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Airports As Secure As 802.11b
INO_Fiend writes: "SF Gate is running a story about how at both Denver and San Jose Int'l American Airlines has been using unencrypted wireless to connect the curb check-in with the rest of their networks. They tested this by grabbing a laptop and hanging around the airport. I guess I might finally have something to do with a laptop and a WiFi card the next time I fly..."
I'm reading slashdot for a very long time, but lately more and "slashdot suck"/"die slashdot die" posts turn up here and they didn't even got modded down to -5 immediately. I can't stand this anymore.
Slashdot was the best news site for geeks on the internet for years, is the best now and will be the best in the next 10 years. Some points are usually critized about slashdot and I'll discuss them now and show how these "critics" are all just crackpipe rants.
- Some people rant about the "low quality"
of slashdot but this is nonsense. Slashdot features interesting
and high level topics. If you don't agree you are either too stupid
to understand the stories posted here or you are some artsy-fartsy
ivory-tower scientist who has no clue what's going on in the real
world and occupies himself all the time with useless artifical
academic problems.
- Some people rant about the missing "originality" of the stories,
because slashdot summarizes the stories and other sites and posts
the summaries here. Firstly there is always a link to the original
story, so this "stealing content" argument is all nonsense.
Secondly the summary enables you to discuss the topic without chewing
through a long boring, artsy-fartsy article of e.g. the N.Y. Times.
Thirdly slashdot collects information form all different sites a normal
geek would never visit, because e.g. they want some privacy tainting
"free" registration (not free, because you pay with information
about you social behavior) or they grossly advertise for companies like
Microsoft.
- Some people rant about the spelling in the articles. This
is the most anally fixiated argument I ever heard. No real geek
cares about your spelling. It's important what you have to say
and not how you say it. And I'm sure Taco and co. would have
added a spell checker to slashdot already, but every decent
programmer (not VB jerks) knows how difficult it is to intergrate
external programs into server side perl code in a secure way
(or do you want slashdot h4x0r3d ?).
- Some people rant about John Katz. This is nonsense too.
John is the best colummn writer on slashdot. If you don't agree
you are surely too stupid to understand his marvelously written articles
or you envy him for his surpreme literal skills.
John is the only top level journalist who ever had cared about geeks
and their lifes. Many people rant about this hellmouth book, but don't
you see that it serves to draw attention to the torture and cruelity
geek undergo in their lifes because "they don't fit in" ???
I think just for his effords to make the lifes of geeks better
in a cruel and heartless society he should get at least the pulitzer
price. He also earns this prices for his high quality contributions
to journalism.
- Some people rant about the hypocracy on slashdot towards
open software. But this is nonsense. Open software is much better
than any form of closed software always.
Because it doesn't get the support from the PR drones of big companies
it can use all help it gets from everywhere.
So it is 100 percent ok to be much
more critical towards closed software. And being too critical is not
much loss because even good closed software is just the lesser evil.
Who are these people who critize slashdot all the time ?Well I think we know them all - they are the very same bullies who tortured you in school, low brained meat-heads and trend slime. People who can't stand all people who don't fit into their shallow ideals of ideal poeple.
They can't stand that geeks have a save place where they can exchange their ideas.
They can't stand that geeks earn much more and are much better off with their high level jobs as web programmers and network admins.
They can't stand that geeks have created a superior software system, GNU/Linux and *BSD, that's why they are advocating MS products.
They can't let live geeks in peace and therefore are making trouble here on slashdot.
Yes, I know this will modded down, but I don't care about karma and like I said in the beginning there are some things which just must be said.
This is my post!
woot
difficult it is to intergrate external programs into server side perl code in a secure way (or do you want slashdot h4x0r3d ?).
So what? Who the hell cares? Why don't you just shut the hell up? Why are you so fond of this piece of crap? Are you getting paid by the editors? or just a fuck hole for all of them?
Some penguins have smashed my windows! What am i going to do?
Nerds should be killed! Before computers, they were left to die on the streets!
Wonder if you can surf the net from their internal network? Beats paying for any of those overpriced kiosks
just much much easier to accomplish.
scary
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I didn't mean offense, it's just one of those silly things that Gallagher points out.
I know from working next [literally] to an airport that it's like a train going by.
While I've got you in the conversation, I know it's off topic, but can I get a brief impression of Cochlear Implants? Like what do you think of them.
I watched the coolest thing on PBS about a family which was debating on getting one for their daughter. The family was all deaf, and they ended up not getting it for her. The brother of the father had a deaf daughter [or son?] that got one, and they were going back and forth about what to get. Really a great show.
I think I wouldn't want to get one, but that is because I could see the deaf families point of view a little better. They wanted their child to stick with the culture, and the language that they are actually blessed to be a part of.
Can I get your 2 cents? Feel free to e-mail me, I'm very interested in this subject. Seems like a great device, but not for everyone.
Get your Unix fortune now!
Currently I speak 5 languages, 3 with no appreciable accent. Sometimes, on occasion my finger get lazy, it is not so much matter of perfect spelling as it is getting my point accross.
I know very well how to spell, that has no bearing, Slashdot is not that damm important in the whole scheme of life, it is as many things these days a simple distraction, and spelling here is not exactly my first priority .
Besides with an IQ like mine, I just love when people call me an idiot, it make my day. Are you in the top 98 percentile as well ?
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