Mod entire article down as total flamebait. The headline belongs on the likes of Fark.com, not here.
Seriously, it's huge news that the US Army makes and uses stuff designed to break things? Other shockers; water is wet! snow is cold! sky is blue!
Furthermore, any simple minded cretin should know that the fictional robots that supposedly have the three laws are far more advanced than anything we have now. (Arguments could be made that the ones in the story are actually self-aware.) Expecting current to obey the three laws is the height of foolishness, and isn't even funny in the slightest if that was the intent.
Until these things are asking for leave for R&R in Tokyo after a long tour they can be expected to act just like any other tool.
Ok, whatever I never saw the commandments that way. False idol whore-ship doesn't include not drawing something period.... you just can't pray to it. (Hmm.. sounds like the catholics have some explaining to do..)
Pick your group and there are still people outside that group of irrational whack-jobs that don't want to do what the freaks say.
Gonna dicate what the Hindus should do?
How bout this, do whatever you religion says. Interfere with someone else, and you get push back. Deal with it.
Yeah, and 600 million muslems went on to say the cartoons were wrong and everybody else should respect the sacred islam scripture when the cartoons are clearly free-speech and the scriptures of islam have no bearing whatsoever on someone who isn't one.
In other words, a little bit of Year 900-ism, and a whole bunch of religious facism.
So... in my book it IS all of islam that is the problem. Just because they didn't bother to go jump around in the streets doesn't mean they aren't asshats.
...just make a plugin that opens HTML files dynamically in RAR archives or something.
Imagine a small web site in one file with text and jpgs for interoperability.
I would be a little concerned about the IE model of "Security Zones" for this though. Dropping it on the drive and have the JS, Flash, Java, etc. run as local user with rights to read/write to the HD would make me a little nervous.
Actually, one of my major reasons for NOT gambling online is the offshore nature of the servers.
If it were some American casino online, I might do it. Just because if they get hacked/defraud me there would be at least SOME recourse.
Whereas I will never ever go to Vegas to gamble in person because well... that would be admitting I want to. I would spend $5 here and there online, but don't want to go to Vegas for it.
So they'd win if they could do online versions legally in the US.
Of course, that stupid puritan ideal cropping it's ugly head up puts a stop to that....
(this all coming from wildly separate IP addresses on spam zombie networks distributed all over the planet but controlled by one mothership)
Once they hit one, they'll use bugs to see if it gets viewed, bounces, and other more ways to find out if it is there. Or, they just brute force the actual spam and it gets delivered along with a huge noise to signal ratio of wasted bandwidth.
Actually, the supreme court recently ruled that though you do not have to provide ID to a police officer, you DO need to tell them your full name (and not lie about it) when asked to identify yourself.
I think it's a good idea for anybody to inquire about what law they are breaking to any snot-nosed cop as it is a legit question and forces them in a tight spot if they are doing something wrong.
Like carrots containing Beta-Carrotine that is good for the eyes and lets you see better?.... as done during WW2 as an attempt at covering up that radar was allowing for advanced notice of air raids by the Germans over Britain.
G.I.s eat carrots so can see planes coming farther.
Yeah, because the opinion of an Anonymous Coward carries a lot of weight on the issue. You yourself seem to not want the limited number of people viewing this thread not to know who posted the above. (And it's not flamebait or anything, it's actually quite useful.) So... what do you fear?
I for one, will call bullshit on any claim like this (parent) until I see a complete list of the database fields and specifics of how each field is populated and the typical contents and compare that to what the feds have asked for.
Media has a long, wide, and repeated track record of getting technical stuff wrong. So I DO NOT TRUST their intepretation of "no personal information" in the data the feds asked for.
The IP address and time stamp (maybe not even that is needed) is _PERSONAL_ information that feds have no right to without a warrant. GO GET ONE if you need it. Just about the only data Google may be keeping about searches that the feds have any right to would be search word combinations and the results they yielded at the time. But even those will reveal a lot of information that could personally identify users.
But then, with a T1 and a few scripts they could get results for porn searches themselves.
But that's exactly what I'm talking about. People have polarized themselves so much that when an opposing opinion to their viewpoints comes along, they hit it like a wack-a-mole instead of considering it for a moment and trying to understand it.
Yeah, because the next fucking time I hear "It's god's will" it's going to make rational sense after the 40 million times failed to do so.
