So the RIAA commissioned a study that they hoped to take to the government and get some sort of law passed to halt this terrible crime (much like the MPAA tried to stop the VCR).
Sadly AFAIK no quotables came out of the RIAA's work to match Valenti's over-the-top offensive "Boston Strangler" line.
Turn off the lights with no one else in the room. Ensure that it's quiet except for your PC speakers. Soak up the ambiance and enjoy.
It worked, for a bit. The problem is that Doom 3 essentially required me to try Method-act my way into the mindset of a scared 5 year old before it got scary. A lot of other games (even recent 8-bit-themed Newgrounds Flash games) didn't ask that of me and gave me the same oomph as Doom 3, some even with the lights on in the middle of the afternoon.
Problem is we're talking about someone who doesn't even know what Linux is, never mind Backtrack. We're talking someone who's going to type "wifi crack program" into Google and click on the first result. Try to think down at that skill level, and it's something like asking the average *nix geek to rebuild his car engine using parts from a scrap yard that also contains randomly patrolling attack dogs. Can it be done? Probably. Can it be done easily and without causing other damage in the process? Nope.
But Joe's Pokemon collection won't be complete! He needs to have a MoonRocki, MoonRocku, AND a MoonRocka or he can't be the best trainer in Astronaut City!
Despite the alarmist headline, if you read the linked article carefully, you'll see that the only type of recall being considered is at the retail level. That is, retailers and distributors will have to remove the product from the shelves.
I work for a retailer that really can't afford to take a hit on our full inventory of HDMI-to-whatever cables, so I'll just keep alarming.
There is no plan under consideration to go after consumers who have already purchased the cables for personal use. So if you already bought, paid for, and are using a cable, you should be okay to continue doing so.
That's big of them.</sarcasm> Doesn't really do much for the people who will try hooking devices up next month, though. Unless the "contemplated" legal cables stop getting contemplated and start existing.
Considering this guy was walking out every night with an average of $400 worth of electronics that he didn't walk in with, it's obvious as hell no one's paying attention to them as they work or when they leave....
Look through the news of missing, abducted, murdered, and raped children over the past few years. SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, took notice of that child for SOME REASON.
Yeah. Usually because they're related to or otherwise know the child in person. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure abduction by strangers accounts for less than a quarter of all abductions. There's way better odds in hiding a kid from family and friends than from strangers. Except that would be abduction, wouldn't it?
You're spot on, but for a different reason. HR isn't going to care about baby years, but Hospitals have security measures because they are great places to find and steal babies.
Really? How common is hospital baby theft? It's not like they're hard to make. You wouldn't happen to have stats at hand about how often these security measures are used in a year?
The filter is not about porn, it is about kiddy porn, the sort that they arrest people for.
Indeed it is, and I'm sure of this because they're so open and... oh, wait, they're not even telling us WHO is contributing to the list, so their promises of WHAT is on it are a bit suspect. Reputable international organisations with such good reputations that they don't want to be associated with this? Really?
Perhaps they don't want to be blamed the next time a dentist is mistaken for a pornographer.
So they decided to sneak it in the backdoor by having the ISPs build something to "stop pedophiles" who mostly don't use the blocked communications channels anyway. That way they could claim they have nothing to do with it, despite the list of banned sites coming from the Australian Communications and Media Authority, a government organization. (Didn't you know? Apparently if you murder someone with a gun, it's not your fault unless you built the gun yourself. The guy who's firing it into the crowd isn't to blame!)
... so long as they're used. The advertisers and Zynga's ilk are Facebook's real users and customers. The people updating their walls are the product.
Facebook just needs to keep people satisfied or addicted enough that they don't quit. Granted, they are seeing a dropoff so they are failing at that, but unless a genuine competitor pops up they only need to be nice enough to people to make it not worth the cost of changing over to something else or going back to e-mail and message boards. And as long as they have a stranglehold on the social network market, that means they can treat people like shit and mostly get away with it.
I have an even better idea to save trees.
Stop doing that.
If the guy is using paper made out of old growth instead of farmed trees, then he's already a Captain Planet villain, so arguing with him is rather pointless.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if there were some kind of labeling system in place to advise parents about the content of the video games offered to the children.
Be nicer if they would use it. I've seen adults brandish a copy of Everquest and say it's not for anyone under 18 because of the well-endowed elf chick on the cover, even as that big T for Teen sticker was visible.
The end result predictably being that everyone has taken to writing down their passwords. Banks are all about the semblance of security, not actual security.
Sounds like any corporation. When I worked at HP it was the same. 5ish different passwords for different systems, and every one had different requirements. And different expiry dates!
One I only needed once a month for payroll to an outsourcing company had to change passwords once a month. Had to change password every damn time I used it.
But my favorite was the one that flagged anything containing a dictionary word as insecure. So 6!x8qD3iT2#f7j32^#ng^3!0 was an insecure password because of "iT". It encouraged you to use short passwords or passwords of only numbers because using letters risked it finding "it" or "as" or something else in the string.
I had to write my passwords down. After a month of trying to be clever it just was not worth it. The password requirements were confusing and sometimes mutually exclusive.
Security has to be a balance between security and convenience, else your users will decide to subvert your security just to get their jobs done.
In this case, however, if they were being victimized, it was by themselves.
It gets even weirder when the prosecutor wants the kids tried as an adult. Yeah, so an adult is being tried for photographing a naked child and the adult and child are the same 16-year-old. I've yet to figure out what sort of twisted mind would think that makes sense.
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Sadly AFAIK no quotables came out of the RIAA's work to match Valenti's over-the-top offensive "Boston Strangler" line.
