How in the hell is telling what I think (with an explanation that it is just humor INCLUDED in the post) a troll? I used to think that the moderators smoked crack, but I now think it is beyond that. I think they are smoking really cheap crack, and doing other things as well like huffing gasoline or starting on psychodelics. I honestly could understand if I was modded as offtopic, but troll?
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That's what I am saying! To all my friends who are tree huggers and think we should save the world (one of my friends wants to be an EPA lawyer for God's sake...) I just tell them I am relying on technological achievments to help us from ruining our planet. Whether it happens or not, who knows. But it is fun to really bug the people that are extremem anti-polutionists, etc.
It is clearly marketed to carry with you wherever you go, in your pocket or on your keychain. Read the article, dipshit:
"Before you leave your home or work, backup your most important data and carry it with you . Imagine being able to keep your budget, your address book or important email in your pocket without worry!"
You have a very good point. Right now I have a pretty solid aluminum caribiner on my keychain, and i see spots where it has been bent and had dents or small chuncks of metal taken out. Some women and men could use this, but not those of us that keep the keys in our pockets, throw them around sometimes, use them for tools, and whose keys generally have a rough life.
and keys can be replaced... what if your data ws valuable on your keychain and you either broke it or lost your keys? the horror!
According to their specs, this thing runs "driverless" on Win98SE, Me, 2000, XP / Mac OS 8.6 ~ 10.1 / Linux 2.4. I assume that just means you mount it and you're good to go?
One thing the specs didn't touch on was how many times the "drive" can be written to? I know that memory like this has a limited life, similar to a digital camera. I think this is a good idea, but it would be a pain to plug this thing in the BACK of the computer, just to access your work. (Yes, most computers still have the USB port in the back.)
also, it's a pity that we are so close to usb 2.0 becoming a vialbe solution. I guess speed is not that important to most people, but i would prefer a firewire or USB2 keychain drive - the cost to build one would be about the same.
So does this compete in the market with zip disks, cd-r's, floppy disks, clik! disks, and portable usb hard drives? seems like a pretty tight market to me...
"Mr. O'Keefe is a budget hawk and has said he believes that technical excellence at any cost is not an acceptable approach by NASA.
This seems like a rather odd thing to say to the press... I would think if *I* was relying on NASA to do something in space, I would sure want "technical excellence" at any cost. This is not a walk in the park, it is space exploration, and attention DOES need to be paid to detail.
The web may be the future, but so will flying cars.
What I mean, is that web-based applications are the future, but they are a long ways off, probably not in the next 5 years. I have used over 30 web applications for a very large corporation in several different environments on a fast network with good servers, and web-based programs such as accounting, etc. are just too slow and cumbersome.
it is just too difficult to do everything a speicalied application needs to do in a web brower. Web browers are a univeral app.
Possibly when backend database servers are more robust (or cheaper to allow for more), and we have gigabit pipes everywhere instead of 100Mbit, they will be feasible.
Afterall, web-base software rukes for expandability and support, but we need the horsepower and fat pipes to make it happen in the average business.
For those that didn't get this, (and correct me if I am wrong), but this is a reference from a strip club (well, now it's just a topless bar i think, but I haven't been there in several years). Their slogan reads something like "The Deja Vu: 100 pretty girls, and 3 ugly ones."
I know they have one in SpoCompton (aka Spo-Angeles aka Spokane).
Since I bet there are a large number of/.'ers who have never been to a strip club, I thought I would point this out.
i wish i could... however i am sure you know how hard it would be to change a big huge company. nearly impossible. no, it would be impossible (at least from my shoes). the best i could hope for is to help the department i work for migrate to kerberos. It would take a policy change at the head IT level to make a real difference, I'm afraid, and that will not happen until there IS a major break-in or something. oh well!
True, but ssh has been slow catch on, especially in large companies behind firewalls. what you point out, and they need to understand, is that most computer crime in a company occurs within the company. so, you may be effectively off the internet, but if you are using rlogin/telnet, you still have the potential of security threats.
to the IT person, it would be a great pain to install ssh on thousands of machines, so to help this effort, i think it should be the responsibility of the server manufacturers to put forth the (small) effort and install ssh by defauly. why is this not being done? (exception that i know of is many linux distros install ssh by default. good for them).
here's the shake down for those to lazy to go to the site and read the article:
The hole is located in the "login" program that allows people to sign on to the operating system remotely by entering a username and password, ISS said. The vulnerability can be exploited only if certain remote command protocols, such as Telnet, are enabled, which they usually are by default, the company said.
ISS discovered the loophole in October and has been working with Sun and CERT on a fix, said Ingevaldson.
"We're not aware of anyone experiencing a problem with this," said Sun spokesman Russ Castronovo.
