We should not ban encryption because it does not stop all terrorists.
We should not restrict driving laws because it does not stop all accidents.
We should not lock our doors because it does not stop all intruders.
Okay...what am I missing? These are logically equivalent, aren't they?
logically, one should weigh the pros and cons of any law before it is passed. Having laws for conduct on the road, or locking your doors have some, hopefully, positive effect on our lives. If it is more trouble for me to lock my doors, than the security locking my doors will provide, I won't lock my doors. And, in such a case, explain to me why I should lock my doors?
Before we pass some laws on encryption, an argument should be made to establish that the benifit that those restrictions will have on our society outweigh the problems it will create. I, for one, believe that such laws will have little effect on what they try to prevent and much damage to the general public. Prove to me otherwise! =p
-Nick
do you block caller id? (I don't think blocking even works when calling 800 numbers, but I could be wrong)
I doubt it is that difficult to connect a phone number with an individual or company. Not that I care if anyone knows if I recently added a burner, athlon, and another couple hundred megs of ram =p
hm...
when I was about to get my drivers license, I was pissed. It turns out that 18 year-old girls pay half of what I had to. I was outraged. Then, I got my license and drove way too fast =p
anyways, I never had any accidents (but quite a few tickets). The worst driver I have ever known was female. She managed to do a u-turn coming out of her driveway, ran into a tree and did $5000 worth of damage.
what is the point of this? Insurance companies go by statistics. A larger percent of males or, in the case, windows nt computers are a larger risk than linux computers. Who knows; maybe it is a result of the operating system; maybe it is a result of the difficulty of configuring linux servers (filter out the complete morons).
anyways, they are just looking at statistics and charging based on those. Stop bitching.
-theman2
ps: I admit to using windows 2000. I keep trying to install linux on my laptop, but can never get around support for different features. One of these days, I will probably become some bonehead winnt admin =)
heh
I think that your intuition was correct. I fired up another ie window to read that *.doc file. After scrolling through, and looking at some of the companies that they review, I decided I had enough crap (just because 3 random companies chose solution 1 over solution 2 doesn't make solution 2 worse or even mean that it is a bad option for different applications) and closed the browser window. I love how they stuck in the line about "windows 2000 never crashes for us, but we had to reboot linux servers every week or two (but we won't tell you what unstable aplications we were running or how well our employees understand the os).
anyways, I close the browser window and, lo and behold, I get some weird ie error message and it crashes out. Gotta love a browser/msword combo that crashes reading their docs directly from their servers.
the problem with Markoff is more than just the publicity he gave to Kevin Mitnick's activities.
Markoff exaggerated the crimes Kevin was accussed of, reported that he was on the fbi's most wanted list(not true by any account), and Markoff actually accompanied the people who took Kevin down. I don't remember the exact reason why it was so bad, but generally I think it is a no-no to invite a private third party into a bust without proper approval. Probably something to do with the warrant. So, after lying his ass off about Kevin's deeds (remember, kevin was in jail for almost 4 years and was never actually convicted of anything, but Markoff wrote as if Kevin was a convicted criminal), Markoff wrote a book and made a lot of money off it. There was definitely a profit motive to Markoff's reporting, and I can't think of any clearer conflict of intrest...
on the other hand, Jonathan Littman's The Fugitive Game was a great book (Littman actually held some phone conversations with Kevin, unlike a certain unethical journalist who had no real contact).
so, hope Markoff passes over you when he wants to make another book and hopefully you won't end up rotting in a prison for years, hoping to get a trial =p
Have you ever considered the long term costs of nuclear power? It might be cheap and clean when all you consider is the first years of the plant's life, but when you start to factor in waste management (which will have to be dealt with long after we are all dead and the United States is no more) and dangers involved with operating a nuclear plant, things look much worse. I don't consider myself a radical environmentalist, but I am amazed that anyone in the United states could ever think that Nuclear power is really a cheap and clean power source when the used fuel rods much be dealt with for such a long time and in the highly unlikely possibility of meltdown an incredible amount of damage would be done.
