true but how many people browse to easily exploitable webpages on their x-box. A succesful attack requires 2 things. 1. a user that can be suckered into going to where your exploit is, and 2. a hole in the system or a user dumb enough to poke one themselves (Ie opening an untrusted application etc...). Having flash on a system that never goes anywhere other then hulu.com is also a system that would almost never be compromised, that dosn't speak for the security of flash itself, just the benefit of a system the users don't feel compelled to explore uncharted territory on.
Well not necessarily, I don't completely agree with his point, but I can't disagree either. If the vendor succesfully hides the vulnerabilities until they are patched, then that is = to a bug in an open source product that wasn't noticed until it was patched. A security flaw in the wild does not go undisclosed completely. The vendor may deny it, but those effected may not (well some of them, it may vary). Fundamentalism is flawed in either direction. Apache is a great example of open source that has worked very well. While say Diaspora was released open source, and was riddled with so many security flaws it was deemed worse security wise then what it was trying to replace (especially sad considering the horrific trackrecord facebook has for security). Open source isn't a magic bullet that guarantees a turd can be changed to gold overnight. While I agree many open source projects have a good track record and a tendency to patch flaws at the "theoretical risk" stage, and many proprietary products tend to wait until systems are actually compromised to lift a finger. Not every proprietary program is flawed, nor every open source program flawless.
Varies on the game as far as if they are worth the money, or more economical to play in a F2P or monthly subscription model. D&D online I have to give props to it for it's options in the payment system, the game itself varies on what your taste in a game is, but the payment options I think are a good way to reach both sides. You can either pay like $4-$5 to gain access to new areas that give more to do, more instances to run etc..., grind out the same ones over and over again to earn cash shop money in game without paying cash (annoying, tedious, but possible), or pay a set 15 a month and have access to everything. Myself my schedule etc... varies like crazy, so for me it's worthwhile just to pay to access the areas I want as I reach them, play for a week compulsively, take a month off, no worries for me, I generally pay about $10 for every months worth of time I'm playing, but don't feel my money goes to waste when I buy something then get really busy.
the absolute worse payment system in a free to play game I've played, would be perfect world. Where it would be virtually imposible to do anything without buying cash shop mana and HP charms. (in game potions were prohibitively expensive, and mana regens so slow that without the charms, you would have to sit and regen 10 minutes for every 45 seconds you used skills/spells), and those charms added up so fast it was rediculous, I'm talking a $3.50 item that was more or less necessary, and burns out in under 2 hours, and that was assuming you didn't use the best skills, in which case you could blow through them in less then an hour.
true, but you can't TOR a DDOS, Cracked/Open wifi is certainly an option though. Anon's general official stance "3 will rise up for everyone that falls", doesn't tend to care about protecting the 13-16 year olds that don't know how to do much more then push a button, and can't drive to an open hotspot
Well it sounds like they are talking a data breach not a security breach. Hacker breaks into the server, prods around harmless files attempting to learn what the software setup is just looking around scoping out for his later attack, then signs off with no traces of actually gathering anything, that is one thing. Hacker downloads any CC#'s or other sensitive data, that is a data breach, and it's time to stop fscking around and cut him out and get apology notices ready ASAP.
actually knowing the way anon tends to work, 32 people mindlessly hitting fire lazars button on LOIC, while anyone who planned or knew what they were doing are setting up the next raid.
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"How are you going to confront a picture of you running a red light? If you were making passage for a ambulance or policy vehicle, there will be witnesses and incident logs."
What event logs, what witnesses? You are talking at an intersection of which the person moving for the ambulance may or may not have even noticed the camera when being forced to move. Are you implying the ambulance speeding by has someone in the passenger seat taking notes "Just cut off a guy with the license plate A123-456 please submit this to court so they don't write him a ticket". Or after doing that you round up all the other cars that saw what happened and say "when I get this in the mail, come to court with me to testify that I didn't run the red light".
If your robbed a bank or shot someone the photograph would be 1 piece of evidence. If I sent a picture of a guy holding a gun inside of a bank, that alone is not enough evidence to convict, it would involve the testimony and a few witnesses. Context is key in any situations and charging people for crimes that are detected through an algorithm and a single still photograph, is not a fair system.
