Decades of science fiction notwithstanding, it now seems the great threat to space exploration comes not from technologically advanced alien races, but from the same lowly fungi that attack dorm-room refrigerators.
AHHHHHH!!! If this fungus is anything like the one that was in _MY_ dorm-room refrigerator, they need to abandon ship and send it to crash into Jupiter or Uranus! Towards the end I didn't even open the fridge. I threw the whole thing away. I shudder to think of what it looked like by that time. SHUDDER
This has to be a white hat effort. Think about it, what information which could net a profit for the hackers does the/. database contain? A bunch of email addresses. Of these addresses, most are either spam holes or the addresses of geeks who are typically violently anti-spam. If someone sold this email address list the buyer would get LARTed by about 98% of the active account holders. And even of the 2% that wouldn't LART the spammer, how many do you think would take more than a passing glance at the spam? 0.000000000000000069% give or take JonKatz.
Even more damming, can you imagine the type of colossal idiot it would take to buy a list of email addresses which is about 90% geeks? "Hmm, should I buy the addresses of wealthy known philanthropists? Or should I target my spam towards a known group of spam-hating technophiles? I'll take the/. list!"
Now I have to go and change the email address I signed up with, my passwords and make sure my karma is the same...Oh wait, I signed up with a spam hole email account that I only checked once to get my password, kept the generated password they issued me so I don't have conflicts with this password and any other systems and I don't give a damn about karma.
Way to go guys! You guys are 31337! (notice the 3 at the beginning, I may speak lamerese, but that doesn't mean I can't speak proper lamerese) It's pretty damn funny to hack/. post a story, fix the hole, and then let the admins know about it. I just hope it doesn't come out later that you guys did something more, that would really undermine a lot of the white hats efforts.
Silly po boy! Of course I didn't let them have my dl number. I put down some random number which matched mine for about four digits. Just in case they asked.
If someone is willing to take the hosting site's word at face value with regard to eyeball real-estate, then I've got some banner ads (and a bridge) to sell them.
And this is the really sad part. The information age has created a new type of cyber-criminal. The false information broker. Society is moving away from products and building multi-purpose machines. As a whole were're more service oriented than we used to be. This means all our assets and business transactions are on paper. Nothing tangible is being exchanged. And typically we have such a high volume of data being transferred that it can't be checked for 100% accuracy. I signed up for one of those "saver" cards at a local grocery store(part of a national chain) and totally faked the information on the signup sheet(I get enough spam as it is, thank you very much) No one caught it, even though an application with an address of 1600 Penn Ave in Ft. Worth, Utah with a completely made up Zip code and a Texas DL number showing up at a store in Tennessee _should_ have raised an eyebrow or two.
So now we have the buyers and the sellers. A buyer can't always trust a seller and a seller can't always trust a buyer. Enter the middleman who keeps both parties honest. Am I the only one saddened by the necessity of a service like this?
It's mainly the larger, enterprise wide re-imaging, which causes problems. Microsoft may check up on HP's licence issues and call them on it if they have violations. But small companies? I don't think Microsoft is going to spend the time or legal fees in tracking down a 30 person shop which has "illegal" re-imaged disks. But they may hunt down one or two to make an example of. Once this settles down a little, people will get back to business ignoring stupid license agreements.
Felonys are things like Grand Larceny, and Killing Grandma. Serious repercussions and lots of damages are required for something to be a Felony, right?
Nope, not in the US. You forgot the national motto. A Government by the People in the Corporation's pockets, of the People in the Corporations Pockets and for the Corporations.
Why do you think the line denoting dollar totals is the _Bottom_ line. It has the final word in any debate. Period.
Either that or the process of inbreeding will produce a SUPER DeCSS strain which is resistant to all known legal tactics but is so blitheringly bad at decoding DVD's that people would switch back to proprietary implementations.
This thinking is fine and good, but this is impropriety of venue. Ask on one of the newsgroups, I bet there's one which would have a more focused readership and would be far more likely to yield a useful answer. Why start yet another thread which will simply degenerate into lamentations over DeCSS?
And, I need no provocation to blame Slashdot for acting like idiots.
HeadHancho at Intermedia: We can't write any software for Linux, since we haven't bribed the Demon properly! The last time we used up half of our programming staff for Virgin Sacrifices!
