Eric basically said that joe browser (first person to hit the lucky 8 hour cycle) through their hijacked router connection can click on a button and the router setting will be changed.
Maybe they have some way of making that a secure operation. Maybe not. Proprietary.
Should I get a router to monitor the traffic through my router...?
At a local mall, there's a lot of retirement places around it. On seniors' day, they're all over the mall in strike wings of those damned fast motor scooters.
This development will allow them to mount large powerful robotic arms on these platforms.
Image a 30 ton truck full of gasoline or liquid oxygen rolling down I5 at 70 MPH
This is like those physics test problems where you can disregard friction or air or some other natural law right? I've seen how traffic moves in that area, and I doubt you can have both (a) 70 MPH and (b) 200 Mercedes drivers, let alone poor defenseless ones.
I'm not sure what gunpowder formula Fawkes used
Standard (stolen) armory supplies. Apparently the powder they stole was of old/condemmed grade and wouldn't have made a very good bang even by black powder standards. (Bah! What's an Evil Plot without a Secret Formula?)
/me debates fishing "The Gunpowder Plot" out of the box in the basement.
a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond
Since Microsoft tries to hire them right out of school, "too young" must be young indeed! I'd rate that article as definitely either a Troll or Flamebait, certainly Overrated.
Microsoft, if you're listening, please stay out of cellphones
Where have you been? They're heeeree... (Not doing too well yet, but wait until the 3.0 version.)
An awful lot of large ISPs are undead companies. (Worldcom/MC/UUNET, etc) They bought up a lot of lesser companies and then died a few years ago. They still shamble around in Chapter 11 or such, selling body parts to maintain their un-life. (They need brains, okay?)
Because a proper abuse desk doesn't generate direct profits (it can cost them spammy customers), it's the first to get chopped when cuts happen. You can argue that in the long term, spam costs them money, but long term to them is two quarters away.
No question--any fool that thinks starting/maintaining their own fork is welcome to try it. (The question of if anyone will care about your fork and where you put it, I leave to the other posts.)
It was just the choice of the work "remove" that struck me: Shorter than saying "stop all our work and take our site down", but it sounds more like "take our ball and go home". With open software, you can go home, but you can't take away your ball.
We have been prepared to take the Distro off-line a couple of times as a form of political action. It is important to realize that the software freedom status of GNU-Darwin was tenuous before the change to the APSL, so we were ready to cut our losses, and remove GNU-Darwin from the internet, if necessary. Now things have improved very much.
Now, I'm probably mistaken, but if they took down their site, couldn't someone just immediately pop up a mirror site and carry on from there? If it really is free software under the GNU licence, how can they remove GNU-Darwin from the Internet?
That paragraph, translated, means: "We hope law-enforcement gets up off their ass when we post these clowns' addresses and phone numbers." So far there hasn't exactly been a response worth speaking of.
If nobody got hurt, and the damage was less than $BIGNUM, there's not much interest.
Noted. (Flash and css noted and seconded. One company's page implied that something was broken on my machine because I have ActiveX turned off.)
And I'm not saying the challenge/response is all bad, just not the One Perfect Tool. It's only another tool in the toolbox to be used carefully for the right job.
The businesses that create these always seem to promote them for blanket usage. (Well, they are businesses after all.) However, a lot of them seem to go broke fairly fast. (Dot.boom business models?)
I notice that jobs for embedded programming close to hardware are picking up in the Toronto area. ATI even invited me to a job faire at a pub -- In Ottawa, oops! (I'll go to the one at their HQ in Markham, but I doubt there's beer. *sigh*)
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they have some way of making that a secure operation. Maybe not. Proprietary.
Should I get a router to monitor the traffic through my router...?
But if Slashdot jumps on the leftovers afterwards, it's going to be very hard to attract fresh blood.
I just posted to that thread in Usenet, pointing back to this thread on Slashdot which points to that ... Uh-oh.
This development will allow them to mount large powerful robotic arms on these platforms.
Don't you usually only dissect something when it's dead? Yeah, that sounds about right--but stick the fork in to be sure. Pass the popcorn...
(And I thought dirty telephones were bad. Do you know where that finger has been? Do you really want to know?)
This is like those physics test problems where you can disregard friction or air or some other natural law right? I've seen how traffic moves in that area, and I doubt you can have both (a) 70 MPH and (b) 200 Mercedes drivers, let alone poor defenseless ones.
And note that Pumpkins are a recent New World import. Traditionally it was a Halloween turnip. (Now that's scarey!)
Historical note: By the time of plot, Guy Fawkes had been living in Spain for a while, and had changed his name to Guido.
Oh yeah? Apparently the gunpowder they used was old and stale and wouldn't have made a very good explosion.
"The Stinkbomb Plot" just doesn't work as sinister plots go.
Since Microsoft tries to hire them right out of school, "too young" must be young indeed! I'd rate that article as definitely either a Troll or Flamebait, certainly Overrated.
Microsoft, if you're listening, please stay out of cellphones Where have you been? They're heeeree... (Not doing too well yet, but wait until the 3.0 version.)
It's not just a transmitter, it's a receiver too. A short, directional, high-output pulse ought to do for it.
So the spammer is within 30 feet? *cracks knuckles* That's close enough.
Because a proper abuse desk doesn't generate direct profits (it can cost them spammy customers), it's the first to get chopped when cuts happen. You can argue that in the long term, spam costs them money, but long term to them is two quarters away.
It was just the choice of the work "remove" that struck me: Shorter than saying "stop all our work and take our site down", but it sounds more like "take our ball and go home". With open software, you can go home, but you can't take away your ball.
Meat-space politics come and go, but operating system politics cause flamewars at dawn with dueling forks.
It was our last-best chance for peace, it failed...
I for one welcome our new patron overlords... (But only if they hire me.)
If spammers want to run zombie hordes, go after their command and control and swing those hordes around. (But this would be wrong.)
If nobody got hurt, and the damage was less than $BIGNUM, there's not much interest.
And I'm not saying the challenge/response is all bad, just not the One Perfect Tool. It's only another tool in the toolbox to be used carefully for the right job.
The businesses that create these always seem to promote them for blanket usage. (Well, they are businesses after all.) However, a lot of them seem to go broke fairly fast. (Dot.boom business models?)
Start all the rumours you want, but start planting those Y2032 bugs now for work in your old age.
I notice that jobs for embedded programming close to hardware are picking up in the Toronto area. ATI even invited me to a job faire at a pub -- In Ottawa, oops! (I'll go to the one at their HQ in Markham, but I doubt there's beer. *sigh*)