Comment Re:Keep dreaming but don't give up the day job! (Score 1) 254
The maker of Flappy Bird would like to disagree. So would Vlambeer Studio. And a whole host of small indy gamestudios.
The maker of Flappy Bird would like to disagree. So would Vlambeer Studio. And a whole host of small indy gamestudios.
Surprisingly enough, there is. A lot of game developers use GameMaker to prototype games. But some of them are good enough to be published on Steam straight out of Gamemaker. And it's simple enough that my 11-yr old has been using it for his own game.
Disclaimer: my former prof built it.
There's also Unity3D.
These tools take away a lot of details that used to be 80% of the work, and leave you to work on the *game*, as opposed to rendering the screen without tearing or trying to get the audiobuffer to play without clipping, or... etc.
The sophisticated piece of malware - called "Googl app stoy" - was discovered in the official Google Play store by security company FireEye who then worked with Google to remove the app.
RTFA.
Or they blame the victim because the victim made some seriously stupid decisions. Such as in this case.
They were a business taking other people's data, and those people entrusted them with its safekeeping.
If my bank accepts my valuables and stores them, they're legally and morally responsible for taking reasonable precautions. Piranha moats are probably out, but vaults with timed locks are not. If the bank doesn't put locks on the doors and leaves the vault open then yes the thief is responsible for the theft, but the bank is responsible for the theft *succeeding*.
Same here. While the attackers is as asshole and responsible for extortion and destruction of property, it's the companies unsafe practices that allowed this to succeed and be more than a minor disruption of service. And having full control over *all* data AND their backups from one single, internet-accessible control panel is not just unsafe, but idiotic. It sounds like this company was started by some kids that liked to "play business" or a bunch of finance managers with a nephew that "did something with computers". But not by serious sysadmins.
Amen to that. There's a reason they give you 8 years of factory warranty - they can afford it. A few other car makers can't because the repairs under warranty would bankrupt them.
I bought a second hand Prius, 5yr old, last year. Runs like new. The electronics and the drive are incredibly reliable. The start battery however, is not so great. But apart from that, it's a much better car than the other hybrids I tried. The Mercedes I drove before that one was a better car, but unreliable and with less fuel economy (diesel) and more tax.
"Under U.S. federal law, murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Malice can be expressed (intent to kill) or implied. Implied malice is proven by acts that involve reckless indifference to human life or in a death that occurs during the commission of certain felonies (the felony murder rule)."
(Wikipedia).
That's different from what you wrote. If I hit someone in the face and he dies, it's not reckless indifference to human life but I did intent to harm him. Therefore, not murder but possibly manslaughter.
But since files were lost and emails too, it's highly likely to be Exchange. It's a freakin' nightmare.
If you want robust, reliable, fully encrypted from the ground up and difficult to hack software, get Lotus Domino. If you don't need any of those features but a nice GUI is your first priority, install Exchange. It's a fulltime job security guarantee for mail admins and you regularly get to look like a hero. And sometimes like an idiot.
The closing comment was that, since the supposed origin would be frozen solid at the time the disease was supposed to originate there, the real origin of the disease is still as unknown as always. But they're now looking at bacterial toxin as the main culprit. Nice...
I bet you could make a nice disastermovie about this, where it turns out that the GMO crops in India are the real culprits. Then, when they are sprayed with new insecticide, they combine with a new bacterium that integrates the GMO resistance genes, and spread a superplague that turns everyone into a Triffid.
Weehee, I'm calling my agent
Wow. They're really putting the "overlord" in the phrase "Corporate overlords", aren't they?
America, land of the free! (*)
(*) Except where disallowed by your local corporate overlord.
I guess it should have been named "Bird Empire" and all would have been well (Flappy Bird, Angry Bird,
Where I live, we call such customers "investors"
It's weird, but everytime I read interesting stuff about entropy and information density, "e" pops up somewhere. Weird number.
There's a difference between important data and confidential data. The data gathered by the LHC at CERN is pretty important, but it'd be hard to classify as "confidential". Unless they really accidentally created a black hole somewhere
If you know what you do, you can store everything in Dropbox, no problem. If you don't understand the consequences, steer clear. Pretty much the same advice given by Warren Buffett about shares, I think. It applies to a lot of stuff
The upside of it is that you can also delete the file, thereby reclaiming all that nice space!
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.