Why would that be a problem ? SendMail and Apache are commercially valuable too, aren't they ? And considering faking and spamming : like it was said in the 'Open source Seti@Home' debate : nothing prevents sending out the same block to two or more randomly chosen clients so the results could be verified. If clients start behaving weird... don't send them blocks anymore !
I have been wondering for a while now : couldn't building the index for such a search engine be distributed (like SETI@HOME or RC5) ? The server would do the actual page serving, querying etc, but the spidering would be done by the clients. They'd each receive a batch of URL's from the server and start indexing them, collecting lists of URL's and sending those back to the server. The server weeds out the doubles, and assigns those URL's to the clients again. The more people would participate, the bigger the index would grow, as the available bandwidth increased also.
All it does after all is flag behaviour that is perceived as abnormal, taking away attention from 'normal' behaviour. So what ? I would be worried more if they started passing laws making it illegal to behave abnormally. But until then ? Why should I care ? These systems look for behaviour patterns, not for identification. So they don't know who you are, just that you are behaving strangely. Who cares, except for some poor dolt watching the video screens in the basement ?
And by the way... They mentioned an example in the article of a future 'George' at an airport, talking to his security computer and detecting a bomb between eating donuts and reading the paper. They then said that only the speech technology in the article wasn't available yet. Well, it is ! I happen to work at a company that makes that kind of stuff.
This is exactly the same as the HTML standard. These companies should agree on one standard and stick to it. Imagine some company trying to make a server and browser that did not comply to the standard on purpose... oh, wait.
I especially liked the part where Goldstein said that anybody could walk up to a reporter and claim to be a hacker, without any form of proof. Try that but claim to be a doctor !
How can a journalist ever figure out if someone really is a hacker ? Put yourself in their shoes for a second : you're used to writing about the adventures of Bill and Monica, or the latest 'hot news' about Britney Sprears, and then your editor tells you to do a story about 'hackers'. What would you do ? All you know about computers is how to turn them on and start Word. And then this nice person comes along, claiming to be one, and tells you a lot of stuff about 'hacking' and the cool stuff he has done. Your editor is never going to ask questions about this stuff, 'cause he knows even less about computers than you do. And you've got a deadline. What would you do ?
Maybe it's time for a site listing "Certified Hackers" (with their accomplishments) the media can get their soundbytes from:-)
I've done something similar : I'm also learning Perl, and I threw together my personal portal, containing just links to the headlines I want, the single stock quote I'm interested in, and a funny banner. I can also send stuff in by e-mail, and it gets added to the bottom of the page (like the link about Doom System Administration)
The page might not be up to date when you read this : due to technical reasons, I can't host a site at home, so I added a crontab entry to automatically upload the page every hour. But I'm booted in windows right now, because I wanted to play some games after reading SlashDot. If you're interested in the source, or if someone has suggestions to improve it, mail me:-)
More precisely, you can find a picture here. You change the 1 in the url with a number from 2 to 5 if you want to see more pics, because I'm too lazy to put up five links here.
I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere in a DefCon report that, prior to getting booted, she walked around for a while with an "0wn3d" (sp. ? - I'm no good at elite spelling) sign taped to her back by some guy.
Hey ! Why was this marked offtopic ? I was only trying to help people to get to the article under discussion without having to go through the hassle of registration at the NYT site.
Exactly... Would this mean that the archives are illegal ? Or that Rob couldn't go out and make a book titled "Slashdot's greatest threads" without written consent of every poster in each thread ?
If you read the Salon article, you would have seen that Harris and Klebold tried to set of propane bombs before going on the shooting spree, but that the bombs didn't explode. If they had, they would have killed hundreds too.
No, I didn't actually write it myself, just stole it from a Dutch website that probably stole it somewhere else. There is no mention of a source there, that's why I didn't quote it (that and I'm lazy).
Microsoft Corporation has taken another step toward dominating every aspect of American life with the introduction of Contraceptive98, a suite of applications designed for users who engage in sex. Microsoft has been a pioneer in peer-to-peer connectivity and plug and play.
It believes these technologies will give it substantial leverage in penetrating the copulation enhancement market. The product addresses two important user concerns: the need for virus protection and the need for a firewall to ensure the non-propagation of human beings.
The Contraceptive99 suite consists of three products:
A free copy of Intercourse Explorer 4.0 is bundled in the package. The suite also comes in two expanded versions. Contraceptive99 Professional is the Client/Server edition, for professionals in the sexual services sector. Contraceptive99 Small Business Edition is a package for startups, aimed at the housewife and gigolo niches.
While Contraceptive99 does not address nontraditional copulatory channels, future plug-ins are planned for next year.
OPERATION: Only one node in a peer-to-peer connection needs to install the package.
