While its good you are up on the Phone Hacking. This is about hacking a server... I don't know everything about servers, but I don't think you call many of them and retreive voicemail on them with a PIN. This was about going in and learning things of a highly sensitive nature. Documents. Names. Etc.
We'd probably applaud Wikileaks for publishing some of this stuff. But since it's the weasels at News International (NotW, Sun) you should wonder what they're doing this for.
This is a British cultural problem, not a Murdoch problem.
Don't know where you live, mate, but Murdoch's (Rupert and Prince James, the News International heir apparent) have control over London Times, The Sun and News Of The World (now defunct) and wrote the cheques and managed the managers who made all this possible.
Any editor worth his pay packet, when presented with an astounding story, based upon what appears to be inside information, has to ask, "Where did you get this information?" When you are in James' place, overseeing the British arm of News International (incorrectly stated as News Corp in the article above) you have to do more than gaze in wonder at what a talented and resourceful lot you have under you. You should be paying the occasional visit to your managing editors and ask, "Where are we getting this?"
There has always been the ability of the government to enquire, which they've done a poor job of, just how the news knows some things. Dave's doing his best CYA, but it keeps going along. What are you going to do about foreign ownership of a large part of your media, Dave? Learning anything important, Dave?
Will a contrite Rupert Murdoch make a tearful visit to No. 10? MI5?
Really not surprised, when the people in News International (NI) were going for a story they let nothing get in their way. And the juicier the story, the more Big White Letters on the cover of NotW or Sun. Drunk with it, they were, the idea of digging where they should not and getting away with it.
Another round of review for suitability of the Murdoch Clan by stock holders? Might just be enough to dislodge the old goat and his son.
Editors, your job is not simply to click "post." Read the submission and see if it makes sense. I have no idea what Duqu is or what this is about. I had to dig down 2 links deep to see that this was related to an attack in India. Context: provide it.
It's about distributing a worm using servers which were largely set up, using default passwords or never updating anything. This is why it's so critical to have good, dedicated system administration, intelligent installation and follow-up support. Honestly. Most of these servers were likely built once and left to run on their own, without a single thought to maintaning or even checking for security updates. Lazy, cheap people never seem to learn. It's like leaving your keys in your car and being utterly stunned when someone actually steals it.
Judging by some of it's past inactions, it is arguable that 1,000+ UN accounts do not comprise anything of value.
and while you're cleaning up the men's room on the east end of the 4th floor, see what you can do about that smell Ahmadinejad left behind - someone should warn him about eating street cooking.
Ah, yes. Stuff of critical world import! This stuff is gold!
This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
Why baffle people with BS when you can use real language:)
The new line will factor into integral processes where derivatives will end-product quality!
Sounds like something I'd read in a Dilbert strip...
The larger truth behind Silverman's statement is that no matter what AMD does, it's not going to be 'AMD versus Intel' anymore — it's going to be AMD vs. Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, and Intel."
Considering the execution of Bulldozer, you could possibly add AMD to the vs. list.
How does a company with a lack of value go on the stock market, IPO and expect there value to go up? This is the big world of money, show me the money!
I thought of them more as a company without an original idea and without a better edge on execution. That only leaves luck to run your business on.
So Google is saying slashdot has a systemic problem with idiotic groupthink and it's skewed moderation?
I'm with Google on this.
' The problem with sites like Slashdot, Google told the USPTO, is that 'because there is no restriction on the users that may participate, the reliability of the ratings is correspondingly diminished.'
Yeah, we're all a load of unclean heathens.
Considering some of the bollox I've been getting in my Google Search Results, though, I don't think they are as trustworthy as the some of the lowest/. trolls (sorry trolls, you keep trying! perhaps if you were motivated by billions in stock options it might help. can't do anything for you there.)
More likely they'll come ashore and keep falling over, because the stupid ground stays still.
Known people who have been out on MBARI ships, across the Pacific on data gathering.. they better be fine with salt air, smell of the sea, keeping their ship clean and not minding those days with storms and monster waves (and I don't mean surf.)
