I got a phishing email, and was surprised how good it was, and made a comment about it to my wife. She didn't believe it was a fake email.
So I proceeded to show her. I clicked the link that the email provided, opened a second browser and clicked on the real site. There were several differences. But mostly cosemetic. Things the average user would not notice. The most obvious of which was the copyright date. They had obviously scraped it the year before. She was not convinced.
Clicking on the tool bar links, like Customer Support, and Help took the user to the real web site. This didn't help to convince her.
So, the best way to convince her was to click on the login link. First on the correct web site, then on the phishing site. They looked similar again. I generated a fake name and email address to login with. On the correct site, the login failed. On the phishing site it allowed me in. She was starting to believe it now.
When the phishing site started asking for credit card numbers, pin numbers, passwords, driver license numbers, addresses and phone numbers she was then convinced. Entry of fake data in all of the areas, and the phishing site took you back to the real site, trying to log you in with the fake name and password. Which failed.
as well as leaving the room, turning off the TV, playing a handheld game, recording the show and speeding through the commercials. My family uses all of these techniques today. Most if not all of them will work even with the Phillips patent.
On a side note, there was a study a few months ago that showed that people that fast forward through commercials retained the same amount of information from the commercials as those that watched them as they played. The conclusion of the study is that advertisers should not worry about the viewers that record shows missing the commercials. I wonder if they considered the intelligence difference between the people that CAN record shows and speed through the commercials and the ones that MUST watch the show as it is broadcast (due to inability to program a recording device).
It's called WinPodder which I heard about on the Daily Breakfast. I have not personally tried it as I am comfortable with iTunes.
I usually find my podcasts on iTunes, but occasionally use Podcast Alley to search for topics I like. Listen to a few and unsubscribe from the bad ones.
I like the PC Gamer Podcast and am still trying out the PSP podcasts from PG Revolution not 100% sold on it yet, but it has held my interest for a few weeks now.
Don't forget Perl, easier to maintain scripts to alter configuration if you know that as well.
To the author: you should have some expertise in creating and enforcing policy so that the people that use you network will understand what is allowed and what is not. You'll probably need to handle alterations to your policy as the technology of the applications on the network change. Remember defense in layers. A big firewall is not the end-all of network security.
Co-op: Gauntlet Dark Legacy (a bit cartoonish, but fun anyway) Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (cheap now that it's been out a few years) Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance II (A bit more complicated with the building of weapons) Champions of Norrath (Beware of bugs that crash the game every once in a while, save often) Champions Return To Arms (More bugs than CoN) Gauntlet Seven Sorrows (not as good as Dark Legacy, too short) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (seems like random spell casting, but is fun)
If she gets more advanced: Lord of the Rings Return of the King
Of course you could go for competitive games: AntiGrav (EyeToy required) Katamari Damacy (Multi-player battle mode or single player and compare times) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EyeToy Games) Most any one person game, comparing scores
We tried to do that with the Dot.Station, but it didn't sell in the U.S. we did get a good size customer in Spain though. There was no Microsoft involved, everything was managed at the Network Operation Center. It was designed for upgrades, multi-language, and seemed fairly easy to use. By the end of the project, it was broadband enabled and quite nice. I keep expecting some other group to resurrect it into an even better system.
Something like that would be perfect for my Parents. Remote desktop over dialup is painfully slow!
What I find funny is that people assume that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will cause HDCP to be used. This is not the case. HDCP is used by the Output Device (DVD Player, etc) and the Display Device (Monitor/TV).
It doesn't matter what the content is, if you have HDMI/HDCP devices connected with the HDMI/DVI ports they will use HDCP. Other ports (VGA/Component/Composite, etc) will not use HDCP as the quality of the signal is not good enough to protect.
Even the article makes the false assumption in their conclusion that content will magically turn HDCP on.
Having not used eclipse I can't answer that question, but I can say that NetBeans is a lot better than JBuilder. Layouts take 1/4 the time, and NetBeans simplifies the code by not requiring a massive amount of layout managers just to get everything to position where you want it. NetBeans has access to more properties of each object than JBuilder does. With NetBeans you can actually use the drag and drop functioanlity of the GUI a lot quicker than JBuilder. In general it is a lot faster than JBuilder 6.0.
