Get real... the people who want security in the first place WON'T USE WIFI.
Uninformed people want security, too, they just don't know it until they've been violated or 0wn3d. One former CIO thought WI-FI was extremely cool until I started showing him the stuff about War-Chalking on Slashdot. Funny reaction, though, seemed I was part of some problem by revealing such things. Must be the PHB self-defense mechanism kicking in... 'didn't make mistake, peon warning of possible security holes is actualy problem, move peon to desk further away, problem solved.'
It is based on covert 'stealth' technology that was originally designed to hide military radars."
"Heathrow Tower, we can see London, but RADAR says it doesn't exist, then this weird music starts playing and this guy gets up from his seat with a big book and says we've entered some twilight thingie!"
Re:Voting her book down is the wrong tactic
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Both Katies were victims here, of overzealous legal advice and business decisions. What Tarbox went through is horrendous and the book should be of value to warn other children. What Jones went through should not be repeated, but from Microsoft to Time Warner it seems to happen too often. Jones should be entitled to some punitive damages from Penguin, since it was their lack of research and their harrassement which caused her harm. There's simply no excusing Penguin on this one.
According to a story on Wired, Adam Laurie and Martin Herfurt demonstrated that they can hack a Bluetooth enabled phone from up to a mile away using a sniper rifle with yagi antenna.
Surviving the 21st century:
Pencil
Pocket knife
Pad of paper
Water bottle
&
Towel
BTW the Hitchhikers Guide is now considered a bad idea, as even it has proven to be hackable, particularly by those who consider themselves to be hoopy froods (though inaccurate entries may be inserted, and attempts to modify the operating system of all versions of the Guide result in the brief appearance of a hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal, followed shortly by the departure of a not quite as hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.)
Just what we need, a computer from a Mickey Mouse operation...
You laugh, but mark my words, if you're smart you'll run out and pick up a couple dozen and sell these things on eBay. People on eBay will fork over insane amounts for banal garbage, even when they can go to the store and buy it for less.
When 640Kb should be enough for everyone?
(Yeah I know I am mixing ram with disk size here, but it is a joke. Laugh)
A joke? Seems the joke is we now have HD beyond our wildest dreams (only thinkable in the realm of sci-fi, lest you be mocked) 10 years ago. ("Wow, a 340 Meg HD, that's HUGE!") Yet, we seem to only have the same stuff as back then, just with higher definition. Heck, I don't think you can install Windows XP on less than a 5 GB drive. We once ran an entire information system and had student accounts on a system with 2 x 88 MB drives. Games which were elaborate and inventive (not to mention gripping) fit in 64K, now require a CD or DVD. Yeah, it's for the 5.1 sound and the massive graphics, I know, and compilers no longer optimize for size, so even code can be large.
Sony wouldn't do a proprietary thing, would they? Owning rights to all those movies and music are just tempting them to get back at the world for Betamax.
TiVo, maker of popular digital television recording devices, on Wednesday received approval [from FCC] for technology that would permit users to send copies of digital broadcast shows over the Internet to a few friends."
I am always skeptical of how this will play out in the long run, but this looks like it could have a significant impact in returning fair-use rights to consumers.... I would love to know how this might act as a precedent for computer-based sharing methods.
You know that this will be appealed to the powers-that-be who will smack-down the FCC, yet again. It's the kind of news that gives you hope, just before your cynicism of the system is reinforced.
Dunno, but sounds like something that would get you in loads of trouble and cast shadows on the good work of Open Sourcers. In sympathize, but pick your battles wisely, as 321's demise should underscore. Even EFF doesn't likely have the deep pockets to fight all villains in MPAA/RIAA, etc.
Probably 321 would also suffer immense litgation if their code slipped into the wild anyway.
I have such warm, fuzzy memories of hacking a PDP 11 and rabidly tearing away the wrapping from each DEC Professional magazine that graced my mailbox...
Yeah, emulation sounds more reasonable than what some nut did, he got the schools old PDP 11/50, with 1 TU16 and 2 RP04 drives and had his house (I sh!t you not) raised 12 inches so he could set it up in the basement. No idea what's happened since.
Yeah. Note that they didn't promise to stop suing non-customers. And that includes all linux users.
A problem for them, in this regard, would have been a couple of my previous employers. They used both, SCO Unix and Linux for separate purposes. They may not need to be sued, but feel the change in climate and decide to dump SCO. Most companies could care less about the politics of operating system backers, they just want stuff to work and get on with business.
Not suing customers, particularly your own, is usually somewhere high on the list
of Winning Business Strategies.
"Smithers, how much did our iron-fisted grab for licensing fees get us?" "$11,000, last quarter, Sir." "Ehhxcellent! They must be crowding around like lemmings, eager to hand over their money!" "Uh, No Sir, it cost us millions to get that much." "In the parlance of that oafish brute Homer Simpson, D'oh!"
I admit I had to chuckle, but at least you got the answer.
