I'm still waiting for a bill to be proposed that only allows a WHITELIST of sites approved to be non-copyright infringing by the MAFIAA to be accessed by your average Internet user (those not smart enough to circumvent it)...at this rate should happen by the end of the decade.
Meh, no one will bother to do anything until someone influential actually dies due to patents hindering the innovations needed to save their life. Yeah that will take awhile, in the mean time Congress will do nothing when the more likely event of some random person who is lower/middle class dies due to patents.
Actually, when Spamhaus tried to pull the "you don't have jurisdiction over us so we're not paying this or bothering to fight it" thing after the $11.7M default judgment, the courts actually considered ordering ICANN (which IS under US Jurisdiction) to shutdown the spamhaus.org domain name. That at best would have fucked things up big time, even if anyone relying on Spamhaus got around the block.
How much longer until DHS decides to cause certain Mozilla-owned domain names to mysteriously disappear for [del]promoting pir[/del]...err "national security"?
I've seen post-2001 flavors BSOD plenty of times in the past. One example: One time when I was with my mom at Best Buy (she was shopping for a net book), she picked one up for a moment to see how light it was. I glanced at it after she put it down and it had a BSOD on the screen.:P She promptly decided not to buy that one.
No...they only bothered to make a fail implementation of morality. I don't think GLaDOS ever had any regret for flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, or for poisoning dozens of cats to test Schrödinger's cat.
At the same time, if you're a pedestrian, you should be aware that shit happens and the physics of moving vehicles makes you the loser in nearly ANY collision between a car and you. You're careless if you don't actively try to get the hell out of the potential paths of vehicles. This means you stand on the sidewalk, away from your car, off on the median, etc. Standing next to traffic is an easy way to get clipped if someone is inattentive, careless, and so on.
Do you really want to put your life completely in someone else's hands? I don't. I assume all other drivers on the road are either idiots or psychopaths, and take precautions accordingly to protect myself. It doesn't matter whose fault it is if you're dead.
Although I doubt it was the case here, a pedestrian is not always careless if they are in an oncoming vehicle's path. For example just down the street from me (and I am in a town that FAILS at sidewalk plowing), there is a curve where the line that separates the traffic lane from the breakdown lane is almost completely faded. The result of this is idiot drivers sometimes acting like the breakdown lane doesn't exist and driving right through it as they are going around that curve. And where do pedestrians have to walk when the town fails to plow the sidewalks properly...the breakdown lane. I'm surprised no kid walking to/from school or any other pedestrian hasn't been killed there in the winter yet.:/ And even when there is only ice but no snow (not even snow banks) on the ground, its worse. That part of the actual sidewalk is sloped going TOWARDS the road with no grass, etc. separating them. One time I slipped and went sliding from the sidewalk into the breakdown lane a few seconds after one of the aforementioned idiot drivers went through it at 35+.:/
Meh they could have done worse...they could have attacked 4chan, Wikileaks, or another site that is likely to get the whole of Anon on their asses. At worse all that would happen to them on Slashdot/Sourceforge would be us finding out a link to a website run by the attackers, posting a link to it on the front page, and letting the/. effect do the rest.
Weren't we also dumb enough to Slashdot Mastercard's website when Anon was DDoS'ing them too?
It seems that anyone who Anon decides to DDoS over Wikileaks is screwed over in 2 ways:
1. The random no lifers in their basements running LOIC.
2. The shitload of Slashdot readers clicking on links to the site once news of the DDoS gets on here.
...Until some hacker finds a security flaw in the system used to send the kill signals, and goes on a rampage disabling as many computers as they can (which fate will ensure will be the vast majority that have been sold with these processors at the least, and after thousands/millions of them have been sold and are in average users' desktops/laptops). Que a shitload of inconvenienced customers and tech support guys wanting to blow their brains out from all the calls they will be getting.
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Based on TFA...this probably won't affect much since it sounds like Rand Paul is already a "fierce critic" of the TSA.
The best type of physics fail I generally see in games is that no matter how many times you get shot, you are completely fine until you hit 0HP.
All right, time to change to FIOS. :/ fi
I'm still waiting for a bill to be proposed that only allows a WHITELIST of sites approved to be non-copyright infringing by the MAFIAA to be accessed by your average Internet user (those not smart enough to circumvent it)...at this rate should happen by the end of the decade.
Wow, Blue Screens of DEATH will sure get a whole new meaning if it ever causes an accident in a car.
The addon that my fingerprint reader uses to fill in passwords for me broke. Time to downgrade to 7.
Meh, no one will bother to do anything until someone influential actually dies due to patents hindering the innovations needed to save their life. Yeah that will take awhile, in the mean time Congress will do nothing when the more likely event of some random person who is lower/middle class dies due to patents.