On the downside of NetBeans 5.0 Beta 2 (have not upgraded yet) when you need to update size or placement of objects on the left side of the panel/window using drag and drop, objects on the right tend to move around automatically. Even if you don't want them to move.
I have a software patent that has been awaiting US Patent office approval for 2 years now. The text of the patent is nearly incomprehensible due to the lawyer rewriting the entire document into legalese. I honestly could not produce the software I patented from the lawyer's version.
Maybe the 2% are possibly ones that the lawyer is also the inventor, so they can get the point across in legal speak and still have the point intact.
There are many other sites that you can use to download a podcast. Why risk an ad being inserted by Audible by using Audible.com?
Just head elsewhere like www.podcastalley.com, or www.podshow.com, etc. Yeah I know they have ads on their sites, but at least they're not trying to insert targeted ads into podcasts.
For musical experimentation try www.garageband.com.
My mom calls my son for help on Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, and discusses how they beat Gauntlet Dark Legacy, and ask if I have finished with Champions of Norrath so they can play it.
I can see the grandparent gaming getting going. If they had broadband we'd both pickup Champions of Norrath and play together. They are considering picking up AntiGrav for exercise, though I can see that this may be a bit much for them.
There are issues with grandparents gaming: 1. They do not have the reaction time, so platformers and timing based areas are tough (Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance stone jumping puzzle) 2. They may not have the ability to learn complicated controls (Lord of the Rings Return of the King) 3. They can have issues with saving progress, my parents have beat both Baldur's gate games, and keep overwriting the characters with new ones, and losing their built up ones (not what they want to do). 4. Complex procedures for starting games can be frustrating, especially when trying to load previous characters. They seem to learn one way to start a game, and are unwilling or unable to try something different. (My parents have yet to figure out how to start a harder Baldur's Gate game with their old characters, Lord of the Rings Return of the King has too many steps for them to remember how to load their saved characters). 5. They are unaware of gamefaqs.com so will call you with help on games you haven't played in 2 years and expect you to know the details on the spot.
Now maybe my parents are bit more clueless than some, maybe better than others I do not know. I haven't dealt with many grandparent gamers. They do try though, other games they have tried are Myst 3, Motocross Mayhem, Dance Dance Revolution, and others.
It's funny to hear my Mom who is typically glued to a TV say "we're recording our show so we can play..."
But it is also great that my parents have another connection with my kids as they are playing the same games.
Bruce's Argument #1) Users have no idea how to decide if a particular signer is trusted or not. My comments: True. [...]The IT dept should know not to trust "Snake Oil Corp." [...] You are missing the point entirely: What if I were to present you with "Citrix Corp." and "Citrix Corporation" and "Cirtix Inc.". Which would you *know* comes from *the* Citrix corp. [...]. Bottom line: the cert only assures you that the string ("Citrix") it corresponds to is correct. It doesn't say anything else. Which begs to ask: why have a signature?
This is where obtaining the public key through a trusted method comes into play. If you were to obtain through a trusted channel, a self-signed certificate with the public key from Citrix, and used that key to validate the signature that came with the code, then you know that the code came from the same source you obtained the self-signed certificate from.
The other purpose of the signature is to validate that the code provided has not been altered since it left the source.
Bruce's Argument #2) Just because a component is signed doesn't mean that it is safe. My Comments: [...]Code signing was design to prove the authenticity and integrity of the code.[...] [... a long example...]
Agreed. A bad component can be signed too.
Bruce's Argument #3) Just because two component are individually signed does not mean that using them together is safe; lots of accidental harmful interactions can be exploited. My comment: Again Code Signing was was never designed to accomplish this.
Bruce's Argument #4) "safe" is not all-or-nothing thing; there are degrees of safety. My comment: I agree with this statement. Combined with the first two points, you're basically saying that there's no point in having code signing.
Not really, the point of code signing is to positively identify the source, and to verify the code has not been altered.
Bruce's Argument #5) The fact that the evidence of attack (the signature on the code) is stored on the computer under attack is mostly useless: The attack could delete or modify the signature during the attack, or simple reformat the drive where the signature is stored. This is a very important feature of security: auditing. If you have a system that's been compromised, you want to know how it happened. *Especially* if you are in a corporate environment: you see one workstation get 0wn3d and formated, you won't be sitting around to see when the next one hits. You will want to know what did it.
