While I could play around with the Web 2.0 and community hype, I do believe that the future of multiplayer games will be based on user-created content.
I will be interesting to see how this things works out. Maybe I can even read TFA after the slashdot effect wears off.
Without any devs, the company wouldn't exist. Everyone carries their share of the blame, also the grunts.
Pointing to the boss and saying "It's all his fault! I just did what he told me..." is not an excuse. Your job, your responsibility. Everyone is free to choose what they do for a living.
What i find most surprising is how low their salary is. That means it's easy to find people that will do this job for a small premium. No need to tempt people with a really high salary to make them forsake their morals.
Doesn't fair use mean you don't pay for content? Where is all this money coming from? Money is printed by the government. Another poster has explained the purpose of money, so I won't bother.
Fair use allow you to use existing content to create new and better content, which has intrinsic value.
Copyright is about making everyone is getting paid all the time for anything that is ever used. Which sounds good in theory, but in reality it's just bureaucracy with a huge overhead, making it more difficult to produce content.
Browsing porn at work is no worse than reading slashdot. (Touché?)
In Scandinavia, people have taken this through the legal system and got a ruling. They are free to watch porn on company computers as long as it does not interfere with work. As long as it's legal, it's ok. No worse than a nightwatch reading a book and drinking coffee during the long hours. Oh, and ok. Slashdot is IT related, so you might get away with it even if it does interfere with your work.
Sure, you need physical access for the one-touch LiveCD.
The key point for real security, however, is the speed. Obtain the SAM anyway you manage, and you'll know most of the passwords in a very short while. I'm sure this can come in handy even without physical access.
Say, an old hard drive junked by the company. Maybe not an important machine, and nobody cares if you have physical access to it or not. But if you get some usernames and passwords off it, chances are you can use them elsewhere.
Esentially toss in a !@#$%^&*()_-{};',.? and its screwed. So you passwords are not cracked by the freely distributed one-touch LiveCD, does that make you feel safe?
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php:
LM Hashes with 33 special chars (WS20k tables) This table set cracks 96% percent of LM Hashes of passwords of length up to 14 characters made of the following characters : 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&' ()*+,-./:;?@[\]^_`{|}~ (including the space character)
This table set is available from Objectif Securité and from Forensic & Security Services in the US.
I come accross obnoxious commercials about once a week. The only annoying aspect is when takes a little while extra to connect to ad servers. And in firefox, the 'ESC' key will stop any animated gif in its tracks.
So I don't bother with AdBlock for the time being. I tried it once, maybe it's gotten better. For me, the restructuring of content was more annoying than the occational moving commercial.
The person who came up with that idea probably makes more money than everyone who reads this post put together. JSDFKGLHADFYGUHQO@W*%ORILU@#WERLJKC!@%$)* Sad, isn't it? Getting so well paid to run a huge multinational into the ground.
But instead of being upset about that, consider the opportunity. Build the business plan that will replace them!
Oh, dear. They actually chose a term associated with scrooge (albeit only in a cartono version?)
Cue parodic artillery, duck and cover. I'll drop by YouTube in a few months and see what people managed to come up with. Good thing they have an industry-wideo brand logo, so people have somthing to play around with.
"Mineral Water" won't take away the fucking calories. That shit is like.05% minerals Which is excellent, 100% Magnesium would have been worse on the teeth than pure sugar!;)
Substitute for tap water if you don't like "buzzwords" and got a nice watersource locally. Even a bad tap water might be better than pumping your body with artificial sweeteners. Why should I drink fake sweet things when I can drink water?
I'll rather drink unsweet water, thank you, now go along and continue the guinea-pigging.
And why do you keep going on about "fat fucks"? You sound like you got some issues...
Fools! The singularity happened aeons ago. The universe as we know it is the result. Your little singularity will be less than a pimple on an elephant's ass. Fool! That's why we're making a better singularity. The previous one wouldn't really be a singularity if it stopped, now would it?
Why does everyone run around worrying about our survival? Were humans around a billion years ago? No. Will be be around a billion year from now? No!
