Global warming cultists would like you to ignore this news. http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/00000018.htm
http://www.opinionet.com/staff/bobwebster/global wa rmingseries01.shtml
I'm *STILL* waiting to hear a single K5 or/. individual come up with a reasonable defense against the UHIE argument. Until you do, you're just a bunch of uninformed spew-the-latest-FUD global warming activists.
Note: UHIE stands for Urban Heat Island Effect. I'm not going to bother explaining, cause if you don't know, you're exactly the kind of person that propogates FUD while having no clue what you're talking about.
Default install of RedHat 9 compromise time: 10 days.
Default install of Windows 98 compromise time: 4 years and counting...
I'm going to get modded down for this, but if I click the default crap on any Linux distro I'm more than likely going to install some god-forsaken client (in the case above, an ftp service) that will sit on an open port and eventually be scanned and compromised.
How is this any better than the RPC exploits?
I'd feel a lot safer if installations of *nix had easy to understand installation options.
Sure, someone can brag that you can get infected by Nachi in 6 seconds with an XP machine, but how often do you get rooted? How quickly do you notice? Is Linux as "fire-and-forget" as/.'rs seem to claim it is? No.
It amazes me how stupid net-savvy people are when it comes to reading laws.
Note to the author of the writeup: This list is only going to save you from telemarketing "cold calls" which are usually calls from newspapers asking you to sign up.
This is not going to get rid of calls from people calling on behalf of the phone company, your credit card, or your bank.
This is also not going to get rid of the police and fire dept. "cold calls" that you get from time to time.
If anything, this list is a great way to give illegitimate telemarketing enterprises a free list of names. If you notice an *increase* in telemarketing calls, you'll think back to my response here and slap your forehead.
And if you think you can turn these companies in by yourself, that's great. Just try starting a lawsuit. Let's see how far you get before you give up cause of the time you have to put into it. My guess is you'll start looking at the annoyance of calls as simple compared to the annoyance of trying to figure out exactly *who* it is that you can sue.
If you have ever posted with "IANAL" you're basically SOL.
Hacking is 20% coding, 20% luck, and 60% social engineering. If you throw up a compromisable machine and say, "Hack this" you're losing over half of the social engineering bit, and can expect to see the general rootkit.
What's going to happen, is with only $250 bucks as an offer, you're going to see a lot of pre-made scripts (and underground boards will have a lot of newcomers requesting new code) and rootkits that lack a lot of the more complicated tools hackers use.
In fact, one hack should always lead to another hack (it is part of the fun) and I don't think they are going to get much information or get any serious people interested in what would appear to be a "risky" 250 bucks.
It's always the goodie-goodie white hats that use apps they've seen the other hats use or create that end up winning these "contests" anyway.
AMD sees the ability to play full-screen video as a key feature of the PDA reference design, Pompa said, demonstrating the design's ability to play full-screen video on a 320-pixel by 240-pixel screen with no screen artifacts and without the assistance of a graphics processor.
Am I reading this properly? Can this thing play highly compressed AVI files or is this some sort of video compression specifically for a PDA?
I'd like and appreciate the day a LOT more if it wasn't created by a system administrator. No offense, but it doesn't seem like a genuine thank-you if the the only other people that celebrate it are other administrative staff, or if they are only celebrating it because they found the website saying that they should.
The ending sucked. It was a clip show that brought back nearly every character save the original Deep Throat, who they eluded to several times during Scully's testimony.
As a smoker, I praise Carter for his reluctance to have the smoking man die due to lung cancer, but bringing him back every other season doesn't exactly seem reasonable.
After all, nearly every season of the X-files had either Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man, or another character disappear/die. For the series to end with not a single main character dying and the supposed alien invasion date set in 2012, I smell a GD reunion episode already in the works.
With our luck, and Carter's creative insight, we can expect the reunion show to be a clip show too.
From http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=SAcalculato r#pc
Counting Eligible PCs School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end, you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s) or district. Eligible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power Macs, iMacs or better.
The solution is simple: Buy "AMD machines" and don't count them when licensing comes around.
If Microsoft wants to treat the customers as idiots (which I will suggest more than half typically are) perhaps those that aren't idiots should act like it and not count the AMD machines.
