What the hell is a "high-risk" country and why would they want such device?
Columbia. Russia.
Why would they want it? So that when their government officials or corporate executives get kidnapped, they recover them still breathing instead of receiving them in little boxes over the course of several days, and more importantly so that they recover them at a time inconvenient for the kidnappers, to prevent future kidnappings by those specific malcontents.
This angers some people because they feel he is "telling them what to do." He's not telling you, he's ASKING you, and he has provided good ethical arguments supporting his position. If you disagree, fine, but don't say that he's "telling you what to do." He's not.
He has actually been known to totally derail a conversation insisting on it, correcting someone who doesn't say it over and over.
Apparently, the only thing that excuses you from having to say GNU/Linux in his mind is the possession of a vagina.
I just saw 'Bowling for Columbine' yesterday. It sheds a different light on this kind of inventions.
Well, anybody can shed any light they want, if they just make shit up. Those kids didn't even go bowling that day, Moore starts making shit up in the TITLE for pissake.
Is it right that teenagers get sent to jail for "hacking" when the state of IT security is so poor?
Is it right that they get sent to jail for trespass if the front door has a crappy lock that is easy to pick, or if they left a window unlocked? Yes, I think so. For similar reasons, the answer to your question is yes, it's right.
It should be pointed out that DARPA is an arm of the Defense Department. Their mandate is to improve the defense of the United States of America, which includes our belief that a good defense requires a good offense, not to support any and all good technologies regardless of the politics involved.
It's absolutely appropriate for their money to be spent in ways that they feel enhance our defense, and it's absolutely appropriate for them to not spend money with people they feel are not appropriate to receive defense funds.
I support Theo's right to believe whatever idiotic thing he wants to believe, but Defense Department money is perhaps better spent in other ways than facilitating his right to speak against my country's administration. Theo is anti-US currently; if he doesn't like the implications of that, well, he's an adult. He can make his own choices.
This is an extreme example, but if the world's finest encryption program was produced in Syria, and the University of Oklahoma had a program that was sending money to someone in Damascus to write it, DARPA wouldn't give them a big chunk of money for that project either.
Actually I think somebody famous* established long time ago that sex, as strange as some of its involved rituals may seem to many at times, are a better alternative to war.
Well, if the Allies had gone along with that in World War II, the Jews would certainly have been fucked.
Morphix is not quite ready for primetime, however. I'm typing this from a Morphix boot, after having spent all day remastering it twice to fix the broken autofs config, since it turns out that the HeavyGUI module overwrites/sbin (and just about everything else), rendering the work I did on the base module meaningless. Grr....
For what it has completed so far, though, it rocks, and I will be using it a lot whenever I have to use somebody else's PC at work. (Which is what I'm doing right now.)
If you're running Redhat, RHN is a valuable tool that no admin should be without.
And which will shortly be a pay-only tool. It already requires filling out privacy-challenged surveys every 60 days to continue to use for free.
Even Microsoft takes security seriously enough to make security fixes available conveniently and free, so that people will actually apply them. How many RedHat systems are going to go unpatched, thereby screwing things up for the rest of us, because of this lame-ass decision?
Come on, RedHat, set up an apt-rpm server for security fixes!
I did a test the other day. I booted an NT system (that I was planning to re-Ghost anyway) with Linux, mounted the NTFS C: drive read-write, and touched a file in the root directory. That's all, just touched a new file.
Then I unmounted the drive, shut down, and rebooted under NT. Or, rather, failed to reboot; some of the crucial OS files were hosed.
NTFS write support in the Linux kernel isn't ready for 3am on public access cable, much less prime time.
This is on topic, and to the point (but seeing michael is editting this article, I already sense the modslap). No one realizes the draconian restrictions slashdot has posted in recent days. Notice no trolls, people? They are being restricted!
What was wrong with -1 where they were hidden to everyone but those that wanted to read them?
I see a number of them in this very story. Some at -1, several at 0, and yours at +1 and holding.
