Takes a sterotype to know a stereotype. Now let's see...
"It used to be that if you wrote tired copy for dodgy online 'journalism' you were labeled a hack. That was before the seedy and drunk took sweet revenge on corporate America with their Media degrees and bullshit fluency. But even with fat arses they still went unnoticed all too often; socially inept and most at ease alone in front of a monitor.
Low tier journalists were - and still are - a lonely bunch."
I used to be a journalist. I think I'm venting something here - humor me.
For companies: Insist on using open source software. If you can't use open source, build it internally. If you can't build it internally, hire people. If you can't do any of that, then expect to have concerns about security unanswered for the foreseeable.
For end users: Use open source software. If you can't use OSS for everything then make sure you have a good firewall of some kind (everyone in Windowsland seems to be using ZoneAlarm Pro from what I hear). The most important thing however is simply to read everything and assume nothing.
For everyone: get a good firewall. Keep an eye on your traffic.
If someone's scanning your stuff and poking their nose around you'll see it and know about it. Be sure to tell your friends how disreputable the software provider in question is and post an embittered rant about it on/.
Is it just me, for in this "New" world, everytime I see a coincidence, me thinks conspiracy....
To write off one coincidence as a conspiracy theory may be regarded as misguided; to write off more than one coincidence as a conspiracy theory is naivite.
You are not alone. The fact that we can't trust those in charge any more may have something to do with the lack of accountability and openness.
The lack of openness could be put down to justified fear, given global opinion of the United States at the moment. There is however no excuse for the lack of accountability. What happens to senior executives and politicians that mess up our lives? They retire with a fat pay-off. Therein lies the problem.
Episodic games are one of those holy grails for small-scale developers
Speaking as a small-scale developer, episodic is not on my holy grail list. Innovation is there, originality is there but looking down the list I just don't see episodic gaming anywhere.
I think you may be thinking of large-scale corporate developers looking to decrease any and all risk by cashing in on existing 'proven' (in their eyes) ideas.
{rant}Now speaking as a human being, I find it pretty disturbing that executives are so willing to use this particular 'theatre' as a video game scenario before we've even sewn prosthetic limbs back on to the lucky few mutilated children that we pulled out of our ugly little war. And to use it to perpetuate that ludicrous Jessica Lynch propoganda is pretty despicable too.{/rant}
And if we do breathe, we die. We gotta get those free radicals out of the oxygen and computing-based research will let us do that... so computing must, by definition, be more important than breathing. =D
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I used to be a journalist. I think I'm venting something here - humor me.
-A
P.S. I bet he hates being misquoted too.
Time to invade, this time they won't have enough Iroquios to stop us like in 1812!
Well they might not have any Iroquois but they can sure as hell find some willing Iraqis. =P
Ooh I know but I couldn't resist it.
Insightful. Very.
For companies: Insist on using open source software. If you can't use open source, build it internally. If you can't build it internally, hire people. If you can't do any of that, then expect to have concerns about security unanswered for the foreseeable.
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For end users: Use open source software. If you can't use OSS for everything then make sure you have a good firewall of some kind (everyone in Windowsland seems to be using ZoneAlarm Pro from what I hear). The most important thing however is simply to read everything and assume nothing.
For everyone: get a good firewall. Keep an eye on your traffic.
If someone's scanning your stuff and poking their nose around you'll see it and know about it. Be sure to tell your friends how disreputable the software provider in question is and post an embittered rant about it on
Can't we all just get along?
Is it just me, for in this "New" world, everytime I see a coincidence, me thinks conspiracy ....
To write off one coincidence as a conspiracy theory may be regarded as misguided; to write off more than one coincidence as a conspiracy theory is naivite.
You are not alone. The fact that we can't trust those in charge any more may have something to do with the lack of accountability and openness.
The lack of openness could be put down to justified fear, given global opinion of the United States at the moment. There is however no excuse for the lack of accountability. What happens to senior executives and politicians that mess up our lives? They retire with a fat pay-off. Therein lies the problem.
Episodic games are one of those holy grails for small-scale developers
Speaking as a small-scale developer, episodic is not on my holy grail list. Innovation is there, originality is there but looking down the list I just don't see episodic gaming anywhere.
I think you may be thinking of large-scale corporate developers looking to decrease any and all risk by cashing in on existing 'proven' (in their eyes) ideas.
{rant}Now speaking as a human being, I find it pretty disturbing that executives are so willing to use this particular 'theatre' as a video game scenario before we've even sewn prosthetic limbs back on to the lucky few mutilated children that we pulled out of our ugly little war. And to use it to perpetuate that ludicrous Jessica Lynch propoganda is pretty despicable too.{/rant}
And if we do breathe, we die. We gotta get those free radicals out of the oxygen and computing-based research will let us do that... so computing must, by definition, be more important than breathing. =D