You might want to do a little more research before you call nuclear plants clean and efficient when there are very real waste products and the long term cost is very high.
haven't you ever heard of oem disks? Microsoft gives dell and all the other places different installation disks. The big difference is that the serial number is not needed until the installation is finished. Dell makes one good installation of the dell XXX laptop with all of the software and hardware properly configured. Then, they copy it to every machine with the same exact setup. Then, each machine is booted and its legal serial number is entered.
that is a special tool that microsoft provides to companies. They aren't going to stop providing the oem disks just becuase a new copy control scheme has been implemented. Dell would wack Bill Gates around with a large stick if they had to go through the process of installing the os on every machine.
I have no doubt that if CPRM is on a drive, that entities such as MS will require it be used.
Microsoft has never used any copy protection on their os. Try copying any of the win 9x/NTx cds onto your hard drive and you will quickly learn that the only protection is the serial number. I seriously doubt that microsoft will make your computer dial up some number to check that you own the OS just becuase a new copy control has been built into the ata specs.
okay, I was wrong...
but hydrogen does expand when it warms up, right? Put some liquid hydrogen into a tank and then let it heat up to room temperature. Kaboom, right? It isn't the hydrogen blowing up exactly but the whole storage system needs be to kept incredibly cool to keep the hydrogen in the tank and prevent pieces of the tank from becoming shrapnel in my ass.
Some people rely on the national enquirer as their sole news source... some people use slashdot exclusively... and other people bang their head against the wall all day long.
It is a free country, so give the crazy people a break and let them excersize their right to ignorance =p
Last time that I checked, bacteria was rampant in land fills and plays an important role in breaking down the trash. The only problem is that most bacteria has a hard time munching on plastics and metal =p
I don't quite understand why having a machine doing the same thing would help...
Have you ever heard of fuel cells? The basic idea is that you drive around with a car full of hydrogen at -276 C (or whatever temperature is needed to store it). A method has been developed where it can be combined with oxygen (I believe that the air is a good enough source for that) to make H2O. Anyways, the hydrogen must lose some electron(s) to combine with the oxygen. A device has been built which can capture that energy during the process. The only problem is fuel cells are incredibly expense and hydrogen must be kept really cold or it blows shit up.
I don't have any good online resources but I am sure that a search for "fuel cells" on google would turn up all sorts of things.
as far as using water for a fuel, I have a feeling that it is nothing more than a myth. But if you heard that water was the waste produced by the car, then here is your answer =)
think of sugar (or whatever fuel source is being used) as a storage mechanisim. Using solar panels are nice, but you end up having to use a bunch of batteries to store up power so it can function at night. Making a machine that can generate electricty from other sources is interesting and could possibly have very pratical results if the technology advances far enough. Batteries and solar panels are enough in certain circumstances, but creating a robot that can move for days if it can pick up a little grass (or some dirt or other fual which it knows how to break down and extract food from) along the way, it could accomplish some nice things.
Pretty soon they will gain consciousness and then realize sitting on the couch and watching tv while sucking on a jaw-breaker is the way to live. And then say good bye human race =p
I can't believe you are saying that. Read what I wrote -- I never said they shouldn't have fired her. But, since a blind person has disadvantages, they should give her the help she needs.
no one said that
the equal opportunity and disabled american laws are to give the blind people (most of whom never did anything to deserve blindness) a fair chance to succeed in a world where everyone else can see. It seems that the original comment was attempting to show injustice in the way she was fired. She is blind, so shouldn't they at least have the decency to spend the pittance needed to ensure she had help moving out?
a blind person can not only get a job as easy (or easier) than anyone else
what the fuck does that mean? Do you think that anything is easy for a blind person? Imagine being blind. Now try to imagine brushing your teeth. It would be much harder, right? Do you think that being a little flexible on the work conditions and the qualifications make it easier for that blind person to get the job than you? They might be able to get it with less qualifications but I guaruntee that they spent a lot more effort than you.
