Pretty much. My personal favorite is when you have to create a registry key in a place where no indications exist that such would have any results in order to get options that weren't there before.
Never trust an OEM, or listen to the sales person. Most laptops did not meet the specs to run vista at launch. You should have checked for yourself. Every christmas I go around tech stores with a bag of chips and a slushie for the entertainment. If you listened to one of those people when you bought your computer... well... all of/. looks down on you.
Amen to that. I'm in math and physics myself. I've been tied to notes on paper. They've added a lot to excel for us scientists as well. I don't want to ruin the surprise there;) Everything you do in office is also easily shareable, so you can toss notes to those who missed them. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but onenote lets you tie in video and audio recording for lectures time indexed with the notes you take. It's supposed to be able to recognize your handwriting as well. For me, this will mean a searchable layer, since I won't trust it with my actual notes.
I'm in physics... I can't use a laptop for notes because there is no possible way to keep up with equations. Something like this would allow me to take notes, and still whip out python, fortran, or R as needed. With the ability to use it like an ereader for journals and those annoying 100 page pdfs that the profs send out. Touch screens on laptops are pretty much just a gimmick: try writing notes on them. Useless.
I've tried Office 365 on a pro with a type cover... It feels like a laptop. We've all used office on a laptop at some point, so there's really not much to be said there.
I don't need a tablet that can run x86 apps. Users don't give a flying shit about "x86" they just give a shit about having good apps to run. iOS and Android already offer that in spades
Why would anyone want to be able to run programs that tie into doing things other that wasting time? This one sounds unemployed, or in a low end job where he doesn't get to use a computer.
Bang on, it did nothing productive for so long that people forgot it existed. That and just typing on the start screen... If you know those two tricks, you can do things faster than you ever could before. At least I can until I hit the apps >_ (for every convenience gained, there has to be a detractor that neutralizes the gained speed... such is technology.)
so either you'd have to use a specific third-party library, or write your own code which does the same things. So it might well be that the site is not actually vulnerable
This is/. writing code is no discouragement to anyone here. If all you had to do to steal all social security information for an entire country was 'write your own code', there will be takers.
This type of updates are always being released. If they updated regularly, it would not be such an issue. They didn't notice the security hole in the first place, so it's doubtful at best that they'd notice any more, let alone some created with a patch. This is most likely an example of set it up with a competent 3rd party, and then hire a clueless, but politically connected, head of IT. Yay for government jobs.
Surprisingly, it's not too hard to keep identities seperate on irc. I trolled a certain network for over a year straight in such a way. The main things that are looked for are: mispelled words; capitolization and puctuation; word pair frequencies; vocabulary choice ratios for synonyms; and, the most important of all, references to knowledge that the anon/alt would have had, as well as references to posts that have already been made.
That being said, I did grow up at some point, became an irc network admin, and then wrote a script that looks for these things. At this point, I'd say it's about 70% accurate, and has a higher probability of a match on two different users in the same geographic location subset than a random sampling of two users. I will say this: RPers seem to like a lot of accounts and they will go as far as using a VPN to try to keep them seperate.
I don't see why there are even objections. Why do governments even have a right to determine what gTLD's are offensive? We're talking about privately owned names and the government should have no hand in that. It should be something between the applicant and their user base alone. For any government that thinks they have the right to control the names that people choose on internet: censorship.sucks
If you can balance and judge distances properly, you deserve to pass the test anyways. Since you would not be a danger to other drivers or yourself anyways. In that case it's not a catch all type test, but a catch the ones that can't be driving. One beer might leave a lightweight too drunk to drive, but the same beer wouldn't effect someone else in the slightest. Why punish both if you can distinguish between the one that's fine and the one that isn't.
I agree, in my city: the drunks drive fast, the pot heads drive slightly below the speed limit and follow every road law to the letter out of paranoia of being caught. Or they just chill at home... you know... half forming ideas to the point where there's usually a group of them to try to complete it.
