The alternative to irresponsible disclosure is for the vulnerability to be used maliciously for an unknown period of time. Which of those is preferable?
Google tells me a single Javelin missile (shoulder fired anti tank missile) costs about 80 grand. So that's 410 missiles for 10 years of gaming. However, a big fancy Tomahawk cruise missile is (according to wikipedia) $600,000 a pop. So that would get you almost 55 cruise missiles, which would cause a heck of a lot more destruction.
The author really should have done more research for this article. Epic games is, typically, not one of the overly protective companies desperately trying to nail down every fan with an idea in the name of Intellectual Property enforcement. The event cited (C&D over a gift doll) was actually done in error and was not sent by Epic themselves but rather their trigger-happy crack legal team. Mark Rein (PR dude) later explained the incident as an accident and publicly apologized for it.
Typically, Epic has been more in stride with Valve in that they actively encourage people to mess with their games in not-for profit ways. They have also released free SDK's and source code for their engines. They've held contests (with cash prizes, noless) in order to cultivate talent and often recruit employees from the community. They've even taken a mod to retail status (Tactical Ops) just like Valve did with Counter Strike. They've also helped to pioneer the feature of community made mods and maps being offered on consoles.
On the whole, Epic is one of the least "evil" gaming companies on the planet right now. And while they're not immune to making mistakes, I personally don't believe they deserve to be unfairly placed on the wrong side of this particular fence.
Q:Could you call 911 since I am about to go into cardiac arrest? A:No
Depending on where you live, that answer may technically be illegal. Plenty of countries and a few states (oh and Quebec too) have a "Duty to rescue" law which, in a nutshell, states that you must attempt to assist an individual in peril provided that it doesn't also put your life at risk. At the very least, you would be expected to call for help.
It's all semantics though. I can't imagine any decent human being simply standing there and watching while another human has a heart attack, no matter who they work for.
RTFA? Oh, wait, I forgot where I was for a moment.;) Anyways, yes this is almost exactly what they're doing. Bundling an *extremely* highly anticipated game demo with a reasonably successful film. In this case it's the God of War 3 demo bundled with District 9. A movie I want to own and a game I want to try. So as long as it doesn't cost any extra, yes I will be buying this.:)
I call BS. The steering column lock is a function of the key tumbler, not the engine or electrical system. The only way for it to lock is if the key is in the lock position (hence the name). Either you bumped the key (happened to me once when I had too much crap on my keychain) or you're just making things up.
I think the human treat you may be looking for is a flat rectangular green object that is easily folded and often found in banks. At least, in my experiences it seems to motivate people pretty well.:P
Huh. Where I happen to live in soviet Canuckistan, both having your wages deducted for accidental damages caused on the job AND being forced to sign something under the threat of losing your job are both illegal.
Something vaguely similar happened at where I work. Weekend attendance had been optional for a very very long time, but management felt that too many people were just taking every weekend off because, well, people like their weekends. Anyways, to try and boost attendance they tried to make everyone sign an agreement basically saying that everyone had to work every single weekend unless excused, and excuses had to be given up to three weeks in advance... and this was all under a threat of "or else". A few of the sheeple signed right away for fear of losing their jobs. When it got round to me, I just laughed and threw the paper in the garbage. My boss tried to give me shit (this was infront of a dozen co-workers, so he had to make a stand) but I interrupted him to inform him that he could not unilaterally renegotiate my job description or fire me if I didn't agree to it, and if he ever tried to push me (or any of us) around like that again, that the provincial labour board would come down on the place like a ten thousand pound bag of shit for it and all the other little skeletons-in-the-closet that I knew about. The next day their little piece of paper disappeared without a trace.
How often do two vehicles on the highway hit each other dead-center head on? Front left fender vs front left fender is a more realistic approximation of a highway accident in my opinion. I'd take the Malibu.
The pictures with the doors removed are simply amazing. Note how, not only is the Bel Air dummy folded up like a pretzel, but the entire body of the car has twisted such that the rear door no longer fits properly. The Malibu on the other hand is almost untouched from the firewall back. What an awesome demonstration of energy dissipation.
They'll probably turn it by hand, most land speed vehicles have a tiny, tiny amount of steering angle to keep a sudden twitch on the driver's part from turning into a two mile long barrel roll.
I'm an automotive mechanic. My friends and family would also consider me to be a big geek. I fix their computers (yes yes, cars too), I build my own (computers, I haven't built a car from scratch... yet!). I love gadgets and hacking stuff together, and I have an abnormal interest in technology related politics (my girlfriend calls me paranoid). So to the general public, i'm a geek.
