Protocol says that a resistant subject ought to be arrested temporally, be brought to the headquarters and be injected with neutralizing nanobots. The whole procedure takes about 12 to 18 hours so it can easily be done during pre-charge detention period.
Sorry for leaving that fact out. I thought the comment was already long enough:)
... the bug was found on one of the interoperability fests:
Samba Guy: Hey dude, look, when I open a connection _this way_ I get strange replies. There is nothing similar in the docs...
MS Interoperability Officer Sir, the protocol is just to complex. I wouldn't care. How about putting little hears into the password dialog, I don't like the asterisks, anyway.
Samba Guy: Dude, come on, I want to understand how the stuff works...
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, hmm, must be part a proprietary, essential, internal routine framework. It's in there since ages. The software works, we make billions from it.
Samba Guy: But what does it do? Why do you need it?
MS Interoperability Officer: Don't know. The guy who coded it left the company.
Samba Guy: Can't we just call him?
MS Interoperability Officer: Don't think so. He must be cleaning his Yacht somewhere near Tanzania right now.
Samba Guy: Well dude, then let's see what's gonna happen if I keep going on...
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, I'm bored. I don't like your black console anyway. It feels so 50ths.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, I'm in the position to offer you a free trial for Microsoft Visual Studio 2009 with Ribbon TM included.
Samba Guy: Look dude, I just got root on your machine.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, which idiot gave you my password?
Samba Guy: No password, dude. I just opened the connection, look here...
Samba Guy show 4 lines of code.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, please hold on, I need to call my chief security officer.
MS Interoperability Officer talking on the phone (next door).
Minutes later the door is opened violently. Gates and Balmer enter the scene guarded by five NSA officers.
Gates: Sir, I'm sorry, you found one of the many backdoors we built into all versions of Microsoft Windows TM released after 1999. I suppose you will perfectly understand that all algorithms concerning that matter is our intellectual property which is protected by American Law.
NSA Officer (in monotone voice): Sir, I'll now use this Neutralizer TM device to erase your memories of the last twenty-four hours. You've never been in this building and you never knew about the federal data acquisition program.
A bright flash of light gets emitted from the little device.
Samba Guy: Shit, my eyes. What the fuck is wrong with you guys. That code is so freaking stupid. You can't be serious...
Another NSA Officer (in aggressive voice): Shut up criminal bastard!
First NSA Officer (in same monotone voice): Sir, you might have consumed a critical cumulative dose of THC during adolescence. The resulting altered brain circuity is resistant to portable neutralizer devices. I'm sorry to inform you're temporally arrested under federal law.
Samba Guy: Bull shit, you have no idea what you're talking about. Look I've got a hock running that sends every command I type on the console directly to twitter. Everybody does it, it's lot's of fun. Nothing I do is secret. I believe in sharing of ideas.
Ballmer (in rage): Motherfucking communists... this is why fucking America is all that fucked up... how the fuck should we ever control that fucking mob... fuck!
Ballmer, well, throws chairs.
Gates (calling the still governing president of the United States): My president, sir, I'm sorry to inform you, due to certain circumstances, details concerning the federal data acquisition program might just have been leaked to the public.
Samba Guy: Hey dude, the story is already on digg. I think you should issue a patch before it is on slashdot.
Curtain gets drawn, applause.
Off stage voice: Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please don't forget to visit windowsupdates.microsoft.com
Hmm, is that really the case?
I'm on gentoo. Kde-4.0 is hard masked which means it's not officially in the tree. You can unmask it if you really want to play with it but in order to do so you have to edit some config files which makes sure you know what you're doing. Kde-4.1 will eventually go into unstable (there you also find gnome-2.22, firefox-3, openoffice-4 etc).
Did other distros directly push kde-4.0 to stable?
Firing up ditrowatch I get 8 distributions with kde-4 and around 400 with kde-3. Among the 8 are Ubuntu, openSUSE, Feodora and PC-BSD.
Hmm, looking into the Ubuntu package database, I see kde4 is an extra package (no automatic update?) in Universe which has (I quote) no guarantee of security fixes and support.
It seems to be in Feodora-9, though. Is there a stable/unstable or whatsoever?
And it is in the just released openSUSE-11. Same here. Is it really in the default install?
This story is a dupe which is more than one year old. From the discussions in many mainstream media back then I remember some dermatologist advising full body sunlight exposure for 10 minutes every day (not more though).
The original publication is here. Honestly I wonder why we did not see any follow up untill now.
I think it would be defenitely enough if my boss/sysadmin knew WHERE I'm surfing most time of the day.
