Give any man a forum and he'll tell you how important he is. Give any woman a forum and she'll use to to complain about the other women she works with.
Because I hate PC controls, can't play a PC game on my couch, got sick of trying to figure out if I had the right video card/what settings I had to run at/if I needed to upgrade/paying for constant upgrades/etc. I like the ergonomic analog controller. I like the fact that I never have to worry about compatibility issues and upgrades only come along every five years. And I like the simplicity and ease of Xbox Live.
I also like the fact that I can buy and sell my games used. I buy almost all of my games used (for a fraction of what I would have paid for them new). You can't do that with PC games anymore, thanks to Steam and authentication.
Because part of the "critical infrastructure" of this bill are ISP's. And part of the "new security regulations" could easily include shit like blocking torrent sites on both the front-end and back-end (because they pose a virus threat to our security, of course).
In unrelated news, Steve Jobs said he spoke with old friend Steve Wozniak for the first time in years on Wednesday night. Jobs called the discussion "friendly," saying that he just wanted to check in with his old friend and "Have a nice little chat."
The five-year-rule is a long-standing tradition for console generations going back to the Atari days (even through several recessions and the console "collapse" of 1982). Both the 360 and PS3 are starting to show their age at this point (especially the 360, which doesn't even have a blu-ray drive), with no new console generation on the horizon. The 360 is now 5 years old and the PS3 is 4, and neither has even announced a new console generation. I'm tired of my console dropping further and further behind PC's, while all MS and Sony want to do is release lame Wii knockoff controllers. I'm tired of consoles that aren't powerful enough to handle MMO's, require multiple disc swaps to support the latest games, and slow to a crawl with modern high res textures.
Screw Nintendo, and screw Move and Kinect. Give me a new console generation!
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this law will be applied WAY more often to fight torrent sites than it will ever be used to fight actual terrorists?
Stuxnet doesn't use the internet as its only attack vector. It also uses thumb drives and optical drives. That's how most of the facilities in Iran were infected.
Stuxnet is precise because it was designed to attack a very specific target and hide for as long as possible, not because it had to be. Anyone could use the same principles to attack a much broader range of PLC's and other SCADA systems much more aggressively.
The vast majority of NASA's budget goes to contractors, who in turn make huge donations to the politicians who vote on the appropriations. Is that your idea of "productive"?
I'm proud to say that I never cheated even once as an undergrad or in grad school. I always pitied those who did, more than being angry at them, though. Most of them were only cheating themselves (especially in courses in their major, where they actually *needed* to learn the material). I knew one girl who threw her whole academic career away (not to mention tens of thousands in student loans) by cheating in grad school. They caught her late in the game and tossed her out. She lost everything, and all because she was too lazy to write her own papers or too stupid to know how (in which case, she should have saved her money and not went to grad school in the first place).
And I only eat whole foods and organically grown vegetables. Between that, my hemp clothing, and my new solar panels; I'm superior to 99.9% of the population now.
Yeah, now all we have to do is find a Congressman who isn't in the pockets or Hollywood and/or the corporations. So, will all Congressmen who aren't beholden to either Hollywood or big business please raise their hands...anyone...anyone?
I sign the rights to my script away to Warner Bros. for the *chance* of winning a lousy $20,000? I don't think so. The only writers this will attract are really shitty ones, really dumb ones, and really desperate ones.
No, the problem is that even if your PLC's aren't networked--the laptop that reprograms them may be at some point (and can be infected with a virus). Even if you pull your whole infrastructure off the network, it doesn't ensure security if Jim the IT guy is using the Step 7 laptop to surf the web, or if any yahoo can stick his thumb drive into said laptop and give it a digital STD.
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is there something on the xbox or ps3 ??
Yes, there is.
At least your guy spoke English. Last time I called, I had to break out a Hindi-English dictionary.
Give any man a forum and he'll tell you how important he is. Give any woman a forum and she'll use to to complain about the other women she works with.
Because I hate PC controls, can't play a PC game on my couch, got sick of trying to figure out if I had the right video card/what settings I had to run at/if I needed to upgrade/paying for constant upgrades/etc. I like the ergonomic analog controller. I like the fact that I never have to worry about compatibility issues and upgrades only come along every five years. And I like the simplicity and ease of Xbox Live.
