Seems like wearing the tin hat is becoming out of fashion around here, as I haven't seen anyone take the perspective that perhaps this data is not real? Who is to say that Homeland Security is not using this to get some more funding or for some other purpose?
As the article states: "the agency's headquarters sought forensic help from the department's own Security Operations Center and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team it operates with Carnegie Mellon University."
Now I do not know how corrupt CMU is, but sounds fishy to me. What, no outside contractor or pair of contractors to take a look at this? And even if they had used a contractor, who says the contractor would not have been paid off to lie?
*takes tin hat off*
Lets assume that this is all true for a moment. Does anyone else find it impressive that they were able to go through the logs, etc and actually find that they had been broken into around 800 times?
I work at a community college where the IT staff is understaffed and under paid. Our first priorities always change and never is that first priority checking to see if someone's actually broken past the firewall in our "spare" time. We have more important issues such as keeping up all the crappy Dell computers as they break and replacing cisco switches and then trying to figure out the exact vlan configuration that was lost because someone did not back it up the last several times they changed it. The only time we've ever noticed that someone broke in was when they defaced a webpage. We installed some patches we were behind on and made a change or two to the firewall so that we reacted to it, but I would not call anything we've done security wise proactive.
Considering that the federal government runs on a bit more money then the state, perhaps the story is believable... but I do not know if I buy into it completely.
You are about to release an expansion for DAoC that some consider subpar. Was it a stop gap in case Warhammer doesn't take off? Do you plan to keep DAoC going? If so, how? Will you ever try to add more to it so as to reclaim those members it lost or will warhammer be used for that?
I'd like to mod you a 6. Not only have you used some much needed facts on the actual declining of intelligence in the west, but for those unaware, the south has a poor education system for the most part. Now it may be simply the education system to blame, but looking at the towns I've passed through in Alabama and Georgia with their very biblical outlook and no book smarts thought process about things. (A bit contradictory I know, but the bible is a cheat since you get someone to read it to you every Sunday.) Now this isn't a very thorough post by any means. This is only by observation and unfortunately, I don't have any sources to back myself up. While I did find several links in Google talking about poor schools produce a poor neighborhood which is most certainly true, I found myself at the University of Florida and University of Central Florida marveling at the stupidity of their parties, poor driving skills most likely to get them killed, and yet an astonishing ability to memorize what was in each chapter of a book in one night so they can pass a test the next day. We live in a society that seems more prone to passing tests just for the sake of doing so and not to learn from the material needed to pass the tests in the first place. It's quite a sad state of affairs and makes you wonder if the human is dumb (through dumb choices) or is mankind as a whole is slipping eternal stupidity (through DNA or simply society choices).
this guy needs a rating "funny because it's true" Working at a community college, it is ridiculous to walk through the computer labs and see how many students are surfing on myspace alone... and this isn't a quick 3 minute look and go some where else surfing attitude either. My dept has a student worker that is on myspace almost all day (not much of a worker lol). Anyway, with all the music, large pictures, music videos, and now personal videos being posted and looked at I am very much glad for our network today that it has some breathing room. (btw, I do have the day off:-p)
Well you have to ways to detect non-detected viruses or worms. First off, does your computer seem to be more crash prone or slower even with plenty of defrags (assuming you still have about 30% of free hard drive space)? If so, I would suggest backing everything up and rebuilding your system while hoping none of your files puts a possible trojan/virus/worm back on your machine.
What is the second way? - To format and bask in a less bogged down system anyway. I do this to mine at work every 6 months or so whether it needs it or not. It keeps me in the habit of backing everything up in case of failure and it's amazing how much faster a newly installed copy of Windows XP really is compared to one with a clogged registry, etc.
I hope it is created as a realistic looking movie such as Final Fantasy with its great graphics and not real-life with some CGI like Doom. This should allow them much freedom in how they create the film while decreasing the number of cheesy moments. Also, I wonder if they will go into more of how Master Chief was trained/created, etc before he came to the rescue...
I hope this is in response to Rosen's recent blog post and that they are acknowledging that she is right in at least some aspects. The recent post can be found here.
