I think you fail at grasping the concept. Social networking games are more than just playing games with friends. This is not even about playing scrabble with some friends over facebook. These new social network games take advantage of a currently deployed social network of friends, and use them to spread. For example, the vampire game. When you bite friends of yours that aren't playing the game, you get a bonus, and they get an invite to join the game. If they do join, you get another bonus, and you have someone to help you complete quests or whatever. This is also different from classical online games, because when you join, you start out with a list of friends that also play the game, as opposed to the chat room environment where there is more of a chance of meeting new people.
In the end, it really is more of a marketing strategy than anything else, but it's a marketing strategy that propels itself, and the users enjoy participating in. Like a pyramid scheme with cooler graphics.
Your numbers are a bit off. Money does not just disappear when you spend it, it moves. All that prevention would do economically is make a few doctors more wealthy than they needed to be. Worst of all, it will waste the doctor's time and energy, which could be spent saving other lives.
Likewise, that 400k goes to the doctors, then to the stores, and eventually gets passed around enough that it ends up back at the government. When government spends money locally, and the recipients buy local, then the money stays in the system. It only acts as a small bit of economic incentive for people to do research that is in the best interests of the country.
Sorry, but what's the big deal? My penis is less stinky, and doesn't look like a shrivily wad of chewing gum. It's like a permanent haircut, except it just makes my penis look cool. I don't understand why people go into such a fury about this issue. Why should anyone dictate to someone else whether or not they should be allowed to make this decision for their kid?
I don't really care. I would probably land on the side of pro-circumcision for my kids, purely for the reason that it worked out fine for me, but if it costs an extra 30 dollars, I probably wouldn't do it. Show me some evidence one way or the other that it really matters, and I am open to changing my mind, but why does the anti-circumcision crowd always paint the pro-circumcision crowd as some sort of insane, deranged, psychopaths?
That's not the complaint at all. If we had an agency actually geared for domestic cyber security, in theory, they would be able to crack down on NSA agents that have far over-reached their duties. I think it would be nice to have an agency more modeled after the FDA etc, auditing corporate networks the way FDA audits new food/drug products that are coming on to the market. If a company fails an audit, they receive a large fine, and just like the FDA does with research labs, companies need to be ready to be audited at any time. Any company with a business license and an Internet presence should be required to adhere at least to a minimum set of best practices.
Here's the thing though, it costs 150 to get out of an att contract (last I checked). So canceling your att contract right before you buy your new phone will save you 50 dollars, but it's more hassle. I don't understand how things like cellphone contracts and the exclusivity contracts between apple and att are even legal. They seem like the very definition of "anti-competitive" to me.
Furthermore, doubling the price because someone is already a customer? What they should have said is that the new iPhones are 400 dollars, and there is a special 200 dollar price for first time buyers.
Right.. and that worked really well with the latest serialization bugs in java. 6 months later and OSX was still not patched. In infosec, you either PoC or GTFO. Theory bullshit and speculation on exploitability is not tolerated. Many vendors do not patch until there is a publicly known exploit, and even then, they only patch the versions that have been proven to be effected.
Many companies these days will either ignore you, or threaten to sue you if you release, and still not patch. That bullshit is a lot to deal with. If a company does not have a bug bounty program, what possible incentive is there to telling the vendor? You either keep it to own their shit, find some sketchy black market buyers that want it, or you dump it on milw0rm because it's funny.
It's a bit different when you are the founder of the company, and you see your life's work get destroyed overnight. Piled on that, I understand that he just lost out on some massive contract, and has been dealing with personal issues since him mother recently killed herself. This is definitely not a case of someone simply drinking a bit too much of the company cool-aid.
More importantly, why don't more cameras (I don't know of any) support USB storage? My 8 gig USB stick is smaller than an SD card and I paid about 25 dollars for it, and it also plugs into anything with a USB port. Many new headphones are even USB. What I don't understand is why people keep coming up with new proprietary storage solutions, and vendors keep pumping laptops with new data readers for card protocols that I have never heard of. It makes more sense to me to keep it simple.
What exactly is it that makes you think that this data was not encrypted? Encrypted documents can prevent some of the smash and grab exposures, but all you need to do is stick around a couple days and gather passwords, and you can decrypt anything you would need.
