Great to see that link comes from a Michigan school teachers page on craft.
I asked a West Michigan school teacher about this tonight and she said "I have books and books about this stuff but it does not matter anymore."
The No Child Left Behind Act does not allow "play" in classrooms. Harcourt's academic-based learning structure, with a dire emphasis on "rote learning" and "test passing" does not allow time for play... nevermind if it has a Doh, or a Ray or Me after it.
50 years of Play-Doh. Great. We now have a generation of kids growing up who will not even know what it means.
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Stone age dentistry happens even today... a little more updated, but not too much, for most of the billions on this planet.
This new discussion, here today, is about future of tech and the NSA, (with the President ignoring the Constitution of U.S.A.), as in how WE can block an abuse our liberties THROUGH tech...
Make no mistake... when the blessed son has the absolute gall to justify a complete dismissal of the law then we, as techs, in this age, have to get serious. Enough of the politics. I don't want ANYONE to be able to read my own private communication with someone else throughout modern communication methods. There was a utopia when a glued seal on a USPS envelope was enough. Checks and balances were in place... then came email, cell-phones, etc... each with it's own particular loophole. WE know this as techs. We fought back... are we fighting back enough in December 2005?
"3) if there is a shot gun, and there is less that 10 shells. Give the gun to the weakest member of the party. They are goign to die frist, and there is little a gun with that few shots is going to do."
I'll hcoose a gnu with a fwe shots if at lla possible... it'll give me tmie to scramble into a lcoked closet and hdie while the geek hreos come to the rsecue... eventually.
by Robert Mitchell on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 @ 09:00AM
www.computerworld.com
"Regarding the hotel key information on Computerworld's Web site, that was indeed an observation in my blog and not a reported story. It's a snippet of information gleaned while talking to Wallace for another topic. Often during reporting interesting asides come up and my blog is a good place to drop those snippets from time to time. I have no reason to think that Wallace would make any of this up. It was simply a side comment he made. Wallace won't say which hotels, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that a few smaller chains have this problem. But one doesn't have to take his word for it. There's an easy way to find out if he's right, isn't there?"
"Now, things like food, clothing, tents should be provided, free of charge, by the government. No if's ands or buts. We spend millions to provide MREs to Africa/Asia; spending billions on our own people shouldn't be a problem."
"We" have spent "more" than "billions" on other peoples problems.
Do you really think that the current (or any other, past, present, or future) administration reallyn gives a thought for the poor U.S. citizens of New Orleans?
If you do... then you need do do some more research.
Not as it seems to "bash Microsoft" (and then I could not care less) but because it might wake my North American friends up to the fact that there are these things called "diseases" out there in the real world and that "yes, unbelievable or not" Americans can contract them and die from them.
You think I am joking?
I remember talking to my family doctor in his 60s, a few years back before he died. We were talking about infectious diseases. He mentioned that he had met young doctors in their 20s who would probably never see a case of measles in their lives.
"Why?" I asked. "Because immunisation is so effective." he answered.
That was in Ireland.
An outbreak of measles is incredibly rare in the "west". Can someone please explain to me how one of the U.S.A.s most important companies just suffered an outbreak?
"But a growing number of security managers, united under the banner of the Jericho Forum, want to retire this stalwart because they say it hinders e-commerce."
>I credit the Navy for gettign me where I am today.
Breathing, above the ground, or not breathing, in a box below it?
The only entity to credit for your success is yourself and your own dedication.
This story is about a sneaky database... a database which will be used to target the unsuspecting. It will be used to drag them into a career path in which they will never be well informed enough to understand that they may one day be required to take a bullet in the head as a condition of employment... before they graduate from your "trade-school".
It is not a story of how you came to be all you could be.
"What ifs" are all over the place on this one. What if it had picked up the wrong drugs for the wrong patient on this excursion? What if it had kept dispensing them? What if the staff had not checked because "the machine is always right"?
This problem is easy to fix.
