What is the worst they can do? Sure they can try to tie you to an account, but that would involve money and time. If you put down nothing, the onus is on them to prove that you are telling the truth.
How can you trust this article?
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Review: Halo Wars
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· Score: 3, Insightful
It starts out with: "Bungie's trilogy of first-person shooters established a standard against which most similar games have been judged for the past eight years."
Uhm, no. Halo is a console game which was based on the rich and varied offerings from the PC world. To say that Halo is a standard really shows how little the reviewer knows about first pergames.
What company would want to adopt or standardize on a product developed by a company that is, for all intents and purposes, dead? Everyone has moved on, be it server side apps or embedded, there are ample companies that have a superior product with a healthy roadmap and no indication that they will not be around in 5 years.
We have a good team which helps mitigate any disasters, and always test before deployment.
I never got the impression that we were kept in the dark. They made an announcement, gave us tools to test for the vulnerability, and assured us that the vulnerability did not hit any production servers. As we do not blindly update without testing first (as should be the case for anyone and everyone in a similar position), the breach was a non issue.
I can appreciate what you're trying to say, but I think this whole thing is getting blown WAY out of proportion. They got hacked and are keeping their mouth shut wrt to the technical details. IMO The fact that they went public about the breach at all shows that they ARE committed to full disclosure.
So I can truthfully report: My vendor reported a security breach, reported the level of exposure to its customers, and provided tools to sniff out possible customer exposure to said security breach.
I work for a 500 million dollar a year company, and we're a Redhat shop. We have no intent of switching because the "breach" had ZERO effect on its customers. Even though it had zero effect, they still released scripts to seek out and detect any potential vulnerabilities that were even remotely related to the "breach" (surprise surprise, our 850 RHEL4/5 installs had none). Redhat caught the "breach", made sure the damage was isolated to non production servers, and then informed its customer base and the public. The fact that they're not releasing the explicit details suurrounding the "breach" seems to suggest that they still investigating the source of the "breach" and quite possibly have law enforcement involved.
Redhat is doing the right thing, and for you to base your decision to switch on a grossly misinterpreted reaction reflects poorly on you, not them.
Just do a search on youtube for secondlife. Guaranteed you'll find lots of historical SL footage. Free hugs, Harry potter, and flying penises are all there.
I found the same thing with Bacula. My only minor complaint was its command line interface for restorations and administration. Apart from that it was bullet proof and really well laid out.
And while we *do* pay for support and it has come in handy on occasion, I have found that google is a far more valuable tool than their support services. First off, it doesn't take 2 days to get a response when you are using google. Second, you aren't forced to do a sysreport by some 1st tier keyboard jockey in Bangalore before they will even consider thinking about the problem you are reporting.
Now, having said that, when you manage to escalate your problem to someone high enough up, you do get quality support. you just have to jump through hoops to get there, which really does IMO make the value of the paid support rather questionable.
Ah yes, the classic counter arguement. I was waiting for this.
Your arguement is entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Prerelease stuff is entirely different to already released material. You are, in effect, committing a form of industrial espionage by releasing a product before its release date. The fact that they used p2p as the medium to distribute it does not suddenly make it a p2p arguement.
Sadly, when you are pushing prerelease stuff, you cross a very firm line into illegal territory. There is no grey area. They *are* costing the studios money, and they *are* violating both the spirit and word of copyright law. The maximum possible sentence is definately overkill, but I can't really argue with the conviction itself.
According to that survey, 2 out of 3 sysadmins realize that spying in a CLI (career limiting move) if they get caught. That, and the whole ethics and honour thing, are why we are able to manage the confidential data without snooping.
Low voltage requires no permits or city inspections when the work is done, hence why you can string networking cable in your home without requiring a city permit or inspector.
You can try converting parts of your house to 12 or 24 volt, which would negate the need for expensive inverters and whatnot. All you'd need is a simple charging circuit for a battery (could be as simple as a diode) and then feed the 12/24 volt lights straight off it.
You may not know Rachael, but I do. She is, simply put, a stalker who knows how to work the system and play the victim card. She got her swim coach fired after he spurned her obsessive and aggressive pursuits, stalked one of the women who believed her stories of victimization at the hand of said coach, and was actually convicted in 2004 of stalking a radio personality in Vancouver.
Do you honestly think this whole 'abuse of power' accusation is a coincidence? I think not.
Slashdot Mirror
They'd gladly blab about a kidnapping if it wasn't one of their own. It does, after all, sell newspapers.
Uhm,
The SCUMM interpretor is the problem, not the data it is reading.
What is the worst they can do? Sure they can try to tie you to an account, but that would involve money and time. If you put down nothing, the onus is on them to prove that you are telling the truth.
