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Welcome to the Netherlands chapter homepage.
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
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- September 12th, 2013
- November 7th, 2012
- November 28th and 29th, 2013 OWASP Benelux Conference in the Netherlands!
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- Ferdinand Vroom
- Martin Knobloch, PervaSec
- OWASP Netherlands, OWASP Netherlands board email adres
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text: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities investigating rape accusations against two high school football players in eastern Ohio launched a website Saturday as interest in the case balloons, an extraordinary step designed to combat the misperception "that the football team runs the city," the city manager said.Two 16-year-old boys are set for trial next month in juvenile court in Steubenville, a town of about 18,000, on charges that they raped a 16-year-old girl in August. Their attorneys have denied the charges in court.Public interest in the case increased with circulation online this week of an unverified video, more than 12 minutes long, that purportedly shows another young man joking about the accuser. The video apparently was released by hackers who allege more people were involved and should be held accountable.One aim of the website, City Manager Cathy Davison said, is to combat a common perception that Steubenville High School - home of the "Big Red" sports program - controls politics in a small city where special prosecutors and a visiting judge are handling the case because local authorities knew people involved with the football team."When people are saying that our police department did not follow procedure, that the football team runs the city, that is not the case," Davison said. "They went by the book. Everything was handled in an above-board fashion to make sure that the case can benefit from the fullest extent of the law."Intended to sort fact from fiction, the website has the appearance of a legal briefing, with black type on a white background, providing an intentional departure from escalating emotions over the case and how it's been handled. It provides a timeline of the case, summaries of Ohio laws that affect sex charges, online posts and reaction to them and a pledge of transparency."It looks very generic, but it was meant to be (that way), because it's just the facts. There's nothing flowery about it," said Davison.The site, sponsored by Steubenville city and police officials, explains that only a handful of police officers attended local schools and that the city manager herself is not even from Ohio. Its launch followed the hiring of a consultant who's helping the city handle a barrage of media attention sparked by the case.The site declares it "is not designed to be a forum for how the Juvenile Court ought to rule in this matter."Steubenville sits in a region of the state that's benefited economically from a recent shale gas drilling boom, and Steubenville got a boost when it was selected as the site of Gov. John Kasich's 2012 State of the State address, the first held outside the Statehouse in recent memory."Steubenville is a fantastic place to live, work and play," said Davison. "We have warm and loving people here, and this incident could be anywhere in America or the country or the world, and it's really unfortunate that it's tarnishing the city's reputation."As investigation continues, it has spurred heated commentary online. Some support the defendants and question the character of the teenage girl, while others allege a cover-up or contend more people should be charged.The latter group includes hacker-activists associating under the Anonymous and KnightSec labels who point to comments they say were posted around the time of the alleged attack on social media by people who are not charged.At a second peaceful protest at the local courthouse in as many weeks Saturday, protesters, some wearing masks, gave details of their own rapes or those of relatives. They lamented what they said was a laissez faire attitude to sexual crimes in the community.

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Penn State weighing Sandusky case settlement demands
HARRISBURG - The lawyer brought in by Penn State to help settle Jerry Sandusky-related claims said Monday that he recently gave university officials monetary settlement offers from most of the people asserting they were molested by the former assistant football coach.
Attorney Ken Feinberg told The Associated Press that he delivered the demands to Penn State administrators, lawyers and members of the board of trustees during a meeting Friday in Philadelphia.
"The next step is Penn State - we'll see how Penn State responds in the next few weeks," Feinberg said.
Asked about the meeting, a university spokesman declined to comment. Reactions by lawyers for the claimants ranged from hopefulness to no comment. None would say what dollar figure he or she is seeking.
Feinberg "has assured us that within a degree of somewhat certainty, like 85 percent, he thinks he can get our case settled," said Harrisburg attorney Chuck Schmidt, whose client's lawsuit is on hold. "So far as it moving forward, I'm cautiously optimistic."
Bala Cynwyd lawyer Mike Boni, who represents Aaron Fisher, the young man whose story launched the investigation into Sandusky and who wrote a book about the abuse, said Feinberg's response to his settlement offer was "hope springs eternal."
"He said what he had to say, which is, 'You're asking for too much, I'll see what I can deliver,'" Boni said. "At the end of the day, I don't think we're all that far apart."
Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term for the sexual abuse of 10 boys over 15 years, including attacks on children inside Penn State athletics facilities. Penn State's president issued a statement the day Sandusky was convicted in June, vowing to settle "privately, expeditiously and fairly."
Feinberg disclosed last month that he was working with 28 claimants, 18 more than were the subject of Sandusky's criminal trial. He emphasized Monday that not all claimants have made settlement demands.
Also Monday, a Penn State trustee called on the university governing board to re-examine the findings of former FBI director Louis Freeh's school-sanctioned investigation into the scandal.
A critique released this weekend by Joe Paterno's family raised "serious and troubling" questions about Freeh's findings, trustee Alvin Clemens said in a statement.
Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh was among the experts brought in by the Paterno family to review the Freeh report, which concluded that Paterno and other university officials covered up allegations against Sandusky to spare the university bad publicity. The family's review said the cover-up claims were inaccurate, were unfounded and equated to a "rush to injustice."
Freeh has defended his work and stood by his findings. He has called the Paterno family's review self-serving and a campaign to shape the late Hall of Fame coach's legacy.
Paterno died in January 2012 at age 85.
The NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions on Penn State less than two weeks after Freeh released his stinging findings in July.
