I'm no scientist, but from my lay-person perspective it seems far more likely that larger brained homo-sapiens would fair better competing against a rival homonid, and therefore persist on, while dumber homo-sapiens would die out.
that would make far more sense to me than a larger brain resulting from inter-breeding with an obviously inferior sub-specie./shrug what do i know.
ehhh you're quite daft for making that statement. the article clearly notes that these are employees mostly at their headquarters, which indicates they are probably mid level executives or IT staff or something like that.. not store personnel.
im sure people who work in stores make $7-8 an hour like most other retail workers.
one problem with that is that all of the sony PS1 games are entire CD images (500-600 mb) while nintendo's games are small roms, at maximum 16 mb and mostly 100kb to 1 mb... this makes the nintendo system much more efficient and far less costly while offering, in my opinion, better games.
Well, first off man I'm glad I don't work in your "shop". Obviously you and I would not get along, I can tell we have pretty conflicting ideas on things.:)
-) No I did not ask for a bonus. I don't ask for rewards, nor do I feel entitled to them. I do think it would've been nice, and I felt my actions were noble. I think that rewarding subordinates should be proactive rather than reactive. Reactive rewarding responds to greed while proactive is generous.
-) There is no concievable way my email reporting it could have been construed as a threat. The only thing threating about it may have been the prospect of having a subordinate who's very capable, which is threating to some people in leadership positions. The email was not a broadcast email, it was an email to 2 of my superiors.
-) I did not discover it by accident. I consider myself righteous to a fault. I pursued my initial recognition of a possible "fault point", and lo, found a fault. Finding the flaw was completely purposeful. I could not request a "private" meeting and say that i "discovered it by accident" as that would cheapen my discovery, i feel.
-) There's nothing confidential about a public system, so the flaw's existance was not confidential.
-) I couldn't have gotten a raise due to the unionized nature of the college I worked at. You don't get merit raises.. (another reason I left).. So I didn't ask for one.
I will give you that you're probably totally right that they didn't read my whole email before forming a reaction; that's typical of inattentive superiors, the types if administrators I have a loathing for, and the type they were.
I have two times found and two times reported vulnerabilities I have found in public web based systems.
Let me tell you, it was not easy. Here's the story of the first time because it's the most interesting.
I worked for a community college in its' tech department. Alot of my time was devoted to answering phones and helping faculty with problems, which did leave me idle alot. (high availability requires high idle time as a concequence). As a tinkrer, my idle time is never spent truly idle, but pursuing things that don't require 100% attention.
The community college I worked for had many different systems, and as such had many many translation layers between them. One of these transition layers was a transition from a "Portal" type website to another website that handled student information. (class registration, transcripts, billing, paying, you know all that important personal stuff).
Anyway, I found a flaw in one of the scripts used to authenticate a user session to the second web service. The flaw was that the moron who coded it decided that creating a script that accepted 1 variable (the username) was enough security to authenticate a login.
by closely observing the scripts actions through my web browser, i noticed there were 2 very quick redirects. Focusing my efforts there (and logging my URL requests), i found the call to the script that required only the username.
So, basically, at that point I had access to anyones student account that I had the username for.
I documented it very well in a long email, and demonstrated the flaw to my coworkers. I thought I would be a real hero for finding it; I mean afterall, if I had found it who knows who else might have? surely, disaster averted!
But... my idealism in the situation was met hard with reality. My inexperience led me to not take into account factors I should have.
After reporting the vulnerability, a minor investigation was launched which I was the subject of. I felt more like a crminal than a saint. After demonstrating how I could login to their accounts, my coworkers were suspicious as were my superiors. The thought pattern seemed to go like "Well shit if he can do that, what else has he done? Why was he even poking around there in the first place?".
While never actually accused of any wrong doing, they weren't nearly as impressed with my find as i thought they would be. I was looking for a pat on the back, maybe a bonus, but instead my superiors were troubled and nervous. I'm not sure if I was right in feeling this way, but I never felt quite fully trusted there again after that one.
The other thing I didn't think about was how the existance of the error then impeached the person who wrote it. rightfully so, because it was a FOOLISH error, but the guy who wrote it was a guy who had been employed there far longer than I, and of course having me find it and dismantle it presented quite an embarassment to him.
