It's Kim Bassinger, sculpting an iconic replica of the Eiffel Tower, using Magenta Play Doh, while also performing some sort of Yoga Pose on a Wii Fit board.
I would think once it was determined that this was not a State sponsored attack, they would stop making such a stink over what country the attacks originated from. Hacking has been going on for 20 + years now, and it has never been a real concern before on the country of origin because State sponsored hacking was such a negligable issue that it was commonly overlooked. I do understand that Russia may have sponsored attacks on Georgia, and maybe China has hacked Taiwan and vice versa, but I mean, short of a concerted Government led effort, I would take this as just another case of Bot Net owner playing with his toys. Not as a sign of intra Governmental hacking as a precursor to some sort of overt warlike effort beginning.
I can't for the life of me remember the study, or who the man was that was considered the most un-appealing, but there was a study done that measure aesthetics, and then judged celebrities based on their "scientific aesthetic value" and from what I can remember of the study, it was actually based on something more than the "Schwing" factor.
Being as the exploit is already in the fucking wild and being actively exploited, preventing the information from being presented is completely and totally pointless.
So if your house is already on fire, and will burn to the ground shortly anyway, than you certainly wouldn't mind me dumping some of my spare gas on your house, so that I can research and prove my theories on how well houses burn when adding gas to an already raging fire.
I'm sure your neighbors wouldn't mind either........
and YOU could read farther down, where I realized I was guilt of not RTFA and commented on the fact that TFA mentioned reasons why I had nothing to fear.
You actually were making a rather Insightful post until the whole crippling people thing.
I see the mods agreed, and though you have a 5 digit UID, you must be new here, because any exaggeration, especially making any kind of allusion to violence of any kind will immediately get you modded flaimbait.
Shoulda found a way to make it into a car analogy man, then your point would have gotten across a lot better!
It's a bit more like complaining that somebody went through your luggage when you never changed the code on the lock from the default 1234.
The fact that person A was stupid and made it easy for person B doesn't make person B any less a scumbag who should be taken out back and shot.
Though I agree with your statement, I think it's also rather hypocritical (not neccessarily of you) for people on Slashdot to defend people from having their stuff stolen because their "secutiry" sucks, while in the same breath, lambaste Microsoft for poor security and lauding the people who break into their systems to exploit the holes (which you CAN NOT say doesn't happen here) I've been running across this again and again here lately where people have a double standard that if One person/group/OS/hax0r does one thing it's ok, so long as it doesn't impact the new "Kool-Aid flavor of the month" here. Yet it is supposedly inherently wrong for anyone at anytime to break into ANYTHING just because it was "easy" to do so.
Volunteer reviewers will be required to have some connection to the broadband industry, although the volunteers will have to comply with rules from NTIA parent agency the U.S. Department of Commerce on conflicts of interest and confidentiality, the NTIA document said. Reviewers must have "significant expertise and experience" in either designing and building broadband networks, educating or training consumers about broadband, or working in programs to increase demand for broadband, the NTIA document said.
This is a lot more reassuring, though reading further on below this part of TFA, they make a valid point in that who would volunteer their time for this, with no personal gain involved? I think that quite a few people would because I would hope that people feel passionate about helping to disseminate broadband to their communities, however people are naturally elusive in regards to their time spent away from their families/friends/moms, especially people in a long work day intensive industry like Telecommunications, and I think the point is valid that not enough people will volunteer much time to something that has no personal benefit.
That there truly is a certain level of knowledge and expertise that should be a requirement for the "volunteers" to participate. I would hate to think someone like my dad, who is the technological equivalent of a sloth, would have any kind of say over this kind of issue.
I do understand that just the knowledge of the opportunity to volunteer would gleen out quite a large portion of the people you wouldn't want making these kinds of decisions, but all the same, it would be frightening if there was no over-sight involved with these decisions by civilians.
Then you could always farm out a petabyte into multiple units that would add up to it and then weight wouldn't be an issue (though dealing with multiple units would be)
That is probably the most insightful comment I have seen on this site in years!
