That's a pretty ignorant view point when companies are making millions from sales of PC games despite the warez scene.
DRM is a waste of time for any game played online when you need a CDKey to identify yourself with the server. And that's all of them these days. There's very little reply value in the single player modes of some of these games.
Google dominates that latin language set. Once you get into Asian languages other search engines start to win out but they are country by country.
Korea and China for example have their own top search engine.
Google is able to compete in all of them with market share in double digits almost everywhere but it's not de-fact. Google is not easy to say in none-western languages unfortunately and is therefore not a 'catchphrasy' name either.
The lesson here is that the eyes of all of humanity don't see at a constant refresh rate. It depends on how healthy the person is in both eyes and brain. Their specific genealogy and how rested the person is at the time. In other words you tend to see at a faster refresh rate during combat thanks to an adrenaline rush but slower after just waking up from a night of drinking.
Into this seemingly complex insight is also the dynamic variable of eyesight. If your eyes are so bad you always see in SD it doesn't matter if you have HD.;)
Having said that I think us nerds need to be mindful that not everyone pays attention to minute details. We are inherently trained to pickup details down to the pixel because a difference of a period (.) and a comma (,) can be the difference between a syntax error and a successful compile.
How exactly are they disabling the laptop? It can't be something superficial but with the amount of time a program has to work it probably has to be superficial to work. Will a program have enough time to do anything more then clear the cmos or erase the drive mbr? Even if it's a hardware disable the whole thing becomes parts worthy and the data on the hard drive essentially remains in it's entirety.
Not true. There are many legit companies using Bittorrent as the underlaying protocol for transferring large files like for example, Blizzard's World of Warcraft uses BT to transfer updates.
I live in Philadelphia and there is an Obama office literally 2 doors down from me. I found them running a 802.11G open wifi for about a week before they closed it. Was a decent T1 connection. It's still up, SID: "Campaign for Change", WPA encrypted.
Now as far as security within their campaign I don't think it's too much of an issue because they literally built a social network for the campaign which has many hundreds of thousands of machines that somehow access the campaign infrastructure in some way or another. I can certainly see the security analysts making a big fuss over it but the campaign can't afford to spend time dealing with security at the expense of actually running a campaign. I'm actually in utter awe of the ability of the Obama campaign to really build such a great system that scales in such a short period of time and constantly keep to deadlines.
The key is to make sure there's no one that got to the core brain trust of the Obama inner circle and their discussions with advisers. Unfortunatly the article didn't really mention if this is the case.
I particularly love this insight: The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ⦠answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
Could you have imagined Obama saying that during the election? heh
I really do believe Obama will be able to accomplish a lot on the domestic side of his administration. After all, he'll have a Democratic congress that will rubber stamp anything he decides to do. Most of what he has promised is legislation. What, you think the democrats won't let him do everything he promised?
As a programmer I have to point out that the programming required to make this trojan that fits in less then 512bytes of MBR space could not be matched by most "programmers".
I specialize in PHP but if someone were to give me a test in PHP, say based on the Zend Certification, I'd probably fail since half the questions are on functions or code constructs that I would never find myself using.
For only this reason I think that huge multiple choice tests at an interview is unacceptable as a true barometer of work ethic and overall development skill.
However, having said that. I do expect my interviewer to know at least enough about this stuff to be able to ask me to write a MySQL query with an INNER JOIN or to write a FOR loop and then understand what I just wrote. If they can't do that then they don't pass my test.;)
Hehe I could do half of that without Google and I'm still only a junior in IS&T program and sadly I think that already puts my qualification above some "professionals"......
I'm honestly appalled by the response from some of you saying he deserved what he got.
This is a University, not a business. There's no damage, period. There's no cost, no down time. Wtf is wrong with you people?
This sends the wrong messages. Especially considering we want talented individuals in the IT field. I'm sick an tired of seeing these cookie cutter CIS & IST majors graduating having ZERO or less then one year of real world experience. I would much rather hire this guy. Even more so because even in the position of having the possibility to be malicious in his intent he didn't turn to the evil side. Now you're just gonna turn him into a pariah and ruin the life of a person who clearly would have been a more then productive member of society.
Breaking and entering to prove a point != Whitehat hacking
Stop pretending that it is.
Fuck the politics. This is the difference between right and wrong.
The way I see it, broadband in America is a very dynamic game of chess.
