Most of this is completely true, but it still misses the point slightly - I don't expect anything to really happen short-term with internet2 except for the technology that it involves slowly getting more mainstream until streaming video is again as mild traffic-wise as junk e-mailings.
It's early, so perhaps I didn't quite express myself effectively.... To be honest, I would expect that in the end either I2 gets its funding cut / goes bankrupt, or becomes another backbone- like system much like the original ARPA=net... Eventually, someone's going to try to implement cross-traffic if network traffic reaches the point of saturation the telcos are whining about.
I remember when my Computer Science teacher told me that spam and forwarded mails both took up excess disk space and slowed down the Internet.
I remember when AOL joined the Internet and everyone hated them because they had doubled the population and supposedly halved the overall intelligence.
I remember when.... damn am I old. I had a birthday this week and I'm almost thirty. Man, I need a freaking nap already.
Anyways, uh, These People Need To Get Stuffed. Internet2 is on its way and it is faster and hardier, so they can just pipe down for a bit and worry about the apocalypse later. It's all just a marketroid ploy to make your Internet more expensive than it already is - if big business whines, bloggers, governments and idiots listen but techies should stand up and say, "You know, that's drivel, and if you want to play this game you should play inside most of the lines like the rest of us always have instead of telling us that you like Calvin Ball better."
I buy that, but have you ever seen a fax? The image data that's coming from a fax scanner has nowhere near the refresh rate required, and additionally the clarity would suck too much for an accurate OCR. It's all theoretically possible, but strikes me much like Gaiman's "I'm reading your computer monitor from the next room" device in Cryptonomicon. Only, well, not as creative. The plot of the whole movie needed work, really.
The routing number for your bank is nine digits.
The number for the account at the bottom of my checks is fourteen.
Let's say we store 50 characters of name identification because we feel like sending everyone a form letter thanking them for the money we're stealing.
Tab inbetween them.
Null at the end.
In character format, this comes out to 75 bytes, with one extra null for delimitation. This comes out to a grand total of 750,000 bytes, or 730k'ish of data for 10,000 accounts.
You and everyone you have ever known's banking information would fit on a floppy ten times over. That's if you're a socialite.
See, like, 'cause I just saw this movie Firewall where Harrison Ford transferred 10,000 bank account numbers from a screen into digital data in an iPod in, like, three minutes, and I think this could really cause a problem because, you know, people could totally scan all sorts of secure data virtually instantaneously and then use it to, say, steal a hundred miiillion dollars.
And he even did it with the scanner used in a Fax machine. Totally awesome techie feat, not to mention impossible. The greatest line ever, though: "Ten thousand songs, ten thousand account numbers. It can't tell the difference." I fell out of my chair.
It's hard to overextend when you have so much money in the bank you don't know what to do with it all, and you approximate twenty to fifty bucks a year from most of the white collar workers in the western world.
Unfortunately, as soon as fingerprints are on cards, along with other biometrics, the cards themselves become much more trusted. One of the dangers of security is the appearance of things being more secure than the actual method. Ergo, much more trusted despite only marginally more effective security. This means that when you get the key to the castle, you have one to all the doors. Not good. This is a case of the added value of having such identification on a card being trumped by the reality that if someone gets their hands on it and the ability to use it your financial life is not going to go well for a seriously long time.
Making a security system more complex does not disallow it from being broken, it simply puts more complex holes in it. The reason anyone wants biometrics on a card is to take advantage of the gathered information, and has nothing to do with wanting more effective fraud reduction.
See, what the BBC doesn't understand is Google's "Evil Alert" system. There's a lot of evil in the world, you know, and since Google has so much money - which as a rule of thumb, you see, has evil attached to it- and all this evil on money, well, it has this way of rubbing off. So Google made an 'evil alert system'...
China's "Evil" rating is currently somewhere around yellow, verging on orange- their growing economy is overall good for their people, but the ways they're growing are a little scary to our point of view. So while censorship, see, some people call censorship bad, well, Google can still do business in China because of the good things the Chinese government is doing.
Very interesting. What I like the most is the, "Only observed by Intel so far" on many of the bugs listed. Seems like FUD to me.
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Now remember kids, corporations are artists too. As long as a corporation is legally treated as a human being and considered able to create 'art', its copyrights will be as eternal as its own legalese life. How can your copyrights expire if you can never die?
