hey man i probably made more while you commuted to work this month than you made all year. or, if you're unemployed, I made what you eat in three months in two hours yesterday morning.
And with this little rant you more or less made his point:)
As with most spam fighting metrics it's up to you. Mail from a server without reverse DNS that doesn't trigger any of your other flags generally shouldn't be treated as spam if you care about false positives, if it's borderline then maybe the lack of reverse DNS will be enough to justify tagging it as spam. The decision of how heavily to weight the lack of reverse DNS is yours, personally I don't give it much weight but it does add a little to the score. Some people go hardcore and reject anything that doesn't have come from a machine with reverse DNS, they accept the significant false positive rate usually for idealogical reasons (while I like a properly configured system I'm not going to bite my nose off to spite my face).
In order to keep the entire game viable, you have to insure that the freeloaders (those who use in-game money to pay for playtime), are few and far between. From everything I've seen of WoW, gold is just way too easy to come by.
This is incorrect. Nobody is paying for game time with in-game money, the game time is always purchased with real money but may be transferred to a third party to apply to their account. That may be a gift, tax, sale, whatever, but someone paid cash for that 30 days game time it's jut not necessarily the person who actually uses it.
no particularly exciting or different gameplay innovations
CCP employs two economists, one to look after economics in Eve and one to develop the economy for Dust 514. You know of any other team based persistent shooters with a deep economy?
Were you and I living in some sort of alternate reality? My recollection is that BP was allowed to setup a fund for some ridiculously small amount of money (about $8 billion I seem to recall) and shrug off all liability onto that fund. They were allowed to do that within the first week or two after the disaster happened.
I don't recall that happening at all, I recall BP saying within a month that they'd set up a fund for $20 billion and accept any and all costs regardless of legal liability limitations (technically I think they were liable for less than $100 million, they accepted the morally responsible amount rather than the technical one). Not a huge fan of oil companies but fair play to BP on this one in terms of accepting liability.
My understanding is that the Prius is in the top 10% of cars for gas mileage...and we are talking about making the average be higher than what it gets. What share of the new car market is the Prius?
Maybe in the US, not so sure in the rest of the world. I had a diesel Mitsubishi Colt that did 62MPG (imperial gallons, so about 51 US) without any effort and managed 70 (58 US) if I deliberately drove efficiently.
Most grammar nazis I know assume that language never changes but it doesn't make them right.
I'm quite happy to accept most linguistic evolution, however people who say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" are, and always will be, fucktards.
Why are you even replacing them?Would you not be better off moving to a competitors service?
Long term, anyone on RSA is probably better off moving to a competitors service. However, before you can do that, you need to figure out which is best, figure out how to implement it, get budget approval, buy it, test the change, and implement it. Just changing all the tokens is a relatively cheap and easy short-term fix - and you can still plan on moving later.
^^^ This. We're awaiting around 100k tokens but the worldwide amount needing to be replaced far outweighs the supply.
If you can't say "no" on technical grounds you are left arguing on business needs - not the IT mission in the minds of most managers.
Most managers are wrong about that though, the business needs drive everything IT does so if you take business factors out of IT decision making you end up with the mess many companies are in. One of the biggest changes between ITILv2 and ITILv3 revolves around integrating IT into the business not having it as an independent factor, there's a reason for that.
I've worked at 3 different companies in my career, and at each of them, IT as an organization held the attitude that the company existed for their benefit, and not the other way around.
IT needs to understand that it is a service organization with the mission of satisfying its customer by providing top notch service and support, and asking "how high?"
Actually in most large organisations IT exists for and has the same mission as every other part of the organisation: Maximise shareholder value. ITILv3 done properly is all about IT being a real part of the business from the top to the bottom, working with our colleagues in other areas to make things better.
An awful lot of business managers approach IT in the wrong way, they tend to say "I want this" when in most cases a more productive approach is to say "This is my problem, how can IT help me make it go away?"
If you employ a bunch of experts with years of experience in their field why in Cthulhu's name would you, as a business manager, not want them to use their experience to design you a solution? Appropriate delegation is a key part of effective management, set your goals and the parameters that need to be worked within (cost, FSA regulations, whatever), and let the people you employed to do this stuff do it.
I've seen IT done well and I've seen it done badly, but I ran a service desk that was adored by all our users from the lowest to the highest and I can tell you now that a business working in partnership with IT gets so much our of the relationship you wouldn't believe it.