As one other poster as already stated, perhaps they will stop suing their customers now?
I remember reading a good portion of their Rapid Application Development book. I sometimes wonder when I read these articles if they have read it themselves. The main rule in that book is to not set unrealistic goals. I remember hearing the first time about Vista that it might not be out until 2007. I think they should have stuck with that as their original goal. Dropping off features just to make a 2006 rush made them reset their programming team's focus too many times. The cost? Time. I realize that an operating system is not the easiest program in the world, but this is Microsoft. They have existing code to choose from, they have programming geniuses at their finger steps, and they were SUPPOSED to have an idea how to program efficiently according to that book with the Microsoft name on it.
Lesson for Microsoft: take your own advice and use it!
There is another word for it, but it is great to see more and more companies start to focus on lost knowledge. I'd like to believe that the tech industry in both programming, help desk, and other fields focus on retaining this with benefits and such but with the eweeks, etc that I read and working where I currently do, I sometimes wonder. But as an American, it makes me proud that NASA finally has an intelligent leader (one whom I hope provides a space boost not only in America but an extra boost for other existing agencies across the world).
I don't believe that stargate is that popular abroad. Also, I would much prefer having a stargate game that was solo and simply re-lived some of the better moments of SG-1 OR... possibly fill in some extra plot leads such as Daniel's grandfather's exploration in the episode "CRYSTAL SKULL"
I seem to remember them stating that they'd be back in that episode and they've never returned... I always thought there might be a lot of story behind Daniel's grandfather.
There were several other leads for further story telling in past SG-1 episodes and I'm sure they could easily make a game that tied it all together.
of course I realize that they want to charge more for a popular file and I see nothing wrong with that for people who are willing to pay for said file if its really that popular. But my point is that 99 cents is WAY too much. 50 cents max considering you aren't paying for a cd, or the paper, or even the distribution of the solid good. I'd be willing to even have DRM on a song if it was sold much cheaper. It's sad that I have to go through a loop hole in international law to get decent prices on music.
until we have an american or more international version of allofmp3.com I'm not going to be happy. 99 cents a song is too much. Price for size and popularity makes more sense anyway. But let me ask you this question, in your quest to use itunes, how many of you have paid $20 for a 20 song cd? Don't you think that's a bit too much? Even if it is full of songs you actually like....
seemed to me that the games needed more focus on gameplay and stability. I like how the one guy points out that Mastermind didn't even include an uninstall option. My, how many time have I run into THAT problem with "indie" games. What's so hard about cleaning up the install for the user when they're done with your game?
I would expect that this ice would contain particles that might help estimate what the earth was made of a million years ago. Who knows how many comets have hit the earth effectively changing the content or even the ability to house life...
Remember when it was first announced that Google and the Mozilla Foundation would be working together? I bet this "feature" has come from that joint work effort. What a great way to increase advertising data!
I know I'm probably just being silly, but I just feel the below needs to be stated anyway:
How about they combine efforts to improve the current GPS system? In all seriousness, I know that the US military doesn't want to share secrets, but suppose instead of using two different systems, they were integrated. The EU could have hidden functions like the US military has in theirs, but when used uniformly, it simply boosts the current GPS's capabilities. That would benefit everyone, save EU from having to launch just as many satelites, and prevent the US military from having send more up there for reasons of lack of a decent signal. But I'm guessing the EU couldn't do this without US permission due to patent infringement?
I don't see this happening until the internet proves to be a bit faster as well as reliable. Yes, some companies have already started doing this, but very few. I don't see this taking off (like e-commerce take off) until at least 2010.
As for "Stem-cell research advances," I can only hope this is true. But I wish that they would also tie in the research which was in part taken up by grid.org for "Human Proteome Folding Project." Since that project is nearing completion, it would be great to hear that they have already started analyzing the data and will start rolling out some medical advanced due to that project. But I have a feeling both the stem-cell research advances and Human Proteome advances will be in research only and not in any beta medical trails.
