I don't think that's safe to say, but it is possible.
For it to happen, you would have to have an enemy agent be granted an SCI clearance. I'm sure that's within the realm of possibility, but it doesn't seem likely. Then the enemy agent would have to be in a position where he could exploit as Snowden did, being a system admin.
I wouldn't just assume it's a thing, but it is a risk.
Fetishes are not listed in an SF86. Arrests and convictions are, but those are also public record. You are likely thinking of a lifestyle polygraph. SF86s are not lists of confessions.
I would still say that your overall statement of "extraordinarily sensitive" applies, however. Earlier addresses, tons of contacts to vouch for the person, etc. It's not just the subject of an SF86 who has personal info in their, it's the other people in their lives who have agreed to be interviewed and such as well.
Note that adultery is not generally illegal, nor is it something that would appear on an SF86.
I absolutely read that as reimaging. You said "reimagining and reinstallation", but look at it contextually. You would re-image a drive and re-install. If you were re-imagining you would expect the next word to be at that same "level"- for instance, "reimagining and reimplementing" or something.
It's spelled correctly and works fine, but it's definitely not the best way to communicate it because it segues into that easy misunderstanding- something that wouldn't have occurred to me if I was writing it, either.
This is a tragedy, but since we're on a tech site, lets talk tech.
Return values are handled oddly in pretty much every major language. Many API calls want to return something simple- int or bool- and if anything is more complex than that, generally require an actual data structure to be returned, often as a reference. This means that the "I didn't do this" action has a variety of ways to be be passed back- none of them even close to standard.
If something returns a distance, magnitude, or size, "0" normally means "Error, nothing happened" which is often the same as "Sure, I wrote 0 bytes. Really." If something needs to distinguish between success ("I did the thing 0 times as requested" and failure "I couldn't do the thing because of an error condition"), then sometimes a -1 is returned, or an exception thrown, or something else.
In this plane, something was, at some point, responsible for getting data about the engines. Likely, this happened in layers, each one having access to the results of the lower pieces. One of those pieces had the task of parsing those files.
So EITHER someone (process, program, whatever) meant to say "This is a problem" and instead said "Here's some default data", OR someone ELSE in that chain of commands (process, program, whatever) has a default for a "This is a problem" result to use as a failsafe, and it was never tested or never communicated up.
We probably won't get the technical details that go from "files missing" to "engines don't work". Certainly, several level of software or hardware could allow for any number of workarounds in this case, and I'm sure they have a complex system and this was some eventuality that was hard to test for.
Still, interesting to think about the error return methodology, and how it's so different everywhere in CS.
I tend to agree with this: there's only so much buck-passing that can happen. I'll also point out that several messes today have literally everyone agreeing that they should be cleaned up, but they are just maneuvering such that the "other" guy (whether that distinction is factual or not) pays the price, be it in dollars, land, or the lives of fighting men.
Dude, in the years before X-COM, there were games selling more than 20 million. WoW didn't "sell 12 million copies", that was its peak subscription- games that people keep playing and rebuying.
The audience was smaller, but it didn't touch blockbusters of the time, nor did its influence have nearly the same long reaching effects. You'd go through a dozen Super NES games long before X-COM, is my damned point.
This statement MIGHT have been true at WoW launch. Certainly, it was easier to level by a ludicrous amount (and they made it even easier later). But many EQ features were post WoW *and copied WoW*, such as instanced raid bosses, and after a few years WoW had features that EQ never touched- entire game modes, really.
So no, it's not dumbed down EQ. It's an MMO that is very approachable to a casual, yet denies those casuals effective end game gear unless they want to get on the same gear treadmill as the raiders. The first part gets them their subs and pays all their bills for the second part, which is a lot like the older part of the industry.
I remember all those cool EQ stats back when they were being thrown around too, but the point is, WoW quadrupled their numbers in months. Oh, that stuff you copypasta from Wikipedia points to this article:
Which gives that "all MMOs are two million players number", which was true when the study was done... in August 2004.
WoW launched in November 2004, three months later.
WoW had 1.5 megasubs in first quarter 2005. WoW had 3.5 megasubs in second quarter 2005.
It took WoW six months triple the existing GENRE, becoming two thirds of it.
It hit six megasubs at the beginning of 2006.