There's a list of manufacturer's sales blurbs (much of it vapor) and list of laptop makers and their URLs, with esssentially no original information except for a line telling you not to go to some other site.
And at least one of them isn't a link to a laptop maker, but to a producer of bee-pollen supplements.
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Of course, there's also PayPal's social engineering attcks ("We can e-mail your buyers when your auctions end automatically, update your PayPal logo to a "Pay Now" button, all you have to do is give us your eBay password...")
PayPal can't do near as much damage to you with your eBay password as they could with your payment information. If you give them your credit card number or checking account info, it's ridiculous to balk at them getting your eBay password.
I'm a Buffy fan since season 1, and when it's not in reruns I record it every week to make sure I don't miss it.
But give me a damn break; OMWF was a gimmick episode. It was "great" only because it was different. The music was crap, none of those songs would be considered good outside the context of the epsiode. Nobody on the show could sign worth a flip.
This was not Emmy-winning TV, this was a cute, fun episode of an entertaining show, and get some perspective, Buffy fans. If you want an award-quality musical, go rent West Side Story. Twenty years from now, people won't be renting OMWF.
So the next time you get one of those poorly-worded, no punctuation, no capitalization emails from "3l337haX0r2002@aol.com" asking "teach me to hack", you should send it off to the FBI?
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I block all challenge-response systems at the MTA level, because they're fscking annoying because their users always use them on mailing lists.
Thanks to this article, I know about Mailblocks. I will go dig up their MXes now. Thanks, goombah99.
What the hell is a "high-risk" country and why would they want such device?
Columbia. Russia.
Why would they want it? So that when their government officials or corporate executives get kidnapped, they recover them still breathing instead of receiving them in little boxes over the course of several days, and more importantly so that they recover them at a time inconvenient for the kidnappers, to prevent future kidnappings by those specific malcontents.
Red Hat gives a version of its product away for free. Be very careful what you wish for.
If she was dressed like a penguin, I'd hit it.
And as I always point out to the people in hurricane land who razz tornado dwellers:
Tornadoes hit a subset of houses. Hurricanes hit EVERY house.
(Of course, I moved from Oklahoma to Florida, which not only gets hurricanes but also has the most lightning deaths in the country, so WTF do I know?)
This angers some people because they feel he is "telling them what to do." He's not telling you, he's ASKING you, and he has provided good ethical arguments supporting his position. If you disagree, fine, but don't say that he's "telling you what to do." He's not.
He has actually been known to totally derail a conversation insisting on it, correcting someone who doesn't say it over and over.
Apparently, the only thing that excuses you from having to say GNU/Linux in his mind is the possession of a vagina.
I just saw 'Bowling for Columbine' yesterday. It sheds a different light on this kind of inventions.
Well, anybody can shed any light they want, if they just make shit up. Those kids didn't even go bowling that day, Moore starts making shit up in the TITLE for pissake.
Is it right that teenagers get sent to jail for "hacking" when the state of IT security is so poor?
Is it right that they get sent to jail for trespass if the front door has a crappy lock that is easy to pick, or if they left a window unlocked? Yes, I think so. For similar reasons, the answer to your question is yes, it's right.
Now you can't use any of that new documentation in the next version of your book, unless you're willing to take the pro-Hitler rant as well.
No, but you can use it all as a research source for writing your own new additions.
It should be pointed out that DARPA is an arm of the Defense Department. Their mandate is to improve the defense of the United States of America, which includes our belief that a good defense requires a good offense, not to support any and all good technologies regardless of the politics involved.
It's absolutely appropriate for their money to be spent in ways that they feel enhance our defense, and it's absolutely appropriate for them to not spend money with people they feel are not appropriate to receive defense funds.
I support Theo's right to believe whatever idiotic thing he wants to believe, but Defense Department money is perhaps better spent in other ways than facilitating his right to speak against my country's administration. Theo is anti-US currently; if he doesn't like the implications of that, well, he's an adult. He can make his own choices.
