"Criminal impersonation is a crime that is governed by states laws, which vary by state. It may involve, among other acts:
"(1) assuming a false identity with the intent to defraud another; (2) pretending to be a representative of another person or organization; or (3) opening a bank account or securing credit in the name of another person without the other person's consent.
"The following is an example of a state statute dealing with criminal impersonation:
"(1) A person commits criminal impersonation if he knowingly assumes a false or fictitious identity or capacity, and in such identity or capacity he: (d) Does an act which if done by the person falsely impersonated, might subject such person to an action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, or to liability, charge, forfeiture, or penalty; or (e) Does any other act with intent to unlawfully gain a benefit for himself or another or to injure or defraud another".
The one and only way to ensure your countries secrets are secure is to make 100% of your components inside your country borders by companies only ran by your counties citizens and only employs your country citizens and even them is subject to stringent testing and oversight.
Citizens, moreover, who have no secret ideological sympathies and who are absolutely not tempted by the offer of enormous sums of money.
TBL's original vision for the WWW was exactly that everyone - organization or individual - would be able to read and write information. Presumably this new idea (drawing on nearly 30 years of experience) will suggest ways of making it far easier and more foolproof to run your won Web server - or do something similar that gives the desired benefits with much less hassle.
How about being able to actually get GB speed from the GB connection Iâ(TM)m paying for?
That is not a WWW issue at all; it's not even an Internet issue. It's a commercial issue between you and your ISP.
How about not being stuck waiting on a connection to some third part domain that Iâ(TM)ve never even heard of, so that the site Iâ(TM)m ACTUALLY VISITING will load and make itself available to me?
Again, this is only marginally a WWW issue. You can make matters a lot better by not patronizing sites that pull in lots of other sites, often for money-making or advertising purposes.
How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
Use a password manager such as Password Safe.
How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
If you think it worth the loss of security involved, you can already have your browser memorize most of that information.
Are there any hard numbers showing that this is caused by increased demand rather than constrained supply?
I feel sure that Intel puts just as much effort into providing large supplies of entry-level processors with low margins as it does into top-end processors with very high margins.
Why are the Domain "Sitters" A-holes? If I go out and buy 100 acres of land next to a farmer and don't use the land, that's my business and no one else's. If the farmer wants to expand his farm and doesn't want to pay me, that's theft.
Apparently you don't understand private property.
Ah, but he does understand ***business***. Money talks, and enough of it can buy you absolutely anything in the good ol' USA. Senators and Presidents included.
Stealing! Like the phone company taking the number they originally gave you and giving it to someone else? Or the state giving the license plate number they originally gave you to someone else? That kind of stealing?
Actually not. But then you were just joking, weren't you? As the examples you give have absolutely no relationship to what actually happened.
Ahhh, slashdot. Fabrication gets modded +5 Insightful. Factual correction gets nothing. I wonder why all the smart people no longer come back here
It's because most of the commenters here are regular people - not too smart, prejudiced to the gunwales, and always ready to sound off about things they don't know much about.
The timing in combination with the attempted shakedown suggests they registered in response to a leak.
My God! You mean they engaged in ***insider trading***? How frightful!
As we know, if any regular person takes advantage of inside information to make money, they are wicked criminals and must be sent to prison. It's only banks and other corporations that routinely make billions out of insider trading.
They got an offer far in excess of their domain registration fees.
Apparently you don't believe in capitalism or the free market, do you? In a free market, sellers charge what the market will bear. The price asked bears no relationship to what the product cost to make - just ask Apple.
So if you had bought Apple stock when it was first issued, you would now be content to accept the same price for it, would you?
That's the funniest thing I have read about software since the IT director who was quoted as saying, "We're going with XML because it's the fastest Internet protocol".
there is a huge glut of out of work CICS experts to pick from.
Hmmm. Let's think about that for about seven seconds. "A huge glut", you say. That implies that many of the CICS experts who used to be needed have become redundant. (Even though many will have died or retired, considerabl;y diminishing the size of the pool).
How can that be unless many or most of the existing CICS systems have been retired? And, you know, they haven't - because no one has the time and money to recreate them.
I remember in about 1991 people were talking about how Cobol was "dead" and it would soon go away. I checked and found that over 100 billion lines of Cobol code were used in vital business systems every day.
In about 1995 there was another wave of "Cobol is dead". I checked the same sources and now it was over 200 billion lines.
Reality is that which doesn't change just because we don't like it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Criminal impersonation is a crime that is governed by states laws, which vary by state. It may involve, among other acts:
"(1) assuming a false identity with the intent to defraud another; (2) pretending to be a representative of another person or organization; or (3) opening a bank account or securing credit in the name of another person without the other person's consent.
"The following is an example of a state statute dealing with criminal impersonation:
"(1) A person commits criminal impersonation if he knowingly assumes a false or fictitious identity or capacity, and in such identity or capacity he: (d) Does an act which if done by the person falsely impersonated, might subject such person to an action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, or to liability, charge, forfeiture, or penalty; or (e) Does any other act with intent to unlawfully gain a benefit for himself or another or to injure or defraud another".
https://definitions.uslegal.co...
The one and only way to ensure your countries secrets are secure is to make 100% of your components inside your country borders by companies only ran by your counties citizens and only employs your country citizens and even them is subject to stringent testing and oversight.
