For Counter-Strike Source alone there are probably 100+ different hacks (aimbots, wallhacks, no-recoil, etc) that simply don't get detected.
A) When it comes to permanently and irreversably banning people from playing online on pretty much any server, I'd rather they be more conservative than squash all the cheaters taking many more innocents with them.
B) Cheats exist and ARE detectable... the thing is an entire group of users never suffer the consequences. Valve made cyber cafe accounts immune to VAC bans in order to keep favor with those businesses. Clearly can't have a situation where someone pays $10, loads a cheat from a USB drive, and proceeds to undermine the entire business getting it banned. Someone playing at a cyber cafe gets a new unique Steam ID each time they play a game, so even if the server kicks them they can come right back. Google for CafeBlock and encourage the admins of your favorite server to run it.
Answer that question for them and just walk out. Let 'em run a few days without an IT department. Come back in a week and witness the piles of help tickets, flaming servers, half-dead employees feeding on dead bodies, confused employees who don't know where their internets are, the quizzical look of managers gathered 'round a UNIX box with question marks floating over their heads, etc.
So you took the Microsoft tour during the launch of Vista? Brave man.
I'm in the same boat of wanting to transition away from wireless after tasting it's sweet sweet succulence... except I'm not remodelling a house. Sure I currently use wireless just for gaming and Tivo but I would hate that leisure network to get compromised and then provide access to my computers where the real neat stuff lives.
I know/. has to know of good resources to retrofit an existing prebuilt house with wire without me having to rip out all my walls, leave tripping obstacles all around the mouse, or drop wires from the ceiling airducts like some kind of SWAT team rapelling operation. Anyone?
The networks have no way of preventing these sorts of occasional, often one-time outbursts from occurring.
Sure they do: it's called a delay. It's standard practice for radio. If they're anticipating a bunch of potty-mouths at a live broadcast of a comedy show, hey, just block the time as TVAO and turn the delay off. If it's a live broadcast of The Lion King on Ice, block it as TVG and turn the delay on in case a naked streaker runs across the ice shouting "Ba ba booey."
Thanks to mandating the V-Chip in every television set and tuner over 10 years ago there really isn't any excuse that people can receive "offensive" or "inappropriate" content. Parents and those who agree to tap into the airwaves (people who buy the TV) have to configure it: plain and simple. I mean, we trust them to configure their equipment already to tune to specific channels, right?
Which is enough evidence that these sorts of things aren't costing the banking industry a whole lot.
This suggests one or more of the following three things are true: 1) There ISN'T ACTUALLY an epidemic of checking/credit fraud aside from a few high profile high press cases (see also: terrorism, pedophilia, and other "woo, the world is SCARY!" kinds of stories 2) When fraud happens, banks are reasonably well equipped to recover the losses (some other bank has to exist on the other end of the wire, naturally) 3) The government doesn't have sufficient laws to protect the victims of these sorts of things where banks are held responsible, so banks have no motivation to fix what amounts to broken financial operations
A good programmer is a good programmer. They all cost about the same.
Although, the point of TFA is that the COBOL job market is heating up. As in, COBOL programmers are starting to command greater salaries due to a supply and demand.
Which, if it keeps going that way, will turn itself right around when the salaries (company expense) gets high enough to justify rewrites.
The company BOTH cares about their data AND can't afford a proper backup system.
If they don't pony up, they can't care that much about their data. I can understand not wanting to paint a gloomy picture for the bosses, but gotta face reality: a data catastrophie can sink you.
A University of Texas study found that 43 percent of companies experiencing a catastrophic data loss never recover, and half of them go out of business within two years. According to DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
I'd recommend to GP that they stop sugar-coating it for the brass. Times may be tough but if they can't find the budget for adequate protection and the roll of the dice wills it, they'll be out of a job and NOBODY there will have budget anymore.
Sticking to your ideals isn't always easy. Sticking to them in hard times demonstrates how important it is.
The compomise is to not give in to everyone, just be selective. I'd much rather trust Google with how useful their stuff becomes when you do trust them than I would trust, say, Microsoft who would request your information (that old registration bit) which will use it exclusively for marketing and later BSA audits.
