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ScienceGroen
Profile Joined July 2012
United States43 Posts
September 09 2012 04:18 GMT
#41
Total nonsense. North Korea's biggest problem is starvation. South Korea's problem is having so many computer-literate people that some of them have actually become addicted to using computers.

The more computer-literate people you have in your society, the safer, and more advanced the industry will be. To wit, South Korea is one of the world leaders in IT. North Korea is literally several decades behind.
Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
September 09 2012 08:11 GMT
#42
uhhh... hacking and gaming are not alike at all.. beating people on starcraft or LOL is nothing like handling cyberattacks.

a terrible news story. any mention of gaming really should have just been left out of that entire story.

very basic piece that doesnt really go in-depth on anything. people game and some judgemental people think some people game too much. north korea wants to kill defectors, and is training to hack financial and business institutions. koreans gaming is a bad thing. but it could be a good thing to train people to defend against north korean hackers!
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Deleted User 183001
Profile Joined May 2011
2939 Posts
September 09 2012 08:17 GMT
#43
Lol. This is like the people who say metal is satanic. The same nutjobs say that satanic stuff is popular, and yet even the most commercialized metal bands are pretty obscure compared to pop / hip-hop. Oh the irony.

Just another documentary slamming video games. Little more than that.
Odanrot
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States37 Posts
September 09 2012 12:10 GMT
#44
This stupid though, they are acting like it's a drug addiction. It's nothing like that, they're the same as freaking football players. They put in and all of this time to earn wins and to achieve their dreams in life, and all of these writers and news reporters are thinking of it as a computer addiction; thinking of these people like they're just total nerds who do nothing in life. Yes, it's bad to play for such a long time in a row, but even in football you can have injuries; you can even gain many disabilities from it. The world just needs to understand that Starcraft is something that contains a lot of hard work to get good at it and it's a thing that people want to be the best at. It's the same as guitar players, they put all of this time into playing guitar just so they can grow popular and win money from being great! Stop looking at it like a bad thing people T.T
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stille_nacht
Profile Joined March 2011
United States34 Posts
September 09 2012 22:17 GMT
#45
On August 27 2012 23:53 NuKE[vZ] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2012 23:47 radscorpion9 wrote:
Also to people who are ridiculing North Korea as having technology from the cold war, I mean just watch the video and see some of the things that North Korea has already managed to do, from infiltrating and shutting down major banks to nearly releasing a computer virus in an airport terminal that could have resulted in plane crashes. If you watch the video, former cyber-warfare intelligence operatives and university professors who defected to South Korea talk about what the North's interests are and some of their capabilities (in addition to high-tech assassination attempts).



Couldn't have said it better myself, anyone that has followed the news in the past few years would understand that. Mendrea, you believe because a Country does not provide basic essentials such as electricity makes a country not up to par technologically, which makes me laugh.


It is quite a likely assumption. A sheer large amount of people working at something makes it easier for talent to emerge. In terms of analogy- countries that are more technologically advanced are more likely to have nobel physics/engineering/etc. winners.
Sure, in north korea they have a few elite scientists working hard, but in other countries, there are thousands and thousands. By pure probability, the countries with more people performing certain roles will have the most people good at those roles.

releasing a computer virus in an airport terminal is laughably easy. in fact, most companies have pretty trashy security. any college grad could program a virus that could mess with an airport. the thing is, no motive/ sure punishment.
Our governments do not even guard their own diplomatic cables closely enough to prevent random people from stealing files and posting them on the internet >.>

i had not heard of a virus shutting down major banks though.

but yeah, in terms of cyberwarfare, the only way North Korea can do anything is by randomly blindsiding and dealing massive damage to S. Korea, which i doubt they are capable of. After that you don't even need hackers for the theoretical cyberwar lo, S. Korea could literally just brute force hack N. Korea's servers (send a tremendous amount of trash data)
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Zorkmid
Profile Joined November 2008
4410 Posts
September 09 2012 22:20 GMT
#46
On August 27 2012 23:19 StarStruck wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2012 23:00 Gl!tch wrote:
Interesting. The starcraft community has been receiving a lot of press lately, but i'm not sure if all press is good press.



They see something they don't understand and then comment on it.

Happens a lot.


I don't think you watched the trailer.

It's mostly interview based.
Jaaaaasper
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States10225 Posts
September 09 2012 22:26 GMT
#47
Thanks for the laugh az. Thats about all I have to say.
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Hazzyboy
Profile Joined January 2012
Estonia555 Posts
September 09 2012 22:33 GMT
#48
Heared this talk a million times. Picture this - a heavy smoker tells me that I have a serious WoW problem, when I play like 2-3 hours a couple times a week.
People get addicted to real sports in a harmful way so there's no problem to be a pro-gamer in e-sports or a fan if it doesn't harm your health.
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