Tape is good until you have SLAs that need to be met. Often times you cannot meet the kind of SLAs that SaaS customers expect with a tape library.
Where I work we use tape for long term cold archival storage, and Avamar or Netbackup to Data Domain. The Data Domains are then duplicated to a mirror site. We currently have 28 day retention of nearly 4PB of data. EMC loves us.
Where did you get that? He mentions Battle.Net and a slew of Blizzard games. No where does he mention purchasing games through Steam. The only reference that comes close to Steam is his comment directed to Gabe Newell.
The app already has explicit permission to go outside of itself. VAC is scanning memory when the game is running to detect cheats. THAT is way more invasive than doing a second step verification of MD5 hashes generated from the DNS cache.
There is a good reason for it. The reason is to reduce the instances of cheating. If you do not agree with that, do not play the games. I am willing to guess that you do not play very many FPS games, so you probably do not have to frequently deal with the frustration of being instantly killed by people you can barely even see. Nor do you deal with the frustrations of players knowing where you are at all times.
Exactly. As part of playing the game, I am willing to give up privacy in order to have to deal with fewer cheaters making up for their lack of skill (and ruining my game experience) with hacks and exploits.
It has nothing to do with "safety" of the games and everything to do with the quality of my playing experience.
They are already running an executable that is scanning memory in real time. Who cares if they are digging through DNS cache?
Everyone who responds to this about privacy in video games is barking up the wrong tree. The real privacy violations are happening upstream, at the ISPs with the full support of numerous three letter agencies. I am more concerned about the NSA colluding with Microsoft than I am with Valve scanning my DNS cache for servers used to authenticate cheats.
Nothing is hack proof. That is my point, and that is why your comment "cheaters [being] due to [Valve's] lack of technical skill." is an ignorant comment.
Mr Newell, I suggest that some, if not most of your apparent cheaters, are due to YOUR companies lack of technical skill.
While you may suggest that, it is a load of crap and doing so makes you look ignorant.
Cheaters have nothing to do with Valve's lack of technical skill, and everything to do with the client/server based nature of the games. As long as the games are running on hardware that the company does not control, there will be cheaters. It is the age old adage that if the attacker (in this case the cheater) has physical access to the server (or in this case, game client), there is nothing that you can do to protect yourself.
We tolerate it because cheaters ruin games. If do not want to play the game, or do not want your privacy violated, then do not play games on Steam.
For those of us that do play games, and do play them honestly, this is another step in the right direction. Cheating simply kills these games. I am willing to give up a bit of privacy in exchange for fewer aimbots and wallhacks in the FPS games that I play. If you read the article, or the comments, you would realize that the DNS scanning is a second level of review that takes place when other indicators point towards a person who might be cheating.
It is good to see that they are teaching them real subject matter, like binary disassembly and source code analysis. When I first read the headline, I was afraid that they were just turning out script kiddies.
Right before the Olympics started, I read an article that referred to this exact suit and mentioned that it was going to give the Americans an unfair advantage. Lesson learned here? Spend less money on marketing (propaganda) and more money on product testing.
Is anyone else sick of being lied to and misdirected on a regular basis? "Best speed skating suit ever developed!" "Oh, wait. Just kidding!"
Our economy is right and truly fucked at this point. The company that previously brought us the SR-71 has so many idle engineers sitting around that all they can do is waste (presumably) millions of dollars on a failure. Am I really to believe Obama and our "business leaders" that America does not have enough engineering talent? Here is an idea. How about instead of wasting their time on designing speed skating suits, they find them some productive projects to work on?
This is a frequent occurrence. I used to get upset about it. These days I have seen enough of these exact type of situations blow up that I am content to document my observations, report them to the appropriate people (always a direct supervisor), and then move on with my life. When things blow up, I am covered.
Situations like this are why, although I understand security, I will never work in a security position. There is too much risk and liability, and not enough support.
I know for a fact that it is just poor infrastructure. I live in a "less affluent" apartment complex, and TWC simply does not care to improve the infrastructure. The packet loss that I mentioned it across the board, not just limited to Netflix. I even paid for the higher tier speed. In my area the default speed is 10/1 and I am paying for 15/3. They do not care.
I see the same problem. Netflix streaming problems are the obvious ones. Terrible performance in FPS games is another.
I am participating in an FCC study of ISPs (SamKnows). They monitor the circuit 24/7 and send me monthly reports. TWC sucks during "peak" times. I am talking 25%+ packet loss at 7pm, 200+ms DNS latency, etc.
Is Comcast even worse than TWC? Is that even possible?!
I hate TWC. I experience serious packet loss and latency. All they will do is "test the modem" and then pronounce it fine. Of course the modem is fine, the problem is upstream from there.