I think this is the perfect opportunity for them to find out if they can used this to have those kids use more than 10% of their brain - forced evolution of mankind you can call it. I know a lot of people are against testing on fellow humans, but when it comes to increasing mankind's intelligence and level of thinking, I'm all for it! But I'm guessing that they can't just replace the damaged brain cells, and that they will more than likely just add to the existing. I hope I'm wrong on this, but brain surgery is just too iffy.:(
"So the lesson here is: protect your computer, use Firefox, Ad-Aware and Spybot."
That's what I keep saying. Unfortunately, I have people above me who insist on only using Microsoft's Windows Defender (aka antispyware). Poor misinformed souls. They seem to be anti-firefox too. Must burn their bottoms everytime they see me logging a call or ordering a replacement part with good ol' Firefox.:)
Anyway, more on topic, you forgot to also suggest keeping your anti-virus program up-to-date.
I find that part of an IRC channel's culture is the people that attend it. Now that the channel has been advertised, do you think those people will continue to show up? More importantly do you think the quality of help will maintain? I believe that now it has been advertised, the quality of programming help will now decline. *crosses fingers hoping that isn't true*
I'm downloading RootkitRevealer now. I wonder how long it is going to take for Norton and McAfee to upgrade their Rootkit detection abilities? Next years anti-virus release?
The last rootkit that Norton found on a computer at work was well spread and had been out for 6 months. It still was unable to remove/fix the infection.:(
Then how come I can't find myself a sci-fi chick? They all seem to like anime/manga and want to speak Japanese. Of course, I live in America. So I'm guessing all the geeky girls live in the UK?
It doesn't sound like it includes the history that Carmen Sandiego included in its games. I always valued those games due to there ability to include teaching the player some history. Will this game simply play off of September 9/11 events/fears or will it include teaching the player some history as well?
No, I'm not talking about simply US control... I'm talking about government control. Part of what I got out of other countries wanting a piece of the internet pie was that they wanted capitalism out of it and this would support that argument.
Does a company's ethical position have nothing to do with the toothbrushes they sell? How can you be so short sighted as to try and say my post is offtopic? Of course it has to do with ICANN! What they do in this situation will make a case that can be used against the capitalistic way the internet is run. Can't you see that? But if my logic is wrong on this, then please, by all means explain why.
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Seems like wearing the tin hat is becoming out of fashion around here, as I haven't seen anyone take the perspective that perhaps this data is not real? Who is to say that Homeland Security is not using this to get some more funding or for some other purpose? As the article states: "the agency's headquarters sought forensic help from the department's own Security Operations Center and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team it operates with Carnegie Mellon University." Now I do not know how corrupt CMU is, but sounds fishy to me. What, no outside contractor or pair of contractors to take a look at this? And even if they had used a contractor, who says the contractor would not have been paid off to lie? *takes tin hat off* Lets assume that this is all true for a moment. Does anyone else find it impressive that they were able to go through the logs, etc and actually find that they had been broken into around 800 times? I work at a community college where the IT staff is understaffed and under paid. Our first priorities always change and never is that first priority checking to see if someone's actually broken past the firewall in our "spare" time. We have more important issues such as keeping up all the crappy Dell computers as they break and replacing cisco switches and then trying to figure out the exact vlan configuration that was lost because someone did not back it up the last several times they changed it. The only time we've ever noticed that someone broke in was when they defaced a webpage. We installed some patches we were behind on and made a change or two to the firewall so that we reacted to it, but I would not call anything we've done security wise proactive. Considering that the federal government runs on a bit more money then the state, perhaps the story is believable ... but I do not know if I buy into it completely.
You are about to release an expansion for DAoC that some consider subpar. Was it a stop gap in case Warhammer doesn't take off? Do you plan to keep DAoC going? If so, how? Will you ever try to add more to it so as to reclaim those members it lost or will warhammer be used for that?