Yes, but my side career as a stripper should not affect how well I code as a programmer. Therefor should not be considered a bad mark on my application.
If you're a stripper and have to look for supplementary income from a programming gig then I'd wager you're not a very good stripper.:)
If they take the time to check you online you're important enough so they'll read this warning.
How would you react to what basically amounts to a "If you hear anything bad about me, it's all lies. Lies, I tell you!" clause? I would certainly think twice about hiring a contractor that opens up with a warning about stuff I might find on him if I research him, or dating a girl who introduces herself as for-real-not-the-same-girl-that's-in-2-girls-1-cup.
Fifth child, defective, and she kept it anyway? Daaaaaaaamn.
Regardless of how any of us feel about abortion I know I can't help but respect someone who sticks to their principles versus other political candidates' "Do as I say, not as I do."
What's interesting is that it actually takes a DNA test to determine this. For the most part, people can't taste the difference between these fish. So, in these high-end restaurants, you're really just buying into an illusion. I wonder if foodies and other food connoisseurs would be able to tell the difference.
Not really that interesting. Bait and switch (pun unintentional but welcome) is a pretty damning charge so you'd better make sure your evidence is better than subjective flavor opinions from imperfect humans.
What i mean is that suddenly many old-time photographers point out to retouching as being the evil which will destroy "the essence of photography" when those techniques had been applied for ages.
Retouching IS an evil which destroys the essence of photography. It's about capturing reality, not presenting an ideal.
Thing is, most people don't care about the essence of photography. They just want to remember events in their lives. I think we're both in agreement that there is nothing wrong with this outlook. It's perfectly OK.
It's the same with anything that is artistic expression. The average person doesn't really care the type of paints or style, reproduction or original.... they just want a painting that looks nice on their wall. They don't care about vox-boxes and pitch correction and voice-doubling, they just want music to which they can work out or drive to work.
Let the purists have their purity, and let the pragmatists have their pragmatism. The nice part about technology is that both can coexist peacefully, ignoring a the artistic equivalent of "get off my lawn."
I'm going to lose my spend mod points, but that's ok.
The Police get their funding from politicians that want to show they're being "tough on crime". What if there wasn't crime? There would be no reason to give them increasingly larger amounts of funding. Therefore, it's counterproductive for the police to actually do their job and stamp out crime! They're job is to make sure crime doesn't pass a certain threshold where the public would lose faith in them... and luckily TV shows like America's Most Wanted, Cops, CSI, etc. keep the public thinking that the police (Government, not the community, not the family, not education) are what are keeping us safe from savage sociopaths so that threshold creeps higher and higher.
If everyone really felt safe they wouldn't demand their politicians be "tough on crime". And having a certain level of petty crime keeps people from feeling safe.
With over 9,000 hackers, freaks, feds, and geeks attending Defcon 16, the temporary wireless network setup there is considered the most hostile on the planet.
It's temporary. It's not going to have to be maintained for years on end, which is the point of textbook wiring jobs. Otherwise it's a waste of effort.
Even people in good health would really rather not let additional people know they had a vasectemy, eh?
Are you kidding? I wish the doctor's office gave me a t-shirt and a tattoo to advertise that my baby batter has been replaced with "I Can't Believe It's Not Sperm".
That being said, there should be a way to register other trusted signature keys in Vista to allow 3rd party boot loaders. I don't know if there is or not, but there should be.
That's exactly what's wrong with the Trusted Computing initiative that the major players (Microsoft, Intel, etc) are implementing: they don't trust YOU to make those kinds of decisions to trust 3rd parties.
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For Counter-Strike Source alone there are probably 100+ different hacks (aimbots, wallhacks, no-recoil, etc) that simply don't get detected.
A) When it comes to permanently and irreversably banning people from playing online on pretty much any server, I'd rather they be more conservative than squash all the cheaters taking many more innocents with them.
