RSA Security has a 2-factor OTP device in a credit card form-factor. It is very slick.
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I work for RSA and you are absolutely correct. Attempting to authenticate twice with the same tokencode will automatically yield a rejection.
I believe the idea of this "real-time application" is that they see you typing in your passcode and zap that code into the authentication system before you do. The success of this hack is predicated on the notion that they are watching with baited anticipation, ready to spring into action the exact moment you sign into your online bank.
The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least. The technique of racing ahead of a potential 2-factor authentication is compelling in theory, but of little practical use. If they're going to get into your bank, it has nothing to do with "defeating" Securid (or any other one-time display mechanism).
This story reminds me of Tom Lehrer, an MIT professor of mathematics that had a penchant for song-writing and performing. And he was really quite hilarious.
I sometimes wonder if they really don't care at all. They must have made an absolute killing (no pun intended) on all the contracts and oil money coming out of Iraq. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Being "tough and ruthless" in a democracy basically means you lie, cheat and steal. Rummy had all these qualities. Never having seen a day of combat in his life, despite being in the Navy, he goes on to... become the architect of an invasion?
He's been described as the "biggest obstacle in the fight on terrorism", despite his lies and his approval of torture. Maybe real success would tear into his oil or weapons profiteering (courtesy of Bechtel and its lucrative Iraq reconstruction projects, its ties to the bin ladens, etc. etc.). Or his fighting the supposed pandemic of bird-flu with his association with Gilead Sciences (a pharmeceutical that just happens to have a treatment).
I hope to never see his smug face on the news again.
You seem to assume that CPU and GPU upgrades can't enable new gameplay ideas.
And you seem to assume that they do.
Lets just say, by your citation of the exemplary ("Dead Rising"), that the current iteration of CPU ("the Xeon CPU") is heralding gameplay like we've never seen before. That it is definitively "Next Gen", taking us in directions that even the Wii cannot touch.
Trouble is, that your belief in Next-Gen is entirely predicated on one aspect of gaming : high fidelity cinematics. That this cinematic quality truly represents the next level in your interactive entertainment. Your enthusiastic missive could be correctly expressed as, "[Dead Rising] constitutes [an] example to [the] thesis [that next-gen == lots of good graphics]". Yet, there is nothing in the gameplay mechanics of Dead Rising that emerge if you replaced all of those high-poly Zombie models with symbolic ASCII squares or circles. There are just lots and lots of them, translating your gameplay experience into one of an endurance race.
It's a foregone conclusion that we will look back in the next, next, next generation and shrug at the graphics on the XBox 360 and it's Pepsi flavoured counterpart, the Playstation 3. Just as we do the Playstation, the Dreamcast, the Gamecube, the Colecovision, the Intellivision, the Atari. Its an inexorable path towards more of the same. The same gameplay elements, the same RPGs, the same FPS', the same fighters. I see no revolution in this, I see a constant trend of evolution.
Better and better graphics. Wicked sound. We know this path, and in a zillion ways, its been fully explored. We've witnessed the potential, and in seeing each successive refinement, we rarely question whether it represents a new direction in gaming. It's a certainly a known one. Better cinematic quality, better all-round media-centric creations are the bread and butter of the major figures of the videogame business. It's practically risk-free. Yet, it's almost axiomatic in hardcore gaming circles now : "Better graphics do not equal better gameplay." Most of Walmart's customers do not really understand this, but that's because their expectations have been managed with the consummate skill of big-media masters.
When I turn on VH1, I hear them talk about "NextGen Games" featuring the most "realistic environments ever seen". When I feel the push this hard, I suspect that there is more to it.
To put it simply, the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been architected such that their very innards are bent towards the greater realisation of streaming and dynamic graphics capabilities. What is most surprising however, is that these advancements have been done at the expense of greater advances in controllers, physics, A.I., interactivity and story. In the parlance of programming code, their chip configuration enhances the processor's ability to "write-stream" visual info into a somewhat limited storage cache area. Things like physics and A.I. are brazenly handed off to the deftness of the programmers themselves. Left to cram all of the unravelled, highyl branchy, decision code into a limited storage region, we can easily see where the 360's and PS3's emphasis lay. Certainly not in the realm of highly destructible environments, finely grained control or intelligent opponents. In other words, the new systems are whispering, "Look, but don't touch". Even with these amazing processors under the covers.
Next-gen is a marketing tune that you're dancing to, and that tune is "Baby, High-Fidelity is My Novelty".
So, I disagree with your idea that a new controller is somehow more next-gen... It's a self-serving rationalization by Nintendo fanbots...
And your "zombie-like" devotion to your surface-level examination of games and that silly term, "next gen" isn't just self-serving, it serves the interests of the marketdroids that have you convinced that next gen is anything BUT new ideas, innovation, dynamic environments, autho
Aside from the somewhat mystifying sprig of editorial colour, the American TARDIS would likely get our progeny promptly arrested for "breach of Homeland bullsomething" if they actually tried to climb inside.
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Definitely an influential figure in my early years. A wonderful artist and imaginative soul.
Exactly my thought. What was that supposed to convey?
It *is* turtles all the way down!
Scenario 3:
What about the saucy pics I took of myself?
RSA Security has a 2-factor OTP device in a credit card form-factor. It is very slick.
I work for RSA and you are absolutely correct. Attempting to authenticate twice with the same tokencode will automatically yield a rejection.
I believe the idea of this "real-time application" is that they see you typing in your passcode and zap that code into the authentication system before you do. The success of this hack is predicated on the notion that they are watching with baited anticipation, ready to spring into action the exact moment you sign into your online bank.
