Billy Gibson has suggested that "cyberspace" would be the (first and) last enduring word with the prefix "cyber" in it. Just like everything that was cool used to be "electro-" whatever. After a while, it was just assumed that new devices were electronic. Now it's just assumed that new devices have computers in them. "Cyber" is meaningless and anachronistic.
All you grammar nazis point correct me when I use affect as a noun, or effect as a verb, but I don't think even most grammar nazis really understand the difference.
Check some definitions. Both words can be used as nouns or transitive verbs. It's complicated.
The first definition of "affect" is "To have an influence on or effect a change in."
Anyway. I guess not that complicated. But not the stupidest mistake someone could make.
Oh, I haven't witnessed any of my companies users doing that exactly. However, back when those viruses were in the wild (Klez, I think), I definitely got a million copies in my personal email. Someone was stupid enough to install it.
There have been semi-successful email viruses where the user had to download a.zip attachment, decompress, run the executable, and click "yes" to install.
Sure, we can remove capabilities in order to increase safety, but with users like that... I'm really not sure what we should do. Authenticating the sender and receiver of all email would be a step.
The reason we gripe is that many/. readers are IT professionals in medium-small companies. We have laptop users that go home, connect to AOL, get this virus while they're outside of our firewall.
Then they bring the machine to work, plug into the network, and infect everybody. Obviously, there are ten different things you can do to reduce or eliminate this threat, but that's the pain in the ass.
This is not even a mild annoyance for me on my home computer. I didn't hear many folks on/. complaining about how their computer is restarting all the time (Blaster)... because we geeks were patched.
No one, least of all Lamo himself, suggest that Adrian Lamo is a really good hacker. He goes after low hanging fruit. He finds b2b systems with default passwords. He finds unpatched systems.
The only reason he's famous is... wait... I can't think of any good reason why he's famous.
IMHO, the analogy should be that his crime was saying, "The NYT keeps your credit card information on their kitchen table, and they don't even have a lock on their back door."
I once had a coworker that acted like a hippy. The boss suspected her of being a stoner. So he'd surreptitiously search the girl's backpack when she was on her lunch break. Our boss definitely never told us he was going to search our personal belongings, although it never occured to us that we should ask.
While I'd certainly say that the boss could make such searches a requirement of employment (or drug tests, for that matter), doing so secretly and without warning is immoral. Dunno about the legality.
I agree. I don't see why telephones need to be taxed especially.
Right now, telephone access taxes pay for subsidies to give poor people lower rates on telephone service. A friend of mine pays $10/mo for her phone service. And she really is poor.
However, that's not the only thing that telephone taxes go towards, but it's the only thing that telephone companies' PR folks rush to tell you about. So I imagine that much of the taxes go back to the big boys of the telecommunications industry, and it's just there to raise the barrier of entry for competition.
So, tax internet access. Their analogy is wrong. Just because "horseless carriage" is anachronistic doesn't mean we shouldn't regulate cars, for example.
He shouldn't argue that telephones and VoIP are essentially different. He should argue that VoIP and WWW are essentially the same. If you debate, we could make some VoIP phones that use HTTP as a transport.
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Um. Multimedia processing would be exactly the kind of thing that should be faster. Like iMovie. But it's not. Dunno why.
Wow! What an incredible revela... wait. That's not interesting at all.
Seriously. Raise your hand if you had no idea that the human brain could intuitively make corrections to faulty input.
Ok, anyone raising their hand is a moron.
Billy Gibson has suggested that "cyberspace" would be the (first and) last enduring word with the prefix "cyber" in it. Just like everything that was cool used to be "electro-" whatever. After a while, it was just assumed that new devices were electronic. Now it's just assumed that new devices have computers in them. "Cyber" is meaningless and anachronistic.
Well, whatever it did to the wind patterns, they'd now be carrying radioactive materials with them.
It could probably kill millions of people. And from slow melty-like diseases, not incineration.
Ah, who cares? Dali and Disney are both dead. The people that should get paid are the ones that did something to this artwork recently.
Yeah, I'm one of those 14-year copyright wackos. Feel free to ignore.
Hehe. Uh. Feynman was born in New York City. So was Jonas Salk. I know Fermi was Italian and Einstein was German or Austrian, but...
