*unplugs network cable from gaming PC... Hmm... Team fortresses online multi-player does not appear to work offline. Yes sony really screwed the pooch, left their security too weak on something that both the developers and their players expected to enjoy from their investments, hardly a fair comparison though, if more games had a draconian DRM that prevented access to single player modes while PSN is down, then your comment would make sense.
It is still a danger, but on the other hand FiOS and DSL both have a reason to support rather then oppose netflix. Cable's main hatred of netflix isn't the bandwidth usage as they claim, but the fact that it directly competes with cable TV. Alternative internet providers biggest disadvantage when competing against cable in the home market, is that cable bundles cableTV with internet. If cable TV were to die off due to failure to adapt to new technology, that would not be a bad thing for alternative providers.
The real fact is there isn't a way to define anonymous, and blaming all of anonymous for the actions of one group is ridiculous. Sony calling anon evil for the actions of this group is more or less no different then calling all Christians evil for the actions of Westboro baptist church, anyone can be a christian, and even take some portions of the christian beliefs out of context, yet you don't see the media or anyone hounding Christians as a whole for the actions of one group that claims to be Christians. All Anonymous means is one who dosn't give their identity, and by that logic most bankrobbers, murderers, serial killers have been anonymous since long before the internet was ever born.
It isn't illegal to leave your keys in the ignition of your personal car, but it is gross negligence to leave your keys in the ignition of, say an armored truck filled with someone things.
That is a very good point, generally when a security vulnerability is found in windows, it's usually determined to be a bug carried over from windows XP that was reported 7 years ago.
Not to mention the lack of ability to confirm or deny success. What evidence would you bring forward to the american people. "We just incinerated a building we are 95% sure osama bin laden was inside", or "We have his body, DNA tested it against his sisters DNA and confirmed it was him"
Both facts are true. Yes if they can trace and find the owner, but it also depends on your sort of business. If it is your stuff being stolen then you are the victim. When you take a role of protecting other people's stuff that is when you are liable. If someone breaks into a bank and steals my safe deposit box, yes the thief deserves jail time if he's caught, but if he isn't the bank and its security should be liable for what was stolen from their vault, not me.
While I don't condone in the trading of such items, I do have to say the legal system fighting the images does more harm then good. The actual abusers of the stuff (IE the ones actually taking the pictures, harming children etc...) are rarely targeted, while ones who actually trade the images after the fact, whether intentionally or by accident (accidentally finding an image posted on a forum, then having it in your cache is considered possession) are persecuted way beyond necessity. Heck people are going to jail for the rest of their lives over drawn pictures, manga collections etc... Putting a stop to the moronic abuses of the law is something for me to oppose.
I hate to say it but both analogies are about right. It is 100% impossible to be in the mobile race without asinine patents that should have never been granted in the first place. Every company has them and the only way to counter is to respond with "oh yeah well you are infringing on my blatant obvious patent as well". So far in the patent suits I haven't seen Google actually pick a fight with anyone, only counter-suits after they are attacked. If they cannot counter they will be strangled, and there is no alternative. The only other alternative is to simultaneously abolish the moronic patents across the world, and that falls into the realm of it would be great, but not going to happen. Much like the only solution to nuclear weapons is to simultaneously erase everyone's memory of how to make them. Otherwise the only option is to want the people who aren't going to use them to "start" a fight, to be the ones who have them.
What if it were a thief looking to take advantage of an opportune time. Lets say group A. and group B, are 2 completely unrelated groups, never met, never communicated, A dosn't even know B exists. Group A is a hacktivism group, group B. Greedy thieves. Hacktivists make as much noise, do as much collateral damage as they possibly can, group B notices the security is extremely distracted in dealing with group A, and sees a perfect opportunity to move in and steal information.
As far as protection from linux virus's you would be wasting your time. Not so much entirely because of a better security model, but because of a lack of virus's in the wild, and a lack of spreading capabilities within them. Odds are if you have a virus on a linux system, it was most likely crafted for your system and specifically targeted, and targeted/custom written virus's won't be stopped by traditional AVs.
I wouldn't go out far enough to blame the individual officers any more then I'd blame the people who assemble the red light cameras. One of the greatest treats to running a corrupt organization is they can target the hate at the people who don't make decisions in the first place. While I haven't worked in law enforcement I'm pretty sure it isn't a system of "what do you want to do today" given to each officer. I believe schedules are made roles are chosen for them etc... I'm pretty sure a very small percentage of people who join the police force did it because they wanted to write speeding tickets.