Why do they need to be able to read every single comment directly off the wire as it passes by?
Ah, and don't tell me to use TOR. I tried it. Reading sucks because it is THAT slow.
And posting doesn't work (you probably blacklist exit node IPs to get rid of spammers, don't you,/. ?).
First of all, Reiser4 is not dead at all. The namesys.com website is still down because it is hosted in the US and the developers are on the other side on the globe. Who cares. There is a new location here and here.
Reiser4 development didn't stall at all! the mailing list is not particular noisy but there are bug fixes on a regular basis and new patches generally come out some days after a new kernel release.
It still is in the mm tree and gets updated regularly. Public GIT repositories are also to come very soon. Due to its modular design (*cough* plugins *cough*) reiser4 could be particularly interesting for new coders and specialized tasks. We'll see...
My personal note: Reiser4 is surprisingly stable. I have it on several machines since it was officially released. Of course I run daily backups but I didn't have to use them once. Occasionally I saw corruptions but these were fixed by an excellent fsck (all this might as well be personal luck though;).
Recently a show stopper bug in the (not yet officially released) compression code has been fixed. This not only gave me lots of extra disk space but actually a performance boost - disk io is the bottleneck here. Better not get me started on comparing performance to the zfs counterpart on fuse or freebs).
Hmm, in case they make sense of the raw data they could mine it a bit. Most of the records will be quite useless (common diagnostics on common people). Some might be more interesting and worth more money.
Eventually fatal diagnoses you probably can (indirectly) sell to the live insurance marked. There _is_ a black marked in that area.
With records on celebrities go for classic blackmailing.
I'm sure a trained criminal mind can think of many more possibilities.
- Non-Smoking is Costing Toback Industry $1200 Billion.
- Healthy Food is Costing McDonalds $4.2 Trillion.
- Singing is Costing RIAA $5.4 Quadrillion.
- Islam is Costing Jack Daniels $43 Billion.
- You not Giving Me You Money is Costing Me $120.000.
PLoS Pathogens currently has an ISI Impact Factor of 6.1. This is not comparable to to Nature, Science or PLoS Biology but for a specialized journal it's quite high.
The good thing about the PLoS Journals is that they rank quite high _and_ the articles are open accessible by day one. This means that an ordinary slashdot user (not sitting in a rich lab or library that has spent truckloads of money to access the most important journals in its field) has the chance to _read_ the f#@*ing primary resarch article.
As said, the paper is here although the site is down for maintenance at the moment;).
To be fair, many attempts have been made to selectively kill cancer cells.
People used antibodies or toxins bound to molecules that bind to proteins
typically expressed in a certain kind of cancer tissue. The problem is that
even if you manage to kill 99.9% of your targets, there will always be some
cancerous cells (often further mutated ones) being immune to your strategy.
Those will proliferate and very soon you have a kind of cancer that cannot
be treated any longer.
Hmm, you mean just like my DNA is 99% identical to that of every chimp;)
Also remember that many of your cells carry DNA of all those viruses you got exposed to without even noticing. And while we talk about infections, the immune system comes in mind, with all those crazy DNA recombinations taking place during its development. Not to mention spontaneous mutations which are not that insignificant tumorigenesis.
Nobody actually ever believed that twins are 100% identical. They just want to make up their story. Nothing new to see here...
While still in University I lived together with some protestant theology students. After the service we and the young priest used to hang around at the altar, finishing up the beverage that was left over from the ceremony (some bottles of sweet red wine;).
By the way, in the room just next to that chapel, Luther and Zwingli had their famous dispute in 1528 arguing weather that said wine actually IS the blood of Jesus. The setting is definitely not roman catholic.
Whenever I was at a catholic church I got the impression the do smoke rather then drink their intoxicants.
Slashdot Mirror
Protocol says that a resistant subject ought to be arrested temporally, be brought to the headquarters and be injected with neutralizing nanobots. The whole procedure takes about 12 to 18 hours so it can easily be done during pre-charge detention period.
:)
Sorry for leaving that fact out. I thought the comment was already long enough
No idea about COBOL but for LISP there always is Practical Common Lisp.
... the bug was found on one of the interoperability fests:
...
...
... this is why fucking America is all that fucked up ... how the fuck should we ever control that fucking mob ... fuck!
Samba Guy: Hey dude, look, when I open a connection _this way_ I get strange replies. There is nothing similar in the docs
MS Interoperability Officer Sir, the protocol is just to complex. I wouldn't care. How about putting little hears into the password dialog, I don't like the asterisks, anyway.
