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Slashback: Texasocial, Networking, Attacks
Why meet people in real life? Roland Piquepaille writes "I wrote [Saturday] a column about social-network mapping tools mentioned by Slashdot. Slashdot readers sent me many comments and e-mails about other visualization tools. Here are these new tools, in no particular order: email constellations, Apache Agora, NetVis Module, EtherApe, inGridX, NameBase's Proximity Search, Surf3D Pro and the dazzling KartOO. Finally, a reader talked about another kind of tools, the Visual Thesaurus. This web tool is not about social mapping, but it shows graphical connections between words. In this previous column, "The Visual Thesaurus: What Does it Show About Thanksgiving?," I already explored this very funny tool. Check this new story for more the details about all these tools."
Update: 03/19 00:34 GMT by T : Directly related: Josh Tyler writes "Related to a recent Slashdot posting on social networks is this paper on automatically discovering communities based on email data, just published by our group at HP Labs. We find that simple communication data is enough to identify communities, both formal and informal, and possibly even to identify the leaders of these groups."
Speaking of online community ... TGK writes "Audioscrobbler (which many of us visited the first time it was posted here) has a new site up, and most importantly, new plugins for XMMS and Winamp 3."
From the site, a capsule description of what Audioscrobbler does: "It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer. From this information you can discover other users that share some or all of your taste in music."
Feedback is always cool. An anonymous reader writes: "Sudhakar Govindavajhala, co-author of the paper referenced by the Saturday Slashdot article 'Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine,' has responded to many of your [Slashdot readers'] questions and comments. His commentary is located at his Princeton CS website."
Another reason that Social Security isn't. GregAllen writes "Remember the recent case of SSN data theft at The University of Texas? A student has turned himself in. In his confession he says that he acted alone, and had no intention to disseminate the information. Maybe this will convince them to stop using SSNs for student IDs." Bonker also points out that "Salon is carrying an AP article that's a followup to the story a few days ago about the mass of Social Security Numbers stolen from University of Texas. Christopher Andrew Phillips is described as a 'fine young man who has never before been in trouble with the law'. Apparently he wrote a program 'to access a university Web site that tracks employees who attend training classes'. Whether or not this was done for illegitimate purposes remains to be seen. As a former UTA student, I'm glad my SSN is no longer in danger!"
What's the state of the device? An anonymous reader writes "N-Philes.com did another State of the GBA Industry Article and Roundtable. Here is the Industry Article, and here is the Roundtable"
Update: 03/19 00:34 GMT by T : And one more presroi writes "Just one week after even slashdot has noticed the new 2.2.24 linux kernel, Alan Cox has announced a new version due to a security issue found in 2.2 as well as in the 2.4 branch. I hope that we all were to lazy to upgrade from 2.2.X to .24 until now :)"
I *think* there was some precedent on this;
something about a guy who stole money / robbed a store JUST so that he would go to jail to be away from his wife. The judge decided that since he was not stealing with the intention of theft, he was not guilty and don't get to goto jail. (in the other words, be still under the whips and chains of his wife - which might be a fitting punishment?)
Could have just been a joke that I took for real, though...
My life in the land of the rising sun.
That system must really stink!
A homeless man wandered into a bank near where I live, and asked the teller for some money. The teller thought she was being held up, and gave him all the cash in the register.
:)
They later found him, took the money back, and did not arrest him. Of course, in that case, he was given the money. I think he should have sued the cops for stealing it from him
This was a local news item. I doubt it's a hoax.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
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sulli
RTFJ.
Oh, I get it! :P
You mean they finally found an excuse to post dupes?
The stars that shine and the stars that shrink
in the face of stagnation the water runs before your eyes
It is just a number of tidbits about a number of stories that have already been posted before, kind of like an update.
I like to think of it more as a multiple double post.
A somewhat slow (retarded) man walked into a bank, took a deposit slip and managed to write "This is a robbery" on it.
He didnt want to wait in the long line, so he left and took his note to the bank across the street.
When he got to the teller, she noticed he was obviously mentally challenged. So he hands her the note written on the deposit slip, and she says "I cant do anything with this, this slip is from another bank".
The frustrated robber leaves, and is arrested a few minutes later standing in line at the first bank.
True story, I heard it straight from the cop who booked the guy into the local jail.
In a related story, the teller was fired 2 seconds after the money was recovered. Due to her extensive bank experience, she was hired to a high-ranking position in the US Federal Reserve. God help us all. ;-)
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I hereby place the above post in the public domain.