I ended up leaving the job there 6 months later for a variety of reasons, but reporting the vulnerability was one of the 2 or 3 core reasons that I left. I don't regret it all and would do it the same way again, but going through it taught me alot about how to NOT be someones boss (should I ever become one in the future), and not react in the accusatory manner like my superiors did.
Console itself will be $200 isnt too far stretched, just still don't expect to get out the door without spending upwards of $200 MORE on games and accessories.
The raw console will be $200 with your standard one controller, but you'll not have everything you want for far more.
I'd just like to point out that the refutation of regulation law actually flies contrary to what a dictatorship is.
A dictatorship would be a government entity that tells its constituents what they can and can't do.. this bill would've, in essence, been dictating to the telecomms that they can't charge different rates to different people.
which, in a free market economy, is unreasonable..
any company based on fixing something that shouldn't of happened in the first place has a fundamentally flawed business plan anyway.
if a company is founded based on the idea of eliminating something, then the business plan needs to take into account the chances of the company achieving its goal... eliminating things... or the need for it to eliminate anything becoming unnecessary.
MMOG's are terrible for coop playing. anytime ive tried playing an MMOG with friends (starting at the same time) one of us would always have a little bit more time, so their character would end up advancing past the others in the game (both in level and "place" in the game).
Let us not forget the lesson learned in the Falkland Islands incident. Britain demanded unlock codes for missiles that the French sold argentina.. brits disabled argentina's exocet missiles and all that.
cash money will only be anonymous so long as embedding RFID chips in them isn't practical.:)
i am curious about what will happen when that happens, or if it should. the implications are pretty huge. imagine a full currency system trackable like that, quite incredible.
the funny thing is that this could easily turn against them. what if their enemies took the CD, and had many people answer the questions contrary to what the GOP would want to publish?
they would in effect be promoting the opinions they seek to disregard.
but its not a "backbone".. china already controls their network backbones. this is entirely different, they are root domain servers... i know im being picky, but still, come on.
the mystery approach is the way to go and the way to stay. in business and personal relationships.
you aren't interested in the girl you know everything about.. you aren't interested in the girl you've seen naked..
you're interested in the shy, complex girl who you don't know anything about. she's quiet, and always wears those clothes that cover up the curves that you know are just under there somewhere...
plus, theres always the addage of "if you're thought a fool, it's best to keep your mouth shut than open it remove all doubt."
mystery >>>>> knowing everything. in every conceivable social and business situation.. atleast when you're the one being courted. if you are the couter, well then, its you who are intrigued by the mystery.
I would've thought things like prototype.js and ruby on rails would be better examples of frameworks in proliferate use today than those provided in the blurb.
but then again i could just be karma whoring. so whatever!
to further ad to the conspiracy theory, a writer or organization musn't be "paid" but only receive some sort of benefit from participating in this kind of marketing.
"payment" could be in the form of investment gains or that sort of thing.
this only moderates the seriousness of the issue, but i feel it is fair to point out that this is some County's homeland security department, that is seemly unrelated to the federal homeland security agency.
that said, it's still a farce and needs to be dealt with, but in my experience with local government, it's much easier for stupid/retarded things to happen at the local level than it is at higher levels.
its all stupid, just varying degrees of it.. this happening with a county level department is just alittle bit easier to understand HOW it could happen... not why.
i have mod points and i intended to use them because there are alot of great insightful posts, but i had a choice with yours. I could either just mod it down or reply.
I chose to reply.
I don't know what state you're from, and things may work that way there, but in Michigan, local taxes do NOT work that way.
There's an important thing to be said, and that's that alot of states do their taxes differently. Local municipal growth and municipal management was something that was allowed to grow organically. Townships and county's right next to each otehr don't even do the same calculations or use the same methods, sometimes.
In Michigan, there are certain state rules that every municipality follows (like when tax collection ends, for instance) but some municipalities just disregard the established rules. There's atleast one county in Michigan that computes interest completely wrong.
anyway, the point of this post is to say that there is no uniform method, code or law that dictates how local taxes are calculated. that may be the way they are there, but not here or other places necessarily.
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I'm no scientist, but from my lay-person perspective it seems far more likely that larger brained homo-sapiens would fair better competing against a rival homonid, and therefore persist on, while dumber homo-sapiens would die out.
