Ok I RTFA and it does say he did it without logging in. In which case, the information he had was pretty limited and I'd be surprised if Facebook had any reason to fear competition with any scheme of their own to sell the data.
What facebook lets you see without being logged in is extremely limited. It's very unlikely he could collect a useful amount of info without an account.
Not all Uni's have switches at the edge of their network yet, ones where sports is more important often neglect the tech/sci to spend multiple millions on chasing sewn together animal skin, aka baseball, volleyball, football, basketball.
At many schools the money made from sports actually subsidizes the rest of the school's activities. If the university wasn't making a killing on advertizing, merchandise, game tickets, alumni donations that only happen because the alumni are sports fans, etc., then they wouldn't bother having a team. They're not stupid.
No, I don't have any souces to back me up, but then neither do you.
The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.
The above is actually an old chestnut of management wisdom that Rummy picked up from his days in private industry. Rumsfeld wasn't being stupid or crazy, he was just being unoriginal.
Nearly every show now has a multi-season arc. These were inexistent when B5 was created (aside from the occasional and rare cliffhanger)... unless you count soap operas. They've just been arcing season after season since the 1950s.
To wit, I'd like to hear how any of this application level firewalls are protecting against Ajax? (Well, perhaps an XML firewall like the recently-bought-out Datapower) Or how to teach an application firewall that 1) the cookies may change as a result of client-side javascript, 2) hidden form values may change as a result of client-side javascript, or 3) completely new forms may be created and submitted as a result of client-side javascript.
You probably know this, but I can imagine there are people who would read the above to mean that your (1), (2), and (3) are new features of the "Ajax age". Just for the record, they are not!
It looks like name components in this spec have to begin with ascii "xn--", so a single international character domain name would be at least a 5 character ascii domain name which may already be allowed.
In Firefox, if you enter http://â.com into the address bar, it automatically changes to http://xn--2ca.com/, so I think you're correct.. they are already allowed and apparently already for sale.
rec.games.roguelike (which includes r.g.r.nethack, r.g.r.moria, r.g.r.angband, etc) has been around since 1993 at least, and the term was used prior to that on Usenet back at least to 1989.
I was referring to the term "Roguelike" being used specifically to describe non-games. I don't recall seeing this anywhere before The Art of Unix Programming.
Certainly, nethack is graphical, taking its heritage from Rogue, the first graphical computer game ever written
I think Rogue was the first program of any sort that used this kind of UI, period. Not just the first game.
The proper name for a text-mode program that works by moving the cursor around on a text screen and taking user input direct unbuffered keyboard input (ie., not making you hit ENTER after every command), is "Roguelike". Or at least that's what ESR calls them in his book.
Maybe ESR just made that term up recently, but its a lot clearer than calling them "textmode" (which is sorta right) or "graphical" (which also sorta right but less so), or "curses-based" (the name of a particular library, not essential to the user experience).
Joss Whedon and Sam Raimi aren't at all interested in mythology, except as an excuse to tell their own stories
Agreed. But..
One age's fiction can be another age's "myth". ISTR that most of what the Romans contributed to what we now call "Greek Mythology" was not written (nor for the most part read) by people who had adopted a literal belief in the Greek gods. It was just a great excuse to tell stories.
More recently than that but further back than Buffy and friends, "Dracula" was a work of pure fiction, but has been sufficiently re-absorbed back into the Vampire mythos that the general public now think of it as being on the same level as the original folktales.
Buffy and Xena do borrow from mythology, but neither is true to established mythology. Most of the monsters on Buffy were invented for the show, and Xena considers mythological characters (and also historical characters, such as Julius Caesar) to be outlines they can impose their own stories on, without being at all faithful to the originals.
Since when was established mythology 'true to' itself? The nature of myth, legend, and folklore is that it changes over time.
What we now think of as "Greek Myth" is actually the consensus from centuries of Greek, Roman and later stories, many of which conflict with each other. And those are only the ones that have survived.
The fact that "Greek Myth", "Norse Myth", "Egyption Myth", etc. are taught in US (and I can only assume UK) high schools as fixed, unified, (dead) systems does not mean that is how it really was to people at the time.
At least down here in Atlanta, Krystal has had free wi-fi for a while. I typically consider Krystal to be "road food", since the small square burgers are easy to eat with one hand while driving with the other. But the free wi-fi almost makes it worth while to go in. Almost.
Why is this marked funny? Because it has that Paris Hilton thing at the end? Funny should be used for posts that are entirely a joke. I assumed the OP was serious about the main question.
Working Man Fly By Night Closer to the Heart Spirit of Radio Freewill Tom Sawyer Limelight Red Barchetta Subdivisions Dreamline Roll the Bones Ghost of a Chance
That is the complete list that I have ever heard on the radio, in nearly 20 years of listention almost exclusively to "classic rock" radio. Anything else would only be known to people who own the CD, which is by definition, Rush fans.
why is it that he elitists believe popular music is simplistic? If it's so simplistic and dumb why doesnt everyone make it and become millionaires?