The security hole is very serious because there are so many computers in corporations and universities that run Solaris and because of the amount of harm someone could do if they were to gain complete control over a vulnerable machine, he said.
"Once you have super-user access to a machine you can do anything you want, modify files, create them, sniff network traffic," Ingevaldson said.
A temporary software patch is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch and a fully supported and tested fix will be available next week, Ingevaldson said.
"First, let me introduce myself. My name is Stephen
Satchell, and I've been a professional practitioner of
Computer Science since 1971. I have been an observer
of several industry standards committees..."
Yep. He'll fit right in at Microsoft, and he can make tons of new industry "standards".
Man! does that suck to live with someone who watches so much TV? I maybe watch 3 hours a week, if that, and i have a few friends that watch probably 6-7 hours a day, and it is really irritating (mostly because their interests differ greatly from mine), so i usually bring a book to read while they watch 4 sports games in a row. but i couldn't imagine my wife being like that.
some poeple may like it, and that's great if you like it or don't mind, but i would be unhappy.
haha. that is hilarious. it must suck to have that problem, but i hope you get your money. very funny that they could be so stupid. the amazing thing is how slow corporations move. It would probably take one person one hour (or less) to get your number changed. oh well. if I were you i would start answering the phone "Radio Shack, this is Rupert" and be rude to their customers and drive them away from the store. It's what they deserve if they don't correct their msitakes given ample time.
classic... i remember those days. Some threads got REALLY bad with a string of 20 "me too"s posted by various AOLers. Then there were the classsic AOL debates, where someone would state what a bunch of retards AOLers were, then they would get into a flamefest.
it may be stereotyping, but back in those days, AOLers as a whole were "not quit up there" with the other folks on the net.
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Nice troll! Well thought out and very subtle.
haha. i didn't even see that, good catch. It sure does look like a turkey though.
How in the hell is telling what I think (with an explanation that it is just humor INCLUDED in the post) a troll? I used to think that the moderators smoked crack, but I now think it is beyond that. I think they are smoking really cheap crack, and doing other things as well like huffing gasoline or starting on psychodelics. I honestly could understand if I was modded as offtopic, but troll?
POSITIONS WANTED: DO YOU SMOKE CRACK DAILY? DO YOU MAKE BIASED, UNEDUCATED CHOICES? IF SO, WE WANT YOU TO MODERATE FOR US! JUST CONTACT SLASHDOT.ORG.
That's what I am saying! To all my friends who are tree huggers and think we should save the world (one of my friends wants to be an EPA lawyer for God's sake...) I just tell them I am relying on technological achievments to help us from ruining our planet. Whether it happens or not, who knows. But it is fun to really bug the people that are extremem anti-polutionists, etc.
Damn! I'm still in single user mode!
...Yes, at times Windows does seem like a piss-stained, shit-smeared canoe. Exactly.
It is clearly marketed to carry with you wherever you go, in your pocket or on your keychain. Read the article, dipshit:
"Before you leave your home or work, backup your most important data and carry it with you . Imagine being able to keep your budget, your address book or important email in your pocket without worry!"
You have a very good point. Right now I have a pretty solid aluminum caribiner on my keychain, and i see spots where it has been bent and had dents or small chuncks of metal taken out. Some women and men could use this, but not those of us that keep the keys in our pockets, throw them around sometimes, use them for tools, and whose keys generally have a rough life.
and keys can be replaced... what if your data ws valuable on your keychain and you either broke it or lost your keys? the horror!
According to their specs, this thing runs "driverless" on Win98SE, Me, 2000, XP / Mac OS 8.6 ~ 10.1 / Linux 2.4. I assume that just means you mount it and you're good to go?
One thing the specs didn't touch on was how many times the "drive" can be written to? I know that memory like this has a limited life, similar to a digital camera. I think this is a good idea, but it would be a pain to plug this thing in the BACK of the computer, just to access your work. (Yes, most computers still have the USB port in the back.)
also, it's a pity that we are so close to usb 2.0 becoming a vialbe solution. I guess speed is not that important to most people, but i would prefer a firewire or USB2 keychain drive - the cost to build one would be about the same.
So does this compete in the market with zip disks, cd-r's, floppy disks, clik! disks, and portable usb hard drives? seems like a pretty tight market to me...
"Mr. O'Keefe is a budget hawk and has said he believes that technical excellence at any cost is not an acceptable approach by NASA.
This seems like a rather odd thing to say to the press... I would think if *I* was relying on NASA to do something in space, I would sure want "technical excellence" at any cost. This is not a walk in the park, it is space exploration, and attention DOES need to be paid to detail.
or am I wrong?
The web may be the future, but so will flying cars.
