What are you talking about? A lookup is triggered by a cache miss. Each location batch can be labeled by anything, it doesn't need to be the exact time. This information is useless for any part of the process besides dumping the cache because, like you said, users can travel all over the place in a short period of time. This makes the timestamp not a great heuristic of what batch you want, not that batch lookup would even affect performance in any perceivable way.
I don't think anyone actually wonders that:P But in their defense "think of the children" groups would be all over Sony if they didn't at least try to do that or something similar.
Your initial question was why they needed timestamps to at all. That question has been answered.
No it hasn't. If they're only retaining records for a week, then once again why do you still timestamps? Everything in the retention period should be "good" data now.
- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not.
Wrong. This is not true at all. You can play games without ever providing a credit card. On the other hand, they do require your name, birthdate, and mailing address.
Ok, just pretending that's true, do you need the exact time a month ago? Can't there be a fade-out or something? Yes this is more work, but apparently it takes more work to make a cache not be a log. If you indiscriminately record all information, that would be a gross breach of privacy, regardless of how inconvenient it would be for the programmers to do something else. This is an example of the same kind of thing. The information can be used to track a user. That's something Apple is expected to avoid, if possible. It's possible. Hence outrage.
Wouldn't it take less battery power to write less information? I don't think the original timestamped truckload of information was exactly lean. Saving power doesn't seem like it was a goal...
Wait, what? I'm not a cell expert but there are lots of red flags here. How does the iPhone get this information to begin with if not from an external database? Why can't a tower send this position information directly? Why do you need this information if it wasn't important enough to be part of modern cellphone protocol? Is it only used for localized services? If so why the hell do you want the file if you disable those? Isn't GPS going to make this worthless in most cases? Why does it need to be timestamped? What exactly does Android do and when?
Anonymous intruded on their network for several days without being detected, eventually just plain revealing themselves. Here's a totally-real testimonial on their front page from the esteemed research organization "Research Organization":
Greg Hoglund and the team at HBGary provide some of the most innovative products in cyberdefense. Our advantage in staying ahead of the evolving threat is HBGary's predictive knowledge of the entire malware culture and ecosystem. Their capability goes well beyond the usual, reactive response to individual exploits. We consider them one of our best partners.
Also from their front page:
HBGary, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation threat intelligence solutions for Fortune 500 and government organizations, announced Inoculator, a innovative, patent-pending enterprise agentless appliance solution designed to detect, remove, and, with its breakthrough Digital Antibody technology, PREVENT re-infection of known malware.
Anyone who hires them after this incident is an idiot who likes bright lights and noise. Amazon, a book store, was totally secure against Anonymous' attacks. There's no excuse for a security firm not to be.
Who's even saying it's bad, besides Syfy? I was amazed at how big an international following Stargate Universe already has, with the first season having aired across Europe. And it pulled in a lot of my friends who didn't like SGA. I think the main reason it died was just that it was a lot more expensive than the greenscreen and four actors it takes to make Sanctuary (I really tried to like that show, it has Nikola Tesla as an electric vampire, but I just couldn't get into it, which is a common theme in its reviews), even if the ratings were a lot better for SGU...
"On the face of Sony’s Motion, a TRO serves no purpose in the present matter. The code necessary to 'jailbreak' the Sony Playstation computer is on the internet. That cat is not going back in the bag. Indeed, Sony’s own pleadings admit that the code necessary to jailbreak the Sony PlayStation computer is on the internet. Sony speaks of 'closing the door,' but the simple fact is that there is no door to close. The code sought to be restrained will always be a Google search away."
What about Solitaire? That's easy one of the most popular computer games in the entire world and it's freaking called Solitaire. I mean, a key component of a game like that is the ability to "trance out", and even though there can be a social aspect to gaming as well I believe this component is something timeless that will never fade away. Even the most popular multiplayer genres are based on this principle anyway. MMOs, FPSes, all of them have this "trance out" effect. The most popular games out there involve abstraction and repetition and reward, not getting together with twelve people and discussing how to run a virtual city. Other players are an interesting addition to this, but they're not fundamentally vital to the experience. At least for games huge numbers of people play, which is all I'm saying.
