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I went from 6ish years of WoW (wow!) over to Skyrim a month or two ago, which is a single-player story-driven game that is excellence. And then over to SWTOR. So the change was a slightly phased one for me, but I absolutely felt this same presence in SWTOR that Gabe/Mike mentioned above: you feel your character. And this is entirely because of the choices you make. And unlike other games where there is one "correct" answer and one "lesser" answer so you always want to make the "correct" answer, or even other games that waffle on the idea of irrecoverable choices, SWTOR gives players roughly equal, permanent choices, and they do so in a way that eventually becomes less agonizing and more beautiful. Thankfully I came into SWTOR from Skyrim, so it was Skyrim that started conditioning me to play the character because none of my choices are ever "wrong" (ok, so I still abuse the Quicksaves...).While playing last night with Scott he explained that his bounty hunter was all about completing her contracts and getting credits. She didn’t let her feelings get in the way of the job. He was thinking about this before his character was even level 10. I’d be very surprised if he had any idea what sort of “person” his Troll Shaman was in WOW.
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It somewhat resonates to understand that law enforcement does not try to prevent all crimes. Can you imagine how ridiculous the controls and cost would be to prevent all crime in a particular type?When I was first interested in computer forensics, I took an optional course at a security conference, given by the head of fraud at Lucent. It was a great class, where he walked through real scenarios that he had to deal with. After the session we were talking for a bit and I asked him, “If I did *** and *** and of course ***, how would you have to change your investigation?” He responded by saying, “We’d never find you. You see, we catch the dumb ones.” [author's italics, my bold emphasis]
I have worked in my current position 5.5 years, and I can sympathize with the broad points. In fact, I'm a bit sensitive to it this year in knowing I'm getting behind on the things I don't have exposure to in my business, or even things that are under the purview of another team member and not myself.What worries me is when you've been working in corporate IT for 10+ years in a single organization or a single organizational profile (education, finance, whatever) and you can't seem to break free of a specific train of thought.
We hear a lot of these reports of third party notices of breaches. I wish we could correlate that better with how many get detected internally, though I imagine a good chunk of those are never discussed beyond the immediate team involved......a hacker broke into a Gemnet [KPN subsidiary] database after exploiting poor password policies set up on its PHPMyAdmin server... The article said the hacker came forward to prevent the kind of debacle DigiNotar created, but "he has also found evidence that he is not the first person who have gained access to the systems."
About a year ago, the company I work for made an effort to spark innovation. And while I'm sure a few good ideas percolated up to the top, the problem is all the ideas generated are placed into a review group to pick and choose ones to follow, which ultimately leads to only accepting the safe and obvious stuff. That's really not innovative, and really does nothing to promote risk taking or enable failure, and thus learning.We don't just encourage risk taking at our offices: we demand failure. If you're not failing every now and then, you're probably not advancing. Mistakes are the predecessors to both innovation and success, so it is important to celebrate mistakes as a central component of any culture. This kind of culture can only be created by example — it won't work if it's forced or contrived.
Fair enough argument. But this only applies to people who understand that Skype isn't a private network. I've had plenty of discussions where users argue that Skype *is* private. You can't make that assumption; you're using someone else's app, over someone else's lines, and through someone else's proxy/login/servers.For example, how are you communicating today in your organization? If you are making calls which route across a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) then you are already putting your conversations into the hands of service providers, governments, and whoever else may have physical access to the lines.