kjh8037 @ school.tld was the fucker I got in college... completely useless.
Oh, and you had to call support to change your password... you told them the password over the phone for them to set it..
Fun times.
Even now in 2013 they store passwords for the alumni network in clear text in the database... so ify ou request a password reset they email you the password.
The rudimentary blocks are just a few bytes each. But there are a lot of them.
Just one player has about 4 million blocks around them loaded, more if they're moving around a bit. Then there are all the entities, light values, special blocks and such. The world is split into 'regions' and 'chunks'. A chunk is 16x16 blocks, from 0 to 255 height.
The blockiness is to make it a hell of a lot easier to modify the environment in predictable ways. It also lends itself to modding. You get things like 'Feed the Beast', a modpack which seems to be taking off quite well at the moment. I have clocked 200+ hours in the past few months...
As you can see at this url there is a lot more than simple square blocks here: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/minecraft/ Redpower2 (a mod) introduces 'microblocks' which allow you to do all sorts of things. In one of the screenshots there are narrow white 'bars' separating the redpower alloy wire on the wall (red wiring). These microblocks come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For simplicity all of them are rectangular in shape, but with the different sizes you can build quite complex shapes out of them:D
You cannot really do business without a terminal here. Even the smallest and cheapest place has one.
And they're required to keep records of all transactions which is fairly easy to verify. Any terminal spits out a receipt and they are required to give the customer this receipt. Dropping by for a kebab and coming back a week later to audit the records is easy enough to do.
And when the taxman comes back 3 days later and asks the shop owner for the matching receipt from their register what happens then?
That -is- how they do it. They buy something, save the receipt and come back later for an audit. If the sale cannot be found in the accounting records for the shop, it was never registered for tax and is illegal.
I can be on 100% medical leave for a -year- with full pay with approval from my doctor. This is the same for all Norwegian workers.
"Sick-days" is called "Egenmelding" or "Self Message" directly translated, basically if you're sick and dont see a doctor you have 4 of those a year, up to 3 days each. If you need more than that see a doctor and get medical leave. After 15 or so days the company no longer pays medical leave and the state system takes over paying it.
Hell, at the company I work we get 24 sick days a year (used in 1-7 day chunks, depending on what you need). These sick days are with full pay. Those with children below the age of 12 get an additional 12 (I think) days of leave to be home with sick child.
This system works great for keeping people the hell away from the office when sick:)
Even those who have offices usually have the volume high enough that you can follow both calls... and for some reason 99% of people seem to believe you have to shout at the phone for the other party to hear you...
I would much rather my coworkers speak into a headset than speak loudly at a plastic box for hours:p
We are banned from using skype on the corporate network.
It is 'p2p based' so it is considered dangerous by IT security... This is a company with 150k employees and a massive IT infrastructure spanning 50+ countries.... still all p2p is dangerous:p
A fairly large number of the oil rigs and processing plants in Norway still run on OpenVMS for servers and winxp for clients... Scarily enough... Those who have upgraded the servers are on win2003 R2 mostly, and upgrading to anyone else is a 2-5 year process of testing and upgrading. Even with support ending for XP in 2013, we're not scheduled to begin testing for an upgrade until mid 2014.. And even then it is to Win7.
Going to be a joy I bet... *wraps his lips around a shotgun barrel*
3rd party logging vendor is given permission to run their logging servers on the secure network. They require 5 open ports (7777, 25xxx) open both ways in the firewall. They use ping to verify redundancy of hosts (derp...) so pinging through the firewall for all hosts has to be enabled/accepted. Their logging software can be fully configured and modified from outside the firewall. They use simple tcp sockets with no encryption to send their management commands... like starting and stopping windows services.
This was accepted and verified by the IT security staff of a major oil company recently. Even after it was demonstrated that it was close to trivial to perform denial of service attacks on the system with the now open ports and their badly written software....