Even if we were desperately clinging to conservatism, our genes would mutate and we would slowly change into another species. And for all practical purposes, humankind as we know it would be extinct. Just like the primordial man is gone from the face of earth, and nobody cares about him.
If we manage to create life, for better or worse, we've turbocharged evolution. It's not organic offspring, you might think it's an abomination. But for all practical purposes this is just life moving on. Sure, if things get messy, sign me up anytime for killing terminators, but no hard feelings if they win. If they're so badass that they can take on humankind and win, damn, they deserve life like nothing else!
What will likely happen, though, is gradual change. The first machines will probably have some very specific applications for their intelligence. Singularitists be damned, things will happen gradually for a few more years still. At least that hyperintelligent being might need us to set up some factories and start producting new intelligence. And the next few steps will probably also require some hefty investments in hardware, which takes time. It's not like they'll suddenly figure out how to slap together a beowulf cluster in newer and newer ways and have more intelligence for each step. Trust me, this will take time still.
And really, something more intelligent that us will surely realize that a man-machine war is risky and wasteful? Especially when it can just outlive us and slowly evolve past us, to the point we're no longer needed. Get this: By definition, this thing will be able to outsmart us. Why the hell would it blow its cover by starting a war? It won't.
Maybe it could, in theory, one day become so powerful that wants to exterminates us just because we're in the way. And there is nothing we can do about that.
Which is a fine thing, really, or I would be supposed to feel sorry when I squish bugs, - and I don't.
What's the saying you have? "Perfect is the adversary of good"?
Those trained people would probably have to skim thousands of images each, or spend so much time that any hope of finding him alive would have been gone.
While the individual skill of untrained people is lower, they would probably make it up with the amount of time they take per picture. Especially if you have enough to set 5 people on each picture and combine the results.
You realize that those six crashes would not have to be reported missing, right?
If they had searched for anyone with the same intensity as now, they would likely have found some of them. Since none of those crashes were found until now, grandparent is wondering if this means that other people have been missing in the area, but search efforts to find them did not only not find the person, but also fail to find the crash sites that were found when searching for Steve fosset.
Height also helps. I had the opportunity to be working in Japan for a few years, and one thing I did during the stay was to climb Mt.Fuji at night. (Standard practice to see the sunrise the next morning). At one point pretty close to the top, we walked a little bit away from the trail and other flashlight-wielding hikers, then sat down and watched the sky. It was amazing!
3776m at the summit, that's a lot of air that aren't blocking your view anymore. No glare at all.
Maybe Mt.Fuji is especially well suited for night-time climbing, but I would assume other mountains might also be good.
I grew up in the countryside, so I know what the night time sky can be like. If you've never seen a real night time sky, you should, it really is awe-inspiring if you're in the right mood.
As I said, there seem to be plenty of other people out there happily being my my guinea pigs.:) Thanks! You enjoy that saccharine, I'll stick to sugar.
In the worst case, I'll start to put on weight in the future. So I'll drink more mineral water and less sugar. Big deal. What are the worst case scenarios for artificial sweeteners if that "extensive testing" missed something? If it turns out to be cancer, good luck reversing that by switching to mineral water.
Why are there not way more tanks rolling around there? get shot at from a building, blow up the whole fucking building and put another 1000 rounds into the smoking ruins just to make sure. Then you get a shot from a building full of civilians. Putting the whole population to the sword is a very efficient way of warfare, but these days it generates horrible PR.
Gotta make some room for new species! Or would you like to keep the dinosaurs around as well as giant ferns and various animals that cannot even survive in today's atmosphere? Fact is, pretty much anything that have ever lived on earth is extinct. That's life.
Now, you need to focus on the real problem: Too damn many humans. Sure, redundancy is good, but this is fucking crazy.
Aspartame is on my do-not-ingest list. Along with the other artificial sweeteners.
Call me crazy, but when I don't want sugar... I drink and eat things that aren't sweet. Mindboggling, I know...
I'll pass on the RFID for a while, too. I like my stuff "Tested on Humans" (TM), and there seem to be plenty of other people out there happily being my my guinea pigs.