Urban centers almost always get the best Internet connections first but are generally tied down to one or two ISPs available in the area. Those two usually compete for customers by increasing services but in some markets they both stagnate. Since local governments emulate each other in the US they are slowly starting to experiment and switch to what works but only the Federal or state level can really do what must be done to get rural customers some real broadband.
The problem is the cost of wiring up a single home. In the city it's easy because you have to invest much less money on equipment per person living in a certain area. But in Urban areas the cost of wiring up a home could be upwards of thousands of dollars and the broadband companies are not very likely to go into those markets. The State or Federal government should subsidize this cost by taxing Internet connections across the board. It would only add about 1-2 dollars per connection but allow the government to put more money into infrastructure.
Why bother? Well it's becoming increasingly clear that the Internet increases education and wealth in areas where it's penetration is deep. The investment in Internet infrastructure therefore becomes an "across-the-board" investment in the health, education, and wealth of the country and it's citizens which pays back in the years to come as increased tax revenue due to higher productivity.
Don't tax my Internet man! This might be the argument coming from the community in general and probably also the Republic/Libertarian view point as "less government". While I respect this view point in many areas I don't believe it's warranted here. The extreme of this view point generally hold that the Government should do nothing but keep the peace, protect the Borders, and deliver the mail. Unfortunatly this idea is preposterous in this day and age. America only become a super power by making investments in the common good. You can't say "we are the greatest and will always be the greatest" with a straight face if you're not willing to invest in this common good. The parallels are obvious: Tax on oil for roads & highways, inventing the Internet, discovering nuclear fusion, landing on the moon, the marshal plan, the new deal.
Indeed it's laughable the amount of money spent on the LHC when we spend that daily in Iraq.
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That's a pretty ignorant view point when companies are making millions from sales of PC games despite the warez scene.
DRM is a waste of time for any game played online when you need a CDKey to identify yourself with the server. And that's all of them these days. There's very little reply value in the single player modes of some of these games.
Steam has an offline mode. A little bit of reading would have told you that.
/. is silly
they made this to run the desktop effects
not crysis xD
It's very difficult to be smart and not lean to the left. case and point: See Ted Conferences (ted.com)
Google dominates that latin language set. Once you get into Asian languages other search engines start to win out but they are country by country.
Korea and China for example have their own top search engine.
Google is able to compete in all of them with market share in double digits almost everywhere but it's not de-fact.
Google is not easy to say in none-western languages unfortunately and is therefore not a 'catchphrasy' name either.
They asked for a cost analysis for various scenarios. Stop assuming the worst case.
-Photography
-Radio
-TV
-Phone
-Car
-Internet
-Space flight
-Modern understanding of physics
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It's not the people. It's the system. We protect the 1% from the stupid masses.
The lesson here is that the eyes of all of humanity don't see at a constant refresh rate. It depends on how healthy the person is in both eyes and brain. Their specific genealogy and how rested the person is at the time. In other words you tend to see at a faster refresh rate during combat thanks to an adrenaline rush but slower after just waking up from a night of drinking.
Into this seemingly complex insight is also the dynamic variable of eyesight. If your eyes are so bad you always see in SD it doesn't matter if you have HD. ;)
Having said that I think us nerds need to be mindful that not everyone pays attention to minute details. We are inherently trained to pickup details down to the pixel because a difference of a period (.) and a comma (,) can be the difference between a syntax error and a successful compile.
How exactly are they disabling the laptop? It can't be something superficial but with the amount of time a program has to work it probably has to be superficial to work. Will a program have enough time to do anything more then clear the cmos or erase the drive mbr? Even if it's a hardware disable the whole thing becomes parts worthy and the data on the hard drive essentially remains in it's entirety.
Not true. There are many legit companies using Bittorrent as the underlaying protocol for transferring large files like for example, Blizzard's World of Warcraft uses BT to transfer updates.
How would they know if they were uploaded automatically?
I live in Philadelphia and there is an Obama office literally 2 doors down from me. I found them running a 802.11G open wifi for about a week before they closed it. Was a decent T1 connection. It's still up, SID: "Campaign for Change", WPA encrypted.
Now as far as security within their campaign I don't think it's too much of an issue because they literally built a social network for the campaign which has many hundreds of thousands of machines that somehow access the campaign infrastructure in some way or another. I can certainly see the security analysts making a big fuss over it but the campaign can't afford to spend time dealing with security at the expense of actually running a campaign. I'm actually in utter awe of the ability of the Obama campaign to really build such a great system that scales in such a short period of time and constantly keep to deadlines.
The key is to make sure there's no one that got to the core brain trust of the Obama inner circle and their discussions with advisers. Unfortunatly the article didn't really mention if this is the case.
