I did see the link to the original CDC article concerning 'zombie preparedness' in the summary but didn't see one to the follow up article where they actually prepared a novella concerning the topic:Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, it's not World War Z, but it's fairly entertaining never the less.
And when you can be sued for the mistakes of the corporations you 'own' then come back and talk about how the government enforcing safety standards is nannyism.
Till then, special protections = special restrictions.
People get pissed, they make noise. That doesn't make change, having leaders who has the ability and will to get pissed people to follow them makes change. As much as OWS is something I enjoy seeing, I'm not pretending it's the fall of Rome.
I have seen companies completely change over from Linux embedded systems to Windows CE or other commercial products because the GPL v3 could be used as a sledgehammer to have all trade secrets handed over. For example, if I have an appliance that has a signed BIOS for tamper resistance, I cannot use GNU Privacy Guard unless I want to have anyone off the street have a judge give them any and all private keys, up to and including a domain root cert.
The GPL v3 has hamstrung Linux development incredibly.
Bitcoin mining is the manner in which bitcoin transactions are processed. Therefore there is no 'wastage' involved. What is being created is of value within the system itself. So long as people trade in it, it is valuable.
The problem most of the people I see decrying Bitcoin seem to have is the irrational and fallacious belief that 'their money' is somehow more intrinsically valuable than Bitcoin.
You can't eat dollar bills. You can't eat gold. You can't eat stock certificates or bearer bonds. Intrinsic value means that in and of itself, the item is valuable. Not: "Because this has had 200 years to build the confidence of people in it's value, people value it."
Should the zombie apocalypse happen, your dollars are going to be worthless. Your gold is going to be worthless. Your knotted cords are going to be useless. Your shells on a string are going to be useless. And yes, your bitcoins are going to be useless. The only people who will accept any of them are people hanging on to the 'old system'.
Currency never had value in and of itself. EVER. It has always been a means of stockpiling imaginary 'value' based on the hope that everyone you deal with will agree to it's value so you don't have to go around trying to pretend to be trapped in an old school adventure game where you have to find a chicken to give to the witch doctor so he'll give you his cure for poison ivy so you can give it to the lady with a clay pot so she'll give you...
Or we are seeing what happens when a company become so arrogant that they don't bother actually locking down this info despite the fact that it would be inevitable that someone would come along and find a backdoor.
Seriously, a 'hacked PS3' being able to do this is pretty much the definition of "Security Design Failure".
+ Posted by Patrick Seybold// Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media
Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of an illegal intrusion on our systems. These malicious actions have also had an impact on your ability to enjoy the services provided by PlayStation Network and Qriocity including online gaming and online access to music, movies, sports and TV shows. We have a clear path to have PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems back online, and expect to restore some services within a week.
We’re working day and night to ensure it is done as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and feedback.
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
Google Apps would not require access to your internal network, allowing anyone who exploited that vulnerability in that homespun system you created that you, not being a full-time IT working and spending your entire day mothering over didn't close fast enough when the zero-day notice was published, to have access to your other servers on the network and steal patient information.
That makes it inherently more trustworthy than the stated solution.
Disregard the fact that the reason such a server wasn't implemented by his IT on their network was probably 100% centered on the fact that they didn't have the resources available to do so and still maintained HIPAA compliance.
Ok, here's one. WTF does SCEA have any jurisdiction to bring this mater forward? What legal standing do they have?
The console is made in Japan. The rights are own by the Japanese company. The business agreement they tried to fuck Geohot over indicate clearly that SCEA knows this. The SDK that they were trying to prove was on Geohot's hard drive doesn't even contain any information concerning the SCEA. So what is their legal standing here?
Forget whether or not it's reasonable to assume that everyone knows that the SCEA even exists, lets start with the basics. Can it even be shown that they have the right to bring this civil suit?
My mistake in terminology, AT&T will not provide access to their lines for other companies unless you are carrying service with them.
In other words, if I want to have DSL Extreme (a national DSL provider that deals primarily with Verizon) be my DSL provider, I can do so, but only if I have at least basic phone with AT&T. AT&T will not simply lease the line as other telco's will do. (For instance Verizon).
I can get just DSL with AT&T, but since my reason for the move was due to the fact that currently I utilize over twice the amount of bandwidth on my line as the new caps will allow, it makes little sense to do so.
Or you can go really all out: Incredible PBX, and have a complete PBX system with only the need of an internet connection.
Till it was reaffirmed for me that AT&T is an ass-hole company on par with Bank of America, and won't sell dry loops for DSL unless you have some other service with them, I was considering the upcoming bandwidth caps they are putting in place as an excuse to move to a non-major Telco like DSL Extreme and use the above to replace the phone line.
However now it looks like I'll have to keep a basic line alive just to get the DSL loop, so it's looking more like it'll just be a 'geek' project once I find suitable hardware for it.