First of all, remember that being blind isn't her choice. Bad things happen to all sorts of people, including the best. Next time, you might be the person who gets hit by a drunk driver or gets damaged by some freak accident.
The poster 'PaxTech' never said that blind people should get a "get out of downsizing free" card. Read what was said and you will see what was said. They fired a women with disibilities who had worked there for 13 years. I am not 100% about this, since I didn't see this personally, but chances are she worked hard and made some money for the company. One day, they fire her and don't even have the decency to help her get her property, which belongs to her and is probably needed for her daily survival, home.
Disabled people should not be imune from critisism. But they should be treated with decency, mostly when they are a long term and faithfull employee. Maybe the company did have a good reason to fire her. The least they could have done is ensured that she had all the help she needed on her way out. That is how a blind person should be treated fairly.
-theman2
that is not how watermarking works.
Watermarking is adding imperceptible (as far as most people are concerned) data to an image or sound that can be identified by a program. Artists can watermark their jpgs. When someone else rips off the file and claims that they created it, anyone who has the correct software can identify that it is actually made by someone else. Watermarks can be very powerful, to the point that a printed and then scanned jpg can still contain the identifying data.
Watermarking a dvd (read 4-8 gigs of data) takes a significant amount of computer proccessing. They are not going to give each dvd they burn a unique watermark, as it wouldn't be practical. So, watermarks are going to be more like a proof of copyright imbedded into the video. I bet they will be used for region coding or some other lame thing. (Right now it is easy to decrypt the vobs and strip the region coding. Anyone with the right equipment could burn those and sell them to the bad guys. Oh no!)
If anyone else has any brilliant ideas as to what the watermarking will be used for, or if anyone actually bothers to read the article, please reply.
-theman2
ps: I am still pissed that I can't buy the complete tv series "The Prisoner" collection on dvd as it is only released in europe now. If anyone has a dvd burner and wants to kill the region coding and send me some burnt copys, I will pay list price. I got the first 4 episodes and I am hooked =)
that is why you identify and then fix it.
I would be really pissed if I found that macromedia's negligence caused me to get a virus. It is possible that they skip the checking to make it run faster, but it still seems way to dangerous of a risk just to save a few clock cycles. What would happen if they next 'melissa' like virus scare printed in all the papers involved their plugin? And what if the reporters noticed the problem had been identified months ago and was ignored? I know I sure as hell would never use their products again.
heh...
thanks for the information, SevenSeasOfRhye.
I thought the whole thing smelled like a scam to get really cheap computer help and possibly to get india a little publicity for recruting teenage genius hackers.
I guess they will also save on bandwidth costs since the adult content is not allowed =p
I never said 15 year olds are ignorant. Hiring young people soley because they claim that they can crack into a computer in five minutes is ridiculous. I know that there are teenagers out there who are fully capable of securing systems. It is just that one needs some sort of proof, whether it be a degree, actual previous work experience with good feedback, or an actual demonstration of knowledge, before they get hired.
There are a lot of teenagers who are stupid, lame, and think they are smarter than adults. I know becuase I used to be one of them. Now I am 20 and I have come to realize there is a great deal I don't know. If they didn't do their homework, they probably hired some of these 1337 h4x0rs.
so, to wrap this up, I never indicated that I have judged a single person by his/her age. Next time, if you want to make someone believe you have a brain, look carefully at what is said before doing a knee-jerk reply claiming a person's ignorance. Who is the fool now? God help India if they hired 'hackers' like you =p -theman2
oh, and God help India if they hired me, becuase I probably know even less about computer security.
"Hacking, spreading viruses are much bigger criminal offenses in cyber terrorism than pornography," Mehta said.
Since when did that become a crime? And who in the world would equate looking at pornography with breaking into a computer system or spreading malicious virri? I am glad Mehta cleared that up for me...
"They are brilliant. They told me that within five minutes they can hack the (Indian) defense ministry Web site...," he said.