You can build a perfect system, but when nobody in management knows or cares... you're screwed either way... All I can do is get a ton of paperwork showing that we think it is a horrible idea to do it this way, provide an option which is a hell of a lot more secure (but rejected by the customer) and cover my/our asses in all ways possible... Because sooner or later shit hits the fan...
Um... 2000 dollars in a perfect world of milk and honey.
Set up a test network Do all internal testing and documentation of the system Get all docs verified by the customer and signed off on Hold a factory acceptance test, get everything verified and signed off Travel to the oil rig. Oh, your tech IS certified for offshore work right? No? Oh, send him on the full week 5000 dollar training course first then. Install and get everything verified in real system
Oh, and this has to run on Windows 2003 R2 by the way, that is the chosen platform for the HMI...
Easily comes to 50k USD doing this job. Not that big a cost in comparison to other expenses, but it is a bit of an expense to justify to someone who knows nothing about security... sigh
I dont have any users on my server from russia and most if not all of the -stan countries... Blacklisting the whole ip-ranges in my firewall cut down the brute-force login spam from tens of thousands to the occasional one.
Hardly a solution for a proper service, but for a private server used mostly by friends it is a simple solution to an annoying problem:p
You can at least merge set items and various types of equipment into new random pieces in Torchlight 2. Not nearly as much of a crafting system as I would like to see, but better than the usual "this item is not for my class, vendor trash..."
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kjh8037 @ school.tld was the fucker I got in college... completely useless.
Oh, and you had to call support to change your password... you told them the password over the phone for them to set it..
Fun times.
Even now in 2013 they store passwords for the alumni network in clear text in the database... so ify ou request a password reset they email you the password.
Norway != Japan
Not infinite in vertical space no, but practically infinite in horizontal plane.
Y is vertical (0 to 255), X and Z are north/south, east/west axis.
The rudimentary blocks are just a few bytes each.
But there are a lot of them.
Just one player has about 4 million blocks around them loaded, more if they're moving around a bit. Then there are all the entities, light values, special blocks and such. The world is split into 'regions' and 'chunks'. A chunk is 16x16 blocks, from 0 to 255 height.
The blockiness is to make it a hell of a lot easier to modify the environment in predictable ways. It also lends itself to modding.
You get things like 'Feed the Beast', a modpack which seems to be taking off quite well at the moment. I have clocked 200+ hours in the past few months...
As you can see at this url there is a lot more than simple square blocks here: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/minecraft/ :D
Redpower2 (a mod) introduces 'microblocks' which allow you to do all sorts of things. In one of the screenshots there are narrow white 'bars' separating the redpower alloy wire on the wall (red wiring). These microblocks come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For simplicity all of them are rectangular in shape, but with the different sizes you can build quite complex shapes out of them
You cannot really do business without a terminal here. Even the smallest and cheapest place has one.
And they're required to keep records of all transactions which is fairly easy to verify. Any terminal spits out a receipt and they are required to give the customer this receipt. Dropping by for a kebab and coming back a week later to audit the records is easy enough to do.
And when the taxman comes back 3 days later and asks the shop owner for the matching receipt from their register what happens then?
That -is- how they do it.
They buy something, save the receipt and come back later for an audit. If the sale cannot be found in the accounting records for the shop, it was never registered for tax and is illegal.
This is the old type of charger logic that just tells the phone it can draw more than 100/500 milliamps.
The lightning connector has an actual controller in it which prevents this kind of reverse engineering.
I can be on 100% medical leave for a -year- with full pay with approval from my doctor.
This is the same for all Norwegian workers.
"Sick-days" is called "Egenmelding" or "Self Message" directly translated, basically if you're sick and dont see a doctor you have 4 of those a year, up to 3 days each. If you need more than that see a doctor and get medical leave.
After 15 or so days the company no longer pays medical leave and the state system takes over paying it.
Hell, at the company I work we get 24 sick days a year (used in 1-7 day chunks, depending on what you need). These sick days are with full pay.
Those with children below the age of 12 get an additional 12 (I think) days of leave to be home with sick child.
This system works great for keeping people the hell away from the office when sick :)
I live in a country where overtime is guaranteed by law for all workers with very few exceptions.