And just so you know. This kind of stuff *does* happen, and oftentimes it *is* intentional. I'll count the iMacs, but I'm not counting the AMDs.
Junk science has existed for ages, just look at the expansion of the Global Warmning religion and the tactics of organizations out to fight "Secondhand Smoke".
Even such groups as JEL (Just Eliminate Lies), a sort of truth.com for teens in Iowa, advocate teasing smokers about impotence. This is akin to laughing at obese people and joking about death from a heart attack.
Global Warmning activists, meanwhile, have approached the subject with such religious fervor that "denominations" exist in which they all disagree over small points, yet refuse to even debate the large points, such as a response to the UHIE argument that junk science debunkers have been pleading for them to answer for YEARS.
Not *all* US citizens and not *all* of the US government want everyone to follow US laws and courts.
There is a big difference between saying "You're being rude" to the person who is rude and "you're being rude" to the the group of people of which he is a part of.
I can assure you, most USian Slashdot posters here *don't* fit the description of what you seem to think the average US citizen is. And if you really don't want people to take what you say as a troll, don't categorize all US citizens as bullies. There's a large chunck of the US that is either isolationist or pacifist and disagrees with most foreign actions.
The "security" of this depends entirely on how secure each decryption tool is on each side of the transmission.
Not only that, but compromise of one side comromises the other side, meaning that although you have a secure box on your end, if the other box isn't, then the information sent can be just as vulnerable as any unencrypted data.
This isn't exactly a breakthrough either, since it's based on an old system that even an 8 year old could conceive given time. In fact, remember decoder rings? Same concept, though on a much larger scale.
And this method still doesn't solve the problem of establishing an unbreakable communication line over a medium such as the Internet. In fact, I'd hate to say it, but because the security of the transmission relies on the security of either side, I don't think this is even newsworthy.
For what was written, I was expecting Katz to come to a conclusion. There wasn't one, it just ended saying the survey was significant. Katz tries to draw conclusions that he won't allow the reader to draw his or herself.
What's the point? Let us take it for what it is, and come to our own conclusions.
He will not "turn" into Vader in this Episode. You will see a side of Ani, specifically on Tatooine, that will show what is going on, but he won't fully turn.
Also, I hate to say this, but he very well might not actually "turn" in Ep 3 as well. He will give in to the dark side and kill a certain character in both Ep2 and 3, and take his right place next to the Emporer, but as far as his physical appearance goes, we might just see him get beat by ObiWan.
Some of us have high hopes that Lucas will show a glimpse of him as Vader in Episode 3 near the end, however.
Anyone else think that Microsoft is running themselves thin? That they are trying to branch out into too many areas and never focus resources appropriately so much that they are leaving themselves vulnerable? I have this feeling that if MS keeps things up, they are going to have thousands of department heads each demanding that they get their "fair share" of resources, ultimately giving the company one big headache in the future.
Seriously though, branching into cell phone OS's might give them a competitive advantage, but the threat of new entry is high, and all it takes is one Sony or other company to realize the profits that can be made and they can outspend MS in that area. Unless Microsoft thinks they should spend more, in which case they'll be pulling funds back from their other lines, maybe even the Xbox, which is also a product that competes with a Sony product.
I'm thinking massive scalebacks on MS's part in the future, like IBM post-Gerstner, circa 1993-1994. It's about the only thing that can save MS from the problems it is bound to face when each "product" hits financially-disturbing waves.
Granted, MS has done well as a new entrant into most markets, but the Xbox has had its share of disappointments, mainly by selling as par, and not as the hot item everyone had originally anticipated it to be.
We'll have to watch to see what other areas Microsoft branches into. I have a feeling they won't be able to keep doing this for too much longer without realizing the problems and headaches this stuff causes.
Take a look at the "client" they have you install to obtain games. It uses 'P2P' which is, in their words, a good thing. In reality, it installs a program that sucks up your bandwidth so fast you won't be able to play that Day of Defeat mod you just download from them.
I know this, because it only took me 2 minutes to find out my roommate had installed it and we immediately had 5 different connections trying to hit his machine. Amazing how quickly that program can bring a DSL connection to its knees.
The most entertaining part about this whole report is that if you look at the male female comparisions, the answers are almost exactly the same.
