How long until they hackers then change the checksums or add the obvious GOTO 30 line?
Yes, but Microsoft is cunning you see, they number their program lines one by one instead of 10 by 10, so you can't insert a GOTO line. And RENUM is disabled. Clever I tell you!
Well, blog, plog, podcasting,... are just the Internet Fad Du Jour [tm]. Before, blogging was called "making a website with a forum section".
Making a website the scope of most of blogs' was not a lot harder than opening a blog today, but it did require your ISP to allow you to run server-side apps or scripts for the forum, and it required the creator of the website to get involved in some nooks and crannies to get everything looking and going nice. What the blog brought to the world is the ability to do all that without knowing much of anything, which empowered an army of clueless people to express themselves and write about things nobody cares about. Whether it's a good thing or not is debatable, but it sure makes searching for quality content on the internet much harder.
Does this wall protect against trojans? Did they close any unnecessary services and make sure it was well patched at all times? What was it protecting, an abacus? So many questions...
Nah, reread the blurb, it says it was to protect Celine Dion.
That is the first thing that came to my mind as well. When I think "camera hack" I think "make your camera see infrareds", "make a circuit to add remote control to your camera" or "turn your outdated Sony Mavica into a kickbutt mega-deathray laser". At least something that fries the camera and spills its guts on the table, turning it into a camera for the blind. This site is useful, yes, but definitely not hacks.
"It was carried out on secure computers in the basement of the Secret Service in Washington DC." Sounds realistic...
Dude, the simulation is supposed to be accurate, remember? I bet the SS guys playing the 3v1l h4x0rs even drew pimples on their faces, wore CCC-branded shirts, didn't wash for 2 weeks, bought the latest issue of 2600 and messed up the basement with old slices of pizza before doing their simulated deeds...
The exercise had given the US "an excellent opportunity to enhance our nation's cyber security," the US said.
What? they finally told Microsoft to release a secure OS or else...?
Seriously, most "cyber-attacks" are as much the result of criminals, professional spammers and teenage virus writers as it is the result of the single shoddy OS they target. Both are needed for an attack to work. The rest can easily be taken care of by training IT professionals better and by selecting more secure OSes.
And no, before you ask, I'm not trying to push *nix or MacOS against Windows: while I do believe Windows is badly designed at core and will always be insecure one way or the other, if Microsoft could make it secure, it would most certainly give a lot less headaches to the DHS folks.
If Beijing retaliates by kicking Google out of China, then Beijing will expel all the other signatories to the WP. In this way, no Western company will gain an economic advantage over any other Western company.
Ever heard of globalization? If western companies choose to stand up against the PRC (just suppose, it'll never happen, but just suppose), then thousands of companies from India, south-east Asia and Whereveristan, and even China's own, will fill the void in no time flat. That's why no western company is silly enough to propose that.
Not to mention, the West doesn't really have moral lessons to give to China in more ways than one...
But they do have a moral imperative and a duty not to promote dictatorship.
By law, corporations must consider only the shareholders. Nothing more. Any CEO who tells you his company is moral, cares about human rights, promotes democracy, or "does no evil", lies to you, because if his company's profits suffers even slightly from its moral stand, the shareholders can (and do) take actions against the execs to correct this.
Morality is a foreign concept to corporations, unless morality is good for the bottom line (like building up an image to sell more products to people who care). Period.
How else could people post articles in The Mysterious Future?
Simple: they pay. A fistful of dollars lets you travel forward in time by several minutes on Slashdot. Presumably, it'll be a little more expensive to travel granny's wormhole...
It's funny how people always mention WW2 and the french Vichy Government, while completely ignoring the whole history of social and democratic progress.
The Vichy government was a mistake and a shame. But that doesn't erase the fact that Americans owe France their freedom, most of their constitution, and a pretty statue. Looking at thing from a different angle, America's image as bringers of freedom, fighters against tyranny, and lighthouse of the world for democracy was right at the end of WW2. Since then, it's been going downhill quite frankly. Yet nobody seems to blindly ignore America's more glorious past. So give France a rest, read up some of its history, and understand that every country can sometime slip.
