Personally, the media is more focused on promoting the stereotype of the teenage kid who has go nothing better to do that 'hack' computer systems. The emphasis should be on why it was so easy for an amateur was able to write such a destructive program. Bottom line is that Microsoft writes bad software, and people need to know this. Obviously Microsoft isn't 100% responsible for this, but making a media scapegoat isn't going to solve the underlying problem. I don't feel sorry at all for the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles. They deserved what happened to them, it was only through their own ignorance that it happened. People in today's society want to use computer, bur rarely take the time to learn and understand even the most basic principles of how they work. And what heppens is after that, they expect techies like us to take their shit.
I bet this wittness was a person who was a friend of his who ratted him out. He probablly told him or showed him something about what he was actually doing.
Maybe it's just me, but RPM format seems to suck. Every time I install something through RPM, it rarely works. And if I go and update or install software from it's orginal *gz source package, it usually fails because the libraries upon which it depends are misplaced or not found. I tried to update Gtk from it's original source (Becuse the version on the Redhat website was quite out of date) and after it was installed, it still detected the old version. RPM's are a pain to deal with, bottom line.
Why even use that when you could just use Hotmail?
Sorry, for my blatant sarcasm, but I find it a little disturbing that many people think that web based E-mail is the only e-mail available. And that if you use anything else (e.g. a stand alone e-mail client) it's considered somehow substandard or inadequate. Oh well, but I guess it's the same as when somebody confuses the "Web" and "Internet".
The vast majority of the DNA in the embryos is human, with a small percentage of genetic material -- called mitochondrial DNA -- contributed by the rabbit egg. No one knows if such an embryo could develop into a viable fetus, though some experiments with other species suggest it would not.
The DNA that they put into the human cells is not DNA which determines physical charateristics. It's mitochondrial DNA, which is found in the cells' mitochondria. These little organelles of the cell basically burn sugar to make energy usable for the rest of the cell. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that the mitochondria found in all human cells was actually a seperate organism that became co-dependent with the cells in which they lived. Interstingly enough, mitochondiral is almost totally unaltered with a new generation, and is always passed down through the female of the species because the sperm cells typically have very few or a negligible amount of mitochondria. i.e. You have the same mitochondrial DNA as your mother and all your siblings, and she has all the same as her mother and so on down your family tree.
I'm not defending child porn, but it's entirely possible that it represents for many would-be child molesters, an alternative way of satisfying their unhealthy sexual tendencies.
Possibly yes, however it could also fuel the unhealthy sexual tendencies as well.
Aggressive policing against people who have (for whatever reason, and there may be many, both innocent and less so) child porn on their computers is counter-productive.
It's exactly counterproductive as much as it is just a futile effort. Usually it is done as a way of making an example out of somebody, which just goes to show you that they can't keep up with those doing it. To truly attack the heart of the problem, they need to go for the sources.
Mail an anonymous letter and a disk containing your proof of concept software to you techncal administrator. He or she would hopefully do something about it.
I don't think it's so much about price (though it's always a factor) as people's psychology: copyright doesn't really make sense in a world where things are easily and cheaply copyable; where the means of production and dissemination is in the hands of everyone.
No, I think it is the price. There are many people who purchase CD's because they are fans of the music, regardless if they can get the same thing for free from KaZaA. If the CD was worth $15.00-20.00 then people woudl buy it. If they don't like the music well enough to pay that then they burn it from a friend or download it or something. If the CD is more appropriately priced, then people will buy it.
Is what any way to experience the magic of the movies? Free? I think it's a great way.
Personally, I would rather pay to see a movie than watch a screener. My friend has shown me a number of screeners like that, and I hated them. It's just not worth it in my opinion.
Gladly. Maybe they'll be forced to make movies that aren't complete shit.
I agree 100%. However, I'd certianly pay to see a movie that's worth seeing. There's a handfull of movies that I'd pay again and again just because they're worth it. The movie industry is one of the few industries where they can still earn money on a very poor product over and over again.
I would agree to that. However, accidents do happen and kids can slip away from time to time. Which is why the coaster should be locked up and everything to prevent such things from happening.
Walgreens has been offering reuable cameras like this for a long time. For about $11.00, you can get a film camera that's a little better than a regular disposable camera, but you can only return it to Walgreen's for processing.
Or at least, any product that isn't quite compatible doesn't sell / gets returned to the store, and disappears from the marketplace very very fast.
Not necessairly, a few short years ago it was impossible to buy a Dell, Compaq, HP or any other big name PC producer without having everything put right on the motherboard. Sure, they all had ISA,PCI,SCSI,VGA cables and PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse. However, they hardly had an ATX or even AT motherboard. SOme even had the processors and RAM builtin to the boards so you couldn't upgrade or replace parts. My dad bought a Packard Bell way back when (before I was old enogh to know what the hell a mouse was), and he was so pissed when he found out that he couldn't replace anything in there, but he had to buy a whole new PC just to get a little more speed.
