Glasses would be a good anti-phishing tool... Seems almost 95% of the sites I come across just replace a . with a - somewhere
A normal-sized brain behind the glasses would work very well too. I mean, for example, the Microsoft-looking emails that require you to give a password, or a CC number or something: who the hell with a normal intelligence would fall for that one?
Most scams look exactly like that: scams. They're so easy to spot with a vaguely critical eye that it's not funny. The problem is, who will educate a public that doesn't understand much about computers in the first place?
I don't know, I've been using the very latest in encryption technology: "cat/dev/urandom > file_to_encrypt". It works very well indeed. Even I can't recover the original content, that's how secure it is!
Is Linux truly a modern OS? Let's be realistic here.
Is a Northstar engine a modern ICE?
It's called modern because it's the same old stuff that's proven to work, yes, but with a lot of technical improvements and a solid helping of public perception dusting.
And also, the real value of Linux isn't its technology or its architecture (god forbids), but in its community. That concept, in the scale it's applied in the free software world today, is quite novel.
It's a good read, and in this day and age of software dinosaurs trying for peaceful co-existence with Linux
They coexist with Linux the same way Ralph Nader coexists with Bush and Kerry: occationally he makes noises and sounds really serious, but ultimately he doesn't really matter...
According to PhysOrg we are close to being able to record our entire lives on a single 3.5" optical disc.
If I trust what I learned with the 12cm optical disks I currently use (CDRs), my entire life would last about 2 years before getting unreadable.
At any rate, even if the media lasts for a long time, which will remain to prove with this new technology, the problem with computer storage is almost always finding drives to read them in the long run. Tried to read a 5 1/4 diskette recently?
Re:Article restored my faith (in Craigslist)
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My faith in (as Craig calls us) nerds is restored. We gotta make a living but we don't have to sell out.
Just wait till Craigslist gets really big and Craig Newmark sells out, to make a handsome lump and retire early, while you'll still go to work looking for some other honest nerd to have faith in.
What do you think? that the guy is immune to the lure of money? hell, if I was him, I'd try to pose as an honest nerd until I can sell everything and move to Grand Caiman...
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Q: A former employee of Craigslist sold 25 percent of the firm to EBay Friday. Did you try to stop this?
A: We tried to channel it toward a partner we could live with, with a similar moral compass. It was not my intention to have any of this happen, but we're happy with the results.
In other words:
A: Yeah, it really blows. Because we still have business morals, where eBay don't have much. We'd have prefered a partner with some morals left, but now they're stuck their foot in our doors, hey, I guess eBay is really really great after all...
Get a history book. Sardinia was French under Napoleon. Look up the roots of the word "maffia" in a dictionary to figure out what the parent poster was referring to...
Imagine if you could broadcast anything over the radio without fear of the FCC, as long as your station was popular enough to pay your broadcast bills instead of your fines to the government?
Imagine that, perhaps, not all radio emissions generate money. Imagine that researchers and hams get trampled on by some company because the company has millions to throw at a piece of the spectrum and the researcher/ham doesn't?
Imagine you have a small dinky radio station that broadcasts programs for "friends of the earth" and other ecologists, and Texaco buys out all the spectrum available, and that *oops, too bad* the dinky station can't broadcast anything?
Imagine that. It'd be great wouldn't it? I can't figure out whether you're an idiot, a troll or a convinced republican...
There are online sex partner simulators all over the innurnet. They're not too realistic though, as the feedback device feels very much like a squeezing hand...
Re:1st post and evil AOL
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My grandfather tried to cancel his AOL account by dying
Look, condolances and all, but really you shouldn't do that to me when I'm drinking:-)
Re:basic... very basic.
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If you're going to evaluate the real value of this deal then price up a similar spec PC and include a 12-month subscription to a ISP on par with AOL in terms of service
Yes okay, let's do that:
AOL box:
1 x piss-poor PC: $299 1 x full year of AOL: $286.80 = $586.79, as the parent poster kindly calculted
Similar offering, not AOL:
1 x piss-poor PC, but probably better than AOL's: $350 1 x full year of any cheapo dialup ISP, but probably better than AOL: $180 = $530.00
So AOL worth an extra $56.79? I think not...
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the main reason someone would buy a PC like this is to get on the web.
You need a minimum of 256M, 2GHz CPU and 50G hdd just to get on the web?? Tell me, how much did you pay that Cray that can go on the web *and* do word processing as well (!!)?
Sheesh, I don't what planet you live on. I use a P1-133 as a secondary computer just to go on the web in my electronics lab and browse technical PDFs.
