There should be campaign finance laws, of course, but the law is a blunt instrument. The problem has to be attacked at its root.
Precisely. The root cause is that the government is in the business of taking large sums of money from some groups and giving it to other groups. This creates incentives for lobbying, whereby people seek to get a slice of the government pie, at the expense of real production which enriches a nation.
Who do you want writing laws that govern complicated industries (high-tech, medical, etc.): a bunch of politicians, or people who actually work in those respective industries? Does the average congressman with a law degree understand the nuances of intertube technology (too soon? nah.), for example? I have no problem with industries proposing or even drafting legislation, provided that our elected representatives and their staffs actually read and digest the bills to ensure that the law is fair, enforceable, and beneficial.
Dark Wizard and the Lunar series for Sega CD are easily in my all-time top 10. I find myself wondering why we haven't seen any Sega CD games on Virtual Console, since there are games for other CD-based systems.
The cynic in me tends to think that Nintendo has discovered that time spent playing classic games means less money spent on new releases. The recent trend for Virtual Console and WiiWare leans heavily toward novelty games with a short lifespan.
Because a government that can search any person at any time can incriminate anyone it wants.
"During a routine anti-terrorism sweep, civil liberties activist John Doe was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, child pornography, concealed weapons, and pirated ABBA songs. He was immediately taken into custody and is being held at an undisclosed location for the public's safety..."
Right now we have an important check in the form of a search warrant. Before searching me, a law enforcement agent must demonstrate to a judge probable cause that I have committed, or will commit, a crime. It's not perfect, and there are notable loopholes, but at least there is some documentation and accountability.
I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer being able to take my components ala carte. There were many times in the past 25 years that I couldn't afford the best of all components TODAY, so I built a system with a very high-end mobo and CPU, but using my old soundboard, RAM, etc until I could afford individually to replace those components with peer-quality stuff.
Yes, but when was the last time you upgraded the video card or CPU in your laptop?
...we're going to FIVE G!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
What does this say about WoW, if it can be played quite successfully by a bot?
Free as in unicorns.
For casual players, I see this as a nice pay-as-you-go alternative to a monthly subscription. If I'm not going to consume $15 of content in a month, I may as well only pay for what I'm going to use, when I'm going to use it. I also wouldn't feel obligated to play just because I'm paying monthly fees.
You missed one significant detail: Vampires don't hang out on MySpace; they use 4chan.
In other words, "An ISP big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
Windows users can also make a shortcut to launch the game directly:
Target: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73\dosbox.exe" c:\games\magic\magic.exe
I still have my original manuals for Master of Magic, plus the 2" thick Prima Strategy Guide, chock full of tables and calculations. If ever a game needed to be open-sourced, this is the one, because I'd hate for anyone to have to re-code all those game rules again.
All of mankind is diminished by the loss of a talented, but tortured, individual.
So what should be taught in a computer security course?
You're assuming that we're only talking about breaking computer security. How about:
-Security models, such as the reference monitor concept and access control methods.
-Formal methods for verification.
-The history of computer security development, so you don't reinvent the wheel (happens all the time).
-Risk assessment and mitigation.
-Legal and policy frameworks.
-Methodologies for reverse engineering and disassembly.
-Proper implementation of cryptology (hint: anyone who writes their own crypto module is either an idiot or a genius).
-Managing and training end users.
-Secure lifecycle management.
As you stated, all of these elements build on the more general CS fundamentals, but we can't assume that they will be automatically inferred by students. This is where education should introduce us to ideas that we may not encounter or generate on our own. There is more to computer security than just blocking ports and running signature-based detection software.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