Freeh's firm was hired by the board of trustees to perform "an independent, full and complete investigation of the Sandusky scandal," said Clemens, a trustee since 1995. "In addition to questions about accuracy and fairness, there is little question that the Freeh report is less than complete."
Through a spokesman, the school declined comment on Clemens' request.
Penn State had said Sunday that Freeh was brought in to conduct an independent investigation of the school's response to the allegations, and not actions of entities unrelated to Penn State. Freeh offered 119 recommendations to strengthen governance and compliance, the majority of which have been implemented, the school said.
Freeh's report has never been formally discussed by the board as a whole. At the time of its release, trustees said they had accepted responsibility for failures of accountability.
The public should devote equal time reading the Paterno family's critique and the Freeh report, said another trustee, former football player Adam Taliaferro. He joined the board last summer, but was not a trustee at the time of Paterno's firing in November 2011.
In a phone interview, Taliaferro said Monday the board was off to a good start in implementing Freeh's recommendations. "But for me, personally, it wouldn't hurt for us to look at both sides ... There are always two sides to a story," he said.
Paterno's family offered its answer to the Freeh report on Sunday, with experts attacking what they called flawed techniques and a lack of evidence.
Paterno's widow, Sue, and three of the Paternos' children spoke with Katie Couric in an interview that aired on her syndicated TV show Monday. Former NFL linebacker and Nittany Lion standout Greg Buttle defended Paterno on the program as someone who would have taken issue and "taken care of it" if the coach knew of Sandusky's crimes.
"Joe Paterno didn't conspire to do anything," Buttle said. "The conspiracy to me was perpetrated by a cabal of trustees, and others that felt they needed a convenient way out to relieve Penn State of what had happened."


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Five tips to improve your financial health in 2013
Creating better financial habits tops many New Year's resolution lists every year. If it is on your list for 2013, there are a few steps you could consider to help you pursue your goals.
According the Fall Merrill Edge Report, 77 percent of mass affluent Americans - those with $50,000 to $250,000 in investable assets - said they are going to track and manage their budget over the next six months. Another 65 percent said they are going to save for retirement and 61 percent said they are balancing their short- and long-term financial needs.
"When planning for the new year, it's more important than ever to think about your financial goals," says Dean Athanasia president of Preferred and Small Business Banking at Bank of America. "As Americans take on more complex financial responsibilities, we encourage them to gain more control over their financial future by setting goals, seeking counsel and saving earlier for retirement as well as their children's education."
While your strategy should be catered to your unique financial situation, here are five common tips to help you improve your financial health in 2013.
- Set your budget before you start spending: The most dangerous way to spend throughout the year is to swipe your credit card and wait until the end of the month to check the damage. Creating a budget before you spend is a great way to stay on track throughout the year. Once you have a full picture of where your money goes each month, you can find more places to save - perhaps you're dining out on the town more than you expect.
- Set a monthly meeting with your spouse: Regular discussions with your spouse about finances can lead to greater financial confidence, according the Merrill Edge Report. Sixty-nine percent of mass affluent couples are discussing their finances at least a few times per month, and 64 percent believe that these ongoing financial conversations will help them achieve their financial goals. In addition, couples say they discuss day-to-day purchases, such as groceries, nearly as much as they discuss large purchases, like a home or car. Getting into the routine can be the hardest part, but scheduling a monthly meeting is an easy way to begin.
- Raise your 401(k) contribution: Most major companies that offer 401(k) plans match a percentage of your contributions. Typically, these matches could range from 25 to 100 percent, up to 6 percent of your salary. Even if the match is at the low end, that's a great return on investment. Contributing another 2 to 3 percent of your paycheck to your retirement savings could help you pursue your goal of long-term financial stability.
- Create an emergency fund by setting an automatic deduction: Over the next six months, 47 percent of the mass affluent say they are creating an emergency fund, according to the Merrill Edge Report. You should work toward having three to six months of savings in an emergency account. That total is less daunting if you automatically deduct a contribution from your account each month. After a couple of months, most people begin to think of it as a bill they have to pay and in no time, you'll have fully funded your account.
- Open a college savings account: Eighty-four percent of mass affluent with young children are concerned about the rising cost of college, and half of all mass affluent parents (50 percent) wish they had started saving for their first child's education earlier. The best time to start saving is now, and talking with your savings provider about opening a college savings account is a great way to get that started.
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High-tech entrepreneur Peter Adekeye's yearlong nightmare began after he dropped his wife off at the Vancouver International airport and headed downtown to The Wedgewood, a posh boutique hotel. Inside a tasteful boardroom adorned with gilt-framed mirrors, the US District Court for Northern California, San Jose division, had convened a special sitting to hear Adekeye's deposition as part of a massive antitrust action he had launched against his former employer, the computer giant Cisco Systems. An official court video camera recorded the proceedings on May 20, 2010—Adekeye affably answering questions in an elegant black suit accented with a pale blue shirt and a coral tie.
At 5:15pm, however, two plainclothes women—the shorter one brandishing a badge—and two uniformed police officers entered the room. Adekeye was confused, as were his two Wall Street lawyers and the special judicial master conducting the hearing. But the four lawyers for Cisco knew exactly what was going on.
"I'm from the RCMP," the taller woman said, "I'm sorry I have to interrupt your meeting here."
"Hello," Adekeye said.
"I'm looking for—are you a Mr. Peter Alfred-Adekeye?"
"How do you say your name?"
"Add-a-kay," she repeated.
The lawyers interjected—"this is off the record," "on the record."
"I just want to speak with you," the officer continued. "Mr. Adekeye, the reason I'm here..."