Speeding and accidents have only sometimes are connected. People most often are speeding when, 1. the road is long, straight and very few hazards are around. 2. Speed limit changes, in my area speed traps are almost all shortly after major drops in the limits, IE 60 down to 45 etc... Cops eat that for lunch and get steady stream of tickets around there from people who didn't see the sign or couldn't slow down fast enough. Accidents yeah they do happen around there, usually from one person slowing down quickly after noting an officer ahead and getting rear ended by the guy behind him when slowing down. If the areas were actually dangerous because of accidents being caused by people speeding, the police would have access to the accident reports.
TBH This dosn't sound like anon lately, DDOS sure, but stealing information without posting it as a giant public torrent. Honestly if it were true hacktivism I'd expect to see censored or uncensored CC#'s somewhere out there. (censored as in just enough digits to prove it's legit, but without giving the numbers to potential identity thieves. That would in my view be the biggest way to get sony in the largest amount of trouble possible. The fact that it hasn't happened leads me to be suspicious of if either the information wasn't gathered correctly, or it is actually a CC fraud attempt using anon as a scapegoat, GH isn't even a sanely believable scapegoat, this isn't even close to his style.
Consent?? Does that mean the users infected with the botnet will get "Warning your computer is infected, click here to remove the virus's you didn't know you had from your computer", on one hand it's probably the target of people that were gullible enough to fall for it once to get the botnet in the first place, but teaching them it is actually possible for a legitimate goal to do it, means they will be infected again in a week.
Nobody expects the gamers to back in this, and that is the problem. The problem is Sony is setting a dangerous precedent. Today remove other OS, because few use it and few care about it it is safe to remove with minimal complaints, establish the precedent in court that basically allows them to remove features included with a system at the time of sale from the small handful of complainers, now they can remove previous console compatibility or anything they deem not worth the money at any time. Sony wants a rule where the rules can be changed at any point in time by them for any reason. If they can do that why can't they say, 3 years down the line establish a kill switch saying OK you need to upgrade now, or OK this game is out of date now, you must buy the remake... etc...
Plain and simple, the issue here isn't the specific value of the feature, or how many people did or didn't use it. It's the matter of a company having the option to determine that. Car analogy time. It's the equivelent of ford selling a car that comes with an HD radio, then 3 years later instructing all auto shops to disable it on the next tuneup. I don't care if only 1 guy used the other OS feature, it's a precedent that should not be tolerated, that opens up slippyer more dangerous slopes. If a company is not required or expected to keep the same features something is sold with after it is sold, they can force upgrades. Imagine if blu ray players can start determining that disks older then 10 years are deemed out of date and must be repurchased. If the manufacturers can change what you bought after the fact, and secure the right via battles people don't care about to establish a precedent. They have the rights to do it on the bigger things.
Indeed, the movie industry dosn't judge a movie based on whether the movie was good, having good reviews and die hard fans is just a tool that helps sales, even if the movie was horrible, if it made a ton of money it is a success. Every dollar spent on a writing team is a dollar taken away from the special effects, and well lets face it the 1 minute commercials aren't going to draw someone to the theater based off of story. Heck I don't think the average movie goer has enough intelligence to care about writing, pretty colors, half naked hot chicks, that is what fills the seats.
How do you tell if a politician is lying, his lips are moving. It is impossible to know the answer on this one, because no matter what the truth is the result is the same, The US would deny it whether it is true or if it is a lie, and Iran would blame the US whether the evidence points to it or not, and if Iran found no evidence they would lie and said they did. There is no one that would have access to the evidence on either side that would be both trustworthy and able to admit who he is without his life being destroyed by his political party and then discredited anyway. While I agree it is absolutely in the nature of the US to do this, there are thousands of possible suspects.
The fact is, the US government is a corrupt organization that many many people hate, Iran is also a corrupt organization that many people hate. China, Al-Qaeda, there are dozens of governments and organizations that would want to see the US relations with other countries sink further then it already has. Could the US have done it, absolutely, could they have been framed, just as possible. Honestly as a terrorism attack on the US I think this would be brilliant, why actually waste manpower getting your side killed, when you can dupe 2 parties into fighting eachother.