Well I do agree, it's kinda crazy and stupid, though I do have to say, the people that need a dual boot system of multiple linux flavors, probably wouldn't have a hard time accessing this, and secondly even in a dual boot setup for a linux box I'm pretty sure you usually aren't reformatting the whole drive, at the most you are formatting your/. most any use for a dual boot linux system that I can think of would have/home and well whatever other paths you have... set to not format during the install. Not comfortable enough in linux to manage multiple partitions.... well you probably aren't going to be installing 10 flavors of linux on a system then, at most you should be using a VM if you are just trying them all out.
The issue isn't that they are hard to set up once, the issue is they randomly undo themselves, change the settings and refresh everything back to default open without telling you. Now personally the way I do it I don't see a problem, I sign up, I have one generic picture of myself that people who know me would be able to recognize me, my name. I don't post anything I wouldn't be ok with my boss, girlfriend, future employers and any other person I might possibly see one day knowing.
Seeing the file system is not seeing the source code. Windows, Internet Explorer, adobe acrobat, you can see all of the DLLs they have, but no matter what you can't really take an estimate of how many holes are in it.
"hacker" could in theory write an exploit to attack the system through a browser, pdf, document flaw, and from there have it download a separate app that is legitimate but overpriced. However I do think this idea is flawed in the fact that it is too traceable. Requires the investment to actually get into the app store, and succeed at writing an app that apple will accept and not consider redundant or boring etc... For one run, in which you may or may not be sued into oblivion after it is found out and there is a clear money trail. I would think a 900 number would probably be easier to set up and possibly easier to hide the actual location then an app store program.
Well functional is rather debatable, as pretty much everyone defines functional as does what I want to do. Presents a clear list of what is approved to buy, and everything I actually want to do is on that list, for a computer novice is functional. Now for me, running an emulator, being able to compile code etc... is what I want to do, so for me that is functional.
Generally yes, however you do miss the one exception to that rule. Nintendo doesn't play by the same rules as sony and microsoft. Nintendo is well known for one huge ability. The ability to make the games that can sell a system all by themselves. Face it, nintendo would still have sold millions of wiis, if you limited the supply of games exclusively to titles developed in house by Nintendo. Even if the controller is only required to play nintendo in house games, they will sell.
You are far less likely to have a serious breach even under fire. Correct everything that can be accessed can be compromised, but the weaknesses are not necessarily known to every group of hackers. Do you think no large organized hacking groups take shots at google, microsoft, amazon etc...? Sure none have a 100% perfect rating, but more or less deflected at least 99.9% of attacks, even from organized groups. By your logic there would be a full list of all of the CC#'s for amazon.com online after the wikileaks incident, rather then a few minor interrupts to their service.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing. They built their service in a way that doesn't keep information that would endanger the public if it were compromised. Do they deal with transactions? Yes they do, did they consider it a good idea to keep the CC#'s? No because if they were hacked that would have been bad. The general rule should be, if you aren't sure you can keep the data safe, you shouldn't be hanging onto it. Nintendo and Sony both decided it wasn't worth the time and money to secure the information. Sony chose to keep it anyway tell everyone the information was safe and hope nobody tested that statement, Nintendo chose to not keep it at all. It's the same reason why people aren't furious that there is no other OS feature on the Wii, If it isn't worth the investment to allow the feature to be in it and secure without opening them or you up to risks that's just fine, realize it up front, let the people know "that isn't a can of worms I want to open" and there's no problem. Sell me something to do X, Y and Z, then taking away Z after I've already paid for it, is wrong.
In most cases it isn't likely. In most courts (of course it varies based on the judge), but usually the word of 1 cop is equal to the word of 5 non-badge wearing citizens, (note citizens in groups IE husband/wife friends etc... only count as 1 view point), IE if 2 guys who know eachother witness 2 cops beating up a person being arrested, those 3 people testifying will have little chance of making a case compelling enough to outweigh the 2 cops story (assuming the 2 cops are at least smart enough to match their stories). The only way they would have a chance is with the video and if the video is destroyed, it's their word vs yours, and badge beats witness.
The odds of someone filming police brutality etc.. it generally isn't planned and recorded by someone with a full sized video camera, it's usually caught by some ordinary joe who discretely used his cellphone camera to take a clip.
