In my country (the Netherlands) there was a report on tv by a journalist who followed up on a story by a 14 year old kid. This kid was being 'harassed' in a chatbox by an older man who kept trying to meet with this kid. The parents tried to stop this by going to the police, but they could do nothing about it because up till then nothing unlawful happened. The journalist spoke with the parents and together they let the boy make an appointment. When the time was there not the boy stepped in this man's car, but the (famous) reporter. The man turned out to be a teacher and I believe trainer of a boys football team. This will surely wreck his career and personal life, in spite of the fact that nothing really happened.
But the important part is that *if* the boy had not spoke with his parents about this, then what would have happened if he did make an appointment. Surely this sort of thing happens all the time in chatboxes.
I would probably take a life-size image from a project from a few years ago, where they turned a corpse into plastic, and photographed very thin slices of it. Just display such a slice on your LCD-suit, and totally gross people out.
I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments I thought going to the bathroom had all to do with excrements!
Another cause is common stupidity / ignorance. My wife works in a bank. Last year this bank interrogated two employees regarding theft of quite a large sum of money. It turned out to be one of their collegues, who used their terminals to make a few transactions. Those two wrongfully accused employees had a habit of not logging out or locking their terminal when leaving the desk. Cases like this make you wonder how often does this happen in other companies?
It seems like Apple not only came up with a new PowerBook, but they also came up with their own brand-spanking new PowerLanguage (tm). With words like:
screamingly fast mind-boggling 60 Gb drive a tremendous wallop wicked-fast performance stunning, dazzling, sleek, blows past..., mega-wide
What audience are they targetting with language like that?
No useful ones. But I would go for a pc case with a very 'pointy' surface, so that it would act as a sort of cat repellant. My cats love to lie down on top of my pc's. Maybe because they're warmer, maybe they go for the nice vibes. But anyway, all the hairs are not too good for the pc, and on one of my cases is a scanner, and it happens too often that they throw the scanner of the case:(
How will you pay for it all? At current prices, buying 120 million books or 40 million songs or 30,000 movies would put a strain on most family budgets
Don't we have Napster, Gnutella, KaZaa and the likes? We don't pay for that stuff, we **cough* borrow **cough** it!
to harvest carbon dioxide from the air, reducing buildup of the so-called "greenhouse gas" in the atmosphere and allowing it to be converted into fuel. Well, the last part says it all. They can convert it back into fuel. On the other hand, a tree is also fuel, but you try shove a tree up your tank the next time you go for gas!.
Mind you, hope they don't suffocate the trees by extracting too much carbon dioxide.
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company, it's one of the Internet protocols... so if you're running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going to be more likely to use something like IRC."
In other words, just trust the big companies and none of this would ever happen??? This guy has got to be joking!
First it's : "You'll have to forgive me," apologizes Lehman at one point, sifting through a pile of research papers on a nearby shelf. "Since I lost my secretary, I can't seem to find anything." . And in the last sentence of the article it says:...a man in search of both fulfillment and a little revenge" Poor, poor man; he'll never find it I'm afraid!
Care to think of what morphine does to your l33t hacking skills? I think that a robot would be safer than humans, because robots are a little less easy to bribe. In most hospitals, prisons etc.. you see that it's the staff that delivers the drugs. I think that's easier than hacking into a computer with your drugged out brain
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So when I register sites like:
government.kids.us or
bush.kids.us
I'm actually saying that the government and Bush are fooling us?
Can you find Google in the Google cache???
Nah, I don't believe those hackers are good enough too control the phonesys[beep]..[beep]..[beep]...[beep]...[beep].. .
In my country (the Netherlands) there was a report on tv by a journalist who followed up on a story by a 14 year old kid. This kid was being 'harassed' in a chatbox by an older man who kept trying to meet with this kid. The parents tried to stop this by going to the police, but they could do nothing about it because up till then nothing unlawful happened.
