Surprisingly enough, there is. A lot of game developers use GameMaker to prototype games. But some of them are good enough to be published on Steam straight out of Gamemaker. And it's simple enough that my 11-yr old has been using it for his own game.
Disclaimer: my former prof built it.
There's also Unity3D.
These tools take away a lot of details that used to be 80% of the work, and leave you to work on the *game*, as opposed to rendering the screen without tearing or trying to get the audiobuffer to play without clipping, or... etc.
The sophisticated piece of malware - called "Googl app stoy" - was discovered in the official Google Play store by security company FireEye who then worked with Google to remove the app.
They were a business taking other people's data, and those people entrusted them with its safekeeping.
If my bank accepts my valuables and stores them, they're legally and morally responsible for taking reasonable precautions. Piranha moats are probably out, but vaults with timed locks are not. If the bank doesn't put locks on the doors and leaves the vault open then yes the thief is responsible for the theft, but the bank is responsible for the theft *succeeding*.
Same here. While the attackers is as asshole and responsible for extortion and destruction of property, it's the companies unsafe practices that allowed this to succeed and be more than a minor disruption of service. And having full control over *all* data AND their backups from one single, internet-accessible control panel is not just unsafe, but idiotic. It sounds like this company was started by some kids that liked to "play business" or a bunch of finance managers with a nephew that "did something with computers". But not by serious sysadmins.
Amen to that. There's a reason they give you 8 years of factory warranty - they can afford it. A few other car makers can't because the repairs under warranty would bankrupt them.
I bought a second hand Prius, 5yr old, last year. Runs like new. The electronics and the drive are incredibly reliable. The start battery however, is not so great. But apart from that, it's a much better car than the other hybrids I tried. The Mercedes I drove before that one was a better car, but unreliable and with less fuel economy (diesel) and more tax.
"Under U.S. federal law, murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Malice can be expressed (intent to kill) or implied. Implied malice is proven by acts that involve reckless indifference to human life or in a death that occurs during the commission of certain felonies (the felony murder rule)." (Wikipedia).
That's different from what you wrote. If I hit someone in the face and he dies, it's not reckless indifference to human life but I did intent to harm him. Therefore, not murder but possibly manslaughter.
But since files were lost and emails too, it's highly likely to be Exchange. It's a freakin' nightmare.
If you want robust, reliable, fully encrypted from the ground up and difficult to hack software, get Lotus Domino. If you don't need any of those features but a nice GUI is your first priority, install Exchange. It's a fulltime job security guarantee for mail admins and you regularly get to look like a hero. And sometimes like an idiot.
The closing comment was that, since the supposed origin would be frozen solid at the time the disease was supposed to originate there, the real origin of the disease is still as unknown as always. But they're now looking at bacterial toxin as the main culprit. Nice...
I bet you could make a nice disastermovie about this, where it turns out that the GMO crops in India are the real culprits. Then, when they are sprayed with new insecticide, they combine with a new bacterium that integrates the GMO resistance genes, and spread a superplague that turns everyone into a Triffid.
There's a difference between important data and confidential data. The data gathered by the LHC at CERN is pretty important, but it'd be hard to classify as "confidential". Unless they really accidentally created a black hole somewhere:)
If you know what you do, you can store everything in Dropbox, no problem. If you don't understand the consequences, steer clear. Pretty much the same advice given by Warren Buffett about shares, I think. It applies to a lot of stuff:)
Yup. I find it an extremely rare occasion where I have to send a Dropbox link out. I only do that for semi-public files anyway, otherwise they can indeed get an encrypted file and good luck with it.
I'm using IE at work, the version where there is no omnibar. I hate it. Every time I want a website I'm used to typing part of it the URL and hitting enter. With IE7 or 8 (not sure) I have to type in the whole URL correctly. Brrr...
Rembrandt was considered a revolutionary modern painter in his days. Just compare the paintings before him, and after - a huge difference. He drastically changed the ways in which paintings were composed.
Now, Picasso could paint just as well as Rembrandt, except he chose to paint non-realistic paintings. I find him a great artist. Just as Eduard Munch, btw, whose "Scream" expresses a lot of feelings that would be nearly impossible to express using photorealistic paintings. Majakovsky's "Cloud in trousers" is a great poem. I appreciate him more than a lot of Shakespeare's sonnets. Does that make him a better artist? I doubt it - but it sure doesn't make him a bad one.
Or is modern defined a bit closer to now? I'm sure I can find some great artists. Within the 99% that's horrible, there is always that 1% that will likely stand the test of time. Who knows, it may even be Banksy or Damien Hirst (*).
Oh I agree, but that's usually why multinationals *do* have a real home. In case of Microsoft, it's the USA. So they're stuck with their laws. Their only solution is to give up control on part of their assets and split, but they'll fight tooth and nail to avoid that. So they're stuck. Or rather, they're not stuck - *we* are stuck. Because MS will just *shrug* and hand over the data, eventually.