"Wait, we're conducting a deposition here," the special master said as decorum collapsed and the video was shut off.
The recording resumed at 5:40pm, the camera focused on an empty chair with the special master speaking. "The interruption makes it impossible to continue the deposition today and, in my opinion, tomorrow," he said. "So I think that this deposition will be suspended until further notice."
Meanwhile, Adekeye was being perp-walked through the swanky hotel lobby, paraded past its well-heeled and powerful patrons and into a waiting paddy wagon. With that, the former Cisco executive, a British citizen with a blemish-free record and a sterling resume, dropped down an Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit hole that would tie up a year of his life.
The judge who freed Adekeye a year later said the public would "blanche at the audacity" of the conduct of Cisco and US prosecutors, both of whom turned out to be involved in Adekeye's jailing and persecution.
The "crime"
A week after his arrest and imprisonment, Adekeye appeared before British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman, a six-year veteran of the province's highest trial bench. Adekeye was described as a "sinister" figure of uncertain citizenship on the run from 97 charges of illegal computer hacking that carried a penalty of almost half-a-millennium in prison.
Canadian prosecutors said that, according to US Homeland Security, Adekeye slipped in and out of the US surreptitiously—and they could match up the dates of the offenses with dates he had unlawfully entered the country over a two-year period.
They made it sound like the crime of the century; in fact, throughout the specified time, Adekeye was living in America on a valid visa. And the heinous crime was accessing Cisco's internal systems on several occasions with a Cisco employee's permission.
As he stood in court for his first appearance, Adekeye couldn't believe what he heard—his citizenship was disparaged, his achievements derided. Prosecutors portrayed him not as a successful computer executive and innovator but rather as a Nigerian scofflaw who was a serious flight risk with a checkered, fugitive's past.
Justice Silverman was told the Canadian government had invoked the emergency provisions of the Extradition Act to obtain the arrest warrant—this case was that important and urgent. The judge who had issued the warrant had heard a similarly misleading story about Adekeye, who has held British citizenship since 2004; US prosecutors claimed they didn't have time to file a full extradition request because Adekeye might flee the country.
The extradition documentation was mostly a pack of "innuendo, half truths, and complete falsehoods," as a judge would later find, but it was impossible for Adekeye to counter without obtaining documentation from Europe. He was denied bail and would remain in custody for 28 days while his lawyers mustered supporting material to refute the charges presented to the court. He was finally released only under strict bail conditions that forced him to surrender his passport and remain in Vancouver unless given permission to travel elsewhere in Canada.
By then, he understood only too well how he had been pursued by Cisco. The Canadian authorities, however, and the judges who issued the arrest warrant and denied Adekeye bail, remained in the dark. They were unaware Adekeye's alleged crimes were part of a bigger legal battle he was waging against the $7 billion computer firm.
As part of its response to his litigation, Cisco had accused Adekeye in a civil countersuit of using his former colleague's computer credentials to obtain services worth "more than $14,000." No one ever explained the "magic" of that number—whether it meant $15,000 or $1 million—even the judges couldn't figure it out.
Cisco had pushed for Adekeye's arrest, apparently as part of its litigation strategy to derail the damaging antitrust suit that Adekeye launched in December 2008. They allegedly wanted him kept in custody to pressure him into settling or withdrawing his suit; they succeeded in keeping him locked up for a month. Normally, on a case like this, a non-violent defendant without a criminal record who wasn't considered a flight risk would have been out on bail in a day.


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Let Me Tell You How Dad Got Sick
This is a text-only version of a comic book available in PDF. This publication is also available in Spanish.
I've got to tell you what happened to my dad!
On Saturday, my mom prepared chicken for us and we all ate lunch.
After eating lunch, it was almost time for my baseball practice! We all rushed out of the house, but mom forgot to put the cooked chicken in the refrigerator! When my dad came home, the chicken was still out on the kitchen table.
Dad was hungry, so he made a sandwich with the leftover chicken. One hour after eating the chicken, my dad's stomach started to bother him, but he was tired and decided to go to sleep. During the night, my dad was throwing up, had stomach cramps, and went to the bathroom a lot. The next day, we drove him to the doctor.
My dad told the doctor about the cooked chicken he ate last night that was left on the table. The doctor said he probably got sick from the food. My mom felt bad and told the doctor that it was her fault because she forgot to place the chicken in the refrigerator.
The doctor told my mom, "What caused the problem was dangerous bacteria that grow very fast on food left out of the refrigerator for more than 2 hours. You cannot tell if food is still safe just by looking at it because you can't see, smell, or taste harmful bacteria. Next time, refrigerate chicken within 2 hours after cooking it."
"My dad got well in a couple of days, but the doctor explained that some people could get more seriously ill than others and could even end up in the hospital! Young kids, pregnant women, and older adults, like our grandparents, are all part of the group that has a greater chance of getting sick from bacteria in food. She also gave us some information on how to handle food at home and how to store food safely. Look!"
(Doctor says:) "Follow these four simple steps to prevent foodborne illness and Be Food Safe!"
- Clean: Wash your hands with warm water and soap for 20 seconds and wash surfaces often with hot, soapy water.
- Separate: Keep raw meat, poultry, and seafood away from ready-to-eat food, fruits, and vegetables.
- Cook: Cook food to safe internal temperatures. Use a food thermometer to check the internal temperature. To find a list of internal temperatures, visit FSIS' Web site, at www.fsis.usda.gov.
- Chill: Place leftovers in the refrigerator, at 40 °F (4.4 °C) or below, within 2 hours; 1 hour if temperatures are above 90 °F (32.2 °C).