I'm not a fan of MS business practices but the software has been improving, I got to spend a few days out in Redmond as part of a TAP for one of the System Centre products and whether you like MS or not it's an experience I'd highly recommend to anyone.
Where I work, the tighter security has cause less useful systems. U can't easly install anything u need, even if u have the funding. All the systems are slow, even the new ones. What is happening? People are using more of their personal systems to get work done. They are even buying with their own money laptops for work use, but of course not under control at all by work. Some of the managers are even ok with it, and some allow more than needed overtime as a way to have to employee purchase the laptop. I definitely understand tight security, but places need to keep the usability in mind.
Our laptops are encrypted, heavily locked down, don't permit read or write access to any locally connected drives (including the CD drive if you were to fit your own, we supply them with the plastic blanking plate), and you can have admin rights to it shortly after Hell freezes over. I do work for a major bank though, so it's hardly surprising usability and convenience is a very distant second place to security.
Ok, sure. But there is a valid reason that Dilbert depicts their IT guy as someone named Mordac the Preventer.
Yes, it's because it's funny. So is Simon Travaglia, but we don't all act like the BOFH.
Modern IT departments have IMHO have become far too obsessed in preventing things from happening that they have forgotten that their ONLY reason for existing at all is to help the business get things done faster and better than before....
I work for a bank, there are any number of things that we can't do that users want. This trick would get you fired, or at the very least a written warning.
The Queen theoretically has this power but it's a one shot deal at best. If she ever exercised it Parliament would take it away, it's just good to make it look like there's a higher power with a veto over anything too mad.
If things ever get serious enough for the Queen to refuse royal assent to a bill it's either the end of the monarchy or the end of the current government, but don't think for a moment that it's guaranteed to be the monarchy that loses that fight. The only time it would ever be done is in the face of mass riots in the streets against a government gone even more mad than usual.
That works both ways though, I worked in an environment where the users thought the sun shone out of our arses but there's no way in Hell they were having admin rights. Instead we worked with the users to work out what their actual needs were and set things so they could do what they needed to do but weren't able to do any of the things we couldn't permit them to do.
Like it or not, "I need this because of X" is balanced against a number of things one of them being any potential risk to the business. A small increase in productivity is not worth it if it comes with increased risk of data loss or other costs to the business. In the environment I work in now even there are a significant number of things even admins are restricted from doing and there are good reasons for those restrictions.
PowerShell can actually run over telnet or ssh or whatever. But once you look into the remoting capabilities of PowerShell v2 even SSH starts to look a little archaic. Compared to SSH it is so easy to step in and out of remote sessions, juggling several active remote sessions at the same time - even scripted - and issue commands which relay back not only the results is a seamless fashion but will even relay back progress indicators and input requests. The PowerShell fan-out remoting feature lets you issue the same command (e.g. "backup") to ten or hundreds of hosts *simultaneously* and have each one report back the output *objects* consolidated in the command result, each indicated with the host. I'm not missing SSH one iota.
Throwing objects (or even arrays of objects) through a pipe is awesome, it's going to take years for the idea of a useful command line to filter down to the average Windows admin (at the moment I still find it's only the good ones that "get it") but it's good kit by any standard.
IMO, shitty drivers should not bring down a computer.
Good job they don't in Windows 7 then, I've had both network and graphics drivers crash on me and in both cases there was a brief interruption then normal service was resumed with a "Shit broke, we recovered it" notification in the notification area.
Linux is great, but if you think Windows 7 isn't also great you're deluding yourself.
If you stick to the market for android you would not get these trojans either. The fact that you are not forced too is a good thing.
Indeed, the summary may as well have read "Pirated software downloads found to contain malware. In other news, water discovered to be wet, fire still hot, and France surrenders".
Are you really that stupid? If you can't see that failing to crack down HARD on cheating is a massive issue for an online game you shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
What will actually happen is SC2 players will become aware of the consequences of cheating the system, how much effort will hackers put into hacks when nobody wants to use them because the whole world knows a ban will be the result?
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hey man i probably made more while you commuted to work this month than you made all year. or, if you're unemployed, I made what you eat in three months in two hours yesterday morning.
