So, I know next to nothing about legal systems outside of the USA. In the US the police would need a warrent (I am goign with the bassis of our laws, not the mockery that is today).
Is the approval that the british cops gained: "In some cases, a senior officer can give permission. In other cases, you might need the authorisation of an independent commissioner, who is usually a retired judge appointed by the Home Office."
The same basic idea? Or is this a change, or what not. Basicly can some one more familiar with the british legal system explain this?
What type of experiance do you need with a "music" game?
Timing games (as that is what DDR et all are) are not a complex idea, and that is one of the main things that is the draw of them (you can bop in, put on a song you are working on, and burn through it).
Neversoft has shown that they can put out good, solidly designed games with good solid content (Tony Hawk), I don't think they need to have experiance in this type of game to be any good at it, they just have to take GH1/2, get some more songs and fret them, make it look better, and add in a few more features.
I was pondering removing my silly smash of movie quotes in favor of publicly aknowledging the fact that I can not spell or type, and I have next to no knowledge of grammar.
Then I figgured that ACs could always point it out for those people that have missed it.
Deffine underage. If you are goign to say the age of concent, then MySpace just lost most of their customers, if you say something lower (like say 14?) then MySpace already has that in there.
ahh, thanks for the clarification, and I appologize to AC!
So this was not a keylogger, it was considerably more.
MY question is how the program worked. If it was simply tossing up dummy pages instead of the actualy bank page then the easy fix is one where you make sure the customer knows they are on their own page (show a customer slected image/phrase/whatnot). The amusing this is that the first place I ever saw this was on NeoPets (It showed you your active pet and their name before taking your PW), and this was well before I saw it on a bank (I think it must have been around 4+ years now).
Ofcourse if they were playing with packets/requests between bank/user then that is harder for the bank to counter.
AC lies! They were ussing an incredibly insecure method.
Thanks for the info. One time pins are rather nice, the only problem is that they are either cumbersome (having to request them and what not), or a target for gathering (as people will get them in batches, and then store them in.txt on their desktop).
wait, if they are ussing one time keys, HOW THE HECK did a keylogger help?
single use keys should make a keyloger pointless. I actualy like that method more so then the other company. If they are generating codes based on a static pin, that must be crackable.
I still preffer ones that have a decent selection of possible questions you will be asked (making a keyloger that much less effective), a VPK for your PIN (AKA your keyboard can NOT enter your pin), and an identifier (Picture+phrase) so you know you are on the bank's page (and not a fake).
This isn't a fault in windows, it is a case of pebkac.
The phishing (well, not really phishing in my mind) emails told the people to download and install anti spam software, and they did. No exploting holes in outlook or IE, none of that, just simply tellign poeple "Installer our keylogger. err, I ment to say out "anti-spam" software, yah...". It would have worked for Mac, or *nix, or anything else (It probably DIDN'T work for them, simply b/c the attackers did not see it as worth spending the extra time to try and infect non windows OSes).
If this was to happen in the US, would the FDIC cover these types of things?
And yes, I think that it is good that the bank is reimbursing the idiots that fell for the scam, however I hope they now include somethign that say "if it was your fault some one else gained your PW, then it sucks to be you", AND they provide much better security (virtual key pads, multiple randomly selected questions) AND make them mandetory!
For those of you who have an ING account you know what their security is like. Nothing much that will hamper a real customer, but things that should stop non-customers.
I actualy predict we will see burning crusade at the top this year, with WoW next, or close behind it (remember, those 8 million or so account will need to upgrade, heck I will probably be picking up a copy and reupping my wow subscription at some point).
What is interestign to me about expansions is how well the Sims expansions do. I have NO interest in The Sims, so my view is obviously scewed, however what those expanssions add in does not seem like it is enough for a segnifican portion of the owners to pick them up (not every one is going to be interested in then ightlife, or buissnes stuff, pets? yah, pets is not surprising, but the others).
I am sorta wondering if The Sims 2 is artaficialy inflated, after all it is a 2 year old game, however there are 3 expansions that came out this year, and one last year that are on the list.
All kinda interestign to me (as I said, Zero Interest in The Sims).
Here is the PC games Firing squad is looking forward to for 2007. Most of the release dates are still very vague (only 2 were narowed down to months, and one of those was Burning Crusade). We see alot of "Sometime 2007" and "First half of 2007", a few have the quarter listed, and Valve is in at "summer" (God let them hit that date, I want those 3 games!).
So, we will see. Mabey this will be the year we will all remember as "The year of compleated release dates"...
exactly, this time the burnig crusade will be at the top!
However, you are right, there are a number of very good games with tentative release dates for this year. The problem is ofcourse that release dates are there to be missed.
