It was RALPH WALDO EMERSON who said: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of LITTLE minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do..."
I thought it was Emerson when I read that quote, but it has been so long since I have taken a lit. class i couldn't be sure.
So not only doesn't this "jouranlist" know anything about Linux, computers, or the history there-of, he is also a shoddy English student, which I would hope is his area of "expertise."
I followed the link(s) about this, and from what i can discern, this guy just wrote a Javascript that prompted people for their password info. The point is that the victim has to be STUPID enough to enter their password. This is a classic case of a "social" or "psychological" hack. It does not rely on the cunning or skill of the programmer, it relies on the gullibility of the victim.
I wish this had happened a year or more ago. I spent a whole summer trying to write an interface to a UV-vis spectrophotometer that's native platform was GEM... On another note, none of this would have been necessary if Perkin Elmer had released their old crappy source code in the first place anyway. Alas, when they stopped supporting the Lambda6 the software, docs, specs, and everything were lost in a corporate downsizing...
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These ads woudl only be active on boot up or in some windows OS.
How the heck could they put an icon in Linux anyway?
I thought it was Emerson when I read that quote, but it has been so long since I have taken a lit. class i couldn't be sure.
So not only doesn't this "jouranlist" know anything about Linux, computers, or the history there-of, he is also a shoddy English student, which I would hope is his area of "expertise."
And who says us geeks aren't cultured...
I followed the link(s) about this, and from what i can discern, this guy just wrote a Javascript that prompted people for their password info.
The point is that the victim has to be STUPID enough to enter their password.
This is a classic case of a "social" or "psychological" hack. It does not rely on the cunning or skill of the programmer, it relies on the gullibility of the victim.
I wish this had happened a year or more ago. I spent a whole summer trying to write an interface to a UV-vis spectrophotometer that's native platform was GEM...
On another note, none of this would have been necessary if Perkin Elmer had released their old crappy source code in the first place anyway.
Alas, when they stopped supporting the Lambda6 the software, docs, specs, and everything were lost in a corporate downsizing...