It's been argued in the past that schools do not prepare you for the real world, and I think this is an excellent example.
When you get into 'the game' (i.e. a job), cheating is simply part of it. Others will routinely take credit for your work. The people that deserve the promotions the least are often the ones that get them. Hard workers with good ethics are overlooked, cheaters & fakes get ahead, and nice guys get foreclosed on. If anything, hearing that 1/3 of students cheat and got away with it makes me glad that they are learning valuable skills that will be used for the rest of their lives.
93,000 compromised accounts. If they can tell that an account was compromised vs. a legitimate use, that means there was something unique to these logins. For the sake of argument, let's just say it was a browser-agent. Let's also make some baseline assumptions:
- Let's say that the 93,000 accounts only make up 10% of the total scope of the attack. 930,000 accounts hit, or 1% of the account-base (according to Sony).
- Let's say that only 1 attempt was ever made per account (the most difficult scenario to detect).
- Let's assume that across all the accounts on these systems, 1% of the logins are fat-fingered, and 50% of the user-base logs in per day: 2% average user error. * These assumptions are very biased in Sony's favor.
If suddenly 930,000 of your accounts (2% of daily logins) had a 90% login failure rate across the board, that would be a terrifying moment for a sysadmin.
If suddenly 930,000 of your accounts started seeing logins from a uniquely distinguishable user-agent, that's a blatant attack.
If, with a dedicated security team, it takes you 3 days to notice that this is going on, there is undeniable incompetence.
Thwarted? No. It was probably some lone sysadmin scanning through the logs that said 'hey, this user-agent sure is showing up a lot...'.
Even if its raw skill was worse than a typical human driver.
It's worth noting that the 'typical human driver' has no measurable 'raw skill'. However, an AI system would have no emotions (in theory), and therefor would have no minuses to it's driving saving-throws.
This has nothing to do with it. You are implying that people would be 'Chosen' to do this, when in fact these individuals are *volunteering*.
I can see no political detriment to this, other than the future spin people would put on it (e.g. Future claims that Japan forces the elderly to clean up radiation spills). If these people want to make the world a better place for everyone else, at their own risk and peril, why not let them? I'm proud to share the planet with people like this.
I'm a high school dropout. I have no college under my belt, and only a GED. I'm 23. I do however, have MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, CCNA, and am actively pursuing MCITP: DBA, CISSP, PMP, and RHCE. Am I cert farming? Yes. I'd openly admit it in an interview too. I've forgotten a great deal of what I learned in preparation for my CCNA, and I will likely forget a great deal more about my future certs. What-more, I payed $10,000 in 2010 for cert training, and will drop $6,500 more this year. $16.5k (half my 2010 salary) on certs that I don't yet directly use.
Why would I do this? Because it exposes me to new technologies. I could learn it myself, sure; but the certification requirements and training will help me know that I've gotten everything out of it that I need. Quick example: In any 2000 functional level Active Directory domain, a NON-administrator user can add up to 10 computers to the domain by default. I have INTERVIEWED over a dozen people with experience managing domains, and nobody yet has known this.
Certs are a tool. Like many other things, they are up for interpretation and can arguably mean nothing. However, if you use them to fuel your passion, and push you in new directions, it doesn't matter what a prospective employer thinks about the individual certs you have, your passion will win you the job.
Hence the 'many (though not all)' statement. If you are pay-per-bit plan, sharing means their usage hits your pocket. My point is *if* you've got a buffet, why not treat it as such?
I would venture to say that many (though not all) of you pay the same amount regardless of how much you use.
Instead of the 'electricity', 'heating', and 'borrowed car' analogies, think of it this way instead: A Buffet. You pay $10 regardless of how much you eat. If someone had a legitimate need for an egg, would you really give them the stiff, unwavering middle finger? It doesn't cost you anything more than a very temporary inconvenience...
Some people have (arguably) legitimate needs (http://xkcd.com/466/). If they don't, and it impacts me enough for me to do something about it, I have the upper hand. When you transmit data over *my* network, *I* can do whatever I want with it. You downloading CP on my wireless? I'll post the news on *your* Facebook.
