Right, because rich people are inherently more knowledgeable...
No, they just have the money to buy these kinds of toys. This is the kind of information that you would probably get through the guy who polishes your Bentley every Wednesday. Oh, wait, you don't have your Bentley polished every week? You don't have a Bentley? Yeah, then at your income bracket internet access in the middle of the ocean is likely not possible.
However I'm pretty sure there have been a couple people over the history of mankind who have sailed around the world without internet access.
... you probably cannot afford it. If you had the money you would probably already know what your options are for that. After all, the kids who have been attempting solo sails around the world haven't exactly been coming from poverty...
Anybody who has ever really looked at the spam they've received knows this has been going on for years. Spammers buying domains in bulk for quick switching is a very old game. Fortunately as this gets more attention we get a little bit closer to paying attention to something we can do something about (for a little while longer anyways):
Registrars. We have often pointed to the spammers, the ISPs, and the spamvertised domains as groups who make money off of spam. We have for various reasons frequently overlooked the registrars who are taking in a profit on the deal as well. There have been registrars in bed with spammers for almost as long as we have had spammers.
The big difference though is that we could do something about the registrars - if we really wanted to. The registrars are supposed to keep valid data on their customers, and are supposed to adhere to specific ICANN guidelines (at least for specific TLDs). If the registrars couldn't register anything in the TLDs they want, they would think twice about knowingly dealing with spammers.
... Is that apparently consumer reports finds the crappy AT&T service acceptable, but the new iPhone to be not-so-great. Considering how abysmal many other reports of the AT&T network are, that is probably the more newsworthy component.
I hate to say it, but you're not going to get the police anywhere to take interest in your problem. They have other things they see as more important and you're just some "punk college kid" to them.
Learn your lessons from this. Backup your files regularly. Get good insurance on your car and your laptop. Secure your laptop as well as possible anytime you leave it somewhere out of reach.
... then they should look into a better way to get them to the launch sites, so they don't have to worry about railroad tunnels while designing rockets.
The summary reads like it was written by someone at nVidia; based on the summary you'd think this card could do cold fusion and mow my lawn at the same time while creating mind-blowing graphical displays.
It wasn't that long ago that the lasers from this very same company were featured on the slashdot front page. While the company doesn't make any Star Wars references themselves, the slashdot write-up certainly did.
Since when does a manufacturer have responsibility for the idiocy of third parties?
They don't. I never said they did, either. Rather I was pointing out that slashdot contributed (very recently) to the problem, and seems to have forgotten that simple fact. Instead they are looking the other way and trying to pin the blame on a hollywood director.
It wasn't that long ago that the lasers from this very same company were featured on the slashdot front page. While the company doesn't make any Star Wars references themselves, the slashdot write-up certainly did.
Here's the Slashdot article "Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro)". It was posted June 14 - less than a month ago today. I'm surprised the intrepid Slashdot editors didn't remember running it while writing up this summary.
..except that the McAfee logo is actually legit (meaning McAfee vouches for the safety of this site). I just verified it. That fact alone makes this a bit more alarming.
McAffee recently brought down thousands of computers around the world by failing to test their new virus definitions on one of their top operating systems before deploying them. I'd say this more recent failure on their behalf pales in comparison.
My first question is regarding the choice of starting materials - in particular how do you plan to transport said piece? A train carriage is large and heavy - and hence not even remotely cheap to move around. Your Ford Mondeo will probably not be able to tow it, and I'm guessing the odds are slim that your site has easy railroad access to have it driven there.
In other words, while said carriages may be plentiful in availability, they might not be that great in practicality.
The spoof site behind the scam is approved by McAfee's Site Advisor and bears Microsoft logos, something which both companies have failed to act upon
Spammers have been doing the same thing for years. The "Canadian Pharmacy" sites always claim to be "verified by visa", "hacker safe", "bbb approved", etc... Any half-wit knows how to copy the logos from some other web page and use them to make your page look more legit than it really is.
... until someone develops a new way to wasted time on the internet that displaces facebook. At that point nobody will care about what has been said about facebook anymore.
It appears the BBC was just a bit ahead of the curve on that one.
The blog entry commented especially that the hack is possible in part because the wireless devices use a one-size-fits-all protocol; hence the presentation remotes are capable of communicating keyboard and mouse commands even though they are really neither a keyboard nor a mouse.
