People have no sense of scale. The cumulated amount of protesters is around 10,000 - worldwide. Let's bump it to 20,000. There are 1,600,000,000 muslims in the world. In France there was been 200 protesters out of 6,000,000 muslims. So I don't think it's fair to say that these protests show that the Muslim world is at war against the US. It's just the top 0.1% jerks.
You bought the SD card not from your phone manufacturer. Nokia is a phone manufacturer. They want you to buy more expensive phones, if possible more often. Having any ability to extend the life of the phone (increasing storage in that case) is not something they want. Welcome to our consumerist society.
No built-in RJ-45 is a show stopper for me. There's no way I want to use a USB dongle for that. But then again I'm a network engineer so that stuff probably matters to me more than it should.
I understand you are pissed off at Bioware, and I am too, but Dragon Age: Origins is not a *shit game*. I pre-ordered it so I had the day 1 DLC included, but it's a dick move to not release it at no extra cost.
Also this game's DLCs were pretty short and weren't worth their price tag. What I regret is that Bioware never did actually good DLCs/Extensions like they used to - remember that Bioware was one of the first to embrace DLCs back in the day with Neverwinter Nights "Premium Modules", which were great.
I'm a consumer and I'm fairly happy with Steam. I get to buy games on the cheap (just bought Rage for $20). I don't have the box, so what? I have the box from years I bought 10 or 15 years ago and I might own them, I can't play them unless I set up a virtual machine.
In the case of Stuxnet, the hackers aimed to infect all the computers in the Bushehr power plant. Eventually one got connected to a SCADA system and the main part of the virus kicked in (giving false readings while sending commands that'd break the system).
I went to Battle.net to change my account password. I use KeyPassX to generate reasonably safe password. I can remember each generated password but that is fine, I usually copy/paste them. Oddly enough, Battle.net doesn't allow you to copy/paste passwords when you change them (not in the old password input, nor the new one).
And this is why you should never make a movie. What is great in the books might not be great on film or appeal to a larger audience. Don't get me wrong, I wished the movies were 100% (or even 95%, or 90% what the hell) true to the original books - but guess what, that wouldn't sell. And if it doesn't sell, we wouldn't have the movies in the first place. Be happy with what you have or just don't watch the movies.
I don't know about the US, but in France (probably rest of Europe too), you have to keep data for one year, maybe two. By law. You might also need this for your own forensics investigations in case one of your user tried to hack you. I'm not saying this is good, mind you, just what the law is and what reasons there could be to keep data.
Oh yes I agree. But how do you get a couple thousand dollars in the first place? It might hard to finance that, on top of the equipment you have to buy. You could self-finance yourself by crowd-funding, I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for self-produced music. I'm very happy Metallica is considering this for their next album for instance, or how Radiohead did for their latest album. Authors shouldn't get less than the 10% they get now when one of their track is sold.
Actually you still need people with money to finance new artists and bands, advance the studio recording fees, and make them known to the public. This is not debatable. The problem is that all the MAFIAA don't do it for the love of music (and enough money to pay themselves a good salary - I have no problem with that), but for the love of money. And there is no end to the love of money for the sake of making money, and that is where the problem lies. This is not limited to the music industry, it's a sickness of our "modern" society.
For the last part, go to Qobuz.com and buy it in FLAC (lossless). You can then download it for life, DRM-free, in FLAC but also all the lower quality formats (Ogg, MP3, WMA,...). That's one of your problems solved:) I agree with the rest of your post, though.
What I expect from Thunderbolt is not to use it as a link to a storage device, but to a graphic card. This way you could have a CPU and memory heavy laptop to carry around, but then you could dock it at home and connect it to the external graphic card and play some video games.
Apparently this interface can do 10 Gbps, and that sounds like a good start.
What I'm wondering about is: if one of the component of Flame was a known variant of Stuxnet, why didn't the Kaspersky AV engine, or anybody else's that sell AV or IPS to the affected countries, detect it?
This is funny because all the banking companies, in the past, removed their firewalls on their intoconnection with trading places. Now that they've been hacked left and right, they are starting to put them back because of this. Firewall vendors are now starting a war with regards to latency (also keep in mind this is one-way latency).
Fortinet for instance announced a sub-9 microseconds firewall. That's 9000 nanoseconds. Check Point followed-up with a sub-5 microseconds latency. Oh, this is with 64 bytes packets, pretty much the minimum size you can get on a link.
With such "bottle necks" I don't see the point of going to the 100's in the nano-second (but I'm not a layer 2-3 guy, I'm layer 4-7 all the way) given this.
