So just because the Internet exists in it's current form we shouldn't care anymore? What about when it changes? Once everything is within some "cloud" and all your CPU cycles are observable from the outside and able to be tracked, what then? Just leave it up to a handful of rogue hardware hackers hoarding away relic level equipment, piecing it together just to be able to compile a few thousand lines of illegal code on a black network? It may well be that the very thing you embrace may be in danger for the very reasons for which you embrace it. So, wouldn't it be better to fight it now while we still have the anonymous channels on which to fight?
Exactly. My wife is from Mexico and she and her brother often complain about how damned sweet everything in the US has to be. The same trend follows with people from other countries. They don't use it in products from overseas for a reason. It tastes and behaves completely different from real sugar. I can't for the life of me think of why it's used in damn near everything, even products that are not traditionally though of as "sweet" other than it being so cheap in comparison to real sugar.
It's non-relevant because he specifically said he worked for a financial company and not an IT company. Whether these people work in the IT department of a financial company, I don't know but I don't expect people who aren't technical insiders to fully understand these sort of threats. I work for an IT shop and people here still clicked it. I didn't. I immediately knew what it was, but I still wouldn't want those who were duped to lose their jobs over it. There are a lot of clinical people who are NOT int he IT side, but still have us on their mailing list, for example
The risks to the company lie with those charged to protect it, not the ones who are expected to come in to work, do their jobs and be profitable. This was either an unseen risk that suddenly impacted them, or a known risk that became realized. Either way, IT security is responsible. Or do you really think they can just blame all the people who clicked the link?
I don't know where you work, but I'm glad I don't work there considering how obviously, people can be fired for being tricked by a social engineering tick that specifically designed to trick them. Oh, and it's your fault you got mugged on the way home from work, too! Should have taken a different route, or somehow known that the jogger passing you up was really a thug in disguise.
Good for you, asshole. You got to command the fate of a few people based on some non-relevant criteria hawked up in your own tiny-walled head. How about you let the management make the staffing decisions and you stick to browsing Slashdot at work? Don't be surprised if YOU are the one given the axe for 1. thinking you know how to do management's jobs better than they do and 2. for being annoying and obnoxious to your fellow co-workers.
No. That's not really a good suggestion. The reason: Why should it matter? With desensitization to words like these, thanks largely to the internet revealing just how normal such things really are, it's only due time until we have places legitimately named "Double Dildo, WA," or "Face Shot, IN."
Words change over time, or at least their meanings do. We shouldn't be surprised to see this. Just think of how much the word "gay" itself has changed. From meaning "happy" to meaning that one is homosexual to being a generalized vernacular for things that are perceived as inferior ("that's gay" - although this one is becoming a bit controversial, perhaps even more so than it's other meaning). So, no. We shouldn't just change the spelling of words just because people take offense to them all of a sudden.
And you don't think that being able to so easily create a character that is equally good at everything is a bad thing? I really hope you're being sarcastic.
I'll forgive the Elves. And over look the Dragonborn. But if I want to play-by-the-book D&D as I've done for years, I can't play my goddamned drunkard Gnome fighter. And that irks me...
On a somewhat more serious note, it's a hell of a lot easier stream-lining rules in 3rd than it is in 4th simply because of all the clunky rules that have been added. They did a good job getting rid of the roleplay, though. Which I guess is incentive to play 4th if that's what you're looking for.
Gay as hell. The best part of D&D was the Slay Living spell on the front door handle to every dungeon. And the illusory floor/spike pit at the end of the first hallway. bring back that and stop letting character heal themselves for no damned reason!
2-frame links. Try them with anything but a joystick and good arcade buttons.
But I am with you on the last bit. Arcades realized that the games that don't translate really easily to home play (rhythm/driving/etc) were niche games that were keeping them afloat, but it was the good classic-style arcade games and the community that kept people playing those games in the first place. They missed out on building a good community of players willing to show up for their favorite games and play the other awesome games that they couldn't go home and play. China Town fair is where the best of the best of the best Fighting game players play and that's why it still thrives. Other arcades didn't build on their community and died.
Seriously, people. There is a war raging out there that no one is paying attention to. We are the fodder and the collateral as well as the valuable resource being contested over. The irony is that we could stop it if we wanted to. By just saying "no you cannot have my information" and moving along past all the smoke & mirrors, moving on to alternatives that are not as illusory, ambiguous or untrustworthy as the sites that are currently being heavily promoted and then dumped for another with a NEW color scheme! over and over again.