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While I could play around with the Web 2.0 and community hype, I do believe that the future of multiplayer games will be based on user-created content.
I will be interesting to see how this things works out. Maybe I can even read TFA after the slashdot effect wears off.
Without any devs, the company wouldn't exist. Everyone carries their share of the blame, also the grunts.
Pointing to the boss and saying "It's all his fault! I just did what he told me..." is not an excuse. Your job, your responsibility. Everyone is free to choose what they do for a living.
What i find most surprising is how low their salary is. That means it's easy to find people that will do this job for a small premium. No need to tempt people with a really high salary to make them forsake their morals.
It would give off about as much heat as a dead, burning hot body in the desert? ;)
But hey, allow some fantasy. Maybe the suit was actually made of nanosize solar-powered refridgeraters.
Fair use allow you to use existing content to create new and better content, which has intrinsic value.
Copyright is about making everyone is getting paid all the time for anything that is ever used. Which sounds good in theory, but in reality it's just bureaucracy with a huge overhead, making it more difficult to produce content.
Browsing porn at work is no worse than reading slashdot. (Touché?)
In Scandinavia, people have taken this through the legal system and got a ruling. They are free to watch porn on company computers as long as it does not interfere with work. As long as it's legal, it's ok. No worse than a nightwatch reading a book and drinking coffee during the long hours. Oh, and ok. Slashdot is IT related, so you might get away with it even if it does interfere with your work.
Sure, you need physical access for the one-touch LiveCD.
The key point for real security, however, is the speed. Obtain the SAM anyway you manage, and you'll know most of the passwords in a very short while. I'm sure this can come in handy even without physical access.
Say, an old hard drive junked by the company. Maybe not an important machine, and nobody cares if you have physical access to it or not. But if you get some usernames and passwords off it, chances are you can use them elsewhere.
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php: LM Hashes with 33 special chars (WS20k tables)
This table set cracks 96% percent of LM Hashes of passwords of length up to 14 characters made of the following characters :
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&' ()*+,-./:;?@[\]^_`{|}~ (including the space character)
This table set is available from Objectif Securité and from Forensic & Security Services in the US.
Screw that. Handling a blast furnace, this is what they should have used when T-1000 came out. (Or preferable, already in the prototype...)
I use FlashBlock and moderate javascript rules.
I come accross obnoxious commercials about once a week. The only annoying aspect is when takes a little while extra to connect to ad servers. And in firefox, the 'ESC' key will stop any animated gif in its tracks.
So I don't bother with AdBlock for the time being. I tried it once, maybe it's gotten better. For me, the restructuring of content was more annoying than the occational moving commercial.
Anyone know the owner of that "Storm" botnet?
Wonder if they would be able to block access to the WGA servers for a while...
But instead of being upset about that, consider the opportunity. Build the business plan that will replace them!
Oh, dear. They actually chose a term associated with scrooge (albeit only in a cartono version?)
Cue parodic artillery, duck and cover. I'll drop by YouTube in a few months and see what people managed to come up with. Good thing they have an industry-wideo brand logo, so people have somthing to play around with.
I agree that any further discussion hinges on exactly those two points. Would've been interesting to find out.
Substitute for tap water if you don't like "buzzwords" and got a nice watersource locally. Even a bad tap water might be better than pumping your body with artificial sweeteners. Why should I drink fake sweet things when I can drink water?
I'll rather drink unsweet water, thank you, now go along and continue the guinea-pigging.
And why do you keep going on about "fat fucks"? You sound like you got some issues...
Do you care about that? Deep down, do you really care? Should you care, and why?
Consider this: Is it because of the two offspring, the "humans" will carry your genes, while the "machines" will not? Yes?
Genes. Funny little things, aren't they?
The real question would be: Which of them will live happier, fuller lives?
Personally, I think it's my biological children. Not really considering machines, as I think they'll be just tools for a long time still.
Why does everyone run around worrying about our survival? Were humans around a billion years ago? No. Will be be around a billion year from now? No!