As a sometime amateur rock musician, I can attest to this. Rock (excluding things like prog rock and speed metal) is a hell of a lot easier to write, play, and sing than pop. Partially it's because I never listened to enough pop songs in depth to learn how to mentally dissect it properly. I listen to, say, late-70's Aerosmith and I can easily tell what every member of the band is doing, and can guess how I would go about emulating it. I hear a song like "Oops I did it again" and it's a wall of sound, totally opaque. I don't hear the individual instruments. I have no clue how I would go about reproducing it.
Yup yup. It's not a good idea to lie to the investigators. Just ask Martha Stewart, and I'm sure she'll agree.
Agreed, but we can still assert that it was a silly thing for the police to have been questioning him about in the first place. Of course, the police, they were just doing their jobs and trying to enforce the law.
But it's either a bad law, or at least a misuse of the law on the part of those who called the police on this guy. WTF cares if someone hits a site using lynx? WTF cares if someone tries to access a directory and gets a 403 error? Now, if he tried to get a directory listing and IT WORKED, but then he didn't try to use the information he gleaned from it for his personal gain or to harm anyone, he still shouldn't be in trouble. (Somebody should probably get in trouble with their boss for not locking it down!)
Any law that says otherwise is idiotic. It sounds like TFA is saying that the judge in this case actually realizes that! In that case yay for the country that gave the world the Common Law, even if its too little too late to help this guy.
So if he had tried directory traversal using a different web browser, would that still have set of all this hoopla? It's not like lynx is the only web browser capable of letting the user enter a URL to be loaded..
Why do so many around here act like "blogs" are some despised world totally different from the rarified circles that Slashdot users travel in? What the hell is Slashdot if not a blog shared by Taco and the other editors, that (like most blogs!) allows the general public to post comments?
The articles are dated, the newest ones appear at the top, they have permalinks, you can subscribe to it via RSS. It's a f**king blog!
If you hate Blogs the way some people seem to hate Emo*, then why are you using Slashdot?
* I don't really know what Emo is, so I neither love nor hate it.
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Ok I RTFA and it does say he did it without logging in. In which case, the information he had was pretty limited and I'd be surprised if Facebook had any reason to fear competition with any scheme of their own to sell the data.
What facebook lets you see without being logged in is extremely limited. It's very unlikely he could collect a useful amount of info without an account.
No.
I mean, they used to make only operating systems (which took them a while to perfect)
Microsoft never made only operating systems. Go learn about BASIC.
Not all Uni's have switches at the edge of their network yet, ones where sports is .
more important often neglect the tech/sci to spend multiple millions on chasing sewn
together animal skin, aka baseball, volleyball, football, basketball
At many schools the money made from sports actually subsidizes the rest of the school's activities. If the university wasn't making a killing on advertizing, merchandise, game tickets, alumni donations that only happen because the alumni are sports fans, etc., then they wouldn't bother having a team. They're not stupid.
No, I don't have any souces to back me up, but then neither do you.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
The above is actually an old chestnut of management wisdom that Rummy picked up from his days in private industry. Rumsfeld wasn't being stupid or crazy, he was just being unoriginal.
Nearly every show now has a multi-season arc. These were inexistent when B5 was created (aside from the occasional and rare cliffhanger) ... unless you count soap operas. They've just been arcing season after season since the 1950s.
To wit, I'd like to hear how any of this application level firewalls are protecting against Ajax? (Well, perhaps an XML firewall like the recently-bought-out Datapower) Or how to teach an application firewall that 1) the cookies may change as a result of client-side javascript, 2) hidden form values may change as a result of client-side javascript, or 3) completely new forms may be created and submitted as a result of client-side javascript.
You probably know this, but I can imagine there are people who would read the above to mean that your (1), (2), and (3) are new features of the "Ajax age". Just for the record, they are not!
It looks like name components in this spec have to begin with ascii "xn--", so a single international character domain name would be at least a 5 character ascii domain name which may already be allowed.
In Firefox, if you enter http://â.com into the address bar, it automatically changes to http://xn--2ca.com/, so I think you're correct.. they are already allowed and apparently already for sale.
rec.games.roguelike (which includes r.g.r.nethack, r.g.r.moria, r.g.r.angband, etc) has been around since 1993 at least, and the term was used prior to that on Usenet back at least to 1989.
I was referring to the term "Roguelike" being used specifically to describe non-games. I don't recall seeing this anywhere before The Art of Unix Programming.
Certainly, nethack is graphical, taking its heritage from Rogue, the first graphical computer game ever written
I think Rogue was the first program of any sort that used this kind of UI, period. Not just the first game.
The proper name for a text-mode program that works by moving the cursor around on a text screen and taking user input direct unbuffered keyboard input (ie., not making you hit ENTER after every command), is "Roguelike". Or at least that's what ESR calls them in his book.