I am aware. In a perfect world, there would be someone who understands what to do in every precinct, or they would at least have someone they could contact to put on the case. That they haven't put something along those lines in place already, to the point where they aren't educated on the matter enough to even understand what the problem is shows us failure on a fundamental level.
Why do you assume Anonymous is American? They're an international group of script kiddies based out of nowhere. They are not united. They are not mature. Their cell type structure has to do with them not being connected, not careful planning. The Anonymous name has just been expedient to adopt for many idiots, since it ties into global stupidity and acts like a shield. No one is in charge there. They do both good and evil, because groups that claim the Anon name are both good and evil. Most of them have no respect for any sort of law, and they don't even share the same moral codes.
Do you ever feel like explaining these things is like bashing your head against said hammer? These people are talking about things they don't understand in the slightest. If a script was ever released that attacked the ip involved in the next level up in the botnet, I don't believe that most of these people would hesitate to use it out of sheer ignorance. The legal debate on the matter is even worse: lawyers justifying attacking the wrong person in ignorance.
Notifying the computer's owner wouldn't go over much better due to ignorance on their end as well:
a popup appears "Your computer is being used in a botnet, you need to get it cleaned." If you're lucky, they will think that's the virus and get the computer fully cleaned. However, chances are that whoever they bring the computer to will just remove the popup out of incompetence, or laziness on their end. (Since it would be much more work to remove the botnet script, assuming they even know what a botnet is.
Unfortunately in Canada, you're the one at fault. Anything we can do is considered assault with a deadly weapon. Talk about messed up. My dog has saved me once. If those robbers had gone to the police, I would have been in serious trouble under the law.
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Pretty much. My personal favorite is when you have to create a registry key in a place where no indications exist that such would have any results in order to get options that weren't there before.
Never trust an OEM, or listen to the sales person. Most laptops did not meet the specs to run vista at launch. You should have checked for yourself. Every christmas I go around tech stores with a bag of chips and a slushie for the entertainment. If you listened to one of those people when you bought your computer... well... all of /. looks down on you.
Amen to that. I'm in math and physics myself. I've been tied to notes on paper. They've added a lot to excel for us scientists as well. I don't want to ruin the surprise there ;) Everything you do in office is also easily shareable, so you can toss notes to those who missed them. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but onenote lets you tie in video and audio recording for lectures time indexed with the notes you take. It's supposed to be able to recognize your handwriting as well. For me, this will mean a searchable layer, since I won't trust it with my actual notes.
Sadly, the new powerpoint supports that via sharepoint.
I'm in physics... I can't use a laptop for notes because there is no possible way to keep up with equations. Something like this would allow me to take notes, and still whip out python, fortran, or R as needed. With the ability to use it like an ereader for journals and those annoying 100 page pdfs that the profs send out. Touch screens on laptops are pretty much just a gimmick: try writing notes on them. Useless.
I've tried Office 365 on a pro with a type cover... It feels like a laptop. We've all used office on a laptop at some point, so there's really not much to be said there.
I don't need a tablet that can run x86 apps. Users don't give a flying shit about "x86" they just give a shit about having good apps to run. iOS and Android already offer that in spades
Why would anyone want to be able to run programs that tie into doing things other that wasting time? This one sounds unemployed, or in a low end job where he doesn't get to use a computer.
Bang on, it did nothing productive for so long that people forgot it existed. That and just typing on the start screen... If you know those two tricks, you can do things faster than you ever could before. At least I can until I hit the apps >_ (for every convenience gained, there has to be a detractor that neutralizes the gained speed... such is technology.)
As far as I know, the pro was just held back to appease the OEMs
Generally, because it's easy to write and, if properly implemented, is extreamly effecient for extreamly large, decentralized nosql databases.
so either you'd have to use a specific third-party library, or write your own code which does the same things. So it might well be that the site is not actually vulnerable
This is /. writing code is no discouragement to anyone here. If all you had to do to steal all social security information for an entire country was 'write your own code', there will be takers.