And yet their marketing department is still fully staffed. Hmmm, I wonder when it's going to come out in a Dilbert cartoon that the PHBs throw huge orgies for the Marketing guys to motivate them and give the engineers little refrigerator magnets which say "We value excellence."
from the and-what's-the-easiest-way-to-get-DNA dept.
So you're implying that this guy stood beside an assembley line and jizzed on every single piece of "Official" Olympic Merchandise? Damn! What event is he an athelete for? I bet it's something which requires a lot of stamina.
After reading far too many replies arguing about the metric vs standard system and quoting obscure and often irrelevant documents about the origins and specifics of these "standards" I just have one thing to say.
You guys are going to have sooo much egg on your face the next time Q takes it into his head to change the gravitational constant of the universe.
You go to the grocery store and buy some stuff. You slide your saver card across and save 40 cents on toilet paper. Now we know who you are and based on how much toilet paper you bought this week, about how many times you take a dump.
Nope, you think you know it, but you're actually tracking some guy with a similar name who lives at 1600 Penn Ave in Ft. Worth Utah, Zip Code 75473(I just made that up, no idea where that zip code really is, or if it exists)
Maybe you pay for your gas with that exxon credit card. Now we know that's the third time you bought gas this week and we have your credit history to dig through too.
I take the bus, but if I drove I'd pay cash for gas.
Maybe you call someone on your cell phone (Which we see you paid for with your credit card this month.) Now we have your calling record, we know who you're talking to, when and for how long.
Nope, no cell phone.
We know about all those live goat porn sites you're so fond of browsing from AOL.
Nope, browse those from work and still have the guy who was here before me's profile in place on my desktop, use it whenever I'm doing something questionable.
We know what songs you download with napster
Use IRC and UseNet to get my pirated MP3's Thank you very much.
what movies you rent at blockbuster,
Don't own a TV, ergo, don't rent movies.
what CDs you buy at the music store.
Buy from online stores, have them delivered to a PO Box. Fudge user information.
We know what kind of car you drive.
Use public transportation, missed me again huh?
We know when you buy a latte at starbucks.
Don't drink coffee.
We know what you watch on cable.
Just in case you forgot, no TV.
Find a place that doesn't use computers these days. It's next to impossible to stay off our radar.
But your radar is really easy to confuse with chaff like I did with the people at the supermarket when I filled out the form for my "saver" card.
Seems to me that if we organized and communicated just a bit, we could take over and run the show. Quietly and behind the scenes, we could be Big Brother. Because it ain't Lars out there writing the software that runs all that stuff.
Nope, you'd miss me, and even if we did this, we'd be no better than the marketing guys we all despise and we'd all have to commit Hari Keri(sp? I've never seen it written)
Ah yes, but you see, with the P4, Intel has released their most versatile processor ever. For instance, you want a Sledgehammer? Sure! Just buy a P4, put the heatsink on it, JB Weld on a handle and TA-DA! A sledgehammer!
Just think about it for a second. Intel is designing computers with built-in theft deterrent systems. Who want's to steal a desktop when they're guaranteed a hernia just for picking the damn thing up?
I'm certainly deterred by the P4, and I guess that's the real proof this is a Theft-Deterrent because according to the RIAA I'm a thief.:p
so, trolls are the end result of millions of years of human evolution? Especially the annoying trolls that flame other trolls? What about OGG the Open Source Caveman? Is he the missing link?
Slashdot Mirror
I can just go back to the older story, cut and paste all the high-scoring comments, sit back and watch the karma just roll in. Thanks Hemos!
Steven
Decades of science fiction notwithstanding, it now seems the great threat to space exploration comes not from technologically advanced alien races, but from the same lowly fungi that attack dorm-room refrigerators.
AHHHHHH!!! If this fungus is anything like the one that was in _MY_ dorm-room refrigerator, they need to abandon ship and send it to crash into Jupiter or Uranus! Towards the end I didn't even open the fridge. I threw the whole thing away. I shudder to think of what it looked like by that time. SHUDDER
Steven
This has to be a white hat effort. Think about it, what information which could net a profit for the hackers does the /. database contain? A bunch of email addresses. Of these addresses, most are either spam holes or the addresses of geeks who are typically violently anti-spam. If someone sold this email address list the buyer would get LARTed by about 98% of the active account holders. And even of the 2% that wouldn't LART the spammer, how many do you think would take more than a passing glance at the spam? 0.000000000000000069% give or take JonKatz.