Just mentioning the obvious - with the right argument, anything that has copyrights or trademarks with a corporate name on them will be safe for the rest of eternity.
My dad can operate his Tivo (and Comcast DVR box) but not his VCR. Well, not as easily. I'd say that the GUI being much more intuitive is quite important.
And the new comcast stuff is an impressive technical achievement. I don't have to stay up late to watch me some Adult Swim, which is neat.
Governments and corporations never have to admit they're wrong. They just hire someone to handle the PR mess or brush it under the rug as gracefully as possible, and call it good.
Silica poisoning is something people who work with ceramics extensively occasionally get..... If you're working with the stuff while it's dry on a regular basis, you should probably wear a dust mask.
Don't know if we've ever brought back enough dust to actually cause anyone harm.
At one point there were MUD's with the kind of playerbase that SWG has. 200k'ish, I want to say. Something like that. Was one in particular that got that huge. Or at least they said so. And they charged.
MUD's were definitely state based, meaning position was much much simpler, but the graphics engines and so on are definitely old hat at this point - When was the last time Quake 3 crashed on you? Sure, the engine is designed for a smaller userbase. But really, my problem is that the credit duping, the afk grinding, the this and that and the other thing, well, these had all been addressed even in a tiny MUD environment of fifty people. To not address it at all in an environment containing, say, 10-20 thousand people is a sign of lack in forethought. Grievous lack in forethought. "What are you numbskulls doing" lack of forethought.
There have been MUD's with the size playerbases these people are dealing with for over a decade.
The graphics are different, the positional and timing stuff is harder, but it's all been there, all been running, all been through this same kind of stuff. Playing SWG I occasionally thought, "Jesus, didn't these guys ever play any Tsunami? I've seen these jerks and the stupid tricks they pull a million times." It's just an updated version of the same old thing.
I let SWG run my life for seven months. I became one of the most effective builders of Starships and Weapons on one of the biggest servers. (Ahazi)
In the seven months I played there were two major game updates, both of which were reviled by the majority of the player base and touted as something wonderful by SOE. However, from commentary from both Lucasarts and SOE, it was highly apparent that the people in charge of this game were staring at WoW and thinking, "Star Wars is cooler than Warcraft, why aren't we rich?"
Then they started to make it a clone of the Blizzard game. No matter how loud their player base screamed.
The game is buggy, system-resource intensive, and the only reason I thought it was awesome was because of 1) the open 'jobs' style system, and 2) the incredible crafting system. Both of these things have been dumbed down in the NGE, from what I hear.
Smedley's answers are all PR boilerplate and have nothing to do with the real reasons they are changing the game drastically. There are some incredibly cool things in the game still, (I once met a guy who had been playing since beta and loved that he could crawl through the grass and spy on people) but I consider the game fatally flawed by the people who run it not caring one bit about play experience- even as a means to the end of getting more subscribers. The entire design of the game is now based on, "This works for Blizzard, how can we copy it?" They don't seem to understand that you need a happy playerbase willing to bring their RL friends in, instead of an angry one that is embarassed about having gotten sucked into a huge marketing ploy and unable to desert their ingame friends.
I would recommend to any of my friends that they run the other way from any SOE game. Period.
Mothmar Friedsquid, former Ahazi Guru / Master Crafter.
I hope it's satire. It's either satire or criticism written by a lovesick puppy with an English degree. Either way, it's not really that founded or interesting. Star Wars' second trilogy reminds me of the 'thousand elephants' of the Last Tycoon.... A good show, but nothing to do with good art.
I wish Lucas had lost his shirt on them instead of stacking up another couple billion.
Barely coherent because I was attempting to be helpful while talking out of my ass. I'm sorry, I just collected all the info I could offhand and threw it out there.
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Most of this is completely true, but it still misses the point slightly - I don't expect anything to really happen short-term with internet2 except for the technology that it involves slowly getting more mainstream until streaming video is again as mild traffic-wise as junk e-mailings.
It's early, so perhaps I didn't quite express myself effectively.... To be honest, I would expect that in the end either I2 gets its funding cut / goes bankrupt, or becomes another backbone- like system much like the original ARPA=net... Eventually, someone's going to try to implement cross-traffic if network traffic reaches the point of saturation the telcos are whining about.