I'd like to mod you a 6. Not only have you used some much needed facts on the actual declining of intelligence in the west, but for those unaware, the south has a poor education system for the most part. Now it may be simply the education system to blame, but looking at the towns I've passed through in Alabama and Georgia with their very biblical outlook and no book smarts thought process about things. (A bit contradictory I know, but the bible is a cheat since you get someone to read it to you every Sunday.) Now this isn't a very thorough post by any means. This is only by observation and unfortunately, I don't have any sources to back myself up. While I did find several links in Google talking about poor schools produce a poor neighborhood which is most certainly true, I found myself at the University of Florida and University of Central Florida marveling at the stupidity of their parties, poor driving skills most likely to get them killed, and yet an astonishing ability to memorize what was in each chapter of a book in one night so they can pass a test the next day. We live in a society that seems more prone to passing tests just for the sake of doing so and not to learn from the material needed to pass the tests in the first place. It's quite a sad state of affairs and makes you wonder if the human is dumb (through dumb choices) or is mankind as a whole is slipping eternal stupidity (through DNA or simply society choices).
this guy needs a rating "funny because it's true" Working at a community college, it is ridiculous to walk through the computer labs and see how many students are surfing on myspace alone ... and this isn't a quick 3 minute look and go some where else surfing attitude either. My dept has a student worker that is on myspace almost all day (not much of a worker lol). Anyway, with all the music, large pictures, music videos, and now personal videos being posted and looked at I am very much glad for our network today that it has some breathing room. (btw, I do have the day off :-p)
Well you have to ways to detect non-detected viruses or worms. First off, does your computer seem to be more crash prone or slower even with plenty of defrags (assuming you still have about 30% of free hard drive space)? If so, I would suggest backing everything up and rebuilding your system while hoping none of your files puts a possible trojan/virus/worm back on your machine. What is the second way? - To format and bask in a less bogged down system anyway. I do this to mine at work every 6 months or so whether it needs it or not. It keeps me in the habit of backing everything up in case of failure and it's amazing how much faster a newly installed copy of Windows XP really is compared to one with a clogged registry, etc.
I hope it is created as a realistic looking movie such as Final Fantasy with its great graphics and not real-life with some CGI like Doom. This should allow them much freedom in how they create the film while decreasing the number of cheesy moments. Also, I wonder if they will go into more of how Master Chief was trained/created, etc before he came to the rescue...
I hope this is in response to Rosen's recent blog post and that they are acknowledging that she is right in at least some aspects. The recent post can be found here. As one other poster as already stated, perhaps they will stop suing their customers now?
I remember reading a good portion of their Rapid Application Development book. I sometimes wonder when I read these articles if they have read it themselves. The main rule in that book is to not set unrealistic goals. I remember hearing the first time about Vista that it might not be out until 2007. I think they should have stuck with that as their original goal. Dropping off features just to make a 2006 rush made them reset their programming team's focus too many times. The cost? Time. I realize that an operating system is not the easiest program in the world, but this is Microsoft. They have existing code to choose from, they have programming geniuses at their finger steps, and they were SUPPOSED to have an idea how to program efficiently according to that book with the Microsoft name on it. Lesson for Microsoft: take your own advice and use it!
There is another word for it, but it is great to see more and more companies start to focus on lost knowledge. I'd like to believe that the tech industry in both programming, help desk, and other fields focus on retaining this with benefits and such but with the eweeks, etc that I read and working where I currently do, I sometimes wonder. But as an American, it makes me proud that NASA finally has an intelligent leader (one whom I hope provides a space boost not only in America but an extra boost for other existing agencies across the world).
I don't believe that stargate is that popular abroad. Also, I would much prefer having a stargate game that was solo and simply re-lived some of the better moments of SG-1 OR ... possibly fill in some extra plot leads such as Daniel's grandfather's exploration in the episode "CRYSTAL SKULL"
I seem to remember them stating that they'd be back in that episode and they've never returned... I always thought there might be a lot of story behind Daniel's grandfather.