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Grow the Best-Looking Fall Garden Ever
The colors of fall
Summer has its dazzle, but some gardens' true colors come out in fall. Check out our ideas for beautiful fall plants.Viburnums look great when they bloom in spring, but they're also eye-catching in the fall. One of the best viburnums for fall display in the Midwest is American cranberry bush (Viburnum trilobum, left), which bears clusters of ruby-red fruits. Zones 2-7. Another fall garden beauty is arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum), which has clusters of blue-black fruits. Zones 3-8.
Ornamental kale
Kale (Brassica oleracea) is a showy plant that thrives in cool temperatures. Plant it in early fall for rich color throughout the season; color will intensify with the first few frosts. Leaves range from pink and purple to green and white; leaf shape can be ruffled, curly or flat. Ornamental cabbage is similar and can be mixed with ornamental kale in a bed or container. Both like full sun and are grown as annuals in the Midwest.
Northern sea oats
This ornamental grass has distinctive flat, drooping seed heads that emerge green but darken to purple-brown by late summer. Northern sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) grow well in full sun to partial shade and typically reach a height of 2-3 feet. The foliage provides winter interest in the landscape and also can be used inside for dried flower arrangements. Zones 5-9.
Ornamental peppers
Ornamental peppers (Capsicum annuum) turn orange, red, white, yellow or purple to spice up fall in the kitchen garden. The colorful annuals like sun and well-drained soil. While technically they are edible, ornamental peppers are grown for their pretty color and not for their taste. Note that they are very hot--wear gloves if you have to handle the fruit.
Chelone plants are called turtleheads because the tubular flowers look like the heads of snapping turtles. This perennial does well in wet, rich soil and prefers partial shade. Plants grow 2-3 feet high and bear pink, rose or white flowers. Zones 4-9.
Hardy sedums are a reliable bloomer found in many Midwest gardens. Plant size, flower color and bloom time vary; popular types for early fall include 'Autumn Joy' (left), 'Frosty Morn', 'Purple Emperor' and 'Meteor.' 'Autumn Joy', especially, is a classic--it grows about 2 feet tall, with flowers that open as dusty pink, then turn rust as they age.For more details on the best sedums and other succulents for the Midwest, click on the link below.10 Top Succulents for the Midwest
Asters are charming, classic fall flowers. Aster 'Purple Dome' is disease-resistant and grows 2 feet tall with purple-violet blooms. You'll find asters in shades of pink, blue, purple or white; they vary in height from 1 to 5 feet. Hardiness also varies, but most common types, including 'Purple Dome', are hardy in Zones 4-8.
Beautyberry (Callicarpa) lives up to its name come autumn, when its branches are covered in violet-purple fruits. 'Profusion' boasts loads of purple berries on a 6-foot-tall shrub; 'Early Amethyst' bears purple fruits on a compact 4-foot-tall shrub. Zones 5-9.
Russian sage
Russian sage makes a dramatic statement in the fall garden, with aromatic, silvery foliage topped by lavender-blue flowers. A favorite of butterflies, Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) can grow to 5 feet, though dwarf varieties such as 'Little Spire' stay closer to 2 feet tall. Zones 5-9.
Monkshood (Aconitum carmichaelii) accents a late-season garden with spikes of purple-blue flowers and finely divided foliage. It grows best in partial shade and moist but well-drained soil. Zones 3-7.
Joe Pye weed
A fantastic choice for the back of the border, Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium) is an imposing plant. In late summer and early autumn, it's topped by clusters of lavender, mauve or white flowers. The plants grow 5 feet or more. Zones 3-9.
Black-eyed Susan
Long a favorite for its masses of sunny yellow blooms and low care requirements, black-eye Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida) blooms from late summer to autumn. 'Goldsturm' is a popular, award-winning variety. Most black-eyed Susans grow 3 feet tall and prefer full sun and well-drained soil. Zones 4-9.
Toad lily
A favorite for shady gardens, toad lily (Tricyrtis) offers beautiful blooms at the end of the season. Many varieties have speckled flowers, but 'Tojen' (left) is a more refined, pale lavender-purple variety. 'White Towers' has beautiful white flowers. Most toad lilies grow about 2 feet tall. 'Tojen' and 'White Towers' are hardy in Zones 4-8.
There are more than 200 types of anemone, but one of the most dramatic for the fall garden is Japanese anemone (Anemone x hybrida, shown at left). A towering specimen--to 5 feet--it bears loads of pink or white flowers from late summer to autumn. 'Honorine Jobert' is a favorite; it has beautiful clear white flowers with golden yellow stamens. Anemone can be a bit of a thug, as the roots like to run, but the masses of flowers are worth it. Zones 4-8.
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Informed consumers routinely go into game purchases armed with dozens of previews, reviews, and pages of forum chatter shaping their decision. For many gamers, though, the decision of whether to buy or not is made solely on the basis of the back-of-the-box ad copy or its modern-day PC equivalent—the Steam description page. So when that page starts making promises the game itself can't keep, those buyers are going to be justifiably angry.
Such was the case this week with Hammerpoint Interactive's The War Z (not to be confused with ArmA II mod Day Z), which hit Steam on Monday and quickly became the top-grossing game on the service. That success was thanks in part to an impressive list of features listed on the Steam page, including persistent worlds of up to 400 square kilometers, private servers, "dozens of available skills," and "up to 100 players per game server."
Too bad none of those things were actually in the game that thousands of people spent $15 or more to buy. These and other issues with the initial Steam release have led to widespread player outrage on forums like Reddit, NeoGAF, and Steam itself. The complaints have gotten so bad that Steam has "temporar[ily] removed the sale offering of the title until we have time to work with the developer and have confidence in a new build."