Gimmie a break. Ever think that maybe the other guy is simply wrong? 2+2=4 in my universe and it always will be. Someone basing their beliefs and political views on _basic_ assumptions that are contrary to my view can never make sense. Nor should it. That PC crap of "all arguments need equal consideration" is retarded and needs to get snuffed along with the bible thumpers.
My understanding of the incident was a software upgade to a router that "self-propagated" to update other routes of the same type... or some server somewhere that updated them on a scheduled rollout or something.
Taking down the entire frame... would have required several cuts of cables I am pretty sure.
Of course. I was not working with that stuff directly and it was at a bar where I learned of it... so grain of salt....
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RFID Cookware
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Actually, that's a great idea. Or, rather the converse of that is a great idea.
Imagine a method of having the fridge, cubboard and stove use RFID to keep an up to date list of what you can make based on what you have. Plus with a "if you had" list.
It just pulls from a database with ingredients, cooking time and estimated remaining volume and displays it. You wouldn't need to update it more than daily or hourly at most.
Half the time I end up staring at my full fridge, wondering what I want to eat and end up making some sort of complicated rammen-based thing. Even though the fridge and cubboard have all sorts of common and exotic ingredients at all times. If you have eggs, butter, cheese and just about any other veggie or meat you can make an omelette. But I always forget that.
A list in front of me would be all it would take to make me spend all my free time cooking. (Which the wife likes, but it's made us both fatties.)
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iTunes is Malware?
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To add to the parent poster, I think "Malware" is not an appropriate term for what this program is doing.
When I use the term "malware" I typically mean programs that do one or more of the following;
- resist uninstallation - persist after uninstallation attempts - reinstall after uninstallation or "by the roots" removal - hide from the user - hide from the operating system - hide what they are doing * - damage the operating system - replace, interfere with, spoof, or hijack functions such as DNS resolution, home page, file associations and toolbars - create problems in order to sell you a "fix" for them
The one with the asterisk, is the ONLY one of these things that iTunes is doing, and that only if the user is hopelessly ignorant about computers and the internet.
It might be "spyware" but it is not "malware" in my book.
The shadows are all wrong, and the grass looks like something out of Battlefield 2... aside from that, it looks like the thing is TOO BIG to fit in that hangar in the pic.
It'll be cool to have a new air-design though. Fixed, rotory and LTA craft are sort of it so far. Moller hasn't produced anything, and so on. It would make for interesting new uses that's for sure.
The flaw can be used with a JPG file (read; the image of the button, or the site seal, or the photo) in the web page.
And since the flaw is in data in the header of the WMF file type, it can be executed even if the file extension is not WMF.
In other words, if you are seeing images on web pages with Windows, you can get this. No downloading is necessary even in other browsers. Until it's patched, the only true safe method is unregister the DLL or don't get on the internet with Windows at all.
As an FYI, I had to deal with this thing several weeks back when it was rare. (The bimbo doesn't remember what web site did it.) IF you do, just pull the drive, mount it on another machine, get your data, and wipe the damn thing. It's a really really tough infection to clean. It screwed the OS more ways than Courtney Love and ate so much CPU it was unusable. PLUS it downloaded other stuff and started to try to infect other machines on the network.
Shoot to kill this one guys, the patient is already dead.
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Mod entire article down as total flamebait. The headline belongs on the likes of Fark.com, not here.
Seriously, it's huge news that the US Army makes and uses stuff designed to break things? Other shockers; water is wet! snow is cold! sky is blue!
Furthermore, any simple minded cretin should know that the fictional robots that supposedly have the three laws are far more advanced than anything we have now. (Arguments could be made that the ones in the story are actually self-aware.) Expecting current to obey the three laws is the height of foolishness, and isn't even funny in the slightest if that was the intent.
Until these things are asking for leave for R&R in Tokyo after a long tour they can be expected to act just like any other tool.
With an interferometric setup of several of those, you do not need a large mirror.
You just need to hook them up correctly.
More info here
I am just down the street from there.
Someone want to pay me to whack it with a bat?
Does "down" count as "modify a web page"?
No, they probably won't find the way.
However, they can no doubt rule out a lot of ways that might help get closer to the truth of what actually happened.
The fact they voted "no" is not really all that important when considered with the fact they brought it to consideration in the first place.
