honing tactical thinking, collaborating to create new 3d content, socializing, or solving puzzles.
Eh? I have the euro version of this charger because it lets me boost my camera batteries from my netbook. It's perfect for the travelling that I do. It runs without the software installed, but the software shows the battery charge status, which can be handy. Not to mention, when I bought it you got a pair of 2400mA AA cells plus the charger for far less than the wall charger cost alone. Which one of us is ignorant in this matter? Oh, it's you ;)
Deciding off your own bat that their password changing policy isn't particularly secure, then deliberately subverting it to use an even weaker password than the spirit of the policy, then attepting to propogate this out to other employees? Wow, you're an epically arrogant and irresponsible employee.
This is caused by running out of disk space on C:\ Seen it a few times.
Its not really Windows Update that's being used in this exploit, its the Background Intelligent Transfer Service which, in a nutshell, is a service that downdaloads data to your PC while minimising disruption to other network activity i.e. surfing the net, gaming, or downloading other files. Its a built-in feature of Windows XP but has only been implemented once or twice.
Windows update makes use of the BITS service. Malware can make use of the BITS service. Its not logical to then say that Malware is exploiting Windows update. Any more than an attack that utilised Java would be exploiting Azureus (A java application).
The reason malware utilising BITS is a problem is because with any application-level firewall, permission for BITS to access the net is already granted and so unlike a regular trojan, the firewall won't spit a potentially suspicious permission request up when it tries to download more malware from the 'net. This same exploit is true of the JVM too.
A solution to the problem might be to instance such services. But by doing that it sort of renders them not services anymore.
So eh, mark my stats +1 pedantry, but to perpetuate this as a Windows Update exploit isn't accurate.
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And now they're testing weapons designed to neutralised space weapons.
I don't see this as inconsistent. You're against the weaponisation of space, so you develop tech to counter it.
If they were developing space-to-earth weaponry, that would be another story.
Having worked on and in a networked environment for a 24-hour steel mill, I can predict that you'll have just as much trouble with interference as you will with heat. Assuming you overcome the heat issue, whatever's generating it will also be generating so much interference you'll be lucky to get 10mbits from a gigabit line.
Our solution was to use fiber for pretty much everything, to the point that we were using so much that it was simpler to use fiber for every tasks than mix in cat5.
Regarding the heat issue, if you're based as an IT specialist in an industrial environment, then you have to liase with the site engineers for this kind of task. It's outside of your experience/training/knowledge, so don't succumb to vanity and assume that you have the intelligence to pull through it unaided. Such a place will already have other heat and interference-sensitive equipment which has been installed by engineers on-site, and they'll be able to do the same for your equipment.
Expect a hefty price tag for installing a suitable thermal casing and ventilation system. Or after due consideration and consultation, if it can't feasibly be done then that's the end of the discussion.
Sure. Games, simulators, business systems, educational programs.
Once virtual world software goes through the initial period of being peddled in various forms by various vendors, and the realisation of a mapped virtual model of earth starts being treated as a single data source from which other systems can draw information, then it could be channelled into a whole host of applications.
Unfortunately, this vision kinda falls down on one point - Unlike teh intarnets, which could survive and expand without needing much of a central host to run on, a full-on virtual earth allowing the kind of thankless data serving described here would probably be too much of a challenge for not enough reward for any single group. And I doubt we'll be lucky enough to have such a task picked up as a government service.
The point is kinda drilled home right in the topic itself, because Google Earth is named specifically. We're at a state of technological development now that can support the creation of a digital clone of our world, yet in terms of a civilisation, we don't have any structures in place that would allow us to reap the max benefit from it.
I still don't understand why they don't just use a single higher res camera, mount it facing upwards, then stick a curved lens above it to give a 360 view all round.
As popular as it is to hate on large corporations, it's often overlooked that large corporations are formed from large bodies of employed persons. While one might be entirely guilt-free in hoping a corporation does not entirely dominate their market, it would only be to the detriment of the 'little people' if a corporation got into serious trouble.
Mass layoffs aren't something anyone should be cheering on, IMO. Most of the anti-sony noise started out (I believe) as a hope that Sony would have its wings clipped and its arrogance tamed, rather than wishing the wholesale destruction of the 'evil corporation' and the massive job losses that would accompany it.
There's been a fair bit of noise in the development community over the work involved in porting games to the cell architecture, too. No doubt this is going to hinder developers since more and more are moving towards cross-platform releases as a way to capture enough market to recover cost/increase revenue.
Sony could pull off something fantastic by enabling its range of SOE titles to interact from the PS3 to the currently existing servers. Planetside, for a start, had pretty high system requirements which limited adoption... if it became open to the console crowd as well I think that would boost both the PS3 sales and SOE's dominance in the face of WoW.
But this seems a pipe dream. Unless they're going to shock everyone including their shareholders and reveal a slew of surprise facts surrounding the PS3, it simply looks like a complete dog.
This isn't such a surprising strategy. If you can convince the masses to do something to the least favoured members of society, then you can start to gradually argue the case for doing it to everyone.
All they had to find was the lowest rung on the ladder of american society.
Surprised they didn't go with pedophiles TBH. It's probably because they were already on with the immigrant thing.
"I'm sure Microsoft made some kind of deal that worked for them."
I overheard something about souls and I think the phrase 'for all eternity' got used a few times.
correction, 30Gb vs 50Gb.