1. World of Warcraft (11/04, Vivendi)
2. The Sims 2 (9/04, EA)
3. The Sims 2: Open for Business exp. (3/06, EA)
4. Star Wars: Empire at War (2/06, LucasArts)
5. The Sims 2: Pets exp. (10/06, EA)
6. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (3/06, Take Two)
7. Age of Empires III (10/05, Microsoft)
8. The Sims 2 Family Fun exp. (4/06, EA)
9. Civilization IV (10/05, Take Two)
10. The Sims 2 Nightlife exp. (9/05, EA)
Emph mine.
Ye Gods! I think it is really starting to sink in for me just how popular games are amongst people we would normaly classify as "non gamers" (as I have a hard time believing that a large portion of the people that bought the other games on the list ALSO bought the Sims games).
For the rest of it. No real surprise. My only real surprise wasn't the presance of The Sims, it was the presance of ALL of those expansion packs.
What I was reffering to was classic arcade games, the time wasters of old, aka what has now been revived as flash games at popcap and miniclip and such.
Bubble bobble, joust, bust a move, dig-dug, etc etc.
Not the new games that are all light guns and DDR types (nothing wrong with them, just not what I was talking about when I said arcade games).
The bad part of this robot is if the tether snaps, or loses power and ends up in the brain. Stroke and lawsuit city!!!!
the bot will swim upstream from blood flow, so if something goes wrong it can be retrieved on its way back
I tihnk the idea is that if somethign does fug up it simply will wash back to the point of origin because it will flow WITH the blood. Think of putting a motor boat in a swiftly flowing river, have it putter up stream, then cut the engines and watch as it comes back.
Carmack: You know, we've never had a good relationship with Nintendo, from really early products we did a long time ago. And for the most part, we just said, "Fine." We're busy with other stuff, and we just haven't been that tight with Nintendo. On the up side, I really do respect what they're doing, where for years, I've been saying--you probably heard me at QuakeCon--I will go on about how IO devices are where the really big differences are going to be made in gaming. You can get ten times the graphics power, and you can make a prettier picture, but when somebody makes a new IO device that really changes the way that people interact with the game, that's going to have a larger benefit there. So I'm really pleased with what they're doing with the Wii and with the DS--and they're doing innovative things. But our current generation of game technology is not targeted at the Wii. Maybe that was a mistake on our part originally, but we have been looking strictly at the 360, PS3 and PC as what we want to simultaneously develop on. We probably aren't going to be able to hit the Wii with the same technology platform.
This is actualy a dupe of an older/. report of the orginal article, as opposed to this one where it is a/. report of a summery of the original article.
So yes. Carmack (and thus ID) have stayed away from Nintendo because of bad dealings, and no real NEED to work with them. This time around he is thinking it might have been a bad idea to stay away from the Wii.
My bet is that once they have the current Tech that they are working on up and running he will look into making stuff for the Wii. And I for one look foward to it.
Also, he is looking to port Orcs and Elves to the DS. Source
ehhh, I can name LOTS of low size games that suck horribly. I aggree with you on the Gamplay over Graphics front, however the ability (or lack there of) to include stunning graphics does not preclude (or enforce) good gameplay.
Castlevania:SotN is a good example. The game is huge, has nice graphics, and the game is wonderful!
MS is hitting through great things again and again with the 360. Admitedly, yah it sucks if you bought the core system owners, but they already have gotten the shaft on a countless number of things. The soloution to this is to make a new section in XBLA and simply call it "Downloadable games" or some such. Castlevania:SotN is not an arcade game, so dont' put it in the arcade. Keep the arcade games sub 50MB, or stop sellign the crippled core packages. Actualy there are probably lots of people that are perfectly happy with the core and thus they shouldn't stop sellign them.
however again, weekends (or anytime I have the time), breakfast turns into some thing with eggs.
either fried eggs over biscuits and a side of meat or a quick fry up of everything I have around (Meat, onions, potatoes, bread, peppers, whatevever is around) in lots of butter, then pour eggs over that to bind it all together, top with cheese and ketchup and I am set for the morning.
Or there are always pancakes and/or waffles. Waffles are also great topped with eggs/meat/potatoes/cheese/ketchup. That was a standard for me in college, the dinning hall had belgium waffles for brunch on weekends, top that with anything else they had. Then eat a second one topped with icecream.
Imagine if the energy spent trying to hogtie the general (and 99%+ totally honest and willing to purchase) consumer were instead applied to making the technology even better?
Yes, but as we see, the "work" that goes into DRM is rather craptastic, and tends to make things that fail horribly at what they are designed to do. I think we are better off with these brilliant minds workign on DRM then things that actualy matter (say firmware, codecs, drivers, whatever).
yup, that SHOULD be done. The sad thing is that atleast Cingular (and I am rather sure about T-Mobile) does not even blacklist ESNs (Electronic Serial Numbers) on their own network for stolen phones, let alone ussing a shared blacklist.