If MS Europe is *really* independent, they can now turn down the request of MS USA for the data and the request will have to go through the Irish courts. But if they are *not* all that independent, and the data is not in fact controlled by them but by MS USA, then they can't interfere, MS USA will have to comply and I can just imagine what the tax authorities are going to do the morning after they produce the data: go after MS with a pretty big hammer.
Data is legally owned and controlled by somebody, and that's the one getting the subpoena. So as far as I know the law over here (IANAL) the answer is yes: the court that can claim jurisdiction can apply its laws and if they say they can order you to give up the data and decrypt it, then you have to.
In my (amateur) opinion, the only way Microsoft would have gotten out of this one is if they had sold the data to another company that would reside in Ireland and that would be legally independent. Say, "MicrosoftDataHolding Ireland". However, *that* company could be ordered by the Irish courts to turn over the data to the Irish government, independent of what Microsoft USA would want. They wouldn't even be part of the case.
True. Friends of mine were warned specifically that asking too many questions in business meetings in the USA means you are critical of their ideas. In fact, that you are critical in the sense that you disapprove. While over here, asking questions means that you are interested and engaged - if you aren't asking questions people think you don't care.
After a good friend of mine asked too many questions again, they dropped his invitation for a guided tour. When he related this to his manager, the manager sent him to a course on multicultural trade relations:) Anyway, the US came up specifically in that course and this was one of the pitfalls. But it really says a lot about a culture when asking questions means that you disapprove. It must be hellish to be an intellectual kid in a US high school.
I once had a sysadmin tell me the same thing. After a few minutes of diverting his attention to other subjects I just asked him, in the same tone of voice, to also tell me what he changed yesterday. It was a very short but interesting list (antivirus and a few untested patches). It took him a few seconds after I stayed quiet to realize what he had just said:)
Nowadays, if something falls over and they tell me "nothing changed" I just laugh at them.
Spouting logical fallacies really don't help your argument. Noone said there was a causal relationship between being available on one OS and being portable. In fact, GP claims exactly the opposite.
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Surprisingly enough, there is. A lot of game developers use GameMaker to prototype games. But some of them are good enough to be published on Steam straight out of Gamemaker. And it's simple enough that my 11-yr old has been using it for his own game.
Disclaimer: my former prof built it.
There's also Unity3D.
These tools take away a lot of details that used to be 80% of the work, and leave you to work on the *game*, as opposed to rendering the screen without tearing or trying to get the audiobuffer to play without clipping, or... etc.
The sophisticated piece of malware - called "Googl app stoy" - was discovered in the official Google Play store by security company FireEye who then worked with Google to remove the app.
RTFA.
Or they blame the victim because the victim made some seriously stupid decisions. Such as in this case.
They were a business taking other people's data, and those people entrusted them with its safekeeping.
If my bank accepts my valuables and stores them, they're legally and morally responsible for taking reasonable precautions. Piranha moats are probably out, but vaults with timed locks are not. If the bank doesn't put locks on the doors and leaves the vault open then yes the thief is responsible for the theft, but the bank is responsible for the theft *succeeding*.
Same here. While the attackers is as asshole and responsible for extortion and destruction of property, it's the companies unsafe practices that allowed this to succeed and be more than a minor disruption of service. And having full control over *all* data AND their backups from one single, internet-accessible control panel is not just unsafe, but idiotic. It sounds like this company was started by some kids that liked to "play business" or a bunch of finance managers with a nephew that "did something with computers". But not by serious sysadmins.
Amen to that. There's a reason they give you 8 years of factory warranty - they can afford it. A few other car makers can't because the repairs under warranty would bankrupt them.
I bought a second hand Prius, 5yr old, last year. Runs like new. The electronics and the drive are incredibly reliable. The start battery however, is not so great. But apart from that, it's a much better car than the other hybrids I tried. The Mercedes I drove before that one was a better car, but unreliable and with less fuel economy (diesel) and more tax.
"Under U.S. federal law, murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Malice can be expressed (intent to kill) or implied. Implied malice is proven by acts that involve reckless indifference to human life or in a death that occurs during the commission of certain felonies (the felony murder rule)."
(Wikipedia).
That's different from what you wrote. If I hit someone in the face and he dies, it's not reckless indifference to human life but I did intent to harm him. Therefore, not murder but possibly manslaughter.
But since files were lost and emails too, it's highly likely to be Exchange. It's a freakin' nightmare.
If you want robust, reliable, fully encrypted from the ground up and difficult to hack software, get Lotus Domino. If you don't need any of those features but a nice GUI is your first priority, install Exchange. It's a fulltime job security guarantee for mail admins and you regularly get to look like a hero. And sometimes like an idiot.
The closing comment was that, since the supposed origin would be frozen solid at the time the disease was supposed to originate there, the real origin of the disease is still as unknown as always. But they're now looking at bacterial toxin as the main culprit. Nice...
I bet you could make a nice disastermovie about this, where it turns out that the GMO crops in India are the real culprits. Then, when they are sprayed with new insecticide, they combine with a new bacterium that integrates the GMO resistance genes, and spread a superplague that turns everyone into a Triffid.
