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Online Document Search Reveals Secrets
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist is reporting that many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely available software tools and some basic programming techniques." Update: 08/16 19:06 GMT by H : The story is originally from Crypto-gram, not New Scientist.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when IDC recently confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming hot on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
In related news, people die from snake poison. Avoid messing around with the snakes, more people die from being bit by a snake than by any other animal.
Anyone wants to guess what's the second most dangerous animal for human beings?
i know, i just don't care to provide clickable links.
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beside, i DID get first post didn't i?
An accomplished searcher can learn much about the world we live in, as slashdot reported some time ago.
An interesting reminder, to be sure, given yesterday's blackout.
Makes a guy wonder just how much is still available regarding key electrical and telephone infrastructure. Emergency power capabilities of broadcasters (radio, television, mobile phone). Gas lines, in the parts of the country that have them. Water systems. There's likely a bunch of data out there, ready to be mined.
Mods read the parent again slowly, then mod troll!
As a protestant Christian I find this argument absurd. Of course the jewish society of that time was responsible for the cricifxiation of Jesus. How can you even claim something to the contrary? That's not to say that modern day jews should be blamed, but there's no doubt about it that without the pressure from the local jewish religious elite, the Romans would have never gone and crucified this man.
Even without reading the above "Repost for people without subscription" post, I knew that the mod giving this an "informative" is an idiot.
Even WITH a subscription, you can't POST a comment until the article is made PUBLIC!
If this guy had been trying to HELP, he'd still be doing nothing productive.
Mom says my
- Liberating poor countries of their oil is cool. It makes citizens with a low self-esteem feel like THEY PERSONALLY rule the world.
- Firing a few hundred missiles from a safe distance is very heroic.
- All of the soldiers who killed their own comrades and allies were heroes.
- That blonde chick who failed her mission because she was too dumb to find her way is definitely a hero.
- You don't need to be worth something to be accepted. You just need to wave a flag and shout "God bless America!"
- Every failure can be a hero in Bush's America!
- Seeing Dubya in a fligh suit on board a carrier makes republicans shoot their load in seconds!
And as long as all of the above is true, the lies will go on.to smell which way the winds of change are bullowing.
is there any DOWt about the nefarious behaviors of the walking dead?
being as we're in this cesspool of whoreabull deceptive execrable together, shouldn't the increasingly popular planet/population rescue initiative, formerly unknown as the oil for babies mandate, take precedence?
it'll take quite a chunk of change (but little monIE) to disempower the unbridled/unprecedented evile that threatens to destroy the planet/population.
no problem. those fauxking thieving murderers best get ready to see the light, as their legacy will be that they were known as the walking dead, & did immeasurable damage to all of us, to satiate their whoreabully excessive, greed/fear based squanderage.
the lights are coming up now.
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.
cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.