Unfortunately, since his staff didn't mail his soul until Monday, it's not going to get to where it's going until Thursday. Until then he's still technically alive.
Why did joystick buttons switch sides? On old sticks like this one, the buttons (in this case button) are generally on the left side (in this particular case it's easily re-positionable if you run the cable from the right side rather than the back, but the general design of old joysticks has buttons on the left), but for modern arcade sticks and joypads all the buttons are on the right. It's kinda weird, isn't it? One would think that since most people get better fine motor control out of their right hand it never would have changed...
Video game designers have a hard enough time creating hunger, disease, and poverty. At least realistically. You don't see part of Liberty City get poorer as drug lords thrive. You don't see the bums lunge at the hot dog carts. In X zombie game you don't see the virus spread through an un-inoculated population.
Maybe that's why the game looks a lot more like a comic book with a bulletin board system...
Uh, actually, 3.00, as might be indicated by the "point oh oh," was a pretty massive overhaul. Any PS3 owner noticed this at bootup, it's not that big a secret. The thing already has all the DRM it needs, this was probably a failed bugfix or something. Still, they seriously need to learn from their mistakes: the PS3 has a pretty good firmware backup system, and botched versions have already slipped past it twice. Not much of a failsafe... Is the difference between configs/models that hard to account for?
But quite clearly the intent was to relate him to a well-known character to get the artist's point across.
That's the part I don't understand. The Joker, specifically the one depicted, is certainly a "well-known" character, but he's not a socialist. He's pretty clearly portrayed as at best an anarchist, and at worst completely insane with no real political views whatsoever. The artist seems to have gone out of his way to choose provocative, rather than relevant, imagery. For instance, a Stalin mustache would have fit this alleged "point" better, and not have garnered nearly as much controversy. I'm not attacking his right to do so, I'm just saying the end result is transparent and cheap, manufactured for the sake of shock rather than any real critical message. That doesn't necessarily have to do with racism, either, he's being compared to a murdering psychopath. I don't recall seeing that too much, even with our last President. A Stalin comparison would at least reflect other ideas, about power gone wrong, etc., but with the Joker there's not much to the guy: he's a raving, homicidal lunatic. What are you supposed to think the message is? Does anyone really, truly agree with that, if you take a second to de-polarize from any political bias? That the President = the Joker? I disagree with this being taken down but I also disagree with the knee-jerk response that this is high art and shouldn't be scrutinized. My mind was open to this image, I thought about it, and came to my own conclusions. Free speech is worthless without free thinking, if that makes any sense.
Actually, that's kind of funny, even if everyone disagrees with me I'll feel like I got my point across...
I was talking about the moon, though, and how that in particular is being portrayed in the media as a "second space race." I don't see the benefit in "racing" China back to it. Even if we "win" we've backtracked, and if we "lose" we've somehow cultivated this weird notion that we "lost." Better to avoid it entirely and move forward.
I hate the mentality of "space race again." We were already there, forty years ago. The race is long, long since over. In what kind of race is 1st place lost if you don't claim 2nd place too? National pride is no longer on the line. Spend accordingly. Go to Mars.
Weren't you a child once?. Presumably these things helped your parents, and directly benefited your life. It sounds like you want to pull the rope ladder up behind you now that you're an adult. I'm all for ending them if there's a legitimate problem with these benefits, but they're actually designed to help every child (i.e. everyone), not a select few who become parents, so that doesn't seem like a valid concern to me, just a mistaken perspective.
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What are you talking about? A lookup is triggered by a cache miss. Each location batch can be labeled by anything, it doesn't need to be the exact time. This information is useless for any part of the process besides dumping the cache because, like you said, users can travel all over the place in a short period of time. This makes the timestamp not a great heuristic of what batch you want, not that batch lookup would even affect performance in any perceivable way.
