Pretty much agree with that. As I said earlier, people are way too ready to be offended these days,often when they're not. They just feel they ought to.
>It is incredibly misogynistic, and it is perfectly reasonable to be offended by it.
Oh I think people are way too ready to be offended by anything and everything these days.
The name refers to a non-consensual sexual intrusion, something you might consider light rape.
You think an upskirt (which are usually staged) is akin to rape? Wow.
>On the flip side, perhaps you ought to be offended, but have been too desensitized.
Fair point but I would like to think that we've got past being horrified by anything remotely sexual. Let's be honest here, one of the biggest money spinners in the US is porn - people buy it, yet as soon as someone in public says 'panties', they're frowned upon as some sort of devient, usually by the same people who just downloaded MILF episode 3.
>The Daily Mail has been noticeably reluctant to comment on the subject, for example.
They just haven't found an angle yet to blame it on immigrants. Luckily, Murdoch has just arrived...
Why are phones, particularly the VM box that is more or less an automatic part of today's cell phone, so damn vulnerable?
All they did is access voicemail accounts which had the default PIN i.e. 1234 or whatever. Nothing clever. Once they had the mobile numbers, they just dialed in from another phone, access VM and entered the PIN. Simples.
I had a minidisc recorder that had a software suite for loadng up tracks from CD etc. It also burnt CDs in ATRAC format for playback in their portable CD players. I burnt quite a few disks on the promise of better quality than MP3 and used this to master certain irreplacable tracks. Turns out, the DRM protection stops the disks being played on any other PC than the one they were recorded on. Didn't find that out until that PC was gone. Result, I've lost some very important recordings and it's yet another reason I now avoid Sony like the plague.
Where I work, all the USB ports are disabled. The most you can hope from plugging anything into them is a recharge. If you *really* need to use a USB stick, you get an encrypted one from in house and your local permissions are tweaked to allow just that model and not much else. Plus you get a very clear message that if a virus does get onto the system, you're in a world of trouble, possibly dismissal.
>I don't think that'd hold up in any court of law.
Impossible to say without knowing the contract's details. The view within the company was that S**y wanted to dump the game so used this as a cheap way out. My friend actually predicated this when the list of requirements came in - he took one look and said "This is impossible, they're going to cancel the contract in a few weeks'. And they did.
Trouble is, the publishing side is where the money is and most small-medium sized dev houses just get paid for each of the delivery points. Once the game's out the door, the income stops as it's a brave company that pushes for a % of the revenue as the game will only get awarded to the next development house in the queue, teetering on the edge and looking for a way to stay solvent for another few months.
I know a few people that work in the industry in the UK and their stories horrify me. Not so much the hours - they do work reasonable hours but that probably Euro law kicking in - more the stupid shenannigans the publishers pull. So many games have been coming along nicely then the publisher's marketing people start demanding wholesale changes, killling the game's playability.
They also pull stunts like demanding a rewrite on an impossible deadline then use the failure to deliver it on time as a reason to cancel the contract. There also seems to be a trend to make dev teams redundant just before Christmas as the development houses finish the game for Christmas but can't keep ticking over waiting for the revenue so end up folding. He's lost his job 6 times as 5 were in November. Happy Christmas.
All jobs have good and bad but the games industry seems particularly badly run on the suits side by people that just don't get the end product and just know SKUs.
Got a letter from my GP asking if my records can be computerised and shared around the country. I ticked the 'No' box and everyone thought I was being an idiot.
The government has a glorious record of data stupidity and this continues that trend so I'm feeling pretty much vindicated at this point.
I'm frankly astounded anyone would consider Facebook or any similar sites for primary storage. Hello, I wouldn't even trust Flickr. If you have important data, look after it yourself. Sure, use online as part of the solution but not the primary store.
>Hell, ripping it yourself twice will result in different files.
What about rippers that compare ripped tracks to a centrally stored hash list to check you got a clean rip? It must be reasonably predictable to make it worthwhile.
I was going to get an iPhone until I started really looking at the prices. Ended up with an HTC Desire. Brilliant phone, does all I want and more. Phone was free on a 2 year £18 a month deal. Sweet. Makes $700 on a phone look frankly unhinged.
It's stuff like this that makes me embarassed to work in IT. We all have enough of a geeky reputation as it is and working as I do in a large financial organisation, we're slowly getting to the point that business people see us as peers. However, anything like this just makes us look like overgrown children and sets everything back a decade. Sorry to be a bit bah-humbug but really...
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Oh for some mod points +funny
Flamebait? Really? Wow. I rest my case.
Pretty much agree with that. As I said earlier, people are way too ready to be offended these days,often when they're not. They just feel they ought to.
>It is incredibly misogynistic, and it is perfectly reasonable to be offended by it.