This type of updates are always being released. If they updated regularly, it would not be such an issue. They didn't notice the security hole in the first place, so it's doubtful at best that they'd notice any more, let alone some created with a patch. This is most likely an example of set it up with a competent 3rd party, and then hire a clueless, but politically connected, head of IT. Yay for government jobs.
Surprisingly, it's not too hard to keep identities seperate on irc. I trolled a certain network for over a year straight in such a way. The main things that are looked for are: mispelled words; capitolization and puctuation; word pair frequencies; vocabulary choice ratios for synonyms; and, the most important of all, references to knowledge that the anon/alt would have had, as well as references to posts that have already been made.
That being said, I did grow up at some point, became an irc network admin, and then wrote a script that looks for these things. At this point, I'd say it's about 70% accurate, and has a higher probability of a match on two different users in the same geographic location subset than a random sampling of two users. I will say this: RPers seem to like a lot of accounts and they will go as far as using a VPN to try to keep them seperate.
Are you CTO per chance? VP of tech? You talk like one.
nenolod is the current head of the atheme project. He can be found on irc.staticbox.net #atheme. He's a good knowledgable guy (for the most part).
I don't see why there are even objections. Why do governments even have a right to determine what gTLD's are offensive? We're talking about privately owned names and the government should have no hand in that. It should be something between the applicant and their user base alone. For any government that thinks they have the right to control the names that people choose on internet: censorship.sucks
You're using logic with fan boys. It's not worth your time.
With the Canadian cards, it's a charade since there's no mag strip to read. I try to keep a straight face when they do it.
Sweet mother of Celestia! Just think of all the data! That would probably be the most participated in study of all time.
If you can balance and judge distances properly, you deserve to pass the test anyways. Since you would not be a danger to other drivers or yourself anyways. In that case it's not a catch all type test, but a catch the ones that can't be driving. One beer might leave a lightweight too drunk to drive, but the same beer wouldn't effect someone else in the slightest. Why punish both if you can distinguish between the one that's fine and the one that isn't.
I agree, in my city: the drunks drive fast, the pot heads drive slightly below the speed limit and follow every road law to the letter out of paranoia of being caught. Or they just chill at home... you know... half forming ideas to the point where there's usually a group of them to try to complete it.
I am aware. In a perfect world, there would be someone who understands what to do in every precinct, or they would at least have someone they could contact to put on the case. That they haven't put something along those lines in place already, to the point where they aren't educated on the matter enough to even understand what the problem is shows us failure on a fundamental level.
Why do you assume Anonymous is American? They're an international group of script kiddies based out of nowhere. They are not united. They are not mature. Their cell type structure has to do with them not being connected, not careful planning. The Anonymous name has just been expedient to adopt for many idiots, since it ties into global stupidity and acts like a shield. No one is in charge there. They do both good and evil, because groups that claim the Anon name are both good and evil. Most of them have no respect for any sort of law, and they don't even share the same moral codes.
Do you ever feel like explaining these things is like bashing your head against said hammer? These people are talking about things they don't understand in the slightest. If a script was ever released that attacked the ip involved in the next level up in the botnet, I don't believe that most of these people would hesitate to use it out of sheer ignorance. The legal debate on the matter is even worse: lawyers justifying attacking the wrong person in ignorance. Notifying the computer's owner wouldn't go over much better due to ignorance on their end as well: a popup appears "Your computer is being used in a botnet, you need to get it cleaned." If you're lucky, they will think that's the virus and get the computer fully cleaned. However, chances are that whoever they bring the computer to will just remove the popup out of incompetence, or laziness on their end. (Since it would be much more work to remove the botnet script, assuming they even know what a botnet is.
You make it sound like no one has ever gotten punched after verbally assaulting someone.
Unfortunately in Canada, you're the one at fault. Anything we can do is considered assault with a deadly weapon. Talk about messed up. My dog has saved me once. If those robbers had gone to the police, I would have been in serious trouble under the law.