Get off it. Mitnick was a moron who couldn't compile his own code. He was a con man
FYI, most great hackers are first and foremost great social engineers (the hacker's term for con man). It's a lot easier to gain root access on a box by calling the secretary and convincing her to give you the boss' password "for maintenance reasons" than actually hacking the box.
Mitnick was a con man, that's for sure. But he conned people to gain access to knowledge, and to understand something in depth, not to gain money or steal something. To me, social engineering someone to gain access to technical documentation because you're dying to read it for the hell of learning something new is the hallmark of a real hacker.
All this idiot did was make a few changes to somebody else's virus, hit send, and get caught.
Yes, and you know the saddest thing? Most talented hackers, like Morris or even Mitnick, can look forward to full time employment as a security expert at some IT company, due to their fame, after they're done being punished for their deeds. It's an expensive way to get famous, but at least they're famous, at least in computer circles.
This moron on the other hand can look forward to be punished, like hackers, and then apply for a job at Wendy's, because in the eyes of any employer, he'll always be less desirable than a failed CS student, until his script kiddie fame fades away slowly.
Just entertain the thought for a moment: could it be , just by some remote chance, that with Microsoft about the kill the A/V market on Windows, the recent release of new viruses on the previously untouched smart cellphone target isn't just a coincidence?
I mean, you've got to admit, cell phones that do many things a computer does and require a complex OS aren't exactly new, and they've always been "networked" (by definition), but somehow it's only now that this market could provide a bail-out route from the Windows platform for A/V companies that these viruses come out. Strange isn't it?
Slashdot Mirror
what spywares? what spyware removal software? what worms? what "20 minutes is the average amount of time for your computer to get infected to death"?
I use Linux exclusively and I can relate less and less with what Slashdot talks about these days. Which is ironic if you think about it...
fucking! Unless I see robots fucking, I'm not interested!
You can start by looking inside your PC: there are many boards in there, playfully inserted in slots, and some of them are really hot.
Glasses would be a good anti-phishing tool... Seems almost 95% of the sites I come across just replace a . with a - somewhere
A normal-sized brain behind the glasses would work very well too. I mean, for example, the Microsoft-looking emails that require you to give a password, or a CC number or something: who the hell with a normal intelligence would fall for that one?
Most scams look exactly like that: scams. They're so easy to spot with a vaguely critical eye that it's not funny. The problem is, who will educate a public that doesn't understand much about computers in the first place?
NOTHING IS SECURE FOREVER!
/dev/urandom > file_to_encrypt". It works very well indeed. Even I can't recover the original content, that's how secure it is!
I don't know, I've been using the very latest in encryption technology: "cat
Many systems, especially those that use cryptography for digital signatures are most at risk here."
Well, they still beat some Microsoft "encryption" method from Microsoft...
Is Linux truly a modern OS? Let's be realistic here.
Is a Northstar engine a modern ICE?
It's called modern because it's the same old stuff that's proven to work, yes, but with a lot of technical improvements and a solid helping of public perception dusting.
And also, the real value of Linux isn't its technology or its architecture (god forbids), but in its community. That concept, in the scale it's applied in the free software world today, is quite novel.
This is the same Unisys as the "We have the way out" Unisys?
Well, now they Have the Way In-n-Out, as in "all the employees will soon be flipping burgers" sort of a business plan...
It's a good read, and in this day and age of software dinosaurs trying for peaceful co-existence with Linux
They coexist with Linux the same way Ralph Nader coexists with Bush and Kerry: occationally he makes noises and sounds really serious, but ultimately he doesn't really matter...
According to PhysOrg we are close to being able to record our entire lives on a single 3.5" optical disc.
If I trust what I learned with the 12cm optical disks I currently use (CDRs), my entire life would last about 2 years before getting unreadable.
At any rate, even if the media lasts for a long time, which will remain to prove with this new technology, the problem with computer storage is almost always finding drives to read them in the long run. Tried to read a 5 1/4 diskette recently?
My faith in (as Craig calls us) nerds is restored. We gotta make a living but we don't have to sell out.
Just wait till Craigslist gets really big and Craig Newmark sells out, to make a handsome lump and retire early, while you'll still go to work looking for some other honest nerd to have faith in.
What do you think? that the guy is immune to the lure of money? hell, if I was him, I'd try to pose as an honest nerd until I can sell everything and move to Grand Caiman...
Q: A former employee of Craigslist sold 25 percent of the firm to EBay Friday. Did you try to stop this?
A: We tried to channel it toward a partner we could live with, with a similar moral compass. It was not my intention to have any of this happen, but we're happy with the results.