At installation, the Condom99 software checks for minimum hardware. If the user meets the requirements, the product installs and is sufficiently scaleable to meet most requirements. After installation, operation commences. One caution is that the user must have sufficient RAM to complete the session. When the session is complete, a disconnect is initiated, and the user gets the message, it is now safe to turn off your partner.
DRAWBACKS: Usability testers report that frequent failures were a major concern during beta testing. General Protection Fault was the most serious error encountered. Early versions had numerous bugs, but most of these have been eliminated. The product needs to be installed each time its used.
CONCLUSION: Contraceptive99 is a robust product. Despite its drawbacks, it is reasonably good value for its $49.95 price tag, and is far superior to its shareware version. Hopefully, future releases (of the software, that is) will add missing functionality, such as Backout and Restore, uninterruptible Power Supply, and Onboard Camera.
Microsoft flounder Bill Gates is optimistic about this venture, saying "Our contraceptive products will help users do to each other what we've been doing to our customers for years."
This sounds very much like the Hollywood stock exchange, where you can 'invest' in movies, actors and directors, and you earn dividends based on box office takings. Although I must say buying and selling politicians seems like much more fun. You could even start 'mutual funds' which only invest in politicians of certain parties:-)
Not only is the JavaScript broken, but try typing an apostrophy or quotation marks in the guestbook... They disappear when you submit your message, so you come out looking like an idiot who "cant" even spell...
Uhm... Is the mp3 file Slashdotted, or is it on a port I can't access through the firewall here at work ? I can only get to the web via the proxy here, and that allows only connections via standard http or ftp ports. Any chance of a mirror ?
As far as I remember, there was a back door in the BO client, which sent reports of all conducted subnet sweeps back to a certain IP address belonging to someone of the cDc or someone affiliated closely with them. But if BO2K is open source, that won't be the case anymore I guess...
Yep... And in Belgium over 60% of the people speak Dutch ! So don't let anybody tell you Belgium is a fully French speaking country ! There is even a 1% German speaking part (a few villages we 'assimilated' after WWI).
Slashdot Mirror
Why would that be a problem ? SendMail and Apache are commercially valuable too, aren't they ? And considering faking and spamming : like it was said in the 'Open source Seti@Home' debate : nothing prevents sending out the same block to two or more randomly chosen clients so the results could be verified. If clients start behaving weird... don't send them blocks anymore !
I have been wondering for a while now : couldn't building the index for such a search engine be distributed (like SETI@HOME or RC5) ? The server would do the actual page serving, querying etc, but the spidering would be done by the clients. They'd each receive a batch of URL's from the server and start indexing them, collecting lists of URL's and sending those back to the server. The server weeds out the doubles, and assigns those URL's to the clients again. The more people would participate, the bigger the index would grow, as the available bandwidth increased also.
Hmmm... maybe I should patent this...
All it does after all is flag behaviour that is perceived as abnormal, taking away attention from 'normal' behaviour. So what ? I would be worried more if they started passing laws making it illegal to behave abnormally. But until then ? Why should I care ? These systems look for behaviour patterns, not for identification. So they don't know who you are, just that you are behaving strangely. Who cares, except for some poor dolt watching the video screens in the basement ?
And by the way... They mentioned an example in the article of a future 'George' at an airport, talking to his security computer and detecting a bomb between eating donuts and reading the paper. They then said that only the speech technology in the article wasn't available yet. Well, it is ! I happen to work at a company that makes that kind of stuff.
This is exactly the same as the HTML standard. These companies should agree on one standard and stick to it. Imagine some company trying to make a server and browser that did not comply to the standard on purpose... oh, wait.
How can a journalist ever figure out if someone really is a hacker ? Put yourself in their shoes for a second : you're used to writing about the adventures of Bill and Monica, or the latest 'hot news' about Britney Sprears, and then your editor tells you to do a story about 'hackers'. What would you do ? All you know about computers is how to turn them on and start Word. And then this nice person comes along, claiming to be one, and tells you a lot of stuff about 'hacking' and the cool stuff he has done. Your editor is never going to ask questions about this stuff, 'cause he knows even less about computers than you do. And you've got a deadline. What would you do ?
Maybe it's time for a site listing "Certified Hackers" (with their accomplishments) the media can get their soundbytes from :-)
I've done something similar : I'm also learning Perl, and I threw together my personal portal, containing just links to the headlines I want, the single stock quote I'm interested in, and a funny banner. I can also send stuff in by e-mail, and it gets added to the bottom of the page (like the link about Doom System Administration)
The page might not be up to date when you read this : due to technical reasons, I can't host a site at home, so I added a crontab entry to automatically upload the page every hour. But I'm booted in windows right now, because I wanted to play some games after reading SlashDot. If you're interested in the source, or if someone has suggestions to improve it, mail me :-)
Isn't that 'nique' ? So they write it differently too. Oh, they're two different words then ;-)
This one is even better... it features Bill Gates commenting on Slashdot :-)
More precisely, you can find a picture here. You change the 1 in the url with a number from 2 to 5 if you want to see more pics, because I'm too lazy to put up five links here.
