He! I din't realized it until I saw your post, but this is a great physing technique, using less target but with a exceptionaly big hit ratio: just preted to be a scientist making reserches on security and ask all the participants to enter their passwords. It may not work in the long run, but it could definitely work.
In theory, I could agree, but I don't think it will actually work. People want to access your site now and one in a while, you tell them "don't login now because we are doing an exercise, but if you login anyway, we will simply tell you it is bad before providing you the service", many people will simply chose to knowingly login because they trust their bookmark to link to the valid URL.
Go to Las Vegas, you will have more chances of getting rich.
Such a system will cost millions to build but hundreds to be cracked. Honest consumers (and in particular corporate IT) will refuse such a system because they either want to own the damn thing or have a predictable cost, dishonest ones will run anything for free while black hats will use it to steal the CC# of anyone stupid enouth to use it.
With such a bad expected outcome, only M$ is big enough to try something like that and survive.
Unfortunately, it's not just an american problem. And I believe it is just an example of the human need for a divine figure (one way or another, we are looking for a higher being that would rule our life and give it a meaning).
Whether it is my physical or electronic mailbox, anything that more or less looks like advertisement goes to the bin without a second thought. The good thing with the email is that, most of the time, I don't even notice I got something in the first place.
Like it or not, many people think they alrteady received enouth ads for the rest of their life and see them as an agression, no matter if they come from a legitimate business, and sometimes, even from business they are already buying from.
Had one boss like that a couple of years ago, the funny thing is that he was using strong productivity metrics and that week the team was the most efficient was the christmas one, when half the people, including that boss, were in holydays.
When in school, I attended an Accenture (Andersen Consulting at that time) hiring event in which I was told that I could be VP in 5 years just because almost everyone just quit within the first 3 years (with some money and a breakdown). The funny thing is that they managed to tell this almost as something positive.
Guess what? Not all intelligence agents are under cover, in fact, those are quite a minority. Homework: find the name of ten CIA employees. You'll see that is really easy, but most of the persons you will find spend most of their time in Langley or Washington and are not (or no longer) on the field. These are the kind of employees who go to those conventions.
If there is one thing that is absolutelly non-realistic in your post is the implicit idea that manufacturers could agree on standards so that you could have a single pad charging all your devices. And personally, between the inconvinience of plugging a battery charger every couple of days for my phone, my MP3 and my handheld console and having a device radiating WATTS in my bedroom, I'll stick to the first option.
That's the kind of testing you can actually do fast and close to the development team, but the real problems come from the impact your code could have on parts you barely know they exist in the full system. Parts testing is just step 0 of the testing process.
I totally agree, the more and sooner you breed, the more chances you have to propagate your genes. But in my post, I wanted to focus on the point that several species, including mankind, are social animals that also rely on group strategies for their survival, and although elders can't breed or hunt anymore, they are not always a drag, since they could at least have a positive impact on group cohesion and strategy, therefore, increasing the chances that their grandchildren live. And on medical ground, I read some things that basically said that ageing was some kind of tradeof, you're not as efficient as when you were younger, but it gives you a few more years by stepping down your metabolism and reducing the risk of cancer. And before anyone ask, no, I'm not old (30).
No, what you are saying can work for internal validation, but here, we are talking about official certification. 1- it has a meaning only if it is performed on the exact system that will be delivered. 2- it absolutelly needs to be performed by an independant structure (they don't work for the audited manufacturer and have no financial interest in either aproving or rejecting the audited item).
Of course, it brings a less efficient process, but if those rules are not respected, the real reaction to the discovery of a bug may be "write that the test is OK or you're fired".
But you could also say that the elders, by helping taking care of the village children and teaching their wisdom can still be usefull to the community, so maybe ageing is a way to have a longer (but less active) life by reducing the constraints on the body (and perhaps the risk of cancer). Maybe at a certain age you don't heal anymore simply because the needed effort would otherwise kill you.
Or there is another reason, far less flamebait than my GP post: since the PS3 and the 360 are somehow similar, game developpers will be tempted to build their games on the common ground between those tho systems, therefore, even with a superior PS3, the game will be exactly as it is on the 360.