I am not a believer in astrology, but is it so far fetched to consider that there might be "celestial" seasons that influence human behaviors in ways similar to the way terrestrial seasons (Spring, Winter, etc) influence plant growth, reproductive cycles of animals, and the like? Is it really so far fetched that a baby that is born in the depths of Winter and spends its first six months with shorter light cycles and colder temperatures might develop a different temperament than a baby born at the peak of Summer?
A lot of what gets classified as astrology (horoscopes, etc.) are often times so vaguely written that they are nearly universally applicable. On the other hand, to make blanket statements along the lines of, "There is no way that the motions of the universe, the earth's position relative to the sun, etc." have no influence on human behavior is probably being short sighted.
I often times think that people who get so focused on "scientific proof" are almost as crazy as religious fanatics who refuse to accept science and remain wedded to irrational beliefs in the face of otherwise irrefutable proof. There are some things that science cannot yet measure or account for.
One day we might look back and realize that astrology is just as real as the Higgs Boson, Or not. Who knows?
I think you missed the point that I am making. People do not like the current beta format. I am one of those people. The purpose of the "protest" was to force the site owners to acknowledge that feedback. They have acknowledged it and laid out their roadmap.
To continue to whine about it shows immaturity. Things do not change instantaneously. To expect that shows immaturity. We have to give them time to prove that they really are listening and paying attention to the feedback.
I have mod points, I am tired of beta comments. I have made my own beta comments, but I am also understanding of IT projects. Yesterday the editors responded to the complaints. To continue complaining at this point is childish. We need to give them time to prove that they are being honest. "Trust but verify."
It is quite clear that if the site significantly changes, people are going to leave it in droves. Continued "me to" threats and rants to that effect are not going to produce any further results.
What you should be pissed about is that you have to pay for a "business plan" in the first place. Back in the 90s when telcos started selling DSL and other high speed services to residential customers, there was not any difference. I had a 384k DSL feed at home that was just as fast as the 384k DSL feed at the office.
The limitations are completely arbitrary and 100% due to the fact that the telcos and ISPs are cheap bastards and will do everything in their power to avoid upgrading their infrastructure.
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Tape is good until you have SLAs that need to be met. Often times you cannot meet the kind of SLAs that SaaS customers expect with a tape library.
Where I work we use tape for long term cold archival storage, and Avamar or Netbackup to Data Domain. The Data Domains are then duplicated to a mirror site. We currently have 28 day retention of nearly 4PB of data. EMC loves us.
Where did you get that? He mentions Battle.Net and a slew of Blizzard games. No where does he mention purchasing games through Steam. The only reference that comes close to Steam is his comment directed to Gabe Newell.
The app already has explicit permission to go outside of itself. VAC is scanning memory when the game is running to detect cheats. THAT is way more invasive than doing a second step verification of MD5 hashes generated from the DNS cache.
There is a good reason for it. The reason is to reduce the instances of cheating. If you do not agree with that, do not play the games. I am willing to guess that you do not play very many FPS games, so you probably do not have to frequently deal with the frustration of being instantly killed by people you can barely even see. Nor do you deal with the frustrations of players knowing where you are at all times.
Exactly. As part of playing the game, I am willing to give up privacy in order to have to deal with fewer cheaters making up for their lack of skill (and ruining my game experience) with hacks and exploits.
It has nothing to do with "safety" of the games and everything to do with the quality of my playing experience.
They are already running an executable that is scanning memory in real time. Who cares if they are digging through DNS cache?
Everyone who responds to this about privacy in video games is barking up the wrong tree. The real privacy violations are happening upstream, at the ISPs with the full support of numerous three letter agencies. I am more concerned about the NSA colluding with Microsoft than I am with Valve scanning my DNS cache for servers used to authenticate cheats.
Nothing is hack proof. That is my point, and that is why your comment "cheaters [being] due to [Valve's] lack of technical skill." is an ignorant comment.
You do realize that Battle. Net and Steam are products from two different companies right? You addressed your post to one, not the other.
Mr Newell, I suggest that some, if not most of your apparent cheaters, are due to YOUR companies lack of technical skill.
While you may suggest that, it is a load of crap and doing so makes you look ignorant.
Cheaters have nothing to do with Valve's lack of technical skill, and everything to do with the client/server based nature of the games. As long as the games are running on hardware that the company does not control, there will be cheaters. It is the age old adage that if the attacker (in this case the cheater) has physical access to the server (or in this case, game client), there is nothing that you can do to protect yourself.
We tolerate it because cheaters ruin games. If do not want to play the game, or do not want your privacy violated, then do not play games on Steam.
For those of us that do play games, and do play them honestly, this is another step in the right direction. Cheating simply kills these games. I am willing to give up a bit of privacy in exchange for fewer aimbots and wallhacks in the FPS games that I play. If you read the article, or the comments, you would realize that the DNS scanning is a second level of review that takes place when other indicators point towards a person who might be cheating.