We had files we could send to our old impact lineprinter which could play music. Hell on ribbons, so save these sources of amusement for the day you were changing the ribbon anyway.
While this may be attractive to drunken programmers, it's not something I expect evul terrerists to perpetrate or nefarious crackers, who are far more interested in stealing your money.
Reminds me of visiting Key West, Florida and going out on a diving boat. All those dead, white coral heads. Thank pollution, treasure hunters for it. Yeah, Humans - the animal that fouls its nest for fun and profit.
It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.
Providing noone modifies the open source code to log user search requests and censor queries
I'd be more concerned with some people stacking search results with links to spoof sites or malware servers.
Is this proofed against someone reverse engineering it and crap-flooding the results?
I thought the whole idea of HTML was that content and presentation would be separated so you wouldn't have to care whether the end-user was viewing the page on an SGI workstation in Spielbergian 3D or an Etch-a-sketch?
Of course that was before the 'web designers' came along and suddenly 'this page is best viewed at 1280x1024' was plastered across the web.
I have a considerable background in developing very lightweight web interfaces. Use no more than necessary to accomplish your goal. But then, I do a lot of the coding by hand, still. Composition tools in the hands of morons are responsible for most of the web's disasters. Why bother to understand the footprint and implications of each object added to a page when it's so easy to do? I finally had to go to DSL at home when my poor 56K modem was choking on bloat - good by $12/mo. internet.
Ergonomics aren't considered much, either. I regularly have to work on a site where other users are stating concern about repetitive stress injuries, due to the excessive number of links we have to navigate to get something done, which shouldn't be anywhere near as cumbersome - the site breaks quite a lot, too. With complexity increases the likelihood of introduction of flaws in the design. Jurassic Park should be required reading for web designers, and I don't mean the bits about all the running around being chased by dinosaurs - pay attention to mathematician and chaos theorist, Ian Malcolm.
Amazed how many pages get it wrong - from Facebook to Ebay - there are fundamental navigation design flaws which vex users. There's some sort of disease, which has been epidemic for years on the web, steering wide of the Keep It Simple Stupid philosophy of design. Keep in direct, simple and above all light weight.
Most parties spying on the Internet have just one interest in mind. We (some, you, whoever) may not like that interest, but it is rare that one of them have conflicting intersts as the summary says.
Blind eyes all around.
Sell from within Country A to Intermediary in Friendly Country B.
Intermediary sells to friendly Country C, which is unfriendly to Country A and direct sale is banned.
Profit!!!
True there was some legislation about a decade ago, threatening USA trade with that evil unnamed country to the north (eh!) because they were trading with Cuba, but eventually some work-around was settled on, because Canada was the USA's biggest trading partner (still might be, despite what you may think of China.)
This is why people who once worked in government become "Trade Consultants" for $$,$$$,$$$ after leaving the service of the people, because they have the contacts and know the loopholes.
Months ago I received a text message, which billed me for $10. T-Mobile just let it through like it was completely legit. I had to spend over an hour with customer service before I got them to block all billing to my mobile phone account.
Talk about a security hole you could drive a truck through. How many other vermin are doing this and getting away with it?
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While its good you are up on the Phone Hacking. This is about hacking a server... I don't know everything about servers, but I don't think you call many of them and retreive voicemail on them with a PIN. This was about going in and learning things of a highly sensitive nature. Documents. Names. Etc.
We'd probably applaud Wikileaks for publishing some of this stuff. But since it's the weasels at News International (NotW, Sun) you should wonder what they're doing this for.
This is a British cultural problem, not a Murdoch problem.
Don't know where you live, mate, but Murdoch's (Rupert and Prince James, the News International heir apparent) have control over London Times, The Sun and News Of The World (now defunct) and wrote the cheques and managed the managers who made all this possible.