This is an extreme example, but if the world's finest encryption program was produced in Syria, and the University of Oklahoma had a program that was sending money to someone in Damascus to write it, DARPA wouldn't give them a big chunk of money for that project either.
Just about every legal solution to a technological problems end up backfiring.
However, technological solutions to legal problems, such as intentionally causing damages by abusing network services, don't always work either.
Remember, if it didn't shift their advertising costs to the consumer, spammers wouldn't spam. There'd be no point to doing it.
If you can't be proud of the work you do without changing its name you have a lot bigger problems than your job title.
What if your boss changed your title to "Convicted Felon"?
ITYM "read the troll on freshmeat".
Actually I think somebody famous* established long time ago that sex, as strange as some of its involved rituals may seem to many at times, are a better alternative to war.
Well, if the Allies had gone along with that in World War II, the Jews would certainly have been fucked.
Morphix is not quite ready for primetime, however. I'm typing this from a Morphix boot, after having spent all day remastering it twice to fix the broken autofs config, since it turns out that the HeavyGUI module overwrites /sbin (and just about everything else), rendering the work I did on the base module meaningless. Grr....
For what it has completed so far, though, it rocks, and I will be using it a lot whenever I have to use somebody else's PC at work. (Which is what I'm doing right now.)
Except in Windows, the even-numbered releases aren't any better.
If you're running Redhat, RHN is a valuable tool that no admin should be without.
And which will shortly be a pay-only tool. It already requires filling out privacy-challenged surveys every 60 days to continue to use for free.
Even Microsoft takes security seriously enough to make security fixes available conveniently and free, so that people will actually apply them. How many RedHat systems are going to go unpatched, thereby screwing things up for the rest of us, because of this lame-ass decision?
Come on, RedHat, set up an apt-rpm server for security fixes!
Safe?
I did a test the other day. I booted an NT system (that I was planning to re-Ghost anyway) with Linux, mounted the NTFS C: drive read-write, and touched a file in the root directory. That's all, just touched a new file.
Then I unmounted the drive, shut down, and rebooted under NT. Or, rather, failed to reboot; some of the crucial OS files were hosed.
NTFS write support in the Linux kernel isn't ready for 3am on public access cable, much less prime time.
Not counting the other remote holes in the default install from the last few months.
But, hey, Theo ain't counting 'em either.
This is on topic, and to the point (but seeing michael is editting this article, I already sense the modslap). No one realizes the draconian restrictions slashdot has posted in recent days. Notice no trolls, people?
They are being restricted!
What was wrong with -1 where they were hidden to everyone but those that wanted to read them?
I see a number of them in this very story. Some at -1, several at 0, and yours at +1 and holding.
There's a list of manufacturer's sales blurbs (much of it vapor) and list of laptop makers and their URLs, with esssentially no original information except for a line telling you not to go to some other site.
And at least one of them isn't a link to a laptop maker, but to a producer of bee-pollen supplements.
Of course, there's also PayPal's social engineering attcks ("We can e-mail your buyers when your auctions end automatically, update your PayPal logo to a "Pay Now" button, all you have to do is give us your eBay password...")
PayPal can't do near as much damage to you with your eBay password as they could with your payment information. If you give them your credit card number or checking account info, it's ridiculous to balk at them getting your eBay password.
Of course, the suits will disagree, but when was the last $4 billion "accounting error" in Japan?
We'll never know, because they don't have a free press.
I'm a Buffy fan since season 1, and when it's not in reruns I record it every week to make sure I don't miss it.
But give me a damn break; OMWF was a gimmick episode. It was "great" only because it was different. The music was crap, none of those songs would be considered good outside the context of the epsiode. Nobody on the show could sign worth a flip.
This was not Emmy-winning TV, this was a cute, fun episode of an entertaining show, and get some perspective, Buffy fans. If you want an award-quality musical, go rent West Side Story. Twenty years from now, people won't be renting OMWF.
So the next time you get one of those poorly-worded, no punctuation, no capitalization emails from "3l337haX0r2002@aol.com" asking "teach me to hack", you should send it off to the FBI?