Well are you just advocating that games not be developed at all then? I mean I fully agree with and back the people that say games need to come down in price drastically and hope to make up for it with quantity, but you more or less seem to be advocating a system of "just pray for donations". With the amount of investment that goes into a game, that just isn't going to work, you've still got 50 developers to pay. Don't like what the big guys are charging, play the indi games that are out, if you succeed in bankrupting the big guys, that's what's going to be left anyway, a ton of games with possibly better gameplay, but most likely much lower budget when it comes to graphics etc...
I don't really see that as nearly as big of a deal, there's 2 tended varying systems that games that mix pay and free tend to do, and extra maps is the less horrific one. Method A. Paid players can go to special maps, playing against eachother with a bit more variety, as well as play in the games we play in. Method B. Paid players get better weapons/items, of which they can take into the free rooms and dominate. Now the clear difference between these 2 scenarios, method A does not necessarily take anything away from the free players fun, admitted it can depending on the extent they make the maps, but if free has roughly the same number of mats as the normal game has now, and paid has say double, then free loses nothing, paid gets something. Method B. on the other hand, well it's pretty clear that being a free player means getting stepped on 24/7.
Very silly statement, the patent system is flawed largest because it all comes down to who has the most money to fight, a stupid illegitimate patent on something that has been used for decades, is roughly equal value to a patent on a legitimately unique idea. The one that will survive, will be the one that has the most money to fight in court. A small developer comes up with a brilliant idea, and patents it, it would be easy work for microsoft, apple or any other large company to invalidate the patent, as well as claim the smaller company violated 10 of their broad stupidly obvious patents at the same time, and put them out of business.
So someone is complaining that information posted to something that is specifically designed to make the information public and searchable, on a website that is famous for it's incredible indexing and filtering capabilities, and the complaint is that the information is easy to get? Lets put something into sane terms ok.
If information is claimed to be private (e-mails, your contacts, messages etc...) is compromised then it's a privacy violation Information that is announced to be public designed to be easy to access for anyone, then it is PUBLIC, there is no privacy violation.
"known to be hit by magnitude 9.0 earthquakes" is a tad excessive of a way to put it. Particularly due to the fact that it is inaccurate to put it as plural. There has been a total of 1 9.0 earthquake there, in recorded history. I'm not completely disagreeing with the possible risk I'm not sure what the damage a smaller earthquake would do to a nuclear waste storage facility, just the way you phrased it sounds kind of silly. It's akin to saying "look at the idiots building the freedom tower, in an area known for having planes crash into tall buildings".
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true but how many people browse to easily exploitable webpages on their x-box. A succesful attack requires 2 things. 1. a user that can be suckered into going to where your exploit is, and 2. a hole in the system or a user dumb enough to poke one themselves (Ie opening an untrusted application etc...). Having flash on a system that never goes anywhere other then hulu.com is also a system that would almost never be compromised, that dosn't speak for the security of flash itself, just the benefit of a system the users don't feel compelled to explore uncharted territory on.
Well not necessarily, I don't completely agree with his point, but I can't disagree either. If the vendor succesfully hides the vulnerabilities until they are patched, then that is = to a bug in an open source product that wasn't noticed until it was patched. A security flaw in the wild does not go undisclosed completely. The vendor may deny it, but those effected may not (well some of them, it may vary). Fundamentalism is flawed in either direction. Apache is a great example of open source that has worked very well. While say Diaspora was released open source, and was riddled with so many security flaws it was deemed worse security wise then what it was trying to replace (especially sad considering the horrific trackrecord facebook has for security). Open source isn't a magic bullet that guarantees a turd can be changed to gold overnight. While I agree many open source projects have a good track record and a tendency to patch flaws at the "theoretical risk" stage, and many proprietary products tend to wait until systems are actually compromised to lift a finger. Not every proprietary program is flawed, nor every open source program flawless.
if the sensor also can detect visible light?, very few situations involve filming in absolute pitch darkness.
the absolute worse payment system in a free to play game I've played, would be perfect world. Where it would be virtually imposible to do anything without buying cash shop mana and HP charms. (in game potions were prohibitively expensive, and mana regens so slow that without the charms, you would have to sit and regen 10 minutes for every 45 seconds you used skills/spells), and those charms added up so fast it was rediculous, I'm talking a $3.50 item that was more or less necessary, and burns out in under 2 hours, and that was assuming you didn't use the best skills, in which case you could blow through them in less then an hour.