Gee, "we barely got by not looking like a bunch of dumbarses with no sense of logic and science" is a real nice badge of honor.
Barely above retard-level is an achivement in your large extended mormon family? Nice.
Ok, whatever I never saw the commandments that way. False idol whore-ship doesn't include not drawing something period.... you just can't pray to it. (Hmm.. sounds like the catholics have some explaining to do..)
Pick your group and there are still people outside that group of irrational whack-jobs that don't want to do what the freaks say.
Gonna dicate what the Hindus should do?
How bout this, do whatever you religion says. Interfere with someone else, and you get push back. Deal with it.
Yeah, and 600 million muslems went on to say the cartoons were wrong and everybody else should respect the sacred islam scripture when the cartoons are clearly free-speech and the scriptures of islam have no bearing whatsoever on someone who isn't one.
In other words, a little bit of Year 900-ism, and a whole bunch of religious facism.
So... in my book it IS all of islam that is the problem. Just because they didn't bother to go jump around in the streets doesn't mean they aren't asshats.
What is the issue?
That someone put snotty comments in an email?
Or that some other person choose to use them as means other than intended by forewarding them on to a bunch of other people?
It looks like the article (yes, I RTFA) is bashing the wench for being snotty, not the recipient for using the email to further their own ends.
...just make a plugin that opens HTML files dynamically in RAR archives or something.
Imagine a small web site in one file with text and jpgs for interoperability.
I would be a little concerned about the IE model of "Security Zones" for this though. Dropping it on the drive and have the JS, Flash, Java, etc. run as local user with rights to read/write to the HD would make me a little nervous.
Actually, one of my major reasons for NOT gambling online is the offshore nature of the servers.
If it were some American casino online, I might do it. Just because if they get hacked/defraud me there would be at least SOME recourse.
Whereas I will never ever go to Vegas to gamble in person because well... that would be admitting I want to. I would spend $5 here and there online, but don't want to go to Vegas for it.
So they'd win if they could do online versions legally in the US.
Of course, that stupid puritan ideal cropping it's ugly head up puts a stop to that....
Watch your logs more closely.
It's brute forced email guessing.
aaaaaa@domain.com
aaaaab@domain.com
aaaaac@domain.com
etc.
If it's there, they'll find it.
(this all coming from wildly separate IP addresses on spam zombie networks distributed all over the planet but controlled by one mothership)
Once they hit one, they'll use bugs to see if it gets viewed, bounces, and other more ways to find out if it is there. Or, they just brute force the actual spam and it gets delivered along with a huge noise to signal ratio of wasted bandwidth.
The person that is responsible for appointing that underqualified-chucklhead needs to resign or be fired too.
This event is a disgrace to the entire scientific community in the United States.
Screw off. You bloodsuckers own my wedding photos.
Photos of ME and my family.
Photos of flowers _I_ paid for.
Photos of the cake _I_ paid for.
Reap what you sow is what I say. Suck it.
Plus, it's my feeling that an occupation known as "paperazzi" proves your assertions about how restrictive it really is false.
Actually, the supreme court recently ruled that though you do not have to provide ID to a police officer, you DO need to tell them your full name (and not lie about it) when asked to identify yourself.
I think it's a good idea for anybody to inquire about what law they are breaking to any snot-nosed cop as it is a legit question and forces them in a tight spot if they are doing something wrong.
I'm licensed as an armed guard in the state of Oregon
Flunked high school eh? How's that WebTV workin on the new Slashdot layout?
There is a funny "spoof" D&D movie called "The Gamers" put out by "Dead Gentleman Productions" if you are into that sort of thing.
It's about 45 minutes long, and totally hilarious if you have been around or been a gamer for a while.
And raise you one "Most Favored Nation" trading status.
How goddamned retarded do you gotta be to start poking at China while already having hands full with a bunch of other nations....
Oh.. wait. Nevermind.
Like carrots containing Beta-Carrotine that is good for the eyes and lets you see better? .... as done during WW2 as an attempt at covering up that radar was allowing for advanced notice of air raids by the Germans over Britain.
G.I.s eat carrots so can see planes coming farther.
Yeah, because the opinion of an Anonymous Coward carries a lot of weight on the issue. You yourself seem to not want the limited number of people viewing this thread not to know who posted the above. (And it's not flamebait or anything, it's actually quite useful.) So... what do you fear?