In other words, our desire for things cheap and shiny has made us vulnerable yet again. Its the lead-paint-on-toys problem, but this time the victims are not children.
Assuming, of course, that we get the automated docking working, this could be a significant step forward. Launching people into space just to bring up supplies is very expensive and risky. If we can do it auto-magically with robots and computers instead, we would be wise to do so. We will certainly need to still bring people up and back often, but this could be a significant cost (and life) saving change.
Come on now this story has been up how long and nobody has yet blamed this directly on Obama? Clearly the climategate - and global warming itself - is all part of his great planned socialist takeover of the entire solar system, right?
You said you'd only be there for a few weeks, and you wouldn't be using the computer that often. Are you sure you can't live without some parts of the internet under those conditions? If it's really that important to you, then perhaps you should restrict your travels to Hong Kong and Taiwan instead of mainland China?
After all if the firewall is the law, subverting the firewall may be illegal; which could lead to your stay being longer than expected...
So I see slashdot is citing a story on Ars Technica, presumably because slashdot doesn't have anyone on staff with any journalism credentials. That's OK, though, since slashdot has always preferred to be more of an aggregator than a reporter.
And naturally, people will come here for the great features that slashdot offers, like the metamoderation... oh wait, that's broken and non-functional. Well, we have a great submission system... oh wait, that is broken as well. Thankfully we have... well, I'm sure there is something important that we have here that Ars Technica doesn't have.
How many kids finish high school saying "I want to do XYZ" and then actually do it? For that matter, how many kids finish high school and have even the slightest idea of what they want to do? This company could end up investing a fair bit of time and money into training this kids straight out of high school only to find that many of them don't want the job anymore. At which point they are back to looking at the next graduating class...
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Right, because rich people are inherently more knowledgeable...
No, they just have the money to buy these kinds of toys. This is the kind of information that you would probably get through the guy who polishes your Bentley every Wednesday. Oh, wait, you don't have your Bentley polished every week? You don't have a Bentley? Yeah, then at your income bracket internet access in the middle of the ocean is likely not possible.
However I'm pretty sure there have been a couple people over the history of mankind who have sailed around the world without internet access.
... you probably cannot afford it. If you had the money you would probably already know what your options are for that. After all, the kids who have been attempting solo sails around the world haven't exactly been coming from poverty...
Wow, sharks with frickin' laser beams are in space, saving humanity from impending doom!
I think the sharks with frickin' laser beams would be in space destroying these lasers, to accelerate humanity towards impending doom.
The Australians have a laser than can stop death? Now that is news I can use! Where can I get one?
The abstract link could hardly be worse. Here is one that actually works for the appropriate paper.
Nice job, slashdot editors.
Anybody who has ever really looked at the spam they've received knows this has been going on for years. Spammers buying domains in bulk for quick switching is a very old game. Fortunately as this gets more attention we get a little bit closer to paying attention to something we can do something about (for a little while longer anyways):
Registrars. We have often pointed to the spammers, the ISPs, and the spamvertised domains as groups who make money off of spam. We have for various reasons frequently overlooked the registrars who are taking in a profit on the deal as well. There have been registrars in bed with spammers for almost as long as we have had spammers.
The big difference though is that we could do something about the registrars - if we really wanted to. The registrars are supposed to keep valid data on their customers, and are supposed to adhere to specific ICANN guidelines (at least for specific TLDs). If the registrars couldn't register anything in the TLDs they want, they would think twice about knowingly dealing with spammers.
James May built an entire house out of Lego. For some reason, he was unsuccessful in selling it, even after living in it overnight.
... Is that apparently consumer reports finds the crappy AT&T service acceptable, but the new iPhone to be not-so-great. Considering how abysmal many other reports of the AT&T network are, that is probably the more newsworthy component.
I hate to say it, but you're not going to get the police anywhere to take interest in your problem. They have other things they see as more important and you're just some "punk college kid" to them.
Learn your lessons from this. Backup your files regularly. Get good insurance on your car and your laptop. Secure your laptop as well as possible anytime you leave it somewhere out of reach.
... then they should look into a better way to get them to the launch sites, so they don't have to worry about railroad tunnels while designing rockets.