true, but you can't TOR a DDOS, Cracked/Open wifi is certainly an option though. Anon's general official stance "3 will rise up for everyone that falls", doesn't tend to care about protecting the 13-16 year olds that don't know how to do much more then push a button, and can't drive to an open hotspot
Well it sounds like they are talking a data breach not a security breach. Hacker breaks into the server, prods around harmless files attempting to learn what the software setup is just looking around scoping out for his later attack, then signs off with no traces of actually gathering anything, that is one thing. Hacker downloads any CC#'s or other sensitive data, that is a data breach, and it's time to stop fscking around and cut him out and get apology notices ready ASAP.
actually knowing the way anon tends to work, 32 people mindlessly hitting fire lazars button on LOIC, while anyone who planned or knew what they were doing are setting up the next raid.
He already did one about pac-man, it just never was released on an album http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/pacman.html
"How are you going to confront a picture of you running a red light? If you were making passage for a ambulance or policy vehicle, there will be witnesses and incident logs." What event logs, what witnesses? You are talking at an intersection of which the person moving for the ambulance may or may not have even noticed the camera when being forced to move. Are you implying the ambulance speeding by has someone in the passenger seat taking notes "Just cut off a guy with the license plate A123-456 please submit this to court so they don't write him a ticket". Or after doing that you round up all the other cars that saw what happened and say "when I get this in the mail, come to court with me to testify that I didn't run the red light".
If your robbed a bank or shot someone the photograph would be 1 piece of evidence. If I sent a picture of a guy holding a gun inside of a bank, that alone is not enough evidence to convict, it would involve the testimony and a few witnesses. Context is key in any situations and charging people for crimes that are detected through an algorithm and a single still photograph, is not a fair system.
Well I do agree, it's kinda crazy and stupid, though I do have to say, the people that need a dual boot system of multiple linux flavors, probably wouldn't have a hard time accessing this, and secondly even in a dual boot setup for a linux box I'm pretty sure you usually aren't reformatting the whole drive, at the most you are formatting your /. most any use for a dual boot linux system that I can think of would have /home and well whatever other paths you have... set to not format during the install. Not comfortable enough in linux to manage multiple partitions.... well you probably aren't going to be installing 10 flavors of linux on a system then, at most you should be using a VM if you are just trying them all out.
The issue isn't that they are hard to set up once, the issue is they randomly undo themselves, change the settings and refresh everything back to default open without telling you. Now personally the way I do it I don't see a problem, I sign up, I have one generic picture of myself that people who know me would be able to recognize me, my name. I don't post anything I wouldn't be ok with my boss, girlfriend, future employers and any other person I might possibly see one day knowing.
Seeing the file system is not seeing the source code. Windows, Internet Explorer, adobe acrobat, you can see all of the DLLs they have, but no matter what you can't really take an estimate of how many holes are in it.
"hacker" could in theory write an exploit to attack the system through a browser, pdf, document flaw, and from there have it download a separate app that is legitimate but overpriced. However I do think this idea is flawed in the fact that it is too traceable. Requires the investment to actually get into the app store, and succeed at writing an app that apple will accept and not consider redundant or boring etc... For one run, in which you may or may not be sued into oblivion after it is found out and there is a clear money trail. I would think a 900 number would probably be easier to set up and possibly easier to hide the actual location then an app store program.
Well functional is rather debatable, as pretty much everyone defines functional as does what I want to do. Presents a clear list of what is approved to buy, and everything I actually want to do is on that list, for a computer novice is functional. Now for me, running an emulator, being able to compile code etc... is what I want to do, so for me that is functional.
Generally yes, however you do miss the one exception to that rule. Nintendo doesn't play by the same rules as sony and microsoft. Nintendo is well known for one huge ability. The ability to make the games that can sell a system all by themselves. Face it, nintendo would still have sold millions of wiis, if you limited the supply of games exclusively to titles developed in house by Nintendo. Even if the controller is only required to play nintendo in house games, they will sell.