I for one, will call bullshit on any claim like this (parent) until I see a complete list of the database fields and specifics of how each field is populated and the typical contents and compare that to what the feds have asked for.
Media has a long, wide, and repeated track record of getting technical stuff wrong. So I DO NOT TRUST their intepretation of "no personal information" in the data the feds asked for.
The IP address and time stamp (maybe not even that is needed) is _PERSONAL_ information that feds have no right to without a warrant. GO GET ONE if you need it. Just about the only data Google may be keeping about searches that the feds have any right to would be search word combinations and the results they yielded at the time. But even those will reveal a lot of information that could personally identify users.
But then, with a T1 and a few scripts they could get results for porn searches themselves.
So stuff you and your anonymous opinion about it.
But that's exactly what I'm talking about. People have polarized themselves so much that when an opposing opinion to their viewpoints comes along, they hit it like a wack-a-mole instead of considering it for a moment and trying to understand it.
Yeah, because the next fucking time I hear "It's god's will" it's going to make rational sense after the 40 million times failed to do so.
Gimmie a break. Ever think that maybe the other guy is simply wrong? 2+2=4 in my universe and it always will be. Someone basing their beliefs and political views on _basic_ assumptions that are contrary to my view can never make sense. Nor should it. That PC crap of "all arguments need equal consideration" is retarded and needs to get snuffed along with the bible thumpers.
I was a contractor for AT&T at the time.
My understanding of the incident was a software upgade to a router that "self-propagated" to update other routes of the same type... or some server somewhere that updated them on a scheduled rollout or something.
Taking down the entire frame... would have required several cuts of cables I am pretty sure.
Of course. I was not working with that stuff directly and it was at a bar where I learned of it... so grain of salt....
Actually, that's a great idea. Or, rather the converse of that is a great idea.
Imagine a method of having the fridge, cubboard and stove use RFID to keep an up to date list of what you can make based on what you have. Plus with a "if you had" list.
It just pulls from a database with ingredients, cooking time and estimated remaining volume and displays it. You wouldn't need to update it more than daily or hourly at most.
Half the time I end up staring at my full fridge, wondering what I want to eat and end up making some sort of complicated rammen-based thing. Even though the fridge and cubboard have all sorts of common and exotic ingredients at all times. If you have eggs, butter, cheese and just about any other veggie or meat you can make an omelette. But I always forget that.
A list in front of me would be all it would take to make me spend all my free time cooking. (Which the wife likes, but it's made us both fatties.)
To add to the parent poster, I think "Malware" is not an appropriate term for what this program is doing.
When I use the term "malware" I typically mean programs that do one or more of the following;
- resist uninstallation
- persist after uninstallation attempts
- reinstall after uninstallation or "by the roots" removal
- hide from the user
- hide from the operating system
- hide what they are doing *
- damage the operating system
- replace, interfere with, spoof, or hijack functions such as DNS resolution, home page, file associations and toolbars
- create problems in order to sell you a "fix" for them
The one with the asterisk, is the ONLY one of these things that iTunes is doing, and that only if the user is hopelessly ignorant about computers and the internet.
It might be "spyware" but it is not "malware" in my book.
That's CG.
The shadows are all wrong, and the grass looks like something out of Battlefield 2... aside from that, it looks like the thing is TOO BIG to fit in that hangar in the pic.
It'll be cool to have a new air-design though. Fixed, rotory and LTA craft are sort of it so far. Moller hasn't produced anything, and so on. It would make for interesting new uses that's for sure.
That's not enough.
The flaw can be used with a JPG file (read; the image of the button, or the site seal, or the photo) in the web page.
And since the flaw is in data in the header of the WMF file type, it can be executed even if the file extension is not WMF.
In other words, if you are seeing images on web pages with Windows, you can get this. No downloading is necessary even in other browsers. Until it's patched, the only true safe method is unregister the DLL or don't get on the internet with Windows at all.
As an FYI, I had to deal with this thing several weeks back when it was rare. (The bimbo doesn't remember what web site did it.) IF you do, just pull the drive, mount it on another machine, get your data, and wipe the damn thing. It's a really really tough infection to clean. It screwed the OS more ways than Courtney Love and ate so much CPU it was unusable. PLUS it downloaded other stuff and started to try to infect other machines on the network.
Shoot to kill this one guys, the patient is already dead.