Jebus tap-dancing Chris this is not spyware as that term usually refers to. This is a question of intentionally installed survailance software disabeling intentionally installed (by another party, i.e. spouse, employee, child, etc.) counter-servailance software.
Most people work for 8 hours a day. Assembly line workers do the same thing for 8 hours a day plus.
Ha ha no.
With a copious amount of breaks, long lunches, and as unionized auto workers get to spend their last 15 minutes on the clock doing nothing, I highly doubt that any modern-day "worker" put in 5-6 hours of productivity, and that is certainly not continuous...
... and before I get bashed as being an 31337'est white-collar pig, I've known many engineers at Ford who were putting in much more time than the assembly line workers, yet the later brought home the bigger pay check...
from what I understand the FBI has the power to keep your stuff even if they never charge you with a crime
hmm.
So, if reprint the pipe bomb recipes from that site, what will happen?
I'll be modded +1 Informative
Modded -1 Flamebait/Troll/Warmonger
I'll have the FBI looking into exactly who is `CmdrTaco`, what exactly is he a commander of, and why does he own all of this expensive computer equipment (running a foreign-designed operating system no less!!!)
I have never heard a better car-computer similie; NT/2000 are just like Caprices in that the (civilian model) Caprice is a whale of a car: huge, tons of body roll, probably the latest (and last) example of a "boat on wheels" manufactured...
I've found that once I actually learned a little CSS, and got my style sheets & html up to spec, documents I generated would look the exact same and all of the latest browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, IE, etc).
It's one thing to break the "global web experience" by writing bad mark-up that breaks all but one browser, it's another thing to throw in comments* that a poorly-written piece of software can't handle.
*It is my understanding that email headers preceded by an "X-" are to be ignored by clients that don't know how to interpret them.
If we go along this line...why don't you ever say, fuck car mechanics..don't people solve problems by learning anymore?
To an extent, yes... people should learn something about how things work. I don't know squat about fuel injectors, but I know that an engine needs three things to run: fuel, air, and spark, and from their I can do some preliminary diagnostics, maybe even fix the problem at hand.
not all people want or need to learn Linux to do what they have to do.
But we're not discussing Linux, we're discussing future IT professionals. My boss can read a book and put together an MS webserver, maybe even a UNIX one, but what happens when shit goes wrong? He calls IT... if all that they're going to do is call tech support, why even have them there?
Don't people slove problems by learning anymore? Chance are that what ever problem you are having has been experienced by someone else, and they wrote a webpage about it. If not, put those analytical skills to use and figure out a solution and write your own webpage.
I only use tech support as a very last option... and that's usually when a PHB is on my case.
No, this isn't POP3, at least not in the strictist sense, I believe... my impression (from some something I read? a dream? *shrug*) was that the MS email clients were neccessay because they were going to do some kind of unique user verification... proprietary crypto? SMTP user verification? I don't know, but it was a tweaking of the protocol that brought about the "Only Our Software" policy.
Take a look at Snevets vs. Stevens Tech. Something that has been passed from generation to generation of students here is the habit of reversing the school name when mocking it... Is Drexel going to also register every iteration of LexerdSux.com?
Love the pseudo-code... now, why don't you put something together for real? Some share- or free-ware project, some OS software, anything. Show that you can work on a long-term, ongoing project that does something useful and produces results.
<Miller>Not to go on a rant here, but I was fortunate enough to know (through my Fraternity) the past couple generations of students at my school... these guys were Real Geeks(tm): the Chem Eng guys brewed beer and, well, blew shit up. The Mech Eng guys were building potato guns, the Civil Engineers targets, and they both kept the 100-year-old house in excellent shape. If the house secretary needed to print out address labels, a CS student would write a program that pulled the info from a databse and automated the task for him.
It seems that the newer batches of students are "geeks" because daddy bought them a 'puter and they play Quake all day; they start school with the gleam of dollar signs in their eyes and drop out after a semester or two. The ones that are left are so socially & physically inept that they aren't much use away from a computer. It is amazing how often I run into a young mechanical engineer that doesn't know what a 4-40 screw is... </Miller>
It has certainly transformed as a symbol. One great irony of the towers is that they were built to withstand a 747 slamming into them.
What I had been hearing was that they were built to withstand a "707", and I was also under the impression that the 757 & 767 were both smaller than the 747. Can anyone clear that up?
Well, for one thing, this proposal would allow the insanely rich to keep a lock down on their copyrights for ever... the small publisher gets very little (time-wise) protections while Disney keeps a lock down on everything it's ever spit out... and how fair is that to the public? We, the public, have made Disney what it is, you think it would be fair to distribute Steam Boat Willy free of charge...
Cringely has an excellent piece on hastily carried-out laws. Everyone screams, "something must be done," so they start doing what they can with very little fore thought.
