I guess.. It's not like the iPod or other device would just accept any data thrown at it, it would need to parse incoming data in a secure manner, just like web developers write functions to handle data from a web form in ASP or PHP or the like. I really don't see that as being an issue, if there are competent designers/developers working on the technology.
Of course hacks and exploits will always exist - in fact, I'm sure right at this moment someone could write some malicious hack that crashes the iPod using some uniquely crafted Calendar date. Who knows? I think that sort of destructiveness is always possible - it's just a matter of finding the vulnerability.
I have a friend who used to go through source code for open source apps and find bugs/vulnerabilities. He wrote his own exploit code by hand for remote attacks on systems, things like that. It was a huge eye-opener to me to realize that with enough ingenuity and talent (on the part of the person researching the target software/system), every piece of software can be broken in some way or another...
"The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a wiretap on a cell phone based in Sacramento, California, and immediately learn the phone's location, then begin receiving conversations, text messages and voicemail pass codes in New York. With a few keystrokes, the agent can route the recordings to language specialists for translation."
Why can't we have this kind of inter-protocol communication in the public sector? I'm not talking about tapping peoples' conversations. I'm talking about interconnectivity of our own communication devices. You know, my cell phone can synchronize calendar dates and contacts with my computer at home. My iPod will also load that same data. The thing is, I have to manually type these items into my Calendar program or my Address Book software for the data to be there. Well, I also use Facebook a lot and am regularly viewing Events on there. Why are we still stuck in the stone age, where I can't take this "Event" and just load it into my Calendar and thus have that all synced up? And, maybe some details on that facebook Event changes, and it just automatically syncs that up to my Calendar software and thus my cell phone and iPod?....
Whatever, don't know why I'm wasting my time typing about it, but I'm just tired of the slowness of functionality advancements in the tech industry. We have all this new tech, and we're not even scratching the surface of advanced communications that we're fully capable of implementing.
"Companies shouldn't be punished for people's stupidity."
Tell this to the people who demand warning labels for every possible minor risk or inconvenience...;)
That just makes me instantly envision people bitching about 'missing' warning labels. "Hey, I nearly burned my tongue on this coffee! There should be a warning on the cup about how hot it is!... Even though I can plainly feel the heat through the cup, not to mention the fact that I can see the steam coming out of the lid..."
The first thing that I thought of when I read this article was a hosting company called Latency Kills.. Really makes me wonder if Level 3's lines carry any bandwidth for Latency Kills... hehehehe
Well, I dont' know if "casual gaming" would be the right wording, since casual gameplay and MMOs aren't mutually exclusive. I know plenty of "casual" WoW players, who only play maybe a few hours a week.;)
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Actually Shaw cable here in western Canada already does so. A friend of mine was kicked offline for a week because one of the computers in his home network had some spyware or botnet-type trojan running on it which my friend didn't know about. He finally called the ISP wondering why the hell he couldn't get online after many days only to find out that they had disconnected his net connection without even notifying him. It seemed like a pretty harsh treatment of a customer - they didn't even let him know that one of his machines infected with some potentially malicious software (until after he called), and intentionally booted him offline indefinitely because of this. Of course it would have been understandable had they actually let him know what was going on. How long would it have been if he hadn't contacted the ISP himself? Pretty amateur for such a large company (2.3 million customers)...
Anyone know why the author would go out of his way to not hit 2K3 boxes?... I'm sure there's a very logical reason, but I have no idea what it might be.
Well, all "windows server reliability" jokes aside, it could just be that the author's code had some issues running as expected on the 2003 server machines (due to some behaviour in that version of the OS as opposed to other versions), that perhaps he/she didn't feel like debugging or figuring out.