What I mean, is that web-based applications are the future, but they are a long ways off, probably not in the next 5 years. I have used over 30 web applications for a very large corporation in several different environments on a fast network with good servers, and web-based programs such as accounting, etc. are just too slow and cumbersome.
it is just too difficult to do everything a speicalied application needs to do in a web brower. Web browers are a univeral app.
Possibly when backend database servers are more robust (or cheaper to allow for more), and we have gigabit pipes everywhere instead of 100Mbit, they will be feasible.
Afterall, web-base software rukes for expandability and support, but we need the horsepower and fat pipes to make it happen in the average business.
For those that didn't get this, (and correct me if I am wrong), but this is a reference from a strip club (well, now it's just a topless bar i think, but I haven't been there in several years). Their slogan reads something like "The Deja Vu: 100 pretty girls, and 3 ugly ones."
/.'ers who have never been to a strip club, I thought I would point this out.
I know they have one in SpoCompton (aka Spo-Angeles aka Spokane).
Since I bet there are a large number of
i wish i could... however i am sure you know how hard it would be to change a big huge company. nearly impossible. no, it would be impossible (at least from my shoes). the best i could hope for is to help the department i work for migrate to kerberos. It would take a policy change at the head IT level to make a real difference, I'm afraid, and that will not happen until there IS a major break-in or something. oh well!
True, but ssh has been slow catch on, especially in large companies behind firewalls. what you point out, and they need to understand, is that most computer crime in a company occurs within the company. so, you may be effectively off the internet, but if you are using rlogin/telnet, you still have the potential of security threats.
to the IT person, it would be a great pain to install ssh on thousands of machines, so to help this effort, i think it should be the responsibility of the server manufacturers to put forth the (small) effort and install ssh by defauly. why is this not being done? (exception that i know of is many linux distros install ssh by default. good for them).
here's the shake down for those to lazy to go to the site and read the article:
The hole is located in the "login" program that allows people to sign on to the operating system remotely by entering a username and password, ISS said. The vulnerability can be exploited only if certain remote command protocols, such as Telnet, are enabled, which they usually are by default, the company said.
ISS discovered the loophole in October and has been working with Sun and CERT on a fix, said Ingevaldson.
"We're not aware of anyone experiencing a problem with this," said Sun spokesman Russ Castronovo.
The security hole is very serious because there are so many computers in corporations and universities that run Solaris and because of the amount of harm someone could do if they were to gain complete control over a vulnerable machine, he said.
"Once you have super-user access to a machine you can do anything you want, modify files, create them, sniff network traffic," Ingevaldson said.
A temporary software patch is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch and a fully supported and tested fix will be available next week, Ingevaldson said.
Fixes are pending for AIX, according to CERT.
Candidate,
What is the first thing you would do when leading Microsoft, besides opening up the source code, and producing a stable code base?
This was a JOKE. Fucking crack head moderators. I swear, only 1/3 of the moderators actually use their brain. Oh well, such is slashdot.
i just wish i could get my hands on that crack that the moderators smoke... seems like good stuff.
Can you dance around like a deranged monkey boy like Steve Balmer? God, that video was hilarious.
Crackpipe Moderators: this is a joke.
"First, let me introduce myself. My name is Stephen Satchell, and I've been a professional practitioner of Computer Science since 1971. I have been an observer of several industry standards committees..."
Yep. He'll fit right in at Microsoft, and he can make tons of new industry "standards".
Man! does that suck to live with someone who watches so much TV? I maybe watch 3 hours a week, if that, and i have a few friends that watch probably 6-7 hours a day, and it is really irritating (mostly because their interests differ greatly from mine), so i usually bring a book to read while they watch 4 sports games in a row. but i couldn't imagine my wife being like that.
some poeple may like it, and that's great if you like it or don't mind, but i would be unhappy.
haha. that is hilarious. it must suck to have that problem, but i hope you get your money. very funny that they could be so stupid. the amazing thing is how slow corporations move. It would probably take one person one hour (or less) to get your number changed. oh well. if I were you i would start answering the phone "Radio Shack, this is Rupert" and be rude to their customers and drive them away from the store. It's what they deserve if they don't correct their msitakes given ample time.
classic... i remember those days. Some threads got REALLY bad with a string of 20 "me too"s posted by various AOLers. Then there were the classsic AOL debates, where someone would state what a bunch of retards AOLers were, then they would get into a flamefest.
it may be stereotyping, but back in those days, AOLers as a whole were "not quit up there" with the other folks on the net.
me too.
I think that should be format c: /f /y
Metaphorically speaking, one might say that he didn't sturdy his tent with ground-driven spikes while thinking of metaphors.
ok, that was even worse than his...