The journalist spoke with the parents and together they let the boy make an appointment. When the time was there not the boy stepped in this man's car, but the (famous) reporter. The man turned out to be a teacher and I believe trainer of a boys football team. This will surely wreck his career and personal life, in spite of the fact that nothing really happened.
But the important part is that *if* the boy had not spoke with his parents about this, then what would have happened if he did make an appointment. Surely this sort of thing happens all the time in chatboxes.
Seems to me that the hardware they use for running their website is not so hot. They're fried already.
Yeah, but if nobody would be bothered to look at you, wouldn't that be considered theft??
I would probably take a life-size image from a project from a few years ago, where they turned a corpse into plastic, and photographed very thin slices of it. Just display such a slice on your LCD-suit, and totally gross people out.
I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments
I thought going to the bathroom had all to do with excrements!
Wha..Wha...What???????
Another cause is common stupidity / ignorance. My wife works in a bank. Last year this bank interrogated two employees regarding theft of quite a large sum of money. It turned out to be one of their collegues, who used their terminals to make a few transactions. Those two wrongfully accused employees had a habit of not logging out or locking their terminal when leaving the desk. Cases like this make you wonder how often does this happen in other companies?
It seems like Apple not only came up with a new PowerBook, but they also came up with their own brand-spanking new PowerLanguage (tm). With words like:
..., mega-wide
screamingly fast
mind-boggling 60 Gb drive
a tremendous wallop
wicked-fast performance
stunning, dazzling, sleek, blows past
What audience are they targetting with language like that?
I was scanning the article quickly, and read this: bank cash machines. I swear that I saw an 'r' somewhere in that sentence!
Some will shriek that a dog saga has little to do with open source, technology or selling things on the Net
Have you never heard of Kerberos???
Camera 1: I predict that I'm going to be stolen in 10 seconds.
...
**Damn** I hate it when I'm right!
No useful ones. But I would go for a pc case with a very 'pointy' surface, so that it would act as a sort of cat repellant. My cats love to lie down on top of my pc's. Maybe because they're warmer, maybe they go for the nice vibes. But anyway, all the hairs are not too good for the pc, and on one of my cases is a scanner, and it happens too often that they throw the scanner of the case :(
How will you pay for it all? At current prices, buying 120 million books or 40 million songs or 30,000 movies would put a strain on most family budgets
Don't we have Napster, Gnutella, KaZaa and the likes? We don't pay for that stuff, we **cough* borrow **cough** it!
I think that this will be one of the few machines in the world to run the Perl desktop on a reasonable speed ;)
And they have also hidden some subliminal //drink Coca-cola// messages in the texts, so there you go. You have been had!
to harvest carbon dioxide from the air, reducing buildup of the so-called "greenhouse gas" in the atmosphere and allowing it to be converted into fuel.
Well, the last part says it all. They can convert it back into fuel. On the other hand, a tree is also fuel, but you try shove a tree up your tank the next time you go for gas!.
Mind you, hope they don't suffocate the trees by extracting too much carbon dioxide.
The dude fell in his own trap. :-D
You mean, it isn't ???
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company, it's one of the Internet protocols ... so if you're running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going to be more likely to use something like IRC."
In other words, just trust the big companies and none of this would ever happen???
This guy has got to be joking!
First it's : "You'll have to forgive me," apologizes Lehman at one point, sifting through a pile of research papers on a nearby shelf. "Since I lost my secretary, I can't seem to find anything." . And in the last sentence of the article it says: ...a man in search of both fulfillment and a little revenge"
Poor, poor man; he'll never find it I'm afraid!
Care to think of what morphine does to your l33t hacking skills? I think that a robot would be safer than humans, because robots are a little less easy to bribe. In most hospitals, prisons etc.. you see that it's the staff that delivers the drugs. I think that's easier than hacking into a computer with your drugged out brain
Hmm, nothing that a little hacking can't fix. Could make a nice alternative to robot wars