It's part of the process. If you receive new code, validate the signature. If the signature does not validate delete the code. If you are trying to run the code before you validate it, of course you can't detect the attack. The attack may circumvent the validation.
In AZ we don't observe the current daylight savings time, so I expect we'll ignore the new one too.
So my gadgets and gizmos will all continue to work, ignoring DST as usual.
I'm sure there are other places that ignore DST too, feel free to move there if AZ get full.
1. The broadcast flag is intended for broadcasted content, e.g.: over an antenna. So it really affects only 15% of the market. 2. The broadcast flag will NOT stop you from recording a show. Your VCR, TIVO, PVR, etc will still work. The uproar of not being able to time shift would be too great for them to kill it. (Obviously) 3. The broadcast flag WILL stop you from being able to publish a broadcasted show over the Internet. 4. The TV/Movie industry has methods to stop/track recordings from cable/satellite and their Internet transmissions. In some cases they are not using them, in others they are being developed. 5. The broadcast flag already exists in the content, the legislation is intended to force the hardware to recognize it. Manufacturers can voluntarily act on it now if they choose. But why would you add a feature (raise cost) if you don't have to. Thus the legislation is needed to get the hardware to do what the TV/Movie industry wants.
I don't care if it is implemented or not. Yes, I time shift continuously as my kids are not allowed to watch any night time TV. No, I don't get any TV or Movie content from the Internet. If I missed the show I missed it. I'll pick it up in reruns if it is important to me, which generally it is not.
As for commercial skipping, studies have showed that people that fast forward through commercials have the same retention rate as people that watch them all. Now is this saying that people intelligent enough to program a recording device are smarter than those that can not? I don't know. It's all open to interpretation.
The need to save a cart for later may also help their loss of carts. I'm one of those that considers a purchase for a week before I make it.
1-2 days to find the best price. 2-3 days to convince the wife. 1 day to verify there is not a better product at the same price or find an item that meets the wife's needs as well as mine. 1 day to find time to make the purchase.
It's a long process, but it gets done.
Saving the cart helps for me to come back. Especially if I can modify a saved cart.
Another issue I have is wish lists. If I put an item on a wish list, I should be able to remove the item if someone bought the item without using the wish list. It's funny to see the OLD wish list items of 5-10 years ago.
I was a beta tester for Uru, and found the world to be just as beautiful as the previous 3 games, sound was there, but since I had to reduce to 2 speakers instead of my normal 5 at the time, I'm not sure if it was up to par. I expect it was.
There was one thing missing: A compelling story. I did not have a reason to play Uru, other than my love of puzzles and awesome sound & graphics. You didn't know why you should try to travel to other ages, you just did. Combine this with the sudden death of Uru, and people could be a bit put off by the series.
There is also the confusion in the series with two games released in the same year. Was Myst IV part of Uru? With all the hype (and death) of multi-player Myst in Uru also contained in Myst IV? Is Myst IV an expansion for Uru? Will Myst IV suck like Uru did?
Reading the article, yes there were problems. The DVD9 issue may scare some people off. If there's bad press for that, and confusion on the versions, and poor acceptance for the previous release, people are not going to buy it unless one of their friends try it first.
Myst IV is on my wish list, maybe next birthday I'll get it. It only took 2 years for Hordes of the Underdark to come off of my wish list. Hopefully Myst IV will take less time.
The 3 pass algorithm is ok for some applications. If I remember correctly it is approved for information below Secret level in the DoD. A co-worker of mine sent me a link to a white paper that details a 35 pass algorithm http://wipe.sourceforge.net/secure_del.html that mathematically ensures erasure all information on (1,7) RLL, MFM, and (2,7) RLL formats. Since you stated in your original query that the disk is dead, I am not sure that you will be able to apply any algorithm. Since you mention that this would be done for RMA material, I would suggest changing the terms of your contract with your supplier. Your contract should be modified such that you get a new drive and return the case of the defective drive (no platters) to the supplier of the hard drives. If your information is sensitive enough to warrant wiping, the supplier shouldn't even get the chance to get at your information. If the white paper is to be believed, you should probably remove the cache memory from the hard drive before returning it for RMA as well. For actual software that does this, search http://sourceforge.net/ there was at least one hit there (Erasure?) but it may not meet your needs. I hope this answers all of your questions.