I also like the fact that I can buy and sell my games used. I buy almost all of my games used (for a fraction of what I would have paid for them new). You can't do that with PC games anymore, thanks to Steam and authentication.
how about a few more words
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Remember kids, downloading Harry Potter is downloading T E R R O R I S M ! ! !
Because part of the "critical infrastructure" of this bill are ISP's. And part of the "new security regulations" could easily include shit like blocking torrent sites on both the front-end and back-end (because they pose a virus threat to our security, of course).
In unrelated news, Steve Jobs said he spoke with old friend Steve Wozniak for the first time in years on Wednesday night. Jobs called the discussion "friendly," saying that he just wanted to check in with his old friend and "Have a nice little chat."
The five-year-rule is a long-standing tradition for console generations going back to the Atari days (even through several recessions and the console "collapse" of 1982). Both the 360 and PS3 are starting to show their age at this point (especially the 360, which doesn't even have a blu-ray drive), with no new console generation on the horizon. The 360 is now 5 years old and the PS3 is 4, and neither has even announced a new console generation. I'm tired of my console dropping further and further behind PC's, while all MS and Sony want to do is release lame Wii knockoff controllers. I'm tired of consoles that aren't powerful enough to handle MMO's, require multiple disc swaps to support the latest games, and slow to a crawl with modern high res textures.
Screw Nintendo, and screw Move and Kinect. Give me a new console generation!
Only if someone attaches an amendment that hurts corporations or the rich in some way. Then they'll become George Washington fighting the British.
Republicans, we fight to get the government off your back!!*
* If you're rich or a corporation
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this law will be applied WAY more often to fight torrent sites than it will ever be used to fight actual terrorists?
Stuxnet doesn't use the internet as its only attack vector. It also uses thumb drives and optical drives. That's how most of the facilities in Iran were infected.
Stuxnet is precise because it was designed to attack a very specific target and hide for as long as possible, not because it had to be. Anyone could use the same principles to attack a much broader range of PLC's and other SCADA systems much more aggressively.
The vast majority of NASA's budget goes to contractors, who in turn make huge donations to the politicians who vote on the appropriations. Is that your idea of "productive"?
I just think they should have to best resources to help their research in space.
Now we'll never know if ants can be taught to sort tiny screws in space!
Better to build space ships than nuclear bombs.
Can't we have both?
I'm proud to say that I never cheated even once as an undergrad or in grad school. I always pitied those who did, more than being angry at them, though. Most of them were only cheating themselves (especially in courses in their major, where they actually *needed* to learn the material). I knew one girl who threw her whole academic career away (not to mention tens of thousands in student loans) by cheating in grad school. They caught her late in the game and tossed her out. She lost everything, and all because she was too lazy to write her own papers or too stupid to know how (in which case, she should have saved her money and not went to grad school in the first place).
Don't feel special. The CIA has botched hundreds of coups.
Tyson is almost twice the specified age limit. You read specs like a Microsoft engineer.
Those bender units are notoriously unreliable and surly.
And I only eat whole foods and organically grown vegetables. Between that, my hemp clothing, and my new solar panels; I'm superior to 99.9% of the population now.
Yeah, now all we have to do is find a Congressman who isn't in the pockets or Hollywood and/or the corporations. So, will all Congressmen who aren't beholden to either Hollywood or big business please raise their hands...anyone...anyone?
I sign the rights to my script away to Warner Bros. for the *chance* of winning a lousy $20,000? I don't think so. The only writers this will attract are really shitty ones, really dumb ones, and really desperate ones.
They also make you morally superior to and smarter than anyone using a Windows machine. It's common knowledge in any coffee shop or arthouse theater.
No, the problem is that even if your PLC's aren't networked--the laptop that reprograms them may be at some point (and can be infected with a virus). Even if you pull your whole infrastructure off the network, it doesn't ensure security if Jim the IT guy is using the Step 7 laptop to surf the web, or if any yahoo can stick his thumb drive into said laptop and give it a digital STD.