A solution seems to be timestamping the financial requests when the order is sent, and when the server receives the packet it can back-order at the price of the stock when the order was given. I guess it's better not to buy stock than to buy it at the wrong price. But then again, I don't like high-speed trading very much and I'd rather have this concept die.
Don't be an all fart. Don't fear change. Window-styled interface never really made sense and were created so people didn't need as much abstraction to understand what's going on. At first I didn't like Metro, but now I think it's brilliant.On the other hand, games are the only reason I'm sticking to Windows (well that and Visual Studio, but it can run just fine in a VM). I just find Linux' design more elegant and practical for the practical user.
Here's to hoping Steam will help get Linux more mainsteam. Two caveats though: will the games I bought for Windows, and are now converted to support Linux, will be available to me under Linux at no extra cost? Given Steam's past I think the answer is 'yes', but an official confirmation would be good.
Second point, to the OP who said Linux 'runs faster because it doesn't have anti-virus', just you wait. When Linux will have a considerable desktop use market-share, it will be attacked and you will need an anti-virus as well. This is exactly what happened to Apple, and they are now years behind Microsoft with regards to patching 0-days because they lack the experience.
I attended a Check Point keynote last near in Barcelona, where the speaker described how Stuxnet came to existence. Stuxnet also used digitally signed certificates used to authenticate a program's developer (usually a company). One came from Realtek, I forgot the other one.
The presenter said that these certificates had been signed by the CA that Microsoft delegated to these companies. Normally these CA servers stand in highly secured room, with no network connection whatsoever. The certificates still got leaked. Something similar must have happened here. These are highly sophisticated pieces of malware, with virtually no expense spared to build them (for the Stuxnet example, you had to have your own Siemens PLC, something huge and expensive and hard to come by). So it's not really surprising they could just pay a disgruntled employee, or hack into the building, or doing some James Bond stuff, or god knows what, to get their hands on these certificates.
I don't know. Since (literally) the start of ATI I've heard about news like this one, or just that some specific (often popular) games not 'working properly.' It's one of the reasons I've never owned a single ATI video card and always went the 3dfx/nvidia route. I'm baffled that some people keep buying ATI, even if they are cheaper on a power:price comparison.
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People have no sense of scale. The cumulated amount of protesters is around 10,000 - worldwide. Let's bump it to 20,000. There are 1,600,000,000 muslims in the world. In France there was been 200 protesters out of 6,000,000 muslims. So I don't think it's fair to say that these protests show that the Muslim world is at war against the US. It's just the top 0.1% jerks.
You bought the SD card not from your phone manufacturer. Nokia is a phone manufacturer. They want you to buy more expensive phones, if possible more often. Having any ability to extend the life of the phone (increasing storage in that case) is not something they want. Welcome to our consumerist society.
True, BioWare games have gone downhill since the EA acquisition. I was just pointing out DAO is not shitty.
No built-in RJ-45 is a show stopper for me. There's no way I want to use a USB dongle for that. But then again I'm a network engineer so that stuff probably matters to me more than it should.
I understand you are pissed off at Bioware, and I am too, but Dragon Age: Origins is not a *shit game*. I pre-ordered it so I had the day 1 DLC included, but it's a dick move to not release it at no extra cost.
Also this game's DLCs were pretty short and weren't worth their price tag. What I regret is that Bioware never did actually good DLCs/Extensions like they used to - remember that Bioware was one of the first to embrace DLCs back in the day with Neverwinter Nights "Premium Modules", which were great.
I'm a consumer and I'm fairly happy with Steam. I get to buy games on the cheap (just bought Rage for $20). I don't have the box, so what? I have the box from years I bought 10 or 15 years ago and I might own them, I can't play them unless I set up a virtual machine.
In the case of Stuxnet, the hackers aimed to infect all the computers in the Bushehr power plant. Eventually one got connected to a SCADA system and the main part of the virus kicked in (giving false readings while sending commands that'd break the system).
I'm pretty sure what they mean is "Oh my, this is very hard to crack, if you have something to hide by all means get an iPhone!"
CIA already redacted some things. I can tell from all the black tiles.
The passengers from Air France Flight 447 might beg to differ.
I went to Battle.net to change my account password. I use KeyPassX to generate reasonably safe password. I can remember each generated password but that is fine, I usually copy/paste them. Oddly enough, Battle.net doesn't allow you to copy/paste passwords when you change them (not in the old password input, nor the new one).