Computer rooms are not meant for human habitation.
The noise levels are above what is healthy, the temperatures are too cool, the air is too dry, and your not allowed to drink while in there.
Overall it is not the best place for someone to spend hours at a time.
I am currently letting management here know that spending the day in that environment is not acceptable to me. They are trying to remove the secure network access to the development environment, which I obviously oppose.
We'll see how it goes. Who knows maybe I'll transfer out.
Yes the price point is a bit high. Yes the bundle pack makes it more expensive. I think that the game prices are right along the prices for other platforms. I don't see why people would complain about that.
The problem I have with it is that there is no compatibility with anything. If you get one of these, you can't play games from other platforms.
My PS2 plays PS1 and PS2 games, and has the eyeToy accessory. My Gamecube plays GC, GBA and GBC games. The Gameboy Advance SP plays GBA, GBC, GB, and e-reader games. Heck even the DS plays GBA games too.
I'm not saying that I don't want one, just pointing out it is a system that does not really have any compatibility with anything else. Kind of like the xBox. It's hard to justify purchasing a system that only does one thing, especially at that price.
In the article, it states:
"Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts."
Go install privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) and see the web ad free. You can even allow ads at sites you want to support like./
The only ads that I see are the text based ones. Your surfing time is faster as you don't download all the graphics and flash files these guys put up. Privoxy also handles my popup blocking instead of Mozilla/Firefox.
Once the ads are blocked, the web is a much better place.
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I got a phishing email, and was surprised how good it was, and made a comment about it to my wife. She didn't believe it was a fake email.
So I proceeded to show her. I clicked the link that the email provided, opened a second browser and clicked on the real site. There were several differences. But mostly cosemetic. Things the average user would not notice. The most obvious of which was the copyright date. They had obviously scraped it the year before. She was not convinced.
Clicking on the tool bar links, like Customer Support, and Help took the user to the real web site. This didn't help to convince her.
So, the best way to convince her was to click on the login link. First on the correct web site, then on the phishing site. They looked similar again. I generated a fake name and email address to login with. On the correct site, the login failed. On the phishing site it allowed me in. She was starting to believe it now.
When the phishing site started asking for credit card numbers, pin numbers, passwords, driver license numbers, addresses and phone numbers she was then convinced. Entry of fake data in all of the areas, and the phishing site took you back to the real site, trying to log you in with the fake name and password. Which failed.
People like to believe the world is good.
as well as leaving the room, turning off the TV, playing a handheld game, recording the show and speeding through the commercials. My family uses all of these techniques today. Most if not all of them will work even with the Phillips patent.
On a side note, there was a study a few months ago that showed that people that fast forward through commercials retained the same amount of information from the commercials as those that watched them as they played. The conclusion of the study is that advertisers should not worry about the viewers that record shows missing the commercials. I wonder if they considered the intelligence difference between the people that CAN record shows and speed through the commercials and the ones that MUST watch the show as it is broadcast (due to inability to program a recording device).
sums up the response quite nicely. Whoever scythekain is, they hit the nail on the head.E SSID=b03d8cc35fba7b04eaf8be41a6a22f38&/topic,79.0. html/
See the comment here: http://www.bonafidereviews.com/smf/index.php?PHPS
It's called WinPodder which I heard about on the Daily Breakfast. I have not personally tried it as I am comfortable with iTunes.
I usually find my podcasts on iTunes, but occasionally use Podcast Alley to search for topics I like. Listen to a few and unsubscribe from the bad ones.
I like the PC Gamer Podcast and am still trying out the PSP podcasts from PG Revolution not 100% sold on it yet, but it has held my interest for a few weeks now.
Don't forget Perl, easier to maintain scripts to alter configuration if you know that as well.
To the author: you should have some expertise in creating and enforcing policy so that the people that use you network will understand what is allowed and what is not. You'll probably need to handle alterations to your policy as the technology of the applications on the network change. Remember defense in layers. A big firewall is not the end-all of network security.
