Yes, email is an excellent way to get hostnames. Helpful hint: At the start of each school year send out a mass email to everyone you know with your address, and ask people to reply with theirs so you can update your rolodex.
I should be charging (or perhaps getting charged) for this.
1) Enable webstats 2) Look at who has been going to your website 3) If someone from a college you have a (hot girl) friend at visits your site, use facebook to see if the hit is from the dormroom they are in 4) If so, shoot them an email saying that you were thinking of them and asking how they are 5) Wait until they write back and say, "what a coincidence, I was thinking of you too!" 6) ???? 7) Profit!
And the best thing is technically they're the one stalking you
(exercepted from an article to be published on kuro5hin in the mysterious future on using your personal website to get pick up women)
Summary for those who don't want to RTFA: After the thief turned on the computer, the computer dialed into Microsoft's mainframe and personally alerted Bill Gates that the laptop of a very important person had been stolen.
(If you don't get the joke, listen to the original audio file)
I remember I bought a new computer just to play Riven. We upgraded from our LC to a Performa. The day it came out (Halloween) my friend and I had "Riven Day" instead of going trick or treating.
I have to say though that the DVD series was my best purchase of the last year. I was skeptical when I bought it because some of the Amazon commenters were saying that the only reason it was getting five stars was because of people rating it over and over. However, having watched it I think it really lives up to the hype and then some. I'm just sad they aren't making any more, it was the only drama I've ever actually liked.
Teaching ID in public schools isn't going to cut down on the number of good scientists. A good scientist is someone who can think for themselves. Anyone who can't see through the ID crap fails that test by definition. Really the only thing that happens is that the dumb get dumber and the intelligent are unaffected. I'd say a more likely outcome would be the income gap getting wider than our scientists getting worse, although honestly this change is so small that it really doesn't matter.
Obviously the police should need a warrant in order to search information on your computer. However, I don't think there needs to be any laws preventing computer technicians from informing the government of illegal files. How is this any different from any person reporting anything else they see to the government? Only have your computer fixed by a company with a legally binding privacy policy or else encrypt your files, I really don't see what the big deal is.
I am interupting this regularly scheduled Slashdot thread to announce that the Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, has officially been leaked onto BitTorrent. This is not a test. I repeat, this is not a test.
The reason here is that because 99% of the time the person's identity gets stolen from a company server, not from their personal computer. This is because it is a lot easier to break into one computer holding a million identities than it is to break into a million computers with one identity each. So why not secure the corporate computers? Well for one thing they often give the data away, like choice point did. The only real solution is for them to not have the data in the first place. Of course their computers should be secure, but that is no reason to stop innovation on other fronts at the same time.
Every invention can be used for either good or evil. Furthermore, all technology branches. That is, since technology is built on other technology, each new invention can be used as a building block for new inventions that are either good or evil.
The problem with your statement though is that it applies to everything. By the same logic, we shouldn't put seatbelts in cars because people might drive faster. And we shouldn't give children vaccinations because it encourages them to not wash their hands before dinner and get sick. And we shouldn't educate people, because it enables them to do bad things.
The fact is, people's identities are being stolen today. People's lives are being ruined because of this as we speak. What you are basically saying is that we should allow this to happen, because the same technology could POTENTIALLY be used as a building block for evil technology in the future. But it can also be used as a building block for good technology. As can every other invention.
Well then how do you explain this? It is a record of all of your actions on/., yet it is not attached to your name. It seems like this is exactly what I described above, no?
Right, but all of the laws of identity are subsets of laws of business. Why would anyone buy a coffee maker that broadcasted their coffee preferences to everyone nearby? They wouldn't, which is why I think it is superfluous to mention.
A better way to think of this is being Texas Law. In Texas, you have the right to shoot anyone attempting to enter your house without your permission. Same thing should apply to the web. If I am paying for the bandwidth to my personal homepage, I should have the right to block anyone I don't want. My right as the patron trumps the right of the free rider, except in certain extraordinary circumstances. Currently I don't have the tools to be able to do this, although that is exactly the kind of thing the identity community is working on.
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if ($game != NetHack)
print("$game ain't bad, but it's no NetHack!");
else
print("$game gets a 10-10-10");
Yes, email is an excellent way to get hostnames. Helpful hint: At the start of each school year send out a mass email to everyone you know with your address, and ask people to reply with theirs so you can update your rolodex.