I just wish it was entirely black. The silver/black combination just screams "typical late-90s tech tryign to look futuristic", a bit tacky in my opinion. I realize they probably used black around the display in order to avoid the presence of the monitor case when using the machine in a dimly-lit room, but I still have never gone for that painfully overused silver/black combination. This doesn't mean I don't totally want one though... hahaha;)
All our monitors here in my office have clear glass over the screen (they're 19" LCD monitors). This prevents screens from being damaged when coworkers point at elements on the screen and physically touch the surface. One coworker has a disgustingly fingerprint-laden set of monitors. If we didn't use these monitors with the built-in glass covering, I can only imagine how damaged the LCD surface would be on his monitors. Also, there's no more glare experienced with these monitors than what I experience on my non-glass-surface LCD monitor at home... Of course we have such modern inventions as window blinds and so on, so that helps reduce direct sunlight from hitting the monitors.;)
BTW to make this more relevant to the iMacs, I imagine they are very popular in the family setting, considering their total applicability for watching movies etc. "with the family" and I would guess playing games and stuff (iMacs seem to be the usual casual/family/fun model I see being bought by people). Anyways, of course when you think about that you can just picture the kids going "look at that!" and poking the screen and, well, I'm already cringing thinking of how easily an LCD monitor could be damaged in such a situation..;) So of course a glass surface keeps it safe and still looks nice and sleek. Of course everything I'm saying is speculation since I'm not a designer for Apple, but it definitely makes sense regardless... OK, enough rambling.;)
Funny, that same mentality of reacting to something based on face appearance is why governments uses phrases like "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" and other friendly sounding things to give a visage of righteousness to things that aren't neccesarily so decent and proper as they make themselves out to be... Just thinking out loud there...
Hmm, no marketing emails from Take-Two about this one, eh?
Yeah, this is a jab at Take-Two for repeatedly sending marketing emails out about a release date for a trailer for GTA IV. No, not a release date for the game, just a release date for a short trailer that shows very little if anything about the game.
I thought it was a bit excessive for them to email multiple times about a trailer. I can see emailing once, but I got a number of emails about the same thing. Wow, big deal guys. I would have been more interested in the later emails if they were going to be showing something of substance in the trailers, but they just showed some typical cutscene-style stuff. Blah, sure I'm burning karma with this post but I found it a bit frustrating to get constantly teased about a game (no, not even the game, a TRAILER for the game) and shown almost nothing. Now the game is delayed but of course I didn't receive that in my email inbox, did I?...
How is this flamebait in any manner? Sorry for adding some personal perspective to the discussion...:P Sure, this comment is offtopic, but seriously, why am I being modded down for offering firsthand related experience in response to the comment I was replying to? Jeez...
Well, what I was getting at is the fact that there is ONE big fiber pipeline here in Vancouver that gives us our connection to the net. If the building that operates that key hub is destroyed, all of western Canada will probably lose net connectivity (unless there are other tier 1 connections I don't know about). To me, that is completely unreasonable. Not to mention that in Canada, only two main companies provide broadband. Telus and Shaw. Even if you go with a reseller, you're still on either on Telus infrastructure or Shaw (Rogers) infrastructure. Here's a great example of why this is bad: Shaw blocks all outgoing connections on port 25 for all residential customers. Oh, want to use mail.yourownwebsite.com for your mail? Too bad... either use Shaw's outgoing mail servers, or upgrade to a business-grade connection from Shaw. Hmm OK, that sure sucks. I guess I'll switch to Telus. Oh nevermind, they also block port 25, among others.
An Xbox 360 was the first current-generation console I bought, followed by a Wii given as a gift. I haven't considered at any time purchasing a PS3. Just my $0.02 CDN.;)
What should the "next internet" be? Wireless. Configuration-less. Always connected. High speed. Low cost. Cross-platform, cross-device, and accessible by even the simplest devices (wristwatch syncing to online time server?). Access/infrastructure not controlled by single corporations.
Ever seen the Ghost in the Shell movies and series? Make that "Net" real.:)
Either that or just install a copy of Hamachi so you have a VPN connection bewteen your machine and your friend's.:) There are some other Xbox-centric tools like XBConnect as well.