/. list!"
Even more damming, can you imagine the type of colossal idiot it would take to buy a list of email addresses which is about 90% geeks? "Hmm, should I buy the addresses of wealthy known philanthropists? Or should I target my spam towards a known group of spam-hating technophiles? I'll take the
Steven
Now I have to go and change the email address I signed up with, my passwords and make sure my karma is the same...Oh wait, I signed up with a spam hole email account that I only checked once to get my password, kept the generated password they issued me so I don't have conflicts with this password and any other systems and I don't give a damn about karma.
/. post a story, fix the hole, and then let the admins know about it. I just hope it doesn't come out later that you guys did something more, that would really undermine a lot of the white hats efforts.
Way to go guys! You guys are 31337! (notice the 3 at the beginning, I may speak lamerese, but that doesn't mean I can't speak proper lamerese) It's pretty damn funny to hack
Steven
Silly po boy! Of course I didn't let them have my dl number. I put down some random number which matched mine for about four digits. Just in case they asked.
steven
Stop it! Stop sending the spam! Spamming is the one thing the Knights who LART spammers can not stand!
[one of the knights gets a new msn address]
Ah! I spammed us! Quick change our email address! Agh!! I spammed us again! Agh, ogh, egh [rolls around on the floor in agony]
Steven
If someone is willing to take the hosting site's word at face value with regard to eyeball real-estate, then I've got some banner ads (and a bridge) to sell them.
And this is the really sad part. The information age has created a new type of cyber-criminal. The false information broker. Society is moving away from products and building multi-purpose machines. As a whole were're more service oriented than we used to be. This means all our assets and business transactions are on paper. Nothing tangible is being exchanged. And typically we have such a high volume of data being transferred that it can't be checked for 100% accuracy. I signed up for one of those "saver" cards at a local grocery store(part of a national chain) and totally faked the information on the signup sheet(I get enough spam as it is, thank you very much) No one caught it, even though an application with an address of 1600 Penn Ave in Ft. Worth, Utah with a completely made up Zip code and a Texas DL number showing up at a store in Tennessee _should_ have raised an eyebrow or two.
So now we have the buyers and the sellers. A buyer can't always trust a seller and a seller can't always trust a buyer. Enter the middleman who keeps both parties honest. Am I the only one saddened by the necessity of a service like this?
Steven
"The Space Shuttle JonKatz lifted off this morning. It will remain in orbit for three weeks."
Not nearly long enough. Send JonKatz to check out Europa, then maybe we'll be free of FUD for a while.
Steven
It's mainly the larger, enterprise wide re-imaging, which causes problems. Microsoft may check up on HP's licence issues and call them on it if they have violations. But small companies? I don't think Microsoft is going to spend the time or legal fees in tracking down a 30 person shop which has "illegal" re-imaged disks. But they may hunt down one or two to make an example of. Once this settles down a little, people will get back to business ignoring stupid license agreements.
Steven
Donate it to the Stone Soupercomputer project
e Soup/beowulf.html
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~xpan/beowulf/ston
That's what I intend to do with my PC once it's no longer worth upgrading.
Steven
Felonys are things like Grand Larceny, and Killing Grandma. Serious repercussions and lots of damages are required for something to be a Felony, right?
Nope, not in the US. You forgot the national motto. A Government by the People in the Corporation's pockets, of the People in the Corporations Pockets and for the Corporations.
Why do you think the line denoting dollar totals is the _Bottom_ line. It has the final word in any debate. Period.
Steven
Do you have any idea what might come out of AIM if we open it up? *SHUDDER* Scarier than a bratwurst left under the heatlamp at 7-11 for a month.
Steven
[PARANOIA] One of the moderators is an undercover agent for the motion picture industry! [/PARANOIA]
I noticed that too. Some people have no sense of humor. All the ones I saw which got modded down as trolls were obvious attempts at humor.
Steven
Either that or the process of inbreeding will produce a SUPER DeCSS strain which is resistant to all known legal tactics but is so blitheringly bad at decoding DVD's that people would switch back to proprietary implementations.
