Re:Magnification does nothing
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The Solar Death Ray
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actually it does, which is why you shouldn't point your telescope at the moon for you would burn your retinae within a few seconds - you have to use filters. Same goes for the sun except you'd probably burn your face before you can get your eye to the eyepiece...
I agree, the potential for fraud is now even greater. How long is it going to be before someone fools some implementation into thinking that it needs to send many bonds for the same email / no mail at all.
I know a little french town called Nancy, where they installed one of these monorail from Bombardier and well, it crashed. It was delayed numerous times, they couldn't make it work, had to rebuild some stations, re-inforce the rails and carriages, and spend hundreds of millions of euros of taxpayers money in the process...
The design was clearly inadequate and flawed: a monorail carriage cannot take sharp corners on very steep streets (>4% declination) but they refused to fix it! I've got an idea, let's sell an OS with a browser that crashes all the time and see what the users say...
I hope that they have to disclose the API under a non encumbered license, otherwise it is pretty pointless for Wine or other open source projects...
get passport passwords with credentials, today!
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Passport to Nowhere
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What a coincidence, a co-worker (seating just across my desk) could not get in to his hotmail account today, but he could get in to another ms server so he called support and told them that somehow he knew his password but the hotmail site wouldn't take it.
Guess what, they told him his new password over the phone, without asking for a single proof of identification!
When he asked them if, maybe they were supposed to check his identity first, he got nowhere (something like "thanks, noted" - I couldn't hear the other end of the conversation at this point)
I am not going to get into the discussion about the state of the freedom of expression here in the UK, there is too much to say and I wouldn't be allowed anyway;-)
But it seems to me like there are grounds for trying to shut down websites that promote certain behaviours that a society decides to reject. The problem is, as usual, where to draw the line.
Whilst we all agree that using dmca to shut down some random hacking website is wrong. Anyone here care to defend websites teaching you how to eat your neighbour? (and leave free speech alone - we loose the credibility we so badly need when it comes to the things we really are knowledgeable at)
I agree, but...
All I was trying ot point out is that they may have been more dilligent in their response now that a lot more people are aware of the issues.
As to wether releasing the details of the flaw is due to a "Microsoft compensated endorser", it sounds to me like a consiparcy theory more than anything, but I could be wrong. I think they have been fair and that Apple has had more than enough time to get it sorted out.
Which versions get updated and which ones aren't is left to Apple. The purpose of lists like bugtraq is to keep people informed, not to whithold important security information because of vendor indifference, irresponsability, or in this case a drive to force user to pay for an upgrade?
I don't know about you, but I trust bugtraq. Recent posts have confirmed that IE is *still* vulnerable to a range of exploits (quite interresting read too) even patched up to the latest ms release.
Q9: Can you write me a letter absolving me from prosecution for things I might do to break in?
A: No! You are not to break any laws while doing anything for us, and if we find out that you do, we'll "fire" you. You should be able to complete the goals easily without the need to break any laws, so there's simply no reason to do so, and we don't want anyone bringing heat down on the project.
Slashdot Mirror
actually it does, which is why you shouldn't point your telescope at the moon for you would burn your retinae within a few seconds - you have to use filters. Same goes for the sun except you'd probably burn your face before you can get your eye to the eyepiece...
disclaimer: I haven't read the arcticle
if you try,
go figure!
I can get a standard 105 keyboard for £4 here, that's roughly 6p per key, now this one wants over $1 per key! Get real.
but the single most important piece of advice I give to non-technical users is really simple: don't use IE! (or Outlook if you can avoid it)
> They do have the patents on some DVD stuff, and I'm sure it's more than just worthless software patents
Right, useless code (css) and a logo (how creative!).
Amazing stuff, I wish I could come up with things like that. Hang on... I can.
Or how to crash a computer and a car all at once.
forAll cars in [vicinity]
if (car.os.name like '%indows%')
RPC(exploit, crash)
Where "RPC" is your default weather file format buffer overflow.
All legit of course
The point of this screen saver is to increase the running costs of those website.
Who do you believe?
6 grams isn't a lot, but how fast does it fly?
I am sure it has enough kinetic energy to be useful for something.
It just needs longer autonomy, or the ability to fly into power sockets.
I agree, the potential for fraud is now even greater. How long is it going to be before someone fools some implementation into thinking that it needs to send many bonds for the same email / no mail at all.
Won't work.
oh yeah, get a (girl|boy)friend.
I know a little french town called Nancy,
where they installed one of these monorail from Bombardier and well, it crashed.
It was delayed numerous times, they couldn't make it work, had to rebuild some stations, re-inforce the rails and carriages, and spend hundreds of millions of euros of taxpayers money in the process...
The design was clearly inadequate and flawed: a monorail carriage cannot take sharp corners on very steep streets (>4% declination) but they refused to fix it!
I've got an idea, let's sell an OS with a browser that crashes all the time and see what the users say...
I always end up using another mirror for downloading my kernels because mirror.ac.uk is always one version behind...
DeDRM was posted to bugtraq a few days ago.
I hope that they have to disclose the API under a non encumbered license, otherwise it is pretty pointless for Wine or other open source projects...
Guess what, they told him his new password over the phone, without asking for a single proof of identification!
When he asked them if, maybe they were supposed to check his identity first, he got nowhere (something like "thanks, noted" - I couldn't hear the other end of the conversation at this point)
That's trusted computing?
Trusts who?
I hope their scientists are better than the hindenburg's (spelling most likelly to be incorrect)
For an alternative First Contact site.
Why can't I get my liquid nitrogen cooled 24 Ghz ahtlon64 then? I thought we weren't capable of making gates that would switch that fast?
Can someone clear up my confusion?
But it seems to me like there are grounds for trying to shut down websites that promote certain behaviours that a society decides to reject. The problem is, as usual, where to draw the line.
Whilst we all agree that using dmca to shut down some random hacking website is wrong.
Anyone here care to defend websites teaching you how to eat your neighbour? (and leave free speech alone - we loose the credibility we so badly need when it comes to the things we really are knowledgeable at)
All I was trying ot point out is that they may have been more dilligent in their response now that a lot more people are aware of the issues.
As to wether releasing the details of the flaw is due to a "Microsoft compensated endorser", it sounds to me like a consiparcy theory more than anything, but I could be wrong.
I think they have been fair and that Apple has had more than enough time to get it sorted out.
Which versions get updated and which ones aren't is left to Apple. The purpose of lists like bugtraq is to keep people informed, not to whithold important security information because of vendor indifference, irresponsability, or in this case a drive to force user to pay for an upgrade?
would they have done it as quickly without @stake first finding these bugs then putting bugtraq and media pressure on apple?
I don't know about you, but I trust bugtraq.
Recent posts have confirmed that IE is *still* vulnerable to a range of exploits (quite interresting read too) even patched up to the latest ms release.
Q9: Can you write me a letter absolving me from prosecution for things I might do to break in?
A: No! You are not to break any laws while doing anything for us, and if we find out that you do, we'll "fire" you. You should be able to complete the goals easily without the need to break any laws, so there's simply no reason to do so, and we don't want anyone bringing heat down on the project.