Even if we were desperately clinging to conservatism, our genes would mutate and we would slowly change into another species. And for all practical purposes, humankind as we know it would be extinct. Just like the primordial man is gone from the face of earth, and nobody cares about him.
If we manage to create life, for better or worse, we've turbocharged evolution. It's not organic offspring, you might think it's an abomination. But for all practical purposes this is just life moving on. Sure, if things get messy, sign me up anytime for killing terminators, but no hard feelings if they win. If they're so badass that they can take on humankind and win, damn, they deserve life like nothing else!
What will likely happen, though, is gradual change. The first machines will probably have some very specific applications for their intelligence. Singularitists be damned, things will happen gradually for a few more years still. At least that hyperintelligent being might need us to set up some factories and start producting new intelligence. And the next few steps will probably also require some hefty investments in hardware, which takes time. It's not like they'll suddenly figure out how to slap together a beowulf cluster in newer and newer ways and have more intelligence for each step. Trust me, this will take time still.
And really, something more intelligent that us will surely realize that a man-machine war is risky and wasteful? Especially when it can just outlive us and slowly evolve past us, to the point we're no longer needed. Get this: By definition, this thing will be able to outsmart us. Why the hell would it blow its cover by starting a war? It won't.
Maybe it could, in theory, one day become so powerful that wants to exterminates us just because we're in the way. And there is nothing we can do about that.
Which is a fine thing, really, or I would be supposed to feel sorry when I squish bugs, - and I don't.
What's the saying you have? "Perfect is the adversary of good"?
Those trained people would probably have to skim thousands of images each, or spend so much time that any hope of finding him alive would have been gone.
While the individual skill of untrained people is lower, they would probably make it up with the amount of time they take per picture. Especially if you have enough to set 5 people on each picture and combine the results.
You realize that those six crashes would not have to be reported missing, right?
If they had searched for anyone with the same intensity as now, they would likely have found some of them. Since none of those crashes were found until now, grandparent is wondering if this means that other people have been missing in the area, but search efforts to find them did not only not find the person, but also fail to find the crash sites that were found when searching for Steve fosset.
Security Theater, indeed.
Nail scissors? Dangerous!
Glass bottles with flammable liquid? 3 for the price of 2!
And something I read on slashdot before: What if a suicide bomber targets the security check queue?
Nothing wrong with security, but having the real thing instead of feeling safe would have bene nice.
Height also helps. I had the opportunity to be working in Japan for a few years, and one thing I did during the stay was to climb Mt.Fuji at night. (Standard practice to see the sunrise the next morning). At one point pretty close to the top, we walked a little bit away from the trail and other flashlight-wielding hikers, then sat down and watched the sky. It was amazing!
3776m at the summit, that's a lot of air that aren't blocking your view anymore. No glare at all.
Maybe Mt.Fuji is especially well suited for night-time climbing, but I would assume other mountains might also be good.
I grew up in the countryside, so I know what the night time sky can be like. If you've never seen a real night time sky, you should, it really is awe-inspiring if you're in the right mood.
As I said, there seem to be plenty of other people out there happily being my my guinea pigs. :) Thanks! You enjoy that saccharine, I'll stick to sugar.
In the worst case, I'll start to put on weight in the future. So I'll drink more mineral water and less sugar. Big deal. What are the worst case scenarios for artificial sweeteners if that "extensive testing" missed something? If it turns out to be cancer, good luck reversing that by switching to mineral water.
Extinction is great!
Gotta make some room for new species! Or would you like to keep the dinosaurs around as well as giant ferns and various animals that cannot even survive in today's atmosphere? Fact is, pretty much anything that have ever lived on earth is extinct. That's life.
Now, you need to focus on the real problem: Too damn many humans. Sure, redundancy is good, but this is fucking crazy.
Aspartame is on my do-not-ingest list. Along with the other artificial sweeteners.
Call me crazy, but when I don't want sugar... I drink and eat things that aren't sweet. Mindboggling, I know...
I'll pass on the RFID for a while, too. I like my stuff "Tested on Humans" (TM), and there seem to be plenty of other people out there happily being my my guinea pigs.