Well, in defense of Konoko in Oni, her character is very highly based off Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell, whose body is entirely cyborg/cybernetic ("cyberized" as they put it)... So, it makes a little more sense in that situation that she can carry a rocket launcher with just one arm and kick the crap out of huge armored guards and stuff. BTW, see Oni's wikipedia page for a bit more info on how closely Oni is based on and/or inspired by Ghost In The Shell.:)
Well, considering that Windows by default doesn't show the file extension for known filetypes, as far as all the noobs can tell, the file they just double-clicked was "Artist - song.mp3", since they wouldn't even see the.exe at the end. Sweet deal eh?
If you've used any common p2p apps like eDonkey or the like, you'll notice that when you search for something, even if you type some arbitrary crap like "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj" you'll also get "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj.mp3.exe" and "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj pics xxx mpeg avi.exe" or similar shit. So someone searching for a keygen is going to get "exactly the keygen they wanted.exe".... and so on and so forth. You can imagine how quickly someone will eagerly download and run a keygen they've been looking for for ages that they couldn't find anywhere else....;)
Yeah, you know, I'm not interested to argue with someone over this stuff, especially someone who is so antagonistic with every comment. I really don't care that much. I already made my points here that Bungie is basically getting by doing the bare minimum of what we expect. They're not going the extra mile like they used to back in the days of Marathon and Myth, even though they have bigger budgets behind them than they had probably ever imagined back when they were up all night writing the networking code for Marathon in their barely-afforded office space. Halo 3 is looking like Halo 2 plus some new weapons and slightly better graphics. Honestly I was expecting a lot more, considering however many thousands and thousands of people will be buying the game.
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I guess.. It's not like the iPod or other device would just accept any data thrown at it, it would need to parse incoming data in a secure manner, just like web developers write functions to handle data from a web form in ASP or PHP or the like. I really don't see that as being an issue, if there are competent designers/developers working on the technology.
Of course hacks and exploits will always exist - in fact, I'm sure right at this moment someone could write some malicious hack that crashes the iPod using some uniquely crafted Calendar date. Who knows? I think that sort of destructiveness is always possible - it's just a matter of finding the vulnerability.
I have a friend who used to go through source code for open source apps and find bugs/vulnerabilities. He wrote his own exploit code by hand for remote attacks on systems, things like that. It was a huge eye-opener to me to realize that with enough ingenuity and talent (on the part of the person researching the target software/system), every piece of software can be broken in some way or another...
"The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a wiretap on a cell phone based in Sacramento, California, and immediately learn the phone's location, then begin receiving conversations, text messages and voicemail pass codes in New York. With a few keystrokes, the agent can route the recordings to language specialists for translation."
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Why can't we have this kind of inter-protocol communication in the public sector? I'm not talking about tapping peoples' conversations. I'm talking about interconnectivity of our own communication devices. You know, my cell phone can synchronize calendar dates and contacts with my computer at home. My iPod will also load that same data. The thing is, I have to manually type these items into my Calendar program or my Address Book software for the data to be there. Well, I also use Facebook a lot and am regularly viewing Events on there. Why are we still stuck in the stone age, where I can't take this "Event" and just load it into my Calendar and thus have that all synced up? And, maybe some details on that facebook Event changes, and it just automatically syncs that up to my Calendar software and thus my cell phone and iPod?
Whatever, don't know why I'm wasting my time typing about it, but I'm just tired of the slowness of functionality advancements in the tech industry. We have all this new tech, and we're not even scratching the surface of advanced communications that we're fully capable of implementing.
Oh noes, it's a trap! It's Ireul!!
Yeah dude, like 3 people, according to Google... in this case he came up with a pretty fucking original phrase, I'd say. ;)
"Companies shouldn't be punished for people's stupidity."
;)
... Even though I can plainly feel the heat through the cup, not to mention the fact that I can see the steam coming out of the lid..."
Tell this to the people who demand warning labels for every possible minor risk or inconvenience...
That just makes me instantly envision people bitching about 'missing' warning labels. "Hey, I nearly burned my tongue on this coffee! There should be a warning on the cup about how hot it is!