Um, just record the day? You don't need the whole timestamp.
I don't think anyone actually wonders that :P But in their defense "think of the children" groups would be all over Sony if they didn't at least try to do that or something similar.
Your initial question was why they needed timestamps to at all. That question has been answered.
No it hasn't. If they're only retaining records for a week, then once again why do you still timestamps? Everything in the retention period should be "good" data now.
- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not.
Wrong. This is not true at all. You can play games without ever providing a credit card. On the other hand, they do require your name, birthdate, and mailing address.
Ok, just pretending that's true, do you need the exact time a month ago? Can't there be a fade-out or something? Yes this is more work, but apparently it takes more work to make a cache not be a log. If you indiscriminately record all information, that would be a gross breach of privacy, regardless of how inconvenient it would be for the programmers to do something else. This is an example of the same kind of thing. The information can be used to track a user. That's something Apple is expected to avoid, if possible. It's possible. Hence outrage.
So you need the exact time and not, say, the day or week?
Do you need the minute for that? Isn't the month or week good enough? Would take up less space, too.
Wouldn't it take less battery power to write less information? I don't think the original timestamped truckload of information was exactly lean. Saving power doesn't seem like it was a goal...
What about the timestamps? Why does a "crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database" still need timestamps?
Wait, what? I'm not a cell expert but there are lots of red flags here. How does the iPhone get this information to begin with if not from an external database? Why can't a tower send this position information directly? Why do you need this information if it wasn't important enough to be part of modern cellphone protocol? Is it only used for localized services? If so why the hell do you want the file if you disable those? Isn't GPS going to make this worthless in most cases? Why does it need to be timestamped? What exactly does Android do and when?
I went to the Microsoft store and they had smart tables. If that's worth making for some sort of market, why aren't tablets?
HBGary is not in the business of preventing or withstanding attacks.
From their website title:
HBGary :: Detect. Diagnose. Respond.
Anonymous intruded on their network for several days without being detected, eventually just plain revealing themselves. Here's a totally-real testimonial on their front page from the esteemed research organization "Research Organization":
Greg Hoglund and the team at HBGary provide some of the most innovative products in cyberdefense. Our advantage in staying ahead of the evolving threat is HBGary's predictive knowledge of the entire malware culture and ecosystem. Their capability goes well beyond the usual, reactive response to individual exploits. We consider them one of our best partners.
Also from their front page:
HBGary, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation threat intelligence solutions for Fortune 500 and government organizations, announced Inoculator, a innovative, patent-pending enterprise agentless appliance solution designed to detect, remove, and, with its breakthrough Digital Antibody technology, PREVENT re-infection of known malware.
Anyone who hires them after this incident is an idiot who likes bright lights and noise. Amazon, a book store, was totally secure against Anonymous' attacks. There's no excuse for a security firm not to be.
Who's even saying it's bad, besides Syfy? I was amazed at how big an international following Stargate Universe already has, with the first season having aired across Europe. And it pulled in a lot of my friends who didn't like SGA. I think the main reason it died was just that it was a lot more expensive than the greenscreen and four actors it takes to make Sanctuary (I really tried to like that show, it has Nikola Tesla as an electric vampire, but I just couldn't get into it, which is a common theme in its reviews), even if the ratings were a lot better for SGU...
I work in IT, but my heart is in 1980s Japanese pop music. Whenever I use Tomcat, I think of this.
"On the face of Sony’s Motion, a TRO serves no purpose in the present matter. The code necessary to 'jailbreak' the Sony Playstation computer is on the internet. That cat is not going back in the bag. Indeed, Sony’s own pleadings admit that the code necessary to jailbreak the Sony PlayStation computer is on the internet. Sony speaks of 'closing the door,' but the simple fact is that there is no door to close. The code sought to be restrained will always be a Google search away."
Isn't that a confession?!