The report is basically useless and doesn't tell us anything new. But this guy is going to go on to his thesis review, where they'll tell him that it is interesting but he needs to redo it. And they'll say that for about eight reviews till they decide to let it go.
Those are outrageous prices compared to what I'm paying for MSN right now, I don't know what you are smoking.
MSN = 640K down/256K up = $50 (including line)
Drizzle = 640K down/? up (they don't say so that is a good indicator of shittiness) = $100.
Now, MSN connection rates are bad, I get about 350K down/219k up in actual speeds, but what justifies paying twice as much for what may amount to the same connection?
Remember that this movie is based off a *BOOK* that was written well before Sept. 11th. The movie was completed before Sept. 11th, and only marketing, computer generated imagery, and the actual WTC and Pentagon disasters have *delayed* the movie's release.
This movie would have came out in Fall of last year, but like the Arnold movie, "Collaterial Damage" its content was deemed too violent at the time after Sept 11th.
If you think this movie is propaganda, or are quick to call it propaganda, what are you going to do when they release a movie about the WTC and Pentagon attacks? You realize the same result of the future movie about those events is going to justify the actions then taken in Afganistan, unless it is directed by Oliver Stone, who thinks that the planes were crashed into the WTC by the government of the US.
Just because you are upset that a movie comes out that actually portrays what US forces have had to deal with overseas (esp. when Somalis would get shot down, only to have another Somali pick up their gun and fire.) doesn't mean you have to call the movie "propoganda" in order to demonize it. I can assure you that Mogadishu would have been no more willing you help *you* that day than a US solidier.
You're free to disagree with what happened that day, but unless you have some basis of understanding that you can get us to relate to, don't be surprised when the rest of us ignore your cries of: "That is so wrong! That's not what happened!".
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Global warming cultists would like you to ignore this news.m
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/. individual come up with a reasonable defense against the UHIE argument. Until you do, you're just a bunch of uninformed spew-the-latest-FUD global warming activists.
http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/00000018.ht
http://www.opinionet.com/staff/bobwebster/globa
I'm *STILL* waiting to hear a single K5 or
Note: UHIE stands for Urban Heat Island Effect. I'm not going to bother explaining, cause if you don't know, you're exactly the kind of person that propogates FUD while having no clue what you're talking about.
Default install of RedHat 9 compromise time: 10 days.
/.'rs seem to claim it is? No.
:)
Default install of Windows 98 compromise time: 4 years and counting...
I'm going to get modded down for this, but if I click the default crap on any Linux distro I'm more than likely going to install some god-forsaken client (in the case above, an ftp service) that will sit on an open port and eventually be scanned and compromised.
How is this any better than the RPC exploits?
I'd feel a lot safer if installations of *nix had easy to understand installation options.
Sure, someone can brag that you can get infected by Nachi in 6 seconds with an XP machine, but how often do you get rooted? How quickly do you notice? Is Linux as "fire-and-forget" as
Stick with Apache on *dows.
It amazes me how stupid net-savvy people are when it comes to reading laws.
Note to the author of the writeup:
This list is only going to save you from telemarketing "cold calls" which are usually calls from newspapers asking you to sign up.
This is not going to get rid of calls from people calling on behalf of the phone company, your credit card, or your bank.
This is also not going to get rid of the police and fire dept. "cold calls" that you get from time to time.
If anything, this list is a great way to give illegitimate telemarketing enterprises a free list of names. If you notice an *increase* in telemarketing calls, you'll think back to my response here and slap your forehead.
And if you think you can turn these companies in by yourself, that's great. Just try starting a lawsuit. Let's see how far you get before you give up cause of the time you have to put into it. My guess is you'll start looking at the annoyance of calls as simple compared to the annoyance of trying to figure out exactly *who* it is that you can sue.
If you have ever posted with "IANAL" you're basically SOL.
Hacking is 20% coding, 20% luck, and 60% social engineering. If you throw up a compromisable machine and say, "Hack this" you're losing over half of the social engineering bit, and can expect to see the general rootkit.
What's going to happen, is with only $250 bucks as an offer, you're going to see a lot of pre-made scripts (and underground boards will have a lot of newcomers requesting new code) and rootkits that lack a lot of the more complicated tools hackers use.