As previously stated, Sprint and Verizon DO (though they do not share the blacklists, but you can not unlock a phone between sprint/verizon).
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So, I know next to nothing about legal systems outside of the USA. In the US the police would need a warrent (I am goign with the bassis of our laws, not the mockery that is today).
Is the approval that the british cops gained:
"In some cases, a senior officer can give permission. In other cases, you might need the authorisation of an independent commissioner, who is usually a retired judge appointed by the Home Office."
The same basic idea? Or is this a change, or what not. Basicly can some one more familiar with the british legal system explain this?
thanks.
What type of experiance do you need with a "music" game?
Timing games (as that is what DDR et all are) are not a complex idea, and that is one of the main things that is the draw of them (you can bop in, put on a song you are working on, and burn through it).
Neversoft has shown that they can put out good, solidly designed games with good solid content (Tony Hawk), I don't think they need to have experiance in this type of game to be any good at it, they just have to take GH1/2, get some more songs and fret them, make it look better, and add in a few more features.
I am not all that worried in all honesty.
Yup!
I was pondering removing my silly smash of movie quotes in favor of publicly aknowledging the fact that I can not spell or type, and I have next to no knowledge of grammar.
Then I figgured that ACs could always point it out for those people that have missed it.
predation
The fact that that word is the correct word to use, garners you a large amount of respect from me (I had to look it up).
There is also the fact that you hit the nail on the head as to why it is a bad analogy.
Deffine underage. If you are goign to say the age of concent, then MySpace just lost most of their customers, if you say something lower (like say 14?) then MySpace already has that in there.
ahh, thanks for the clarification, and I appologize to AC!
So this was not a keylogger, it was considerably more.
MY question is how the program worked. If it was simply tossing up dummy pages instead of the actualy bank page then the easy fix is one where you make sure the customer knows they are on their own page (show a customer slected image/phrase/whatnot). The amusing this is that the first place I ever saw this was on NeoPets (It showed you your active pet and their name before taking your PW), and this was well before I saw it on a bank (I think it must have been around 4+ years now).
Ofcourse if they were playing with packets/requests between bank/user then that is harder for the bank to counter.
ah HA!
.txt on their desktop).
AC lies! They were ussing an incredibly insecure method.
Thanks for the info. One time pins are rather nice, the only problem is that they are either cumbersome (having to request them and what not), or a target for gathering (as people will get them in batches, and then store them in
wait, if they are ussing one time keys, HOW THE HECK did a keylogger help?
single use keys should make a keyloger pointless. I actualy like that method more so then the other company. If they are generating codes based on a static pin, that must be crackable.
I still preffer ones that have a decent selection of possible questions you will be asked (making a keyloger that much less effective), a VPK for your PIN (AKA your keyboard can NOT enter your pin), and an identifier (Picture+phrase) so you know you are on the bank's page (and not a fake).
i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
toy not with the fanboys, for they are rabid and bite.
quick little drama for you to understand why that is NOT happening:
...
Bank: You all suck at online skills, so you can't use our online banking services!
Customers: Bye!
Bank: What?
Ex-Customers:
simple, aint it? Also, actions like that will also have other customers leave.
However, in reimbursing the customers, despite it being their fault, they have created a VERY good image for the bank.
This isn't a fault in windows, it is a case of pebkac.
:D
The phishing (well, not really phishing in my mind) emails told the people to download and install anti spam software, and they did. No exploting holes in outlook or IE, none of that, just simply tellign poeple "Installer our keylogger. err, I ment to say out "anti-spam" software, yah...". It would have worked for Mac, or *nix, or anything else (It probably DIDN'T work for them, simply b/c the attackers did not see it as worth spending the extra time to try and infect non windows OSes).
enjoy
If this was to happen in the US, would the FDIC cover these types of things?
And yes, I think that it is good that the bank is reimbursing the idiots that fell for the scam, however I hope they now include somethign that say "if it was your fault some one else gained your PW, then it sucks to be you", AND they provide much better security (virtual key pads, multiple randomly selected questions) AND make them mandetory!
For those of you who have an ING account you know what their security is like. Nothing much that will hamper a real customer, but things that should stop non-customers.
hehehe. I was going to have to bring up Hellfire!
I actualy predict we will see burning crusade at the top this year, with WoW next, or close behind it (remember, those 8 million or so account will need to upgrade, heck I will probably be picking up a copy and reupping my wow subscription at some point).
What is interestign to me about expansions is how well the Sims expansions do. I have NO interest in The Sims, so my view is obviously scewed, however what those expanssions add in does not seem like it is enough for a segnifican portion of the owners to pick them up (not every one is going to be interested in then ightlife, or buissnes stuff, pets? yah, pets is not surprising, but the others).
