They could also make up excuses like "oh, just a quick call, trying to save money, I'm really not loud." People will find a way to justify it, just like they do with driving. Even if that's 1% of cellphone users (my perception might be high because I don't notice polite users), that still equals hundreds+ of abusers each day on aircraft. Where does someone appeal to when it's annoying and there's no rules against cellphone use?
That's a terrible idea. I'm not in the business of selling your product. If your product bombs because it sucks I still did my responsibility of getting traffic to your website.
You're correct that 911 and 1-800-hot-sexx would have a number for your PBX. That's because they don't use caller id. Caller id is sent with the phone number as extra data so your PBX can send whatever it wants. I forgot the name of what 911/800 uses, but it's completely different.
The system that 1-800 numbers and 911 calls is different than caller id. And yes, you could use a PBX and pick any random number. Kevin Mitnick (hypothetically) used it in his book to give a number like "x213" to make it look like a call was internal.
Putting a different From: in your email is the same thing as spoofing caller id. If you've been using it as authoritative then you're wrong. The operators at the phone company are making fun of (l)users like you for not knowing that.
I know that a lot of people are posting their stats that show ~30% Moz these days. I think mine is a little more extreme: I was getting 45% Mozilla in December of 2000. It then leveled off to about 20% when my site started getting a little more traffic from different sources. It's still around 20% with the 1mil pages/month traffic I get now.
So getting large percentages of Gecko based browsers on your tech website is not even a recent trend. I'd go with big sites like thecounter.com. Their stats are a little behind, but they record a hell of lot more stats than any of us and have a broader range. They also show around 2% for September this year, so Firefox has a long way to go.
Why repost comments and be a karma whore? You could instead repost stories and become an editor.
Lock picking for fun and profit
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At work we have 4 of those 8' tall cabinets with the small keys and cheap locks. My building has 80 people working in it, so it was a pain when someone used the cabinet and ran off with the key. Who could it be? I told them I could knew how to pick locks. Really I meant that I saw a tutorial on howstuffworks.com about 6 months ago. I was talking out my ass but gave it a shot anyway. In about 2 minutes I had picked their crappy lock and we could tell who took the key by the stuff that was in the cabinet. Everyone in my office kept saying "I don't want to know what you did before you worked here." I tried to keep my "skills" quiet though. Didn't want people looking to me when stuff went missing.
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It also says
"To mark the start of its 20th season last September, the quiz show lifted its five-game limit for winners and allowed them to keep going until they lose."
Is there a non-US site somewhere that covers news events in other parts of the world? I'd like to visit it and bitch about improper spelling, units, and holidays that don't apply to my region. There has to be some level of abstraction on a news site.
Anyone running their own PBX can spoof caller ID, it's just a PBX is too expensive for most people. The service lets small entities spoof caller-id. So a lot of the "legitimate" uses posted are things that companies can already do. Read Mitnick's book sometime, it covers that.
Actually, France produces so much electricity that they have to sell it to neighbors at below cost just to get rid of it. A nuclear energy ban is still stupid, but so is having 75% of the nation's electricity produced by nuclear reactors.
if I got the binary (or compiled one myself) and made it available on my site for free download, will they be cool about it?
They should. One of the big advantages of using open source is when asshole corporations want to start charging too much for support or something, you can just get the source and support it yourself. I'm guessing that the guy trying to make money will be pushed aside and free software will continue to be distributed (for free).
The way I see it: It's nice to know someone at MS isn't a stupid drone, and is at equal or greater technical prowress of my parents (who figured out that mozilla would be a good idea).
The thing is the Indian help centers were incapable of doing their job as well as native speakers. So it's not just who will do it for less, it's who can actually do the job.
Yeah, I was playing Evil Dead the other day and saw a blatant ad for S-Mart. It was terrible because it wasn't a billboard or anything, it was actually part of the storyline.
