I've seen a number of PCs with a universal flash card/stick reader that is itself a USB device similar to a flash drive. I'll bet those things are gonna set off all the alarms.
You can send a ton of data to a device mimicking a Logitech G15 Keyboard, I would think.
Kinda silly I think, but I'm sure this will get very serious treatment in all sorts of pseudo-IT-security mags and blogs. Once again, I'm in the wrong goddammed business!
Dammit, I hate to sound like "that old guy who never got his jetpack," but weren't computers supposed to talk to us by now and figure out who we are???? I'm so tired of typing in my ever-changing password to get the bathroom door to unlock.
Mod parent up. This is the definitive "why not" answer.
I hate closed systems, but I really enjoyed my Mac experience from 1984 to 1993. Part of the reason my experience was so enjoyable was that Apple dictated how the UI should work with an iron hand.
Then I woke up in 1994 and realized I wanted to play *real* games and tinker with hardware so I ditched my Macs right quick.
On the other hand, I truly believe if it wasn't for laser printers then Apple wouldn't be the company we know today. There used to be so much love between Apple and Adobe and now they are fighting over the kids - namely us.
maybe. ah it's more evil corps and social change. I just wiki'd The Sheep Look Up and I think I answered my own question...
Despite being nominated for a Nebula Award, the book fell out of print, only later being republished. The new edition contains a foreword by David Brin and an afterword by environmentalist and social change theorist James John Bell. Brin places the book in the context of Brunner's time and other writings. In the afterword, Bell treats the book almost as prophecy, drawing parallels between events in the book and subsequent real world developments: "His words have a kind of Gnostic power embedded in them that gives his characters passage into our world". A couple of specific examples are that "Brunner's puppet of a president, affectionately called Prexy, is a dead ringer for our Dubya" and that sabotage done by the Earth Liberation Front is pulled directly from the pages of the novel. Writer William Gibson made a similar remark in a 2007 interview: No one except possibly the late John Brunner, in his brilliant novel "The Sheep Look Up," has ever described anything in science fiction that is remotely like the reality of 2007 as we know it.
Yah, why the hell would Hollywood want to make a movie about 2007?
But back in 75 when I read it - it kinda blew my mind. Oh well...
No, the Aussies "gave" us Rupert Murdoch, all right. Thus turning him loose to do more damage worldwide than in their own country. I'd say that was a smart move.
I'm surprised the Japanese haven't used the same tactic with Godzilla.
Please continue to turn off user's computers which are compromised. If at all possible, please display a message directing anyone in my zip code that I'm available to fix it for them at competitive prices. I really need the work.
"The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like 'this is the way we have always ridden this horse'; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses; increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is better, faster, and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed."
-- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, 16 February 1999, in the courtroom after lunch on the second day of testimony from Microsoft's Brad Chase.
"Any law which isn't enforced and has no public record of ever having been enforced for a certain period of time, say 20 years or perhaps less, that the law in question simply is null and void."
Deputy Bubba: You wanted to see me, Sheriff?
Sheriff Leroy: Yep, Bubba, I just got a call from the state legerslature. It seems our anti-sodomy law is up for renewal.
Deputy Bubba: 'Bout damn time!
Sheriff Leroy: You betcha bygolly! We need to get crackin' on this. We only have a month.
Deputy Bubba: I'll tell the men to be on the lookout for sodomistic behavior.
Sheriff Leroy: Hop to it son. And tell the undercover sting teams to start greasin' up their backsides.
"What could be better than botnets trying to destroy each other?"
Well, on the surface it looks good, but before long they'll be collaborating and eventually they'll learn to mate and produce better offspring. Then we'll have to amend the Defense of Marriage Act to keep botnets from getting married and start enforcing Don't Ask Don't Tell for networks.
It's amazing how many people don't know that SkyNet's parents were homosexual transvestite liberal russian hackers that smoked heavily and collected guns.
dARIUS qUAN predicted all of this. We should have listened!
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I've seen a number of PCs with a universal flash card/stick reader that is itself a USB device similar to a flash drive. I'll bet those things are gonna set off all the alarms.
You can send a ton of data to a device mimicking a Logitech G15 Keyboard, I would think.
Kinda silly I think, but I'm sure this will get very serious treatment in all sorts of pseudo-IT-security mags and blogs. Once again, I'm in the wrong goddammed business!
Dammit, I hate to sound like "that old guy who never got his jetpack," but weren't computers supposed to talk to us by now and figure out who we are???? I'm so tired of typing in my ever-changing password to get the bathroom door to unlock.
Cruel dude, but, honestly, I have a Squirrel Caller noisemaker I bought at a science museum so I say BRING IT ON!
Mod parent up. This is the definitive "why not" answer.
I hate closed systems, but I really enjoyed my Mac experience from 1984 to 1993. Part of the reason my experience was so enjoyable was that Apple dictated how the UI should work with an iron hand.
Then I woke up in 1994 and realized I wanted to play *real* games and tinker with hardware so I ditched my Macs right quick.