In fact, one hack should always lead to another hack (it is part of the fun) and I don't think they are going to get much information or get any serious people interested in what would appear to be a "risky" 250 bucks.
It's always the goodie-goodie white hats that use apps they've seen the other hats use or create that end up winning these "contests" anyway.
Am I reading this properly? Can this thing play highly compressed AVI files or is this some sort of video compression specifically for a PDA?
What about XviD?
I used to live in the Pojects.
You mean to tell me that the Deus Ex Sequel is going to come out BEFORE Half-Life 2 and Duke Nukem Forever?
I'd like and appreciate the day a LOT more if it wasn't created by a system administrator. No offense, but it doesn't seem like a genuine thank-you if the the only other people that celebrate it are other administrative staff, or if they are only celebrating it because they found the website saying that they should.
Legally? No. And they never should be required to.
Morally? Yes. And employers should fire if not.
IMHO, after playing the beta and trying to figure the game out, it is horrible.
I loved Warcraft II and even thought Warcraft was okay. But the game is confusing now as War3. If you think the hero idea is good, it isn't.
Think MICRO-MANAGEMENT. If you had 5 hands the game would be playable, but since you don't, you'll never beat the addicts that play the game 24/7
Are you a libertarian? Cause as far as I can tell, this is my response to a T.
I'm certain that "destroyed" in this case means they threw it in the "nuker" (big magnetic device) and therefore data recovery is impossible.
The ending sucked. It was a clip show that brought back nearly every character save the original Deep Throat, who they eluded to several times during Scully's testimony.
As a smoker, I praise Carter for his reluctance to have the smoking man die due to lung cancer, but bringing him back every other season doesn't exactly seem reasonable.
After all, nearly every season of the X-files had either Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man, or another character disappear/die. For the series to end with not a single main character dying and the supposed alien invasion date set in 2012, I smell a GD reunion episode already in the works.
With our luck, and Carter's creative insight, we can expect the reunion show to be a clip show too.
From http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=SAcalculato r#pc
Counting Eligible PCs
School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end, you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s) or district. Eligible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power Macs, iMacs or better.
The solution is simple: Buy "AMD machines" and don't count them when licensing comes around.
If Microsoft wants to treat the customers as idiots (which I will suggest more than half typically are) perhaps those that aren't idiots should act like it and not count the AMD machines.
And just so you know. This kind of stuff *does* happen, and oftentimes it *is* intentional. I'll count the iMacs, but I'm not counting the AMDs.
Junk science has existed for ages, just look at the expansion of the Global Warmning religion and the tactics of organizations out to fight "Secondhand Smoke".
Even such groups as JEL (Just Eliminate Lies), a sort of truth.com for teens in Iowa, advocate teasing smokers about impotence. This is akin to laughing at obese people and joking about death from a heart attack.
Global Warmning activists, meanwhile, have approached the subject with such religious fervor that "denominations" exist in which they all disagree over small points, yet refuse to even debate the large points, such as a response to the UHIE argument that junk science debunkers have been pleading for them to answer for YEARS.
Don't you mean FDA instead of FAA? I thought FAA was Federal Aviation Admission
Not *all* US citizens and not *all* of the US government want everyone to follow US laws and courts.
There is a big difference between saying "You're being rude" to the person who is rude and "you're being rude" to the the group of people of which he is a part of.
I can assure you, most USian Slashdot posters here *don't* fit the description of what you seem to think the average US citizen is. And if you really don't want people to take what you say as a troll, don't categorize all US citizens as bullies. There's a large chunck of the US that is either isolationist or pacifist and disagrees with most foreign actions.
The "security" of this depends entirely on how secure each decryption tool is on each side of the transmission.
Not only that, but compromise of one side comromises the other side, meaning that although you have a secure box on your end, if the other box isn't, then the information sent can be just as vulnerable as any unencrypted data.
This isn't exactly a breakthrough either, since it's based on an old system that even an 8 year old could conceive given time. In fact, remember decoder rings? Same concept, though on a much larger scale.
And this method still doesn't solve the problem of establishing an unbreakable communication line over a medium such as the Internet. In fact, I'd hate to say it, but because the security of the transmission relies on the security of either side, I don't think this is even newsworthy.