Except for when the background is a wall in my room. I'd rather not have my location (accurate to three meters) tacked onto it. Not everyone can *look* at a picture and know exactly where you sleep at night.
I am 21, and I had an interest in programming from the age of 12. I tried starting with C, VB, and JS. C felt un-intuitive, VB was pretty easy (and I made a fully functional program from it) but it took a large amount of code and an understanding of the IDE to get anything done, and I couldn't get things to work the way I wanted in JS.
So I resorted to an extremely simple, quick, and immediately gratifying alternative - Programming my TI-83+ Graphing Calculator.
The manual is very informative, and the language is incredibly simple. Variables could not be any simpler (they are hard-coded, with the only options being letters A-Z), the commands are chosen from lists of menus (effectively removing misspellings from the list of screw-ups), and the syntax is incredibly simple. You can start with a program that runs Pythagorean Theorem (remember, the kid is 15 and the son/daughter of someone on Slashdot), work up to string manipulation, and eventually make games with moving 'sprites'. The other MAJOR benefit being that if the kid creates something useful, he can give it to his friends (TI Graphing Calculators can transfer programs using a very simple data cable).
So the kid learns the basics of coding, gets the immediate gratification from creating a program, has an all-encompassing manual detailing every command for when they want to try something new, and gets the excitement of having other people use something they created. Not to mention having something productive to do when they are bored in History class.
If I had to teach a 15 year old to code, I would definitely start with a TI-83+.
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It's been argued in the past that schools do not prepare you for the real world, and I think this is an excellent example.
When you get into 'the game' (i.e. a job), cheating is simply part of it. Others will routinely take credit for your work. The people that deserve the promotions the least are often the ones that get them. Hard workers with good ethics are overlooked, cheaters & fakes get ahead, and nice guys get foreclosed on. If anything, hearing that 1/3 of students cheat and got away with it makes me glad that they are learning valuable skills that will be used for the rest of their lives.
93,000 compromised accounts. If they can tell that an account was compromised vs. a legitimate use, that means there was something unique to these logins. For the sake of argument, let's just say it was a browser-agent. Let's also make some baseline assumptions:
- Let's say that the 93,000 accounts only make up 10% of the total scope of the attack. 930,000 accounts hit, or 1% of the account-base (according to Sony).
- Let's say that only 1 attempt was ever made per account (the most difficult scenario to detect).
- Let's assume that across all the accounts on these systems, 1% of the logins are fat-fingered, and 50% of the user-base logs in per day: 2% average user error.
* These assumptions are very biased in Sony's favor.
If suddenly 930,000 of your accounts (2% of daily logins) had a 90% login failure rate across the board, that would be a terrifying moment for a sysadmin.
If suddenly 930,000 of your accounts started seeing logins from a uniquely distinguishable user-agent, that's a blatant attack.
If, with a dedicated security team, it takes you 3 days to notice that this is going on, there is undeniable incompetence.
Thwarted? No. It was probably some lone sysadmin scanning through the logs that said 'hey, this user-agent sure is showing up a lot...'.
'Leaking' a statement of that magnitude was 100% intentional by someone who didn't want it 'going down without a hitch'. You know it's true.
Even if its raw skill was worse than a typical human driver.
It's worth noting that the 'typical human driver' has no measurable 'raw skill'. However, an AI system would have no emotions (in theory), and therefor would have no minuses to it's driving saving-throws.
None of the articles covering this include a link to the alleged maps, and I can't find it on the web.
SOMEONE PLEASE PROVIDE A LINK!!!
VRRP was created for exactly this.
Could I please get one too!? mcclaren.f1 (gmail)
American robots assembled in China!
I'll have it answer for bill collectors and telemarketers!
"Your computer vs mine, and I suck less at building them!"
ruined by a $0.25 IR filter over the lens. Sorry Apple!
"That's pure capacitance gel..."
This has nothing to do with it. You are implying that people would be 'Chosen' to do this, when in fact these individuals are *volunteering*.
I can see no political detriment to this, other than the future spin people would put on it (e.g. Future claims that Japan forces the elderly to clean up radiation spills). If these people want to make the world a better place for everyone else, at their own risk and peril, why not let them? I'm proud to share the planet with people like this.