Replace the robot with a human. The only reason it is there was to lower costs... not for the patients but the owners of the hospital. We know that... no matter what the excuses are or will be.
I'm not interested in a machine, which "goes wrong" at this level ie. human lives, and neither are the patients it was supposed to be serving.
Bill Thompkinson has been posting on finally.com for some time. His posts are the same sort of obtuse rhetoric delivered by an "observer", not a journalist, who has managed to blind the editors he meets with seemingly insightful articles.
Bill? Your country, in which you still live in, gave up "the right to silence" a few years back, and is one of the most heavily censored societies in the world.
"At least in the UK we don't have to register before we can start a blog, and it is still legal to blog anonymously or use services that are hosted in countries that have slightly more respect for freedom of speech."
Bill? Start an anonymous blog in the U.K. praising everything single thing Al Queda does and see how fucking fast you get noticed, "visited", and stopped.
"At least in the UK..." my ass. Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, was not allowed to have his voice heard on British TV in the 1990s... an actor spoke his words.
"Why else would a library -- likely strapped for cash, as most are -- suddenly feel the need for (expensive) biometrics hardware out of the blue?"
It is obviously Fascism. Let us check the 14 points (from Dr. Lawrence Britt) and see which ones the Naperville Library makes up the score on... [drum roll]
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
[I have not been to Naperville Library lately but I reckon I'll give that a +1 as they are a Library in a State of the USA and most likely have a Stars & Stripes flying on a pole outside the library... +1]
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need". The people tend to 'look the other way' or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +2]
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +3]
6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or through sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +4]
7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +5]
9. Corporate Power is Protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +6]
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -- Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +7]
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -- Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses, and even forego civil liberties, in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +8]
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +9]
Naperville Library? You are not up to scratch here. You've only made a score of nine out of a possible fourteen on your Fascist Library+ exam. We expect a greater effort in the future.
(And please... to dissuade the Liberals... please make sure that the Flag is properly lit at night (if you choose to fly it after the sunset) on the flagpole outside. The Libertarians and Veterans get upset if that is not taken care of.)
Right! I remember an instructor, in a sysadmin class, telling us a tale about how one of his daughter's boyfriends hacked his own home network through her machine... and though the instructor tried the hardest to keep him out over a couple of months, the daughter kept opening up the system to him through trojaned instant messages (despite the instructors warnings).
It finally took a call to cops to stop the intrusion as it got a bit out of hand but anyway...
His point was this:
"Never underestimate the intelligence of a 15 year-old. These kids are just as smart as anyone in this class BUT they have no moral compass."
Your comment "Third, they are hormonally imbalanced and do irrational stuff to prove irrational points." rang a bell with me on that one vis-a-vis his comments in the class.
No "moral compass"... I like that. The problem with the average school network admin is that their network is under constant attack. It must be horrible.
It only takes one kid every week to "undertake a penetration test"... and if the network is prone to previously undisclosed exploits then the admin is in for a hard time. The average school year lasts what... 160-180 days in the US? That is, at a maximum, 36 weeks of defense... and those kids are determined. They'll get serious respect from their peers if the "hack the network". They're not gonna give up. Meanwhile the average admin has to deal with a load of other issues... and will fall behind through overwork.
I wonder, in this case, what the fallout will be be for the admin of this school? As our old instructor finished up the class he made sure to tell us that if we were eventually to be employed in a school district and the children got into the network... then their intrusion would be "career limiting" towards the admin, regardless of where the essential problem might have been.
He was a good one for the quotes... and telling us not to stay longer than two years in a school district position if we could help it.
And as for those who talk about punishing the admin? These kids have ACCESS to the machines they use at school... physical access. Physical access to workstations AND servers.
You know how it is... these kids are going to get into that server room if they are in school late, wandering around the halls and notice that the janitor cleans the server room (conveniently located beside the computer lab) every Friday and leaves the door unlocked. They are going to get physical access to those computers and when they do?