Among the Slashdot crowd, I don't have quite the same geek credentials. I don't use any flavour of Linux (besides the occasional liveCD like Backtrack) because my PC is a gaming rig first and foremost. I'm not a sys admin or a programmer. The last thing I "programmed" was fifteen years ago and written in BASIC. I don't run a website, and the extent of my HTML knowledge is frames and tables. I hate math and I don't get off on exciting new prime numbers or subatomic particles. Oh, and i've only played D&D like, twice. It was fun but time consuming. Am I still a geek?
My personal opinion is that geek has moved far beyond the 1980's definition of pocket protectors, glasses, and a calculator. Geeks come in all flavours now, from classical computing and math geeks all the way into sports and automotive geeks. The microprocessor really has changed the way we see the modern world, in virtually every way. A geek is now anyone who shares both a passion for a subject and the thirst for related knowledge, no matter what that subject may be.
My boss. Please, please, PLEASE send my boss. We here at my company would be MORE than willing to do our patriotic duty to sacrifice one man, one smooth-talking swindling lying cheating know-it-all jerkoff who only looks out for himself of a man, all in the name of science. Please?
Huh? Why would unmanned craft have slower climb/turn rates than manned craft? Presumably they would be greater, since there are no squishy bags of meat on board that get uncomfortable while pulling a G or ten. Anyone know?
One of my dogs is half Belgian Malinois Shepard (a popular K9 unit breed) and half Black Lab. She's quite literally half brilliant, half moron. She's fairly intelligent, understands lots of commands and is generally a well behaved dog... until you show her a tennis ball, frisbee, or a stick. Then the slobbering moron lab takes over and her world quite literally narrows to "must chase ball." It's pretty funny... but my next big dog is going to be ALL Belgian Shepard if I can help it.
There is ONE car that will out Elise an Elise... the Ariel Atom. It's essentially a street legal go-kart. Or, put another way, its the closest thing you'll ever get to driving an F1 car on the street. Especially that rumored Atom 500... 1000lb car with 500 ponies? Sheer fucking insanity. Sign me up!
Ford is weird like that. They make some wonderful cars for the EU market, and then utterly fail to bring them to the US. This happened with the Ford Focus a few years back, where the Euro Focus was being hailed as an amazing car, while in the US they flat out refused to import the platform, citing the "expenses" of bringing over the car. Meanwhile Mazda took the exact same platform and produced the smash hit Mazda 3 & 5. Only recently was it announced that the 2010 US versions of the Focus would use their international platform as an "experiment" that might actually convince them to do what they should have done years ago. Also, to add insult to injury Ford has never considered releasing the Focus RS in north america, the best they've ever done is the SVT which was soundly crushed virtually every other sporty compact on the market.
As far as Opel/Vauxhall cars go, you can buy some of them in North America but not too many. The Opel Astra is simply the Saturn Astra, which is a great little car. The Opel GT has been doing quite well as the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice too, though personally after driving one I must say I was not impressed. The Vectra (now Insignia) isn't itself sold in NA but the platform itself is hugely popular, being shared with the Chevy Malibu, Pontiac G6, and Saab 9-3.
Oh and one last point, GM isn't selling itself to Fiat, Chrysler is.
Ah yes, the truth behind that story... The condo we used to rent had a renovated bathroom from an accident years ago where someone's tub upstairs overflowed and damaged the walls of the bathrooms beneath it. When it was repaired it wasn't fully completed... someone forgot to properly caulk a few small gaps around the ring of the tub. Long story short, years of moisture worked their way back into the drywall and weakened it to the point where my *ahem* girlfriends tight little butt put an ass-sized dent in the tiles where the drywall was damp.;) Needless to say we left that place pretty quickly and bought our own condo.
In any case, the moral of the story is that sex in the shower isn't nearly as fun as it sounds. Foreplay in the shower is fine though!
Yeah that showering thing sounds like a good idea, and it is fun... right up until someone slips while switching positions and you put an ass-sized hole in the tile... So, uh, we stopped showering together so frequently about two years ago. If there's one thing i've learned in this relationship, it's that if you're fooling around anywhere there's a hard object (table, floor, tub, etc) someone will eventually get hurt. Soft things work much better for a reason.:P
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That sounds like a good poll:
-Natalie Portman
-Chuck Norris
-Cmdr Taco
etc.
The alternative to irresponsible disclosure is for the vulnerability to be used maliciously for an unknown period of time. Which of those is preferable?