Dude, less drugs and try again. I have yet to meet the network I couldn't dig my way out of. You likely got tagged because your dhcp or your browser's useragent string got fingerprinted. If you can get on from a VM, there is ALWAYS a way to get out, even if you have to tunnel your connection, but it should not need to come to that.
Um, that's the exact scenario where it would work flawlessly. If you have a NAT style setup with your VMs, all traffic coming out of your VM looks like it is coming from your mac/ip. You probably would not even need to do any fancy tunneling tricks.
From the other direction, it is in a government's interests to make sure that people and companies within the boarders are acting in the best interests of the country. If a company is just going to start operating in the wealthiest country in the world, and still refuse to pay their fair share of taxes then why would a government want the company to operate there?
Yes, there exists a conflict between patriotic interests and business interests. That is how it is supposed to work.
Sorry, but I have yet to meet this mythical female mathematician that only got to where she was because she had everything handed to her. Every girl I know that got into theoretical mathematics got there by being a freaking rockstar mathematician. In my experience, mediocre mathematicians are predominantly male, because females that are mediocre at math tend to go into a more accepting field.
We all know that Compsky's beef with the media comes from the fact that he talks slow, and doesn't keep track of how long he is talking for:-) He also tends to take the Juggernaut stance in a debate and keep right on talking no matter what else is going on. I think every interview that I have ever seen with him, they had to end it by cutting him off mid-sentence.
He's got some great things to say, and is damn good at saying it, but from what I have seen, he doesn't seem to be the best at having symmetric conversation.
What is so terrible about political correctness? It is simply a list of terms that have become derogatory to certain people in certain areas. If you don't give a shit about offending people, then you have no obligation to stay informed, but there is no need to deride those that are making the effort.
Of course you can't please everyone all the time (I personally have no intention of pleasing the feminists that go into a pseudo uproar when you call them Mrs because the letter "r" implies ownership etc), but it might be a good idea to hold off on the cancer jokes at the next board meeting or cocktail party.
Funny that even the term "politically correct" has become derogatory. Every time I flip through fox news, they seem to be in an uproar about someone being "politically correct". I believe "politically correct" prefers to call itself "tact" these days.
Perceptions of law (to respect or disobey) can change drastically when the only laws that pertain to you are directly engineered to keep you from leading a successful life.
Do a cost/benefit analysis from their perspective. You would be a fool to choose to raise kids in a dangerous slum, rather than a place where they could get a decent education, and a chance at a future.
Most of the people living in poverty in Mexico have no legal path for coming into the US, and no chance of escaping poverty while living in Mexico. If these people had a legal path, and they chose ignore it, then I would be all for deportation. Until that gets fixed, it seems unfair to penalize them for poorly designed US policies.
This brings up an interesting point, does anyone know any good ways to burn your fingerprints off? From the sources I can see on google, physical burning (with an iron etc) fails, and they grow back pretty fast, but more chemical methods, like lye or alcohol etc are pretty effective at permanently removing, or at least obscuring your prints.
Illegal immigration has nothing to do with mischievous Mexicans that don't want to play by the rules. If the current immigration laws were fair, do you really think so many of them would be risking their lives to come into the US?
It blows me away that we would turn away people that actually want to come into the US and work. Want to get rid of all illegal aliens at once? Legalize it. Criminal activity occurs when you force people to live outside the law, and don't give them the proper legal protections that they need to live prosperously.
Plankalkul was first implemented in 2000, so I think it missed the game by a long shot. If we are talking about pretend programming languages, Ada's language still beats out this guy by over 100 years.
800x600 is pretty useless these days for things like web browsing, writing code, or doing anything on a computer besides watching DVDs etc.
Sure, having some massive resolution isn't critical, but it should at least be on par with late 90s laptops. If it doesn't have at least 1280x1024, it is simply not useful for anything I would care to use it for.
"That's right up there with Transformers, robots sitting in chairs at control panels, looking at video screens, and talking into telephones."
Wireless communication is insecure. Do you really think it's a good idea to control your mega death fortress with bluetooth?
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Nifty, do you know what the thing runs on the inside? I spent a few days around christmas time trying to hack ndis wrappers around the windows drivers for the mobile device so I could get the mobile device working in linux.
My CPE was just stolen a few days ago, so maybe I will look into getting one of those things. I am also curious if I can charge the device with USB, and if I can run a patch cable to it for quicker speeds etc.