"We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites," he added.
hm... they tell someone that they can break into a government computer in five minutes. I don't know anything about breaking into computers but the security must be pretty awefull if they can be compromised by anyone in that amount of time. Don't tell me they use 'welcome' as their admin password...
that is a really informative article. India is hiring 15-19 year olds who say they can break into a computer in five minutes to install firewalls and configure servers? The only reason I could see to hire some 16-19 year old 'hackers' is to get cheap and semi-knowledgable labor. Maybe they should starting hiring the microsoft 'temps' that are in charge of securing their servers.
I am confused... could someone explain why this article is important enough to be posted on slashdot?
-theman2
I know this has nothing to do with the posted article but I feel I must reply anyways.
last summer I broke down and bought a sony laptop -the sony superslim pro z505je.
this model doesn't have an ethernet dongle, so I guess sony fixed that mistake. Mistakes do happen and you can't really advise someone not to purchase a later model if the company realizes and fixes problems
and I don't know if taking any laptop apart to replace a hard drive could be called easy. I added a 128 meg so dimm to mine and it was a piece of cake which was suprising. If your laptop is less than 1 year old, isn't the hard drive still under waranty? Why the hell did you fix it yourself? Sony is a huge company and I am sure they would help you fix your power problem and give you a replacement dongle if you called their customer support. That is the reason they can get away with charging those insane prices.
this is the most solid machine I have ever owned as far as windows 98/2k is concerned. Sony knows the importance of stable drivers...
-theman2
I am not saying that sony is without problems. The prices, even for extra ram, are insane. I got my 128 so dimm for $80 including shipping and I am sure sony would have charged a few hundred for their branded stuff. Also I have noticed that heat seems to be a problem but, unless I am mistaken, all laptops suffer from similar problems.
I haven't listened to a radio station for a really long time. Too many commercial and lots of bad music repeated often.
and I don't know what you are talking about with this layer from reality. Look with your eyes at your surroundings... that is reality. Since when did radio/tv/or other media controlled by some corperation become more real than the actual world around you?
-theman2
wow. It looks like florida might have a recount, as the difference might be as small as 600 votes.
looks like we might have to stay up really late to find out who won...
-theman2
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We should not restrict driving laws because it does not stop all accidents.
We should not lock our doors because it does not stop all intruders.
Okay...what am I missing? These are logically equivalent, aren't they?
logically, one should weigh the pros and cons of any law before it is passed. Having laws for conduct on the road, or locking your doors have some, hopefully, positive effect on our lives. If it is more trouble for me to lock my doors, than the security locking my doors will provide, I won't lock my doors. And, in such a case, explain to me why I should lock my doors?
Before we pass some laws on encryption, an argument should be made to establish that the benifit that those restrictions will have on our society outweigh the problems it will create. I, for one, believe that such laws will have little effect on what they try to prevent and much damage to the general public. Prove to me otherwise! =p
-Nick
I don't think Isaac Asimov ever wrote anything worthy of quoting...
-me
(I don't think blocking even works when calling 800 numbers, but I could be wrong)
I doubt it is that difficult to connect a phone number with an individual or company. Not that I care if anyone knows if I recently added a burner, athlon, and another couple hundred megs of ram =p
when I was about to get my drivers license, I was pissed. It turns out that 18 year-old girls pay half of what I had to. I was outraged. Then, I got my license and drove way too fast =p
anyways, I never had any accidents (but quite a few tickets). The worst driver I have ever known was female. She managed to do a u-turn coming out of her driveway, ran into a tree and did $5000 worth of damage.
what is the point of this? Insurance companies go by statistics. A larger percent of males or, in the case, windows nt computers are a larger risk than linux computers. Who knows; maybe it is a result of the operating system; maybe it is a result of the difficulty of configuring linux servers (filter out the complete morons).
anyways, they are just looking at statistics and charging based on those. Stop bitching.