Throw more corporations on *nix boxes, or have more *nix boxes running on top of bank/stock/credit card company dBs, and you would see a huge amount of *nix exploits.
It's kinda like wondering why you can't find any mechanics who specialize on the Chevy Nova, no one drives em, so no one fixes em.......and they esplode
You're not proving your point. Just give it up. Some people want to read this -- me for instance. Complain to the site admins, not the site readers. You've thrown this discussion way off course. I saw you claim "If you don't like what I've written, don't complain to me, lest you're a hypocrite." Well, honestly, how can anyone NOT read your crap seeing that you've taken up 3/4 of the god damn discussion. Suddenly this entire topic became about YOU and YOU alone.
you mean kinda like the frontpage of Slashdot has become about the RIAA, and the RIAA alone?
I think this is actually going to be a REALLY big deal. Especially if they can prove that the eye signatures are truly one of a kind in regards to individuals specific patterns. If this is along the same vain as fingerprints in relation to scarcity, then you may now be reading of what could eventually make things like the need for encryption, or even some forms of basic information security obsolete. That is a BIG frickin deal, and may in fact be of such importance that you may see security/encryption companies try to squash this before it could ever become something more than just an idea.
I think this is definetly something worth keeping an eye on (sorry for the pun)
Slashdot Mirror
dude
troll much?
If I were an Indian I'd be pissed that you can sterotypically say that all Indians are inpatient and rude, and get marked +5 Informative.....
You should have a -10 D0uchebag Mod
dude, not even close
It's Kim Bassinger, sculpting an iconic replica of the Eiffel Tower, using Magenta Play Doh, while also performing some sort of Yoga Pose on a Wii Fit board.
idiot :)
Perhaps they could involve images of Tom Cruise and L. Ron Hubbard in various disturbing poses.
that's not what they are?
and thought you were alluding to Magic being only 100 years old
and didn't know if I should call you a fool for your lack of history
or kick myself in the nuts for getting myself with the same stupidity
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=rorschach+inkblot+test&aq=4&oq=Rorschach
within the top ten images posted.
Lame.
Move on.
Nothing to see here.
I would think once it was determined that this was not a State sponsored attack, they would stop making such a stink over what country the attacks originated from. Hacking has been going on for 20 + years now, and it has never been a real concern before on the country of origin because State sponsored hacking was such a negligable issue that it was commonly overlooked. I do understand that Russia may have sponsored attacks on Georgia, and maybe China has hacked Taiwan and vice versa, but I mean, short of a concerted Government led effort, I would take this as just another case of Bot Net owner playing with his toys. Not as a sign of intra Governmental hacking as a precursor to some sort of overt warlike effort beginning.
I can't for the life of me remember the study, or who the man was that was considered the most un-appealing, but there was a study done that measure aesthetics, and then judged celebrities based on their "scientific aesthetic value" and from what I can remember of the study, it was actually based on something more than the "Schwing" factor.
............oh wait
your referring to a cellphone aren't you?
Being as the exploit is already in the fucking wild and being actively exploited, preventing the information from being presented is completely and totally pointless.
So if your house is already on fire, and will burn to the ground shortly anyway, than you certainly wouldn't mind me dumping some of my spare gas on your house, so that I can research and prove my theories on how well houses burn when adding gas to an already raging fire.
I'm sure your neighbors wouldn't mind either........
oh yeah! well I'm addicted to getting Frist Prost!
oh wait.........that was my first one :(
I would think of this as more of a "News" Article than anything else
and YOU could read farther down, where I realized I was guilt of not RTFA and commented on the fact that TFA mentioned reasons why I had nothing to fear.
jerkface :)
You actually were making a rather Insightful post until the whole crippling people thing.
I see the mods agreed, and though you have a 5 digit UID, you must be new here, because any exaggeration, especially making any kind of allusion to violence of any kind will immediately get you modded flaimbait.
Shoulda found a way to make it into a car analogy man, then your point would have gotten across a lot better!