I should be charging (or perhaps getting charged) for this.
1) Enable webstats
2) Look at who has been going to your website
3) If someone from a college you have a (hot girl) friend at visits your site, use facebook to see if the hit is from the dormroom they are in
4) If so, shoot them an email saying that you were thinking of them and asking how they are
5) Wait until they write back and say, "what a coincidence, I was thinking of you too!"
6) ????
7) Profit!
And the best thing is technically they're the one stalking you
(exercepted from an article to be published on kuro5hin in the mysterious future on using your personal website to get pick up women)
It's only safe to do business in China if they need you more than you need them.
Summary for those who don't want to RTFA: After the thief turned on the computer, the computer dialed into Microsoft's mainframe and personally alerted Bill Gates that the laptop of a very important person had been stolen.
(If you don't get the joke, listen to the original audio file)
Just change his name to Steve and call it a day.
I remember I bought a new computer just to play Riven. We upgraded from our LC to a Performa. The day it came out (Halloween) my friend and I had "Riven Day" instead of going trick or treating.
I have to say though that the DVD series was my best purchase of the last year. I was skeptical when I bought it because some of the Amazon commenters were saying that the only reason it was getting five stars was because of people rating it over and over. However, having watched it I think it really lives up to the hype and then some. I'm just sad they aren't making any more, it was the only drama I've ever actually liked.
CS isn't computer programming. CS is computer science.
Teaching ID in public schools isn't going to cut down on the number of good scientists. A good scientist is someone who can think for themselves. Anyone who can't see through the ID crap fails that test by definition. Really the only thing that happens is that the dumb get dumber and the intelligent are unaffected. I'd say a more likely outcome would be the income gap getting wider than our scientists getting worse, although honestly this change is so small that it really doesn't matter.
Your second and third sentence contradict eachother.
You seem to be mistakenly implying that the video is viewable on other operating systems.
Especially since it effectively calls the cops every time you look at porn.
Obviously the police should need a warrant in order to search information on your computer. However, I don't think there needs to be any laws preventing computer technicians from informing the government of illegal files. How is this any different from any person reporting anything else they see to the government? Only have your computer fixed by a company with a legally binding privacy policy or else encrypt your files, I really don't see what the big deal is.
I see they are upgrading to get ready for Longhorn.
I am interupting this regularly scheduled Slashdot thread to announce that the Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, has officially been leaked onto BitTorrent. This is not a test. I repeat, this is not a test.
Right...
That doesn't obey the laws of business either. No one gives you a coffeepot.
So because it can't be used for online voting, it is therefore useless?
The reason here is that because 99% of the time the person's identity gets stolen from a company server, not from their personal computer. This is because it is a lot easier to break into one computer holding a million identities than it is to break into a million computers with one identity each. So why not secure the corporate computers? Well for one thing they often give the data away, like choice point did. The only real solution is for them to not have the data in the first place. Of course their computers should be secure, but that is no reason to stop innovation on other fronts at the same time.
Because spyware doesn't obey the laws of business because it isn't a product you buy.
The problem with your statement though is that it applies to everything. By the same logic, we shouldn't put seatbelts in cars because people might drive faster. And we shouldn't give children vaccinations because it encourages them to not wash their hands before dinner and get sick. And we shouldn't educate people, because it enables them to do bad things.
The fact is, people's identities are being stolen today. People's lives are being ruined because of this as we speak. What you are basically saying is that we should allow this to happen, because the same technology could POTENTIALLY be used as a building block for evil technology in the future. But it can also be used as a building block for good technology. As can every other invention.
Well then how do you explain this? It is a record of all of your actions on /., yet it is not attached to your name. It seems like this is exactly what I described above, no?
Right, but all of the laws of identity are subsets of laws of business. Why would anyone buy a coffee maker that broadcasted their coffee preferences to everyone nearby? They wouldn't, which is why I think it is superfluous to mention.
A better way to think of this is being Texas Law. In Texas, you have the right to shoot anyone attempting to enter your house without your permission. Same thing should apply to the web. If I am paying for the bandwidth to my personal homepage, I should have the right to block anyone I don't want. My right as the patron trumps the right of the free rider, except in certain extraordinary circumstances. Currently I don't have the tools to be able to do this, although that is exactly the kind of thing the identity community is working on.