/shrug what do i know.
that would make far more sense to me than a larger brain resulting from inter-breeding with an obviously inferior sub-specie.
i wonder if i can reboot...
ehhh you're quite daft for making that statement. the article clearly notes that these are employees mostly at their headquarters, which indicates they are probably mid level executives or IT staff or something like that.. not store personnel.
im sure people who work in stores make $7-8 an hour like most other retail workers.
one problem with that is that all of the sony PS1 games are entire CD images (500-600 mb) while nintendo's games are small roms, at maximum 16 mb and mostly 100kb to 1 mb... this makes the nintendo system much more efficient and far less costly while offering, in my opinion, better games.
Well, first off man I'm glad I don't work in your "shop". Obviously you and I would not get along, I can tell we have pretty conflicting ideas on things. :)
-) No I did not ask for a bonus. I don't ask for rewards, nor do I feel entitled to them. I do think it would've been nice, and I felt my actions were noble. I think that rewarding subordinates should be proactive rather than reactive. Reactive rewarding responds to greed while proactive is generous.
-) There is no concievable way my email reporting it could have been construed as a threat. The only thing threating about it may have been the prospect of having a subordinate who's very capable, which is threating to some people in leadership positions. The email was not a broadcast email, it was an email to 2 of my superiors.
-) I did not discover it by accident. I consider myself righteous to a fault. I pursued my initial recognition of a possible "fault point", and lo, found a fault. Finding the flaw was completely purposeful. I could not request a "private" meeting and say that i "discovered it by accident" as that would cheapen my discovery, i feel.
-) There's nothing confidential about a public system, so the flaw's existance was not confidential.
-) I couldn't have gotten a raise due to the unionized nature of the college I worked at. You don't get merit raises.. (another reason I left).. So I didn't ask for one.
I will give you that you're probably totally right that they didn't read my whole email before forming a reaction; that's typical of inattentive superiors, the types if administrators I have a loathing for, and the type they were.
I have two times found and two times reported vulnerabilities I have found in public web based systems.
Let me tell you, it was not easy. Here's the story of the first time because it's the most interesting.
I worked for a community college in its' tech department. Alot of my time was devoted to answering phones and helping faculty with problems, which did leave me idle alot. (high availability requires high idle time as a concequence). As a tinkrer, my idle time is never spent truly idle, but pursuing things that don't require 100% attention.
The community college I worked for had many different systems, and as such had many many translation layers between them. One of these transition layers was a transition from a "Portal" type website to another website that handled student information. (class registration, transcripts, billing, paying, you know all that important personal stuff).
Anyway, I found a flaw in one of the scripts used to authenticate a user session to the second web service. The flaw was that the moron who coded it decided that creating a script that accepted 1 variable (the username) was enough security to authenticate a login.
by closely observing the scripts actions through my web browser, i noticed there were 2 very quick redirects. Focusing my efforts there (and logging my URL requests), i found the call to the script that required only the username.
So, basically, at that point I had access to anyones student account that I had the username for.
I documented it very well in a long email, and demonstrated the flaw to my coworkers. I thought I would be a real hero for finding it; I mean afterall, if I had found it who knows who else might have? surely, disaster averted!
But... my idealism in the situation was met hard with reality. My inexperience led me to not take into account factors I should have.
After reporting the vulnerability, a minor investigation was launched which I was the subject of. I felt more like a crminal than a saint. After demonstrating how I could login to their accounts, my coworkers were suspicious as were my superiors. The thought pattern seemed to go like "Well shit if he can do that, what else has he done? Why was he even poking around there in the first place?".
While never actually accused of any wrong doing, they weren't nearly as impressed with my find as i thought they would be. I was looking for a pat on the back, maybe a bonus, but instead my superiors were troubled and nervous. I'm not sure if I was right in feeling this way, but I never felt quite fully trusted there again after that one.
The other thing I didn't think about was how the existance of the error then impeached the person who wrote it. rightfully so, because it was a FOOLISH error, but the guy who wrote it was a guy who had been employed there far longer than I, and of course having me find it and dismantle it presented quite an embarassment to him.
I ended up leaving the job there 6 months later for a variety of reasons, but reporting the vulnerability was one of the 2 or 3 core reasons that I left. I don't regret it all and would do it the same way again, but going through it taught me alot about how to NOT be someones boss (should I ever become one in the future), and not react in the accusatory manner like my superiors did.