This stat comes up all the time. I still haven't seen their methodology. If they used their own mailbox, their may be filtering that they don't know about.
Also, the US is the orgins of "42 percent of spam", but what does that mean? That 42 percent of an email comes from a spammer in the US, possibly through a 3rd party server? 42 of businesses advertised are US businesses? Or what everyone seems to imply, that 42% come from zombie servers in the US.
Lets not forget that "42% of all spam" is a bad statistic, I want to know what it is per capita, or per legit email sent.
I guess we have to blame all those people that said "hey, there's so much violence on TV, what's the big deal about Janet's boob?" Did you really think that the result would be more boobs on TV? Where am I supposed to get my sex and violence now? Yeah, thanks a lot.
The problem is the lack of accountability. The people sharing these files are already breaking the UCMJ, specifically failure to obey, by installing unauthorized software. If those pictures are from a military computer, then they most likely downloaded from a personal camera that shouldn't have been attached to the network as well.
2nd, these aren't classified documents or pictures. Should it be protected? Absolutely, but it's not classified. The problem isn't floppy drives specifically, there are procedures for floppies in class machines that stops data from getting back into unclass. If you work with class computers+floppies then you know the procedure.
Another thing, the picture of the girl is a common one distributed on P2P networks, and has been for maybe a year.
Where I'm going with this is... While I agree that the military needs more accountability in computers, the web site author is overstating the problem in an attempt to get some shock value out of it. He's doing that so people might be pressured/scared into securing their networks better.
What might be interesting would be a "Phisher Identifier" built into mail clients that could identify bogus or unauthorized URLs based on a very carefully maintained database of legitimate URLs.
FYI, ebay already does this with their ebay toolbar (see account guard). I think a blacklist of scam sites is great.
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They could also make up excuses like "oh, just a quick call, trying to save money, I'm really not loud." People will find a way to justify it, just like they do with driving. Even if that's 1% of cellphone users (my perception might be high because I don't notice polite users), that still equals hundreds+ of abusers each day on aircraft. Where does someone appeal to when it's annoying and there's no rules against cellphone use?
Hey asshole, it's a free country!
They're already being loud on their cellphone and pissing people off, and you think they care what you say?
That's a terrible idea. I'm not in the business of selling your product. If your product bombs because it sucks I still did my responsibility of getting traffic to your website.
I put up a tiny resized version of the finished project, since that was really all I wanted to see (and all I can afford to host). HERE
You're correct that 911 and 1-800-hot-sexx would have a number for your PBX. That's because they don't use caller id. Caller id is sent with the phone number as extra data so your PBX can send whatever it wants. I forgot the name of what 911/800 uses, but it's completely different.
The system that 1-800 numbers and 911 calls is different than caller id. And yes, you could use a PBX and pick any random number. Kevin Mitnick (hypothetically) used it in his book to give a number like "x213" to make it look like a call was internal.
Putting a different From: in your email is the same thing as spoofing caller id. If you've been using it as authoritative then you're wrong. The operators at the phone company are making fun of (l)users like you for not knowing that.
I know that a lot of people are posting their stats that show ~30% Moz these days. I think mine is a little more extreme: I was getting 45% Mozilla in December of 2000 . It then leveled off to about 20% when my site started getting a little more traffic from different sources. It's still around 20% with the 1mil pages/month traffic I get now.
So getting large percentages of Gecko based browsers on your tech website is not even a recent trend. I'd go with big sites like thecounter.com. Their stats are a little behind, but they record a hell of lot more stats than any of us and have a broader range. They also show around 2% for September this year, so Firefox has a long way to go.
Why repost comments and be a karma whore? You could instead repost stories and become an editor.