The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least. The technique of racing ahead of a potential 2-factor authentication is compelling in theory, but of little practical use. If they're going to get into your bank, it has nothing to do with "defeating" Securid (or any other one-time display mechanism).
Suffice to say, this story is bunk.
This reminds me of a good quote : "It's not who you know... it's who knows you".
I don't disagree. But jury is still out on Scott, Aliens was brilliant. Let him make some more films, keel over, and then we'll judge.
Yep, and that is good filmmaking. Also check out Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket' and it's hidden strains on indoctrination.
That's just it. The 'rah-rah-ness' of Starship Troopers was a deliberate and ironic statement on fascism.
yoiii.
Harvard alumnus, MIT prof, eventually UCSC, etc etc etc etc yawn...
This story reminds me of Tom Lehrer, an MIT professor of mathematics that had a penchant for song-writing and performing. And he was really quite hilarious.
e.g. the famous "chemical elements" song :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
You bought Audrey Hepburn's dress??? Post pics pls.
Greetings and Good day, Slashdot!
I am from Nigeria...
Totally agree.
I sometimes wonder if they really don't care at all. They must have made an absolute killing (no pun intended) on all the contracts and oil money coming out of Iraq. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Being "tough and ruthless" in a democracy basically means you lie, cheat and steal. Rummy had all these qualities. Never having seen a day of combat in his life, despite being in the Navy, he goes on to... become the architect of an invasion?
He's been described as the "biggest obstacle in the fight on terrorism", despite his lies and his approval of torture. Maybe real success would tear into his oil or weapons profiteering (courtesy of Bechtel and its lucrative Iraq reconstruction projects, its ties to the bin ladens, etc. etc.). Or his fighting the supposed pandemic of bird-flu with his association with Gilead Sciences (a pharmeceutical that just happens to have a treatment).
I hope to never see his smug face on the news again.
And are they water-tight?
Absolutely.
Haha, I loved that line from Raiders.
Thanks for the opening. :)
Yeah. Next-Gen. Right.
You seem to assume that CPU and GPU upgrades can't enable new gameplay ideas.
And you seem to assume that they do.
Lets just say, by your citation of the exemplary ("Dead Rising"), that the current iteration of CPU ("the Xeon CPU") is heralding gameplay like we've never seen before. That it is definitively "Next Gen", taking us in directions that even the Wii cannot touch.
Trouble is, that your belief in Next-Gen is entirely predicated on one aspect of gaming : high fidelity cinematics. That this cinematic quality truly represents the next level in your interactive entertainment. Your enthusiastic missive could be correctly expressed as, "[Dead Rising] constitutes [an] example to [the] thesis [that next-gen == lots of good graphics]". Yet, there is nothing in the gameplay mechanics of Dead Rising that emerge if you replaced all of those high-poly Zombie models with symbolic ASCII squares or circles. There are just lots and lots of them, translating your gameplay experience into one of an endurance race.
It's a foregone conclusion that we will look back in the next, next, next generation and shrug at the graphics on the XBox 360 and it's Pepsi flavoured counterpart, the Playstation 3. Just as we do the Playstation, the Dreamcast, the Gamecube, the Colecovision, the Intellivision, the Atari. Its an inexorable path towards more of the same. The same gameplay elements, the same RPGs, the same FPS', the same fighters. I see no revolution in this, I see a constant trend of evolution.
Better and better graphics. Wicked sound. We know this path, and in a zillion ways, its been fully explored. We've witnessed the potential, and in seeing each successive refinement, we rarely question whether it represents a new direction in gaming. It's a certainly a known one. Better cinematic quality, better all-round media-centric creations are the bread and butter of the major figures of the videogame business. It's practically risk-free. Yet, it's almost axiomatic in hardcore gaming circles now : "Better graphics do not equal better gameplay." Most of Walmart's customers do not really understand this, but that's because their expectations have been managed with the consummate skill of big-media masters.
When I turn on VH1, I hear them talk about "NextGen Games" featuring the most "realistic environments ever seen". When I feel the push this hard, I suspect that there is more to it.
To put it simply, the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been architected such that their very innards are bent towards the greater realisation of streaming and dynamic graphics capabilities. What is most surprising however, is that these advancements have been done at the expense of greater advances in controllers, physics, A.I., interactivity and story. In the parlance of programming code, their chip configuration enhances the processor's ability to "write-stream" visual info into a somewhat limited storage cache area. Things like physics and A.I. are brazenly handed off to the deftness of the programmers themselves. Left to cram all of the unravelled, highyl branchy, decision code into a limited storage region, we can easily see where the 360's and PS3's emphasis lay. Certainly not in the realm of highly destructible environments, finely grained control or intelligent opponents. In other words, the new systems are whispering, "Look, but don't touch". Even with these amazing processors under the covers.
Next-gen is a marketing tune that you're dancing to, and that tune is "Baby, High-Fidelity is My Novelty".
So, I disagree with your idea that a new controller is somehow more next-gen... It's a self-serving rationalization by Nintendo fanbots...
And your "zombie-like" devotion to your surface-level examination of games and that silly term, "next gen" isn't just self-serving, it serves the interests of the marketdroids that have you convinced that next gen is anything BUT new ideas, innovation, dynamic environments, autho
Hear that rumbling? That's the sound of a thousand Slashdot jokes about cybernetic wheelchair pr0n...
Run awayyyy!!!
Aside from the somewhat mystifying sprig of editorial colour, the American TARDIS would likely get our progeny promptly arrested for "breach of Homeland bullsomething" if they actually tried to climb inside.
Have YOU ever been inside a mailbox? I haven't.
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Top. Men.
Would love to see this on a downloadable VM. Any takers?