Co-op:
Gauntlet Dark Legacy (a bit cartoonish, but fun anyway)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (cheap now that it's been out a few years)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance II (A bit more complicated with the building of weapons)
Champions of Norrath (Beware of bugs that crash the game every once in a while, save often)
Champions Return To Arms (More bugs than CoN)
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows (not as good as Dark Legacy, too short)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (seems like random spell casting, but is fun)
If she gets more advanced:
Lord of the Rings Return of the King
Of course you could go for competitive games:
AntiGrav (EyeToy required)
Katamari Damacy (Multi-player battle mode or single player and compare times)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EyeToy Games)
Most any one person game, comparing scores
We tried to do that with the Dot.Station, but it didn't sell in the U.S. we did get a good size customer in Spain though. There was no Microsoft involved, everything was managed at the Network Operation Center. It was designed for upgrades, multi-language, and seemed fairly easy to use.
By the end of the project, it was broadband enabled and quite nice. I keep expecting some other group to resurrect it into an even better system.
Something like that would be perfect for my Parents. Remote desktop over dialup is painfully slow!
What I find funny is that people assume that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will cause HDCP to be used. This is not the case. HDCP is used by the Output Device (DVD Player, etc) and the Display Device (Monitor/TV).
It doesn't matter what the content is, if you have HDMI/HDCP devices connected with the HDMI/DVI ports they will use HDCP. Other ports (VGA/Component/Composite, etc) will not use HDCP as the quality of the signal is not good enough to protect.
Even the article makes the false assumption in their conclusion that content will magically turn HDCP on.
Having not used eclipse I can't answer that question, but I can say that NetBeans is a lot better than JBuilder. Layouts take 1/4 the time, and NetBeans simplifies the code by not requiring a massive amount of layout managers just to get everything to position where you want it. NetBeans has access to more properties of each object than JBuilder does. With NetBeans you can actually use the drag and drop functioanlity of the GUI a lot quicker than JBuilder. In general it is a lot faster than JBuilder 6.0.
On the downside of NetBeans 5.0 Beta 2 (have not upgraded yet) when you need to update size or placement of objects on the left side of the panel/window using drag and drop, objects on the right tend to move around automatically. Even if you don't want them to move.
I'd say NetBeans is better.
I am not surprised that the number is that high.
I have a software patent that has been awaiting US Patent office approval for 2 years now. The text of the patent is nearly incomprehensible due to the lawyer rewriting the entire document into legalese. I honestly could not produce the software I patented from the lawyer's version.
Maybe the 2% are possibly ones that the lawyer is also the inventor, so they can get the point across in legal speak and still have the point intact.
There are many other sites that you can use to download a podcast. Why risk an ad being inserted by Audible by using Audible.com?
Just head elsewhere like www.podcastalley.com, or www.podshow.com, etc. Yeah I know they have ads on their sites, but at least they're not trying to insert targeted ads into podcasts.
For musical experimentation try www.garageband.com.
My mom calls my son for help on Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, and discusses how they beat Gauntlet Dark Legacy, and ask if I have finished with Champions of Norrath so they can play it.
I can see the grandparent gaming getting going. If they had broadband we'd both pickup Champions of Norrath and play together. They are considering picking up AntiGrav for exercise, though I can see that this may be a bit much for them.
There are issues with grandparents gaming:
1. They do not have the reaction time, so platformers and timing based areas are tough (Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance stone jumping puzzle)
2. They may not have the ability to learn complicated controls (Lord of the Rings Return of the King)
3. They can have issues with saving progress, my parents have beat both Baldur's gate games, and keep overwriting the characters with new ones, and losing their built up ones (not what they want to do).
4. Complex procedures for starting games can be frustrating, especially when trying to load previous characters. They seem to learn one way to start a game, and are unwilling or unable to try something different. (My parents have yet to figure out how to start a harder Baldur's Gate game with their old characters, Lord of the Rings Return of the King has too many steps for them to remember how to load their saved characters).
5. They are unaware of gamefaqs.com so will call you with help on games you haven't played in 2 years and expect you to know the details on the spot.
Now maybe my parents are bit more clueless than some, maybe better than others I do not know. I haven't dealt with many grandparent gamers. They do try though, other games they have tried are Myst 3, Motocross Mayhem, Dance Dance Revolution, and others.