You are far less likely to have a serious breach even under fire. Correct everything that can be accessed can be compromised, but the weaknesses are not necessarily known to every group of hackers. Do you think no large organized hacking groups take shots at google, microsoft, amazon etc...? Sure none have a 100% perfect rating, but more or less deflected at least 99.9% of attacks, even from organized groups. By your logic there would be a full list of all of the CC#'s for amazon.com online after the wikileaks incident, rather then a few minor interrupts to their service.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing. They built their service in a way that doesn't keep information that would endanger the public if it were compromised. Do they deal with transactions? Yes they do, did they consider it a good idea to keep the CC#'s? No because if they were hacked that would have been bad.
The general rule should be, if you aren't sure you can keep the data safe, you shouldn't be hanging onto it. Nintendo and Sony both decided it wasn't worth the time and money to secure the information. Sony chose to keep it anyway tell everyone the information was safe and hope nobody tested that statement, Nintendo chose to not keep it at all. It's the same reason why people aren't furious that there is no other OS feature on the Wii, If it isn't worth the investment to allow the feature to be in it and secure without opening them or you up to risks that's just fine, realize it up front, let the people know "that isn't a can of worms I want to open" and there's no problem. Sell me something to do X, Y and Z, then taking away Z after I've already paid for it, is wrong.
In most cases it isn't likely. In most courts (of course it varies based on the judge), but usually the word of 1 cop is equal to the word of 5 non-badge wearing citizens, (note citizens in groups IE husband/wife friends etc... only count as 1 view point), IE if 2 guys who know eachother witness 2 cops beating up a person being arrested, those 3 people testifying will have little chance of making a case compelling enough to outweigh the 2 cops story (assuming the 2 cops are at least smart enough to match their stories). The only way they would have a chance is with the video and if the video is destroyed, it's their word vs yours, and badge beats witness.
The odds of someone filming police brutality etc.. it generally isn't planned and recorded by someone with a full sized video camera, it's usually caught by some ordinary joe who discretely used his cellphone camera to take a clip.
Well are you just advocating that games not be developed at all then? I mean I fully agree with and back the people that say games need to come down in price drastically and hope to make up for it with quantity, but you more or less seem to be advocating a system of "just pray for donations". With the amount of investment that goes into a game, that just isn't going to work, you've still got 50 developers to pay. Don't like what the big guys are charging, play the indi games that are out, if you succeed in bankrupting the big guys, that's what's going to be left anyway, a ton of games with possibly better gameplay, but most likely much lower budget when it comes to graphics etc...
I don't really see that as nearly as big of a deal, there's 2 tended varying systems that games that mix pay and free tend to do, and extra maps is the less horrific one. Method A. Paid players can go to special maps, playing against eachother with a bit more variety, as well as play in the games we play in. Method B. Paid players get better weapons/items, of which they can take into the free rooms and dominate. Now the clear difference between these 2 scenarios, method A does not necessarily take anything away from the free players fun, admitted it can depending on the extent they make the maps, but if free has roughly the same number of mats as the normal game has now, and paid has say double, then free loses nothing, paid gets something. Method B. on the other hand, well it's pretty clear that being a free player means getting stepped on 24/7.
Very silly statement, the patent system is flawed largest because it all comes down to who has the most money to fight, a stupid illegitimate patent on something that has been used for decades, is roughly equal value to a patent on a legitimately unique idea. The one that will survive, will be the one that has the most money to fight in court. A small developer comes up with a brilliant idea, and patents it, it would be easy work for microsoft, apple or any other large company to invalidate the patent, as well as claim the smaller company violated 10 of their broad stupidly obvious patents at the same time, and put them out of business.
If information is claimed to be private (e-mails, your contacts, messages etc...) is compromised then it's a privacy violation
Information that is announced to be public designed to be easy to access for anyone, then it is PUBLIC, there is no privacy violation.
"known to be hit by magnitude 9.0 earthquakes" is a tad excessive of a way to put it. Particularly due to the fact that it is inaccurate to put it as plural. There has been a total of 1 9.0 earthquake there, in recorded history. I'm not completely disagreeing with the possible risk I'm not sure what the damage a smaller earthquake would do to a nuclear waste storage facility, just the way you phrased it sounds kind of silly. It's akin to saying "look at the idiots building the freedom tower, in an area known for having planes crash into tall buildings".