I particularly love this insight:
The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ⦠answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
Could you have imagined Obama saying that during the election? heh
I really do believe Obama will be able to accomplish a lot on the domestic side of his administration. After all, he'll have a Democratic congress that will rubber stamp anything he decides to do. Most of what he has promised is legislation. What, you think the democrats won't let him do everything he promised?
As a programmer I have to point out that the programming required to make this trojan that fits in less then 512bytes of MBR space could not be matched by most "programmers".
Props to those guys. Capitalism unregulated. ;)
Ok here's the full list of Wikileaks domains:
* http://www.wikileaks.org/
* https://secure.wikileaks.org/
* https://wikileaks.cx/
* http://wikileaks.org.uk/
* http://www.cauce.us/wiki/Wikileaks
* https://secure.wikileaks.be/
* https://secure.freedomsbell.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.libertypen.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.ljsf.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
* https://secure.sunshinepress.org/ â" alternative name to bypass the Great Firewall of China
Here's a mirror:
http://secure.sunshinepress.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_account_2008
Plus Gawker called a phone number in one of the emails which went to Bristol Palin's voicemail:
http://gawker.com/5051249/bristol-palins-voicemail
I bet he's kicking himself for not making HTTP encrypted by default.....
I specialize in PHP but if someone were to give me a test in PHP, say based on the Zend Certification, I'd probably fail since half the questions are on functions or code constructs that I would never find myself using.
For only this reason I think that huge multiple choice tests at an interview is unacceptable as a true barometer of work ethic and overall development skill.
However, having said that. I do expect my interviewer to know at least enough about this stuff to be able to ask me to write a MySQL query with an INNER JOIN or to write a FOR loop and then understand what I just wrote. If they can't do that then they don't pass my test. ;)
Hehe I could do half of that without Google and I'm still only a junior in IS&T program and sadly I think that already puts my qualification above some "professionals"......
I'm honestly appalled by the response from some of you saying he deserved what he got.
This is a University, not a business. There's no damage, period. There's no cost, no down time. Wtf is wrong with you people?
This sends the wrong messages. Especially considering we want talented individuals in the IT field. I'm sick an tired of seeing these cookie cutter CIS & IST majors graduating having ZERO or less then one year of real world experience. I would much rather hire this guy. Even more so because even in the position of having the possibility to be malicious in his intent he didn't turn to the evil side. Now you're just gonna turn him into a pariah and ruin the life of a person who clearly would have been a more then productive member of society.
Breaking and entering to prove a point != Whitehat hacking
Stop pretending that it is.
Fuck the politics. This is the difference between right and wrong.
You people make me sick.
You know there's a difference between real life and ISO standards right?
O right... it's /.
The way I see it, broadband in America is a very dynamic game of chess.
Urban centers almost always get the best Internet connections first but are generally tied down to one or two ISPs available in the area. Those two usually compete for customers by increasing services but in some markets they both stagnate. Since local governments emulate each other in the US they are slowly starting to experiment and switch to what works but only the Federal or state level can really do what must be done to get rural customers some real broadband.
The problem is the cost of wiring up a single home. In the city it's easy because you have to invest much less money on equipment per person living in a certain area. But in Urban areas the cost of wiring up a home could be upwards of thousands of dollars and the broadband companies are not very likely to go into those markets. The State or Federal government should subsidize this cost by taxing Internet connections across the board. It would only add about 1-2 dollars per connection but allow the government to put more money into infrastructure.
Why bother?
Well it's becoming increasingly clear that the Internet increases education and wealth in areas where it's penetration is deep. The investment in Internet infrastructure therefore becomes an "across-the-board" investment in the health, education, and wealth of the country and it's citizens which pays back in the years to come as increased tax revenue due to higher productivity.
Don't tax my Internet man!
This might be the argument coming from the community in general and probably also the Republic/Libertarian view point as "less government". While I respect this view point in many areas I don't believe it's warranted here. The extreme of this view point generally hold that the Government should do nothing but keep the peace, protect the Borders, and deliver the mail. Unfortunatly this idea is preposterous in this day and age. America only become a super power by making investments in the common good. You can't say "we are the greatest and will always be the greatest" with a straight face if you're not willing to invest in this common good. The parallels are obvious: Tax on oil for roads & highways, inventing the Internet, discovering nuclear fusion, landing on the moon, the marshal plan, the new deal.
Indeed it's laughable the amount of money spent on the LHC when we spend that daily in Iraq.