Any editor worth his pay packet, when presented with an astounding story, based upon what appears to be inside information, has to ask, "Where did you get this information?" When you are in James' place, overseeing the British arm of News International (incorrectly stated as News Corp in the article above) you have to do more than gaze in wonder at what a talented and resourceful lot you have under you. You should be paying the occasional visit to your managing editors and ask, "Where are we getting this?"
There has always been the ability of the government to enquire, which they've done a poor job of, just how the news knows some things. Dave's doing his best CYA, but it keeps going along. What are you going to do about foreign ownership of a large part of your media, Dave? Learning anything important, Dave?
Will a contrite Rupert Murdoch make a tearful visit to No. 10? MI5?
Really not surprised, when the people in News International (NI) were going for a story they let nothing get in their way. And the juicier the story, the more Big White Letters on the cover of NotW or Sun. Drunk with it, they were, the idea of digging where they should not and getting away with it.
Another round of review for suitability of the Murdoch Clan by stock holders? Might just be enough to dislodge the old goat and his son.
Editors, your job is not simply to click "post." Read the submission and see if it makes sense. I have no idea what Duqu is or what this is about. I had to dig down 2 links deep to see that this was related to an attack in India. Context: provide it.
It's about distributing a worm using servers which were largely set up, using default passwords or never updating anything. This is why it's so critical to have good, dedicated system administration, intelligent installation and follow-up support . Honestly. Most of these servers were likely built once and left to run on their own, without a single thought to maintaning or even checking for security updates. Lazy, cheap people never seem to learn. It's like leaving your keys in your car and being utterly stunned when someone actually steals it.
Judging by some of it's past inactions, it is arguable that 1,000+ UN accounts do not comprise anything of value.
and while you're cleaning up the men's room on the east end of the 4th floor, see what you can do about that smell Ahmadinejad left behind - someone should warn him about eating street cooking.
Ah, yes. Stuff of critical world import! This stuff is gold!
This is why it's good to have a background in math, even if you're not employed in an STEM field. All sorts of processes can be described in mathematical terms, knowing what those terms mean helps you understand the world better. People often say "calculus? I'll never use that after high school!". But the truth is, I use my calculus education every single day without ever touching an integral or derivative.
Why baffle people with BS when you can use real language :)
The new line will factor into integral processes where derivatives will end-product quality!
Sounds like something I'd read in a Dilbert strip...
It's more a story of bad security practices than brilliant exploits by 12 year olds.
that had to google "inflection point"? From a marketing standpoint it might be good to have a CEO who isn't an engineer :P.
or a CEO who picks up a word or phrase from an engineer and thinks, 'Hey, that sounds good, I'll use it in my next meeting or press statement!'
The larger truth behind Silverman's statement is that no matter what AMD does, it's not going to be 'AMD versus Intel' anymore — it's going to be AMD vs. Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, and Intel."
Considering the execution of Bulldozer, you could possibly add AMD to the vs. list.
For a country with cameras everywhere in the name of public safety, this surprises me not. It's like Orwell wrote the play.
How does a company with a lack of value go on the stock market, IPO and expect there value to go up? This is the big world of money, show me the money!
I thought of them more as a company without an original idea and without a better edge on execution. That only leaves luck to run your business on.
So Google is saying slashdot has a systemic problem with idiotic groupthink and it's skewed moderation?
I'm with Google on this.
' The problem with sites like Slashdot, Google told the USPTO, is that 'because there is no restriction on the users that may participate, the reliability of the ratings is correspondingly diminished.'
Yeah, we're all a load of unclean heathens.
Considering some of the bollox I've been getting in my Google Search Results, though, I don't think they are as trustworthy as the some of the lowest /. trolls (sorry trolls, you keep trying! perhaps if you were motivated by billions in stock options it might help. can't do anything for you there.)
So sue them. Start a class action suit. There's plenty of material there to work with, thanks to the FTC.
or floating gulag.
Sounds like paradise, compared to a cube farm.
More likely they'll come ashore and keep falling over, because the stupid ground stays still.
Known people who have been out on MBARI ships, across the Pacific on data gathering .. they better be fine with salt air, smell of the sea, keeping their ship clean and not minding those days with storms and monster waves (and I don't mean surf.)