Quoting Jefferson on this would just be hella redundant... but let's hope some actual thinking goes into any new legislation: if it was in place before the WTC tragedy, would the attack have been prevented? At what cost are we making these new laws?
Just what we need, really! Another "excuse" for cops (cough, cough, particularly southern cops) to pull us over because they don't like the little darwin-fishy on our car's backside...
On the topic of expressing your self through your vehicle decorations, I've made it a point not to. All it take is some punk with a pocket knife and a grudge against your bumper sticker to really ruin your morning...
I have to agree with the questioning of "good reporting"; yes, it was nice to see that someone realizes that Microsoft was running to the rescue of a problem they created, but the worm did cause some very real problems that Taylor glossed over.
At my company, we had to take our webservers down twice as we knew that something was happening, but couldn't figure out what. By the time we realized what the problem was, about 100 man hours were diverted from usefull projects to scouring our machines trying to figure out the nature of the compromise and how to proceed (I'm a programmer, dammit, not a sysadmin). Projects were delayed, an ignorant management got pissed off, and I got stuck doing a thankless job.
They think they're opening a picture of AnnaK, instead they get infected.
IMHO, the fact that Explorer defaults to hiding extensions is a big problem in itself... it is so hard telling my cow-orkers over and over again "don't double click on anything with at.vbs extension" when it isn't shown. If I disable the "hide extension" feature they get pissed off, and they just don't notice what the icon looks like...
In a "ignorant user" story, someone in management recently recieved a SirCam email... thankfully, the clueless bloke just forwarded it on to one of his (more technically aware) underlings with instructions to "find out what this guy wants input on".
A buddy of mine recently got new wireless service through Verizon, but in the last week he's looked different... about half a foot shorter, maybe 50 lbs heavier, too.
Whatever... he's spending money like water and treating everybody at happy hour, so it's all good...
It's about time that thermal imaging was limited to after a warrant is issued... I always feared that my Beowulf cluster of P!!!'s would be mistaken for some hippies growin' dope...
hmm. I was always told that Bayer lost the trademark to Aspring due to not enforcing it, but it appears that Isaac-Lew is correct. Couldn't find any mention of it in his link, or at the Bayer site, though.
The [it's OK to call junk e-mail "spam"] policy, which has been in place at Hormel for a little more than a year, represents quite an about-face from just a few years ago.
The only time I've ever seen a Hormel comment on the term "spam" is at that page. Even the Wired article seemed to say that this is a non-issue: "Hormel said a year ago it's OK to call junk mail `spam'". Why is this on SlashDot now?
True dat. I pine for the days of, err, pine, when email was plain text and you didn't have to worry about some idiot sending you a HTML email with a megabyte of images attached, or a VB-script worm. Seven years when "Good Times" first was being circulated, I told everybody unequivocally that "you can't get a virus reading your email". I hope no one remembers me saying that...
I dread the fact that in future versions of Outlook you will be forced to use Word as your email editor; soon we'll have to worry about VBScripts and Macro viruses?. When I Grow Up, my company will be a *NIX shop...
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Jebus tap-dancing Chris this is not spyware as that term usually refers to. This is a question of intentionally installed survailance software disabeling intentionally installed (by another party, i.e. spouse, employee, child, etc.) counter-servailance software.
With a copious amount of breaks, long lunches, and as unionized auto workers get to spend their last 15 minutes on the clock doing nothing, I highly doubt that any modern-day "worker" put in 5-6 hours of productivity, and that is certainly not continuous...
... and before I get bashed as being an 31337'est white-collar pig, I've known many engineers at Ford who were putting in much more time than the assembly line workers, yet the later brought home the bigger pay check...
So, if reprint the pipe bomb recipes from that site, what will happen?
I have never heard a better car-computer similie; NT/2000 are just like Caprices in that the (civilian model) Caprice is a whale of a car: huge, tons of body roll, probably the latest (and last) example of a "boat on wheels" manufactured...
I call "bull shit".
I've found that once I actually learned a little CSS, and got my style sheets & html up to spec, documents I generated would look the exact same and all of the latest browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, IE, etc).
It's one thing to break the "global web experience" by writing bad mark-up that breaks all but one browser, it's another thing to throw in comments* that a poorly-written piece of software can't handle.
*It is my understanding that email headers preceded by an "X-" are to be ignored by clients that don't know how to interpret them.
But we're not discussing Linux, we're discussing future IT professionals. My boss can read a book and put together an MS webserver, maybe even a UNIX one, but what happens when shit goes wrong? He calls IT... if all that they're going to do is call tech support, why even have them there?
Don't people slove problems by learning anymore? Chance are that what ever problem you are having has been experienced by someone else, and they wrote a webpage about it. If not, put those analytical skills to use and figure out a solution and write your own webpage.