Samba Guy: Dude, come on, I want to understand how the stuff works...
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, hmm, must be part a proprietary, essential, internal routine framework. It's in there since ages. The software works, we make billions from it.
Samba Guy: But what does it do? Why do you need it?
MS Interoperability Officer: Don't know. The guy who coded it left the company.
Samba Guy: Can't we just call him?
MS Interoperability Officer: Don't think so. He must be cleaning his Yacht somewhere near Tanzania right now.
Samba Guy: Well dude, then let's see what's gonna happen if I keep going on...
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, I'm bored. I don't like your black console anyway. It feels so 50ths.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, I'm in the position to offer you a free trial for Microsoft Visual Studio 2009 with Ribbon TM included.
Samba Guy: Look dude, I just got root on your machine.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, which idiot gave you my password?
Samba Guy: No password, dude. I just opened the connection, look here
Samba Guy show 4 lines of code.
MS Interoperability Officer: Sir, please hold on, I need to call my chief security officer.
MS Interoperability Officer talking on the phone (next door).
Minutes later the door is opened violently. Gates and Balmer enter the scene guarded by five NSA officers.
Gates: Sir, I'm sorry, you found one of the many backdoors we built into all versions of Microsoft Windows TM released after 1999. I suppose you will perfectly understand that all algorithms concerning that matter is our intellectual property which is protected by American Law.
NSA Officer (in monotone voice): Sir, I'll now use this Neutralizer TM device to erase your memories of the last twenty-four hours. You've never been in this building and you never knew about the federal data acquisition program.
A bright flash of light gets emitted from the little device.
Samba Guy: Shit, my eyes. What the fuck is wrong with you guys. That code is so freaking stupid. You can't be serious...
Another NSA Officer (in aggressive voice): Shut up criminal bastard!
First NSA Officer (in same monotone voice): Sir, you might have consumed a critical cumulative dose of THC during adolescence. The resulting altered brain circuity is resistant to portable neutralizer devices. I'm sorry to inform you're temporally arrested under federal law.
Samba Guy: Bull shit, you have no idea what you're talking about. Look I've got a hock running that sends every command I type on the console directly to twitter. Everybody does it, it's lot's of fun. Nothing I do is secret. I believe in sharing of ideas.
Ballmer (in rage): Motherfucking communists
Ballmer, well, throws chairs.
Gates (calling the still governing president of the United States): My president, sir, I'm sorry to inform you, due to certain circumstances, details concerning the federal data acquisition program might just have been leaked to the public.
Samba Guy: Hey dude, the story is already on digg. I think you should issue a patch before it is on slashdot.
Curtain gets drawn, applause.
Off stage voice: Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please don't forget to visit windowsupdates.microsoft.com
> being paid professionals, they're less
> likely to act like an asshole.
That statement is based on what data?
Could you please provide a reference?
:)) (Quite late but that's live)
(which should store 30.000 Pages of text for 10.000 years).
If I remember correctly, one flew to Mars already.
Hmm, is that really the case?
I'm on gentoo. Kde-4.0 is hard masked which means it's not officially in the tree. You can unmask it if you really want to play with it but in order to do so you have to edit some config files which makes sure you know what you're doing. Kde-4.1 will eventually go into unstable (there you also find gnome-2.22, firefox-3, openoffice-4 etc).
Did other distros directly push kde-4.0 to stable?
Firing up ditrowatch I get 8 distributions with kde-4 and around 400 with kde-3. Among the 8 are Ubuntu, openSUSE, Feodora and PC-BSD.
Hmm, looking into the Ubuntu package database, I see kde4 is an extra package (no automatic update?) in Universe which has (I quote) no guarantee of security fixes and support.
It seems to be in Feodora-9, though. Is there a stable/unstable or whatsoever?
And it is in the just released openSUSE-11. Same here. Is it really in the default install?
This story is a dupe which is more than one year old. From the discussions in many mainstream media back then I remember some dermatologist advising full body sunlight exposure for 10 minutes every day (not more though).
The original publication is here. Honestly I wonder why we did not see any follow up untill now.
In case you like to read: #18565885, 18424428 and 17540555
(no open access, I'm afraid).
Lets hope this is just the beginning.
*everything* should be encrypted by default,
YES and YES, I second that.
I always hated that https://slashdot.org just forwards to http://slashdot.org./
I think it would be defenitely enough if my boss/sysadmin knew WHERE I'm surfing most time of the day.
Why do they need to be able to read every single comment directly off the wire as it passes by?
Ah, and don't tell me to use TOR. I tried it. Reading sucks because it is THAT slow.