Often times they are not modifying the binaries themselves. The cheats are separate DLLs that are injected into the process at run time.
Your information is a bit out of date about aviators.
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
It is good to see that they are teaching them real subject matter, like binary disassembly and source code analysis. When I first read the headline, I was afraid that they were just turning out script kiddies.
Before they then rotate out into the private sector and start making the big bucks.
They already did that research, and have applied it to other applications. Now they tried to apply it to speed skating suits and failed.
Right before the Olympics started, I read an article that referred to this exact suit and mentioned that it was going to give the Americans an unfair advantage. Lesson learned here? Spend less money on marketing (propaganda) and more money on product testing.
Is anyone else sick of being lied to and misdirected on a regular basis? "Best speed skating suit ever developed!" "Oh, wait. Just kidding!"
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...
Our economy is right and truly fucked at this point. The company that previously brought us the SR-71 has so many idle engineers sitting around that all they can do is waste (presumably) millions of dollars on a failure. Am I really to believe Obama and our "business leaders" that America does not have enough engineering talent? Here is an idea. How about instead of wasting their time on designing speed skating suits, they find them some productive projects to work on?
This is a frequent occurrence. I used to get upset about it. These days I have seen enough of these exact type of situations blow up that I am content to document my observations, report them to the appropriate people (always a direct supervisor), and then move on with my life. When things blow up, I am covered.
Situations like this are why, although I understand security, I will never work in a security position. There is too much risk and liability, and not enough support.
I know for a fact that it is just poor infrastructure. I live in a "less affluent" apartment complex, and TWC simply does not care to improve the infrastructure. The packet loss that I mentioned it across the board, not just limited to Netflix. I even paid for the higher tier speed. In my area the default speed is 10/1 and I am paying for 15/3. They do not care.
I see the same problem. Netflix streaming problems are the obvious ones. Terrible performance in FPS games is another.
I am participating in an FCC study of ISPs (SamKnows). They monitor the circuit 24/7 and send me monthly reports. TWC sucks during "peak" times. I am talking 25%+ packet loss at 7pm, 200+ms DNS latency, etc.
I love my Time Warner service..
Are you serious?
Is Comcast even worse than TWC? Is that even possible?!
I hate TWC. I experience serious packet loss and latency. All they will do is "test the modem" and then pronounce it fine. Of course the modem is fine, the problem is upstream from there.
I am not a believer in astrology, but is it so far fetched to consider that there might be "celestial" seasons that influence human behaviors in ways similar to the way terrestrial seasons (Spring, Winter, etc) influence plant growth, reproductive cycles of animals, and the like? Is it really so far fetched that a baby that is born in the depths of Winter and spends its first six months with shorter light cycles and colder temperatures might develop a different temperament than a baby born at the peak of Summer?
A lot of what gets classified as astrology (horoscopes, etc.) are often times so vaguely written that they are nearly universally applicable. On the other hand, to make blanket statements along the lines of, "There is no way that the motions of the universe, the earth's position relative to the sun, etc." have no influence on human behavior is probably being short sighted.
I often times think that people who get so focused on "scientific proof" are almost as crazy as religious fanatics who refuse to accept science and remain wedded to irrational beliefs in the face of otherwise irrefutable proof. There are some things that science cannot yet measure or account for.
One day we might look back and realize that astrology is just as real as the Higgs Boson, Or not. Who knows?
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I think you missed the point that I am making. People do not like the current beta format. I am one of those people. The purpose of the "protest" was to force the site owners to acknowledge that feedback. They have acknowledged it and laid out their roadmap.
To continue to whine about it shows immaturity. Things do not change instantaneously. To expect that shows immaturity. We have to give them time to prove that they really are listening and paying attention to the feedback.
I have mod points, I am tired of beta comments. I have made my own beta comments, but I am also understanding of IT projects. Yesterday the editors responded to the complaints. To continue complaining at this point is childish. We need to give them time to prove that they are being honest. "Trust but verify."
It is quite clear that if the site significantly changes, people are going to leave it in droves. Continued "me to" threats and rants to that effect are not going to produce any further results.
...slashdot beta.
I am sure that their trucks will be more well received. And unlike Slashdot beta, the troops will want to use them.
In other news, TheLadders.com > dice.com
What you should be pissed about is that you have to pay for a "business plan" in the first place. Back in the 90s when telcos started selling DSL and other high speed services to residential customers, there was not any difference. I had a 384k DSL feed at home that was just as fast as the 384k DSL feed at the office.
The limitations are completely arbitrary and 100% due to the fact that the telcos and ISPs are cheap bastards and will do everything in their power to avoid upgrading their infrastructure.