B) Cheats exist and ARE detectable... the thing is an entire group of users never suffer the consequences. Valve made cyber cafe accounts immune to VAC bans in order to keep favor with those businesses. Clearly can't have a situation where someone pays $10, loads a cheat from a USB drive, and proceeds to undermine the entire business getting it banned. Someone playing at a cyber cafe gets a new unique Steam ID each time they play a game, so even if the server kicks them they can come right back. Google for CafeBlock and encourage the admins of your favorite server to run it.
So why has it taken sarcasm so long to catch on?
Probably because sarcasm was never funny. ;)
Being paranoid doesn't necessarily mean they aren't really out to get you.
Answer that question for them and just walk out. Let 'em run a few days without an IT department. Come back in a week and witness the piles of help tickets, flaming servers, half-dead employees feeding on dead bodies, confused employees who don't know where their internets are, the quizzical look of managers gathered 'round a UNIX box with question marks floating over their heads, etc.
So you took the Microsoft tour during the launch of Vista? Brave man.
I'm in the same boat of wanting to transition away from wireless after tasting it's sweet sweet succulence... except I'm not remodelling a house. Sure I currently use wireless just for gaming and Tivo but I would hate that leisure network to get compromised and then provide access to my computers where the real neat stuff lives.
I know /. has to know of good resources to retrofit an existing prebuilt house with wire without me having to rip out all my walls, leave tripping obstacles all around the mouse, or drop wires from the ceiling airducts like some kind of SWAT team rapelling operation. Anyone?
The networks have no way of preventing these sorts of occasional, often one-time outbursts from occurring.
Sure they do: it's called a delay. It's standard practice for radio. If they're anticipating a bunch of potty-mouths at a live broadcast of a comedy show, hey, just block the time as TVAO and turn the delay off. If it's a live broadcast of The Lion King on Ice, block it as TVG and turn the delay on in case a naked streaker runs across the ice shouting "Ba ba booey."
Thanks to mandating the V-Chip in every television set and tuner over 10 years ago there really isn't any excuse that people can receive "offensive" or "inappropriate" content. Parents and those who agree to tap into the airwaves (people who buy the TV) have to configure it: plain and simple. I mean, we trust them to configure their equipment already to tune to specific channels, right?
Which is enough evidence that these sorts of things aren't costing the banking industry a whole lot.
This suggests one or more of the following three things are true:
1) There ISN'T ACTUALLY an epidemic of checking/credit fraud aside from a few high profile high press cases (see also: terrorism, pedophilia, and other "woo, the world is SCARY!" kinds of stories
2) When fraud happens, banks are reasonably well equipped to recover the losses (some other bank has to exist on the other end of the wire, naturally)
3) The government doesn't have sufficient laws to protect the victims of these sorts of things where banks are held responsible, so banks have no motivation to fix what amounts to broken financial operations
A good programmer is a good programmer. They all cost about the same.
Although, the point of TFA is that the COBOL job market is heating up. As in, COBOL programmers are starting to command greater salaries due to a supply and demand.
Which, if it keeps going that way, will turn itself right around when the salaries (company expense) gets high enough to justify rewrites.
Doesn't open-sourcing a DRM implementation make it extraordinarily easy to circumvent?
Very true. I fully expect "Tivoization" where only officially signed binaries implementing the DRM will run on equipped devices, though.
...cars will be uniquely identifiable and thus, trackable. :(
I'm curious to how one would track vehicles to avoid collisions without, um, tracking vehicles.
The company BOTH cares about their data AND can't afford a proper backup system.
If they don't pony up, they can't care that much about their data. I can understand not wanting to paint a gloomy picture for the bosses, but gotta face reality: a data catastrophie can sink you.
A University of Texas study found that 43 percent of companies experiencing a catastrophic data loss never recover, and half of them go out of business within two years. According to DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers, 70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
I'd recommend to GP that they stop sugar-coating it for the brass. Times may be tough but if they can't find the budget for adequate protection and the roll of the dice wills it, they'll be out of a job and NOBODY there will have budget anymore.
I agree, because who wants to connect digitally to a wooden lawn set...?
Because suddenly the HCF command just got more entertaining. B)
Sticking to your ideals isn't always easy. Sticking to them in hard times demonstrates how important it is.
