> Are there any particular titles or game companies that you think lay on the politics too thick, or is it all just a bunch of foof?
Doom for Columbine is falsely accused of being political, but I think that mods like this may pave the way for better use of balance than more politically engendered titles, with corporate backing and all the politics that goes with that. Keeping it freeware is the key! (Then nobody can mess with it.)
"Q: Do you advocate stricter regulation of satellite television and the Internet?" "A: I think it is technologically impossible for any one government to (directly) control, let alone ban, transmissions coming from earth orbit."
So, even though Sir Arthur C Clarke came from a time far before ours, when strict regulations were required to "keep everyone from going mad with Communism", he still has the enlightenment he did then.
If I was in control, I would try and find ways to get more Sir Arthur C Clarkes running around planet earth, not how to tie the world in knots with controls, regulations and dubious money-making schemes.
It's wonderful that he suggests humanity will survive the information age, but unclear to me if this is the case, because I'm mostly a cynic.
This is not a troll, but because of the sexual subject matter, it might look like one. How many of us are going to be surprised when we realize that nice old person down the road raped a bunch of kids? This registry is going to light up every neighborhood because it's built on the false premise that you can live in a neighborhood without sexual predators. These creeps are everywhere!! Maybe there are more than 1200 released convicted offenders, and they likely live all over the place, but what about the ones that get away with it every day?
How many evil clergy are going to be skipped from this? We had a clergy scandal in my hometown for some time that went on in plain view of a local church, and they covered it up! The poor kids eventually got some justice, but only after a decade of systematic abuses.
With the right steps, this database could save lives. But it could slowly be abused by the system, or by unscrupulous people. Controls must be in place to prevent any foul deeds, but are they going to far? Let's bring out the branding irons, then? Give 'em all a brand that says "SEX OFFENDER" right to the forehead./sarcasm
In all seriousness, how effective can this database be? Maybe it'll save lives. I don't know.
The thing about rules like "three clicks", is that they are based on the pre-bubble notion of buzzwords. That doesn't work anymore in the web design field. Now we have to provide tools that the customers want to have, and design stuff so that they can easily access it. Document trees, under the nice standards at w3 are what has really changed with the internet, and not to mention PHP, Perl and free db solutions like MySQL and the other guys.
If users are leaving after 12 clicks now, like it says in the article, that says something about the level of web-smarts of the average user. But what I see in these charts, is a kind of "split the difference" research insight.
For clicking, it's 50/50 that people will go on to get what they want. For the percentage of unsatisfied users, it's 50% who are unsatisfied, according to their research.
What they've said is: "Users weren't any more satisfied with shorter clickstreams than they were with longer clickstreams. The satisfaction of users doesn't depend on the number of clicks."
So that means that in the old days, people were getting used to the infrastructure of web surfing, and things that were far away were annoying people. Today, people are used to the web... some teens have grown up on it, and therefore people as a whole are used to it. Therefore, things like design style and presentation mean more than how far clicks are, and if they know they can get what they want by going there.
"A missed sale is a lost sale, but there's no point in trying to extract blood from a turnip. We have people who try to figure out where the tastiest blood is, but they are limited by their tools and proceedures."
I'm likely not the only person who laughed really heartily at the use of bloodletting as an example related to media companies!
Yogic Flyers!!! HAHAHA
Those are the guys who ran for Canadian gov't back in the nineties... the Natural Law Party, if I'm not mistaken. I get it.:)
#1 reminds me of a skit with Red Green, where he built an outhouse and couldn't send it back to the supplier because *he* was the supplier.
I'm guessing the moderators fell asleep on this one... LOL
I have been saying for years now that PHP design needs to be somewhat standardized so that we can all make our mods fit better. What I would like to eventually be able to do is have a framework opensource for a community/news-driven website that quickly figured out my needs, and my customer's needs, with security as a front-running concern. (ie: a way to really mix up the vars/dbvars and such so that it's harder to pry it open)
The problem is that with security, the very best possible way to keep your site secure is to a) purify incoming data and b) keep your source to yourself unless you want people to let you know where the bugs/holes are. I know the open source community is really good and has it's place, but when it comes right down to it, if you fully customize your PHP, then it's more secure because there aren't a bunch of script kiddies looking for ways to hack you on security forums (a la PHPBB script attacks). The good thing about PHP in the open source sense is that you can read it and understand how it works. I don't recommend using any custom packages because there is risk involved that your doing so is going to attract attention from script kiddies. The best thing you could do is learn PHP by the open source examples (run phpbb and read it, run smarty and read it - understand it) but then create your own base, and add your own layers to it.
I would like to thank CERT for sending this security notification on a Saturday that I was working, rather than on a Saturday that I was not.
I will let them know.
I'm glad they kept this SM exploit fairly quiet. You would have thought it would become public and cause lots of mischief, but now that there is a fix, I suspect they will release what the problem was in more detail. So we can encourage people to upgrade, right?:)
Slate reports on the press release issued by IT consulting giant EDS to announce new CEO Michael H. Jordan that curiously doesn't show Jordan to have any experience in the IT consulting field.