There are a TON of games with substantial artistic value. Some notable older ones I can think of offhand:
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-MDK
-ZPC
-Alice
-Myst (plus Riven and the Myst sequels)
-Unreal
more recently:
-Bioshock
-Okami
-Zelda Twilight Princess
I mean, I could go on, but I'm getting tired of copying & pasting all these URLs....
The first thing that I thought of when I read this article was a hosting company called Latency Kills.. Really makes me wonder if Level 3's lines carry any bandwidth for Latency Kills... hehehehe
Yeah a full progress bar and text below that says "0 seconds remaining", which sits there for 5 minutes... Talk about frustrating!
"I'm not predicting a flop, just don't automatically assume that Halo 3 will be a huge hit."
hahahaha
Well, I dont' know if "casual gaming" would be the right wording, since casual gameplay and MMOs aren't mutually exclusive. I know plenty of "casual" WoW players, who only play maybe a few hours a week. ;)
Actually Shaw cable here in western Canada already does so. A friend of mine was kicked offline for a week because one of the computers in his home network had some spyware or botnet-type trojan running on it which my friend didn't know about. He finally called the ISP wondering why the hell he couldn't get online after many days only to find out that they had disconnected his net connection without even notifying him. It seemed like a pretty harsh treatment of a customer - they didn't even let him know that one of his machines infected with some potentially malicious software (until after he called), and intentionally booted him offline indefinitely because of this. Of course it would have been understandable had they actually let him know what was going on. How long would it have been if he hadn't contacted the ISP himself? Pretty amateur for such a large company (2.3 million customers)...
Anyone know why the author would go out of his way to not hit 2K3 boxes? ... I'm sure there's a very logical reason, but I have no idea what it might be.
Well, all "windows server reliability" jokes aside, it could just be that the author's code had some issues running as expected on the 2003 server machines (due to some behaviour in that version of the OS as opposed to other versions), that perhaps he/she didn't feel like debugging or figuring out.
I just wish it was entirely black. The silver/black combination just screams "typical late-90s tech tryign to look futuristic", a bit tacky in my opinion. I realize they probably used black around the display in order to avoid the presence of the monitor case when using the machine in a dimly-lit room, but I still have never gone for that painfully overused silver/black combination. This doesn't mean I don't totally want one though... hahaha ;)
All our monitors here in my office have clear glass over the screen (they're 19" LCD monitors). This prevents screens from being damaged when coworkers point at elements on the screen and physically touch the surface. One coworker has a disgustingly fingerprint-laden set of monitors. If we didn't use these monitors with the built-in glass covering, I can only imagine how damaged the LCD surface would be on his monitors. Also, there's no more glare experienced with these monitors than what I experience on my non-glass-surface LCD monitor at home... Of course we have such modern inventions as window blinds and so on, so that helps reduce direct sunlight from hitting the monitors. ;)
;) So of course a glass surface keeps it safe and still looks nice and sleek. Of course everything I'm saying is speculation since I'm not a designer for Apple, but it definitely makes sense regardless... OK, enough rambling. ;)
BTW to make this more relevant to the iMacs, I imagine they are very popular in the family setting, considering their total applicability for watching movies etc. "with the family" and I would guess playing games and stuff (iMacs seem to be the usual casual/family/fun model I see being bought by people). Anyways, of course when you think about that you can just picture the kids going "look at that!" and poking the screen and, well, I'm already cringing thinking of how easily an LCD monitor could be damaged in such a situation..
Funny, that same mentality of reacting to something based on face appearance is why governments uses phrases like "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" and other friendly sounding things to give a visage of righteousness to things that aren't neccesarily so decent and proper as they make themselves out to be... Just thinking out loud there...
Hmm, no marketing emails from Take-Two about this one, eh?
...
Yeah, this is a jab at Take-Two for repeatedly sending marketing emails out about a release date for a trailer for GTA IV. No, not a release date for the game, just a release date for a short trailer that shows very little if anything about the game.
