welcome in the world of he 10% of people trying to resist mass media manipulation. truth of the matter is that many people who just want to be kept up to date on whats going on in the world prefer to be spoonfed and be told what to believe, blindly thinking that media are impartial.

i manage to avoid most of the crap by simply stopping bearing credibility to medias such as pop radio and private tv channels like ABC for instance, i prefer (in my canadian case) sticking to CBC radio and television that have a much more impartial mandate.

i see what you did there.

I think this just goes to show the dual morality of entities such as the government when even they wont frown on hiring hackers to protect their interest despite all the government laws, motions and acts layed by said government to stop those said hackers when they're not working for them.

Go wikileaks! not that we had any doubts that shit is taking place just about everyday, but its nice to have some proof and poor some clear water into that mud pool.

i dont know about that. having a storyline is part of success factors but its only one ingredient.

one very recent proof is Heavy Rain, as stated by the OP, is a very engaging story and very movie like. but just that wouldnt have been enough. the controls were right, camera angles werent tedious, close to no bugs. all in all its a polished game and thats what makes or breaks a game.

What about WoW? across all the MMOs out there, those that were there before, those that are still here today, what makes them good or bad? Blizzard observed what makes a good MMO and concentrated on just that, its hard to spell out what it does that others dont, it does the same thing, just better, more polished.

BioWare. same thing. In the action rpg style, they're the masters.

i dont think its really fair to pitch Asteroids or Pac man in the lot beacuse they're from a very different era were it was just about getting more points or doing the same thing but faster!

I think the real recipe to a good game is taking a genre, observing what makes it interesting and capitalize on that. The experience of the maker in that genre will also play in the success or failure.

in my opinion its about going for a developer that knows its stuff in the genre, find the key players in the genre. thats how you're going to find really good games. And thats not to say they're the only ones, emerging genre like Minecraft are really great. But if its Insurance of Quality you want, stick to the leaders of the pack.

well, good, lengthy, point. i think this holds up just as well as any.

i think it goes to show that this clip will allow you to believe whatever it is you are more inclined to believe.

Say what you will, think what might you, it is also possible that this is a time traveler. i mean. the shoes, they're clearly from the future! Besides, all hypotheses brought are only that, hypotheses based on educated guesses but just because we can't time travel yet, it doesn't mean it will never be done in the future.

Time is an essence that cannot be really grasped, thus manipulated. but what if, 100 years from now, we find that time is a form of energy and that this energy can be bent or altered? whether im right or wrong doesn't really matter, its still nice to entertain the idea.

k, next time, why dontcha upload some napkins, i just spilled coffee from my nose. and now i am holding my face too because it burns!

good one tho.

agreed,

the most interesting part about this whole discussion is that people are challenging more the idea of a cell-phone tower in 1928 rather than time traveling itself.

personally, were i to admit the possibility of time travel, i could just myself believe that she was holding some sort of device that works across time. i mean, come on. if you can carry a physical body across time, how trivial is it to carry an RF signal.

also, were i to admit time travel, my first thought would be that this is a recorder, much less than a cell phone. tho it could be both.

and finally, as occam's razor law aptly puts it. all hypotheses being equal (in offering no real truth), the simplest must be true. the (butch) lady could be holding a bandage or warm cloth against her mouth for tooth ache while cursing at her teeth or dentist's availability. (because she is clearly holding something)

China it seems is not without a certain sense of irony by Cuba'ing the Cuba'ers.

US Gov. 11th commandment:

Thou shall not know

i agree with you on the fact that in its current state, roboform would only provide a part of the solution. the concept is good but in practicality there would be too many obstacles to make it easy.

But lets face it, the OP is right, password, as a security measure is a failure, its way too easy to get from the average non IT aware joe, which forms more or less 90% of the people. In concept, the password is good, but in reality its a disaster. Are we really to expect everyone to create a unique, difficult-to-guess password for each website we sign in into? I mean, that just doesnt work, we are BOUND to re-use at least half of those because a line needs to be drawn between perfection and reality. Even I do it. i got three passwords: my really secure password for important sites such as banking, my mildly secure password for somewhat important websites such as facebook or /. and i got a weak, totally dictionnary attackable password for sites like for instance gog.com which holds very little info on me and dont log in very often.

one thing people can do but often dont realize it is vary the username and email, its just as important as the password in the set of credentials needed to impersonate you. for instance, ive got a domain name and any email sent to that domain, i will receive, thats no news to IT people, but that means i can use any email from that domain and use it for registration. That lets me figure which website leaked my info to spammers (or on which it was intercepted) and also vary my set of credentials while retaining the same password i would have used.

but i digress passwords are bound to fail because they rely on memory, which unvariably fails at some point. so to prevent that, you need to write it down, which is just as bad as using your password twice. a big part of the problem is that it is three-fold. firstly, you've got users like me stupid enough to re-use password AND re-use easy password, secondly you've got trojans and the likes infecting computers and reading any password you use and thirdly you've got the biggest of all, the world wide web which is just a big river, full of water which pretty anyone with a diving suit can dive in and take what they want if you allow me the analogy.

So... solution? well, i think storing encrypted passwords on a usb key is good, its like a portable keyring from ubuntu. you plug it in the usb port and firefox detects it there and polls passwords from there, asking for the master password first. then, anything and everything on the web must be encrypted. Servers goes *poof* but security goes *yeas*.

im sure its not perfect, especially the server goes *poof* part, but at least, its a step toward removing passwords as the mandatory gate to security.

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Ha Ha Ha, good one.

Just to play devil's advocate here,

I'm really not fond of all the latest sony moves, i miss the other os option just like everybody. but at the same time they are protecting their IP. Because we can claim the homebrew scene all we want. We *know* that most people will be buying the USB dongle to play copies...erm... backups.

I'm not saying there aren't any genuine homebrew and useful mods, I'm saying that most people won't be into that. By stopping us from playing game copies, sony is protecting their IP.

Sony would be way smarter to keep stopping people from playing game copies but at the same time, provide a resource kit for modders to keep on modding. The PS3 is a beautiful and powerful piece of plastic and by providing the other os option (initially) i think sony was in the right track.

Personally, i think this isn't a black and white subject.

on one hand, no one wants 9/11 to happen again, on the other hand, pretty much everyone ask the gov. to keep their nose out of their tcp packets to put it lightly.

I think we have to lay off from the privacy pedestal and find a middle point. like for instance, i think that if the cia/fbi or whoever presents RIM with a court mandate or authorization to monitor this person or this number, then RIM should give them the encryption key of the targeted person and let the FBI sniff 'em all they want. So RIM remains in control of their encrypted data. most people dont have to worry and FBI gets to be able to sniff the terrorists.

or something like that anyway.

agreed.

Evil but legal.

huh, that's interesting, ill need to re-watch the video (didnt read, just watched), pardon my english, i was sure i had understood she (the victim) sent the laptop to the techie who himself sent it to some dudette he was dating online.