Actually, when Spamhaus tried to pull the "you don't have jurisdiction over us so we're not paying this or bothering to fight it" thing after the $11.7M default judgment, the courts actually considered ordering ICANN (which IS under US Jurisdiction) to shutdown the spamhaus.org domain name. That at best would have fucked things up big time, even if anyone relying on Spamhaus got around the block.
Replace prison with Gitmo, and you will be right.
Don't worry, Episode 3 or Half Life 3 have yet to be given a release date, we are not COMPLETELY fucked yet.
Who else immediately typed "rm -rf /" into it?
How much longer until DHS decides to cause certain Mozilla-owned domain names to mysteriously disappear for [del]promoting pir[/del]...err "national security"?
I've seen post-2001 flavors BSOD plenty of times in the past. One example: One time when I was with my mom at Best Buy (she was shopping for a net book), she picked one up for a moment to see how light it was. I glanced at it after she put it down and it had a BSOD on the screen. :P She promptly decided not to buy that one.
No...they only bothered to make a fail implementation of morality. I don't think GLaDOS ever had any regret for flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, or for poisoning dozens of cats to test Schrödinger's cat.
"Published: September 09, 1999" This is pretty much oldest news I have seen here.
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?color=green&index=1&view=stories&fhfilter=&duration=-1&startdate=19990909&page=1 Here's plenty of older news on /. for you to read. :P Including such gems as the launch of the G4, StarOffice not being open source, initial reports of Microsoft developing the Xbox, some leaked info about Star Trek: Enterprise, and CmdrTaco adding features such as karma, the post anonymously checkbox, and metamoderation.
At the same time, if you're a pedestrian, you should be aware that shit happens and the physics of moving vehicles makes you the loser in nearly ANY collision between a car and you. You're careless if you don't actively try to get the hell out of the potential paths of vehicles. This means you stand on the sidewalk, away from your car, off on the median, etc. Standing next to traffic is an easy way to get clipped if someone is inattentive, careless, and so on.
Do you really want to put your life completely in someone else's hands? I don't. I assume all other drivers on the road are either idiots or psychopaths, and take precautions accordingly to protect myself. It doesn't matter whose fault it is if you're dead.
Although I doubt it was the case here, a pedestrian is not always careless if they are in an oncoming vehicle's path. For example just down the street from me (and I am in a town that FAILS at sidewalk plowing), there is a curve where the line that separates the traffic lane from the breakdown lane is almost completely faded. The result of this is idiot drivers sometimes acting like the breakdown lane doesn't exist and driving right through it as they are going around that curve. And where do pedestrians have to walk when the town fails to plow the sidewalks properly...the breakdown lane. I'm surprised no kid walking to/from school or any other pedestrian hasn't been killed there in the winter yet. :/ And even when there is only ice but no snow (not even snow banks) on the ground, its worse. That part of the actual sidewalk is sloped going TOWARDS the road with no grass, etc. separating them. One time I slipped and went sliding from the sidewalk into the breakdown lane a few seconds after one of the aforementioned idiot drivers went through it at 35+. :/
Enough with the chit-chat! WHERE'S MY FUCKING EPISODE THREE? You're just trying and distract us with these puny stories, aren't you Gabe?
Screw EP3, I just want to think with Portals at this point. :P
Meh they could have done worse...they could have attacked 4chan, Wikileaks, or another site that is likely to get the whole of Anon on their asses. At worse all that would happen to them on Slashdot/Sourceforge would be us finding out a link to a website run by the attackers, posting a link to it on the front page, and letting the /. effect do the rest.
Are any of these users Massachusetts residents. :)
Weren't we also dumb enough to Slashdot Mastercard's website when Anon was DDoS'ing them too?
It seems that anyone who Anon decides to DDoS over Wikileaks is screwed over in 2 ways:
1. The random no lifers in their basements running LOIC.
2. The shitload of Slashdot readers clicking on links to the site once news of the DDoS gets on here.
...Until some hacker finds a security flaw in the system used to send the kill signals, and goes on a rampage disabling as many computers as they can (which fate will ensure will be the vast majority that have been sold with these processors at the least, and after thousands/millions of them have been sold and are in average users' desktops/laptops). Que a shitload of inconvenienced customers and tech support guys wanting to blow their brains out from all the calls they will be getting.
Now I'm wondering if anyone's been running LOIC over unsecured wireless routers.
Maybe they sent him a black fax or stuck a lace card into a computer belonging to him, RAND Corp, or the Times. ;)
have extremely cute voices?
To discourage people from accessing WikiLeaks on their cell phones, since it will obviously be blocked on all these Federal Wi-Fi networks. ;)