-theman2
ps: I admit to using windows 2000. I keep trying to install linux on my laptop, but can never get around support for different features. One of these days, I will probably become some bonehead winnt admin =)
I think that your intuition was correct. I fired up another ie window to read that *.doc file. After scrolling through, and looking at some of the companies that they review, I decided I had enough crap (just because 3 random companies chose solution 1 over solution 2 doesn't make solution 2 worse or even mean that it is a bad option for different applications) and closed the browser window. I love how they stuck in the line about "windows 2000 never crashes for us, but we had to reboot linux servers every week or two (but we won't tell you what unstable aplications we were running or how well our employees understand the os).
anyways, I close the browser window and, lo and behold, I get some weird ie error message and it crashes out. Gotta love a browser/msword combo that crashes reading their docs directly from their servers.
anyways, what was your original idea about POS?
the problem with Markoff is more than just the publicity he gave to Kevin Mitnick's activities.
Markoff exaggerated the crimes Kevin was accussed of, reported that he was on the fbi's most wanted list(not true by any account), and Markoff actually accompanied the people who took Kevin down. I don't remember the exact reason why it was so bad, but generally I think it is a no-no to invite a private third party into a bust without proper approval. Probably something to do with the warrant. So, after lying his ass off about Kevin's deeds (remember, kevin was in jail for almost 4 years and was never actually convicted of anything, but Markoff wrote as if Kevin was a convicted criminal), Markoff wrote a book and made a lot of money off it. There was definitely a profit motive to Markoff's reporting, and I can't think of any clearer conflict of intrest...
on the other hand, Jonathan Littman's The Fugitive Game was a great book (Littman actually held some phone conversations with Kevin, unlike a certain unethical journalist who had no real contact).
so, hope Markoff passes over you when he wants to make another book and hopefully you won't end up rotting in a prison for years, hoping to get a trial =p
Have you ever considered the long term costs of nuclear power? It might be cheap and clean when all you consider is the first years of the plant's life, but when you start to factor in waste management (which will have to be dealt with long after we are all dead and the United States is no more) and dangers involved with operating a nuclear plant, things look much worse. I don't consider myself a radical environmentalist, but I am amazed that anyone in the United states could ever think that Nuclear power is really a cheap and clean power source when the used fuel rods much be dealt with for such a long time and in the highly unlikely possibility of meltdown an incredible amount of damage would be done.
You might want to do a little more research before you call nuclear plants clean and efficient when there are very real waste products and the long term cost is very high.
haven't you ever heard of oem disks? Microsoft gives dell and all the other places different installation disks. The big difference is that the serial number is not needed until the installation is finished. Dell makes one good installation of the dell XXX laptop with all of the software and hardware properly configured. Then, they copy it to every machine with the same exact setup. Then, each machine is booted and its legal serial number is entered.
that is a special tool that microsoft provides to companies. They aren't going to stop providing the oem disks just becuase a new copy control scheme has been implemented. Dell would wack Bill Gates around with a large stick if they had to go through the process of installing the os on every machine.
I have no doubt that if CPRM is on a drive, that entities such as MS will require it be used.
Microsoft has never used any copy protection on their os. Try copying any of the win 9x/NTx cds onto your hard drive and you will quickly learn that the only protection is the serial number. I seriously doubt that microsoft will make your computer dial up some number to check that you own the OS just becuase a new copy control has been built into the ata specs.
okay, I was wrong...
but hydrogen does expand when it warms up, right? Put some liquid hydrogen into a tank and then let it heat up to room temperature. Kaboom, right? It isn't the hydrogen blowing up exactly but the whole storage system needs be to kept incredibly cool to keep the hydrogen in the tank and prevent pieces of the tank from becoming shrapnel in my ass.
Some people rely on the national enquirer as their sole news source... some people use slashdot exclusively... and other people bang their head against the wall all day long.