Free to "refuse service" and "free to suspend an account with money in it for arbitrary reasons" are not equivalent statements.
PS. Man this has to be a record for dupes on Slashdot, I've got the exact same article on my screen twice, posted to the front page about 45 minutes apart.
Trademark it, and then people can't pretend to be 'official cannon'. Then the only time you stand a chance at 'losing your investment' to copy-cats is when they do a better job with the franchise than you.
And if they are, why the fuck you think you are entailed to squat on it, leeching money?
It seems to me that it's easier to figure out a good time limit than a monetary one.
Say, the $5M. Why precisely that number? How do you adapt to the economy? $5M in 10 years might be $1M today. Also some works are expensive. That would make big movies go out of copyright right in the first week.
More importantly, why would a 10 page short story about how funny a fish finds humans that took a week to write be capped at the same level as a 1000 page thesis on the human condition that took a decade to complete?
A. He never read Dianetics. In the article it mentions that he never got further than 30 pages into it. B. As others have mentioned, when he joined homosexuality wasn't even on his radar. C. It's extremely easy to be involved in an organization and miss (intentionally or not) it's less than shining attributes. Cognitive dissonance is real, and it occurs to everyone. D. This is an organization that is known for, if not anything else, it's ability to lie straight faced while doing exactly what it says it's not. It's not particularly revealing to know that the only people who'd bump into it's homophobia would be those who trigger it.
And 10 seconds after I hit submit, my brain finally parses your comment correctly, revealing that you were actually correctly attributing the AC to Powell. Sorry about that, something in the sentence structure took me a while to get.
Actually no. It's a mutated urban legend based on the truth that they did refuse to speak to CNET's reporters for a year after CNET published an article containing a number of personal facts about Eric that they 'discovered' using Google.
Slashdot Mirror
I did see the link to the original CDC article concerning 'zombie preparedness' in the summary but didn't see one to the follow up article where they actually prepared a novella concerning the topic:Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, it's not World War Z, but it's fairly entertaining never the less.
And when you can be sued for the mistakes of the corporations you 'own' then come back and talk about how the government enforcing safety standards is nannyism.
Till then, special protections = special restrictions.
Another quick history lesson - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bonus_Army - Sometimes this shit just means shit.
People get pissed, they make noise. That doesn't make change, having leaders who has the ability and will to get pissed people to follow them makes change. As much as OWS is something I enjoy seeing, I'm not pretending it's the fall of Rome.
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I have seen companies completely change over from Linux embedded systems to Windows CE or other commercial products because the GPL v3 could be used as a sledgehammer to have all trade secrets handed over. For example, if I have an appliance that has a signed BIOS for tamper resistance, I cannot use GNU Privacy Guard unless I want to have anyone off the street have a judge give them any and all private keys, up to and including a domain root cert.
The GPL v3 has hamstrung Linux development incredibly.
Florian? Is that you?
Bitcoin mining is the manner in which bitcoin transactions are processed. Therefore there is no 'wastage' involved. What is being created is of value within the system itself. So long as people trade in it, it is valuable.
The problem most of the people I see decrying Bitcoin seem to have is the irrational and fallacious belief that 'their money' is somehow more intrinsically valuable than Bitcoin.
You can't eat dollar bills. You can't eat gold. You can't eat stock certificates or bearer bonds. Intrinsic value means that in and of itself, the item is valuable. Not: "Because this has had 200 years to build the confidence of people in it's value, people value it."
Should the zombie apocalypse happen, your dollars are going to be worthless. Your gold is going to be worthless. Your knotted cords are going to be useless. Your shells on a string are going to be useless. And yes, your bitcoins are going to be useless. The only people who will accept any of them are people hanging on to the 'old system'.
Currency never had value in and of itself. EVER. It has always been a means of stockpiling imaginary 'value' based on the hope that everyone you deal with will agree to it's value so you don't have to go around trying to pretend to be trapped in an old school adventure game where you have to find a chicken to give to the witch doctor so he'll give you his cure for poison ivy so you can give it to the lady with a clay pot so she'll give you...
Satire would be the more appropriate wording.
Or we are seeing what happens when a company become so arrogant that they don't bother actually locking down this info despite the fact that it would be inevitable that someone would come along and find a backdoor.
Seriously, a 'hacked PS3' being able to do this is pretty much the definition of "Security Design Failure".
Not that I begrudge Kotaku the clicks, but if you are going to post it, post the one that comes from the horses mouth.
Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity
+ Posted by Patrick Seybold // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media
Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of an illegal intrusion on our systems. These malicious actions have also had an impact on your ability to enjoy the services provided by PlayStation Network and Qriocity including online gaming and online access to music, movies, sports and TV shows. We have a clear path to have PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems back online, and expect to restore some services within a week.
We’re working day and night to ensure it is done as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and feedback.
