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Video games have come a long way since Pong, Pac Man and Space Invaders. Video games have added $ 5 billion to the economy as shown in a study called "Video Games within the 21st Century: The 2010 Report," for Entertainment Software that was done by Economists Incorporated. Annual growth for the industry went up 10 percent between 2005 and 2009, or seven times the growth of the U.S. economy alone.

Jobs made possible because of video games

Michael Gallagher, CEO of ESA, explained that job creation has grown at a "rapid pace.” It is also making "an essential contribution to our nation's economy while stimulating technological innovations and expanding the impact of games on our daily lives." The survey shows us that 32,000 have jobs with video games usually with an average salary of $ 89,781. Video games have made it possible for numerous in the U.S. to get jobs.

California does it all

California is the largest employer of video game industry workers. It provided more than$ 2.6 billion in direct and indirect compensation to its employees in 2009. The state got about $ 2.1 billion in just revenue.

The next two states to follow are Texas and Washington. Virginia had a large expansion with a 77 percent increase between 2005 and 2009.

Why entertainment is so valuable

Families tend to buy less entertainment things in a recession. Video gaming may seem costly on the surface – consoles cost from $ 200 to $ 500, and PCs cost even more. Games range from $ 20 to $ 60, depending upon their popularity, age, format, etc. Since movie prices have gone up, seems like like video games could be better considering one can spend between 40 and 100 hours playing most of the games bought. Hand-eye coordination gets much better along with development when using video games. The video game industry has had a good effect. The U.S. economy is feeling it.

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Theesa

theesa.com/facts/pdfs/VideoGames21stCentury_2010.pdf

Washington State Lt. Gov. Brad Owen knows 'Pong'

youtube.com/watch?v=M-b9wEww9MA

Equilibrium Networks' free/open-source visual network traffic monitoring software is now available for download at http://www.eqnets.com. A video of our enterprise system in action and technical documents detailing our approaches to traffic analysis, real-time interactive visualization and alerting are also available at our website.

Besides a zero-cost download option, we are also offering Linux-oriented installation media and an enterprise version of our system with premium features such as configurable automatic alerting, nonlinear replay, and a 3D traffic display.

Discounts—including installation media for a nominal shipping and handling fee—are available to institutional researchers or in exchange for extensions to our platform.

The software can run in its entirely on a dedicated x86 workstation with four or more cores and a network tap, though our system supports distributed hardware configurations. An average graphics card is sufficient to operate the visualization engine.

On August 19th, at 10am PST I will be giving a Webinar on the topic of visualization. You can register and watch the Webinar right here:

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I was giving a talk at RMLL 2010, a french free software conference. The title, Cloud-based Log Analysis and Visualization, already gives the content away. But in case, here is the abstract for the talk:

Cloud computing has changed the way businesses operate, the way businesses make money, and the way business have to protect their assets and information. More and more software applications are moving into the cloud. People are running their proxies in the cloud and soon you will be collecting your logs in the cloud. You shouldn't have to deal with log collection and log management. You should be able to focus your time on getting value out of the logs; to do log analysis and visualization.

In this presentation we will explore how we can leverage the cloud to build security visualization tools. We will discuss some common visualization libraries and have a look at how they can be deployed to solve security problems. We will see how easy it is to quickly stand up such an application. To close the presentation, we will look at a number of security visualization examples that show how security data benefits from visual representations. For example, how can network traffic, firewall data, or IDS data be visualized effectively?

Monday evening and Tuesday morning saw a service outage for Insight Communications cable subscribers in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. With 716,400 basic cable customers and 509,400 digital cable customers, Insight Communications is working to restore cable service as soon as possible. Customer service call centers for Insight Communications were overloaded many of the morning on Tuesday. Insight Communications can have to do quite a bit of debt survival work to keep customers after this outage.

Insight Communications frozen signal

This morning, numerous Insight Communications customers, especially in central Kentucky, were greeted with a frozen picture. Insight Communications cable signals were interrupted due to a malfunctioning server in Louisville. Some customers were only getting a selection of digital cable channels. Other customers were seeing frozen pictures from broadcasts sent out the night before.

Don’t try calling the Insight call centers

On the Insight Communications' blog, the CEO of Insight requests that customers not call the call center. The three-state service operates only two customer support numbers. Although both numbers run to call centers, the hundreds of thousands of calls were collapsing phone lines. The business assures customers that they were “working diligently” to fix the Insight cable freezing problem quickly.

Phone and internet service unaffected

Directly, phone and internet service through Insight Communications should not have been affected by the server outage. There are scattered reports of Insight Communications phone and internet service turning off, then quickly back on. A lot more likely than not, the outages of Insight Communications other services are an effect of trying to fix the frozen cable issue.

No estimates for return of Insight Communications cable

Insight Communications did not publish any estimates for how long the cable outage might last. Some customers are reporting outages that have lasted as long as 5 to 7 hours. You can keep updated on the status of Insight Communications on it CEO blog or with local news web sites.

Sources

CEO blog

http://www.michaelsinsight.com/2010/05/insight-video-service-interruption-notice.html

Opinions sought from those working in the relevant areas - handed this document in as part of a degree project in security visualisation & monitoring, and the feedback was that the network and monitoring station/s are not realistic, and that I should have focused on port 80 and layer 7 traffic only, as layer 4 is not relevant any longer. The link provided below is only part of the document, I presume it's the part they had issues with. I wasn't actually intending to focus on web traffic, which was made clear in the document anyway (tho I did indicate to them that with the likes of Rumints packet contents visualiser, it is certainly viable to utilise that to match up with malware signature databases - but that aspect wasn't the focus of the project).
I don't expect it says anything that people working in those areas will be unaware of, and the general intention was to address what would be required for a monitoring station / network, which includes visualisation software, that would work in real-time as well as offline analysis and traffic capture.
The grouping into 'objectives' is just part of how the work has to be presented to comply with guidelines. Cheers for input, I know you're probably busy.

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B2FJ1rXW3lv4Y2UyMGFlZmYtMWE3OC00MmNlLTk4ZDktMmEyNjdhODYxM2Iy&hl=en

nb - the last part is probably wrong about ad-hoc IPs; I can't remember exactly right now how they are handed out; they probably aren't always dynamic esp. now it's more common to get fixed-IP SIMs.