"There's no such thing as 'Release'"
In an interview with GameSpy, Hammerpoint Executive Producer Sergey Titov offered a limited apology to players angry about the Steam listing, which he says included both current features and some planned for future updates (the Steam page was updated a day or so after launch to clarify this distinction). He also suggested the vast majority of players were satisfied with the game and that only a few misinterpreted what was meant by the Steam description.
Titov defended the initial Steam listing as technically accurate. While the game allowed only 50 players per server at first, for instance, Titov noted private servers are able to host the promised 100 (those servers were later opened up to the public). And while the Steam listing implies multiple, huge worlds of up to 400 square kilometers, Titov said that the single, initial map does indeed fall in the low end of the promised "100 to 400 sq. km" range (though there's some reason to doubt that estimate as well). A couple of forum threads on the official War Z forums offered more apologies alternating with brittle defensiveness.
In any case, Titov's main defense was the relativistic claim that an online game like this is never really "finished" in the way that a retail game of the past might have been. "My point is—online games are [a] living breathing GAME SERVICE," he told GameSpy. "This is not a boxed product that you buy one time. It's [an] evolving product that will have more and more features and content coming. This is what The War Z is."
After offering The War Z as an alpha release for pre-orderers in October (and as a closed beta earlier this month), the version that hit Steam on Monday is what Hammerpoint considers a "Foundation release." The developer said it's ready for sale. But that semantic distinction still isn't noted on the Steam page, and it doesn't mean the game is complete. "There's no such thing as 'Release' for an online game," said Titov. "As far as I'm concerned The War Z is in stage when we're ready to stop calling it Beta."
This isn't a sufficient defense for lying to (or at least misleading) players about your game's current feature list, of course. But statements like these reflect a recent reality that should be familiar to most gamers: the game you buy on launch day is rarely the final version of the game. Even AAA titles are often faced with massive patches that fix issues found between the time the game was "released" and the day it was finally "completed" (see Assassin's Creed III for just one recent example). Aside from fixing glitches, post-release patching might turn the game you bought into a different game entirely through gameplay re-balancing and tweaking.
By and large, gamers are by now used to this "release first, patch later" world. But the scale of the difference between what is promised and what is initially delivered seems to be increasing. Social and mobile game developers now routinely discuss releasing games when they have a "minimum viable product," meaning a barely playable game that will be updated constantly as it attracts early adopters, often using live player data to guide the continuing design process. Massive success stories like Minecraft have made millions selling what were clearly labeled as "alpha" and "beta" versions of the game with vague promises about when the "final" release would hit. Kickstarter lets people essentially purchase pre-orders of games that often exist only as vaguely described concepts, going well beyond the more limited retail pre-orders for nearly complete physical games of the past.
The difference between "finished" and "complete"
The line between a game that is still being developed and one that is ready to be sold and played by the buying public is fuzzier than ever. And this isn't the first time that fuzzy line has led to controversy on Steam. In September, Cortex Command hit the service and immediately faced loud complaints from players upset that the $20 game they had purchased was still unfinished. While the developer's own sales page tells potential buyers in bold letters that the game is a "work in progress," the Steam description meekly notes near the bottom that the game is "still being improved" and is "not in a completely polished state yet."
In light of the controversy, Cortex Command's developers issued a lengthy FAQ that gets into some pretty minute semantic territory about the game's development status. "To me, a 'finished' game is totally done and won't really be touched again by its developers, ever (save for ports, etc). 'Complete' means it is fully playable..." the FAQ reads in part. "On one hand, calling a piece of software '1.0' strongly implies completeness. On the other hand, to me it's also still only the very first revision that is fully usable," it says later.
This is the world we live in now, where developers have to make a distinction between "playable" and "complete." Making that distinction requires a new, heightened level of communication between developers and players about the precise, current state of the game being sold, a standard The War Z definitely failed to achieve.
For its part, Valve apologized for letting The War Z onto its service before fully vetting it. "From time to time a mistake can be made and one was made by prematurely issuing a copy of War Z for sale via Steam," a spokesman told Ars. "Those who purchase the game and wish to continue playing it via Steam may do so. Those who purchased the title via Steam and are unhappy with what they received may seek a refund by creating a ticket at our support site here."
That's all well and good for this situation, but it seems clear that Valve needs to update its guidelines for how "finished" a game needs to be before it can hit Steam. It should also provide rules to developers for to describe unfinished games on their Steam pages. This is especially true as Steam opens its service up to approved Greenlight games from developers that often don't have the same proven track record or internal quality standards of major developers (some Steam users are already complaining about games being greenlit before they're sufficiently done). Perhaps an update to the Steam refund policy—offering players their money back within a short time after the first time the game is played—would alleviate some of these issues (Valve currently makes it nearly impossible to get a refund on most purchases made through Steam).
Regardless of the precise fix, Valve needs to address these issues in order to maintain its rock-solid integrity as the most trustworthy and reliable downloadable game delivery service on the Internet. This isn't the last time an issue like this is going to come up. Valve should be more prepared for it next time.
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Summer Media Roundup, Part 2
October 13, 2009
Last month, writing about Wagon Train, I advanced the theory that long-running series sometimes wound their way into strange tangents that only a combination of ratings invulnerability and creative fatigue could explain. Now that all of Wagon Train's seventh and penultimate season has been released on DVD, alongside a selection of episodes from all the others, there is ample opportunity to study that phenomenon in practice.
