I know these. A friend who likes to spend more on cameras than on computers had this because his old computer hadn't USB/firewire but he bought a brand new digicam.
I work as a contractor at a bank. Now, they are extremely paranoid about data being carried out of the bank. The only thing is: they aren't consequent. Yeah, they locked down the internet. Nobody can access it unless, you go on a second network that has internet access. No PC here has a CD drive (so no importing of your favourite games, screensavers and other crap and warez)
But they do allow diskettes (friggin diskettes! Do you know how much customer data you can put on a diskette?). Then I also found out that the "internet-network" (which only internals have access to with a NT username/password) operates simply on DHCP, no MAC address checking: the only "security-check" is the NT-Domain login. Why did I find this out? Simple: these morons allow contractors to have laptops, so I once just plugged it in that network. Worked instantly. Now there is a security concern in my eyes! For crying out loud, I have a Mac, I don't even need a crosscable to pump over data from my work-PC to my Mac. Imagine what kind of data I could take away with that! Nobody evere stopped me at the entrance/exit with my laptop bag. Nobody.
You see, if you want security, you need to ban every device that can be networked somehow. It's that simple. Yes, this includes your iPod. So, I supect that this is only a great concern in governmental instituation (top-secret clearance), but in the "highly sensitive environment" of banking they don't get it at all.
Hey, I pointed out their flaws and I was told to shut up.
So there is now a standard for militarisation, beneath which a country is undermilitarised?
I was comparing to the US, or China. The US has an overwhelming warmachine, and China just has sheer manpower.
Europe, as a whole, does not feel the need to go strutting around the world, pretending it is still an imperial power (cough UK cough), and thus has exactly zero need for any kind of a large standing army. This money is channeled into better areas, like anything except the military.
Hey, I said I am European. I am completely fine with the military weakness of Europe. I know we don't need any large military, and I prefer to see that money go into other area's. Like many Europeans, I feel: war == bad, military == war, thus military == bad. I personally know nobody in the military. I the US, everyone seems to have at least one military-guy in the family. It's a complete different mindset.
Besides, is your major force going to roll over the horizon out of the blue?
I was hypothetical. I don't see any danger, from any part of the world. Most wars are fought between neighbours and we are now in a fine neighborhood;-)
The difference between the EU and China is that given that two weeks warning, it could very effectively scale up its defences to knock back any invader, hard.
That's the only point where I disagree. What exactly makes you think that? I think we would be pretty much dependent on external help.
True, plus it has an additional protection: being surrounded by sea. I usually don't include the UK when talking about the EU, even though it's part of it. Why? You probably already know that yourself....
For example, the EU has over half that population, and it is a population that is better fed, better educated, better equipped, and better armed than the Chinese are ever likely to be
Now we probably are better fed, better educated is quite a question, and with better equipped (equipped with what?) I don't understand what you mean.
However: better armed? I doubt it highly. Perhaps we have a tad bit better guns, but the EU is grossly undermilitarized. I don't think we could defend ourselves longer than 2 weeks if a major force decided to invade the EU.
As far as the military goes, the EU is not much better than a 3rd world country. Believe me, I am European.
What you describe can happen. Another posted gave the example of whitehouse.com.
About 1.5 years after that, I had forgotten the new name, and typed in the old one. Porn. It had been a family-friendly web site before.
And that site... Did it have pictures that can be considered "hardcore" for free download? The odds are you saw censored pics a boob left and right. But for the hardcore content, you'd have to pay up. Unless your kid has access to your credit card that won't happen.
I'm not saying it is impossible... Just improbable.
No, I'm not going to watch my kids ever hour it is awake. I'll do it just as my parents did: if I came with strange questions (like the first time I saw BJ pictures), I'll explain. It's that simple.
My parents managed it without watching me all the time. This is about trust in your kids, I am going to trust my kids and be open to questions.
She looked for "shower games"? Huh? Okay, now first she was an adult. Not a child, which is the audience of these filters. Second, just out of curiosity, and because when I think of showers, I think of the wet variant to get clean, I did a google search . It doesn't give the results you claim it gives. Even the more obvious "cream pie" doesn't yield the sexual practice.
there's lots of spy/ad/malware
That's a computer security issue... Your IT staff at the library should take care of that. None of my machines has spyware (and I have a bunch of machines under my control)
If nothing else, all you need is one kid who types in whitehouse.com
I know about whitehouse.com.... If that kind of nudity offends you, you better stop watching TV too. Unless you pay you won't get much hard stuff.