I only use tech support as a very last option... and that's usually when a PHB is on my case.
No, this isn't POP3, at least not in the strictist sense, I believe... my impression (from some something I read? a dream? *shrug*) was that the MS email clients were neccessay because they were going to do some kind of unique user verification... proprietary crypto? SMTP user verification? I don't know, but it was a tweaking of the protocol that brought about the "Only Our Software" policy.
Shouldn't the article title be:
Fiber On Your Motherboard... Real Soon Now(tm)!
Ha ha!
Stevens Institute of Technology has both stevens-tech.edu & stevens.edu; they've had 'em at least as long ago as '94...
Take a look at Snevets vs. Stevens Tech. Something that has been passed from generation to generation of students here is the habit of reversing the school name when mocking it... Is Drexel going to also register every iteration of LexerdSux.com?
Love the pseudo-code... now, why don't you put something together for real? Some share- or free-ware project, some OS software, anything. Show that you can work on a long-term, ongoing project that does something useful and produces results.
<Miller>Not to go on a rant here, but I was fortunate enough to know (through my Fraternity) the past couple generations of students at my school... these guys were Real Geeks(tm): the Chem Eng guys brewed beer and, well, blew shit up. The Mech Eng guys were building potato guns, the Civil Engineers targets, and they both kept the 100-year-old house in excellent shape. If the house secretary needed to print out address labels, a CS student would write a program that pulled the info from a databse and automated the task for him.
It seems that the newer batches of students are "geeks" because daddy bought them a 'puter and they play Quake all day; they start school with the gleam of dollar signs in their eyes and drop out after a semester or two. The ones that are left are so socially & physically inept that they aren't much use away from a computer. It is amazing how often I run into a young mechanical engineer that doesn't know what a 4-40 screw is... </Miller>
What I had been hearing was that they were built to withstand a "707", and I was also under the impression that the 757 & 767 were both smaller than the 747. Can anyone clear that up?
Well, for one thing, this proposal would allow the insanely rich to keep a lock down on their copyrights for ever... the small publisher gets very little (time-wise) protections while Disney keeps a lock down on everything it's ever spit out... and how fair is that to the public? We, the public, have made Disney what it is, you think it would be fair to distribute Steam Boat Willy free of charge...
Cringely has an excellent piece on hastily carried-out laws. Everyone screams, "something must be done," so they start doing what they can with very little fore thought.
Quoting Jefferson on this would just be hella redundant... but let's hope some actual thinking goes into any new legislation: if it was in place before the WTC tragedy, would the attack have been prevented? At what cost are we making these new laws?
I have to agree with the questioning of "good reporting"; yes, it was nice to see that someone realizes that Microsoft was running to the rescue of a problem they created, but the worm did cause some very real problems that Taylor glossed over.
At my company, we had to take our webservers down twice as we knew that something was happening, but couldn't figure out what. By the time we realized what the problem was, about 100 man hours were diverted from usefull projects to scouring our machines trying to figure out the nature of the compromise and how to proceed (I'm a programmer, dammit, not a sysadmin). Projects were delayed, an ignorant management got pissed off, and I got stuck doing a thankless job.
IMHO, the fact that Explorer defaults to hiding extensions is a big problem in itself... it is so hard telling my cow-orkers over and over again "don't double click on anything with at
In a "ignorant user" story, someone in management recently recieved a SirCam email... thankfully, the clueless bloke just forwarded it on to one of his (more technically aware) underlings with instructions to "find out what this guy wants input on".
A buddy of mine recently got new wireless service through Verizon, but in the last week he's looked different... about half a foot shorter, maybe 50 lbs heavier, too.
Whatever... he's spending money like water and treating everybody at happy hour, so it's all good...
God bless those Albino Ninjas...
It's about time that thermal imaging was limited to after a warrant is issued... I always feared that my Beowulf cluster of P!!!'s would be mistaken for some hippies growin' dope...
God bless those Albino Ninjas...
hmm. I was always told that Bayer lost the trademark to Aspring due to not enforcing it, but it appears that Isaac-Lew is correct. Couldn't find any mention of it in his link, or at the Bayer site, though.
God bless those Albino Ninjas...
God bless those Albino Ninjas...
True dat. I pine for the days of, err, pine, when email was plain text and you didn't have to worry about some idiot sending you a HTML email with a megabyte of images attached, or a VB-script worm. Seven years when "Good Times" first was being circulated, I told everybody unequivocally that "you can't get a virus reading your email". I hope no one remembers me saying that...
I dread the fact that in future versions of Outlook you will be forced to use Word as your email editor; soon we'll have to worry about VBScripts and Macro viruses?. When I Grow Up, my company will be a *NIX shop...
God bless those Albino Ninjas...
God bless those Albino Ninjas...