I'm a high school dropout. I have no college under my belt, and only a GED. I'm 23. I do however, have MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, CCNA, and am actively pursuing MCITP: DBA, CISSP, PMP, and RHCE. Am I cert farming? Yes. I'd openly admit it in an interview too. I've forgotten a great deal of what I learned in preparation for my CCNA, and I will likely forget a great deal more about my future certs. What-more, I payed $10,000 in 2010 for cert training, and will drop $6,500 more this year. $16.5k (half my 2010 salary) on certs that I don't yet directly use. Why would I do this? Because it exposes me to new technologies. I could learn it myself, sure; but the certification requirements and training will help me know that I've gotten everything out of it that I need. Quick example: In any 2000 functional level Active Directory domain, a NON-administrator user can add up to 10 computers to the domain by default. I have INTERVIEWED over a dozen people with experience managing domains, and nobody yet has known this. Certs are a tool. Like many other things, they are up for interpretation and can arguably mean nothing. However, if you use them to fuel your passion, and push you in new directions, it doesn't matter what a prospective employer thinks about the individual certs you have, your passion will win you the job.
The man claimed no foul, as he had killed Zuckerberg himself before enjoying his meal
as long as they don't track my location data!
What we should be focusing on is how to create the demand.
Promise hot blue alien sex. You'll have more demand than you can handle.
Hence the 'many (though not all)' statement. If you are pay-per-bit plan, sharing means their usage hits your pocket. My point is *if* you've got a buffet, why not treat it as such?
OMG, Please tell me there's an API for this! Like my blog? >Buy me a soda!
I would venture to say that many (though not all) of you pay the same amount regardless of how much you use. Instead of the 'electricity', 'heating', and 'borrowed car' analogies, think of it this way instead: A Buffet. You pay $10 regardless of how much you eat. If someone had a legitimate need for an egg, would you really give them the stiff, unwavering middle finger? It doesn't cost you anything more than a very temporary inconvenience... Some people have (arguably) legitimate needs (http://xkcd.com/466/). If they don't, and it impacts me enough for me to do something about it, I have the upper hand. When you transmit data over *my* network, *I* can do whatever I want with it. You downloading CP on my wireless? I'll post the news on *your* Facebook.
Did he hit a bunch of honeypots? If China is better defended than he though, he'll dead by morning.
Except for when the background is a wall in my room. I'd rather not have my location (accurate to three meters) tacked onto it. Not everyone can *look* at a picture and know exactly where you sleep at night.
My G2 hasn't been geotagging my photos. Unfortunately for the gal I've been chatting with from Craigslist, hers does :D
Sounds about right.
I am 21, and I had an interest in programming from the age of 12. I tried starting with C, VB, and JS. C felt un-intuitive, VB was pretty easy (and I made a fully functional program from it) but it took a large amount of code and an understanding of the IDE to get anything done, and I couldn't get things to work the way I wanted in JS.
So I resorted to an extremely simple, quick, and immediately gratifying alternative - Programming my TI-83+ Graphing Calculator.
The manual is very informative, and the language is incredibly simple. Variables could not be any simpler (they are hard-coded, with the only options being letters A-Z), the commands are chosen from lists of menus (effectively removing misspellings from the list of screw-ups), and the syntax is incredibly simple. You can start with a program that runs Pythagorean Theorem (remember, the kid is 15 and the son/daughter of someone on Slashdot), work up to string manipulation, and eventually make games with moving 'sprites'. The other MAJOR benefit being that if the kid creates something useful, he can give it to his friends (TI Graphing Calculators can transfer programs using a very simple data cable).
So the kid learns the basics of coding, gets the immediate gratification from creating a program, has an all-encompassing manual detailing every command for when they want to try something new, and gets the excitement of having other people use something they created. Not to mention having something productive to do when they are bored in History class.
If I had to teach a 15 year old to code, I would definitely start with a TI-83+.
Doom 2 (Dunno if it's free yet) & Starseige Tribes.
That's all you need to make any needy kid's Christmas 'super specail'.