I thought it was a bit excessive for them to email multiple times about a trailer. I can see emailing once, but I got a number of emails about the same thing. Wow, big deal guys. I would have been more interested in the later emails if they were going to be showing something of substance in the trailers, but they just showed some typical cutscene-style stuff. Blah, sure I'm burning karma with this post but I found it a bit frustrating to get constantly teased about a game (no, not even the game, a TRAILER for the game) and shown almost nothing. Now the game is delayed but of course I didn't receive that in my email inbox, did I?
How is this flamebait in any manner? Sorry for adding some personal perspective to the discussion... :P Sure, this comment is offtopic, but seriously, why am I being modded down for offering firsthand related experience in response to the comment I was replying to? Jeez...
Well, what I was getting at is the fact that there is ONE big fiber pipeline here in Vancouver that gives us our connection to the net. If the building that operates that key hub is destroyed, all of western Canada will probably lose net connectivity (unless there are other tier 1 connections I don't know about). To me, that is completely unreasonable. Not to mention that in Canada, only two main companies provide broadband. Telus and Shaw. Even if you go with a reseller, you're still on either on Telus infrastructure or Shaw (Rogers) infrastructure. Here's a great example of why this is bad: Shaw blocks all outgoing connections on port 25 for all residential customers. Oh, want to use mail.yourownwebsite.com for your mail? Too bad... either use Shaw's outgoing mail servers, or upgrade to a business-grade connection from Shaw. Hmm OK, that sure sucks. I guess I'll switch to Telus. Oh nevermind, they also block port 25, among others.
An Xbox 360 was the first current-generation console I bought, followed by a Wii given as a gift. I haven't considered at any time purchasing a PS3. Just my $0.02 CDN. ;)
What should the "next internet" be? Wireless. Configuration-less. Always connected. High speed. Low cost. Cross-platform, cross-device, and accessible by even the simplest devices (wristwatch syncing to online time server?). Access/infrastructure not controlled by single corporations.
:)
Ever seen the Ghost in the Shell movies and series? Make that "Net" real.
Either that or just install a copy of Hamachi so you have a VPN connection bewteen your machine and your friend's. :) There are some other Xbox-centric tools like XBConnect as well.
No shit eh? Apple doesn't include a USB port for your computer along with their iPod? Damn, those bloody fascists!
Well, in defense of Konoko in Oni, her character is very highly based off Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell, whose body is entirely cyborg/cybernetic ("cyberized" as they put it)... So, it makes a little more sense in that situation that she can carry a rocket launcher with just one arm and kick the crap out of huge armored guards and stuff. BTW, see Oni's wikipedia page for a bit more info on how closely Oni is based on and/or inspired by Ghost In The Shell. :)
Well, considering that Windows by default doesn't show the file extension for known filetypes, as far as all the noobs can tell, the file they just double-clicked was "Artist - song.mp3", since they wouldn't even see the .exe at the end. Sweet deal eh?
.... and so on and so forth. You can imagine how quickly someone will eagerly download and run a keygen they've been looking for for ages that they couldn't find anywhere else.... ;)
If you've used any common p2p apps like eDonkey or the like, you'll notice that when you search for something, even if you type some arbitrary crap like "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj" you'll also get "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj.mp3.exe" and "huoshgahgauoiwhrgoaghnaj pics xxx mpeg avi.exe" or similar shit. So someone searching for a keygen is going to get "exactly the keygen they wanted.exe"
Yeah, you know, I'm not interested to argue with someone over this stuff, especially someone who is so antagonistic with every comment. I really don't care that much. I already made my points here that Bungie is basically getting by doing the bare minimum of what we expect. They're not going the extra mile like they used to back in the days of Marathon and Myth, even though they have bigger budgets behind them than they had probably ever imagined back when they were up all night writing the networking code for Marathon in their barely-afforded office space. Halo 3 is looking like Halo 2 plus some new weapons and slightly better graphics. Honestly I was expecting a lot more, considering however many thousands and thousands of people will be buying the game.