Good post. Not only the "Photoshop Effect" is at work here. Kais Power Tools, a series of plugins for Photoshop, had the same idea. We bought a copy for our business in England in the 1990s after a summer intern kept badgering us to purchase a copy. How did she know so much about KPT?
She had a pirated copy, had learnt to use it (pretty well) on her home Macintosh, and convinced us to go out and buy a copy.
KPT (by Kai Krause and MetaCreations) actually had a "readme" text imbedded in the installer that kind of, somewhat, "allowed" for this. I don't have the file with me now but I remember the point made in the text.
"If you get a copy of KPT which you have not paid for but you go ahead and use it on your home machine to make hobby files... fine. However... if you use our plugins to make up commercial art which you are charging a client for then PAY us for our tools. You are making money off of our work so pay us!"
Worked for her... and us... and MetaCreations/Kai too.
Best to learn to work with reality instead of trying to make up your own.
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"As we develop IE we go through very thorough and stringent security reviews to ensure that every change is secure and does not expose the user to attack."
More comments on this thread are going to pick this one up... but let me just get my two bits in.
Your "security reviews" are not stringent... or at least not as stringent as you think. We ALL know that. If they were then IE would not be released. It's the stick which the OS pokes a hole in the security dyke with.
Your IE has exposed the user to attack time and time again. Instead of letting the browser poke the hole why don't you use it to plug the holes before they appear?
Make it as independent of the OS as possible. Did you ever hear one of the "security reviewers" make that comment?
I went to the spacedaily site on Firefox using Win XP. I'm using a pretty big "hosts" file I got from another Slashdot user, popups are disabled, and I do not have the Adblock (or any extensions loaded) extension.
I did not see any adverts, nor popups. There seemed to be a large space at the top for a banner ad. and maybe two or three huge blank spaces in the rightmost columns.
When I went there with IE (popups blocked and using the same "hosts" file of course) I got the same results.
What "insane shit" do you see when you go to that site using Firefox?
Oh boy... North Korea does not need to "hit" the US with a nuke to have an effective nuclear deterrent against US aggression.
All they have to be able to do is nuke the carrier battles groups as they approach the Korean coasts... or nuke the main staging areas in South Korea for a US-led invasion of the North. 50,000 dead (or lingering and will be dead soon) US soldiers in one or two attacks by the North might not end that war really quick... but it will sure put a dent in any future war plans.
And that is the only deterrent the North Koreans need.
I went to the FBI site quoted above and I can't find any Federal request for help on this.
"Computerworld" (an IDG company(Symantec)) are the ones who are requesting that people contact the FBI.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/secu ri ty/holes/story/0,10801,98636,00.html
So if I go to the FBI website and make a comment that they should use our money "more wisely" (as in not supporting a buggy OS/Browser)... will they know what the fsck I'm talking about?
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Kerry has that one licked. Bush would have died for his country when the Viet Cong were about to take Dallas and probably only when his "betters" told him to hold the ranch while they split.
That question would never work in this media age.
So... Ask them if they would be willing to send their own children OVERSEAS to die for Iraqi Democracy and then hold them to it... in order to make sure that their children head out to South West Asia after the debates.
After all.. they BOTH are quite happy to send other citizen's children over there...
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Great to see that link comes from a Michigan school teachers page on craft.
I asked a West Michigan school teacher about this tonight and she said "I have books and books about this stuff but it does not matter anymore."
The No Child Left Behind Act does not allow "play" in classrooms. Harcourt's academic-based learning structure, with a dire emphasis on "rote learning" and "test passing" does not allow time for play... nevermind if it has a Doh, or a Ray or Me after it.
50 years of Play-Doh. Great. We now have a generation of kids growing up who will not even know what it means.
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Stone age dentistry happens even today... a little more updated, but not too much, for most of the billions on this planet.
"Where There Is No Dentist"
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The article was about the future of tech and not about the politics. All of the "Was the President right?" and "Can he do this?" replies are moot.