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I think you fail at grasping the concept. Social networking games are more than just playing games with friends. This is not even about playing scrabble with some friends over facebook. These new social network games take advantage of a currently deployed social network of friends, and use them to spread. For example, the vampire game. When you bite friends of yours that aren't playing the game, you get a bonus, and they get an invite to join the game. If they do join, you get another bonus, and you have someone to help you complete quests or whatever. This is also different from classical online games, because when you join, you start out with a list of friends that also play the game, as opposed to the chat room environment where there is more of a chance of meeting new people.
In the end, it really is more of a marketing strategy than anything else, but it's a marketing strategy that propels itself, and the users enjoy participating in. Like a pyramid scheme with cooler graphics.
Your numbers are a bit off. Money does not just disappear when you spend it, it moves. All that prevention would do economically is make a few doctors more wealthy than they needed to be. Worst of all, it will waste the doctor's time and energy, which could be spent saving other lives.
Likewise, that 400k goes to the doctors, then to the stores, and eventually gets passed around enough that it ends up back at the government. When government spends money locally, and the recipients buy local, then the money stays in the system. It only acts as a small bit of economic incentive for people to do research that is in the best interests of the country.
Sorry, but what's the big deal? My penis is less stinky, and doesn't look like a shrivily wad of chewing gum. It's like a permanent haircut, except it just makes my penis look cool. I don't understand why people go into such a fury about this issue. Why should anyone dictate to someone else whether or not they should be allowed to make this decision for their kid?
I don't really care. I would probably land on the side of pro-circumcision for my kids, purely for the reason that it worked out fine for me, but if it costs an extra 30 dollars, I probably wouldn't do it. Show me some evidence one way or the other that it really matters, and I am open to changing my mind, but why does the anti-circumcision crowd always paint the pro-circumcision crowd as some sort of insane, deranged, psychopaths?
That's not the complaint at all. If we had an agency actually geared for domestic cyber security, in theory, they would be able to crack down on NSA agents that have far over-reached their duties. I think it would be nice to have an agency more modeled after the FDA etc, auditing corporate networks the way FDA audits new food/drug products that are coming on to the market. If a company fails an audit, they receive a large fine, and just like the FDA does with research labs, companies need to be ready to be audited at any time. Any company with a business license and an Internet presence should be required to adhere at least to a minimum set of best practices.
Here's the thing though, it costs 150 to get out of an att contract (last I checked). So canceling your att contract right before you buy your new phone will save you 50 dollars, but it's more hassle. I don't understand how things like cellphone contracts and the exclusivity contracts between apple and att are even legal. They seem like the very definition of "anti-competitive" to me.
Furthermore, doubling the price because someone is already a customer? What they should have said is that the new iPhones are 400 dollars, and there is a special 200 dollar price for first time buyers.
Right.. and that worked really well with the latest serialization bugs in java. 6 months later and OSX was still not patched. In infosec, you either PoC or GTFO. Theory bullshit and speculation on exploitability is not tolerated. Many vendors do not patch until there is a publicly known exploit, and even then, they only patch the versions that have been proven to be effected.
Many companies these days will either ignore you, or threaten to sue you if you release, and still not patch. That bullshit is a lot to deal with. If a company does not have a bug bounty program, what possible incentive is there to telling the vendor? You either keep it to own their shit, find some sketchy black market buyers that want it, or you dump it on milw0rm because it's funny.
It's a bit different when you are the founder of the company, and you see your life's work get destroyed overnight. Piled on that, I understand that he just lost out on some massive contract, and has been dealing with personal issues since him mother recently killed herself. This is definitely not a case of someone simply drinking a bit too much of the company cool-aid.
More importantly, why don't more cameras (I don't know of any) support USB storage? My 8 gig USB stick is smaller than an SD card and I paid about 25 dollars for it, and it also plugs into anything with a USB port. Many new headphones are even USB. What I don't understand is why people keep coming up with new proprietary storage solutions, and vendors keep pumping laptops with new data readers for card protocols that I have never heard of. It makes more sense to me to keep it simple.
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What exactly is it that makes you think that this data was not encrypted? Encrypted documents can prevent some of the smash and grab exposures, but all you need to do is stick around a couple days and gather passwords, and you can decrypt anything you would need.