Weehee, I'm calling my agent :)
Wow. They're really putting the "overlord" in the phrase "Corporate overlords", aren't they?
America, land of the free! (*)
(*) Except where disallowed by your local corporate overlord.
I guess it should have been named "Bird Empire" and all would have been well (Flappy Bird, Angry Bird, ...)
Where I live, we call such customers "investors" :)
It's weird, but everytime I read interesting stuff about entropy and information density, "e" pops up somewhere. Weird number.
There's a difference between important data and confidential data. The data gathered by the LHC at CERN is pretty important, but it'd be hard to classify as "confidential". Unless they really accidentally created a black hole somewhere :)
If you know what you do, you can store everything in Dropbox, no problem. If you don't understand the consequences, steer clear. Pretty much the same advice given by Warren Buffett about shares, I think. It applies to a lot of stuff :)
The upside of it is that you can also delete the file, thereby reclaiming all that nice space! :)
Yup. I find it an extremely rare occasion where I have to send a Dropbox link out. I only do that for semi-public files anyway, otherwise they can indeed get an encrypted file and good luck with it.
I'm using IE at work, the version where there is no omnibar. I hate it. Every time I want a website I'm used to typing part of it the URL and hitting enter. With IE7 or 8 (not sure) I have to type in the whole URL correctly. Brrr...
... Also, Andy Serkis is a motion capture actor and so there will probably be a Jar Jar-like digital character in the film.
Aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!!
Or like the chemists, who designed tear gas, only to have the riot police use it against them when they demonstrated against the Vietnam war.
Your own creation turning against you. It's a rather old cliché but unfortunately, people insist on repeating it.
Rembrandt was considered a revolutionary modern painter in his days. Just compare the paintings before him, and after - a huge difference. He drastically changed the ways in which paintings were composed.
Now, Picasso could paint just as well as Rembrandt, except he chose to paint non-realistic paintings. I find him a great artist. Just as Eduard Munch, btw, whose "Scream" expresses a lot of feelings that would be nearly impossible to express using photorealistic paintings. Majakovsky's "Cloud in trousers" is a great poem. I appreciate him more than a lot of Shakespeare's sonnets. Does that make him a better artist? I doubt it - but it sure doesn't make him a bad one.
Or is modern defined a bit closer to now? I'm sure I can find some great artists. Within the 99% that's horrible, there is always that 1% that will likely stand the test of time. Who knows, it may even be Banksy or Damien Hirst (*).
(*) I'd vote for Banksy :)
Oh I agree, but that's usually why multinationals *do* have a real home. In case of Microsoft, it's the USA. So they're stuck with their laws. Their only solution is to give up control on part of their assets and split, but they'll fight tooth and nail to avoid that. So they're stuck. Or rather, they're not stuck - *we* are stuck. Because MS will just *shrug* and hand over the data, eventually.
Well... let's follow up on the argument a bit.
If MS Europe is *really* independent, they can now turn down the request of MS USA for the data and the request will have to go through the Irish courts. But if they are *not* all that independent, and the data is not in fact controlled by them but by MS USA, then they can't interfere, MS USA will have to comply and I can just imagine what the tax authorities are going to do the morning after they produce the data: go after MS with a pretty big hammer.
Interesting case, this :)
Data is legally owned and controlled by somebody, and that's the one getting the subpoena. So as far as I know the law over here (IANAL) the answer is yes: the court that can claim jurisdiction can apply its laws and if they say they can order you to give up the data and decrypt it, then you have to.
In my (amateur) opinion, the only way Microsoft would have gotten out of this one is if they had sold the data to another company that would reside in Ireland and that would be legally independent. Say, "MicrosoftDataHolding Ireland". However, *that* company could be ordered by the Irish courts to turn over the data to the Irish government, independent of what Microsoft USA would want. They wouldn't even be part of the case.
True. Friends of mine were warned specifically that asking too many questions in business meetings in the USA means you are critical of their ideas. In fact, that you are critical in the sense that you disapprove. While over here, asking questions means that you are interested and engaged - if you aren't asking questions people think you don't care.
After a good friend of mine asked too many questions again, they dropped his invitation for a guided tour. When he related this to his manager, the manager sent him to a course on multicultural trade relations :) Anyway, the US came up specifically in that course and this was one of the pitfalls. But it really says a lot about a culture when asking questions means that you disapprove. It must be hellish to be an intellectual kid in a US high school.
Oh yeah, the "I changed nothing" mantra.
I once had a sysadmin tell me the same thing. After a few minutes of diverting his attention to other subjects I just asked him, in the same tone of voice, to also tell me what he changed yesterday. It was a very short but interesting list (antivirus and a few untested patches). It took him a few seconds after I stayed quiet to realize what he had just said :)
Nowadays, if something falls over and they tell me "nothing changed" I just laugh at them.
Spouting logical fallacies really don't help your argument. Noone said there was a causal relationship between being available on one OS and being portable. In fact, GP claims exactly the opposite.