And with this little rant you more or less made his point :)
As with most spam fighting metrics it's up to you. Mail from a server without reverse DNS that doesn't trigger any of your other flags generally shouldn't be treated as spam if you care about false positives, if it's borderline then maybe the lack of reverse DNS will be enough to justify tagging it as spam. The decision of how heavily to weight the lack of reverse DNS is yours, personally I don't give it much weight but it does add a little to the score. Some people go hardcore and reject anything that doesn't have come from a machine with reverse DNS, they accept the significant false positive rate usually for idealogical reasons (while I like a properly configured system I'm not going to bite my nose off to spite my face).
In order to keep the entire game viable, you have to insure that the freeloaders (those who use in-game money to pay for playtime), are few and far between. From everything I've seen of WoW, gold is just way too easy to come by.
This is incorrect. Nobody is paying for game time with in-game money, the game time is always purchased with real money but may be transferred to a third party to apply to their account. That may be a gift, tax, sale, whatever, but someone paid cash for that 30 days game time it's jut not necessarily the person who actually uses it.
no particularly exciting or different gameplay innovations
CCP employs two economists, one to look after economics in Eve and one to develop the economy for Dust 514. You know of any other team based persistent shooters with a deep economy?
Were you and I living in some sort of alternate reality? My recollection is that BP was allowed to setup a fund for some ridiculously small amount of money (about $8 billion I seem to recall) and shrug off all liability onto that fund. They were allowed to do that within the first week or two after the disaster happened.
I don't recall that happening at all, I recall BP saying within a month that they'd set up a fund for $20 billion and accept any and all costs regardless of legal liability limitations (technically I think they were liable for less than $100 million, they accepted the morally responsible amount rather than the technical one). Not a huge fan of oil companies but fair play to BP on this one in terms of accepting liability.
My understanding is that the Prius is in the top 10% of cars for gas mileage...and we are talking about making the average be higher than what it gets. What share of the new car market is the Prius?
Maybe in the US, not so sure in the rest of the world. I had a diesel Mitsubishi Colt that did 62MPG (imperial gallons, so about 51 US) without any effort and managed 70 (58 US) if I deliberately drove efficiently.
Most grammar nazis I know assume that language never changes but it doesn't make them right.
I'm quite happy to accept most linguistic evolution, however people who say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" are, and always will be, fucktards.
By the way, I assume you meant "skeptic" rather than someone prone to suffering from inflammations.
Nope, the English gp meant what they wrote.
Long term, anyone on RSA is probably better off moving to a competitors service. However, before you can do that, you need to figure out which is best, figure out how to implement it, get budget approval, buy it, test the change, and implement it. Just changing all the tokens is a relatively cheap and easy short-term fix - and you can still plan on moving later.
^^^ This. We're awaiting around 100k tokens but the worldwide amount needing to be replaced far outweighs the supply.
If you can't say "no" on technical grounds you are left arguing on business needs - not the IT mission in the minds of most managers.
Most managers are wrong about that though, the business needs drive everything IT does so if you take business factors out of IT decision making you end up with the mess many companies are in. One of the biggest changes between ITILv2 and ITILv3 revolves around integrating IT into the business not having it as an independent factor, there's a reason for that.
I've worked at 3 different companies in my career, and at each of them, IT as an organization held the attitude that the company existed for their benefit, and not the other way around.
IT needs to understand that it is a service organization with the mission of satisfying its customer by providing top notch service and support, and asking "how high?"
Actually in most large organisations IT exists for and has the same mission as every other part of the organisation: Maximise shareholder value. ITILv3 done properly is all about IT being a real part of the business from the top to the bottom, working with our colleagues in other areas to make things better.
An awful lot of business managers approach IT in the wrong way, they tend to say "I want this" when in most cases a more productive approach is to say "This is my problem, how can IT help me make it go away?"
If you employ a bunch of experts with years of experience in their field why in Cthulhu's name would you, as a business manager, not want them to use their experience to design you a solution? Appropriate delegation is a key part of effective management, set your goals and the parameters that need to be worked within (cost, FSA regulations, whatever), and let the people you employed to do this stuff do it.
I've seen IT done well and I've seen it done badly, but I ran a service desk that was adored by all our users from the lowest to the highest and I can tell you now that a business working in partnership with IT gets so much our of the relationship you wouldn't believe it.
I'm not a fan of MS business practices but the software has been improving, I got to spend a few days out in Redmond as part of a TAP for one of the System Centre products and whether you like MS or not it's an experience I'd highly recommend to anyone.