I can't tell for certain if this is intended sarcasm or stupidity, The fact is yes if this server is going up, then IT does need to be in charge of it. Spending you're own dollars on it is your own stupidity. Either the server needs to be run 100% off the hospital network, or IT needs full control of it, any damage to the network is on their heads. Security scans from the outside will only determine the vulnerabilities in the extra services etc... The specific software on this server may or may not be high risk, there is no way for anyone to really know that yet. You are basically asking a security guard to put in a new door for you and your friends, and telling them not to pay attention to who comes in or goes out that door.
For more reasons then one. First off it's roughly as valid if not more then say algebra and similar subjects when it comes to a career, algebra is specifically taught more or less as a subject that is useless in most lines of work on its own, but teaches the brain to think in ways it will need to. Secondly, it is a competitive activity. Why do Japanese students tend to do so much better then american students, simple they compete in mental subjects, the grades are posted on a giant board for everyone to see, and are ranked from smartest to dumbest. In america grades are confidential, we can't risk students self esteem getting hurt when they are made fun of for being dumb, so we have to hide that from them and allow only 1 subject where they will be mocked for being bad at Gym. Guess what subject our kids focus on and practice to avoid looking dumb in front of their friends, yup we pump out thousands of idiots who are hoping for the 1 in a billion shot at being a professional athlete. If we brought the same criticism to chess, I have a feeling we'd get many more future programmers etc due to their minds actually being trained. Worse case scenario, chess boxing would become the next big thing.
I agree and disagree, I actually agree with the idea of even putting all porn in one domain that can easily be blocked by certain venues. As a father I would like to be able to put a block that would prevent my son from hitting the sites accidentally until he's about 14 or 15, and I fully agree with blocking porn on the workplace etc... In theory.xxx allows people who want to look at porn to find it easier, and people who don't want to or shouldn't where they are don't have to wade through it. However it is a double edge sword, due to possible future threats from the FCC and the even worse "think of the children" groups. When you look at the possibility, what happens next is lobbying to ensure that ISP's block the.XXX domain until after midnight etc... As it is now I see it perfectly reasonable (assuming you don't live in an unfairly controlling country that blocks them, but they probably block 95% of porn anyway, and methods to bypass them will still work just the same.)
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*unplugs network cable from gaming PC... Hmm... Team fortresses online multi-player does not appear to work offline. Yes sony really screwed the pooch, left their security too weak on something that both the developers and their players expected to enjoy from their investments, hardly a fair comparison though, if more games had a draconian DRM that prevented access to single player modes while PSN is down, then your comment would make sense.
HBGary left the "we never forgive, we never forget, expect us" message on Sony's servers.
No? must be anon, it was an impossible to thwart attack, the 13 year olds are to blame not facebook.
It is still a danger, but on the other hand FiOS and DSL both have a reason to support rather then oppose netflix. Cable's main hatred of netflix isn't the bandwidth usage as they claim, but the fact that it directly competes with cable TV. Alternative internet providers biggest disadvantage when competing against cable in the home market, is that cable bundles cableTV with internet. If cable TV were to die off due to failure to adapt to new technology, that would not be a bad thing for alternative providers.
The real fact is there isn't a way to define anonymous, and blaming all of anonymous for the actions of one group is ridiculous. Sony calling anon evil for the actions of this group is more or less no different then calling all Christians evil for the actions of Westboro baptist church, anyone can be a christian, and even take some portions of the christian beliefs out of context, yet you don't see the media or anyone hounding Christians as a whole for the actions of one group that claims to be Christians. All Anonymous means is one who dosn't give their identity, and by that logic most bankrobbers, murderers, serial killers have been anonymous since long before the internet was ever born.
It isn't illegal to leave your keys in the ignition of your personal car, but it is gross negligence to leave your keys in the ignition of, say an armored truck filled with someone things.
That is a very good point, generally when a security vulnerability is found in windows, it's usually determined to be a bug carried over from windows XP that was reported 7 years ago.
Not to mention the lack of ability to confirm or deny success. What evidence would you bring forward to the american people. "We just incinerated a building we are 95% sure osama bin laden was inside", or "We have his body, DNA tested it against his sisters DNA and confirmed it was him"
Both facts are true. Yes if they can trace and find the owner, but it also depends on your sort of business. If it is your stuff being stolen then you are the victim. When you take a role of protecting other people's stuff that is when you are liable. If someone breaks into a bank and steals my safe deposit box, yes the thief deserves jail time if he's caught, but if he isn't the bank and its security should be liable for what was stolen from their vault, not me.