Look, I get how everyone wants to shit on WoW. But you all know it redefined everything about the industry, and still dominates it solidly to this very second. Arguably, the MMO genre died years ago, and a new genre, the "WoW-like", took its place- almost all MMOs that would follow duplicate WoW down to preposterous detail, from the exact same gear treadmill, the exact same model for instanced raiding, the exact same model for acquiring and balancing pvp gear, the exact same types of group pvp offered, the exact same lack of 1v1 pvp, the exact same model for ground mounts, all of which are part of your character and can never attack, whether they are a horse, a dragon, a speeder from Star Wars, or a hoverboard, and all of which go at exactly the same speed.
No one would implement that all by accident. EQ had character collision, WoW does not. None of the games now do.
You would get nothing like the current genre if everyone wasn't copying every single decision, design or technical, that WoW made. So many things were created by WoW that it's just like, a damned joke that anyone pretends otherwise.
Hate WoW if you like- I stopped playing because I don't like the things it does now (and even when I did play, I didn't like everything they did). But it's so vastly influential and popular that there's just no way you can't say it isn't those things.
I love that I'm somehow a Blizzard shill. They'd do well to use megasubs tho, I agree.
I did play WoW for years, and enjoyed it a lot. I don't like the current state of the game, but even if I did, work stuff has ramped up pretty ludic for me. I would probably be subscribed and not playing seriously if I didn't dislike so much of Warlords of Draenor, however, instead of turning off all subs.
Google "professional Dune 2 players" and you'll find out that no, you are not just being nostalgic:P
Not hating on Dune 2. For years a buddy and I could call each other and go "akk-nowledjed" and the other would respond "re-pording", from them stupid Dune 2 infantry.
Minecraft will probably hit that list at some point, but WoW is just as "recognizable" today (it had 10 megasubs a few months ago) as it was at its peak of 12. It's not some has-been, though at some point it will be. Minecraft should definitely show up at some point though. It's ludic popular.
Street Fighter II (NOT the original Street Fighter, which no one played) should be on that list. Asteroids, I just don't think so. Space Invaders, probably.
Starcraft would be on the list way before Dune II or C&C. Or Warcraft II.
A lot of games would deserve inclusion above battletoads. Megaman 2, without doubt, a ton of stuff in the Playstation era... I mean, I'm always sad when a list of any games doesn't include The Guardian Legend, but these are niche games.
It's at 6 megasubs right now. No fucking past tense dude. I'm not a fan of their recent changes (and I turned off all my accounts months ago), but get your shit together. It's hugely popular right this second.
X-COM sold less than a million, ever. WoW peaked at 12 million subscribers, and that's not every player ever- just the most playing at once.
WoW belongs on this list. The game that only us nerds have played and literally no one else? No. It does not. WoW is influential and well known everywhere, X-COM is absolutely not.
It's still on its ten year run. It went down to like 6 megasubs from 10 and everyone is like "ok, that's it, it's dead". But... other games don't even have a tenth of what WoW does now and aren't considered failures. And nothing else is really even close.
Super Mario Brothers- sold 40 million copies. Ultima online- peak subscribers 250,000. Everquest- peaked at less than half a million subs.
WoW- peaked at TWELVE MEGASUBS. That's ludicrous. It was at 10 megasubs earlier this year.
Everquest is some niche game that eventually started copying WoW like the rest.
Ultima Online was an even more niche game that essentially no one played.
WoW got where it was on its own. A zillion games "copied EQ". Now, if you make a game like this, you are copying WoW. Have been for years. People ascribe shit to EQ that it never even had before it copied it from WoW nowadays too.
Also, like, the entire EQ playerbase jumped ship to WoW within a year. Not even worth bringing up EQ in the same conversation as WoW, if you are talking about influential games.
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I don't think that's safe to say, but it is possible.
For it to happen, you would have to have an enemy agent be granted an SCI clearance. I'm sure that's within the realm of possibility, but it doesn't seem likely. Then the enemy agent would have to be in a position where he could exploit as Snowden did, being a system admin.
I wouldn't just assume it's a thing, but it is a risk.
Does every slashdot thread have to become about Greece?
> Post about France ....
> Involves international law
> Possible clickbait headline
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> Greece?
SF86 data is not secret.
"Most background information is not self-volunteered, it is gathered by FBI agents, etc., at their own discretion."