SCPP:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us money for the MP3s, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Racketeering Scheme. FRENCH JUDGE:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, MP3s are free you see... SCPP:
What? RIAA:
He says MP3s are free! SCPP:
Are you sure they're free? FRENCH JUDGE:
Oh, yes. They're very nice-a. (I told him MP3s are free.) POLICEMEN:
[chuckling] SCPP:
Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look at your MP3 collection? FRENCH JUDGE:
Of course not! You are English types-a! SCPP:
Well, what are you, then? FRENCH JUDGE:
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent?! RIAA:
What are you doing in England? FRENCH JUDGE:
Mind your own business!
Yes, but celebs also usually take dumps on golden toilet seats, eat better food that you can afford, breath fresher air than you breathe in your normal non-rich neighborhood, and therefore it was logical that they have their personal technician whenever they want to plug something.
The point you missed is, the story is interesting because it turns out some celebs rely on the regular tech support channels the rest of us use / have to put up with.
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How long until they hackers then change the checksums or add the obvious GOTO 30 line?
Yes, but Microsoft is cunning you see, they number their program lines one by one instead of 10 by 10, so you can't insert a GOTO line. And RENUM is disabled. Clever I tell you!
The Gestapo was a secret police and its facilities were perfectly well known (and feared).
(Damn, I just broke Godwin's law...)
Well, around noon, the shadow of the colossus can be very small indeed...
How long do you think it will be before this is adopted into the mainstream?
Easy that: as long as it took IPv6 to be adopted into the mainstream.
I'm not sure, but the animation on the linked "Origami Project" site is scaring the shit out of me.
Why? because it's made by Microsoft or because it says "touch me"?
It's a flash animation made by marketdroids.
I can't even envisage going back to the time when one had to write html code to put up a webpage.
Ever heard of html editors?
Am I the only person who despises this "word"?
Well, blog, plog, podcasting,... are just the Internet Fad Du Jour [tm]. Before, blogging was called "making a website with a forum section".
Making a website the scope of most of blogs' was not a lot harder than opening a blog today, but it did require your ISP to allow you to run server-side apps or scripts for the forum, and it required the creator of the website to get involved in some nooks and crannies to get everything looking and going nice. What the blog brought to the world is the ability to do all that without knowing much of anything, which empowered an army of clueless people to express themselves and write about things nobody cares about. Whether it's a good thing or not is debatable, but it sure makes searching for quality content on the internet much harder.
I'd rather use lesser-quality tools than be monitored and have each use of the software I've licensed be tracked
You won't even be able to use your OSS tools on a "trusted computing" platform. That's the whole point.
This new scheme is aimed explicitely at locking out any software from vendors that don't lick the RIAA/MPAA's collective bottoms.
Does this wall protect against trojans? Did they close any unnecessary services and make sure it was well patched at all times? What was it protecting, an abacus? So many questions...
Nah, reread the blurb, it says it was to protect Celine Dion.
Duke Nukem Forever is next-gen. Always will...
That is the first thing that came to my mind as well. When I think "camera hack" I think "make your camera see infrareds", "make a circuit to add remote control to your camera" or "turn your outdated Sony Mavica into a kickbutt mega-deathray laser". At least something that fries the camera and spills its guts on the table, turning it into a camera for the blind. This site is useful, yes, but definitely not hacks.
The real question is, will it be compulsory to apply for an ID card? Cuz that'd be a bummer...
"It was carried out on secure computers in the basement of the Secret Service in Washington DC." Sounds realistic...
Dude, the simulation is supposed to be accurate, remember? I bet the SS guys playing the 3v1l h4x0rs even drew pimples on their faces, wore CCC-branded shirts, didn't wash for 2 weeks, bought the latest issue of 2600 and messed up the basement with old slices of pizza before doing their simulated deeds...