It is a free country, so give the crazy people a break and let them excersize their right to ignorance =p
Last time that I checked, bacteria was rampant in land fills and plays an important role in breaking down the trash. The only problem is that most bacteria has a hard time munching on plastics and metal =p
I don't quite understand why having a machine doing the same thing would help...
Have you ever heard of fuel cells? The basic idea is that you drive around with a car full of hydrogen at -276 C (or whatever temperature is needed to store it). A method has been developed where it can be combined with oxygen (I believe that the air is a good enough source for that) to make H2O. Anyways, the hydrogen must lose some electron(s) to combine with the oxygen. A device has been built which can capture that energy during the process. The only problem is fuel cells are incredibly expense and hydrogen must be kept really cold or it blows shit up.
I don't have any good online resources but I am sure that a search for "fuel cells" on google would turn up all sorts of things.
as far as using water for a fuel, I have a feeling that it is nothing more than a myth. But if you heard that water was the waste produced by the car, then here is your answer =)
think of sugar (or whatever fuel source is being used) as a storage mechanisim. Using solar panels are nice, but you end up having to use a bunch of batteries to store up power so it can function at night. Making a machine that can generate electricty from other sources is interesting and could possibly have very pratical results if the technology advances far enough. Batteries and solar panels are enough in certain circumstances, but creating a robot that can move for days if it can pick up a little grass (or some dirt or other fual which it knows how to break down and extract food from) along the way, it could accomplish some nice things.
Pretty soon they will gain consciousness and then realize sitting on the couch and watching tv while sucking on a jaw-breaker is the way to live. And then say good bye human race =p
I can't believe you are saying that. Read what I wrote -- I never said they shouldn't have fired her. But, since a blind person has disadvantages, they should give her the help she needs.
the equal opportunity and disabled american laws are to give the blind people (most of whom never did anything to deserve blindness) a fair chance to succeed in a world where everyone else can see. It seems that the original comment was attempting to show injustice in the way she was fired. She is blind, so shouldn't they at least have the decency to spend the pittance needed to ensure she had help moving out?
a blind person can not only get a job as easy (or easier) than anyone else
what the fuck does that mean? Do you think that anything is easy for a blind person? Imagine being blind. Now try to imagine brushing your teeth. It would be much harder, right? Do you think that being a little flexible on the work conditions and the qualifications make it easier for that blind person to get the job than you? They might be able to get it with less qualifications but I guaruntee that they spent a lot more effort than you.
First of all, remember that being blind isn't her choice. Bad things happen to all sorts of people, including the best. Next time, you might be the person who gets hit by a drunk driver or gets damaged by some freak accident.
The poster 'PaxTech' never said that blind people should get a "get out of downsizing free" card. Read what was said and you will see what was said. They fired a women with disibilities who had worked there for 13 years. I am not 100% about this, since I didn't see this personally, but chances are she worked hard and made some money for the company. One day, they fire her and don't even have the decency to help her get her property, which belongs to her and is probably needed for her daily survival, home.
Disabled people should not be imune from critisism. But they should be treated with decency, mostly when they are a long term and faithfull employee. Maybe the company did have a good reason to fire her. The least they could have done is ensured that she had all the help she needed on her way out. That is how a blind person should be treated fairly.
-theman2
Watermarking is adding imperceptible (as far as most people are concerned) data to an image or sound that can be identified by a program.
Artists can watermark their jpgs. When someone else rips off the file and claims that they created it, anyone who has the correct software can identify that it is actually made by someone else. Watermarks can be very powerful, to the point that a printed and then scanned jpg can still contain the identifying data.
Watermarking a dvd (read 4-8 gigs of data) takes a significant amount of computer proccessing. They are not going to give each dvd they burn a unique watermark, as it wouldn't be practical. So, watermarks are going to be more like a proof of copyright imbedded into the video. I bet they will be used for region coding or some other lame thing. (Right now it is easy to decrypt the vobs and strip the region coding. Anyone with the right equipment could burn those and sell them to the bad guys. Oh no!)