Ferrari is still making more powerfull cars, and yet they are already far too powerfull for regular roads. The thing is they don't expect to sell as many as GM does, so maybe Sony was fed up with the success of the very technically limited PS2 and want the PS3 to be the next NeoGeo.
It's natural law, all the available power of any machine will ultimately be used. The only real reason the PS3 full power may not be used will probably be linked to the 9 cores architecture and the inherent diffulty to use them all at once effciently. Conclusion: they are trying to present a bad news as a good one, business as usual...
I totally agree with your analogy, but to make it complete, you also need to say that the owner of the flat he was renting and the building janitor were also put in jail because they didn't kicked him out, because that's the interesting point in that story.
If we are observing the double slits, the photons do one thing, but if we're not watching the slits, they do something else?
Actually, it is simply because you can't observe anything without an interaction. You can see macroscopic objects because photons bounce on them and some go to your eyes and you can feel them because there are electromagetic effects when you are at close range. For subatomic particules, it is the same thing except that you need to add those strange quatum effects. Basically, in that case, the photon will act as wave and go through every possible path at the same time if you leave it alone, but will be restricted to the only path where you observe it because you made it to interact with your observation device at that exact point, therefore, forcing it to behave as a particule.
Since the Zune can't play MS "Play For Sure" DRMed music, I don't think this new likely scheme will be something we really want. So maybe what he wanted us to understant is "you bought DRMed music, be prepared to buy it again and again".
My personnal experience: I'm french an 30, I have an ID since the age of 5 and a driver license since the age of 18 and the only occurence in my life when I handed one of those to a policeman (for less than 10s) was when I took a plane to Zurich because it was just more simple than using a passport. Here, the only persons who really need their ID are the non-caucasians, I bet it will be the same in the US.
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He! I din't realized it until I saw your post, but this is a great physing technique, using less target but with a exceptionaly big hit ratio: just preted to be a scientist making reserches on security and ask all the participants to enter their passwords.
It may not work in the long run, but it could definitely work.
In theory, I could agree, but I don't think it will actually work.
People want to access your site now and one in a while, you tell them "don't login now because we are doing an exercise, but if you login anyway, we will simply tell you it is bad before providing you the service", many people will simply chose to knowingly login because they trust their bookmark to link to the valid URL.
Go to Las Vegas, you will have more chances of getting rich.
Such a system will cost millions to build but hundreds to be cracked. Honest consumers (and in particular corporate IT) will refuse such a system because they either want to own the damn thing or have a predictable cost, dishonest ones will run anything for free while black hats will use it to steal the CC# of anyone stupid enouth to use it.
With such a bad expected outcome, only M$ is big enough to try something like that and survive.
Unfortunately, it's not just an american problem. And I believe it is just an example of the human need for a divine figure (one way or another, we are looking for a higher being that would rule our life and give it a meaning).
"Even the most cynical would have to admit his heart is in the right place."
Or, he wants to become the first world dictator and is clever enough to have a good PR.
Whether it is my physical or electronic mailbox, anything that more or less looks like advertisement goes to the bin without a second thought. The good thing with the email is that, most of the time, I don't even notice I got something in the first place.
Like it or not, many people think they alrteady received enouth ads for the rest of their life and see them as an agression, no matter if they come from a legitimate business, and sometimes, even from business they are already buying from.
Even if we all try that (I did), there's no way we could slashdot those pages.
Move along, nothing to crash there...
Had one boss like that a couple of years ago, the funny thing is that he was using strong productivity metrics and that week the team was the most efficient was the christmas one, when half the people, including that boss, were in holydays.
When in school, I attended an Accenture (Andersen Consulting at that time) hiring event in which I was told that I could be VP in 5 years just because almost everyone just quit within the first 3 years (with some money and a breakdown). The funny thing is that they managed to tell this almost as something positive.
Guess what? Not all intelligence agents are under cover, in fact, those are quite a minority.
Homework: find the name of ten CIA employees. You'll see that is really easy, but most of the persons you will find spend most of their time in Langley or Washington and are not (or no longer) on the field. These are the kind of employees who go to those conventions.
