I'll never understand the need of some people to cast aspersions on those who wish to work really hard. I don't know why you're casting them, but normally it's a sour grapes type attack made by people who are unable to be all that productive or who don't want to work very hard and resent those who set a higher performance bar.
Maybe some people work their asses off:
1. Because they want to improve their craft 2. Because they want to accomplish more by putting in more hours 3. Because they really love what they do 4. Some combination thereof
Working smart is good, working hard and smart is better. Don't be a hater.
It has nothing to do with being a Republican or a Democrat (he's a Democrat, btw). It has everything to do with his being in the pocket of his financial backers.
While we're on the Folding@home topic... if you've got spare cycles of your machine to donate, how could you NOT send them to Folding@home?
Seriously, do you want to help find some fuzzy dot that is just like other dots in the sky or do you help to cure cancer, defeat aging, end diabetes, and unravel the mysteries of our biology?
Will mankind reach the next star in 500 years? I won't know, I'll be dead if you freaks don't get to figuring out aging! We'll figure out the outer space stuff after we've worked out ways to stay alive and healthy for the long term.
Exactly. The government terribly insidious. Every time we think it's okay for the government to take on a new role in our lives (protect us from terrorists overseas, "fix" the economy, "create" jobs, gift us with health care) they gain a little more power, charge us taxes to pay for that power, then abuse the shit out of it.
What's really REALLY sad is that people like spun actively hurt the cause of eliminating racism in our society. By embracing double standards, they create a backlash against their own cause in the minds of people like myself who would like nothing better than for society to be colorblind.
People like David Duke and Shirley Sherrod are pathetic. They've made unforgivable use of their elected and appointed positions to work against segments of our society because of race. They should be repudiated by everyone.
Shirley Sherrod gave a mea culpa. Great. That doesn't excuse her abuses of power - to say nothing of her trying to turn a race battle into a class battle. What a schmuck, always looking to turn every situation into a new us vs them. People like that have no place in a government that we all pay for to do OUR business.
According to Wikipedia, it doesn't work on any browser running on Windows XP. Ugh. It'll be 10 years before those things are significantly depleted from the population.
The important information I took away from those pages is how obnoxiously large and in-your-face the Gnu and Creative Commons license sections are. All for a little chart. Something should be done about that before this Global Warming issue is addressed.
But a site can have multiple IP addresses, a flexibility in the system designed to let sites balance traffic among multiple servers or provide backup options.
Heffner's trick is to create a site that lists a visitor's own IP address as one of those options. When a visitor comes to his booby-trapped site, a script runs that switches to its alternate IP address--in reality the user's own IP address--and accesses the visitor's home network, potentially hijacking their browser and gaining access to their router settings.
How does your DNS stack pick up a new IP address for a host name once it's already been resolved? I don't understand the mechanism for this part of the exploit. Anyone?
Okay, so let's say the attacker can pull this part off without a problem...
One comfort for users may be that Heffner's method still requires the attacker to compromise the victim's router after gaining access to his or her network. But that can be accomplished by using a vulnerability in the device's software or by simply trying the default login password. Only a tiny fraction of users actually change their router's login settings, says Heffner.
So, then the hacker has to rely no the browser running some javascript in the victim's browser that will actually break the security of the victim's gateway router?
Definitely your vulnerability goes up once an attacker can approach your gateway from the inside, but this isn't a free pass through everyone's home system. Seems like just changing your default password is a great first step to prevent any shenanigans.
The news will be just fine with advertising. Sure, print newspapers that just take AP feeds and provide very little added value will continue to be in trouble, but does anyone see a decline in the amount or quality of news?
If anything I think that the trend has been toward a dramatic increase in availability of good mainstream news since the advent of the Internet. Additionally, lots of niche information that would have been available only through subscriptions to Scientific American or other more specialized publications is available easily and for free.
Then, for very well-reported and unique niche information like you get through The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, and the Economist -- paywalls seem to be working quite well.
There's a pretty big difference between asshat corporate behavior of going over the line by misusing your private data on Facebook vs creating a plugin whose hidden purpose is to keylog so that the developers can drain your bank accounts.
There's no way to be sure of anything, but as far as risk goes, you have to admit that trusting one vendor with a financial stake in not having a privacy loss scandal is a lot easier than trusting any random person in the world who can submit a plugin to the mozilla site.
I'm a software developer, but I'm not going to go over every line of source code for the applications or plugins that I install on my computer. Seriously, even if you did, have you ever read along with or participated in code obfuscation contests? Many developers with malicious intent can make evil code look totally innocuous.
40 hours of video game costs $50 (I only usually buy games after they drop down below $35, but anyway).
40 hours of movies at the theater costs: $200 40 hours of rub downs costs: $2,000 (happy endings not included) 40 hours of watching television costs: your soul
So, the video game thing actually seems like a bargain.
Crap, now that our posts were subsequently modded up I have to clarify that originally we had both been modded down as "flamebait". Doesn't change my opinion, though. The negative moderation on anything not expressing the right groupthink on Slashdot these days is depressing.
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This kind of topic makes defending piracy while condemning the DOS agents a bit of a hypocritical farce.
Not many posters want to look quite so obviously like hypocrites.
It's in other topics like when discussing DRM technology where the pro-piracy bias of Slashdot is more obvious.
Sorry, bunch of government santioned bastards.
That's the key here.
I usually vote for third parties, but when I do vote for dems, I don't vote for the ones too cozy with Hollywood.
Because on a peer-to-peer network, you're not only downloading it, you're also distributing it to others.