Where I work, the tighter security has cause less useful systems. U can't easly install anything u need, even if u have the funding. All the systems are slow, even the new ones. What is happening? People are using more of their personal systems to get work done. They are even buying with their own money laptops for work use, but of course not under control at all by work. Some of the managers are even ok with it, and some allow more than needed overtime as a way to have to employee purchase the laptop. I definitely understand tight security, but places need to keep the usability in mind.
Our laptops are encrypted, heavily locked down, don't permit read or write access to any locally connected drives (including the CD drive if you were to fit your own, we supply them with the plastic blanking plate), and you can have admin rights to it shortly after Hell freezes over. I do work for a major bank though, so it's hardly surprising usability and convenience is a very distant second place to security.
Philo Farnsworth invented Television.
...a year after John Logie Baird did.
Ok, sure. But there is a valid reason that Dilbert depicts their IT guy as someone named Mordac the Preventer.
Yes, it's because it's funny. So is Simon Travaglia, but we don't all act like the BOFH.
Modern IT departments have IMHO have become far too obsessed in preventing things from happening that they have forgotten that their ONLY reason for existing at all is to help the business get things done faster and better than before....
I work for a bank, there are any number of things that we can't do that users want. This trick would get you fired, or at the very least a written warning.
The Queen theoretically has this power but it's a one shot deal at best. If she ever exercised it Parliament would take it away, it's just good to make it look like there's a higher power with a veto over anything too mad.
If things ever get serious enough for the Queen to refuse royal assent to a bill it's either the end of the monarchy or the end of the current government, but don't think for a moment that it's guaranteed to be the monarchy that loses that fight. The only time it would ever be done is in the face of mass riots in the streets against a government gone even more mad than usual.
That works both ways though, I worked in an environment where the users thought the sun shone out of our arses but there's no way in Hell they were having admin rights. Instead we worked with the users to work out what their actual needs were and set things so they could do what they needed to do but weren't able to do any of the things we couldn't permit them to do.
Like it or not, "I need this because of X" is balanced against a number of things one of them being any potential risk to the business. A small increase in productivity is not worth it if it comes with increased risk of data loss or other costs to the business. In the environment I work in now even there are a significant number of things even admins are restricted from doing and there are good reasons for those restrictions.
PowerShell can actually run over telnet or ssh or whatever. But once you look into the remoting capabilities of PowerShell v2 even SSH starts to look a little archaic. Compared to SSH it is so easy to step in and out of remote sessions, juggling several active remote sessions at the same time - even scripted - and issue commands which relay back not only the results is a seamless fashion but will even relay back progress indicators and input requests. The PowerShell fan-out remoting feature lets you issue the same command (e.g. "backup") to ten or hundreds of hosts *simultaneously* and have each one report back the output *objects* consolidated in the command result, each indicated with the host. I'm not missing SSH one iota.
Throwing objects (or even arrays of objects) through a pipe is awesome, it's going to take years for the idea of a useful command line to filter down to the average Windows admin (at the moment I still find it's only the good ones that "get it") but it's good kit by any standard.
IMO, shitty drivers should not bring down a computer.
Good job they don't in Windows 7 then, I've had both network and graphics drivers crash on me and in both cases there was a brief interruption then normal service was resumed with a "Shit broke, we recovered it" notification in the notification area.
Linux is great, but if you think Windows 7 isn't also great you're deluding yourself.
Nominally means mostly
No, it doesn't. It means in name only, just as the GP stated.
I've seen an inexperienced, young cop in traffic court lose something like eight cases in a row because he could not produce evidence...
...I don't understand why he bothered to show up that day, other than to get paid.
That was an inexperienced young cop turning into an experienced young cop. No doubt a painfully embarrassing lesson.
If you stick to the market for android you would not get these trojans either. The fact that you are not forced too is a good thing.
Indeed, the summary may as well have read "Pirated software downloads found to contain malware. In other news, water discovered to be wet, fire still hot, and France surrenders".
The Register, based on its home page, seems to just be a tech news site.
But if it were a newspaper, the Register would be a tabloid.
Are you really that stupid? If you can't see that failing to crack down HARD on cheating is a massive issue for an online game you shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
What will actually happen is SC2 players will become aware of the consequences of cheating the system, how much effort will hackers put into hacks when nobody wants to use them because the whole world knows a ban will be the result?