It starts out with: "Bungie's trilogy of first-person shooters established a standard against which most similar games have been judged for the past eight years."
Uhm, no. Halo is a console game which was based on the rich and varied offerings from the PC world. To say that Halo is a standard really shows how little the reviewer knows about first pergames.
And how can they be slashdot worthy when they are a social networking site with ONLY a half a terabyte of data? In short, who cares?
What company would want to adopt or standardize on a product developed by a company that is, for all intents and purposes, dead? Everyone has moved on, be it server side apps or embedded, there are ample companies that have a superior product with a healthy roadmap and no indication that they will not be around in 5 years.
We have a good team which helps mitigate any disasters, and always test before deployment.
I never got the impression that we were kept in the dark. They made an announcement, gave us tools to test for the vulnerability, and assured us that the vulnerability did not hit any production servers. As we do not blindly update without testing first (as should be the case for anyone and everyone in a similar position), the breach was a non issue.
I can appreciate what you're trying to say, but I think this whole thing is getting blown WAY out of proportion. They got hacked and are keeping their mouth shut wrt to the technical details. IMO The fact that they went public about the breach at all shows that they ARE committed to full disclosure.
So I can truthfully report: My vendor reported a security breach, reported the level of exposure to its customers, and provided tools to sniff out possible customer exposure to said security breach.
I work for a 500 million dollar a year company, and we're a Redhat shop. We have no intent of switching because the "breach" had ZERO effect on its customers. Even though it had zero effect, they still released scripts to seek out and detect any potential vulnerabilities that were even remotely related to the "breach" (surprise surprise, our 850 RHEL4/5 installs had none). Redhat caught the "breach", made sure the damage was isolated to non production servers, and then informed its customer base and the public. The fact that they're not releasing the explicit details suurrounding the "breach" seems to suggest that they still investigating the source of the "breach" and quite possibly have law enforcement involved.
Redhat is doing the right thing, and for you to base your decision to switch on a grossly misinterpreted reaction reflects poorly on you, not them.
That would mean that "ignorance of the law" IS a valid excuse.
Just do a search on youtube for secondlife. Guaranteed you'll find lots of historical SL footage. Free hugs, Harry potter, and flying penises are all there.
then America would be choke full of obese geniuses.
I found the same thing with Bacula. My only minor complaint was its command line interface for restorations and administration. Apart from that it was bullet proof and really well laid out.
And while we *do* pay for support and it has come in handy on occasion, I have found that google is a far more valuable tool than their support services. First off, it doesn't take 2 days to get a response when you are using google. Second, you aren't forced to do a sysreport by some 1st tier keyboard jockey in Bangalore before they will even consider thinking about the problem you are reporting.
Now, having said that, when you manage to escalate your problem to someone high enough up, you do get quality support. you just have to jump through hoops to get there, which really does IMO make the value of the paid support rather questionable.
Due to the stereotype that computer people are antisocial and abrasive, calling them "private dicks" would have a dual meaning.
The proof, and the rebuke, only proved my theory that there is a distinct surge in advil usage when something like this is posted on /. or digged.
Are schitzophrenics equipped with a neural equivalent of a dlink hub?
Ah yes, the classic counter arguement. I was waiting for this.
Your arguement is entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Prerelease stuff is entirely different to already released material. You are, in effect, committing a form of industrial espionage by releasing a product before its release date. The fact that they used p2p as the medium to distribute it does not suddenly make it a p2p arguement.
Sadly, when you are pushing prerelease stuff, you cross a very firm line into illegal territory. There is no grey area. They *are* costing the studios money, and they *are* violating both the spirit and word of copyright law. The maximum possible sentence is definately overkill, but I can't really argue with the conviction itself.
Now I can finally realize my dream and create the ".isgay" TLD.
According to that survey, 2 out of 3 sysadmins realize that spying in a CLI (career limiting move) if they get caught. That, and the whole ethics and honour thing, are why we are able to manage the confidential data without snooping.
Low voltage requires no permits or city inspections when the work is done, hence why you can string networking cable in your home without requiring a city permit or inspector.
You can try converting parts of your house to 12 or 24 volt, which would negate the need for expensive inverters and whatnot. All you'd need is a simple charging circuit for a battery (could be as simple as a diode) and then feed the 12/24 volt lights straight off it.
Who would've thought eh?
we're boned.
You may not know Rachael, but I do. She is, simply put, a stalker who knows how to work the system and play the victim card. She got her swim coach fired after he spurned her obsessive and aggressive pursuits, stalked one of the women who believed her stories of victimization at the hand of said coach, and was actually convicted in 2004 of stalking a radio personality in Vancouver.
Do you honestly think this whole 'abuse of power' accusation is a coincidence? I think not.