When defining the term unreasonable has to be defined based on where you work. If you work at 7-Eleven the most harmful thing you could smuggle out would be, say a twinkie. Nasty as it may be, I don't think a twinkie dust poses a serious health risk. Working at the NIH, however, what could you smuggle out? Anthrax, probably. Smallpox, probably. The Plague, probably. All things more deadly than the afformentioned twinkie.
To summarize: Is it unreasonable to search a 7-Eleven clerk coming and going from his job? Yes. Is it unreasonable to search an NIH employee coming and going? Much tougher call, but I would rather see them err on the side of caution than to let Osama get out with the Super Contageous Ultra Ebola virus.
I have come across a new
PC Mod that would fit nicely with the turn of the (20th) century theme.
Joking aside. This guy is the Man. Is there a hacker-of-the-year award? If so, he should get it. Doesn't what he did with spare crap he found/srounged embody the true definition of Hacker?
Its not really clear in the article that you can take more than 24 pictures... At the beginning it says:
At the store, they can view all the photo images on a display screen and choose any 24 images to be printed.
But later:
The camera is equipped with a flash and 8MB of flash memory, which allows users to record 24 images.
They also don't state whether or not you can delete pictures from the camera before you bring it back. Being able to do that would let you get 24 (relativly) perfect pictures for your $16.
I guess I'm missing the point. The reason I have a digital camera so I don't have to bring anything anywhere to get my pictures. I don't see how this is any better than buying a disposable camera and then bringing it to a 1-hour photo lab. Am I missing something?
Too bad Douglass Adams didn't live to see the beginnings of Sirius Cybernetics... I can see the options now: Infuriatingly Cheerful or Manic Depressive.
Seriously, in the mid-80s my parents go a car that talked ("Your door is ajar", "Your eninge oil pressure is low"). It was cool for a while, but then got really annoying. How long before the fake personallity gets annoying. Could this become Toyota's Bob?
I don't see the connection... Microsoft is covering it's unsecurred ass by trying to focus the blame on the "security community" instead of its broken products.
The government, on the other hand, is letting broadcasters know that/bin/laden could be using their newscasts to deliver messages to his followers. The gub'ment never said (at least publicly) "don't broadcast this", they said to be smart and responsible for what you put on the air.
Damn, someone needs to move the "submit" and "preview" buttons farther apart.:^)
To finish my point. The articles don't seem to state why the Senator changed his mind. Carlson doesn't indicate that he knows either.
Unless proven otherwise, I would assume that he changed his mind based on input from advisors who would be (presumably) more knowledgible on the subject. I can't beleive there is a huge Crypto-lobbist organization that would pay for him to do this flip-flop.
"(Gregg) said he was definitely supporting it. Now he says he's definitely not. Maybe he'll say he's definitely supporting it again."
Carlson organized activists in the wake of the proposed bill. That is a Good Thing, but what did he want to happen? Nothing? Or did he want something like this to happen? Here's a tip -- if you get what you want QUIT BITCHING.
Well, alicebot.org has been/.ed... Maybe we need to start a new contest -- silver medal if you can convice 1/2 the judges that you site is hosted by a real web server...
The Ford Motor Company announced today that if they suspeced you would be speeding while driving one of their cars, they would sneak over to your house and pour sugar into your gas tank.
I have a similar device next to my phone that is used to emit a tone to telemarketers: an air-horn. The only difference is that instead of a brief tone... well you get the idea...
Sorry, your right. I must've woken up with my "government-for-the-people" blinders on this morning and forgot about the encryption backdoor nonsense...
This would be a problem with a normal wire-tap as well. Are you the only who uses the phone in your house? I agree that it a bigger issue with the roving wiretap, but it is not a new one.
So, they want to set up an intranet for the government. Why is this a bad thing? Should all corporations be required to use the internet for any and all communications between employees/remote sites/customers?
Kirk is preparing a presentation on Genesis. Spock can be seen in the background in front of a bank of computers.
Kirk: Spock, is the Genesis planet demo ready?
Spock: I am in the process of building the last piece of the rendering software now, Admiral. It will be completed in 7.182 seconds...
Kirk: (smirking) Could you be a little more specific, Spock?
Spock: (cock's an eyebrow at something on his display)
Kirk: Problem, Spock?
Spock: Yes, Admiral. The rendering software requires an ancient version of something called "GTK". This is not logical... "GTK" fell out of disuse in the early 21st century following the advent of the Quantum Display...
In a stunning reversal following the darkness of the previous night, Sol (the sun) rose as scheduled over all major cities of the world.
When asked to comment on this development, one Slashdot poster said: "Yes, I expected this, but it still is an important develoment and must be placed on the front page.". This poster was immediately modded (+4, insightful).
I don't think that this is specific to Linux-hype at all, though. Look at most of the dead (or dying).com companies. Most of those business plans read as follows:
If this is the case then what are they to do? Keep it the way it is and continue getting hammered by every script kiddie that knows how to cut-and-paste? Or fix it so it installs the Right Way and alienate their customers?
How much time do those sysadmins spend patching and closing holes after each new worm crawls on through? It would seem to me that it would take less time to install IIS and get it configured the Right Way than it would be to keep applying the latest patch...
I don't think so. Fingerprints are not genetic -- they are an after effect. From what I remember, as a fetus develops, it is filled with a liquid under the skin. As it grows, the liquid is removed and the fingerprints are left behind.
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To summarize: Is it unreasonable to search a 7-Eleven clerk coming and going from his job? Yes. Is it unreasonable to search an NIH employee coming and going? Much tougher call, but I would rather see them err on the side of caution than to let Osama get out with the Super Contageous Ultra Ebola virus.