Google tells me a single Javelin missile (shoulder fired anti tank missile) costs about 80 grand. So that's 410 missiles for 10 years of gaming.
However, a big fancy Tomahawk cruise missile is (according to wikipedia) $600,000 a pop. So that would get you almost 55 cruise missiles, which would cause a heck of a lot more destruction.
The author really should have done more research for this article. Epic games is, typically, not one of the overly protective companies desperately trying to nail down every fan with an idea in the name of Intellectual Property enforcement. The event cited (C&D over a gift doll) was actually done in error and was not sent by Epic themselves but rather their trigger-happy crack legal team. Mark Rein (PR dude) later explained the incident as an accident and publicly apologized for it.
Typically, Epic has been more in stride with Valve in that they actively encourage people to mess with their games in not-for profit ways. They have also released free SDK's and source code for their engines. They've held contests (with cash prizes, noless) in order to cultivate talent and often recruit employees from the community. They've even taken a mod to retail status (Tactical Ops) just like Valve did with Counter Strike. They've also helped to pioneer the feature of community made mods and maps being offered on consoles.
On the whole, Epic is one of the least "evil" gaming companies on the planet right now. And while they're not immune to making mistakes, I personally don't believe they deserve to be unfairly placed on the wrong side of this particular fence.
Depending on where you live, that answer may technically be illegal. Plenty of countries and a few states (oh and Quebec too) have a "Duty to rescue" law which, in a nutshell, states that you must attempt to assist an individual in peril provided that it doesn't also put your life at risk. At the very least, you would be expected to call for help.
It's all semantics though. I can't imagine any decent human being simply standing there and watching while another human has a heart attack, no matter who they work for.
I'm sorry, I don't speak astromech.
RTFA? Oh, wait, I forgot where I was for a moment. ;) :)
Anyways, yes this is almost exactly what they're doing. Bundling an *extremely* highly anticipated game demo with a reasonably successful film. In this case it's the God of War 3 demo bundled with District 9. A movie I want to own and a game I want to try. So as long as it doesn't cost any extra, yes I will be buying this.
I call BS. The steering column lock is a function of the key tumbler, not the engine or electrical system. The only way for it to lock is if the key is in the lock position (hence the name). Either you bumped the key (happened to me once when I had too much crap on my keychain) or you're just making things up.
I think the human treat you may be looking for is a flat rectangular green object that is easily folded and often found in banks. :P
At least, in my experiences it seems to motivate people pretty well.
Huh. Where I happen to live in soviet Canuckistan, both having your wages deducted for accidental damages caused on the job AND being forced to sign something under the threat of losing your job are both illegal.
Something vaguely similar happened at where I work. Weekend attendance had been optional for a very very long time, but management felt that too many people were just taking every weekend off because, well, people like their weekends. Anyways, to try and boost attendance they tried to make everyone sign an agreement basically saying that everyone had to work every single weekend unless excused, and excuses had to be given up to three weeks in advance... and this was all under a threat of "or else". A few of the sheeple signed right away for fear of losing their jobs. When it got round to me, I just laughed and threw the paper in the garbage. My boss tried to give me shit (this was infront of a dozen co-workers, so he had to make a stand) but I interrupted him to inform him that he could not unilaterally renegotiate my job description or fire me if I didn't agree to it, and if he ever tried to push me (or any of us) around like that again, that the provincial labour board would come down on the place like a ten thousand pound bag of shit for it and all the other little skeletons-in-the-closet that I knew about. The next day their little piece of paper disappeared without a trace.
YMMV.
So it's like the difference between being hit by a car going 1mph and one going 100,000,000,000,000,000mph? Am I doing these car analogy things right?
How often do two vehicles on the highway hit each other dead-center head on? Front left fender vs front left fender is a more realistic approximation of a highway accident in my opinion. I'd take the Malibu.
You mean like this? :)
The pictures with the doors removed are simply amazing. Note how, not only is the Bel Air dummy folded up like a pretzel, but the entire body of the car has twisted such that the rear door no longer fits properly. The Malibu on the other hand is almost untouched from the firewall back. What an awesome demonstration of energy dissipation.
They'll probably turn it by hand, most land speed vehicles have a tiny, tiny amount of steering angle to keep a sudden twitch on the driver's part from turning into a two mile long barrel roll.
This all boils down to how you define geek.
I'm an automotive mechanic. My friends and family would also consider me to be a big geek. I fix their computers (yes yes, cars too), I build my own (computers, I haven't built a car from scratch... yet!). I love gadgets and hacking stuff together, and I have an abnormal interest in technology related politics (my girlfriend calls me paranoid). So to the general public, i'm a geek.
