As time goes on, I see this sort of comment about Slashdot more and more. And it's probably true since we still live under the axiom "money talks, bullshit walks" for the most part in this American Society. You do the things that keep the money rolling in, not the things that the masses think is bullshit. Generally, that seems to mean catering to the lowest common denominator and not being particularly intelligent.
Of course, on the other hand, maybe Slashdot hasn't really changed that much. Maybe it's just as immature a news and social place as it's always been with the only difference being that there's a significant amount of money involved. Perhaps those of us who've been around a long time are just growing up...
Harkening back to my wood shop days of junior and senior high school, I recall that a 'router' of that variety was a wood moulding and shaping tool. The best ones were power tools. *Obligatory Tim Allen grunt* I would imagine that his 'Computerized Router' is along the same lines, only able to work with more materials than wood (namely, plastic) and somehow in a more robotic-style form so that he doesn't have to shout, "OH BLOODY HELL!," should he happen to get an itch on his nose and his hand slips while working with it manually. He can just blame the software instead.
Sounds like fun.:)
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Bravo. I must say I agree. I have tried corporate culture and corporate culture is to my mind what a festering boil would be to my backside. To be quite honest, there is not much reason to try and give big corporations any more of your life than your eight-to-five because they're just like spoiled teenagers: give them an inch and they'll take a thousand miles. And all of a sudden you find yourself stuck with a precedent, the downside of which is that if you don't let them do it anymore, they can sack you whereas you could just ground your teenager. This is how they reward loyalty. Being "Isolate" from work is not at all a bad as long as they don't know how to respect you and just do the sucking up necessary to placate you enough to take more of their crap.
However, being "Isolate" from peers elsewhere can very much be a bad thing. It should be fairly apparent, I would hope, that improving one's life has a direct correlation with how much a person knows and how much they're willing to go ahead and try. Being knowledgable about a diversity of things can really help give someone the confidence they need to take their life into their own hands and do something to improve it -- whether that be finding an interesting hobby or inventing the Apple computer in their garage and changing the face of computing history.:)
And I think that is the whole point. If you isolate yourself at anything, progress gets slow or stops, bad things can happen. In the corporate world, employees end up doing bad things like duplicating effort. In your personal life it can mean even worse things as I'm sure you can probably imagine. Unless, of course, you really dig being lonely, depressed, and angst-ridden (you goth, you).
Bah! 800x600 on an apparent 19 inch display? Man, that's just not the thing you want to say when you get into a dick-size war. That's like bragging about the bigass new twenty-huge-something inch display you just lifted from work -- er, i mean, purchased legally -- and driving it with an old Western Digital VL Bus card. Yeah, great color if you want to stay at 640x480, but it's about as quick as Parliament is at repealing tax laws -- or Congress if you prefer. (And if you can show me a system with a VL Bus in it, I'll show you a pissed off consumer who got hosed by 486 hype. Again and again and again.)
Hear, hear! There are few things in life that do not deserve to have a bit of poking at, and politics and the people surrounding them are, by far, the least of these. Glad to know you're sane, Zordak.:) That makes one...
Well, CERT doesn't seem to be be taking this lightly in any case. I've seen a few posts about there being only 560 compromised hosts and how that isn't enough to perform a decent DDoS on anything but a tin can and strings. Uh, not quite: that's 560 hosts in one incident that has been reported. There have been around a hundred incidents reported, and while I'm sure that 560 hosts weren't compromised in each incident, I would bet you that the number is a lot greater than one for more than a few of them.
CERT seems to be following up on most every lead they can and contacting everyone they believe to have been compromised and urging them to take measures to protect their systems and networks where possible. I am personally aware of a few hosts (which have since been secured as well as possible) which I do not control, but which were involved in a separate incident involving another rather large volume of hosts that CERT followed up on.
So it would seem to me that the folks at CERT, at the very least, are just being careful. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -- and it's no different with computer security.
Who the hell moderated this as Flamebait? I hardly see how just about any post to an article upon which the subject is, in fact, a satirical article, could be seen as flamebait. Especially not a post that was actually funny. It looks like the over-zealous-easily-offended-politically-infantile crowd has finally found it's way to Slashdot! Brace yourselves; diapers are in need of changing!;)
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Of course, on the other hand, maybe Slashdot hasn't really changed that much. Maybe it's just as immature a news and social place as it's always been with the only difference being that there's a significant amount of money involved. Perhaps those of us who've been around a long time are just growing up...
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Sounds like fun. :)
However, being "Isolate" from peers elsewhere can very much be a bad thing. It should be fairly apparent, I would hope, that improving one's life has a direct correlation with how much a person knows and how much they're willing to go ahead and try. Being knowledgable about a diversity of things can really help give someone the confidence they need to take their life into their own hands and do something to improve it -- whether that be finding an interesting hobby or inventing the Apple computer in their garage and changing the face of computing history. :)
And I think that is the whole point. If you isolate yourself at anything, progress gets slow or stops, bad things can happen. In the corporate world, employees end up doing bad things like duplicating effort. In your personal life it can mean even worse things as I'm sure you can probably imagine. Unless, of course, you really dig being lonely, depressed, and angst-ridden (you goth, you).
Chuq
Bah! 800x600 on an apparent 19 inch display? Man, that's just not the thing you want to say when you get into a dick-size war. That's like bragging about the bigass new twenty-huge-something inch display you just lifted from work -- er, i mean, purchased legally -- and driving it with an old Western Digital VL Bus card. Yeah, great color if you want to stay at 640x480, but it's about as quick as Parliament is at repealing tax laws -- or Congress if you prefer. (And if you can show me a system with a VL Bus in it, I'll show you a pissed off consumer who got hosed by 486 hype. Again and again and again.)
Hear, hear! There are few things in life that do not deserve to have a bit of poking at, and politics and the people surrounding them are, by far, the least of these. Glad to know you're sane, Zordak. :) That makes one...
CERT seems to be following up on most every lead they can and contacting everyone they believe to have been compromised and urging them to take measures to protect their systems and networks where possible. I am personally aware of a few hosts (which have since been secured as well as possible) which I do not control, but which were involved in a separate incident involving another rather large volume of hosts that CERT followed up on.
So it would seem to me that the folks at CERT, at the very least, are just being careful. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -- and it's no different with computer security.
Who the hell moderated this as Flamebait? I hardly see how just about any post to an article upon which the subject is, in fact, a satirical article, could be seen as flamebait. Especially not a post that was actually funny. It looks like the over-zealous-easily-offended-politically-infantile crowd has finally found it's way to Slashdot! Brace yourselves; diapers are in need of changing! ;)