There were several other leads for further story telling in past SG-1 episodes and I'm sure they could easily make a game that tied it all together.
of course I realize that they want to charge more for a popular file and I see nothing wrong with that for people who are willing to pay for said file if its really that popular. But my point is that 99 cents is WAY too much. 50 cents max considering you aren't paying for a cd, or the paper, or even the distribution of the solid good. I'd be willing to even have DRM on a song if it was sold much cheaper. It's sad that I have to go through a loop hole in international law to get decent prices on music.
until we have an american or more international version of allofmp3.com I'm not going to be happy. 99 cents a song is too much. Price for size and popularity makes more sense anyway. But let me ask you this question, in your quest to use itunes, how many of you have paid $20 for a 20 song cd? Don't you think that's a bit too much? Even if it is full of songs you actually like ....
seemed to me that the games needed more focus on gameplay and stability. I like how the one guy points out that Mastermind didn't even include an uninstall option. My, how many time have I run into THAT problem with "indie" games. What's so hard about cleaning up the install for the user when they're done with your game?
I would expect that this ice would contain particles that might help estimate what the earth was made of a million years ago. Who knows how many comets have hit the earth effectively changing the content or even the ability to house life...
Remember when it was first announced that Google and the Mozilla Foundation would be working together? I bet this "feature" has come from that joint work effort. What a great way to increase advertising data!
I know I'm probably just being silly, but I just feel the below needs to be stated anyway: How about they combine efforts to improve the current GPS system? In all seriousness, I know that the US military doesn't want to share secrets, but suppose instead of using two different systems, they were integrated. The EU could have hidden functions like the US military has in theirs, but when used uniformly, it simply boosts the current GPS's capabilities. That would benefit everyone, save EU from having to launch just as many satelites, and prevent the US military from having send more up there for reasons of lack of a decent signal. But I'm guessing the EU couldn't do this without US permission due to patent infringement?
I don't see this happening until the internet proves to be a bit faster as well as reliable. Yes, some companies have already started doing this, but very few. I don't see this taking off (like e-commerce take off) until at least 2010.
As for "Stem-cell research advances," I can only hope this is true. But I wish that they would also tie in the research which was in part taken up by grid.org for "Human Proteome Folding Project." Since that project is nearing completion, it would be great to hear that they have already started analyzing the data and will start rolling out some medical advanced due to that project. But I have a feeling both the stem-cell research advances and Human Proteome advances will be in research only and not in any beta medical trails.
I think this is the perfect opportunity for them to find out if they can used this to have those kids use more than 10% of their brain - forced evolution of mankind you can call it. I know a lot of people are against testing on fellow humans, but when it comes to increasing mankind's intelligence and level of thinking, I'm all for it! But I'm guessing that they can't just replace the damaged brain cells, and that they will more than likely just add to the existing. I hope I'm wrong on this, but brain surgery is just too iffy. :(
I find that part of an IRC channel's culture is the people that attend it. Now that the channel has been advertised, do you think those people will continue to show up? More importantly do you think the quality of help will maintain? I believe that now it has been advertised, the quality of programming help will now decline. *crosses fingers hoping that isn't true*
I'm downloading RootkitRevealer now. I wonder how long it is going to take for Norton and McAfee to upgrade their Rootkit detection abilities? Next years anti-virus release? The last rootkit that Norton found on a computer at work was well spread and had been out for 6 months. It still was unable to remove/fix the infection. :(
Then how come I can't find myself a sci-fi chick? They all seem to like anime/manga and want to speak Japanese. Of course, I live in America. So I'm guessing all the geeky girls live in the UK?
It doesn't sound like it includes the history that Carmen Sandiego included in its games. I always valued those games due to there ability to include teaching the player some history. Will this game simply play off of September 9/11 events/fears or will it include teaching the player some history as well?
No, I'm not talking about simply US control ... I'm talking about government control. Part of what I got out of other countries wanting a piece of the internet pie was that they wanted capitalism out of it and this would support that argument.
Does a company's ethical position have nothing to do with the toothbrushes they sell? How can you be so short sighted as to try and say my post is offtopic? Of course it has to do with ICANN! What they do in this situation will make a case that can be used against the capitalistic way the internet is run. Can't you see that? But if my logic is wrong on this, then please, by all means explain why.