Joking aside. This guy is the Man. Is there a hacker-of-the-year award? If so, he should get it. Doesn't what he did with spare crap he found/srounged embody the true definition of Hacker?
Its not really clear in the article that you can take more than 24 pictures... At the beginning it says:
At the store, they can view all the photo images on a display screen and choose any 24 images to be printed.
But later:
The camera is equipped with a flash and 8MB of flash memory, which allows users to record 24 images.
They also don't state whether or not you can delete pictures from the camera before you bring it back. Being able to do that would let you get 24 (relativly) perfect pictures for your $16.
I guess I'm missing the point. The reason I have a digital camera so I don't have to bring anything anywhere to get my pictures. I don't see how this is any better than buying a disposable camera and then bringing it to a 1-hour photo lab. Am I missing something?
Too bad Douglass Adams didn't live to see the beginnings of Sirius Cybernetics... I can see the options now: Infuriatingly Cheerful or Manic Depressive.
Seriously, in the mid-80s my parents go a car that talked ("Your door is ajar", "Your eninge oil pressure is low"). It was cool for a while, but then got really annoying. How long before the fake personallity gets annoying. Could this become Toyota's Bob?
I don't see the connection... Microsoft is covering it's unsecurred ass by trying to focus the blame on the "security community" instead of its broken products.
/bin/laden could be using their newscasts to deliver messages to his followers. The gub'ment never said (at least publicly) "don't broadcast this", they said to be smart and responsible for what you put on the air.
The government, on the other hand, is letting broadcasters know that
Damn, someone needs to move the "submit" and "preview" buttons farther apart. :^)
To finish my point. The articles don't seem to state why the Senator changed his mind. Carlson doesn't indicate that he knows either.
Unless proven otherwise, I would assume that he changed his mind based on input from advisors who would be (presumably) more knowledgible on the subject. I can't beleive there is a huge Crypto-lobbist organization that would pay for him to do this flip-flop.
Okay, I'm done now...
Or does Rob Carlson come off as a big whiner...
"(Gregg) said he was definitely supporting it. Now he says he's definitely not. Maybe he'll say he's definitely supporting it again."
Carlson organized activists in the wake of the proposed bill. That is a Good Thing, but what did he want to happen? Nothing? Or did he want something like this to happen? Here's a tip -- if you get what you want QUIT BITCHING.
Well, alicebot.org has been /.ed... Maybe we need to start a new contest -- silver medal if you can convice 1/2 the judges that you site is hosted by a real web server...
The Ford Motor Company announced today that if they suspeced you would be speeding while driving one of their cars, they would sneak over to your house and pour sugar into your gas tank.
I have a similar device next to my phone that is used to emit a tone to telemarketers: an air-horn. The only difference is that instead of a brief tone... well you get the idea...
Sorry, your right. I must've woken up with my "government-for-the-people" blinders on this morning and forgot about the encryption backdoor nonsense...
Great! So now the government AND RIAA want to hack my computer.
No, just the RIAA. The rider was not added to the bill passed last week. Read the article.
Gee, I wonder why they didn't do it early September this year....
Sheesh.
This would be a problem with a normal wire-tap as well. Are you the only who uses the phone in your house? I agree that it a bigger issue with the roving wiretap, but it is not a new one.
So, they want to set up an intranet for the government. Why is this a bad thing? Should all corporations be required to use the internet for any and all communications between employees/remote sites/customers?
7) A five-minute reading of any basic book on Astronomy will teach you how to find your location anywhere on earth, day or night.
Okay, smartass. Your in the middle of a field. The sun is directly overhead. The moon is nowhere to be seen. Where are you?
Kirk is preparing a presentation on Genesis. Spock can be seen in the background in front of a bank of computers.
Kirk: Spock, is the Genesis planet demo ready?
Spock: I am in the process of building the last piece of the rendering software now, Admiral. It will be completed in 7.182 seconds...
Kirk: (smirking) Could you be a little more specific, Spock?
Spock: (cock's an eyebrow at something on his display)
Kirk: Problem, Spock?
Spock: Yes, Admiral. The rendering software requires an ancient version of something called "GTK". This is not logical... "GTK" fell out of disuse in the early 21st century following the advent of the Quantum Display...
They also have sponsor AOLServer, an open soruce web server.
I have not heard of this project... What does it offer over Apache (another Open Source web server)?
I know people who actually use the words "I like AOL" all together in one sentence.
Hey now, wait a minute!!! You're stepping on my toes, now. I use those words together in one sentence all the time:
"I would like to see AOL ripped into tiny pieces and thrown into the Seven Seas."
The Sun Rose This Morning.
In a stunning reversal following the darkness of the previous night, Sol (the sun) rose as scheduled over all major cities of the world.
When asked to comment on this development, one Slashdot poster said: "Yes, I expected this, but it still is an important develoment and must be placed on the front page.". This poster was immediately modded (+4, insightful).
More on this story as it develops.
If this is the case then what are they to do? Keep it the way it is and continue getting hammered by every script kiddie that knows how to cut-and-paste? Or fix it so it installs the Right Way and alienate their customers?
How much time do those sysadmins spend patching and closing holes after each new worm crawls on through? It would seem to me that it would take less time to install IIS and get it configured the Right Way than it would be to keep applying the latest patch...
I don't think so. Fingerprints are not genetic -- they are an after effect. From what I remember, as a fetus develops, it is filled with a liquid under the skin. As it grows, the liquid is removed and the fingerprints are left behind.