The summary reads like it was written by someone at nVidia; based on the summary you'd think this card could do cold fusion and mow my lawn at the same time while creating mind-blowing graphical displays.
If we're talking about batfish and an oil spill, there must be a manbearpig joke coming...
It wasn't that long ago that the lasers from this very same company were featured on the slashdot front page. While the company doesn't make any Star Wars references themselves, the slashdot write-up certainly did.
Since when does a manufacturer have responsibility for the idiocy of third parties?
They don't. I never said they did, either. Rather I was pointing out that slashdot contributed (very recently) to the problem, and seems to have forgotten that simple fact. Instead they are looking the other way and trying to pin the blame on a hollywood director.
It wasn't that long ago that the lasers from this very same company were featured on the slashdot front page. While the company doesn't make any Star Wars references themselves, the slashdot write-up certainly did.
Here's the Slashdot article "Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro)". It was posted June 14 - less than a month ago today. I'm surprised the intrepid Slashdot editors didn't remember running it while writing up this summary.
..except that the McAfee logo is actually legit (meaning McAfee vouches for the safety of this site). I just verified it. That fact alone makes this a bit more alarming.
McAffee recently brought down thousands of computers around the world by failing to test their new virus definitions on one of their top operating systems before deploying them. I'd say this more recent failure on their behalf pales in comparison.
My first question is regarding the choice of starting materials - in particular how do you plan to transport said piece? A train carriage is large and heavy - and hence not even remotely cheap to move around. Your Ford Mondeo will probably not be able to tow it, and I'm guessing the odds are slim that your site has easy railroad access to have it driven there.
In other words, while said carriages may be plentiful in availability, they might not be that great in practicality.
The spoof site behind the scam is approved by McAfee's Site Advisor and bears Microsoft logos, something which both companies have failed to act upon
Spammers have been doing the same thing for years. The "Canadian Pharmacy" sites always claim to be "verified by visa", "hacker safe", "bbb approved", etc... Any half-wit knows how to copy the logos from some other web page and use them to make your page look more legit than it really is.
... until someone develops a new way to wasted time on the internet that displaces facebook. At that point nobody will care about what has been said about facebook anymore.
It appears the BBC was just a bit ahead of the curve on that one.
The blog entry commented especially that the hack is possible in part because the wireless devices use a one-size-fits-all protocol; hence the presentation remotes are capable of communicating keyboard and mouse commands even though they are really neither a keyboard nor a mouse.
In other words, our desire for things cheap and shiny has made us vulnerable yet again. Its the lead-paint-on-toys problem, but this time the victims are not children.
Seriously.
Assuming, of course, that we get the automated docking working, this could be a significant step forward. Launching people into space just to bring up supplies is very expensive and risky. If we can do it auto-magically with robots and computers instead, we would be wise to do so. We will certainly need to still bring people up and back often, but this could be a significant cost (and life) saving change.
While not a security vulnerability per se, I think we should get a door prize for reducing their server to ruble.
Come on now this story has been up how long and nobody has yet blamed this directly on Obama? Clearly the climategate - and global warming itself - is all part of his great planned socialist takeover of the entire solar system, right?
You said you'd only be there for a few weeks, and you wouldn't be using the computer that often. Are you sure you can't live without some parts of the internet under those conditions? If it's really that important to you, then perhaps you should restrict your travels to Hong Kong and Taiwan instead of mainland China?
...
After all if the firewall is the law, subverting the firewall may be illegal; which could lead to your stay being longer than expected
So I see slashdot is citing a story on Ars Technica, presumably because slashdot doesn't have anyone on staff with any journalism credentials. That's OK, though, since slashdot has always preferred to be more of an aggregator than a reporter.
... oh wait, that's broken and non-functional. Well, we have a great submission system ... oh wait, that is broken as well. Thankfully we have ... well, I'm sure there is something important that we have here that Ars Technica doesn't have.
And naturally, people will come here for the great features that slashdot offers, like the metamoderation
How many kids finish high school saying "I want to do XYZ" and then actually do it? For that matter, how many kids finish high school and have even the slightest idea of what they want to do? This company could end up investing a fair bit of time and money into training this kids straight out of high school only to find that many of them don't want the job anymore. At which point they are back to looking at the next graduating class...