Just like everything else, there's something new every day that could cause bliness, cancer, sterility, heard disease, stroke or anything else from a whole myriad of health problemns. And no, I think banning pants would be a very bad idea. I mean, look where it got our former president, Bill Clinton.
Regardless, it's a first step. It's one more thing that makes it harder to install something like this. The less attractive a box is, the less likely somebody's gonna try and get into it.
You.Net Passport Password - gateway to Hotmail is stored in plain text, it only gives you a false sense of security.
What's even more disturbing is that some people use the same password for their MSN Wallet, Or Passport Wallet or whatever the hell it's called, either way it's a fucking stupid idea.
The best thing, I guess, is to keep using the internet normally, at home, stay with Linux, Mozilla Firebird, stop the pop-ups and stay secure. At a kiosk, forget about security - there's no way you can check the installed s/w in the PC there. Keep a watch on your card bills - that's about all you can practically do.
The sad truth is, though, that people don't use Firebird or just Plain old Mozilla because they're too damned lazy. They just figure that this kind of thing, "Never happens to them." They don't realize that every day, they are literally gambling with their own life savings.
The problem is not with the guns themselves, it's with the persons who posess them. All too often you hear of accidental misuse of guns which lead to deaths. Guns should be regulated in some way, but there also has to be better training for those purchasing guns. A gun in the hands of a fool is more of a danger themselves or others than a person who obtained a gun illegally. Take Switzerland, for example (I think it's Switzerland), where all men are required to serve in the military. Accidental gun deaths are approximately 1/3 that of American accidental gun deaths. However there is a higher percentage of gun owners. That is because people are more responsible over there than they are here.
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Printible faceplates, but that still dont' negate the total lack of quality of Nokia's products.
The MSBlast worm was responsible for one of the worst computer security outbreaks of this year.
Where it should read....
Microsoft was responsible for one of the worst computer security outbreaks of this year.
From the BBC article found here
Personally, the media is more focused on promoting the stereotype of the teenage kid who has go nothing better to do that 'hack' computer systems. The emphasis should be on why it was so easy for an amateur was able to write such a destructive program. Bottom line is that Microsoft writes bad software, and people need to know this. Obviously Microsoft isn't 100% responsible for this, but making a media scapegoat isn't going to solve the underlying problem. I don't feel sorry at all for the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles. They deserved what happened to them, it was only through their own ignorance that it happened. People in today's society want to use computer, bur rarely take the time to learn and understand even the most basic principles of how they work. And what heppens is after that, they expect techies like us to take their shit.
I bet this wittness was a person who was a friend of his who ratted him out. He probablly told him or showed him something about what he was actually doing.
When I clicked on the article, this advertisement popped up in the article.
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Except that DeCess wasn't exactly intended to be used for illegally copying DVD's.
Maybe it's just me, but RPM format seems to suck. Every time I install something through RPM, it rarely works. And if I go and update or install software from it's orginal *gz source package, it usually fails because the libraries upon which it depends are misplaced or not found. I tried to update Gtk from it's original source (Becuse the version on the Redhat website was quite out of date) and after it was installed, it still detected the old version. RPM's are a pain to deal with, bottom line.
Regardless, his point is valid in that WiFi operates well out of the range of Emergency frequencies.
Why even use that when you could just use Hotmail?
Sorry, for my blatant sarcasm, but I find it a little disturbing that many people think that web based E-mail is the only e-mail available. And that if you use anything else (e.g. a stand alone e-mail client) it's considered somehow substandard or inadequate. Oh well, but I guess it's the same as when somebody confuses the "Web" and "Internet".
The vast majority of the DNA in the embryos is human, with a small percentage of genetic material -- called mitochondrial DNA -- contributed by the rabbit egg. No one knows if such an embryo could develop into a viable fetus, though some experiments with other species suggest it would not.
The DNA that they put into the human cells is not DNA which determines physical charateristics. It's mitochondrial DNA, which is found in the cells' mitochondria. These little organelles of the cell basically burn sugar to make energy usable for the rest of the cell. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that the mitochondria found in all human cells was actually a seperate organism that became co-dependent with the cells in which they lived. Interstingly enough, mitochondiral is almost totally unaltered with a new generation, and is always passed down through the female of the species because the sperm cells typically have very few or a negligible amount of mitochondria. i.e. You have the same mitochondrial DNA as your mother and all your siblings, and she has all the same as her mother and so on down your family tree.
I'm not defending child porn, but it's entirely possible that it represents for many would-be child molesters, an alternative way of satisfying their unhealthy sexual tendencies.