Oh I think people are way too ready to be offended by anything and everything these days.
The name refers to a non-consensual sexual intrusion, something you might consider light rape.
You think an upskirt (which are usually staged) is akin to rape? Wow.
>On the flip side, perhaps you ought to be offended, but have been too desensitized.
Fair point but I would like to think that we've got past being horrified by anything remotely sexual. Let's be honest here, one of the biggest money spinners in the US is porn - people buy it, yet as soon as someone in public says 'panties', they're frowned upon as some sort of devient, usually by the same people who just downloaded MILF episode 3.
Really, if you get offended by words like that you need to crawl out from under that rock and get out more.
>The Daily Mail has been noticeably reluctant to comment on the subject, for example.
They just haven't found an angle yet to blame it on immigrants. Luckily, Murdoch has just arrived...
OK, I'd not heard that and it wasn't what was initially reported (but then what was..). Thanks for the correction :-)
All they did is access voicemail accounts which had the default PIN i.e. 1234 or whatever. Nothing clever. Once they had the mobile numbers, they just dialed in from another phone, access VM and entered the PIN. Simples.
I had a minidisc recorder that had a software suite for loadng up tracks from CD etc. It also burnt CDs in ATRAC format for playback in their portable CD players. I burnt quite a few disks on the promise of better quality than MP3 and used this to master certain irreplacable tracks. Turns out, the DRM protection stops the disks being played on any other PC than the one they were recorded on. Didn't find that out until that PC was gone. Result, I've lost some very important recordings and it's yet another reason I now avoid Sony like the plague.
As others have noted, this isn't a first. I also noticed that the picture on the BBC site is spelling chocolate as chocalate. Oops.
It's somewhere where you really don't want to read in the paper that customer's data has got out or viruses have got in.
Where I work, all the USB ports are disabled. The most you can hope from plugging anything into them is a recharge. If you *really* need to use a USB stick, you get an encrypted one from in house and your local permissions are tweaked to allow just that model and not much else. Plus you get a very clear message that if a virus does get onto the system, you're in a world of trouble, possibly dismissal.
>I don't think that'd hold up in any court of law.
Impossible to say without knowing the contract's details. The view within the company was that S**y wanted to dump the game so used this as a cheap way out. My friend actually predicated this when the list of requirements came in - he took one look and said "This is impossible, they're going to cancel the contract in a few weeks'. And they did.
Trouble is, the publishing side is where the money is and most small-medium sized dev houses just get paid for each of the delivery points. Once the game's out the door, the income stops as it's a brave company that pushes for a % of the revenue as the game will only get awarded to the next development house in the queue, teetering on the edge and looking for a way to stay solvent for another few months.
Running off into the distance? That's your credibility, that is.
I know a few people that work in the industry in the UK and their stories horrify me. Not so much the hours - they do work reasonable hours but that probably Euro law kicking in - more the stupid shenannigans the publishers pull. So many games have been coming along nicely then the publisher's marketing people start demanding wholesale changes, killling the game's playability.
They also pull stunts like demanding a rewrite on an impossible deadline then use the failure to deliver it on time as a reason to cancel the contract.
There also seems to be a trend to make dev teams redundant just before Christmas as the development houses finish the game for Christmas but can't keep ticking over waiting for the revenue so end up folding. He's lost his job 6 times as 5 were in November. Happy Christmas.
All jobs have good and bad but the games industry seems particularly badly run on the suits side by people that just don't get the end product and just know SKUs.
Got a letter from my GP asking if my records can be computerised and shared around the country. I ticked the 'No' box and everyone thought I was being an idiot. The government has a glorious record of data stupidity and this continues that trend so I'm feeling pretty much vindicated at this point.
I'm frankly astounded anyone would consider Facebook or any similar sites for primary storage. Hello, I wouldn't even trust Flickr. If you have important data, look after it yourself. Sure, use online as part of the solution but not the primary store.
>Hell, ripping it yourself twice will result in different files.
What about rippers that compare ripped tracks to a centrally stored hash list to check you got a clean rip? It must be reasonably predictable to make it worthwhile.
I was going to get an iPhone until I started really looking at the prices. Ended up with an HTC Desire. Brilliant phone, does all I want and more. Phone was free on a 2 year £18 a month deal. Sweet. Makes $700 on a phone look frankly unhinged.
It's stuff like this that makes me embarassed to work in IT. We all have enough of a geeky reputation as it is and working as I do in a large financial organisation, we're slowly getting to the point that business people see us as peers. However, anything like this just makes us look like overgrown children and sets everything back a decade. Sorry to be a bit bah-humbug but really...
Quickest ever dup on slashdot!
Noooooooooooooo! :-(
I for one welcome our chess playing overlords.
Good, as a species we're finally starting to grow up.