The discussion of the future a decade ago was this:
http://www.pgp.com/
Simple.
This new discussion, here today, is about future of tech and the NSA, (with the President ignoring the Constitution of U.S.A.), as in how WE can block an abuse our liberties THROUGH tech...
Make no mistake... when the blessed son has the absolute gall to justify a complete dismissal of the law then we, as techs, in this age, have to get serious. Enough of the politics. I don't want ANYONE to be able to read my own private communication with someone else throughout modern communication methods. There was a utopia when a glued seal on a USPS envelope was enough. Checks and balances were in place... then came email, cell-phones, etc... each with it's own particular loophole. WE know this as techs. We fought back... are we fighting back enough in December 2005?
Give us some answers.
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"3) if there is a shot gun, and there is less that 10 shells. Give the gun to the weakest member of the party. They are goign to die frist, and there is little a gun with that few shots is going to do."
I'll hcoose a gnu with a fwe shots if at lla possible... it'll give me tmie to scramble into a lcoked closet and hdie while the geek hreos come to the rsecue... eventually.
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Hotel Card Keys
by Robert Mitchell on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 @ 09:00AM
www.computerworld.com
"Regarding the hotel key information on Computerworld's Web site, that was indeed an observation in my blog and not a reported story. It's a snippet of information gleaned while talking to Wallace for another topic. Often during reporting interesting asides come up and my blog is a good place to drop those snippets from time to time. I have no reason to think that Wallace would make any of this up. It was simply a side comment he made. Wallace won't say which hotels, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that a few smaller chains have this problem. But one doesn't have to take his word for it. There's an easy way to find out if he's right, isn't there?"
Mitchell at Techdirt
"Now, things like food, clothing, tents should be provided, free of charge, by the government. No if's ands or buts. We spend millions to provide MREs to Africa/Asia; spending billions on our own people shouldn't be a problem."
"We" have spent "more" than "billions" on other peoples problems.
Do you really think that the current (or any other, past, present, or future) administration reallyn gives a thought for the poor U.S. citizens of New Orleans?
If you do... then you need do do some more research.
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> Way to go poster, this is a new low.
l es/en/
Actually I find it a very important article.
Not as it seems to "bash Microsoft" (and then I could not care less) but because it might wake my North American friends up to the fact that there are these things called "diseases" out there in the real world and that "yes, unbelievable or not" Americans can contract them and die from them.
You think I am joking?
I remember talking to my family doctor in his 60s, a few years back before he died. We were talking about infectious diseases. He mentioned that he had met young doctors in their 20s who would probably never see a case of measles in their lives.
"Why?" I asked. "Because immunisation is so effective." he answered.
That was in Ireland.
An outbreak of measles is incredibly rare in the "west". Can someone please explain to me how one of the U.S.A.s most important companies just suffered an outbreak?
Do you Americans not immunise your children?
http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/meas
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WTF? I thought 'e was dead.. did'nt I?!
n ation_of_Lord_British
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British#Assassi
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Howdy
The July 4th, 2005 issue had an article similar to this one:
Are firewalls expendable?
Quote from the article:
"But a growing number of security managers, united under the banner of the Jericho Forum, want to retire this stalwart because they say it hinders e-commerce."
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>I credit the Navy for gettign me where I am today.
Breathing, above the ground, or not breathing, in a box below it?
The only entity to credit for your success is yourself and your own dedication.
This story is about a sneaky database... a database which will be used to target the unsuspecting. It will be used to drag them into a career path in which they will never be well informed enough to understand that they may one day be required to take a bullet in the head as a condition of employment... before they graduate from your "trade-school".
It is not a story of how you came to be all you could be.
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Oh it is a "rampage" alright...
"What ifs" are all over the place on this one. What if it had picked up the wrong drugs for the wrong patient on this excursion? What if it had kept dispensing them? What if the staff had not checked because "the machine is always right"?
This problem is easy to fix.