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
Google Apps would not require access to your internal network, allowing anyone who exploited that vulnerability in that homespun system you created that you, not being a full-time IT working and spending your entire day mothering over didn't close fast enough when the zero-day notice was published, to have access to your other servers on the network and steal patient information.
That makes it inherently more trustworthy than the stated solution.
Disregard the fact that the reason such a server wasn't implemented by his IT on their network was probably 100% centered on the fact that they didn't have the resources available to do so and still maintained HIPAA compliance.
Hey man, penicillin isn't free.
You haven't been visiting the right fridges.
Ok, here's one. WTF does SCEA have any jurisdiction to bring this mater forward? What legal standing do they have?
The console is made in Japan. The rights are own by the Japanese company. The business agreement they tried to fuck Geohot over indicate clearly that SCEA knows this. The SDK that they were trying to prove was on Geohot's hard drive doesn't even contain any information concerning the SCEA. So what is their legal standing here?
Forget whether or not it's reasonable to assume that everyone knows that the SCEA even exists, lets start with the basics. Can it even be shown that they have the right to bring this civil suit?
Yes. Yes it does. Sadly, I don't see the government doing squat about it.
My mistake in terminology, AT&T will not provide access to their lines for other companies unless you are carrying service with them.
In other words, if I want to have DSL Extreme (a national DSL provider that deals primarily with Verizon) be my DSL provider, I can do so, but only if I have at least basic phone with AT&T. AT&T will not simply lease the line as other telco's will do. (For instance Verizon).
I can get just DSL with AT&T, but since my reason for the move was due to the fact that currently I utilize over twice the amount of bandwidth on my line as the new caps will allow, it makes little sense to do so.
Thanks for looking though.
Or you can go really all out: Incredible PBX, and have a complete PBX system with only the need of an internet connection.
Till it was reaffirmed for me that AT&T is an ass-hole company on par with Bank of America, and won't sell dry loops for DSL unless you have some other service with them, I was considering the upcoming bandwidth caps they are putting in place as an excuse to move to a non-major Telco like DSL Extreme and use the above to replace the phone line.
However now it looks like I'll have to keep a basic line alive just to get the DSL loop, so it's looking more like it'll just be a 'geek' project once I find suitable hardware for it.
No, he makes himself look like a giant, pompous jerk with an ego the size of Jupiter, the card merely confirms it.
Free to "refuse service" and "free to suspend an account with money in it for arbitrary reasons" are not equivalent statements.
PS. Man this has to be a record for dupes on Slashdot, I've got the exact same article on my screen twice, posted to the front page about 45 minutes apart.
Trademark it, and then people can't pretend to be 'official cannon'. Then the only time you stand a chance at 'losing your investment' to copy-cats is when they do a better job with the franchise than you.
And if they are, why the fuck you think you are entailed to squat on it, leeching money?
It seems to me that it's easier to figure out a good time limit than a monetary one.
Say, the $5M. Why precisely that number? How do you adapt to the economy? $5M in 10 years might be $1M today. Also some works are expensive. That would make big movies go out of copyright right in the first week.
More importantly, why would a 10 page short story about how funny a fish finds humans that took a week to write be capped at the same level as a 1000 page thesis on the human condition that took a decade to complete?
Or... he's still a shock jock radio personality and just realized a better way to make his bucks is to play the Evangelical nut...
A. He never read Dianetics. In the article it mentions that he never got further than 30 pages into it.
B. As others have mentioned, when he joined homosexuality wasn't even on his radar.
C. It's extremely easy to be involved in an organization and miss (intentionally or not) it's less than shining attributes. Cognitive dissonance is real, and it occurs to everyone.
D. This is an organization that is known for, if not anything else, it's ability to lie straight faced while doing exactly what it says it's not. It's not particularly revealing to know that the only people who'd bump into it's homophobia would be those who trigger it.
And 10 seconds after I hit submit, my brain finally parses your comment correctly, revealing that you were actually correctly attributing the AC to Powell. Sorry about that, something in the sentence structure took me a while to get.
Powell wrote the currently discussed book. Loyd Blankenship wrote the H.M.
Powell has disowned the A.C (read the editorial review on Amazon's site - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0962303208/)
Blankenship has not, as far as I'm am aware, ever recanted the Manifesto. Nor should he, it was not the same sort of document.
Actually no. It's a mutated urban legend based on the truth that they did refuse to speak to CNET's reporters for a year after CNET published an article containing a number of personal facts about Eric that they 'discovered' using Google.
Who is logging into their PSN account with homebrew on their PS3?
People who like watching Netflix & using Homebrew?
You cant blame him for thinking he was within the law on this one
Then maybe he shouldn't have been hacking on the game OS and causing all this to come on his head to begin with?
I fail to see how your reply follows from the line you chose to quote. You might as well said "Then maybe he shouldn't have drank soda that day!"