First, I'm not sure if this is correct. I'd be surprised if the FBI actually gathers info as part of clearance investigations, for instance.
But more importantly, the leak was SF86 data, right? That would be the forms, not every little detail of every mundane investigation.
It's not "snooping", you opt into it.
Fetishes are not listed in an SF86. Arrests and convictions are, but those are also public record. You are likely thinking of a lifestyle polygraph. SF86s are not lists of confessions.
I would still say that your overall statement of "extraordinarily sensitive" applies, however. Earlier addresses, tons of contacts to vouch for the person, etc. It's not just the subject of an SF86 who has personal info in their, it's the other people in their lives who have agreed to be interviewed and such as well.
Note that adultery is not generally illegal, nor is it something that would appear on an SF86.
This form is on the web:
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/form...
I absolutely read that as reimaging. You said "reimagining and reinstallation", but look at it contextually. You would re-image a drive and re-install. If you were re-imagining you would expect the next word to be at that same "level"- for instance, "reimagining and reimplementing" or something.
It's spelled correctly and works fine, but it's definitely not the best way to communicate it because it segues into that easy misunderstanding- something that wouldn't have occurred to me if I was writing it, either.
This is a tragedy, but since we're on a tech site, lets talk tech.
Return values are handled oddly in pretty much every major language. Many API calls want to return something simple- int or bool- and if anything is more complex than that, generally require an actual data structure to be returned, often as a reference. This means that the "I didn't do this" action has a variety of ways to be be passed back- none of them even close to standard.
If something returns a distance, magnitude, or size, "0" normally means "Error, nothing happened" which is often the same as "Sure, I wrote 0 bytes. Really."
If something needs to distinguish between success ("I did the thing 0 times as requested" and failure "I couldn't do the thing because of an error condition"), then sometimes a -1 is returned, or an exception thrown, or something else.
In this plane, something was, at some point, responsible for getting data about the engines. Likely, this happened in layers, each one having access to the results of the lower pieces. One of those pieces had the task of parsing those files.
So EITHER someone (process, program, whatever) meant to say "This is a problem" and instead said "Here's some default data", OR someone ELSE in that chain of commands (process, program, whatever) has a default for a "This is a problem" result to use as a failsafe, and it was never tested or never communicated up.
We probably won't get the technical details that go from "files missing" to "engines don't work". Certainly, several level of software or hardware could allow for any number of workarounds in this case, and I'm sure they have a complex system and this was some eventuality that was hard to test for.
Still, interesting to think about the error return methodology, and how it's so different everywhere in CS.
Scott Adams (Dilbert guy) thinks that these slow moving threats are ones that society will handle, because they do have visibility.
Initial:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
Update:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
I tend to agree with this: there's only so much buck-passing that can happen. I'll also point out that several messes today have literally everyone agreeing that they should be cleaned up, but they are just maneuvering such that the "other" guy (whether that distinction is factual or not) pays the price, be it in dollars, land, or the lives of fighting men.
AngryBirds (and likely Clash) will probably get on that list eventually, you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. FarmVille I seriously doubt.
Dude, in the years before X-COM, there were games selling more than 20 million. WoW didn't "sell 12 million copies", that was its peak subscription- games that people keep playing and rebuying.
The audience was smaller, but it didn't touch blockbusters of the time, nor did its influence have nearly the same long reaching effects. You'd go through a dozen Super NES games long before X-COM, is my damned point.
"wow is eq dumbed down"
This statement MIGHT have been true at WoW launch. Certainly, it was easier to level by a ludicrous amount (and they made it even easier later). But many EQ features were post WoW *and copied WoW*, such as instanced raid bosses, and after a few years WoW had features that EQ never touched- entire game modes, really.
So no, it's not dumbed down EQ. It's an MMO that is very approachable to a casual, yet denies those casuals effective end game gear unless they want to get on the same gear treadmill as the raiders. The first part gets them their subs and pays all their bills for the second part, which is a lot like the older part of the industry.
I remember all those cool EQ stats back when they were being thrown around too, but the point is, WoW quadrupled their numbers in months. Oh, that stuff you copypasta from Wikipedia points to this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/tec...
Which gives that "all MMOs are two million players number", which was true when the study was done... in August 2004.
WoW launched in November 2004, three months later.
WoW had 1.5 megasubs in first quarter 2005.