I don't think it's flinging itself up on screens as the kids sit there, no, but it's not at all that hard to stumble into. The trick is teaching your kids how to handle it.
With this I agree. You can stumbe across it, but usually you need to pay up on those sites (linked from spam, obvous hijak-porn-sites). Besides, why do you think I posted "have a talk with the kid". That's the part you call "teaching your kids how to handle it".
I'm not a parent... So take everything I say with a grain of salt.
I have been on the internet for 10 years. Back then I was 17, which means I was not really a child. However one thing I learned quite quickly is that you have to search for porn/hatespeech/$fill_in_gross_stuff. Yes, I know rotten.com and I have visited it. Stuff there was quite a curiosity the first time I saw it.
Now, 10 years ago there was a child in this house. My sister. She was 12 back then. I did not once see anything questionable on her screen, nor in her browser cache (I used to monitor her stuff as a worried brother, my parents couldn't have done it) This means: if your kids go and visit those sites they have searched for it, or got the link from a friend. In the latter case you can be pretty sure they that they would have gotten the information anyways. I mean: how hard is it to go over to your friends place and ask him/her to show the site that you couldn't visit at home.
So, if I'm ever a parent, I'll just make sure to monitor what my kids do and not block their access. If I catch them doing something I can't condone then it'll just be time for a little chat.
McIntyre explained in a May 24 letter that the computer system - operated in the counterespionage section of the Justice Department's criminal division - "was not designed for mass export of all stored images" and said the system experiences "substantial problems."
Does this mean that they never make backups either? Sounds like just a bad excuse...
No, you got it all wrong. Those computer illiterate girlfriends have other advantages. I mean, some activities are much more enjoyable that trolling together with your girlfriend on slashdot;-)
That said: my previous girlfriend has an account on slashdot. She doesn't log in anymore, which is a good thing.
I can assure you it doesn't restore it in the 9x series. Both 2000 and XP come with some autorecovery functionality (if you've ever installed UltraEdit as a drop in replacement for Notepad, you have to turn that feature off for a while)
The reason I picked my mom is because she started to use email about a year ago. I have protected her toroughly from anything she wouldn't understand (read: too technical). I couldn't pick my dad or my siblings because they are all computer literate. My mom is the only one that is a newbie.
I could have used the generic "Aunt Sally" or "Uncle John", but I picked my mom. Nothing against my mom: she's a great woman and intelligent on top of that, but computers are the equivalent of magic to her.
That said, I could replace "mom" with "my girlfriend" who is equally computer illiterate, but saying that you've got a girlfriend lessens your cedibility on slashdot;-)
did any of it involve sending it on to someone else so they could laugh or possibly gulled?
I don't think I forward this particular hoax/joke. I did forward the BadTimes virus, because that one was insanely funny. Well, I only sent it to IT people that could get the joke. I wouldn't send this kind of stuff to people where I'd have the slightest doubt that they wouldn't get it.
Hehe, I was talking about my student times... back in 1994, when we got our first shell access and email on the uni server.
Today I'm one of those bastards that use Mail.App. The day I have got more time, I'll try installing Linux again (read: I have this nice desktop waiting for me to play with it, but I've some other priorities right now)
It does? I remember a friend of mine that deleted it in Windows 98 and it wasn't recreated. You're probably talking about Windows that has this auto-restore feature (which can be a pain in the ass), but then I have no XP machine so I don't even know if that particular file still exists.
I indeed know about the Morris worm (who doesn't?;-)) I meant more exploits in the style that are common with mail readers. I've never heard of any that was possible on a Unix machine. I'm not saying that they don't exist. I'm crossing my fingers.
There was another vulnerability involving the midi mime-type. Outlook just executed anything that declared itself to be midi and thus if it was an executable, it would run it without asking.
Yes, I got this one too, like probably everyone else here. Along with many others like the ones where Nokia gives away free cellphones. As an IT person I immediately see that they are just jokes, but I'm pretty sure my mom would think this could really happen.