And posting doesn't work (you probably blacklist exit node IPs to get rid of spammers, don't you,
Hmm, on the page you linked I read:
* Mozilla Firefox (nightly builds from 2007-11-29 to 2007-12-17)
Eventually it's better to look here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
That's the way the world keeps spinning...
First of all, Reiser4 is not dead at all. The namesys.com website is still down because it is hosted in the US and the developers are on the other side on the globe. Who cares. There is a new location here and here.
;).
Reiser4 development didn't stall at all! the mailing list is not particular noisy but there are bug fixes on a regular basis and new patches generally come out some days after a new kernel release.
It still is in the mm tree and gets updated regularly. Public GIT repositories are also to come very soon. Due to its modular design (*cough* plugins *cough*) reiser4 could be particularly interesting for new coders and specialized tasks. We'll see...
My personal note: Reiser4 is surprisingly stable. I have it on several machines since it was officially released. Of course I run daily backups but I didn't have to use them once. Occasionally I saw corruptions but these were fixed by an excellent fsck (all this might as well be personal luck though
Recently a show stopper bug in the (not yet officially released) compression code has been fixed. This not only gave me lots of extra disk space but actually a performance boost - disk io is the bottleneck here. Better not get me started on comparing performance to the zfs counterpart on fuse or freebs).
Hmm, in case they make sense of the raw data they could mine it a bit. Most of the records will be quite useless (common diagnostics on common people). Some might be more interesting and worth more money.
Eventually fatal diagnoses you probably can (indirectly) sell to the live insurance marked. There _is_ a black marked in that area.
With records on celebrities go for classic blackmailing.
I'm sure a trained criminal mind can think of many more possibilities.
And again /. ate my reference. I know that is why they invented the preview button.
Not to mention the fact that those records might be worth more than $100,000,000 on the black marked.
The university feels confident that the person who took [the tapes] doesn't know what they have....
Ah, and how exactly does it make sense that you just told the world? (Not that I did beleve you in the first place.)
- Non-Smoking is Costing Toback Industry $1200 Billion.
... (f*&k cnet btw.)
- Healthy Food is Costing McDonalds $4.2 Trillion.
- Singing is Costing RIAA $5.4 Quadrillion.
- Islam is Costing Jack Daniels $43 Billion.
- You not Giving Me You Money is Costing Me $120.000.
You name it
I think parent was ment to be funny. Hm, i actually is. Stupid, I don't have mod points.
Try the magic oldbar extension.
PLoS Pathogens currently has an ISI Impact Factor of 6.1.
;).
This is not comparable to to Nature, Science or PLoS Biology but for a specialized journal it's quite high.
The good thing about the PLoS Journals is that they rank quite high _and_ the articles are open accessible by day one. This means that an ordinary slashdot user (not sitting in a rich lab or library that has spent truckloads of money to access the most important journals in its field) has the chance to _read_ the f#@*ing primary resarch article.
As said, the paper is here although the site is down for maintenance at the moment
To be fair, many attempts have been made to selectively kill cancer cells. People used antibodies or toxins bound to molecules that bind to proteins typically expressed in a certain kind of cancer tissue. The problem is that even if you manage to kill 99.9% of your targets, there will always be some cancerous cells (often further mutated ones) being immune to your strategy. Those will proliferate and very soon you have a kind of cancer that cannot be treated any longer.
Everybody can kill cancer cells.
The art is do do it selectively (to not kill everything else). No breakthrough here.
I hate Photoshop, always did.
I happily use
- Gimp for casual image editing
- ImageJ for stacks and 3d reconstructions
- ImageMagick for most batch processing
- Krita for CMYK and +8bits
Hmm, you mean just like my DNA is 99% identical to that of every chimp ;)
...
Also remember that many of your cells carry DNA of all those viruses you got exposed to without even noticing. And while we talk about infections, the immune system comes in mind, with all those crazy DNA recombinations taking place during its development. Not to mention spontaneous mutations which are not that insignificant tumorigenesis.
Nobody actually ever believed that twins are 100% identical. They just want to make up their story. Nothing new to see here
While still in University I lived together with some protestant theology students. After the service we and the young priest used to hang around at the altar, finishing up the beverage that was left over from the ceremony (some bottles of sweet red wine ;).
By the way, in the room just next to that chapel, Luther and Zwingli had their famous dispute in 1528 arguing weather that said wine actually IS the blood of Jesus. The setting is definitely not roman catholic.
Whenever I was at a catholic church I got the impression the do smoke rather then drink their intoxicants.