WoW had 3.5 megasubs in second quarter 2005.
It took WoW six months triple the existing GENRE, becoming two thirds of it.
It hit six megasubs at the beginning of 2006.
Look, I get how everyone wants to shit on WoW. But you all know it redefined everything about the industry, and still dominates it solidly to this very second. Arguably, the MMO genre died years ago, and a new genre, the "WoW-like", took its place- almost all MMOs that would follow duplicate WoW down to preposterous detail, from the exact same gear treadmill, the exact same model for instanced raiding, the exact same model for acquiring and balancing pvp gear, the exact same types of group pvp offered, the exact same lack of 1v1 pvp, the exact same model for ground mounts, all of which are part of your character and can never attack, whether they are a horse, a dragon, a speeder from Star Wars, or a hoverboard, and all of which go at exactly the same speed.
No one would implement that all by accident. EQ had character collision, WoW does not. None of the games now do.
You would get nothing like the current genre if everyone wasn't copying every single decision, design or technical, that WoW made. So many things were created by WoW that it's just like, a damned joke that anyone pretends otherwise.
Hate WoW if you like- I stopped playing because I don't like the things it does now (and even when I did play, I didn't like everything they did). But it's so vastly influential and popular that there's just no way you can't say it isn't those things.
I quote numbers, you accuse me of being a shill. Fuck right off, sir!
I love that I'm somehow a Blizzard shill. They'd do well to use megasubs tho, I agree.
I did play WoW for years, and enjoyed it a lot. I don't like the current state of the game, but even if I did, work stuff has ramped up pretty ludic for me. I would probably be subscribed and not playing seriously if I didn't dislike so much of Warlords of Draenor, however, instead of turning off all subs.
Well, that and the atrocity that is the new nelfgirl model :(
Google "professional Dune 2 players" and you'll find out that no, you are not just being nostalgic :P
Not hating on Dune 2. For years a buddy and I could call each other and go "akk-nowledjed" and the other would respond "re-pording", from them stupid Dune 2 infantry.
Hell, it would probably work right this second...
Just raw copy the bytes to his drive. It's always a solid plan!
Minecraft will probably hit that list at some point, but WoW is just as "recognizable" today (it had 10 megasubs a few months ago) as it was at its peak of 12. It's not some has-been, though at some point it will be. Minecraft should definitely show up at some point though. It's ludic popular.
Street Fighter II (NOT the original Street Fighter, which no one played) should be on that list. Asteroids, I just don't think so. Space Invaders, probably.
Starcraft would be on the list way before Dune II or C&C. Or Warcraft II.
A lot of games would deserve inclusion above battletoads. Megaman 2, without doubt, a ton of stuff in the Playstation era... I mean, I'm always sad when a list of any games doesn't include The Guardian Legend, but these are niche games.
It's at 6 megasubs right now. No fucking past tense dude. I'm not a fan of their recent changes (and I turned off all my accounts months ago), but get your shit together. It's hugely popular right this second.
More influence? Nah.
X-COM sold less than a million, ever. WoW peaked at 12 million subscribers, and that's not every player ever- just the most playing at once.
WoW belongs on this list. The game that only us nerds have played and literally no one else? No. It does not. WoW is influential and well known everywhere, X-COM is absolutely not.
That's the cat girl one right, where everyone is a cat girl?
It's still on its ten year run. It went down to like 6 megasubs from 10 and everyone is like "ok, that's it, it's dead". But... other games don't even have a tenth of what WoW does now and aren't considered failures. And nothing else is really even close.
EQ a rounding error.
Super Mario Brothers- sold 40 million copies.
Ultima online- peak subscribers 250,000.
Everquest- peaked at less than half a million subs.
WoW- peaked at TWELVE MEGASUBS. That's ludicrous. It was at 10 megasubs earlier this year.
Everquest is some niche game that eventually started copying WoW like the rest.
Ultima Online was an even more niche game that essentially no one played.
WoW got where it was on its own. A zillion games "copied EQ". Now, if you make a game like this, you are copying WoW. Have been for years. People ascribe shit to EQ that it never even had before it copied it from WoW nowadays too.
Also, like, the entire EQ playerbase jumped ship to WoW within a year. Not even worth bringing up EQ in the same conversation as WoW, if you are talking about influential games.