At work we have 4 of those 8' tall cabinets with the small keys and cheap locks. My building has 80 people working in it, so it was a pain when someone used the cabinet and ran off with the key. Who could it be? I told them I could knew how to pick locks. Really I meant that I saw a tutorial on howstuffworks.com about 6 months ago. I was talking out my ass but gave it a shot anyway. In about 2 minutes I had picked their crappy lock and we could tell who took the key by the stuff that was in the cabinet. Everyone in my office kept saying "I don't want to know what you did before you worked here." I tried to keep my "skills" quiet though. Didn't want people looking to me when stuff went missing.
It also says
"To mark the start of its 20th season last September, the quiz show lifted its five-game limit for winners and allowed them to keep going until they lose."
Aren't I informative??
Is there a non-US site somewhere that covers news events in other parts of the world? I'd like to visit it and bitch about improper spelling, units, and holidays that don't apply to my region. There has to be some level of abstraction on a news site.
Anyone running their own PBX can spoof caller ID, it's just a PBX is too expensive for most people. The service lets small entities spoof caller-id. So a lot of the "legitimate" uses posted are things that companies can already do. Read Mitnick's book sometime, it covers that.
Actually, France produces so much electricity that they have to sell it to neighbors at below cost just to get rid of it. A nuclear energy ban is still stupid, but so is having 75% of the nation's electricity produced by nuclear reactors.
if I got the binary (or compiled one myself) and made it available on my site for free download, will they be cool about it?
They should. One of the big advantages of using open source is when asshole corporations want to start charging too much for support or something, you can just get the source and support it yourself. I'm guessing that the guy trying to make money will be pushed aside and free software will continue to be distributed (for free).
The way I see it: It's nice to know someone at MS isn't a stupid drone, and is at equal or greater technical prowress of my parents (who figured out that mozilla would be a good idea).
The thing is the Indian help centers were incapable of doing their job as well as native speakers. So it's not just who will do it for less, it's who can actually do the job.
That's not funny. Slashdot is my whole internet :( I don't even read the articles, I just post random "funny" comments based on the headline.
Yeah, I was playing Evil Dead the other day and saw a blatant ad for S-Mart. It was terrible because it wasn't a billboard or anything, it was actually part of the storyline.
This stat comes up all the time. I still haven't seen their methodology. If they used their own mailbox, their may be filtering that they don't know about.
Also, the US is the orgins of "42 percent of spam", but what does that mean? That 42 percent of an email comes from a spammer in the US, possibly through a 3rd party server? 42 of businesses advertised are US businesses? Or what everyone seems to imply, that 42% come from zombie servers in the US.
Lets not forget that "42% of all spam" is a bad statistic, I want to know what it is per capita, or per legit email sent.
It was already on slashdot too. Looks like *you* were the one not paying attention.
I guess there goes my dream of being a human powered .. helicopter ... pilot. Soaring through the ... 3-meter-sphere. Okay, nevermind.
I guess we have to blame all those people that said "hey, there's so much violence on TV, what's the big deal about Janet's boob?" Did you really think that the result would be more boobs on TV? Where am I supposed to get my sex and violence now? Yeah, thanks a lot.
The problem is the lack of accountability. The people sharing these files are already breaking the UCMJ, specifically failure to obey, by installing unauthorized software. If those pictures are from a military computer, then they most likely downloaded from a personal camera that shouldn't have been attached to the network as well.
2nd, these aren't classified documents or pictures. Should it be protected? Absolutely, but it's not classified. The problem isn't floppy drives specifically, there are procedures for floppies in class machines that stops data from getting back into unclass. If you work with class computers+floppies then you know the procedure.
Another thing, the picture of the girl is a common one distributed on P2P networks, and has been for maybe a year.
Where I'm going with this is... While I agree that the military needs more accountability in computers, the web site author is overstating the problem in an attempt to get some shock value out of it. He's doing that so people might be pressured/scared into securing their networks better.
What might be interesting would be a "Phisher Identifier" built into mail clients that could identify bogus or unauthorized URLs based on a very carefully maintained database of legitimate URLs.
FYI, ebay already does this with their ebay toolbar (see account guard). I think a blacklist of scam sites is great.