Well what is less suspicious, a street view shot of a house, or a big black square like Cheney's house.
While I don't condone in the trading of such items, I do have to say the legal system fighting the images does more harm then good. The actual abusers of the stuff (IE the ones actually taking the pictures, harming children etc...) are rarely targeted, while ones who actually trade the images after the fact, whether intentionally or by accident (accidentally finding an image posted on a forum, then having it in your cache is considered possession) are persecuted way beyond necessity. Heck people are going to jail for the rest of their lives over drawn pictures, manga collections etc... Putting a stop to the moronic abuses of the law is something for me to oppose.
I hate to say it but both analogies are about right. It is 100% impossible to be in the mobile race without asinine patents that should have never been granted in the first place. Every company has them and the only way to counter is to respond with "oh yeah well you are infringing on my blatant obvious patent as well". So far in the patent suits I haven't seen Google actually pick a fight with anyone, only counter-suits after they are attacked. If they cannot counter they will be strangled, and there is no alternative. The only other alternative is to simultaneously abolish the moronic patents across the world, and that falls into the realm of it would be great, but not going to happen. Much like the only solution to nuclear weapons is to simultaneously erase everyone's memory of how to make them. Otherwise the only option is to want the people who aren't going to use them to "start" a fight, to be the ones who have them.
What if it were a thief looking to take advantage of an opportune time. Lets say group A. and group B, are 2 completely unrelated groups, never met, never communicated, A dosn't even know B exists. Group A is a hacktivism group, group B. Greedy thieves. Hacktivists make as much noise, do as much collateral damage as they possibly can, group B notices the security is extremely distracted in dealing with group A, and sees a perfect opportunity to move in and steal information.
As far as protection from linux virus's you would be wasting your time. Not so much entirely because of a better security model, but because of a lack of virus's in the wild, and a lack of spreading capabilities within them. Odds are if you have a virus on a linux system, it was most likely crafted for your system and specifically targeted, and targeted/custom written virus's won't be stopped by traditional AVs.
I wouldn't go out far enough to blame the individual officers any more then I'd blame the people who assemble the red light cameras. One of the greatest treats to running a corrupt organization is they can target the hate at the people who don't make decisions in the first place. While I haven't worked in law enforcement I'm pretty sure it isn't a system of "what do you want to do today" given to each officer. I believe schedules are made roles are chosen for them etc... I'm pretty sure a very small percentage of people who join the police force did it because they wanted to write speeding tickets.
Speeding and accidents have only sometimes are connected. People most often are speeding when, 1. the road is long, straight and very few hazards are around. 2. Speed limit changes, in my area speed traps are almost all shortly after major drops in the limits, IE 60 down to 45 etc... Cops eat that for lunch and get steady stream of tickets around there from people who didn't see the sign or couldn't slow down fast enough. Accidents yeah they do happen around there, usually from one person slowing down quickly after noting an officer ahead and getting rear ended by the guy behind him when slowing down. If the areas were actually dangerous because of accidents being caused by people speeding, the police would have access to the accident reports.
TBH This dosn't sound like anon lately, DDOS sure, but stealing information without posting it as a giant public torrent. Honestly if it were true hacktivism I'd expect to see censored or uncensored CC#'s somewhere out there. (censored as in just enough digits to prove it's legit, but without giving the numbers to potential identity thieves. That would in my view be the biggest way to get sony in the largest amount of trouble possible. The fact that it hasn't happened leads me to be suspicious of if either the information wasn't gathered correctly, or it is actually a CC fraud attempt using anon as a scapegoat, GH isn't even a sanely believable scapegoat, this isn't even close to his style.
Consent?? Does that mean the users infected with the botnet will get "Warning your computer is infected, click here to remove the virus's you didn't know you had from your computer", on one hand it's probably the target of people that were gullible enough to fall for it once to get the botnet in the first place, but teaching them it is actually possible for a legitimate goal to do it, means they will be infected again in a week.