I remember when my Computer Science teacher told me that spam and forwarded mails both took up excess disk space and slowed down the Internet.
I remember when AOL joined the Internet and everyone hated them because they had doubled the population and supposedly halved the overall intelligence.
I remember when.... damn am I old. I had a birthday this week and I'm almost thirty. Man, I need a freaking nap already.
Anyways, uh, These People Need To Get Stuffed. Internet2 is on its way and it is faster and hardier, so they can just pipe down for a bit and worry about the apocalypse later. It's all just a marketroid ploy to make your Internet more expensive than it already is - if big business whines, bloggers, governments and idiots listen but techies should stand up and say, "You know, that's drivel, and if you want to play this game you should play inside most of the lines like the rest of us always have instead of telling us that you like Calvin Ball better."
I buy that, but have you ever seen a fax? The image data that's coming from a fax scanner has nowhere near the refresh rate required, and additionally the clarity would suck too much for an accurate OCR. It's all theoretically possible, but strikes me much like Gaiman's "I'm reading your computer monitor from the next room" device in Cryptonomicon. Only, well, not as creative. The plot of the whole movie needed work, really.
The routing number for your bank is nine digits.
The number for the account at the bottom of my checks is fourteen.
Let's say we store 50 characters of name identification because we feel like sending everyone a form letter thanking them for the money we're stealing.
Tab inbetween them.
Null at the end.
In character format, this comes out to 75 bytes, with one extra null for delimitation. This comes out to a grand total of 750,000 bytes, or 730k'ish of data for 10,000 accounts.
You and everyone you have ever known's banking information would fit on a floppy ten times over. That's if you're a socialite.
See, like, 'cause I just saw this movie Firewall where Harrison Ford transferred 10,000 bank account numbers from a screen into digital data in an iPod in, like, three minutes, and I think this could really cause a problem because, you know, people could totally scan all sorts of secure data virtually instantaneously and then use it to, say, steal a hundred miiillion dollars.
And he even did it with the scanner used in a Fax machine. Totally awesome techie feat, not to mention impossible. The greatest line ever, though: "Ten thousand songs, ten thousand account numbers. It can't tell the difference." I fell out of my chair.
It's hard to overextend when you have so much money in the bank you don't know what to do with it all, and you approximate twenty to fifty bucks a year from most of the white collar workers in the western world.
That's so funny right now I have changed my sig. I'll feel differently in the morning.
For two trillion dollars we could buy cold fusion from aliens and sell it to the third world for a profit.
These guys might be metaphorically relevant too... Of course, anything driven by profit / growth alone will show a resemblance.
Unfortunately, as soon as fingerprints are on cards, along with other biometrics, the cards themselves become much more trusted. One of the dangers of security is the appearance of things being more secure than the actual method. Ergo, much more trusted despite only marginally more effective security. This means that when you get the key to the castle, you have one to all the doors. Not good. This is a case of the added value of having such identification on a card being trumped by the reality that if someone gets their hands on it and the ability to use it your financial life is not going to go well for a seriously long time.
Making a security system more complex does not disallow it from being broken, it simply puts more complex holes in it. The reason anyone wants biometrics on a card is to take advantage of the gathered information, and has nothing to do with wanting more effective fraud reduction.
My bet, personally, is on the equivalent of red, white, and black. We shall see, seeing as there's very little to be done about it.
See, what the BBC doesn't understand is Google's "Evil Alert" system. There's a lot of evil in the world, you know, and since Google has so much money - which as a rule of thumb, you see, has evil attached to it- and all this evil on money, well, it has this way of rubbing off. So Google made an 'evil alert system'...
China's "Evil" rating is currently somewhere around yellow, verging on orange- their growing economy is overall good for their people, but the ways they're growing are a little scary to our point of view. So while censorship, see, some people call censorship bad, well, Google can still do business in China because of the good things the Chinese government is doing.
And that's why wiretapping is okay.
Very interesting. What I like the most is the, "Only observed by Intel so far" on many of the bugs listed. Seems like FUD to me.
Now remember kids, corporations are artists too. As long as a corporation is legally treated as a human being and considered able to create 'art', its copyrights will be as eternal as its own legalese life. How can your copyrights expire if you can never die?