If anyone else has any brilliant ideas as to what the watermarking will be used for, or if anyone actually bothers to read the article, please reply.
-theman2
ps: I am still pissed that I can't buy the complete tv series "The Prisoner" collection on dvd as it is only released in europe now. If anyone has a dvd burner and wants to kill the region coding and send me some burnt copys, I will pay list price. I got the first 4 episodes and I am hooked =)
that is why you identify and then fix it.
I would be really pissed if I found that macromedia's negligence caused me to get a virus. It is possible that they skip the checking to make it run faster, but it still seems way to dangerous of a risk just to save a few clock cycles. What would happen if they next 'melissa' like virus scare printed in all the papers involved their plugin? And what if the reporters noticed the problem had been identified months ago and was ignored? I know I sure as hell would never use their products again.
thanks for the information, SevenSeasOfRhye.
I thought the whole thing smelled like a scam to get really cheap computer help and possibly to get india a little publicity for recruting teenage genius hackers.
I guess they will also save on bandwidth costs since the adult content is not allowed =p
There are a lot of teenagers who are stupid, lame, and think they are smarter than adults. I know becuase I used to be one of them. Now I am 20 and I have come to realize there is a great deal I don't know. If they didn't do their homework, they probably hired some of these 1337 h4x0rs.
so, to wrap this up, I never indicated that I have judged a single person by his/her age. Next time, if you want to make someone believe you have a brain, look carefully at what is said before doing a knee-jerk reply claiming a person's ignorance. Who is the fool now? God help India if they hired 'hackers' like you =p
-theman2
oh, and God help India if they hired me, becuase I probably know even less about computer security.
Since when did that become a crime? And who in the world would equate looking at pornography with breaking into a computer system or spreading malicious virri? I am glad Mehta cleared that up for me...
"They are brilliant. They told me that within five minutes they can hack the (Indian) defense ministry Web site...," he said.
"We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites," he added.
hm... they tell someone that they can break into a government computer in five minutes. I don't know anything about breaking into computers but the security must be pretty awefull if they can be compromised by anyone in that amount of time. Don't tell me they use 'welcome' as their admin password...
that is a really informative article. India is hiring 15-19 year olds who say they can break into a computer in five minutes to install firewalls and configure servers? The only reason I could see to hire some 16-19 year old 'hackers' is to get cheap and semi-knowledgable labor.
Maybe they should starting hiring the microsoft 'temps' that are in charge of securing their servers.
I am confused... could someone explain why this article is important enough to be posted on slashdot?
-theman2
last summer I broke down and bought a sony laptop -the sony superslim pro z505je.
this model doesn't have an ethernet dongle, so I guess sony fixed that mistake. Mistakes do happen and you can't really advise someone not to purchase a later model if the company realizes and fixes problems
and I don't know if taking any laptop apart to replace a hard drive could be called easy. I added a 128 meg so dimm to mine and it was a piece of cake which was suprising. If your laptop is less than 1 year old, isn't the hard drive still under waranty? Why the hell did you fix it yourself? Sony is a huge company and I am sure they would help you fix your power problem and give you a replacement dongle if you called their customer support. That is the reason they can get away with charging those insane prices.
this is the most solid machine I have ever owned as far as windows 98/2k is concerned. Sony knows the importance of stable drivers...
-theman2
I am not saying that sony is without problems. The prices, even for extra ram, are insane. I got my 128 so dimm for $80 including shipping and I am sure sony would have charged a few hundred for their branded stuff. Also I have noticed that heat seems to be a problem but, unless I am mistaken, all laptops suffer from similar problems.
I haven't listened to a radio station for a really long time. Too many commercial and lots of bad music repeated often.
and I don't know what you are talking about with this layer from reality. Look with your eyes at your surroundings... that is reality. Since when did radio/tv/or other media controlled by some corperation become more real than the actual world around you?
-theman2
wow. It looks like florida might have a recount, as the difference might be as small as 600 votes. looks like we might have to stay up really late to find out who won... -theman2