Oh. You're kidding. Right?
Yeah. See this post about frequency variation before the power outage.
The death of flash would be the most wonderful day in web browsing history since it's inception.
Iduno, I'd say the day we got inline images was the most wonderful.
But that's just me. I'm going back to autopr0n now...
Caution: Be aware that beer contains a lot of female hormones. If you drink too much you start talking nonsense and you're unable to drive a car.
And eventually... you'll grow breasts.
ATI is getting serious with its Linux support from what I saw.
Saw where? What are you talking about?
Calling GW an anything magnate may be overstating things a bit.
All you grammar nazis point correct me when I use affect as a noun, or effect as a verb, but I don't think even most grammar nazis really understand the difference.
Check some definitions. Both words can be used as nouns or transitive verbs. It's complicated.
The first definition of "affect" is "To have an influence on or effect a change in."
Anyway. I guess not that complicated. But not the stupidest mistake someone could make.
Dude. How do you include html-like tags in your text while also using html-like tags in your text?
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I've never figured that out on
Remind me again why I gave them money?
Funny, your name doesn't have a star next to it.
Oh, I haven't witnessed any of my companies users doing that exactly. However, back when those viruses were in the wild (Klez, I think), I definitely got a million copies in my personal email. Someone was stupid enough to install it.
There have been semi-successful email viruses where the user had to download a .zip attachment, decompress, run the executable, and click "yes" to install.
Sure, we can remove capabilities in order to increase safety, but with users like that... I'm really not sure what we should do. Authenticating the sender and receiver of all email would be a step.
Bravo for the effort... but, methinks they could do this more cheaply (although, not 64-bit) with stock PC hardware.
Based on the likely purposes of this cluster, that's completely meaningless. This is what 64-bit hardware is for.
Does it speculatively preread links before I click on them?
That would suck if you used it and went to Amazon with 1-click shopping enabled...
The writing was mostly in what Cigarette Smoking Man said and what all the people around him said.
Um, if I recall correctly, Fox Moulder talks plenty in the X-Files.
The reason we gripe is that many /. readers are IT professionals in medium-small companies. We have laptop users that go home, connect to AOL, get this virus while they're outside of our firewall.
/. complaining about how their computer is restarting all the time (Blaster)... because we geeks were patched.
Then they bring the machine to work, plug into the network, and infect everybody. Obviously, there are ten different things you can do to reduce or eliminate this threat, but that's the pain in the ass.
This is not even a mild annoyance for me on my home computer. I didn't hear many folks on
Sure it does. It sounds like he broke the law. But it doesn't sound like he did $25k in damage, does it?
No one, least of all Lamo himself, suggest that Adrian Lamo is a really good hacker. He goes after low hanging fruit. He finds b2b systems with default passwords. He finds unpatched systems.
The only reason he's famous is... wait... I can't think of any good reason why he's famous.
IMHO, the analogy should be that his crime was saying, "The NYT keeps your credit card information on their kitchen table, and they don't even have a lock on their back door."
I once had a coworker that acted like a hippy. The boss suspected her of being a stoner. So he'd surreptitiously search the girl's backpack when she was on her lunch break. Our boss definitely never told us he was going to search our personal belongings, although it never occured to us that we should ask.
While I'd certainly say that the boss could make such searches a requirement of employment (or drug tests, for that matter), doing so secretly and without warning is immoral. Dunno about the legality.
I agree. I don't see why telephones need to be taxed especially.
Right now, telephone access taxes pay for subsidies to give poor people lower rates on telephone service. A friend of mine pays $10/mo for her phone service. And she really is poor.
However, that's not the only thing that telephone taxes go towards, but it's the only thing that telephone companies' PR folks rush to tell you about. So I imagine that much of the taxes go back to the big boys of the telecommunications industry, and it's just there to raise the barrier of entry for competition.
So, tax internet access. Their analogy is wrong. Just because "horseless carriage" is anachronistic doesn't mean we shouldn't regulate cars, for example.
He shouldn't argue that telephones and VoIP are essentially different. He should argue that VoIP and WWW are essentially the same. If you debate, we could make some VoIP phones that use HTTP as a transport.