By its sixth season, Wagon Train had experienced the sudden death of one lead, Ward Bond, and the departure of the other, Robert Horton, to pursue other opportunities (mostly dinner theater, as it worked out). The actors who replaced them were not stars. Veteran supporting player John McIntire (then best known as the sheriff in Hitchcock's recent hit Psycho) became the new wagonmaster, and blond ex-movie Tarzan Denny Miller took over as the train's scout. I guess NBC figured that the real attraction was the guest stars, although by 1962, Wagon Train wasn't even spending much money on those. Judging by the evidence on the screen, Wagon Train barely had enough money to get a completed film in the can. Episodes routinely opened with stock footage montages, overlaid with meaningless narration by McIntire, in a blatant move to pad their length. In one case, this drivel runs for a full six minutes before the show gets around to an actual storyline. I'm convinced that something so shockingly lazy could get on the air only in a "flyover show" – one so unhip and purely commercial that none of the network or studio executives in charge actually watched it.
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Yuck: Art Linkletter and friends in "The Sam Darland Story."
I enjoyed "Abel Weatherly" for its sheer strangeness, but a more typical example of Wagon Train's sixth year was the preceding week's outing, "The Sam Darland Story." Sam Darland, played by Art Linkletter in a disastrous bit of stunt casting, is an evangelical layman who attempts to settle a ghost town, in hostile Indian territory, with no one other than a band of young orphaned boys. The one spinster (played by Nancy Reagan!) who ventures that the children should be removed from Sam's care and adopted by the families in the wagon train is treated an antagonist rather than a voice of sanity. Religiosity abounds and, needless to say, a modern audience could not watch this show and view Sam as anything other than a deranged pederast.
In 1963, in an effort to imitate the successful The Virginian, Universal expanded Wagon Train from the sixty minutes it could barely fill to a whopping ninety, and began to film the show in color. Robert Fuller, fresh off the studio's cancelled Laramie, joined the show as a rotating star, effectively demoting Scott Miller back to sidekick. The same production team, led by Howard Christie and comprised of a small pool of regular freelance writers (Norman Jolley, Steven Ritch, Gene L. Coon, Allen H. Miner) and directors (William Witney, Virgil W. Vogel, Miner), remained the same as during the previous season. There was no reason to hope that the changes in length and hue might give Wagon Train a shot in the arm, but somehow – and to my considerable relief, because the DVDs contain all thirty-two of these things – it did.
To skip straight to the top, Wagon Train produced one undeniable masterwork during its supersized year. This is "The Robert Harrison Clarke Story," which features Michael Rennie as a master hunter (with a Sikh attendant, played by an unrecognizable Henry Silva) who tags along with the train in search of American game. Clarke hunts for sport, and the cowhands' mechanical methods of rounding up cattle and slaughtering them for sustenance sicken him; at the same time, the westerners are put off by Clarke's exoticism and veddy British hauteur. Brian Keith takes a small part as a world-weary cavalry scout, and his presence is a mystery until some of the parties end up trapped in a ruined fort, under siege by Indians. As this group contemplates its limited options, Gene L. Coon's script turns into a thoughtful study of courage in the face of death. Clarke and the Americans, represented by Keith's taciturn Sergeant Galt, come to accept their differences once they realize that they share a kind of Hawksian stoicism and masculine competence. At first Coon aligns our sympathies against the unbearably arrogant Clarke, but then he gradually redeems the character; it is Clarke's fancy hunting rifle, seemingly useless on the rough-and-tumble frontier, which fires the shot of salvation.
John McIntire, Robert Fuller, and Michael Rennie in "The Robert Harrison Clarke Story."
Coon, best known as one of the producers of Star Trek, was one of the finest writers of westerns during the fifties and sixties, and sort of a secret weapon for Wagon Train (even though he also claims credit for "Clyde," the unsuccessful comedy that I mocked in my earlier post). Coon also wrote the seventh season's premiere, "The Molly Kincaid Story," which stars Carolyn Jones as a white woman reclaimed from captivity among the Indians. The story is familiar, but Coon treats the subject with a startling toughness, beginning with the gruesome facial scarring that Molly suffered during her ordeal.
After Coon, Wagon Train's other noteworthy auteur was Allen H. Miner, one of the few freelance writer-directors to work as a hyphenate on a multitude of fifties and sixties shows without ever creating his own. (Douglas Heyes and John Meredyth Lucas, both overlooked talents, were among the others.) Miner's segments tend to start off with a catchy premise and then lose their way, either through a gradual dissipation of narrative tension or a sharp left turn into conventionality. In "The Sam Pulaski Story," Miner stages some effective comedy by dropping a trio of Runyonseque Brooklyn toughs into the old west, but the fun stops as soon as an element of genuine menace is introduced. "The Kitty Pryer Story" begins as a dark, perverse love triangle, then shifts into a more conventional tale of lovers (Diana Hyland and Bradford Dillman, both superb) on the run. Miner also wrote and directed the season finale, "The Last Circle Up," which nostalgizes the camaraderie of the wagon train and suggests (without really explaining why) that the settlers may fall upon each other now that they've arrived at their destination. John Ford, in his westerns, often addressed these notions of community versus individualism, but Miner does not know what to do with them.