Citizens, moreover, who have no secret ideological sympathies and who are absolutely not tempted by the offer of enormous sums of money.
In your own words, good luck with that.
Given Bloomberg's reputation...
Given the New York Times' reputation, the Washington Post's reputation, The Times' reputation, The Guardian's reputation, the BBC's reputation...
We have entered an era in which the reputations of yesteryear mean absolutely nothing. All that matters is who owns the corporation.
Exactly. Well spotted.
A subset of them were modified, you buffoon. Good luck finding one now.
And by the way, adding gratuitous personal insults to your comment weakens it. It cries aloud that you have no facts or logical arguments.
A subset of them were modified, you buffoon. Good luck finding one now.
So what you are saying is that enough were modified to present a real threat - but not enough for any to be found.
Paranoid, much?
Bill Gates walks into a working-class bar.
Instantly everyone in the bar is a billionaire. On average.
Half of India is still shitting in the woods
Half of California is shitting on the sidewalk. So what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think that is roughly the kind of thing TBL is trying to do. His main partner is a security expert.
TBL's original vision for the WWW was exactly that everyone - organization or individual - would be able to read and write information. Presumably this new idea (drawing on nearly 30 years of experience) will suggest ways of making it far easier and more foolproof to run your won Web server - or do something similar that gives the desired benefits with much less hassle.
How about being able to actually get GB speed from the GB connection Iâ(TM)m paying for?
That is not a WWW issue at all; it's not even an Internet issue. It's a commercial issue between you and your ISP.
How about not being stuck waiting on a connection to some third part domain that Iâ(TM)ve never even heard of, so that the site Iâ(TM)m ACTUALLY VISITING will load and make itself available to me?
Again, this is only marginally a WWW issue. You can make matters a lot better by not patronizing sites that pull in lots of other sites, often for money-making or advertising purposes.
How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
Use a password manager such as Password Safe.
How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
If you think it worth the loss of security involved, you can already have your browser memorize most of that information.
I just bought a Ryzen, and was done with it.
Likewise.
Are there any hard numbers showing that this is caused by increased demand rather than constrained supply?
I feel sure that Intel puts just as much effort into providing large supplies of entry-level processors with low margins as it does into top-end processors with very high margins.
"... supply is undoubtedly tight, particularly at the entry-level of the PC market".
Has anyone heard news of forthcoming Intel processors that have secure architectures and actually adhere to those architectures?
Why are the Domain "Sitters" A-holes? If I go out and buy 100 acres of land next to a farmer and don't use the land, that's my business and no one else's. If the farmer wants to expand his farm and doesn't want to pay me, that's theft.
Apparently you don't understand private property.
Ah, but he does understand ***business***. Money talks, and enough of it can buy you absolutely anything in the good ol' USA. Senators and Presidents included.
Stealing! Like the phone company taking the number they originally gave you and giving it to someone else? Or the state giving the license plate number they originally gave you to someone else? That kind of stealing?
Actually not. But then you were just joking, weren't you? As the examples you give have absolutely no relationship to what actually happened.
Ahhh, slashdot. Fabrication gets modded +5 Insightful. Factual correction gets nothing. I wonder why all the smart people no longer come back here
It's because most of the commenters here are regular people - not too smart, prejudiced to the gunwales, and always ready to sound off about things they don't know much about.
Everyone involved is an asshole.
You're too modest - you left out yourself.
The timing in combination with the attempted shakedown suggests they registered in response to a leak.
My God! You mean they engaged in ***insider trading***? How frightful!
As we know, if any regular person takes advantage of inside information to make money, they are wicked criminals and must be sent to prison. It's only banks and other corporations that routinely make billions out of insider trading.
They got an offer far in excess of their domain registration fees.
Apparently you don't believe in capitalism or the free market, do you? In a free market, sellers charge what the market will bear. The price asked bears no relationship to what the product cost to make - just ask Apple.
So if you had bought Apple stock when it was first issued, you would now be content to accept the same price for it, would you?
Thought not.
That's the funniest thing I have read about software since the IT director who was quoted as saying, "We're going with XML because it's the fastest Internet protocol".
And that wasn't Dilbert - that was real life.
there is a huge glut of out of work CICS experts to pick from.
Hmmm. Let's think about that for about seven seconds. "A huge glut", you say. That implies that many of the CICS experts who used to be needed have become redundant. (Even though many will have died or retired, considerabl;y diminishing the size of the pool).
How can that be unless many or most of the existing CICS systems have been retired? And, you know, they haven't - because no one has the time and money to recreate them.
Don't pretend every bank has decades old mainframes.
No - just the ones whose systems work reliably and consistently, and don't have regular catastrophic "IT outages".
Ever heard the definition of a "legacy system"? One that works.
I remember in about 1991 people were talking about how Cobol was "dead" and it would soon go away. I checked and found that over 100 billion lines of Cobol code were used in vital business systems every day.
In about 1995 there was another wave of "Cobol is dead". I checked the same sources and now it was over 200 billion lines.
Reality is that which doesn't change just because we don't like it.
It was just pretty dumb.
And all the stuff written in it was stultifyingly boring.
Yes, all about money and stuff like that. Paralyzingly boring. Who cares about lousy old money?