Possibly yes, however it could also fuel the unhealthy sexual tendencies as well.
Aggressive policing against people who have (for whatever reason, and there may be many, both innocent and less so) child porn on their computers is counter-productive.
It's exactly counterproductive as much as it is just a futile effort. Usually it is done as a way of making an example out of somebody, which just goes to show you that they can't keep up with those doing it. To truly attack the heart of the problem, they need to go for the sources.
Mail an anonymous letter and a disk containing your proof of concept software to you techncal administrator. He or she would hopefully do something about it.
I don't think it's so much about price (though it's always a factor) as people's psychology: copyright doesn't really make sense in a world where things are easily and cheaply copyable; where the means of production and dissemination is in the hands of everyone.
No, I think it is the price. There are many people who purchase CD's because they are fans of the music, regardless if they can get the same thing for free from KaZaA. If the CD was worth $15.00-20.00 then people woudl buy it. If they don't like the music well enough to pay that then they burn it from a friend or download it or something. If the CD is more appropriately priced, then people will buy it.
Is what any way to experience the magic of the movies? Free? I think it's a great way.
Personally, I would rather pay to see a movie than watch a screener. My friend has shown me a number of screeners like that, and I hated them. It's just not worth it in my opinion.
Gladly. Maybe they'll be forced to make movies that aren't complete shit.
I agree 100%. However, I'd certianly pay to see a movie that's worth seeing. There's a handfull of movies that I'd pay again and again just because they're worth it. The movie industry is one of the few industries where they can still earn money on a very poor product over and over again.
I would agree to that. However, accidents do happen and kids can slip away from time to time. Which is why the coaster should be locked up and everything to prevent such things from happening.
And this is how many weeks after they just signed a deal with Microsoft?
Walgreens has been offering reuable cameras like this for a long time. For about $11.00, you can get a film camera that's a little better than a regular disposable camera, but you can only return it to Walgreen's for processing.
Very true, but the amount of systems sold like has gone down. A few years ago, I started noticing more standard form factor stuff starting to pop up.
Or at least, any product that isn't quite compatible doesn't sell / gets returned to the store, and disappears from the marketplace very very fast.
Not necessairly, a few short years ago it was impossible to buy a Dell, Compaq, HP or any other big name PC producer without having everything put right on the motherboard. Sure, they all had ISA,PCI,SCSI,VGA cables and PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse. However, they hardly had an ATX or even AT motherboard. SOme even had the processors and RAM builtin to the boards so you couldn't upgrade or replace parts. My dad bought a Packard Bell way back when (before I was old enogh to know what the hell a mouse was), and he was so pissed when he found out that he couldn't replace anything in there, but he had to buy a whole new PC just to get a little more speed.
Are you sure that it was his yard, or maybe he was paying a lawn service to cut his grass. In which case it wouldn't be so ridiculous.
Leela: Why Buys this crap?
Bender: Idiots, who like to buy crap for other idiots.
Just like everything else, there's something new every day that could cause bliness, cancer, sterility, heard disease, stroke or anything else from a whole myriad of health problemns. And no, I think banning pants would be a very bad idea. I mean, look where it got our former president, Bill Clinton.
And that's just like going back to the good 'ol days of copying tapes for your friends. The medium is different, but it's basically the same concept.
Regardless, it's a first step. It's one more thing that makes it harder to install something like this. The less attractive a box is, the less likely somebody's gonna try and get into it.
You .Net Passport Password - gateway to Hotmail is stored in plain text, it only gives you a false sense of security.
What's even more disturbing is that some people use the same password for their MSN Wallet, Or Passport Wallet or whatever the hell it's called, either way it's a fucking stupid idea.
The best thing, I guess, is to keep using the internet normally, at home, stay with Linux, Mozilla Firebird, stop the pop-ups and stay secure. At a kiosk, forget about security - there's no way you can check the installed s/w in the PC there. Keep a watch on your card bills - that's about all you can practically do.
The sad truth is, though, that people don't use Firebird or just Plain old Mozilla because they're too damned lazy. They just figure that this kind of thing, "Never happens to them." They don't realize that every day, they are literally gambling with their own life savings.
The problem is not with the guns themselves, it's with the persons who posess them. All too often you hear of accidental misuse of guns which lead to deaths. Guns should be regulated in some way, but there also has to be better training for those purchasing guns. A gun in the hands of a fool is more of a danger themselves or others than a person who obtained a gun illegally. Take Switzerland, for example (I think it's Switzerland), where all men are required to serve in the military. Accidental gun deaths are approximately 1/3 that of American accidental gun deaths. However there is a higher percentage of gun owners. That is because people are more responsible over there than they are here.