Maybe ESR just made that term up recently, but its a lot clearer than calling them "textmode" (which is sorta right) or "graphical" (which also sorta right but less so), or "curses-based" (the name of a particular library, not essential to the user experience).
Dammit.. extra / at the end. http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/GtDfqA30.html
They even have their own kind of spam:
http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/GtDfqA30.html/
Joss Whedon and Sam Raimi aren't at all interested in mythology, except as an excuse to tell their own stories
Agreed. But..
One age's fiction can be another age's "myth". ISTR that most of what the Romans contributed to what we now call "Greek Mythology" was not written (nor for the most part read) by people who had adopted a literal belief in the Greek gods. It was just a great excuse to tell stories.
More recently than that but further back than Buffy and friends, "Dracula" was a work of pure fiction, but has been sufficiently re-absorbed back into the Vampire mythos that the general public now think of it as being on the same level as the original folktales.
Buffy and Xena do borrow from mythology, but neither is true to established mythology. Most of the monsters on Buffy were invented for the show, and Xena considers mythological characters (and also historical characters, such as Julius Caesar) to be outlines they can impose their own stories on, without being at all faithful to the originals.
Since when was established mythology 'true to' itself? The nature of myth, legend, and folklore is that it changes over time.
What we now think of as "Greek Myth" is actually the consensus from centuries of Greek, Roman and later stories, many of which conflict with each other. And those are only the ones that have survived.
The fact that "Greek Myth", "Norse Myth", "Egyption Myth", etc. are taught in US (and I can only assume UK) high schools as fixed, unified, (dead) systems does not mean that is how it really was to people at the time.
This is an urban legend, and I'm surprised it was included in the CNN story
It wasn't in TFA, it was in the story submission to Slashdot.
At least down here in Atlanta, Krystal has had free wi-fi for a while. I typically consider Krystal to be "road food", since the small square burgers are easy to eat with one hand while driving with the other. But the free wi-fi almost makes it worth while to go in. Almost.
Why is this marked funny? Because it has that Paris Hilton thing at the end? Funny should be used for posts that are entirely a joke. I assumed the OP was serious about the main question.
The non-obscure Rush songs are:
Working Man
Fly By Night
Closer to the Heart
Spirit of Radio
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
Limelight
Red Barchetta
Subdivisions
Dreamline
Roll the Bones
Ghost of a Chance
That is the complete list that I have ever heard on the radio, in nearly 20 years of listention almost exclusively to "classic rock" radio. Anything else would only be known to people who own the CD, which is by definition, Rush fans.
French? I thought people were just quoting their favorite obscure RUSH album track.
why is it that he elitists believe popular music is simplistic? If it's so simplistic and dumb why doesnt everyone make it and become millionaires?
As a sometime amateur rock musician, I can attest to this. Rock (excluding things like prog rock and speed metal) is a hell of a lot easier to write, play, and sing than pop. Partially it's because I never listened to enough pop songs in depth to learn how to mentally dissect it properly. I listen to, say, late-70's Aerosmith and I can easily tell what every member of the band is doing, and can guess how I would go about emulating it. I hear a song like "Oops I did it again" and it's a wall of sound, totally opaque. I don't hear the individual instruments. I have no clue how I would go about reproducing it.
Yup yup. It's not a good idea to lie to the investigators. Just ask Martha Stewart, and I'm sure she'll agree.
Agreed, but we can still assert that it was a silly thing for the police to have been questioning him about in the first place. Of course, the police, they were just doing their jobs and trying to enforce the law.
But it's either a bad law, or at least a misuse of the law on the part of those who called the police on this guy. WTF cares if someone hits a site using lynx? WTF cares if someone tries to access a directory and gets a 403 error? Now, if he tried to get a directory listing and IT WORKED, but then he didn't try to use the information he gleaned from it for his personal gain or to harm anyone, he still shouldn't be in trouble. (Somebody should probably get in trouble with their boss for not locking it down!)
Any law that says otherwise is idiotic. It sounds like TFA is saying that the judge in this case actually realizes that! In that case yay for the country that gave the world the Common Law, even if its too little too late to help this guy.
Directory traversal, and using lynx.
So if he had tried directory traversal using a different web browser, would that still have set of all this hoopla? It's not like lynx is the only web browser capable of letting the user enter a URL to be loaded..
Holy shit, people with mod points please get this up +5.
Why do so many around here act like "blogs" are some despised world totally different from the rarified circles that Slashdot users travel in? What the hell is Slashdot if not a blog shared by Taco and the other editors, that (like most blogs!) allows the general public to post comments?
The articles are dated, the newest ones appear at the top, they have permalinks, you can subscribe to it via RSS. It's a f**king blog!
If you hate Blogs the way some people seem to hate Emo*, then why are you using Slashdot?
* I don't really know what Emo is, so I neither love nor hate it.