Dude, less drugs and try again. I have yet to meet the network I couldn't dig my way out of. You likely got tagged because your dhcp or your browser's useragent string got fingerprinted. If you can get on from a VM, there is ALWAYS a way to get out, even if you have to tunnel your connection, but it should not need to come to that.
Um, that's the exact scenario where it would work flawlessly. If you have a NAT style setup with your VMs, all traffic coming out of your VM looks like it is coming from your mac/ip. You probably would not even need to do any fancy tunneling tricks.
From the other direction, it is in a government's interests to make sure that people and companies within the boarders are acting in the best interests of the country. If a company is just going to start operating in the wealthiest country in the world, and still refuse to pay their fair share of taxes then why would a government want the company to operate there?
Yes, there exists a conflict between patriotic interests and business interests. That is how it is supposed to work.
Sorry, but I have yet to meet this mythical female mathematician that only got to where she was because she had everything handed to her. Every girl I know that got into theoretical mathematics got there by being a freaking rockstar mathematician. In my experience, mediocre mathematicians are predominantly male, because females that are mediocre at math tend to go into a more accepting field.
We all know that Compsky's beef with the media comes from the fact that he talks slow, and doesn't keep track of how long he is talking for :-) He also tends to take the Juggernaut stance in a debate and keep right on talking no matter what else is going on. I think every interview that I have ever seen with him, they had to end it by cutting him off mid-sentence.
He's got some great things to say, and is damn good at saying it, but from what I have seen, he doesn't seem to be the best at having symmetric conversation.
What is so terrible about political correctness? It is simply a list of terms that have become derogatory to certain people in certain areas. If you don't give a shit about offending people, then you have no obligation to stay informed, but there is no need to deride those that are making the effort.
Of course you can't please everyone all the time (I personally have no intention of pleasing the feminists that go into a pseudo uproar when you call them Mrs because the letter "r" implies ownership etc), but it might be a good idea to hold off on the cancer jokes at the next board meeting or cocktail party.
Funny that even the term "politically correct" has become derogatory. Every time I flip through fox news, they seem to be in an uproar about someone being "politically correct". I believe "politically correct" prefers to call itself "tact" these days.
Perceptions of law (to respect or disobey) can change drastically when the only laws that pertain to you are directly engineered to keep you from leading a successful life.
Do a cost/benefit analysis from their perspective. You would be a fool to choose to raise kids in a dangerous slum, rather than a place where they could get a decent education, and a chance at a future.
Most of the people living in poverty in Mexico have no legal path for coming into the US, and no chance of escaping poverty while living in Mexico. If these people had a legal path, and they chose ignore it, then I would be all for deportation. Until that gets fixed, it seems unfair to penalize them for poorly designed US policies.
This brings up an interesting point, does anyone know any good ways to burn your fingerprints off? From the sources I can see on google, physical burning (with an iron etc) fails, and they grow back pretty fast, but more chemical methods, like lye or alcohol etc are pretty effective at permanently removing, or at least obscuring your prints.
Illegal immigration has nothing to do with mischievous Mexicans that don't want to play by the rules. If the current immigration laws were fair, do you really think so many of them would be risking their lives to come into the US?
It blows me away that we would turn away people that actually want to come into the US and work. Want to get rid of all illegal aliens at once? Legalize it. Criminal activity occurs when you force people to live outside the law, and don't give them the proper legal protections that they need to live prosperously.
Plankalkul was first implemented in 2000, so I think it missed the game by a long shot. If we are talking about pretend programming languages, Ada's language still beats out this guy by over 100 years.
I prefer the description "pineapple gasoline".
800x600 is pretty useless these days for things like web browsing, writing code, or doing anything on a computer besides watching DVDs etc.
Sure, having some massive resolution isn't critical, but it should at least be on par with late 90s laptops. If it doesn't have at least 1280x1024, it is simply not useful for anything I would care to use it for.
"That's right up there with Transformers, robots sitting in chairs at control panels, looking at video screens, and talking into telephones."
Wireless communication is insecure. Do you really think it's a good idea to control your mega death fortress with bluetooth?
Nifty, do you know what the thing runs on the inside? I spent a few days around christmas time trying to hack ndis wrappers around the windows drivers for the mobile device so I could get the mobile device working in linux.
My CPE was just stolen a few days ago, so maybe I will look into getting one of those things. I am also curious if I can charge the device with USB, and if I can run a patch cable to it for quicker speeds etc.