It's a bit more like complaining that somebody went through your luggage when you never changed the code on the lock from the default 1234.
The fact that person A was stupid and made it easy for person B doesn't make person B any less a scumbag who should be taken out back and shot.
Though I agree with your statement, I think it's also rather hypocritical (not neccessarily of you) for people on Slashdot to defend people from having their stuff stolen because their "secutiry" sucks, while in the same breath, lambaste Microsoft for poor security and lauding the people who break into their systems to exploit the holes (which you CAN NOT say doesn't happen here) I've been running across this again and again here lately where people have a double standard that if One person/group/OS/hax0r does one thing it's ok, so long as it doesn't impact the new "Kool-Aid flavor of the month" here. Yet it is supposedly inherently wrong for anyone at anytime to break into ANYTHING just because it was "easy" to do so.
Is "Btitish" a colloquial term for British Telecom, or are you just having a bad day?
The police use their own voicemail password. In North America, it's usually 7782.
I don't care about North American police. We here on slashdot use 1337!
WTF! who h4ck3d muh acc0un7s y0?!?!
Do you think they will get away with this?!?!
Not quite, you would definitely be able to tell if that lens was on the field as it would be like CowboyNeal attached to a tripod.
Are you calling CowboyNeal fat?
Volunteer reviewers will be required to have some connection to the broadband industry, although the volunteers will have to comply with rules from NTIA parent agency the U.S. Department of Commerce on conflicts of interest and confidentiality, the NTIA document said. Reviewers must have "significant expertise and experience" in either designing and building broadband networks, educating or training consumers about broadband, or working in programs to increase demand for broadband, the NTIA document said.
This is a lot more reassuring, though reading further on below this part of TFA, they make a valid point in that who would volunteer their time for this, with no personal gain involved? I think that quite a few people would because I would hope that people feel passionate about helping to disseminate broadband to their communities, however people are naturally elusive in regards to their time spent away from their families/friends/moms, especially people in a long work day intensive industry like Telecommunications, and I think the point is valid that not enough people will volunteer much time to something that has no personal benefit.
That there truly is a certain level of knowledge and expertise that should be a requirement for the "volunteers" to participate. I would hate to think someone like my dad, who is the technological equivalent of a sloth, would have any kind of say over this kind of issue.
I do understand that just the knowledge of the opportunity to volunteer would gleen out quite a large portion of the people you wouldn't want making these kinds of decisions, but all the same, it would be frightening if there was no over-sight involved with these decisions by civilians.
Then you could always farm out a petabyte into multiple units that would add up to it and then weight wouldn't be an issue (though dealing with multiple units would be)
That is probably the most insightful comment I have seen on this site in years!
Throw more corporations on *nix boxes, or have more *nix boxes running on top of bank/stock/credit card company dBs, and you would see a huge amount of *nix exploits.
It's kinda like wondering why you can't find any mechanics who specialize on the Chevy Nova, no one drives em, so no one fixes em.......and they esplode
Don't be so absolutely ridiculous.
you're ridiculous
shall we venture further into childishness or can we stop now?
You're not proving your point. Just give it up. Some people want to read this -- me for instance. Complain to the site admins, not the site readers. You've thrown this discussion way off course. I saw you claim "If you don't like what I've written, don't complain to me, lest you're a hypocrite." Well, honestly, how can anyone NOT read your crap seeing that you've taken up 3/4 of the god damn discussion. Suddenly this entire topic became about YOU and YOU alone.
you mean kinda like the frontpage of Slashdot has become about the RIAA, and the RIAA alone?
Just kidding
I think this is actually going to be a REALLY big deal. Especially if they can prove that the eye signatures are truly one of a kind in regards to individuals specific patterns. If this is along the same vain as fingerprints in relation to scarcity, then you may now be reading of what could eventually make things like the need for encryption, or even some forms of basic information security obsolete. That is a BIG frickin deal, and may in fact be of such importance that you may see security/encryption companies try to squash this before it could ever become something more than just an idea.
I think this is definetly something worth keeping an eye on (sorry for the pun)