Control tab would also switch between the invisible "tabs"
Another fine, non-obvious feature of Windows. Often I wish they'd work on making the operating system work better rather than putting all these little tweaks into things.
Apparently, noone else gives a shit about the battery life as much as Slashdotters do.
'cuz some slashdotters look forward, rather than the present or past. Combine more features and kiss that extra time goo-bye.
I always laugh when this comes up
Seek help.
The funny thing is they don't realize they're not the market
True, slashdotters are likely to get one and break it trying to take it appart of hack it before the battery gets a chance to run down the first time. Seriously, you didn't expect the iPod to remain as _only_ a music playing device forever, did you? The iPod you have today will likely become a smaller part of the iPod market as iPod(tm) features are built into everything else, or everything else is added to the iPod. I believe I mentioned Motorola phones somewhere, as Apple and Motorola are getting into bed together to combine features (undoubtably manufactured by Motorola, tho probably marketed by boht companies or through vendors.) Why lug around a phone and a PDA and an iPod and a GBA and... when you could have it all in one little package? It's the future and it'll suck batteries dry, thus needing newer technology batteries for $$$. Ever notice how expensive aftermarket batteries are for mini consumer electronics. Ooof!
I will never, ever, ever let the phone company come between me and my music collection. They'll decide they want to bill me for every minute I spend listening to stuff I've got stored on my hardware.
Yeah, but if it's a Motorola phone with iPod functionality and you BUY the thing separate from any service, they have no right to bill you for what you do offline.
Of course, I'm probably some sort of weirdo, since I buy my cellphones rather than sign up for some package deal which gives my a phone while I'm shackled to a 2 year contract or such....
here's so many articles constantly appearing about how this will kill the ipod, this will be better than the ipod, this will put the ipod out of business... so many people targeting the little white bundle of joy, and so many people falling way, way, short. Kind of sad.
Battery manufacturers rejoice!
"I'm sorry I missed your call, I either have my phone off or the battery has run down from picturetaking, musiclistening, notetaking, gameplaing und blinkenledwatchen. Please leave a message..."
Worst thing that can and will happen in the future to ruin your life? You lose your phone and if you had a password it was 1-2-3.
As everything in the world becomes integrated into a cell phone, it'll approach a critical software mass and collapse in upon itself, forming a sort of firmware black hole.
I noticed a change in my winXP task manager window, I no longer get the Applications/Processes/Performance/Networking tabs, simply the End Task and New Task buttons. Any ideas why this happened? I've since updated firewall and virus scanning, but nothing turns up on my system.
What if Slashdot gave $503 for every 503 Service Unavailable?
Hm. What's causing this?
I noticed over the last couple days that within 10 minutes of connecting to the internet my throughput was degrading to a crawl. My firewall logs indicate I'm under attack more than back in November, but is it possible that there's a worm out there that's just firing DoS attacks across ip address ranges?
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Uninformed people want security, too, they just don't know it until they've been violated or 0wn3d. One former CIO thought WI-FI was extremely cool until I started showing him the stuff about War-Chalking on Slashdot. Funny reaction, though, seemed I was part of some problem by revealing such things. Must be the PHB self-defense mechanism kicking in... 'didn't make mistake, peon warning of possible security holes is actualy problem, move peon to desk further away, problem solved.'
"Heathrow Tower, we can see London, but RADAR says it doesn't exist, then this weird music starts playing and this guy gets up from his seat with a big book and says we've entered some twilight thingie!"
Both Katies were victims here, of overzealous legal advice and business decisions. What Tarbox went through is horrendous and the book should be of value to warn other children. What Jones went through should not be repeated, but from Microsoft to Time Warner it seems to happen too often. Jones should be entitled to some punitive damages from Penguin, since it was their lack of research and their harrassement which caused her harm. There's simply no excusing Penguin on this one.
Surviving the 21st century:
Pencil
Pocket knife
Pad of paper
Water bottle
&
Towel
BTW the Hitchhikers Guide is now considered a bad idea, as even it has proven to be hackable, particularly by those who consider themselves to be hoopy froods (though inaccurate entries may be inserted, and attempts to modify the operating system of all versions of the Guide result in the brief appearance of a hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal, followed shortly by the departure of a not quite as hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.)
"Awright, it's out there on the grass, yew juss fixit and then back away from it, slow like."
You laugh, but mark my words, if you're smart you'll run out and pick up a couple dozen and sell these things on eBay. People on eBay will fork over insane amounts for banal garbage, even when they can go to the store and buy it for less.
A joke? Seems the joke is we now have HD beyond our wildest dreams (only thinkable in the realm of sci-fi, lest you be mocked) 10 years ago. ("Wow, a 340 Meg HD, that's HUGE!") Yet, we seem to only have the same stuff as back then, just with higher definition. Heck, I don't think you can install Windows XP on less than a 5 GB drive. We once ran an entire information system and had student accounts on a system with 2 x 88 MB drives. Games which were elaborate and inventive (not to mention gripping) fit in 64K, now require a CD or DVD. Yeah, it's for the 5.1 sound and the massive graphics, I know, and compilers no longer optimize for size, so even code can be large.