I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere in a DefCon report that, prior to getting booted, she walked around for a while with an "0wn3d" (sp. ? - I'm no good at elite spelling) sign taped to her back by some guy.
Hey ! Why was this marked offtopic ? I was only trying to help people to get to the article under discussion without having to go through the hassle of registration at the NYT site.
Ok, I'll shut up now.
Try using slashdot_effect/slashdot... I've been using it for months.
Exactly... Would this mean that the archives are illegal ? Or that Rob couldn't go out and make a book titled "Slashdot's greatest threads" without written consent of every poster in each thread ?
What does this imply for slashdot ? Do we need to give Rob explicit permission to keep our postings in the archives ?
Wasn't that the Generalized Regular Expression Parser ?
If you read the Salon article, you would have seen that Harris and Klebold tried to set of propane bombs before going on the shooting spree, but that the bombs didn't explode. If they had, they would have killed hundreds too.
No, I didn't actually write it myself, just stole it from a Dutch website that probably stole it somewhere else. There is no mention of a source there, that's why I didn't quote it (that and I'm lazy).
News just in of Microsoft's latest venture
Contraceptive99 by Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation has taken another step toward dominating every aspect of
American life with the introduction of Contraceptive98, a suite of applications
designed for users who engage in sex. Microsoft has been a pioneer in
peer-to-peer connectivity and plug and play.
It believes these technologies will give it substantial leverage in penetrating the
copulation enhancement market. The product addresses two important user
concerns: the need for virus protection and the need for a firewall to ensure the
non-propagation of human beings.
The Contraceptive99 suite consists of three products:
Condom99
DeFetus 1.0 (from Sementec)
AIDScan 2.1 (from Norton Utilities)
A free copy of Intercourse Explorer 4.0 is bundled in the package. The suite also
comes in two expanded versions. Contraceptive99 Professional is the Client/Server
edition, for professionals in the sexual services sector. Contraceptive99 Small
Business Edition is a package for startups, aimed at the housewife and gigolo
niches.
While Contraceptive99 does not address nontraditional copulatory channels, future
plug-ins are planned for next year.
OPERATION: Only one node in a peer-to-peer connection needs to install the
package.
At installation, the Condom99 software checks for minimum hardware. If the user
meets the requirements, the product installs and is sufficiently scaleable to meet
most requirements. After installation, operation commences. One caution is that the
user must have sufficient RAM to complete the session. When the session is
complete, a disconnect is initiated, and the user gets the message, it is now safe to
turn off your partner.
DRAWBACKS: Usability testers report that frequent failures were a major
concern during beta testing. General Protection Fault was the most serious error
encountered. Early versions had numerous bugs, but most of these have been
eliminated. The product needs to be installed each time its used.
CONCLUSION: Contraceptive99 is a robust product. Despite its drawbacks, it
is reasonably good value for its $49.95 price tag, and is far superior to its
shareware version. Hopefully, future releases (of the software, that is) will add
missing functionality, such as Backout and Restore, uninterruptible Power Supply,
and Onboard Camera.
Microsoft flounder Bill Gates is optimistic about this venture, saying "Our
contraceptive products will help users do to each other what we've been doing to
our customers for years."
This sounds very much like the Hollywood stock exchange, where you can 'invest' in movies, actors and directors, and you earn dividends based on box office takings. Although I must say buying and selling politicians seems like much more fun. You could even start 'mutual funds' which only invest in politicians of certain parties :-)
And in Belgium we tell Dutch jokes...
Funny... Didn't know the French joked about us. I thought they'd joke about the Germans or the English.
Not only is the JavaScript broken, but try typing an apostrophy or quotation marks in the guestbook... They disappear when you submit your message, so you come out looking like an idiot who "cant" even spell...
How did you feel about your own appearance in "After Y2K" ? Planning on returning the favour ?
Uhm... Is the mp3 file Slashdotted, or is it on a port I can't access through the firewall here at work ? I can only get to the web via the proxy here, and that allows only connections via standard http or ftp ports. Any chance of a mirror ?
As far as I remember, there was a back door in the BO client, which sent reports of all conducted subnet sweeps back to a certain IP address belonging to someone of the cDc or someone affiliated closely with them. But if BO2K is open source, that won't be the case anymore I guess...
Yep... And in Belgium over 60% of the people speak Dutch ! So don't let anybody tell you Belgium is a fully French speaking country ! There is even a 1% German speaking part (a few villages we 'assimilated' after WWI).