It's funny to hear my Mom who is typically glued to a TV say "we're recording our show so we can play..."
But it is also great that my parents have another connection with my kids as they are playing the same games.
Bruce's Argument #1) Users have no idea how to decide if a particular signer is trusted or not.
My comments: True. [...]The IT dept should know not to trust "Snake Oil Corp." [...]
You are missing the point entirely: What if I were to present you with "Citrix Corp." and "Citrix Corporation" and "Cirtix Inc.". Which would you *know* comes from *the* Citrix corp. [...]. Bottom line: the cert only assures you that the string ("Citrix") it corresponds to is correct. It doesn't say anything else. Which begs to ask: why have a signature?
This is where obtaining the public key through a trusted method comes into play. If you were to obtain through a trusted channel, a self-signed certificate with the public key from Citrix, and used that key to validate the signature that came with the code, then you know that the code came from the same source you obtained the self-signed certificate from.
The other purpose of the signature is to validate that the code provided has not been altered since it left the source.
Bruce's Argument #2) Just because a component is signed doesn't mean that it is safe.
My Comments: [...]Code signing was design to prove the authenticity and integrity of the code.[...]
[... a long example...]
Agreed. A bad component can be signed too.
Bruce's Argument #3) Just because two component are individually signed does not mean that using them together is safe; lots of accidental harmful interactions can be exploited.
My comment: Again Code Signing was was never designed to accomplish this.
Bruce's Argument #4) "safe" is not all-or-nothing thing; there are degrees of safety.
My comment: I agree with this statement.
Combined with the first two points, you're basically saying that there's no point in having code signing.
Not really, the point of code signing is to positively identify the source, and to verify the code has not been altered.
Bruce's Argument #5) The fact that the evidence of attack (the signature on the code) is stored on the computer under attack is mostly useless: The attack could delete or modify the signature during the attack, or simple reformat the drive where the signature is stored.
This is a very important feature of security: auditing. If you have a system that's been compromised, you want to know how it happened. *Especially* if you are in a corporate environment: you see one workstation get 0wn3d and formated, you won't be sitting around to see when the next one hits. You will want to know what did it.
It's part of the process. If you receive new code, validate the signature. If the signature does not validate delete the code. If you are trying to run the code before you validate it, of course you can't detect the attack. The attack may circumvent the validation.
In AZ we don't observe the current daylight savings time, so I expect we'll ignore the new one too. So my gadgets and gizmos will all continue to work, ignoring DST as usual. I'm sure there are other places that ignore DST too, feel free to move there if AZ get full.
1. The broadcast flag is intended for broadcasted content, e.g.: over an antenna. So it really affects only 15% of the market.
2. The broadcast flag will NOT stop you from recording a show. Your VCR, TIVO, PVR, etc will still work. The uproar of not being able to time shift would be too great for them to kill it. (Obviously)
3. The broadcast flag WILL stop you from being able to publish a broadcasted show over the Internet.
4. The TV/Movie industry has methods to stop/track recordings from cable/satellite and their Internet transmissions. In some cases they are not using them, in others they are being developed.
5. The broadcast flag already exists in the content, the legislation is intended to force the hardware to recognize it. Manufacturers can voluntarily act on it now if they choose. But why would you add a feature (raise cost) if you don't have to. Thus the legislation is needed to get the hardware to do what the TV/Movie industry wants.
I don't care if it is implemented or not. Yes, I time shift continuously as my kids are not allowed to watch any night time TV. No, I don't get any TV or Movie content from the Internet. If I missed the show I missed it. I'll pick it up in reruns if it is important to me, which generally it is not.
As for commercial skipping, studies have showed that people that fast forward through commercials have the same retention rate as people that watch them all. Now is this saying that people intelligent enough to program a recording device are smarter than those that can not? I don't know. It's all open to interpretation.
He posted them on his site a bit ago http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf (Warning PDF)
The need to save a cart for later may also help their loss of carts. I'm one of those that considers a purchase for a week before I make it.
1-2 days to find the best price.
2-3 days to convince the wife.
1 day to verify there is not a better product at the same price or find an item that meets the wife's needs as well as mine.
1 day to find time to make the purchase.
It's a long process, but it gets done.