Replace the robot with a human. The only reason it is there was to lower costs... not for the patients but the owners of the hospital. We know that... no matter what the excuses are or will be.
I'm not interested in a machine, which "goes wrong" at this level ie. human lives, and neither are the patients it was supposed to be serving.
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It's a case of "Doctor? Heal thyself".
Bill Thompkinson has been posting on finally.com for some time. His posts are the same sort of obtuse rhetoric delivered by an "observer", not a journalist, who has managed to blind the editors he meets with seemingly insightful articles.
Bill? Your country, in which you still live in, gave up "the right to silence" a few years back, and is one of the most heavily censored societies in the world.
"At least in the UK we don't have to register before we can start a blog, and it is still legal to blog anonymously or use services that are hosted in countries that have slightly more respect for freedom of speech."
Bill? Start an anonymous blog in the U.K. praising everything single thing Al Queda does and see how fucking fast you get noticed, "visited", and stopped.
"At least in the UK..." my ass. Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, was not allowed to have his voice heard on British TV in the 1990s... an actor spoke his words.
You think you live in a "new" UK now Bill?
"At least in the UK"... what a joke.
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"Why else would a library -- likely strapped for cash, as most are -- suddenly feel the need for (expensive) biometrics hardware out of the blue?"
It is obviously Fascism. Let us check the 14 points (from Dr. Lawrence Britt) and see which ones the Naperville Library makes up the score on... [drum roll]
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
[I have not been to Naperville Library lately but I reckon I'll give that a +1 as they are a Library in a State of the USA and most likely have a Stars & Stripes flying on a pole outside the library... +1]
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need". The people tend to 'look the other way' or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +2]
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +3]
6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by
government regulation, or through sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +4]
7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +5]
9. Corporate Power is Protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +6]
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -- Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +7]
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -- Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses, and even forego civil liberties, in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +8]
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to
government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
[Naperville Library, Score so far... +9]
Naperville Library? You are not up to scratch here. You've only made a score of nine out of a possible fourteen on your Fascist Library+ exam. We expect a greater effort in the future.
(And please... to dissuade the Liberals... please make sure that the Flag is properly lit at night (if you choose to fly it after the sunset) on the flagpole outside. The Libertarians and Veterans get upset if that is not taken care of.)
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"Never underestimate 15 year olds."
Right! I remember an instructor, in a sysadmin class, telling us a tale about how one of his daughter's boyfriends hacked his own home network through her machine... and though the instructor tried the hardest to keep him out over a couple of months, the daughter kept opening up the system to him through trojaned instant messages (despite the instructors warnings).
It finally took a call to cops to stop the intrusion as it got a bit out of hand but anyway...
His point was this:
"Never underestimate the intelligence of a 15 year-old. These kids are just as smart as anyone in this class BUT they have no moral compass."
Your comment "Third, they are hormonally imbalanced and do irrational stuff to prove irrational points." rang a bell with me on that one vis-a-vis his comments in the class.
No "moral compass"... I like that. The problem with the average school network admin is that their network is under constant attack. It must be horrible.
It only takes one kid every week to "undertake a penetration test"... and if the network is prone to previously undisclosed exploits then the admin is in for a hard time. The average school year lasts what... 160-180 days in the US? That is, at a maximum, 36 weeks of defense... and those kids are determined. They'll get serious respect from their peers if the "hack the network". They're not gonna give up. Meanwhile the average admin has to deal with a load of other issues... and will fall behind through overwork.
I wonder, in this case, what the fallout will be be for the admin of this school? As our old instructor finished up the class he made sure to tell us that if we were eventually to be employed in a school district and the children got into the network... then their intrusion would be "career limiting" towards the admin, regardless of where the essential problem might have been.
He was a good one for the quotes... and telling us not to stay longer than two years in a school district position if we could help it.
And as for those who talk about punishing the admin? These kids have ACCESS to the machines they use at school... physical access. Physical access to workstations AND servers.