I am sorta wondering if The Sims 2 is artaficialy inflated, after all it is a 2 year old game, however there are 3 expansions that came out this year, and one last year that are on the list.
All kinda interestign to me (as I said, Zero Interest in The Sims).
yah, +1 funny, -1 depressing.
Here is the PC games Firing squad is looking forward to for 2007. Most of the release dates are still very vague (only 2 were narowed down to months, and one of those was Burning Crusade). We see alot of "Sometime 2007" and "First half of 2007", a few have the quarter listed, and Valve is in at "summer" (God let them hit that date, I want those 3 games!).
So, we will see. Mabey this will be the year we will all remember as "The year of compleated release dates"...
or not.
exactly, this time the burnig crusade will be at the top!
However, you are right, there are a number of very good games with tentative release dates for this year. The problem is ofcourse that release dates are there to be missed.
Emph mine.
Ye Gods! I think it is really starting to sink in for me just how popular games are amongst people we would normaly classify as "non gamers" (as I have a hard time believing that a large portion of the people that bought the other games on the list ALSO bought the Sims games).
For the rest of it. No real surprise. My only real surprise wasn't the presance of The Sims, it was the presance of ALL of those expansion packs.
What I was reffering to was classic arcade games, the time wasters of old, aka what has now been revived as flash games at popcap and miniclip and such.
Bubble bobble, joust, bust a move, dig-dug, etc etc.
Not the new games that are all light guns and DDR types (nothing wrong with them, just not what I was talking about when I said arcade games).
The bad part of this robot is if the tether snaps, or loses power and ends up in the brain. Stroke and lawsuit city!!!!
the bot will swim upstream from blood flow, so if something goes wrong it can be retrieved on its way back
I tihnk the idea is that if somethign does fug up it simply will wash back to the point of origin because it will flow WITH the blood. Think of putting a motor boat in a swiftly flowing river, have it putter up stream, then cut the engines and watch as it comes back.
Source.
This is actualy a dupe of an older
So yes. Carmack (and thus ID) have stayed away from Nintendo because of bad dealings, and no real NEED to work with them. This time around he is thinking it might have been a bad idea to stay away from the Wii.
My bet is that once they have the current Tech that they are working on up and running he will look into making stuff for the Wii. And I for one look foward to it.
Also, he is looking to port Orcs and Elves to the DS. Source
ehhh, I can name LOTS of low size games that suck horribly. I aggree with you on the Gamplay over Graphics front, however the ability (or lack there of) to include stunning graphics does not preclude (or enforce) good gameplay.
Castlevania:SotN is a good example. The game is huge, has nice graphics, and the game is wonderful!
MS is hitting through great things again and again with the 360. Admitedly, yah it sucks if you bought the core system owners, but they already have gotten the shaft on a countless number of things. The soloution to this is to make a new section in XBLA and simply call it "Downloadable games" or some such. Castlevania:SotN is not an arcade game, so dont' put it in the arcade. Keep the arcade games sub 50MB, or stop sellign the crippled core packages. Actualy there are probably lots of people that are perfectly happy with the core and thus they shouldn't stop sellign them.
For me I have a muffin for breakfast.
:)
however again, weekends (or anytime I have the time), breakfast turns into some thing with eggs.
either fried eggs over biscuits and a side of meat or a quick fry up of everything I have around (Meat, onions, potatoes, bread, peppers, whatevever is around) in lots of butter, then pour eggs over that to bind it all together, top with cheese and ketchup and I am set for the morning.
Or there are always pancakes and/or waffles. Waffles are also great topped with eggs/meat/potatoes/cheese/ketchup. That was a standard for me in college, the dinning hall had belgium waffles for brunch on weekends, top that with anything else they had. Then eat a second one topped with icecream.
Yah, I eat to much
Soem one mod the guy up.
Cave Story is an AMAZING game, and should be played by all people.
any one how does nto enjoy it must be shuned as not a real gamer!
(ok, so it is a good game, and I am beign silly atm, but yah, the game is wonderful)
Game Hippo
not always the best (they tend to be remise on some of the newer games/updates), but always worth looking through.
Also, check out Acid Bomb and Bacteria 2 if you really like logic puzzles. Both are easy to get into and verymuch on the addictive side!
Yes, but as we see, the "work" that goes into DRM is rather craptastic, and tends to make things that fail horribly at what they are designed to do. I think we are better off with these brilliant minds workign on DRM then things that actualy matter (say firmware, codecs, drivers, whatever).
yup, that SHOULD be done. The sad thing is that atleast Cingular (and I am rather sure about T-Mobile) does not even blacklist ESNs (Electronic Serial Numbers) on their own network for stolen phones, let alone ussing a shared blacklist.
As previously stated, Sprint and Verizon DO (though they do not share the blacklists, but you can not unlock a phone between sprint/verizon).