*cuddles Norway*
Speakerphone is the spawn of satan.
Even those who have offices usually have the volume high enough that you can follow both calls... and for some reason 99% of people seem to believe you have to shout at the phone for the other party to hear you...
I would much rather my coworkers speak into a headset than speak loudly at a plastic box for hours :p
We are banned from using skype on the corporate network.
It is 'p2p based' so it is considered dangerous by IT security... This is a company with 150k employees and a massive IT infrastructure spanning 50+ countries.... still all p2p is dangerous :p
Everyone using their email for the username and the same password everywhere means one hacked site, all hacked accounts :(
Lastpass ftw
A fairly large number of the oil rigs and processing plants in Norway still run on OpenVMS for servers and winxp for clients... Scarily enough...
Those who have upgraded the servers are on win2003 R2 mostly, and upgrading to anyone else is a 2-5 year process of testing and upgrading.
Even with support ending for XP in 2013, we're not scheduled to begin testing for an upgrade until mid 2014.. And even then it is to Win7.
Going to be a joy I bet... *wraps his lips around a shotgun barrel*
I've re-purchased games plenty on GoG out of pure laziness.
I -could- get them running, but I dont want to fiddle with it myself. Paying someone 10 bucks to fix it for me is more than worth it..
And some things I cant fix easily, like making Dungeon Keeper II run on win7.
Oh DK2 how I have missed thee..
Oy, never knew of this little gem... Installing immediately!
Well, for me it doesnt matter. Norwegian carriers do not charge for receiving texts or for receiving calls.
The sender/caller pays for that.
Not sure if joking or serious, as I actually do that .
Try this on for size.....
3rd party logging vendor is given permission to run their logging servers on the secure network.
They require 5 open ports (7777, 25xxx) open both ways in the firewall.
They use ping to verify redundancy of hosts (derp...) so pinging through the firewall for all hosts has to be enabled/accepted.
Their logging software can be fully configured and modified from outside the firewall. They use simple tcp sockets with no encryption to send their management commands... like starting and stopping windows services.
This was accepted and verified by the IT security staff of a major oil company recently.
Even after it was demonstrated that it was close to trivial to perform denial of service attacks on the system with the now open ports and their badly written software....
You can build a perfect system, but when nobody in management knows or cares... you're screwed either way...
All I can do is get a ton of paperwork showing that we think it is a horrible idea to do it this way, provide an option which is a hell of a lot more secure (but rejected by the customer) and cover my/our asses in all ways possible...
Because sooner or later shit hits the fan...
Um... 2000 dollars in a perfect world of milk and honey.
Set up a test network
Do all internal testing and documentation of the system
Get all docs verified by the customer and signed off on
Hold a factory acceptance test, get everything verified and signed off
Travel to the oil rig.
Oh, your tech IS certified for offshore work right? No? Oh, send him on the full week 5000 dollar training course first then.
Install and get everything verified in real system
Oh, and this has to run on Windows 2003 R2 by the way, that is the chosen platform for the HMI...
Easily comes to 50k USD doing this job. Not that big a cost in comparison to other expenses, but it is a bit of an expense to justify to someone who knows nothing about security... sigh
DCOM is the spawn of satan.... ugh
Why? Would they have your personal password and SIM pin code?
That is what is required to log into my banking app...
I dont have any users on my server from russia and most if not all of the -stan countries...
Blacklisting the whole ip-ranges in my firewall cut down the brute-force login spam from tens of thousands to the occasional one.
Hardly a solution for a proper service, but for a private server used mostly by friends it is a simple solution to an annoying problem :p
Sounds like something Frankie Boyle would say on Mock the Week....
I mean... He has some legendary jokes that were broadcast on BBC even that are plenty close to that joke...
This of course assumes that nobody dies before procreating ;)
You can at least merge set items and various types of equipment into new random pieces in Torchlight 2.
Not nearly as much of a crafting system as I would like to see, but better than the usual "this item is not for my class, vendor trash..."