{"id":336,"date":"2004-07-01T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/07\/01\/hacking-pretend-and-real\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T13:43:00","slug":"hacking-pretend-and-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/07\/01\/hacking-pretend-and-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking, pretend and real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Played the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megamantcg.com\/\" target=\"_new\">MegaMan card game<\/a> today (yesterday was official release). Guess who won? If you guessed the other player, you&#8217;re right \ud83d\ude42 Of course, he&#8217;d played it many times during development, and this was my first. Decent game &#8211; I don&#8217;t follow the MegaMan console games or cartoon, but the play of the game was fast-paced, and slightly less complex than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dothackenemy.com\/\" target=\"_new\">.\/Hack<\/a>. Another quick time-killer. Interestingly, your draw deck = your hit points, so every time you take a hit, your combat possibilities diminish. Conversely, you lose a trickle of hit points every turn whether you attack or not.<\/p>\n<p>The staff at LiveJournal has posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lj_maintenance.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lj_maintenance<\/a> community that the terrible recent slowdown has two causes: LJ overgrowing its network, and a Denial of Service attack. Firstly, I&#8217;ve never understood the psychology of trying to take down a journal site. The Pentagon, or Bank of America, maybe. But LiveJournal? You gain that much hacker cred from preventing people from commenting about their day?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, they mention that a significant chunk of the attacks come from innocent people with infected Windows machines. Aside from a wry suggestion of changing OSes, they suggest firewall, anti-spyware, and anti-virus software, or at least changing web browsers to one that doesn&#8217;t have a direct pipeline into your OS. The response? &#8220;I don&#8217;t have time to bother with that!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not computer-savvy enough to install a new browser!&#8221; Or, in other words, &#8220;Yes, officer, I realize that my brakes are failing and my steering doesn&#8217;t work right, but it&#8217;s a real inconvenience to fix it. Perhaps you could make the other drivers just stay out of my way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Argh. People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Played the new MegaMan card game today (yesterday was official release). Guess who won? If you guessed the other player, you&#8217;re right \ud83d\ude42 Of course, he&#8217;d played it many times during development, and this was my first. Decent game &#8211; I don&#8217;t follow the MegaMan console games or cartoon, but the play of the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,18],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gaming","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-5q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}