Just mentioning the obvious - with the right argument, anything that has copyrights or trademarks with a corporate name on them will be safe for the rest of eternity.
My dad can operate his Tivo (and Comcast DVR box) but not his VCR. Well, not as easily. I'd say that the GUI being much more intuitive is quite important.
And the new comcast stuff is an impressive technical achievement. I don't have to stay up late to watch me some Adult Swim, which is neat.
Governments and corporations never have to admit they're wrong. They just hire someone to handle the PR mess or brush it under the rug as gracefully as possible, and call it good.
Silica poisoning is something people who work with ceramics extensively occasionally get..... If you're working with the stuff while it's dry on a regular basis, you should probably wear a dust mask.
Don't know if we've ever brought back enough dust to actually cause anyone harm.
I find it a rather disturbing statement that the slot machines are more effectively audited than the vote count in the land of the free.
This is, honestly, the funniest thing I've read all day. After you offer to crack /etc/shadow, how many companies are going to offer you a job?
At one point there were MUD's with the kind of playerbase that SWG has. 200k'ish, I want to say. Something like that. Was one in particular that got that huge. Or at least they said so. And they charged.
MUD's were definitely state based, meaning position was much much simpler, but the graphics engines and so on are definitely old hat at this point - When was the last time Quake 3 crashed on you? Sure, the engine is designed for a smaller userbase. But really, my problem is that the credit duping, the afk grinding, the this and that and the other thing, well, these had all been addressed even in a tiny MUD environment of fifty people. To not address it at all in an environment containing, say, 10-20 thousand people is a sign of lack in forethought. Grievous lack in forethought. "What are you numbskulls doing" lack of forethought.
MMORPGS are not 'Groundbreaking'
They are not the newest thing on the planet.
There have been MUD's with the size playerbases these people are dealing with for over a decade.
The graphics are different, the positional and timing stuff is harder, but it's all been there, all been running, all been through this same kind of stuff. Playing SWG I occasionally thought, "Jesus, didn't these guys ever play any Tsunami? I've seen these jerks and the stupid tricks they pull a million times." It's just an updated version of the same old thing.
I let SWG run my life for seven months. I became one of the most effective builders of Starships and Weapons on one of the biggest servers. (Ahazi)
In the seven months I played there were two major game updates, both of which were reviled by the majority of the player base and touted as something wonderful by SOE. However, from commentary from both Lucasarts and SOE, it was highly apparent that the people in charge of this game were staring at WoW and thinking, "Star Wars is cooler than Warcraft, why aren't we rich?"
Then they started to make it a clone of the Blizzard game. No matter how loud their player base screamed.
The game is buggy, system-resource intensive, and the only reason I thought it was awesome was because of 1) the open 'jobs' style system, and 2) the incredible crafting system. Both of these things have been dumbed down in the NGE, from what I hear.
Smedley's answers are all PR boilerplate and have nothing to do with the real reasons they are changing the game drastically. There are some incredibly cool things in the game still, (I once met a guy who had been playing since beta and loved that he could crawl through the grass and spy on people) but I consider the game fatally flawed by the people who run it not caring one bit about play experience- even as a means to the end of getting more subscribers. The entire design of the game is now based on, "This works for Blizzard, how can we copy it?" They don't seem to understand that you need a happy playerbase willing to bring their RL friends in, instead of an angry one that is embarassed about having gotten sucked into a huge marketing ploy and unable to desert their ingame friends.
I would recommend to any of my friends that they run the other way from any SOE game. Period.
Mothmar Friedsquid, former Ahazi Guru / Master Crafter.
I hope it's satire. It's either satire or criticism written by a lovesick puppy with an English degree. Either way, it's not really that founded or interesting. Star Wars' second trilogy reminds me of the 'thousand elephants' of the Last Tycoon.... A good show, but nothing to do with good art.
I wish Lucas had lost his shirt on them instead of stacking up another couple billion.
E-mailed about ten seconds after the article got posted, I guess. Five minutes just isn't enough time to find the dupes in the /. history.....
Although.... Yeah, two in a row is rather excessive, I think.
Healthy Venting Space != poking rabid dogs with sticks to see the foam...
Barely coherent because I was attempting to be helpful while talking out of my ass. I'm sorry, I just collected all the info I could offhand and threw it out there.