The exercise had given the US "an excellent opportunity to enhance our nation's cyber security," the US said.
What? they finally told Microsoft to release a secure OS or else...?
Seriously, most "cyber-attacks" are as much the result of criminals, professional spammers and teenage virus writers as it is the result of the single shoddy OS they target. Both are needed for an attack to work. The rest can easily be taken care of by training IT professionals better and by selecting more secure OSes.
And no, before you ask, I'm not trying to push *nix or MacOS against Windows: while I do believe Windows is badly designed at core and will always be insecure one way or the other, if Microsoft could make it secure, it would most certainly give a lot less headaches to the DHS folks.
If Beijing retaliates by kicking Google out of China, then Beijing will expel all the other signatories to the WP. In this way, no Western company will gain an economic advantage over any other Western company.
Ever heard of globalization? If western companies choose to stand up against the PRC (just suppose, it'll never happen, but just suppose), then thousands of companies from India, south-east Asia and Whereveristan, and even China's own, will fill the void in no time flat. That's why no western company is silly enough to propose that.
Not to mention, the West doesn't really have moral lessons to give to China in more ways than one...
But they do have a moral imperative and a duty not to promote dictatorship.
By law, corporations must consider only the shareholders. Nothing more. Any CEO who tells you his company is moral, cares about human rights, promotes democracy, or "does no evil", lies to you, because if his company's profits suffers even slightly from its moral stand, the shareholders can (and do) take actions against the execs to correct this.
Morality is a foreign concept to corporations, unless morality is good for the bottom line (like building up an image to sell more products to people who care). Period.
How else could people post articles in The Mysterious Future?
Simple: they pay. A fistful of dollars lets you travel forward in time by several minutes on Slashdot. Presumably, it'll be a little more expensive to travel granny's wormhole...
Must explain the WWII stuff and all.
It's funny how people always mention WW2 and the french Vichy Government, while completely ignoring the whole history of social and democratic progress.
The Vichy government was a mistake and a shame. But that doesn't erase the fact that Americans owe France their freedom, most of their constitution, and a pretty statue. Looking at thing from a different angle, America's image as bringers of freedom, fighters against tyranny, and lighthouse of the world for democracy was right at the end of WW2. Since then, it's been going downhill quite frankly. Yet nobody seems to blindly ignore America's more glorious past. So give France a rest, read up some of its history, and understand that every country can sometime slip.
I know its bad but it had to be told.
Yes and no.
Someone should have checked judges personal computers to understand merits of this verdict.
Your statement is a classic case of logical fallacy called ad hominem tu quoque. Please read up about it here.
SCPP:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us money for the MP3s, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Racketeering Scheme.
FRENCH JUDGE:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, MP3s are free you see...
SCPP:
What?
RIAA:
He says MP3s are free!
SCPP:
Are you sure they're free?
FRENCH JUDGE:
Oh, yes. They're very nice-a. (I told him MP3s are free.)
POLICEMEN:
[chuckling]
SCPP:
Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look at your MP3 collection?
FRENCH JUDGE:
Of course not! You are English types-a!
SCPP:
Well, what are you, then?
FRENCH JUDGE:
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent?!
RIAA:
What are you doing in England?
FRENCH JUDGE:
Mind your own business!
Yes, but celebs also usually take dumps on golden toilet seats, eat better food that you can afford, breath fresher air than you breathe in your normal non-rich neighborhood, and therefore it was logical that they have their personal technician whenever they want to plug something.
The point you missed is, the story is interesting because it turns out some celebs rely on the regular tech support channels the rest of us use / have to put up with.
Not to mention, gasoline-powered toys are not in fashion these days. I find the couch bike much more fun and enviro-friendly.
it's terrible, I hear the ruble is down to $0.000001 again...