If there is one thing that is absolutelly non-realistic in your post is the implicit idea that manufacturers could agree on standards so that you could have a single pad charging all your devices.
And personally, between the inconvinience of plugging a battery charger every couple of days for my phone, my MP3 and my handheld console and having a device radiating WATTS in my bedroom, I'll stick to the first option.
That's the kind of testing you can actually do fast and close to the development team, but the real problems come from the impact your code could have on parts you barely know they exist in the full system.
Parts testing is just step 0 of the testing process.
I totally agree, the more and sooner you breed, the more chances you have to propagate your genes.
But in my post, I wanted to focus on the point that several species, including mankind, are social animals that also rely on group strategies for their survival, and although elders can't breed or hunt anymore, they are not always a drag, since they could at least have a positive impact on group cohesion and strategy, therefore, increasing the chances that their grandchildren live.
And on medical ground, I read some things that basically said that ageing was some kind of tradeof, you're not as efficient as when you were younger, but it gives you a few more years by stepping down your metabolism and reducing the risk of cancer.
And before anyone ask, no, I'm not old (30).
No, what you are saying can work for internal validation, but here, we are talking about official certification.
1- it has a meaning only if it is performed on the exact system that will be delivered.
2- it absolutelly needs to be performed by an independant structure (they don't work for the audited manufacturer and have no financial interest in either aproving or rejecting the audited item).
Of course, it brings a less efficient process, but if those rules are not respected, the real reaction to the discovery of a bug may be "write that the test is OK or you're fired".
But you could also say that the elders, by helping taking care of the village children and teaching their wisdom can still be usefull to the community, so maybe ageing is a way to have a longer (but less active) life by reducing the constraints on the body (and perhaps the risk of cancer). Maybe at a certain age you don't heal anymore simply because the needed effort would otherwise kill you.
Theorically yes, but killing the host to starve the tumor raises some ethical questions.
Or there is another reason, far less flamebait than my GP post: since the PS3 and the 360 are somehow similar, game developpers will be tempted to build their games on the common ground between those tho systems, therefore, even with a superior PS3, the game will be exactly as it is on the 360.
Ferrari is still making more powerfull cars, and yet they are already far too powerfull for regular roads. The thing is they don't expect to sell as many as GM does, so maybe Sony was fed up with the success of the very technically limited PS2 and want the PS3 to be the next NeoGeo.
It's natural law, all the available power of any machine will ultimately be used. The only real reason the PS3 full power may not be used will probably be linked to the 9 cores architecture and the inherent diffulty to use them all at once effciently.
Conclusion: they are trying to present a bad news as a good one, business as usual...
I totally agree with your analogy, but to make it complete, you also need to say that the owner of the flat he was renting and the building janitor were also put in jail because they didn't kicked him out, because that's the interesting point in that story.
No, you would be "more or less" guilty of aggravated assault and attempted murder with a whale wang, but jailed anyway.
The Zune gives you the ability to share music with another Zune owner. Of course, you first need to meet one.
If we are observing the double slits, the photons do one thing, but if we're not watching the slits, they do something else?
Actually, it is simply because you can't observe anything without an interaction. You can see macroscopic objects because photons bounce on them and some go to your eyes and you can feel them because there are electromagetic effects when you are at close range. For subatomic particules, it is the same thing except that you need to add those strange quatum effects. Basically, in that case, the photon will act as wave and go through every possible path at the same time if you leave it alone, but will be restricted to the only path where you observe it because you made it to interact with your observation device at that exact point, therefore, forcing it to behave as a particule.
Since the Zune can't play MS "Play For Sure" DRMed music, I don't think this new likely scheme will be something we really want.
So maybe what he wanted us to understant is "you bought DRMed music, be prepared to buy it again and again".
My personnal experience:
I'm french an 30, I have an ID since the age of 5 and a driver license since the age of 18 and the only occurence in my life when I handed one of those to a policeman (for less than 10s) was when I took a plane to Zurich because it was just more simple than using a passport.
Here, the only persons who really need their ID are the non-caucasians, I bet it will be the same in the US.