On the other hand, I truly believe if it wasn't for laser printers then Apple wouldn't be the company we know today. There used to be so much love between Apple and Adobe and now they are fighting over the kids - namely us.
Ah, if we could only stop "Troll Stories" from being submitted to ./
I CAN DREAM
maybe. ah it's more evil corps and social change. I just wiki'd The Sheep Look Up and I think I answered my own question...
Despite being nominated for a Nebula Award, the book fell out of print, only later being republished. The new edition contains a foreword by David Brin and an afterword by environmentalist and social change theorist James John Bell. Brin places the book in the context of Brunner's time and other writings. In the afterword, Bell treats the book almost as prophecy, drawing parallels between events in the book and subsequent real world developments: "His words have a kind of Gnostic power embedded in them that gives his characters passage into our world". A couple of specific examples are that "Brunner's puppet of a president, affectionately called Prexy, is a dead ringer for our Dubya" and that sabotage done by the Earth Liberation Front is pulled directly from the pages of the novel. Writer William Gibson made a similar remark in a 2007 interview: No one except possibly the late John Brunner, in his brilliant novel "The Sheep Look Up," has ever described anything in science fiction that is remotely like the reality of 2007 as we know it.
Yah, why the hell would Hollywood want to make a movie about 2007?
But back in 75 when I read it - it kinda blew my mind. Oh well...
The guy who beat his tickets in Nashville a few years back used video tape and timecodes to prove his point.
What??? No mention of tobacco?
I'm also surprised Hollywood hasn't latched onto John Brunner, too.
1) I am nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other. The size of things I perceive change dramatically depending upon which eye is dominant.
2) I can do your test flawlessly.
3) I do not enjoy 3D movies.
4) Profit???
No, the Aussies "gave" us Rupert Murdoch, all right. Thus turning him loose to do more damage worldwide than in their own country. I'd say that was a smart move.
I'm surprised the Japanese haven't used the same tactic with Godzilla.
Def in bad taste. Sorry.
FTA:
I've even been accused of being a spy for a company's competition (true... ask Jericho)...
ME: "Hi, you left your headlights on."
NEIGHBOR: "WHO SENT YOU? DID MY EX-WIFE SEND YOU? ARE YOU SLEEPING WITH HER?"
WTF? Seriously?
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Compare how companies badly deal with vuln disclosure compared to how game companies deal with cheats and exploits. Well, MOST game companies...
"Seems like nobody wants to be creative/original anymore."
I dunno... I heard Modern Warfare 3: Reuters' Photographer Extermination was supposed to be pretty different...
Man, Slashdot is sooooo frikking wierd!
If you mastered command-line editing (like vi) you are an ancient pro of the arcane.
If you leveled up a seriously hot wizard via a text-only interface you're not even on the map.
Makes me want to smack some people with my acoustic coupler, I tell ya.
Mod parent up.
1) My whole life (+++++ years) I said they never could make LotR. Jackson did, and it was full of awesome.
2) Del Toro is brilliant... and quite strange.
3) Let's hope for another win.
4) Nay-sayers get off my lawn!
Dear Microsoft:
Please continue to turn off user's computers which are compromised. If at all possible, please display a message directing anyone in my zip code that I'm available to fix it for them at competitive prices. I really need the work.
No.
100,000 BC
"Krug, in next village, is giving away free Mammoth meat. Better hurry before it's all gone."
Hey ... Stop ... my work. I ... remixes ... thieves!
I can't take you seriously when you AC and use caps.
Call me tonight and I'll fix it for you.
And wear something sexy.
UK Bobbies > Mississippi Sheriff Deputies
Can I move to the UK, please?
"The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like 'this is the way we have always ridden this horse'; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses; increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is better, faster, and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed."
-- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, 16 February 1999, in the courtroom after lunch on the second day of testimony from Microsoft's Brad Chase.
"Any law which isn't enforced and has no public record of ever having been enforced for a certain period of time, say 20 years or perhaps less, that the law in question simply is null and void."
Deputy Bubba: You wanted to see me, Sheriff?
Sheriff Leroy: Yep, Bubba, I just got a call from the state legerslature. It seems our anti-sodomy law is up for renewal.
Deputy Bubba: 'Bout damn time!
Sheriff Leroy: You betcha bygolly! We need to get crackin' on this. We only have a month.
Deputy Bubba: I'll tell the men to be on the lookout for sodomistic behavior.
Sheriff Leroy: Hop to it son. And tell the undercover sting teams to start greasin' up their backsides.
"What could be better than botnets trying to destroy each other?"
Well, on the surface it looks good, but before long they'll be collaborating and eventually they'll learn to mate and produce better offspring. Then we'll have to amend the Defense of Marriage Act to keep botnets from getting married and start enforcing Don't Ask Don't Tell for networks.
It's amazing how many people don't know that SkyNet's parents were homosexual transvestite liberal russian hackers that smoked heavily and collected guns.
dARIUS qUAN predicted all of this. We should have listened!