Among the Slashdot crowd, I don't have quite the same geek credentials. I don't use any flavour of Linux (besides the occasional liveCD like Backtrack) because my PC is a gaming rig first and foremost. I'm not a sys admin or a programmer. The last thing I "programmed" was fifteen years ago and written in BASIC. I don't run a website, and the extent of my HTML knowledge is frames and tables. I hate math and I don't get off on exciting new prime numbers or subatomic particles. Oh, and i've only played D&D like, twice. It was fun but time consuming. Am I still a geek?
My personal opinion is that geek has moved far beyond the 1980's definition of pocket protectors, glasses, and a calculator. Geeks come in all flavours now, from classical computing and math geeks all the way into sports and automotive geeks. The microprocessor really has changed the way we see the modern world, in virtually every way. A geek is now anyone who shares both a passion for a subject and the thirst for related knowledge, no matter what that subject may be.
The geek shall inherit the Earth. :)
My boss.
Please, please, PLEASE send my boss. We here at my company would be MORE than willing to do our patriotic duty to sacrifice one man, one smooth-talking swindling lying cheating know-it-all jerkoff who only looks out for himself of a man, all in the name of science.
Please?
Your car has pockets too.
Huh? Why would unmanned craft have slower climb/turn rates than manned craft? Presumably they would be greater, since there are no squishy bags of meat on board that get uncomfortable while pulling a G or ten.
Anyone know?
One of my dogs is half Belgian Malinois Shepard (a popular K9 unit breed) and half Black Lab. She's quite literally half brilliant, half moron. She's fairly intelligent, understands lots of commands and is generally a well behaved dog... until you show her a tennis ball, frisbee, or a stick. Then the slobbering moron lab takes over and her world quite literally narrows to "must chase ball." It's pretty funny... but my next big dog is going to be ALL Belgian Shepard if I can help it.
There is ONE car that will out Elise an Elise... the Ariel Atom. It's essentially a street legal go-kart. Or, put another way, its the closest thing you'll ever get to driving an F1 car on the street. Especially that rumored Atom 500... 1000lb car with 500 ponies? Sheer fucking insanity. Sign me up!
Ford is weird like that. They make some wonderful cars for the EU market, and then utterly fail to bring them to the US. This happened with the Ford Focus a few years back, where the Euro Focus was being hailed as an amazing car, while in the US they flat out refused to import the platform, citing the "expenses" of bringing over the car. Meanwhile Mazda took the exact same platform and produced the smash hit Mazda 3 & 5. Only recently was it announced that the 2010 US versions of the Focus would use their international platform as an "experiment" that might actually convince them to do what they should have done years ago.
Also, to add insult to injury Ford has never considered releasing the Focus RS in north america, the best they've ever done is the SVT which was soundly crushed virtually every other sporty compact on the market.
As far as Opel/Vauxhall cars go, you can buy some of them in North America but not too many. The Opel Astra is simply the Saturn Astra, which is a great little car. The Opel GT has been doing quite well as the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice too, though personally after driving one I must say I was not impressed. The Vectra (now Insignia) isn't itself sold in NA but the platform itself is hugely popular, being shared with the Chevy Malibu, Pontiac G6, and Saab 9-3.
Oh and one last point, GM isn't selling itself to Fiat, Chrysler is.
Ah yes, the truth behind that story... The condo we used to rent had a renovated bathroom from an accident years ago where someone's tub upstairs overflowed and damaged the walls of the bathrooms beneath it. When it was repaired it wasn't fully completed... someone forgot to properly caulk a few small gaps around the ring of the tub. Long story short, years of moisture worked their way back into the drywall and weakened it to the point where my *ahem* girlfriends tight little butt put an ass-sized dent in the tiles where the drywall was damp. ;)
Needless to say we left that place pretty quickly and bought our own condo.
In any case, the moral of the story is that sex in the shower isn't nearly as fun as it sounds. Foreplay in the shower is fine though!
Yeah that showering thing sounds like a good idea, and it is fun... right up until someone slips while switching positions and you put an ass-sized hole in the tile... :P
So, uh, we stopped showering together so frequently about two years ago.
If there's one thing i've learned in this relationship, it's that if you're fooling around anywhere there's a hard object (table, floor, tub, etc) someone will eventually get hurt. Soft things work much better for a reason.
Pfft. Who uses Google for unit conversions when there's something so much better?