On the other hand: back in the day we got email hoaxes stating there was a new virus that could be triggered by just opening the email. Back then we laughed with those pranks because we knew it was impossible. I kept laughing, until the day it really happened. Of course it didn't concern me because I read my email with pine, but I wasn't all too happy of that evolution... What I thought to be impossible had suddenly become a reality.
Next time people ask my phonenumber I'll tell them "phone@jawtheshark.com" or if they want my cell it'll be "gsm@jawtheshak.com". Now, I'll just have to wait until the telcos comply with that scheme;-)
But seriously, isn't it already that way? I only know two phone numbers: my cellphone and my normal phone. If I want to call someone I just look up their name in my "phonebook" on my cell or phone and I click "call". So in some way we already have the thing he talks about. You could consider the phonebook function in modern phones as an equivalent to a local "hosts" file.
This is not offtopic: When reading the headline I immediately thought of him. Dr Irving Schlock's whole inventory of inventions consists of inflatable goods.
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There is air in space that you can move with a fan? That's new to me!
Excuse me for not being a native english speaker. In dutch "consequent" means "consistent". Sorry for the mixup.
I know these. A friend who likes to spend more on cameras than on computers had this because his old computer hadn't USB/firewire but he bought a brand new digicam.
But they do allow diskettes (friggin diskettes! Do you know how much customer data you can put on a diskette?). Then I also found out that the "internet-network" (which only internals have access to with a NT username/password) operates simply on DHCP, no MAC address checking: the only "security-check" is the NT-Domain login. Why did I find this out? Simple: these morons allow contractors to have laptops, so I once just plugged it in that network. Worked instantly. Now there is a security concern in my eyes! For crying out loud, I have a Mac, I don't even need a crosscable to pump over data from my work-PC to my Mac. Imagine what kind of data I could take away with that! Nobody evere stopped me at the entrance/exit with my laptop bag. Nobody.
You see, if you want security, you need to ban every device that can be networked somehow. It's that simple. Yes, this includes your iPod. So, I supect that this is only a great concern in governmental instituation (top-secret clearance), but in the "highly sensitive environment" of banking they don't get it at all.
Hey, I pointed out their flaws and I was told to shut up.
I was comparing to the US, or China. The US has an overwhelming warmachine, and China just has sheer manpower.
Europe, as a whole, does not feel the need to go strutting around the world, pretending it is still an imperial power (cough UK cough), and thus has exactly zero need for any kind of a large standing army. This money is channeled into better areas, like anything except the military.
Hey, I said I am European. I am completely fine with the military weakness of Europe. I know we don't need any large military, and I prefer to see that money go into other area's. Like many Europeans, I feel: war == bad, military == war, thus military == bad. I personally know nobody in the military. I the US, everyone seems to have at least one military-guy in the family. It's a complete different mindset.
Besides, is your major force going to roll over the horizon out of the blue?
I was hypothetical. I don't see any danger, from any part of the world. Most wars are fought between neighbours and we are now in a fine neighborhood ;-)
The difference between the EU and China is that given that two weeks warning, it could very effectively scale up its defences to knock back any invader, hard.
That's the only point where I disagree. What exactly makes you think that? I think we would be pretty much dependent on external help.
True, plus it has an additional protection: being surrounded by sea. I usually don't include the UK when talking about the EU, even though it's part of it. Why? You probably already know that yourself....
Now we probably are better fed, better educated is quite a question, and with better equipped (equipped with what?) I don't understand what you mean.
However: better armed? I doubt it highly. Perhaps we have a tad bit better guns, but the EU is grossly undermilitarized. I don't think we could defend ourselves longer than 2 weeks if a major force decided to invade the EU.
As far as the military goes, the EU is not much better than a 3rd world country. Believe me, I am European.
About 1.5 years after that, I had forgotten the new name, and typed in the old one. Porn. It had been a family-friendly web site before.
And that site... Did it have pictures that can be considered "hardcore" for free download? The odds are you saw censored pics a boob left and right. But for the hardcore content, you'd have to pay up. Unless your kid has access to your credit card that won't happen.
I'm not saying it is impossible... Just improbable.
My parents managed it without watching me all the time. This is about trust in your kids, I am going to trust my kids and be open to questions.