It worked, for a bit. The problem is that Doom 3 essentially required me to try Method-act my way into the mindset of a scared 5 year old before it got scary. A lot of other games (even recent 8-bit-themed Newgrounds Flash games) didn't ask that of me and gave me the same oomph as Doom 3, some even with the lights on in the middle of the afternoon.
Problem is we're talking about someone who doesn't even know what Linux is, never mind Backtrack. We're talking someone who's going to type "wifi crack program" into Google and click on the first result. Try to think down at that skill level, and it's something like asking the average *nix geek to rebuild his car engine using parts from a scrap yard that also contains randomly patrolling attack dogs. Can it be done? Probably. Can it be done easily and without causing other damage in the process? Nope.
But Joe's Pokemon collection won't be complete! He needs to have a MoonRocki, MoonRocku, AND a MoonRocka or he can't be the best trainer in Astronaut City!
And a Syfy film crew to record it and air it right after Smackdown.
Despite the alarmist headline, if you read the linked article carefully, you'll see that the only type of recall being considered is at the retail level. That is, retailers and distributors will have to remove the product from the shelves.
I work for a retailer that really can't afford to take a hit on our full inventory of HDMI-to-whatever cables, so I'll just keep alarming.
There is no plan under consideration to go after consumers who have already purchased the cables for personal use. So if you already bought, paid for, and are using a cable, you should be okay to continue doing so.
That's big of them.</sarcasm> Doesn't really do much for the people who will try hooking devices up next month, though. Unless the "contemplated" legal cables stop getting contemplated and start existing.
Boy, I bet you'll be surprised when Plexiglas skull mods become all the rage with the younger set in 2025.
Considering this guy was walking out every night with an average of $400 worth of electronics that he didn't walk in with, it's obvious as hell no one's paying attention to them as they work or when they leave....
Yeah. Usually because they're related to or otherwise know the child in person. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure abduction by strangers accounts for less than a quarter of all abductions. There's way better odds in hiding a kid from family and friends than from strangers. Except that would be abduction, wouldn't it?
Really? How common is hospital baby theft? It's not like they're hard to make. You wouldn't happen to have stats at hand about how often these security measures are used in a year?
Indeed it is, and I'm sure of this because they're so open and... oh, wait, they're not even telling us WHO is contributing to the list, so their promises of WHAT is on it are a bit suspect. Reputable international organisations with such good reputations that they don't want to be associated with this? Really?
Perhaps they don't want to be blamed the next time a dentist is mistaken for a pornographer.
Since when is it an ISP mandate to deal with real life criminal?
Since the government couldn't figure out a way to build a censorship framework without getting into trouble because of their eagerness to use it to block opposing political agendas or groups they disagree with, and the occasional dentist.
So they decided to sneak it in the backdoor by having the ISPs build something to "stop pedophiles" who mostly don't use the blocked communications channels anyway. That way they could claim they have nothing to do with it, despite the list of banned sites coming from the Australian Communications and Media Authority, a government organization. (Didn't you know? Apparently if you murder someone with a gun, it's not your fault unless you built the gun yourself. The guy who's firing it into the crowd isn't to blame!)
As opposed to DC's high and evolutionary Snowflame.
Facebook just needs to keep people satisfied or addicted enough that they don't quit. Granted, they are seeing a dropoff so they are failing at that, but unless a genuine competitor pops up they only need to be nice enough to people to make it not worth the cost of changing over to something else or going back to e-mail and message boards. And as long as they have a stranglehold on the social network market, that means they can treat people like shit and mostly get away with it.
Celine Dion got money because I needed to slipstream Service Pack 3 into XP.
Roch Voisine got money because a neighbor needed something to burn his garage band music on for sale.
Gordon Lightfoot got money because someone burned a pirated CD of Swedish metal.
If the guy is using paper made out of old growth instead of farmed trees, then he's already a Captain Planet villain, so arguing with him is rather pointless.
Be nicer if they would use it. I've seen adults brandish a copy of Everquest and say it's not for anyone under 18 because of the well-endowed elf chick on the cover, even as that big T for Teen sticker was visible.
(Sigh.) Oh, Spamusement, how I miss thee.
Of course it does. Every computer comes with a foot pedal and cup holder.
Judging by reviews, most people don't want to play DNF.
Actually, it just really sucks overall.
I was shunning Facebook before it was hip to shun Facebook.
Sounds like any corporation. When I worked at HP it was the same. 5ish different passwords for different systems, and every one had different requirements. And different expiry dates!
One I only needed once a month for payroll to an outsourcing company had to change passwords once a month. Had to change password every damn time I used it.
But my favorite was the one that flagged anything containing a dictionary word as insecure. So 6!x8qD3iT2#f7j32^#ng^3!0 was an insecure password because of "iT". It encouraged you to use short passwords or passwords of only numbers because using letters risked it finding "it" or "as" or something else in the string.
I had to write my passwords down. After a month of trying to be clever it just was not worth it. The password requirements were confusing and sometimes mutually exclusive.
Security has to be a balance between security and convenience, else your users will decide to subvert your security just to get their jobs done.
No idea. Their reports on LulzSec haven't seemed any more hostile than anyone else's.
You'd think they'd find a kindred spirit in him. He's a one-man Escapist DDoS, for crying out loud.
It gets even weirder when the prosecutor wants the kids tried as an adult. Yeah, so an adult is being tried for photographing a naked child and the adult and child are the same 16-year-old. I've yet to figure out what sort of twisted mind would think that makes sense.