Some of the other ninety-minute segments work because of an inspired guest turn. Ronald Reagan, in one of his final acting roles, is surprisingly good as an army officer torn between his professional responsibilities and his duty to his alcoholic wife in "The Fort Pierce Story." Peter Falk, marshalling a steely restraint absent from his Columbo-era persona, faces off against McIntire after leaving the wagonmaster for dead to save his brother's life in "The Gus Morgan Story," an episode that espouses an admirable commitment to reason over vengeance and anger. Even some of the failures are bizarre enough to hold one's interest for an hour and a half. "The Widow O'Rourke Story," for instance, casts Broadway star Carol Lawrence as an elderly Chinese woman who runs her western plantation with an iron fist; flashbacks, in which Robert Fuller assumes a second role as the red-headed sailor who purchased her from slavers, explain how she ended up so far from home.
Carol Lawrence and Robert Fuller in "The Widow O'Rourke Story."
None of the ninety minute episodes that I've seen so far proselytizes as blatantly as "The Sam Darland Story." But Jesus does make a cameo in enough of them to make me wonder if Christie had a message to send, and no qualms about using a wagon train instead of Western Union. "The Michael Malone Story," written by my friend Gerry Day (who is in fact a devout Catholic), chronicles a priest's crisis of faith without ever contemplating that the priesthood might not be right for him. (Personally, I was rooting for Michael Parks and Joyce Bulifant, one of television's stranger romantic pairings, to blow off those vows and get it on.) "The Whipping," bearable only due to Martin Balsam's sensitive performance as a self-hating drunk, builds its story around the assertion that atheism and alcoholism are morally equivalent. (Faith and sobriety, we are told, are also interchangeable). The story's climax contains an unambiguous miracle which, somewhat atypically for television, does not bother to offer an alternate, earthly interpretation of the events. At least the writer, Leonard Praskins, had the courage of his convictions.
That may sound like I'm anti-religion – and I am. But I'm capable of enjoying programs that examine faith with respect and intelligence, and from more than one point of view. Wagon Train does not take this approach; it simply turns preachy now and again. Commentators who actually believe we have a "liberal media" ignore not only the underlying truth that our media companies are all controlled by wealthy conservatives, but that there have always been popular television shows which espouse a semi-overt, pro-religious agenda. This is just as true today (this decade's Joan of Arcadia was especially obnoxious) as it was in the era of Wagon Train. And then there's the "new" Battlestar: Galactica. Watching the series' finale this year, I was bemused to discover that the answer to many of that show's long-running mysteries was, in essence: God(s) did it.
Continuing on with the third season of Ironside, one of my favorite undemanding popcorn shows of its era, I find it harder than ever to ignore the budgetary constraints that are so obvious on screen. Universal was always cheap, even going back to Wagon Train; those ninety-minute shows cut back and forth between outdoor locations and unconvincing soundstage "exteriors" in the same scene, with complete indifference to the jarring lack of resemblance between the two. But it wasn't until 1969 or 1970 that the studio's legendarily penny-pinching production department really clamped down, hobbling the efforts of even the most creative or defiant producers. Except for some second unit shooting, I don't think Ironside left the backlot once during the whole season.
The nadir is "Good Will Tour," a romance in which Eve (Barbara Anderson) gives a visiting prince (Bradford Dillman, sporting a stillborn mittel-European accent) a lengthy rear-projection tour of San Francisco. It's a decent if slight script by another writer friend, the late Norman Katkov, but why on earth would the producers commission such a location-dependent story? Ironside overlapped with The Streets of San Francisco for three years of its original run (on the same night of the week), and I can't understand how the contrast with the actual Bay Area locations of Quinn Martin's superior cop drama didn't get Ironside laughed off the airwaves.
On the other hand, I can report that Ironside returned partly to form in the latter half of its third season, offering a few of the traditional cop stories that distinguished its first two years. One such episode is "Programmed For Danger," in which Ironside and undercover singleton Eve go up against a dating service operator cum serial molester (slick Roger Perry, well cast) who uses a punch-card computer to select his victims. Along with the computer, True Boardman's script places an odd emphasis on gadgets like Ironside's telephone answering machine and the portable cassette player that Perry carries along on his attacks. Did you have something you wanted to say about modern technology, Mr. Boardman? The message was clearer in that Twilight Zone where Richard Haydn gets taken out by a homicidal electric razor.
Also during my staycation I pulled down a pair of memoirs that had been gathering dust on the bookshelf for a couple of years: Richard L. Bare's Confessions of a Hollywood Director (Scarecrow, 2001) and John Rich's Warm Up the Snake: A Hollywood Memoir (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Bare and Rich (insert name joke here) were two of the very top television directors of the sixties. Their books complement each other in a rather amusing way.
Richard Bare directed the pilots for Cheyenne and 77 Sunset Strip, thereby launching both the western and detective cycles that swelled the coffers of Warner Bros. and ABC in the late fifties; he later helmed nearly every episode of another certified classic, the subversive Green Acres. John Rich directed the first three years of The Dick Van Dyke Show, and the first five of All in the Family. Before James Burrows, he was the undisputed king among sitcom directors. At his peak, Rich could command huge fees just for consulting on finished pilots and pointing out what was wrong with them. Rich's brief association with Gilligan's Island amounted to little more than that but, according to Warm Up the Snake, Sherwood Schwartz rewarded him with a ten per cent ownership of the series.
Rich has given a lot of interviews about Dick Van Dyke and All in the Family, but even if you've read or heard them already, his book offers a concise, revealing portrait of both series from a director's point of view. Rich's stories about shows with which he is less often associated, like Gunsmoke and MacGyver, have even more value. Unfortunately, Warm Up the Snake is padded with a lot of really stale jokes and anecdotes that have little to do with Rich's own career, and those will be old news for most readers. There's a whole chapter devoted to explaining odd industry terms like "M.O.S." and the "Abby Singer shot," and when Rich finally explains his title, it's not exactly a gutbuster. (In fact, Walter Grauman, another veteran director, told me a much funnier story about defrosting a snake for a TV scene, which I will share one day.) Rich and Bare even recount one of the same old Hollywood jokes, about the director who ordered a crowd of spear carriers to "Lunge!" and instead the whole company went to lunch. But Rich says the director in question was Michael Curtiz, while Bare fingers Cecil B. DeMille!