Nobody expects the gamers to back in this, and that is the problem. The problem is Sony is setting a dangerous precedent. Today remove other OS, because few use it and few care about it it is safe to remove with minimal complaints, establish the precedent in court that basically allows them to remove features included with a system at the time of sale from the small handful of complainers, now they can remove previous console compatibility or anything they deem not worth the money at any time. Sony wants a rule where the rules can be changed at any point in time by them for any reason. If they can do that why can't they say, 3 years down the line establish a kill switch saying OK you need to upgrade now, or OK this game is out of date now, you must buy the remake... etc...
Plain and simple, the issue here isn't the specific value of the feature, or how many people did or didn't use it. It's the matter of a company having the option to determine that. Car analogy time. It's the equivelent of ford selling a car that comes with an HD radio, then 3 years later instructing all auto shops to disable it on the next tuneup. I don't care if only 1 guy used the other OS feature, it's a precedent that should not be tolerated, that opens up slippyer more dangerous slopes. If a company is not required or expected to keep the same features something is sold with after it is sold, they can force upgrades. Imagine if blu ray players can start determining that disks older then 10 years are deemed out of date and must be repurchased. If the manufacturers can change what you bought after the fact, and secure the right via battles people don't care about to establish a precedent. They have the rights to do it on the bigger things.
Indeed, the movie industry dosn't judge a movie based on whether the movie was good, having good reviews and die hard fans is just a tool that helps sales, even if the movie was horrible, if it made a ton of money it is a success. Every dollar spent on a writing team is a dollar taken away from the special effects, and well lets face it the 1 minute commercials aren't going to draw someone to the theater based off of story. Heck I don't think the average movie goer has enough intelligence to care about writing, pretty colors, half naked hot chicks, that is what fills the seats.
The fact is, the US government is a corrupt organization that many many people hate, Iran is also a corrupt organization that many people hate. China, Al-Qaeda, there are dozens of governments and organizations that would want to see the US relations with other countries sink further then it already has. Could the US have done it, absolutely, could they have been framed, just as possible. Honestly as a terrorism attack on the US I think this would be brilliant, why actually waste manpower getting your side killed, when you can dupe 2 parties into fighting eachother.
I can't tell for certain if this is intended sarcasm or stupidity, The fact is yes if this server is going up, then IT does need to be in charge of it. Spending you're own dollars on it is your own stupidity. Either the server needs to be run 100% off the hospital network, or IT needs full control of it, any damage to the network is on their heads. Security scans from the outside will only determine the vulnerabilities in the extra services etc... The specific software on this server may or may not be high risk, there is no way for anyone to really know that yet. You are basically asking a security guard to put in a new door for you and your friends, and telling them not to pay attention to who comes in or goes out that door.
For more reasons then one. First off it's roughly as valid if not more then say algebra and similar subjects when it comes to a career, algebra is specifically taught more or less as a subject that is useless in most lines of work on its own, but teaches the brain to think in ways it will need to. Secondly, it is a competitive activity. Why do Japanese students tend to do so much better then american students, simple they compete in mental subjects, the grades are posted on a giant board for everyone to see, and are ranked from smartest to dumbest. In america grades are confidential, we can't risk students self esteem getting hurt when they are made fun of for being dumb, so we have to hide that from them and allow only 1 subject where they will be mocked for being bad at Gym. Guess what subject our kids focus on and practice to avoid looking dumb in front of their friends, yup we pump out thousands of idiots who are hoping for the 1 in a billion shot at being a professional athlete. If we brought the same criticism to chess, I have a feeling we'd get many more future programmers etc due to their minds actually being trained. Worse case scenario, chess boxing would become the next big thing.
I agree and disagree, I actually agree with the idea of even putting all porn in one domain that can easily be blocked by certain venues. As a father I would like to be able to put a block that would prevent my son from hitting the sites accidentally until he's about 14 or 15, and I fully agree with blocking porn on the workplace etc... In theory .xxx allows people who want to look at porn to find it easier, and people who don't want to or shouldn't where they are don't have to wade through it. However it is a double edge sword, due to possible future threats from the FCC and the even worse "think of the children" groups. When you look at the possibility, what happens next is lobbying to ensure that ISP's block the .XXX domain until after midnight etc... As it is now I see it perfectly reasonable (assuming you don't live in an unfairly controlling country that blocks them, but they probably block 95% of porn anyway, and methods to bypass them will still work just the same.)