For what was written, I was expecting Katz to come to a conclusion. There wasn't one, it just ended saying the survey was significant. Katz tries to draw conclusions that he won't allow the reader to draw his or herself.
What's the point? Let us take it for what it is, and come to our own conclusions.
No.
He will not "turn" into Vader in this Episode. You will see a side of Ani, specifically on Tatooine, that will show what is going on, but he won't fully turn.
Also, I hate to say this, but he very well might not actually "turn" in Ep 3 as well. He will give in to the dark side and kill a certain character in both Ep2 and 3, and take his right place next to the Emporer, but as far as his physical appearance goes, we might just see him get beat by ObiWan.
Some of us have high hopes that Lucas will show a glimpse of him as Vader in Episode 3 near the end, however.
Anyone else think that Microsoft is running themselves thin? That they are trying to branch out into too many areas and never focus resources appropriately so much that they are leaving themselves vulnerable? I have this feeling that if MS keeps things up, they are going to have thousands of department heads each demanding that they get their "fair share" of resources, ultimately giving the company one big headache in the future.
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Seriously though, branching into cell phone OS's might give them a competitive advantage, but the threat of new entry is high, and all it takes is one Sony or other company to realize the profits that can be made and they can outspend MS in that area. Unless Microsoft thinks they should spend more, in which case they'll be pulling funds back from their other lines, maybe even the Xbox, which is also a product that competes with a Sony product.
I'm thinking massive scalebacks on MS's part in the future, like IBM post-Gerstner, circa 1993-1994. It's about the only thing that can save MS from the problems it is bound to face when each "product" hits financially-disturbing waves.
Granted, MS has done well as a new entrant into most markets, but the Xbox has had its share of disappointments, mainly by selling as par, and not as the hot item everyone had originally anticipated it to be.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-808225.html?lega
We'll have to watch to see what other areas Microsoft branches into. I have a feeling they won't be able to keep doing this for too much longer without realizing the problems and headaches this stuff causes.
www.filefront.com
Take a look at the "client" they have you install to obtain games. It uses 'P2P' which is, in their words, a good thing. In reality, it installs a program that sucks up your bandwidth so fast you won't be able to play that Day of Defeat mod you just download from them.
I know this, because it only took me 2 minutes to find out my roommate had installed it and we immediately had 5 different connections trying to hit his machine. Amazing how quickly that program can bring a DSL connection to its knees.
The most entertaining part about this whole report is that if you look at the male female comparisions, the answers are almost exactly the same.
The report is basically useless and doesn't tell us anything new. But this guy is going to go on to his thesis review, where they'll tell him that it is interesting but he needs to redo it. And they'll say that for about eight reviews till they decide to let it go.
Those are outrageous prices compared to what I'm paying for MSN right now, I don't know what you are smoking.
MSN = 640K down/256K up = $50 (including line)
Drizzle = 640K down/? up (they don't say so that is a good indicator of shittiness) = $100.
Now, MSN connection rates are bad, I get about 350K down/219k up in actual speeds, but what justifies paying twice as much for what may amount to the same connection?
...propaganda:
Remember that this movie is based off a *BOOK* that was written well before Sept. 11th. The movie was completed before Sept. 11th, and only marketing, computer generated imagery, and the actual WTC and Pentagon disasters have *delayed* the movie's release.
This movie would have came out in Fall of last year, but like the Arnold movie, "Collaterial Damage" its content was deemed too violent at the time after Sept 11th.
If you think this movie is propaganda, or are quick to call it propaganda, what are you going to do when they release a movie about the WTC and Pentagon attacks? You realize the same result of the future movie about those events is going to justify the actions then taken in Afganistan, unless it is directed by Oliver Stone, who thinks that the planes were crashed into the WTC by the government of the US.
Just because you are upset that a movie comes out that actually portrays what US forces have had to deal with overseas (esp. when Somalis would get shot down, only to have another Somali pick up their gun and fire.) doesn't mean you have to call the movie "propoganda" in order to demonize it. I can assure you that Mogadishu would have been no more willing you help *you* that day than a US solidier.
You're free to disagree with what happened that day, but unless you have some basis of understanding that you can get us to relate to, don't be surprised when the rest of us ignore your cries of: "That is so wrong! That's not what happened!".