Rich's prose has an impersonal, smoothed-over feel to it, and he includes hardly anything about his childhood or non-professional life. The closest he comes to a confessional tone is a good-natured admission that he sometimes wielded a bad temper on the set. (He once broke his foot by kicking a chair during an All in the Family table read.) I found Rich's reticence particularly disappointing, because I would haved liked to know more about his older brother, David Lowell Rich, a director of television dramas who did some fine work on M Squad, Route 66, and Kraft Suspense Theater. David Lowell Rich retired to my home town of Raleigh and, while I was in college, he drove me crazy by turning down repeated requests for an interview. After I sent him (without being asked) some tapes of his rarer shows, Rich thanked me and finally agreed to a meeting – but then died before my next trip back to Raleigh. I have heard, from several sources, that the Rich brothers did not get along, and that they were not on speaking terms for much of their adult lives. So I guess I'm not surprised that David receives nary a mention in John's autobiography.
In contrast to Rich's approach, Confessions of a Hollywood Director focuses mainly on Richard Bare's personal life. He's still in film school (at my alma mater, USC) on page 100, and when he gets to Green Acres around page 290, Bare has only a handful of anecdotes to tell. That may make the book sound as dull as unbuttered toast and, indeed, I wish Bare had chosen to share more about his contributions to Maverick and The Twilight Zone and The Virginian. But Bare's memoir is so breezy and detailed, and his enthusiasm for old friends and childhood shenanigans so infectious, that I thoroughly enjoyed it. A Modesto native, Bare (whose childhood friends included George Lucas's father!) was a true Zelig of the California coast, who stumbled into amusing encounters with everyone from Walt Disney to Dwain Esper to Langston Hughes to Marilyn Monroe.
Richard Bare is still with us, and his name made the rounds on the internet recently because his last birthday, on August 12, was alleged by many sources to be his one hundredth. Except that when I chatted briefly with Bare ten years ago, he insisted that he was actually born in 1913, and even named the reference book (Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia) in which he felt the inaccurate date had originated. Bare expressed anger at the error, because he felt it had cost him work toward the end of his career.
At the time, I was convinced. But Confessions of a Hollywood Director gives no birthdate for Bare, and his narrative remains a bit, well, slippery on the subject. At one point Bare claims that he was nineteen in 1934, and a subsequent mention of his age also supports a 1914 or 1915 birth. If Bare was willing to cheat his age forward a little in the book, could he have been fibbing to me as well? In the book Bare states that Julio Gallo, the winemaker, sat next to him in an algebra class at Modesto High School. Gallo was born in March 1910, so either he was an unusually slow math student, or . . . well, with all due respect to Mr. Bare, let's just say that I'd welcome a peek at his driver's license.


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BOSTON — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died after a gunbattle with police, was claimed on Thursday.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said a funeral home retained by Tsarnaev's family picked up the 26-year-old's remains. He had no more information.
The medical examiner determined Tsarnaev's cause of death on Monday, but officials said it wouldn't become public until his remains were released and a death certificate was filed. It was unclear on Thursday evening whether the death certificate had been filed.
Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russell, who has been living with her parents in North Kingstown, R.I., learned this week that the medical examiner was ready to release his body and wanted it released to his side of the family, her attorney Amato DeLuca said days ago.
Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni, of Maryland, said Tuesday night the family would take the body.
"Of course, family members will take possession of the body," Tsarni said. "We'll do it. We will do it. A family is a family."
Tsarnaev, who had appeared in surveillance photos wearing a black cap and was identified as Suspect No. 1, died days after the bombing.
The April 15 bombing, using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards near the marathon's finish line, killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Authorities said Tsarnaev and his younger brother later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer and carjacked a driver, who escaped.
Authorities said that during the gunbattle with police, the Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago, set off another pressure cooker bomb and tossed grenades before the older brother ran out of ammunition.
Police said they tackled the older brother and began to handcuff him but had to dive out of the way at the last second when the younger brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, drove a stolen car at them. They said the younger brother ran over his brother's body as he drove away from the scene to escape.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later, wounded and bloody, hiding in a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. He is in a federal prison and faces a charge of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill.
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The Tsarnaev brothers' mother insists the allegations against them are lies.
Three of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends, college classmates, were arrested and were accused of helping after the marathon bombing to remove a laptop and backpack from his dormitory room before the FBI searched it.
A top Republican senator on Thursday asked President Barack Obama's administration to explain how one of the students entered the United States without a valid student visa.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, in a three-page letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, asked for additional details about the student visa applications for Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, college roommates from Kazakhstan charged with obstruction of justice in the marathon bombing case, and how Tazhayakov was allowed to re-enter the United States in January.
Tazhayakov was a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth when he left the country in December. In early January, his student visa status was terminated because he was academically dismissed by the university.
The third student arrested, Robel Phillipos, was charged with willfully making materially false statements to federal law enforcement officials during a terrorism investigation.
The lawyers for the Kazakh students said their clients had nothing to do with the bombing and were just as shocked by it as everyone else. Phillipos' attorney said the only allegation against him was "he made a misrepresentation."


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