The compomise is to not give in to everyone, just be selective. I'd much rather trust Google with how useful their stuff becomes when you do trust them than I would trust, say, Microsoft who would request your information (that old registration bit) which will use it exclusively for marketing and later BSA audits.
Yes, but my side career as a stripper should not affect how well I code as a programmer. Therefor should not be considered a bad mark on my application.
If you're a stripper and have to look for supplementary income from a programming gig then I'd wager you're not a very good stripper. :)
If they take the time to check you online you're important enough so they'll read this warning.
How would you react to what basically amounts to a "If you hear anything bad about me, it's all lies. Lies, I tell you!" clause? I would certainly think twice about hiring a contractor that opens up with a warning about stuff I might find on him if I research him, or dating a girl who introduces herself as for-real-not-the-same-girl-that's-in-2-girls-1-cup.
Fifth child, defective, and she kept it anyway? Daaaaaaaamn.
Regardless of how any of us feel about abortion I know I can't help but respect someone who sticks to their principles versus other political candidates' "Do as I say, not as I do."
What's interesting is that it actually takes a DNA test to determine this. For the most part, people can't taste the difference between these fish. So, in these high-end restaurants, you're really just buying into an illusion. I wonder if foodies and other food connoisseurs would be able to tell the difference.
Not really that interesting. Bait and switch (pun unintentional but welcome) is a pretty damning charge so you'd better make sure your evidence is better than subjective flavor opinions from imperfect humans.
What i mean is that suddenly many old-time photographers point out to retouching as being the evil which will destroy "the essence of photography" when those techniques had been applied for ages.
Retouching IS an evil which destroys the essence of photography. It's about capturing reality, not presenting an ideal.
Thing is, most people don't care about the essence of photography. They just want to remember events in their lives. I think we're both in agreement that there is nothing wrong with this outlook. It's perfectly OK.
It's the same with anything that is artistic expression. The average person doesn't really care the type of paints or style, reproduction or original.... they just want a painting that looks nice on their wall. They don't care about vox-boxes and pitch correction and voice-doubling, they just want music to which they can work out or drive to work.
Let the purists have their purity, and let the pragmatists have their pragmatism. The nice part about technology is that both can coexist peacefully, ignoring a the artistic equivalent of "get off my lawn."
The cop wasn't interested...
I'm going to lose my spend mod points, but that's ok.
The Police get their funding from politicians that want to show they're being "tough on crime". What if there wasn't crime? There would be no reason to give them increasingly larger amounts of funding. Therefore, it's counterproductive for the police to actually do their job and stamp out crime! They're job is to make sure crime doesn't pass a certain threshold where the public would lose faith in them... and luckily TV shows like America's Most Wanted, Cops, CSI, etc. keep the public thinking that the police (Government, not the community, not the family, not education) are what are keeping us safe from savage sociopaths so that threshold creeps higher and higher.
If everyone really felt safe they wouldn't demand their politicians be "tough on crime". And having a certain level of petty crime keeps people from feeling safe.
From TFS:
With over 9,000 hackers, freaks, feds, and geeks attending Defcon 16, the temporary wireless network setup there is considered the most hostile on the planet.
It's temporary. It's not going to have to be maintained for years on end, which is the point of textbook wiring jobs. Otherwise it's a waste of effort.
Even people in good health would really rather not let additional people know they had a vasectemy, eh?
Are you kidding? I wish the doctor's office gave me a t-shirt and a tattoo to advertise that my baby batter has been replaced with "I Can't Believe It's Not Sperm".
Plus, how much does a bowl of strawberries cost?
The strawberries are cheap. The 12 female naked virgins that serve them to you body-shot style are what costs.
That being said, there should be a way to register other trusted signature keys in Vista to allow 3rd party boot loaders. I don't know if there is or not, but there should be.
That's exactly what's wrong with the Trusted Computing initiative that the major players (Microsoft, Intel, etc) are implementing: they don't trust YOU to make those kinds of decisions to trust 3rd parties.
http://www.againsttcpa.com/
Perhaps some kind of fight to the death will resolve this.
Meh, it's a tie.
That means everyone dies. :(