If my parents managed, I also will.
there's lots of spy/ad/malware
That's a computer security issue... Your IT staff at the library should take care of that. None of my machines has spyware (and I have a bunch of machines under my control)
If nothing else, all you need is one kid who types in whitehouse.com
I know about whitehouse.com.... If that kind of nudity offends you, you better stop watching TV too. Unless you pay you won't get much hard stuff.
I don't think it's flinging itself up on screens as the kids sit there, no, but it's not at all that hard to stumble into. The trick is teaching your kids how to handle it.
With this I agree. You can stumbe across it, but usually you need to pay up on those sites (linked from spam, obvous hijak-porn-sites). Besides, why do you think I posted "have a talk with the kid". That's the part you call "teaching your kids how to handle it".
You should read some of the user journals. There are quite a lot of happy daddies around here.
I have been on the internet for 10 years. Back then I was 17, which means I was not really a child. However one thing I learned quite quickly is that you have to search for porn/hatespeech/$fill_in_gross_stuff. Yes, I know rotten.com and I have visited it. Stuff there was quite a curiosity the first time I saw it.
Now, 10 years ago there was a child in this house. My sister. She was 12 back then. I did not once see anything questionable on her screen, nor in her browser cache (I used to monitor her stuff as a worried brother, my parents couldn't have done it) This means: if your kids go and visit those sites they have searched for it, or got the link from a friend. In the latter case you can be pretty sure they that they would have gotten the information anyways. I mean: how hard is it to go over to your friends place and ask him/her to show the site that you couldn't visit at home.
So, if I'm ever a parent, I'll just make sure to monitor what my kids do and not block their access. If I catch them doing something I can't condone then it'll just be time for a little chat.
Does this mean that they never make backups either? Sounds like just a bad excuse...
That said: my previous girlfriend has an account on slashdot. She doesn't log in anymore, which is a good thing.
The bear thing is not important at all. There was a similar hoax that was related to long filenames in Win9x, which was sometimes a bit more troublesome.
I could have used the generic "Aunt Sally" or "Uncle John", but I picked my mom. Nothing against my mom: she's a great woman and intelligent on top of that, but computers are the equivalent of magic to her.
That said, I could replace "mom" with "my girlfriend" who is equally computer illiterate, but saying that you've got a girlfriend lessens your cedibility on slashdot ;-)
did any of it involve sending it on to someone else so they could laugh or possibly gulled?
I don't think I forward this particular hoax/joke. I did forward the BadTimes virus, because that one was insanely funny. Well, I only sent it to IT people that could get the joke. I wouldn't send this kind of stuff to people where I'd have the slightest doubt that they wouldn't get it.
Today I'm one of those bastards that use Mail.App. The day I have got more time, I'll try installing Linux again (read: I have this nice desktop waiting for me to play with it, but I've some other priorities right now)
It does? I remember a friend of mine that deleted it in Windows 98 and it wasn't recreated. You're probably talking about Windows that has this auto-restore feature (which can be a pain in the ass), but then I have no XP machine so I don't even know if that particular file still exists.
I indeed know about the Morris worm (who doesn't? ;-)) I meant more exploits in the style that are common with mail readers. I've never heard of any that was possible on a Unix machine. I'm not saying that they don't exist. I'm crossing my fingers.
There was another vulnerability involving the midi mime-type. Outlook just executed anything that declared itself to be midi and thus if it was an executable, it would run it without asking.
Has anyone ever used these exploits to write a (Unix) virus?
On the other hand: back in the day we got email hoaxes stating there was a new virus that could be triggered by just opening the email. Back then we laughed with those pranks because we knew it was impossible. I kept laughing, until the day it really happened. Of course it didn't concern me because I read my email with pine, but I wasn't all too happy of that evolution... What I thought to be impossible had suddenly become a reality.
But seriously, isn't it already that way? I only know two phone numbers: my cellphone and my normal phone. If I want to call someone I just look up their name in my "phonebook" on my cell or phone and I click "call". So in some way we already have the thing he talks about. You could consider the phonebook function in modern phones as an equivalent to a local "hosts" file.
My dad drives an A2, my girlfriend a A-Class and I have a friend who owns a Smart. You can't beat these kind of cars when you mainly do city traffic.
This is not offtopic: When reading the headline I immediately thought of him. Dr Irving Schlock's whole inventory of inventions consists of inflatable goods.