Okay, poorly worded question. When I said communication I was referring more to communication via radios or similar sort, which is what the post I responded to was talking about.
I think that's the point. They don't have control of their environment... and their environment now includes other cars for which they have no idea of their intentions. I mean, how often do you have direct communication with other drivers next to you?
Now most of them are changing their tunes. They were saying before that Apple couldn't/wouldn't stand up to the labels over their pricing plan. Now they're all saying that $0.99 is just too much. Well, good luck finding the singles of the sam quality for less. Why not just admit that Apple has a good thing with the iTunes Music Store?
There is a sizable chunk of the/. community that is never satisfied that a corporation can be "good" or even do "good things" unless it is unprofitable or a charity.
For years, people here bitched about how they really would prefer to get their music legally, if only they weren't forced to buy an entire CD of crap for one good song. You see, they were forced to download illegal mp3s. Now that they have that option, they're being overcharged again, 99 cents is simply too much! Damn Apple for finding an attractive price point and trying to make a profit!
*Note: Yes, I'm aware that there are still problems such as how much the artists themselves actually make from each sale of a song. Baby steps.
You could market them as motivational calendars for nerds to get themselves to the gym or out for a jog. Imagine the incentive a glossy, fully color spread of Stallman in a speedo hanging on your wall.
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Incorrect. All the companies I call ask for identifying numbers. Whether it be Phone#, last 4 SSN, CC, or Account#. Granted, when I call them, they usually ask for 2 or 3 piece of information to match up; such as mailing address, birthday, etc.
And just to cut the inevitable snarky comment off, yes they are the actual companies.
You are correct though. If you get an unsolicited contact through email or on the phone, don't trust them. If they are really from your institution, tell them you'll call them back on a number you know to be legit. If there's really a problem with your accounts that you need to know about, whoever you get on the line will know what it is. If there isn't, well, good job, you're helping against phishers by notifying the institution that someone is targeting people in their name.
And, also unfortunately, "Joe Sixpack" and "Sarah Soccermom" don't actually exist, but are rather stereotypes for conveniently demonizing real people you can't be bothered to learn about before dismissing their opinions.
Yes, they are imperfect stereotypes, and I am fully aware that I made an unflattering characterization of them as an off-the-cuff remark. Don't act as though you don't generalize or make off-color quips.
It's more interesting to me to see what people do with the total freedom granted to them.
Because goatse.cx was truly an inspiration to anal stretchers the world over. I mean, let's face it, given total freedom, people come up with some pretty depraved stuff.
Yes, I know that they also come up with amazingly inspired stuff; but that's not what lawmakers are looking at when they draft this type of legislation.
Of course, what the article doesn't tell you is that they said that to him after he asked 50 times "how do I start process daemons like a web server" in the Gnome IRC channel. The whole context tells the real story and sometimes that does happen on IRC. Just like in the case of Ryan Holt and his balloons. Slashdot, stop being such a "hype" news source.
Hrm. Did anyone notice the tags being used to describe this article?
Right now: truth, linux, flamebait, fud, rtfm
1 out of 5 is a given tag for the article (linux) 1 out of 5 is a positive personal opinion on the article (truth) 1 out of 5 is in the gray zone (could be positive or negative) (rtfm) 2 out of 5 are negative (flamebait, fud)
So you think we should just throw up our hands and not try to fix the problem? Catching spammers and pedophiles is pretty pointless because they will always be there? Proficient Linux users shouldn't make the effort to be more civil to neophytes asking for assistance?
I did exactly that when I first started learning Linux. But no distro taught me more about what was going on than Gentoo. Gentoo doesn't do much automatically and forces the user to do alot of the work and they have GREAT documentation to boot.
I agree with you here, but some people would say the same about slackware.
I think the key is the documentation. It's really gotten much better with linux in the past 5 years.
Maybe I'm missing something. The article title suggests that datamining is not a frontier of research, the summary insinuates that there are no more uses for RDBMS systems since we have google, and the actual article talks about the use of MS SQL server to discover patterns in a set of data more efficiently and seemed to insinuate that many researchers overlook these technologies to analyze their datasets.
If anything, the article is support for the use and continued development of datamining technologies.
My question is, was the article submitter smoking something? For that matter, was the/. editor who approved it also smoking something?
I note that the http://www.caltechvsmit.com/ seems updated to reflect this hack. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but if not I have a question.
Caltech pulls a number of silly little pranks that, to be quite honest, no one really noticed, and garners 6 points for their "feud" with MIT... MIT students socially engineer themselves into being able to steal and drive Caltech's cannon across the United States, point it back at Caltech and install a large (really well made) brass rat onto the barrel of the cannon and create a plaque commemorating the heist.
All that's worth one point? Pff.
Not that I really care or anything; it's like my attitude towards the Red Sox... it's not until they're in the playoffs or the series that I pay attention.
The beauracracy of the federal government makes the most complex business look like a kid's lemonade stand. It would be awe inspiring if it weren't so frustrating to work with.
Both. The latter is particularly annoying as most DoD sites are written with Internet Explorer in mind. I use Firefox as much as possible when working with the web tools the military provides, but there are times when I simply have to fire up internet explorer to get my job done.
Software is the same. All are windows centric. It's annoying.
That in the very previous/. story about a Sun product vulnerability, the hackers get ripped, but when it's Microsoft, the software company gets ripped.
Here's the difference: In Sun's case, the hackers didn't alert Sun to the vulnerability. They just DOS'd a free service that Sun provided the world, causing headaches for people attempting to use the service. Their actions accomplished absolutely nothing (the grid was not affected), and resulted in Sun pulling a previously free product behind a security wall for which people are required to subscribe. Good going!