You know how it is... these kids are going to get into that server room if they are in school late, wandering around the halls and notice that the janitor cleans the server room (conveniently located beside the computer lab) every Friday and leaves the door unlocked. They are going to get physical access to those computers and when they do?
Those boxes are'nt the admins anymore...
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Good post. Not only the "Photoshop Effect" is at work here. Kais Power Tools, a series of plugins for Photoshop, had the same idea. We bought a copy for our business in England in the 1990s after a summer intern kept badgering us to purchase a copy. How did she know so much about KPT?
She had a pirated copy, had learnt to use it (pretty well) on her home Macintosh, and convinced us to go out and buy a copy.
KPT (by Kai Krause and MetaCreations) actually had a "readme" text imbedded in the installer that kind of, somewhat, "allowed" for this. I don't have the file with me now but I remember the point made in the text.
"If you get a copy of KPT which you have not paid for but you go ahead and use it on your home machine to make hobby files... fine. However... if you use our plugins to make up commercial art which you are charging a client for then PAY us for our tools. You are making money off of our work so pay us!"
Worked for her... and us... and MetaCreations/Kai too.
Best to learn to work with reality instead of trying to make up your own.
"The street finds it's own use for things." - Willima Gibson
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"As we develop IE we go through very thorough and stringent security reviews to ensure that every change is secure and does not expose the user to attack."
More comments on this thread are going to pick this one up... but let me just get my two bits in.
Your "security reviews" are not stringent... or at least not as stringent as you think. We ALL know that. If they were then IE would not be released. It's the stick which the OS pokes a hole in the security dyke with.
Your IE has exposed the user to attack time and time again. Instead of letting the browser poke the hole why don't you use it to plug the holes before they appear?
Make it as independent of the OS as possible. Did you ever hear one of the "security reviewers" make that comment?
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http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~frontacsb/quickgoogle/ :-)
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I went to the spacedaily site on Firefox using Win XP. I'm using a pretty big "hosts" file I got from another Slashdot user, popups are disabled, and I do not have the Adblock (or any extensions loaded) extension.
I did not see any adverts, nor popups. There seemed to be a large space at the top for a banner ad. and maybe two or three huge blank spaces in the rightmost columns.
When I went there with IE (popups blocked and using the same "hosts" file of course) I got the same results.
What "insane shit" do you see when you go to that site using Firefox?
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Oh boy... North Korea does not need to "hit" the US with a nuke to have an effective nuclear deterrent against US aggression.
All they have to be able to do is nuke the carrier battles groups as they approach the Korean coasts... or nuke the main staging areas in South Korea for a US-led invasion of the North. 50,000 dead (or lingering and will be dead soon) US soldiers in one or two attacks by the North might not end that war really quick... but it will sure put a dent in any future war plans.
And that is the only deterrent the North Koreans need.
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Hewlett-Packard ex-CEO Carly Fiorina was the person who said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."
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http://www.codecomments.com/Computer_Consultant
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I went to the FBI site quoted above and I can't find any Federal request for help on this.
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"Computerworld" (an IDG company(Symantec)) are the ones who are requesting that people contact the FBI.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/sec
So if I go to the FBI website and make a comment that they should use our money "more wisely" (as in not supporting a buggy OS/Browser)... will they know what the fsck I'm talking about?
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Allen Steele wrote about that...
The Days Between
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"would you be willing to die for your country?"
Kerry has that one licked. Bush would have died for his country when the Viet Cong were about to take Dallas and probably only when his "betters" told him to hold the ranch while they split.
That question would never work in this media age.
So... Ask them if they would be willing to send their own children OVERSEAS to die for Iraqi Democracy and then hold them to it... in order to make sure that their children head out to South West Asia after the debates.
After all.. they BOTH are quite happy to send other citizen's children over there...
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Jesus Christ.
3 main posts...
+1 again!
(You do know, (of course you know that the debates are a scripted press conference between the Democrats and the Republicans)?
Ask if they might just allow Nader to get in amongst them and ask some real questions.
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