Arrh!!! Ip0 on Fire!
What is new, is old.
We had files we could send to our old impact lineprinter which could play music. Hell on ribbons, so save these sources of amusement for the day you were changing the ribbon anyway.
While this may be attractive to drunken programmers, it's not something I expect evul terrerists to perpetrate or nefarious crackers, who are far more interested in stealing your money.
Some common sense! You can't copyright software on its own! It must be part of a device that you are copyrighting.
I'm pretty sure they're violating the rights of the holders of copyrights on use of Common Sense.
If the holders are the USPTO then it's not like they were doing anything with those rights, anyway.
wise like king Solomon.
No, I can't believe it either.
They go, not!
Merck Germany had it first so your solution is to not return it to them after an administrative error? Two wrongs don't make a right
King Solomon would have offered to cut it in half, but I'm not quite sure how you'd do that.
Reminds me of visiting Key West, Florida and going out on a diving boat. All those dead, white coral heads. Thank pollution, treasure hunters for it. Yeah, Humans - the animal that fouls its nest for fun and profit.
From TFA: [yacy.net]
It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.
Providing noone modifies the open source code to log user search requests and censor queries
I'd be more concerned with some people stacking search results with links to spoof sites or malware servers.
Is this proofed against someone reverse engineering it and crap-flooding the results?
I thought the whole idea of HTML was that content and presentation would be separated so you wouldn't have to care whether the end-user was viewing the page on an SGI workstation in Spielbergian 3D or an Etch-a-sketch?
Of course that was before the 'web designers' came along and suddenly 'this page is best viewed at 1280x1024' was plastered across the web.
I have a considerable background in developing very lightweight web interfaces. Use no more than necessary to accomplish your goal. But then, I do a lot of the coding by hand, still. Composition tools in the hands of morons are responsible for most of the web's disasters. Why bother to understand the footprint and implications of each object added to a page when it's so easy to do? I finally had to go to DSL at home when my poor 56K modem was choking on bloat - good by $12/mo. internet.
Ergonomics aren't considered much, either. I regularly have to work on a site where other users are stating concern about repetitive stress injuries, due to the excessive number of links we have to navigate to get something done, which shouldn't be anywhere near as cumbersome - the site breaks quite a lot, too. With complexity increases the likelihood of introduction of flaws in the design. Jurassic Park should be required reading for web designers, and I don't mean the bits about all the running around being chased by dinosaurs - pay attention to mathematician and chaos theorist, Ian Malcolm.
Starting with Web Pages That Suck and learning there before doing anything.
Amazed how many pages get it wrong - from Facebook to Ebay - there are fundamental navigation design flaws which vex users. There's some sort of disease, which has been epidemic for years on the web, steering wide of the Keep It Simple Stupid philosophy of design. Keep in direct, simple and above all light weight.
A dozen teenagers being exploited by an employer doesn't worry me much, it's normal for most industries.
I'm more worried that people are throwing away their lives playing crappy Zynga games. How much is *that* costing the economy?
According to some gaming news Mark Turmell (NBA Jam) is there. Not quite a teenager anymore.
Most parties spying on the Internet have just one interest in mind. We (some, you, whoever) may not like that interest, but it is rare that one of them have conflicting intersts as the summary says.
Blind eyes all around.
True there was some legislation about a decade ago, threatening USA trade with that evil unnamed country to the north (eh!) because they were trading with Cuba, but eventually some work-around was settled on, because Canada was the USA's biggest trading partner (still might be, despite what you may think of China.)
This is why people who once worked in government become "Trade Consultants" for $$,$$$,$$$ after leaving the service of the people, because they have the contacts and know the loopholes.
Months ago I received a text message, which billed me for $10. T-Mobile just let it through like it was completely legit. I had to spend over an hour with customer service before I got them to block all billing to my mobile phone account.
Talk about a security hole you could drive a truck through. How many other vermin are doing this and getting away with it?