Just wait until everything is 3D...
Sony wouldn't do a proprietary thing, would they? Owning rights to all those movies and music are just tempting them to get back at the world for Betamax.
Guess I'd better remove that wallpaper from the den.
I am always skeptical of how this will play out in the long run, but this looks like it could have a significant impact in returning fair-use rights to consumers. ... I would love to know how this might act as a precedent for computer-based sharing methods.
You know that this will be appealed to the powers-that-be who will smack-down the FCC, yet again. It's the kind of news that gives you hope, just before your cynicism of the system is reinforced.
"To vote against the incumbent, hit the monkey!"
Dunno, but sounds like something that would get you in loads of trouble and cast shadows on the good work of Open Sourcers. In sympathize, but pick your battles wisely, as 321's demise should underscore. Even EFF doesn't likely have the deep pockets to fight all villains in MPAA/RIAA, etc.
Probably 321 would also suffer immense litgation if their code slipped into the wild anyway.
I have such warm, fuzzy memories of hacking a PDP 11 and rabidly tearing away the wrapping from each DEC Professional magazine that graced my mailbox...
Yeah, emulation sounds more reasonable than what some nut did, he got the schools old PDP 11/50, with 1 TU16 and 2 RP04 drives and had his house (I sh!t you not) raised 12 inches so he could set it up in the basement. No idea what's happened since.
A problem for them, in this regard, would have been a couple of my previous employers. They used both, SCO Unix and Linux for separate purposes. They may not need to be sued, but feel the change in climate and decide to dump SCO. Most companies could care less about the politics of operating system backers, they just want stuff to work and get on with business.
Actually, Darl's backers lost their nerve before he lost his.
Burning through a fat wad of cash in endless legal battles does tend to do that. Ask Ashton-Tate, if you ever see them again.
Not suing customers, particularly your own, is usually somewhere high on the list of Winning Business Strategies.
"Smithers, how much did our iron-fisted grab for licensing fees get us?"
"$11,000, last quarter, Sir."
"Ehhxcellent! They must be crowding around like lemmings, eager to hand over their money!"
"Uh, No Sir, it cost us millions to get that much."
"In the parlance of that oafish brute Homer Simpson, D'oh!"
Another fine, non-obvious feature of Windows. Often I wish they'd work on making the operating system work better rather than putting all these little tweaks into things.
'cuz some slashdotters look forward, rather than the present or past. Combine more features and kiss that extra time goo-bye.
I always laugh when this comes up
Seek help.
The funny thing is they don't realize they're not the market
True, slashdotters are likely to get one and break it trying to take it appart of hack it before the battery gets a chance to run down the first time. Seriously, you didn't expect the iPod to remain as _only_ a music playing device forever, did you? The iPod you have today will likely become a smaller part of the iPod market as iPod(tm) features are built into everything else, or everything else is added to the iPod. I believe I mentioned Motorola phones somewhere, as Apple and Motorola are getting into bed together to combine features (undoubtably manufactured by Motorola, tho probably marketed by boht companies or through vendors.) Why lug around a phone and a PDA and an iPod and a GBA and ... when you could have it all in one little package? It's the future and it'll suck batteries dry, thus needing newer technology batteries for $$$. Ever notice how expensive aftermarket batteries are for mini consumer electronics. Ooof!
Yeah, but if it's a Motorola phone with iPod functionality and you BUY the thing separate from any service, they have no right to bill you for what you do offline.
Of course, I'm probably some sort of weirdo, since I buy my cellphones rather than sign up for some package deal which gives my a phone while I'm shackled to a 2 year contract or such....
Battery manufacturers rejoice!
"I'm sorry I missed your call, I either have my phone off or the battery has run down from picturetaking, musiclistening, notetaking, gameplaing und blinkenledwatchen. Please leave a message..."
Worst thing that can and will happen in the future to ruin your life? You lose your phone and if you had a password it was 1-2-3.
Solution: Buy the next model.
I noticed a change in my winXP task manager window, I no longer get the Applications/Processes/Performance/Networking tabs, simply the End Task and New Task buttons. Any ideas why this happened? I've since updated firewall and virus scanning, but nothing turns up on my system.
Hm. What's causing this?
I noticed over the last couple days that within 10 minutes of connecting to the internet my throughput was degrading to a crawl. My firewall logs indicate I'm under attack more than back in November, but is it possible that there's a worm out there that's just firing DoS attacks across ip address ranges?
May be embedded in devices other than plastic toys found in breakfast cereals and happymeals
May be built without bloat (a prohibitive patent owned by Microsoft)
Able to run for months, or years, without reboot (another prohibitive patent)
Uses letters of the alphabet
Uses arabic numbers
Multitasking
May be networked with multiple other computers
Enables a spoon to stick to admins nose during boot
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Depreciated: 364 days a year*
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