Steven
This thinking is fine and good, but this is impropriety of venue. Ask on one of the newsgroups, I bet there's one which would have a more focused readership and would be far more likely to yield a useful answer. Why start yet another thread which will simply degenerate into lamentations over DeCSS?
And, I need no provocation to blame Slashdot for acting like idiots.
Steven
HeadHancho at Intermedia: We can't write any software for Linux, since we haven't bribed the Demon properly! The last time we used up half of our programming staff for Virgin Sacrifices!
And yet their marketing department is still fully staffed. Hmmm, I wonder when it's going to come out in a Dilbert cartoon that the PHBs throw huge orgies for the Marketing guys to motivate them and give the engineers little refrigerator magnets which say "We value excellence."
Steven
from the and-what's-the-easiest-way-to-get-DNA dept.
So you're implying that this guy stood beside an assembley line and jizzed on every single piece of "Official" Olympic Merchandise? Damn! What event is he an athelete for? I bet it's something which requires a lot of stamina.
Steven
That a question which only Intervideo can answer is being posted as a "Ask Slashdot"?
Ask Slashdot, if we don't know, we'll make something up.
Steven
After reading far too many replies arguing about the metric vs standard system and quoting obscure and often irrelevant documents about the origins and specifics of these "standards" I just have one thing to say.
You guys are going to have sooo much egg on your face the next time Q takes it into his head to change the gravitational constant of the universe.
Steven
You go to the grocery store and buy some stuff. You slide your saver card across and save 40 cents on toilet paper. Now we know who you are and based on how much toilet paper you bought this week, about how many times you take a dump.
Nope, you think you know it, but you're actually tracking some guy with a similar name who lives at 1600 Penn Ave in Ft. Worth Utah, Zip Code 75473(I just made that up, no idea where that zip code really is, or if it exists)
Maybe you pay for your gas with that exxon credit card. Now we know that's the third time you bought gas this week and we have your credit history to dig through too.
I take the bus, but if I drove I'd pay cash for gas.
Maybe you call someone on your cell phone (Which we see you paid for with your credit card this month.) Now we have your calling record, we know who you're talking to, when and for how long.
Nope, no cell phone.
We know about all those live goat porn sites you're so fond of browsing from AOL.
Nope, browse those from work and still have the guy who was here before me's profile in place on my desktop, use it whenever I'm doing something questionable.
We know what songs you download with napster
Use IRC and UseNet to get my pirated MP3's Thank you very much.
what movies you rent at blockbuster,
Don't own a TV, ergo, don't rent movies.
what CDs you buy at the music store.
Buy from online stores, have them delivered to a PO Box. Fudge user information.
We know what kind of car you drive.
Use public transportation, missed me again huh?
We know when you buy a latte at starbucks.
Don't drink coffee.
We know what you watch on cable.
Just in case you forgot, no TV.
Find a place that doesn't use computers these days. It's next to impossible to stay off our radar.
But your radar is really easy to confuse with chaff like I did with the people at the supermarket when I filled out the form for my "saver" card.
Seems to me that if we organized and communicated just a bit, we could take over and run the show. Quietly and behind the scenes, we could be Big Brother. Because it ain't Lars out there writing the software that runs all that stuff.
Nope, you'd miss me, and even if we did this, we'd be no better than the marketing guys we all despise and we'd all have to commit Hari Keri(sp? I've never seen it written)
Steven(or maybe not?)
Ah yes, but you see, with the P4, Intel has released their most versatile processor ever. For instance, you want a Sledgehammer? Sure! Just buy a P4, put the heatsink on it, JB Weld on a handle and TA-DA! A sledgehammer!
Steven
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Umm no? Your link is for advertisers to opt out. For consumers? This one is the right one
p rivacy.htm
http://www.doubleclick.net:8080/privacy_policy/
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Just think about it for a second. Intel is designing computers with built-in theft deterrent systems. Who want's to steal a desktop when they're guaranteed a hernia just for picking the damn thing up?
:p
I'm certainly deterred by the P4, and I guess that's the real proof this is a Theft-Deterrent because according to the RIAA I'm a thief.
Steven
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They've resurrected Kenny! You bastards!
Steven
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so, trolls are the end result of millions of years of human evolution? Especially the annoying trolls that flame other trolls? What about OGG the Open Source Caveman? Is he the missing link?
Steven