EDS sold out and now they are paying for it.
~The Devil
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> Are there any particular titles or game companies that you think lay on the politics too thick, or is it all just a bunch of foof?
Doom for Columbine is falsely accused of being political, but I think that mods like this may pave the way for better use of balance than more politically engendered titles, with corporate backing and all the politics that goes with that. Keeping it freeware is the key! (Then nobody can mess with it.)
"Q: Do you advocate stricter regulation of satellite television and the Internet?"
"A: I think it is technologically impossible for any one government to (directly) control, let alone ban, transmissions coming from earth orbit."
So, even though Sir Arthur C Clarke came from a time far before ours, when strict regulations were required to "keep everyone from going mad with Communism", he still has the enlightenment he did then.
If I was in control, I would try and find ways to get more Sir Arthur C Clarkes running around planet earth, not how to tie the world in knots with controls, regulations and dubious money-making schemes.
It's wonderful that he suggests humanity will survive the information age, but unclear to me if this is the case, because I'm mostly a cynic.
This is not a troll, but because of the sexual subject matter, it might look like one. How many of us are going to be surprised when we realize that nice old person down the road raped a bunch of kids? This registry is going to light up every neighborhood because it's built on the false premise that you can live in a neighborhood without sexual predators. These creeps are everywhere!! Maybe there are more than 1200 released convicted offenders, and they likely live all over the place, but what about the ones that get away with it every day?
/sarcasm
How many evil clergy are going to be skipped from this? We had a clergy scandal in my hometown for some time that went on in plain view of a local church, and they covered it up! The poor kids eventually got some justice, but only after a decade of systematic abuses.
With the right steps, this database could save lives. But it could slowly be abused by the system, or by unscrupulous people. Controls must be in place to prevent any foul deeds, but are they going to far? Let's bring out the branding irons, then? Give 'em all a brand that says "SEX OFFENDER" right to the forehead.
In all seriousness, how effective can this database be? Maybe it'll save lives. I don't know.
The thing about rules like "three clicks", is that they are based on the pre-bubble notion of buzzwords. That doesn't work anymore in the web design field. Now we have to provide tools that the customers want to have, and design stuff so that they can easily access it. Document trees, under the nice standards at w3 are what has really changed with the internet, and not to mention PHP, Perl and free db solutions like MySQL and the other guys.
If users are leaving after 12 clicks now, like it says in the article, that says something about the level of web-smarts of the average user. But what I see in these charts, is a kind of "split the difference" research insight.
For clicking, it's 50/50 that people will go on to get what they want. For the percentage of unsatisfied users, it's 50% who are unsatisfied, according to their research.
What they've said is: "Users weren't any more satisfied with shorter clickstreams than they were with longer clickstreams. The satisfaction of users doesn't depend on the number of clicks."
So that means that in the old days, people were getting used to the infrastructure of web surfing, and things that were far away were annoying people. Today, people are used to the web... some teens have grown up on it, and therefore people as a whole are used to it. Therefore, things like design style and presentation mean more than how far clicks are, and if they know they can get what they want by going there.
"A missed sale is a lost sale, but there's no point in trying to extract blood from a turnip. We have people who try to figure out where the tastiest blood is, but they are limited by their tools and proceedures." I'm likely not the only person who laughed really heartily at the use of bloodletting as an example related to media companies!
Yogic Flyers!!! HAHAHA Those are the guys who ran for Canadian gov't back in the nineties... the Natural Law Party, if I'm not mistaken. I get it. :)
#1 reminds me of a skit with Red Green, where he built an outhouse and couldn't send it back to the supplier because *he* was the supplier.
I'm guessing the moderators fell asleep on this one... LOL
The problem is that with security, the very best possible way to keep your site secure is to a) purify incoming data and b) keep your source to yourself unless you want people to let you know where the bugs/holes are. I know the open source community is really good and has it's place, but when it comes right down to it, if you fully customize your PHP, then it's more secure because there aren't a bunch of script kiddies looking for ways to hack you on security forums (a la PHPBB script attacks). The good thing about PHP in the open source sense is that you can read it and understand how it works. I don't recommend using any custom packages because there is risk involved that your doing so is going to attract attention from script kiddies. The best thing you could do is learn PHP by the open source examples (run phpbb and read it, run smarty and read it - understand it) but then create your own base, and add your own layers to it.
The US Mil have figured out that the last shuttle catastrophe was an act of terrorism and they seek to prevent future 'accidents'. ~ The Devil
Is this the super-duper high-tech CD protection that can be easily foiled by a magic marker? Or is this the liquid paper version? ~ The Devil
I would argue that they are not Evil enough, but I'm The Devil so I guess that doesn't count.
You wouldn't have? :)
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~ The Devil