Console itself will be $200 isnt too far stretched, just still don't expect to get out the door without spending upwards of $200 MORE on games and accessories.
The raw console will be $200 with your standard one controller, but you'll not have everything you want for far more.
I'd just like to point out that the refutation of regulation law actually flies contrary to what a dictatorship is.
A dictatorship would be a government entity that tells its constituents what they can and can't do.. this bill would've, in essence, been dictating to the telecomms that they can't charge different rates to different people.
which, in a free market economy, is unreasonable..
i don't care.
any company based on fixing something that shouldn't of happened in the first place has a fundamentally flawed business plan anyway.
if a company is founded based on the idea of eliminating something, then the business plan needs to take into account the chances of the company achieving its goal... eliminating things... or the need for it to eliminate anything becoming unnecessary.
im sorry, but i really don't care.
MMOG's are terrible for coop playing. anytime ive tried playing an MMOG with friends (starting at the same time) one of us would always have a little bit more time, so their character would end up advancing past the others in the game (both in level and "place" in the game).
Let us not forget the lesson learned in the Falkland Islands incident. Britain demanded unlock codes for missiles that the French sold argentina.. brits disabled argentina's exocet missiles and all that.
_ involvement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War#French
not sure who made it, but the simpsons has a huge UK following. by percentage, i would bet it's more popular there than it is in the US.
cash money will only be anonymous so long as embedding RFID chips in them isn't practical. :)
i am curious about what will happen when that happens, or if it should. the implications are pretty huge. imagine a full currency system trackable like that, quite incredible.
the funny thing is that this could easily turn against them. what if their enemies took the CD, and had many people answer the questions contrary to what the GOP would want to publish?
they would in effect be promoting the opinions they seek to disregard.
what about vbscript? vbscript is pretty straightforward and can do those things..
but its not a "backbone".. china already controls their network backbones. this is entirely different, they are root domain servers... i know im being picky, but still, come on.
the mystery approach is the way to go and the way to stay. in business and personal relationships.
you aren't interested in the girl you know everything about.. you aren't interested in the girl you've seen naked..
you're interested in the shy, complex girl who you don't know anything about. she's quiet, and always wears those clothes that cover up the curves that you know are just under there somewhere...
plus, theres always the addage of "if you're thought a fool, it's best to keep your mouth shut than open it remove all doubt."
mystery >>>>> knowing everything. in every conceivable social and business situation.. atleast when you're the one being courted. if you are the couter, well then, its you who are intrigued by the mystery.
I would've thought things like prototype.js and ruby on rails would be better examples of frameworks in proliferate use today than those provided in the blurb.
but then again i could just be karma whoring. so whatever!
nice post, wish i had some mod points. +1 for sig too.
good stuff.
to further ad to the conspiracy theory, a writer or organization musn't be "paid" but only receive some sort of benefit from participating in this kind of marketing.
"payment" could be in the form of investment gains or that sort of thing.
this only moderates the seriousness of the issue, but i feel it is fair to point out that this is some County's homeland security department, that is seemly unrelated to the federal homeland security agency.
that said, it's still a farce and needs to be dealt with, but in my experience with local government, it's much easier for stupid/retarded things to happen at the local level than it is at higher levels.
its all stupid, just varying degrees of it.. this happening with a county level department is just alittle bit easier to understand HOW it could happen... not why.
i pay $2500 on my home i paid $135,000 for. for some reason the village thinks we need 3 full time police officers.
for 900 people..
i hate living in a village.
i have mod points and i intended to use them because there are alot of great insightful posts, but i had a choice with yours. I could either just mod it down or reply.
I chose to reply.
I don't know what state you're from, and things may work that way there, but in Michigan, local taxes do NOT work that way.
There's an important thing to be said, and that's that alot of states do their taxes differently. Local municipal growth and municipal management was something that was allowed to grow organically. Townships and county's right next to each otehr don't even do the same calculations or use the same methods, sometimes.
In Michigan, there are certain state rules that every municipality follows (like when tax collection ends, for instance) but some municipalities just disregard the established rules. There's atleast one county in Michigan that computes interest completely wrong.
anyway, the point of this post is to say that there is no uniform method, code or law that dictates how local taxes are calculated. that may be the way they are there, but not here or other places necessarily.
i don't intend to be anti christian, i know there are good eggs! but thanks for your post.
meh, i have enough karma to last me until the second coming!