And this is why you should never make a movie. What is great in the books might not be great on film or appeal to a larger audience. Don't get me wrong, I wished the movies were 100% (or even 95%, or 90% what the hell) true to the original books - but guess what, that wouldn't sell. And if it doesn't sell, we wouldn't have the movies in the first place. Be happy with what you have or just don't watch the movies.
How is this an anti-virus in any way, shape or form?
I don't know about the US, but in France (probably rest of Europe too), you have to keep data for one year, maybe two. By law. You might also need this for your own forensics investigations in case one of your user tried to hack you. I'm not saying this is good, mind you, just what the law is and what reasons there could be to keep data.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for self-produced music. I'm very happy Metallica is considering this for their next album for instance, or how Radiohead did for their latest album. Authors shouldn't get less than the 10% they get now when one of their track is sold.
Actually you still need people with money to finance new artists and bands, advance the studio recording fees, and make them known to the public. This is not debatable. The problem is that all the MAFIAA don't do it for the love of music (and enough money to pay themselves a good salary - I have no problem with that), but for the love of money. And there is no end to the love of money for the sake of making money, and that is where the problem lies. This is not limited to the music industry, it's a sickness of our "modern" society.
For the last part, go to Qobuz.com and buy it in FLAC (lossless). You can then download it for life, DRM-free, in FLAC but also all the lower quality formats (Ogg, MP3, WMA, ...). That's one of your problems solved :) I agree with the rest of your post, though.
What I expect from Thunderbolt is not to use it as a link to a storage device, but to a graphic card. This way you could have a CPU and memory heavy laptop to carry around, but then you could dock it at home and connect it to the external graphic card and play some video games.
Apparently this interface can do 10 Gbps, and that sounds like a good start.
So even a known signature, as long as it's digitally signed, will not be blocked? Interesting.
What I'm wondering about is: if one of the component of Flame was a known variant of Stuxnet, why didn't the Kaspersky AV engine, or anybody else's that sell AV or IPS to the affected countries, detect it?
I think you missed one or two point of the reasons Europe's economy is struggling.
This is funny because all the banking companies, in the past, removed their firewalls on their intoconnection with trading places. Now that they've been hacked left and right, they are starting to put them back because of this. Firewall vendors are now starting a war with regards to latency (also keep in mind this is one-way latency).
Fortinet for instance announced a sub-9 microseconds firewall. That's 9000 nanoseconds. Check Point followed-up with a sub-5 microseconds latency. Oh, this is with 64 bytes packets, pretty much the minimum size you can get on a link.
With such "bottle necks" I don't see the point of going to the 100's in the nano-second (but I'm not a layer 2-3 guy, I'm layer 4-7 all the way) given this.
A solution seems to be timestamping the financial requests when the order is sent, and when the server receives the packet it can back-order at the price of the stock when the order was given. I guess it's better not to buy stock than to buy it at the wrong price. But then again, I don't like high-speed trading very much and I'd rather have this concept die.
Here's to hoping Steam will help get Linux more mainsteam. Two caveats though: will the games I bought for Windows, and are now converted to support Linux, will be available to me under Linux at no extra cost? Given Steam's past I think the answer is 'yes', but an official confirmation would be good.
Second point, to the OP who said Linux 'runs faster because it doesn't have anti-virus', just you wait. When Linux will have a considerable desktop use market-share, it will be attacked and you will need an anti-virus as well. This is exactly what happened to Apple, and they are now years behind Microsoft with regards to patching 0-days because they lack the experience.
I attended a Check Point keynote last near in Barcelona, where the speaker described how Stuxnet came to existence. Stuxnet also used digitally signed certificates used to authenticate a program's developer (usually a company). One came from Realtek, I forgot the other one.
The presenter said that these certificates had been signed by the CA that Microsoft delegated to these companies. Normally these CA servers stand in highly secured room, with no network connection whatsoever. The certificates still got leaked. Something similar must have happened here. These are highly sophisticated pieces of malware, with virtually no expense spared to build them (for the Stuxnet example, you had to have your own Siemens PLC, something huge and expensive and hard to come by). So it's not really surprising they could just pay a disgruntled employee, or hack into the building, or doing some James Bond stuff, or god knows what, to get their hands on these certificates.
I don't know. Since (literally) the start of ATI I've heard about news like this one, or just that some specific (often popular) games not 'working properly.' It's one of the reasons I've never owned a single ATI video card and always went the 3dfx/nvidia route. I'm baffled that some people keep buying ATI, even if they are cheaper on a power:price comparison.