Comment Good luck Rob! (Score 1) 1521
Reading the comments in this thread have reminded me why I've always loved /. - the community makes me think and nod and smile. Thanks for starting the fire. Best wishes!
Wikipedia and the History of Gaming 240
Wired is running a story about Wikipedia's tremendous contribution to documenting the history of video games, and why it shouldn't necessarily be relied upon. Quoting:
"Wikipedia requires reliable, third-party sources for content to stick, and most of the sites that covered MUDs throughout the ’80s were user-generated, heavily specialized or buried deep within forums, user groups and newsletters. Despite their mammoth influence on the current gaming landscape, their insular communities were rarely explored by a nascent games journalist crowd. ... while cataloging gaming history is a vitally important move for this culture or art form, and Wikipedia makes a very valiant contribution, the site can’t be held accountable as the singular destination for gaming archeology. But as it’s often treated as one, due care must be paid to the site to ensure that its recollection doesn’t become clouded or irresponsible, and to ensure its coalition of editors and administrators are not using its stringent rule set to sweep anything as vitally relevant as MUDS under the rug of history."
Comment Re:Does a Database guru have a chance? (Score 1) 156
I'd say yes - in my experience folks don't enter the infosec industry trained as a security engineer. Or at least up to this point, that's rare. Instead, most security teams (including the one I work on) are built with sysadmins, network engineers, code monkeys, web developers and dba's (and a few blackhat script kiddies) that have a particular passion for defending data, networks and endpoints.
Unfortunately, with this decade's increased focus on security I fear we'll soon have a glut of paper CISSP's that only got into infosec because "those guys make a lot of money", not because they were any good at it, or were particularly passionate about the subject. CISSP is quickly becoming this generation's MSCE.
But I digress. For those of us hiring security professionals, we are always struggling to find quality folks with decent experience and passion. We end up recruiting at the local 2600 meeting as much as colleges or Careerbuilder.
Submission + - TSA to Contractors: Thou Shalt Encrypt Laptops (eweek.com)
eweekhickins writes: "After two laptops were lost (stolen?) containing the personal data of 3,900+ truckers who handle HAZMATs, the Transportation Security Administration has ordered its contractors to encrypt any and all data. Ann Davis, the TSA's public affairs manager, says that even though there's only "a small chance of [the data being misused], we did notify all affected individuals." Well that's a relief."
The 10 Worst Games Made For The PSP and DS 82
VonSnouty writes "With the DS and PSP now out of their 'early years', handheld specialist Pocket Gamer has taken the innovative approach of warning readers off of the 10 worst games for the PSP released so far, as well as the
and 10 worst games for the DS. The latter piece notes that: 'The DS has suffered from as many bad games as its Sony rival. Indeed, according to this unbiased evaluation of the PSP and DS game reviews on MetaCritic, DS has played host to even more dreadful, money-sucking stinkers. The reason? Probably the same things we love the DS for — its unique features, such as the dual-screens and the stylus. A lazy PlayStation 2 port might at least result in a mediocre game on PSP, but DS games done on the cheap are likely to be pure evil.'"
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Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!?!!!!