In effect, we are turning against our own selves by turning a blind eye to what is really going on when we see Facebook accused of violating privacy or when a corporation has a policy that is a bit too loose with the way it handles private information. Of course, the majority won't stop to question anything until its almost too late and we no longer own or have control over anything we do online (or perhaps offline) anymore. Those are the ones who say the war (no not THAT war, I mean ANY war) is a necessary evil or that it's of no concern to them until they lose a loved one or otherwise become exposed to the gruesome truth. The ones who won't put down the bottle until the liver's just a shred of what it once was, the cigarettes until their lungs can only hold enough air for one more breath. Then they'll stop and say "what have we been doing? How did we let this happen?"
But it's not only the oblivious, or the sheepish who are to blame. We also have the ones who think that privacy is the only thing at stake when it is not. There is also the general idea that a corporation or group of similarly-funded individuals have the right to simply so as they please so long as the majority of the populace don't express concerns with it. That's not the case, however. Some users don't know any better. Others have been tricked into believing they do not care, and still others are out there trying, using the same channels that are bent back against them, to decry what is happening. They are fighting a war with weapons made by the enemy. How can you hope to make a statement when your only real channel of communication goes through the gate-keepers via Comcast, via X many other s and their collective cohorts? But, what other channels are there?
I linked them to another poster further down, but as an ex-MTG player, you'll want to look up Elements card game. Urban Rivals takes some getting used to, but once you get down to the nitty gritty there's a lot going on there, strategy-wise.
They are still creatively restrictive. Unless you happen to be Will Wright. Who else would try to hype up a game by putting Todd McFarlane, R.A. Salvatore, and Ken Rolston on the team? My first thought was "seriously? Todd McFarlane?"
... Had me saying "I'm not buying it," that is. Sorry, but I'm not gonna put up with restrictive DRM and I'm not paying out extra for DLC. Even if this game doesn't have any of that, I'll still not buy it until EA starts making that the standard for their games. I generally avoid their games, since nothing has come out from them even remotely recently that interests me in the least bit, and while this does look cool (as did Spore) I'm playing two really good and well made online CCG's that are truly free, as in beer, and tons of fun. Give me a small company, making a small game that's just fun and nothing else and I'm satisfied.
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Wow. And people still swoon for the iPhone. Really gotta wonder at that.
So just because the Internet exists in it's current form we shouldn't care anymore? What about when it changes? Once everything is within some "cloud" and all your CPU cycles are observable from the outside and able to be tracked, what then? Just leave it up to a handful of rogue hardware hackers hoarding away relic level equipment, piecing it together just to be able to compile a few thousand lines of illegal code on a black network? It may well be that the very thing you embrace may be in danger for the very reasons for which you embrace it. So, wouldn't it be better to fight it now while we still have the anonymous channels on which to fight?
Exactly. My wife is from Mexico and she and her brother often complain about how damned sweet everything in the US has to be. The same trend follows with people from other countries. They don't use it in products from overseas for a reason. It tastes and behaves completely different from real sugar. I can't for the life of me think of why it's used in damn near everything, even products that are not traditionally though of as "sweet" other than it being so cheap in comparison to real sugar.
It's non-relevant because he specifically said he worked for a financial company and not an IT company. Whether these people work in the IT department of a financial company, I don't know but I don't expect people who aren't technical insiders to fully understand these sort of threats. I work for an IT shop and people here still clicked it. I didn't. I immediately knew what it was, but I still wouldn't want those who were duped to lose their jobs over it. There are a lot of clinical people who are NOT int he IT side, but still have us on their mailing list, for example
The risks to the company lie with those charged to protect it, not the ones who are expected to come in to work, do their jobs and be profitable. This was either an unseen risk that suddenly impacted them, or a known risk that became realized. Either way, IT security is responsible. Or do you really think they can just blame all the people who clicked the link?
I don't know where you work, but I'm glad I don't work there considering how obviously, people can be fired for being tricked by a social engineering tick that specifically designed to trick them. Oh, and it's your fault you got mugged on the way home from work, too! Should have taken a different route, or somehow known that the jogger passing you up was really a thug in disguise.
Good for you, asshole. You got to command the fate of a few people based on some non-relevant criteria hawked up in your own tiny-walled head. How about you let the management make the staffing decisions and you stick to browsing Slashdot at work? Don't be surprised if YOU are the one given the axe for 1. thinking you know how to do management's jobs better than they do and 2. for being annoying and obnoxious to your fellow co-workers.
Yep. Women want to bang the UPS guy, not the UPS guy's manager.
No. That's not really a good suggestion. The reason: Why should it matter? With desensitization to words like these, thanks largely to the internet revealing just how normal such things really are, it's only due time until we have places legitimately named "Double Dildo, WA," or "Face Shot, IN."
Words change over time, or at least their meanings do. We shouldn't be surprised to see this. Just think of how much the word "gay" itself has changed. From meaning "happy" to meaning that one is homosexual to being a generalized vernacular for things that are perceived as inferior ("that's gay" - although this one is becoming a bit controversial, perhaps even more so than it's other meaning). So, no. We shouldn't just change the spelling of words just because people take offense to them all of a sudden.