Saving the cart helps for me to come back. Especially if I can modify a saved cart.
Another issue I have is wish lists. If I put an item on a wish list, I should be able to remove the item if someone bought the item without using the wish list. It's funny to see the OLD wish list items of 5-10 years ago.
I was a beta tester for Uru, and found the world to be just as beautiful as the previous 3 games, sound was there, but since I had to reduce to 2 speakers instead of my normal 5 at the time, I'm not sure if it was up to par. I expect it was.
There was one thing missing: A compelling story. I did not have a reason to play Uru, other than my love of puzzles and awesome sound & graphics. You didn't know why you should try to travel to other ages, you just did. Combine this with the sudden death of Uru, and people could be a bit put off by the series.
There is also the confusion in the series with two games released in the same year. Was Myst IV part of Uru? With all the hype (and death) of multi-player Myst in Uru also contained in Myst IV? Is Myst IV an expansion for Uru? Will Myst IV suck like Uru did?
Reading the article, yes there were problems. The DVD9 issue may scare some people off. If there's bad press for that, and confusion on the versions, and poor acceptance for the previous release, people are not going to buy it unless one of their friends try it first.
Myst IV is on my wish list, maybe next birthday I'll get it. It only took 2 years for Hordes of the Underdark to come off of my wish list. Hopefully Myst IV will take less time.
Or like the local paper, 25% of the content is an ad. You know, like Fred just opened this new business, let us tell you about it....
The 3 pass algorithm is ok for some applications. If I remember correctly it is approved for information below Secret level in the DoD.
A co-worker of mine sent me a link to a white paper that details a 35 pass algorithm http://wipe.sourceforge.net/secure_del.html that mathematically ensures erasure all information on (1,7) RLL, MFM, and (2,7) RLL formats.
Since you stated in your original query that the disk is dead, I am not sure that you will be able to apply any algorithm.
Since you mention that this would be done for RMA material, I would suggest changing the terms of your contract with your supplier. Your contract should be modified such that you get a new drive and return the case of the defective drive (no platters) to the supplier of the hard drives. If your information is sensitive enough to warrant wiping, the supplier shouldn't even get the chance to get at your information. If the white paper is to be believed, you should probably remove the cache memory from the hard drive before returning it for RMA as well.
For actual software that does this, search http://sourceforge.net/ there was at least one hit there (Erasure?) but it may not meet your needs.
I hope this answers all of your questions.
Computer rooms are not meant for human habitation.
The noise levels are above what is healthy, the temperatures are too cool, the air is too dry, and your not allowed to drink while in there.
Overall it is not the best place for someone to spend hours at a time.
I am currently letting management here know that spending the day in that environment is not acceptable to me. They are trying to remove the secure network access to the development environment, which I obviously oppose.
We'll see how it goes. Who knows maybe I'll transfer out.
Yes the price point is a bit high.
Yes the bundle pack makes it more expensive.
I think that the game prices are right along the prices for other platforms. I don't see why people would complain about that.
The problem I have with it is that there is no compatibility with anything. If you get one of these, you can't play games from other platforms.
My PS2 plays PS1 and PS2 games, and has the eyeToy accessory. My Gamecube plays GC, GBA and GBC games. The Gameboy Advance SP plays GBA, GBC, GB, and e-reader games. Heck even the DS plays GBA games too.
I'm not saying that I don't want one, just pointing out it is a system that does not really have any compatibility with anything else. Kind of like the xBox. It's hard to justify purchasing a system that only does one thing, especially at that price.
More than twice the Mozilla type browsers are hitting my site than IE. My stats gathering does not differentiate between Firefox and Mozilla.
Mozilla has been growing significantly for the last year. 8 months ago it was a 50:50 split.
In the article, it states: "Theatergoers still have to wear those familiar cardboard glasses with red-and-blue cellophane, although backers of the new technology say it doesn't cause the eyestrain common with past 3-D efforts."
Go install privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) and see the web ad free. You can even allow ads at sites you want to support like ./
The only ads that I see are the text based ones. Your surfing time is faster as you don't download all the graphics and flash files these guys put up. Privoxy also handles my popup blocking instead of Mozilla/Firefox.
Once the ads are blocked, the web is a much better place.