Came here for a reference to the XKCD about this posted today... I gotta do everything myself? http://xkcd.com/786/
I'll never understand the need of some people to cast aspersions on those who wish to work really hard. I don't know why you're casting them, but normally it's a sour grapes type attack made by people who are unable to be all that productive or who don't want to work very hard and resent those who set a higher performance bar.
Maybe some people work their asses off:
1. Because they want to improve their craft
2. Because they want to accomplish more by putting in more hours
3. Because they really love what they do
4. Some combination thereof
Working smart is good, working hard and smart is better. Don't be a hater.
It has nothing to do with being a Republican or a Democrat (he's a Democrat, btw). It has everything to do with his being in the pocket of his financial backers.
While we're on the Folding@home topic... if you've got spare cycles of your machine to donate, how could you NOT send them to Folding@home?
Seriously, do you want to help find some fuzzy dot that is just like other dots in the sky or do you help to cure cancer, defeat aging, end diabetes, and unravel the mysteries of our biology?
Will mankind reach the next star in 500 years? I won't know, I'll be dead if you freaks don't get to figuring out aging! We'll figure out the outer space stuff after we've worked out ways to stay alive and healthy for the long term.
Exactly. The government terribly insidious. Every time we think it's okay for the government to take on a new role in our lives (protect us from terrorists overseas, "fix" the economy, "create" jobs, gift us with health care) they gain a little more power, charge us taxes to pay for that power, then abuse the shit out of it.
Late to the argument, but you're right.
What's really REALLY sad is that people like spun actively hurt the cause of eliminating racism in our society. By embracing double standards, they create a backlash against their own cause in the minds of people like myself who would like nothing better than for society to be colorblind.
People like David Duke and Shirley Sherrod are pathetic. They've made unforgivable use of their elected and appointed positions to work against segments of our society because of race. They should be repudiated by everyone.
Shirley Sherrod gave a mea culpa. Great. That doesn't excuse her abuses of power - to say nothing of her trying to turn a race battle into a class battle. What a schmuck, always looking to turn every situation into a new us vs them. People like that have no place in a government that we all pay for to do OUR business.
According to Wikipedia, it doesn't work on any browser running on Windows XP. Ugh. It'll be 10 years before those things are significantly depleted from the population.
The important information I took away from those pages is how obnoxiously large and in-your-face the Gnu and Creative Commons license sections are. All for a little chart. Something should be done about that before this Global Warming issue is addressed.
Just trying to understand this...
But a site can have multiple IP addresses, a flexibility in the system designed to let sites balance traffic among multiple servers or provide backup options.
Heffner's trick is to create a site that lists a visitor's own IP address as one of those options. When a visitor comes to his booby-trapped site, a script runs that switches to its alternate IP address--in reality the user's own IP address--and accesses the visitor's home network, potentially hijacking their browser and gaining access to their router settings.
How does your DNS stack pick up a new IP address for a host name once it's already been resolved? I don't understand the mechanism for this part of the exploit. Anyone?
Okay, so let's say the attacker can pull this part off without a problem...
One comfort for users may be that Heffner's method still requires the attacker to compromise the victim's router after gaining access to his or her network. But that can be accomplished by using a vulnerability in the device's software or by simply trying the default login password. Only a tiny fraction of users actually change their router's login settings, says Heffner.
So, then the hacker has to rely no the browser running some javascript in the victim's browser that will actually break the security of the victim's gateway router?
Definitely your vulnerability goes up once an attacker can approach your gateway from the inside, but this isn't a free pass through everyone's home system. Seems like just changing your default password is a great first step to prevent any shenanigans.
The news will be just fine with advertising. Sure, print newspapers that just take AP feeds and provide very little added value will continue to be in trouble, but does anyone see a decline in the amount or quality of news?
If anything I think that the trend has been toward a dramatic increase in availability of good mainstream news since the advent of the Internet. Additionally, lots of niche information that would have been available only through subscriptions to Scientific American or other more specialized publications is available easily and for free.
Then, for very well-reported and unique niche information like you get through The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, and the Economist -- paywalls seem to be working quite well.
Of course he is. He takes dirt from rich Democrats and gives the scoop to poor Republicans.
I assume that the well went dry.
There's a pretty big difference between asshat corporate behavior of going over the line by misusing your private data on Facebook vs creating a plugin whose hidden purpose is to keylog so that the developers can drain your bank accounts.
Obfuscated code is often difficult to even spot... because it's obfuscated.
There's no way to be sure of anything, but as far as risk goes, you have to admit that trusting one vendor with a financial stake in not having a privacy loss scandal is a lot easier than trusting any random person in the world who can submit a plugin to the mozilla site.
I'm a software developer, but I'm not going to go over every line of source code for the applications or plugins that I install on my computer. Seriously, even if you did, have you ever read along with or participated in code obfuscation contests? Many developers with malicious intent can make evil code look totally innocuous.
ugh, replied to wrong post.
40 hours of my being stupid: priceless
40 hours of video game costs $50 (I only usually buy games after they drop down below $35, but anyway).
40 hours of movies at the theater costs: $200
40 hours of rub downs costs: $2,000 (happy endings not included)
40 hours of watching television costs: your soul
So, the video game thing actually seems like a bargain.
Damn that Internet with its easy way to pull up exactly what people say!
Sorry, bud, spacejake beat you by a couple of minutes. Better luck next time. :)
Maybe so, but the OP's effort to look intimidating was probably more worthwhile than having to prove it in an actual fight.
Crap, now that our posts were subsequently modded up I have to clarify that originally we had both been modded down as "flamebait". Doesn't change my opinion, though. The negative moderation on anything not expressing the right groupthink on Slashdot these days is depressing.
Inspired me to journal about it
Hah, I guess that could be a halo. Looks to be too low.