In this case, a researcher discovered a flaw in the browser, and instead of being an a$%hat by writing yet another worm or malicious program, alerted Microsoft to the bug. Which is now in the process of being patched.
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They're also missing the fact that this was done by the Department of Homeland Security... well, at least funded by them.
:)
And everyone thought they only made pretty-colored signs.
Okay, poorly worded question. When I said communication I was referring more to communication via radios or similar sort, which is what the post I responded to was talking about.
I think that's the point. They don't have control of their environment... and their environment now includes other cars for which they have no idea of their intentions. I mean, how often do you have direct communication with other drivers next to you?
There is a sizable chunk of the /. community that is never satisfied that a corporation can be "good" or even do "good things" unless it is unprofitable or a charity.
For years, people here bitched about how they really would prefer to get their music legally, if only they weren't forced to buy an entire CD of crap for one good song. You see, they were forced to download illegal mp3s. Now that they have that option, they're being overcharged again, 99 cents is simply too much! Damn Apple for finding an attractive price point and trying to make a profit!
*Note: Yes, I'm aware that there are still problems such as how much the artists themselves actually make from each sale of a song. Baby steps.
I think it should be modded "-1: Ungrammatical" since I obviously didn't use the preview button.
You could market them as motivational calendars for nerds to get themselves to the gym or out for a jog. Imagine the incentive a glossy, fully color spread of Stallman in a speedo hanging on your wall.
Incorrect. All the companies I call ask for identifying numbers. Whether it be Phone#, last 4 SSN, CC, or Account#. Granted, when I call them, they usually ask for 2 or 3 piece of information to match up; such as mailing address, birthday, etc.
And just to cut the inevitable snarky comment off, yes they are the actual companies.
You are correct though. If you get an unsolicited contact through email or on the phone, don't trust them. If they are really from your institution, tell them you'll call them back on a number you know to be legit. If there's really a problem with your accounts that you need to know about, whoever you get on the line will know what it is. If there isn't, well, good job, you're helping against phishers by notifying the institution that someone is targeting people in their name.
Your comment history shows otherwise. Or is calling someone an asshat not insulting?
Granted, you also seem more amicable than I am, but don't play as though you are an innocent.
And, unfortunately, as much as I believe in the right of everyone to have a voice, Joe Sixpack and Sarah Soccermom are usually morons.
Because goatse.cx was truly an inspiration to anal stretchers the world over. I mean, let's face it, given total freedom, people come up with some pretty depraved stuff.
Yes, I know that they also come up with amazingly inspired stuff; but that's not what lawmakers are looking at when they draft this type of legislation.
Hrm. Did anyone notice the tags being used to describe this article?
Right now: truth, linux, flamebait, fud, rtfm
1 out of 5 is a given tag for the article (linux)
1 out of 5 is a positive personal opinion on the article (truth)
1 out of 5 is in the gray zone (could be positive or negative) (rtfm)
2 out of 5 are negative (flamebait, fud)
Seems the
So you think we should just throw up our hands and not try to fix the problem? Catching spammers and pedophiles is pretty pointless because they will always be there? Proficient Linux users shouldn't make the effort to be more civil to neophytes asking for assistance?
I agree with you here, but some people would say the same about slackware.
I think the key is the documentation. It's really gotten much better with linux in the past 5 years.
His summaries are usually concise and accurate and the linked articles are informative as well.
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Which contrasts quite nicely with the usual crap summaries that we get on
Anyone notice the number of people who have problems with separating the positions of a few individuals from those of an institution or organization?
Maybe I'm missing something. The article title suggests that datamining is not a frontier of research, the summary insinuates that there are no more uses for RDBMS systems since we have google, and the actual article talks about the use of MS SQL server to discover patterns in a set of data more efficiently and seemed to insinuate that many researchers overlook these technologies to analyze their datasets.
/. editor who approved it also smoking something?
If anything, the article is support for the use and continued development of datamining technologies.
My question is, was the article submitter smoking something? For that matter, was the
Ah, my mistake. I should've remembered. :)
I note that the http://www.caltechvsmit.com/ seems updated to reflect this hack. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but if not I have a question.
Caltech pulls a number of silly little pranks that, to be quite honest, no one really noticed, and garners 6 points for their "feud" with MIT... MIT students socially engineer themselves into being able to steal and drive Caltech's cannon across the United States, point it back at Caltech and install a large (really well made) brass rat onto the barrel of the cannon and create a plaque commemorating the heist.
All that's worth one point? Pff.
Not that I really care or anything; it's like my attitude towards the Red Sox... it's not until they're in the playoffs or the series that I pay attention.
The beauracracy of the federal government makes the most complex business look like a kid's lemonade stand. It would be awe inspiring if it weren't so frustrating to work with.
Unfortunately, unless he's got stars on his shoulders, or is a GS14, there's only so much he can do to get it implemented.
Both. The latter is particularly annoying as most DoD sites are written with Internet Explorer in mind. I use Firefox as much as possible when working with the web tools the military provides, but there are times when I simply have to fire up internet explorer to get my job done.
Software is the same. All are windows centric. It's annoying.
Here's the difference: In Sun's case, the hackers didn't alert Sun to the vulnerability. They just DOS'd a free service that Sun provided the world, causing headaches for people attempting to use the service. Their actions accomplished absolutely nothing (the grid was not affected), and resulted in Sun pulling a previously free product behind a security wall for which people are required to subscribe. Good going!
In this case, a researcher discovered a flaw in the browser, and instead of being an a$%hat by writing yet another worm or malicious program, alerted Microsoft to the bug. Which is now in the process of being patched.
Probably has something to do with this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
That said, this particular article is actually not too bad... the Slashdot title and summary sucks though.