I'm reading the Diamond Age right now. Can't wait to pirate me some nanos for my daughter.
Be a gangster again! Call women bitches. Drink 40's excessively. Smoke weed without caring. Please. Do it for the children.
Is it sad that I thought about your sig when I saw the article?
How could you tell? Oh, that's right. They don't wear the white hoods during the daytime.
Yep. You fall into one and you die.
And it's not the pit that's illusory, but you'll wish it was.
And you don't think that being able to so easily create a character that is equally good at everything is a bad thing? I really hope you're being sarcastic.
I'll forgive the Elves. And over look the Dragonborn. But if I want to play-by-the-book D&D as I've done for years, I can't play my goddamned drunkard Gnome fighter. And that irks me...
On a somewhat more serious note, it's a hell of a lot easier stream-lining rules in 3rd than it is in 4th simply because of all the clunky rules that have been added. They did a good job getting rid of the roleplay, though. Which I guess is incentive to play 4th if that's what you're looking for.
Gay as hell. The best part of D&D was the Slay Living spell on the front door handle to every dungeon. And the illusory floor/spike pit at the end of the first hallway. bring back that and stop letting character heal themselves for no damned reason!
Basically, it's 6,000 year-old FUD? Same ole tricks, same ole tricks.
2-frame links. Try them with anything but a joystick and good arcade buttons.
But I am with you on the last bit. Arcades realized that the games that don't translate really easily to home play (rhythm/driving/etc) were niche games that were keeping them afloat, but it was the good classic-style arcade games and the community that kept people playing those games in the first place. They missed out on building a good community of players willing to show up for their favorite games and play the other awesome games that they couldn't go home and play. China Town fair is where the best of the best of the best Fighting game players play and that's why it still thrives. Other arcades didn't build on their community and died.
RTFA
Seriously, people. There is a war raging out there that no one is paying attention to. We are the fodder and the collateral as well as the valuable resource being contested over. The irony is that we could stop it if we wanted to. By just saying "no you cannot have my information" and moving along past all the smoke & mirrors, moving on to alternatives that are not as illusory, ambiguous or untrustworthy as the sites that are currently being heavily promoted and then dumped for another with a NEW color scheme! over and over again.
In effect, we are turning against our own selves by turning a blind eye to what is really going on when we see Facebook accused of violating privacy or when a corporation has a policy that is a bit too loose with the way it handles private information. Of course, the majority won't stop to question anything until its almost too late and we no longer own or have control over anything we do online (or perhaps offline) anymore. Those are the ones who say the war (no not THAT war, I mean ANY war) is a necessary evil or that it's of no concern to them until they lose a loved one or otherwise become exposed to the gruesome truth. The ones who won't put down the bottle until the liver's just a shred of what it once was, the cigarettes until their lungs can only hold enough air for one more breath. Then they'll stop and say "what have we been doing? How did we let this happen?"
But it's not only the oblivious, or the sheepish who are to blame. We also have the ones who think that privacy is the only thing at stake when it is not. There is also the general idea that a corporation or group of similarly-funded individuals have the right to simply so as they please so long as the majority of the populace don't express concerns with it. That's not the case, however. Some users don't know any better. Others have been tricked into believing they do not care, and still others are out there trying, using the same channels that are bent back against them, to decry what is happening. They are fighting a war with weapons made by the enemy. How can you hope to make a statement when your only real channel of communication goes through the gate-keepers via Comcast, via X many other s and their collective cohorts? But, what other channels are there?
I guess this old drum printer I still have connected must be REALLY cutting edge technology. It's on fire!
Marijuana practically legalized in California and its government moving away from Microsoft products. The economy really must be getting bad there!
I linked them to another poster further down, but as an ex-MTG player, you'll want to look up Elements card game. Urban Rivals takes some getting used to, but once you get down to the nitty gritty there's a lot going on there, strategy-wise.
They are still creatively restrictive. Unless you happen to be Will Wright. Who else would try to hype up a game by putting Todd McFarlane, R.A. Salvatore, and Ken Rolston on the team? My first thought was "seriously? Todd McFarlane?"
Elements
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Urban Rivals
... Had me saying "I'm not buying it," that is. Sorry, but I'm not gonna put up with restrictive DRM and I'm not paying out extra for DLC. Even if this game doesn't have any of that, I'll still not buy it until EA starts making that the standard for their games. I generally avoid their games, since nothing has come out from them even remotely recently that interests me in the least bit, and while this does look cool (as did Spore) I'm playing two really good and well made online CCG's that are truly free, as in beer, and tons of fun. Give me a small company, making a small game that's just fun and nothing else and I'm satisfied.