What about Solitaire? That's easy one of the most popular computer games in the entire world and it's freaking called Solitaire. I mean, a key component of a game like that is the ability to "trance out", and even though there can be a social aspect to gaming as well I believe this component is something timeless that will never fade away. Even the most popular multiplayer genres are based on this principle anyway. MMOs, FPSes, all of them have this "trance out" effect. The most popular games out there involve abstraction and repetition and reward, not getting together with twelve people and discussing how to run a virtual city. Other players are an interesting addition to this, but they're not fundamentally vital to the experience. At least for games huge numbers of people play, which is all I'm saying.
Unfortunately, since his staff didn't mail his soul until Monday, it's not going to get to where it's going until Thursday. Until then he's still technically alive.
Why did joystick buttons switch sides? On old sticks like this one, the buttons (in this case button) are generally on the left side (in this particular case it's easily re-positionable if you run the cable from the right side rather than the back, but the general design of old joysticks has buttons on the left), but for modern arcade sticks and joypads all the buttons are on the right. It's kinda weird, isn't it? One would think that since most people get better fine motor control out of their right hand it never would have changed...
Video game designers have a hard enough time creating hunger, disease, and poverty. At least realistically. You don't see part of Liberty City get poorer as drug lords thrive. You don't see the bums lunge at the hot dog carts. In X zombie game you don't see the virus spread through an un-inoculated population.
Maybe that's why the game looks a lot more like a comic book with a bulletin board system...
Uh, actually, 3.00, as might be indicated by the "point oh oh," was a pretty massive overhaul. Any PS3 owner noticed this at bootup, it's not that big a secret. The thing already has all the DRM it needs, this was probably a failed bugfix or something. Still, they seriously need to learn from their mistakes: the PS3 has a pretty good firmware backup system, and botched versions have already slipped past it twice. Not much of a failsafe... Is the difference between configs/models that hard to account for?
But quite clearly the intent was to relate him to a well-known character to get the artist's point across.
That's the part I don't understand. The Joker, specifically the one depicted, is certainly a "well-known" character, but he's not a socialist. He's pretty clearly portrayed as at best an anarchist, and at worst completely insane with no real political views whatsoever. The artist seems to have gone out of his way to choose provocative, rather than relevant, imagery. For instance, a Stalin mustache would have fit this alleged "point" better, and not have garnered nearly as much controversy. I'm not attacking his right to do so, I'm just saying the end result is transparent and cheap, manufactured for the sake of shock rather than any real critical message. That doesn't necessarily have to do with racism, either, he's being compared to a murdering psychopath. I don't recall seeing that too much, even with our last President. A Stalin comparison would at least reflect other ideas, about power gone wrong, etc., but with the Joker there's not much to the guy: he's a raving, homicidal lunatic. What are you supposed to think the message is? Does anyone really, truly agree with that, if you take a second to de-polarize from any political bias? That the President = the Joker? I disagree with this being taken down but I also disagree with the knee-jerk response that this is high art and shouldn't be scrutinized. My mind was open to this image, I thought about it, and came to my own conclusions. Free speech is worthless without free thinking, if that makes any sense.
Actually, that's kind of funny, even if everyone disagrees with me I'll feel like I got my point across...
I was talking about the moon, though, and how that in particular is being portrayed in the media as a "second space race." I don't see the benefit in "racing" China back to it. Even if we "win" we've backtracked, and if we "lose" we've somehow cultivated this weird notion that we "lost." Better to avoid it entirely and move forward.
I hate the mentality of "space race again." We were already there, forty years ago. The race is long, long since over. In what kind of race is 1st place lost if you don't claim 2nd place too? National pride is no longer on the line. Spend accordingly. Go to Mars.
Weren't you a child once?. Presumably these things helped your parents, and directly benefited your life. It sounds like you want to pull the rope ladder up behind you now that you're an adult. I'm all for ending them if there's a legitimate problem with these benefits, but they're actually designed to help every child (i.e. everyone), not a select few who become parents, so that doesn't seem like a valid concern to me, just a mistaken perspective.