In other words:
A: Yeah, it really blows. Because we still have business morals, where eBay don't have much. We'd have prefered a partner with some morals left, but now they're stuck their foot in our doors, hey, I guess eBay is really really great after all...
Get a map. Sardinia is Italian.
Get a history book. Sardinia was French under Napoleon. Look up the roots of the word "maffia" in a dictionary to figure out what the parent poster was referring to...
Imagine if you could broadcast anything over the radio without fear of the FCC, as long as your station was popular enough to pay your broadcast bills instead of your fines to the government?
Imagine that, perhaps, not all radio emissions generate money. Imagine that researchers and hams get trampled on by some company because the company has millions to throw at a piece of the spectrum and the researcher/ham doesn't?
Imagine you have a small dinky radio station that broadcasts programs for "friends of the earth" and other ecologists, and Texaco buys out all the spectrum available, and that *oops, too bad* the dinky station can't broadcast anything?
Imagine that. It'd be great wouldn't it? I can't figure out whether you're an idiot, a troll or a convinced republican...
Yes, paying the licence fee is an annoyance, but everyone gets a lot out of the Beeb
Can I claim some of my license money back then?
This contrasts with TV technology, for which viewers and broadcasters alike make a one-off royalties payment when they buy their equipment.
Again, there are other countries in the world where things don't happen that way. In most of the EC in fact...
For your information Michael, the Beeb is in the UK where your statement doesn't apply.
There are online sex partner simulators all over the innurnet. They're not too realistic though, as the feedback device feels very much like a squeezing hand...
... is a preview of the site's front page in a few days, courtesy of your friends at dhs.gov.
My grandfather tried to cancel his AOL account by dying
:-)
Look, condolances and all, but really you shouldn't do that to me when I'm drinking
If you're going to evaluate the real value of this deal then price up a similar spec PC and include a 12-month subscription to a ISP on par with AOL in terms of service
Yes okay, let's do that:
AOL box:
1 x piss-poor PC: $299
1 x full year of AOL: $286.80
= $586.79, as the parent poster kindly calculted
Similar offering, not AOL:
1 x piss-poor PC, but probably better than AOL's: $350
1 x full year of any cheapo dialup ISP, but probably better than AOL: $180
= $530.00
So AOL worth an extra $56.79? I think not...
the main reason someone would buy a PC like this is to get on the web.
You need a minimum of 256M, 2GHz CPU and 50G hdd just to get on the web?? Tell me, how much did you pay that Cray that can go on the web *and* do word processing as well (!!)?
Sheesh, I don't what planet you live on. I use a P1-133 as a secondary computer just to go on the web in my electronics lab and browse technical PDFs.
U.S. News & World Report has an article about attracting women into Computer Science.
Attractive women into Computer Science? Where?
Get off it. Mitnick was a moron who couldn't compile his own code. He was a con man
FYI, most great hackers are first and foremost great social engineers (the hacker's term for con man). It's a lot easier to gain root access on a box by calling the secretary and convincing her to give you the boss' password "for maintenance reasons" than actually hacking the box.
Mitnick was a con man, that's for sure. But he conned people to gain access to knowledge, and to understand something in depth, not to gain money or steal something. To me, social engineering someone to gain access to technical documentation because you're dying to read it for the hell of learning something new is the hallmark of a real hacker.
All this idiot did was make a few changes to somebody else's virus, hit send, and get caught.
Yes, and you know the saddest thing? Most talented hackers, like Morris or even Mitnick, can look forward to full time employment as a security expert at some IT company, due to their fame, after they're done being punished for their deeds. It's an expensive way to get famous, but at least they're famous, at least in computer circles.
This moron on the other hand can look forward to be punished, like hackers, and then apply for a job at Wendy's, because in the eyes of any employer, he'll always be less desirable than a failed CS student, until his script kiddie fame fades away slowly.
Honestly, that's the kid's real punishment...
How do they expect to generate 6-figure revenue from nothing?
They never said in what currency. 1 million turkish liras are easily made by any beggar in any decent sized city in less than 10 minutes...
Just entertain the thought for a moment: could it be , just by some remote chance, that with Microsoft about the kill the A/V market on Windows, the recent release of new viruses on the previously untouched smart cellphone target isn't just a coincidence?
I mean, you've got to admit, cell phones that do many things a computer does and require a complex OS aren't exactly new, and they've always been "networked" (by definition), but somehow it's only now that this market could provide a bail-out route from the Windows platform for A/V companies that these viruses come out. Strange isn't it?