The image of Cardinal Law being buttfucked by some skinhead in the shower would be a fitting punishment.
This is the kind of stuff that gets +1, Insighful nowadays?
The parent post was talking about those wrongfully accused of these acts, not those who are guilty of it. Or do you think everyone who is accused is guilty? (Would such a post get +5, Insightful, too?)
I worked for those fuckers. I took the special "4 week" plan back in January... man, am I glad I left that job. Apparently our department is having trouble getting approval to buy RAM.
If you buy a machinefrom a ``real company'', you get support. If a hard drive breaks, Dell will forward-ship you one overnight. If your AMD system breaks...um...you'll have some guy breathing down your neck while you hope CDW has some spares in stock.
In a corporate setting, there's simply no reason to roll your own systems.
Yet you completely overlook the computer/network security side of things. Why on earth would you need a bouncer in an Internet cafe? Wouldn't you rather concern yourself with more important shit, such as people using your computers to launch relatively anonymous attacks on other parts of the Internet? What about people installing software without your approval? How will you deal with users who know more about your computers and operating systems than you do? What if they successfully access the machine that has the business' financial information on it? (Since you're so naiive, I'm guessing you'd network that machine, too.) Would you firewall anything? Would you encrypt anything?
The more I read this Ask Slashdot, the sadder I become. I must go.
What kind of system should I run? Obviously most games are only going to run on windows, (and wine is a bitch, and imagine the bitchiness multiplied out against X machines), but I don't want to buy windows licenses.
Dear slashdot. I don't want to steal, but I may have to. Please help me justify my theft!
This person appears to have done absolutely no research, yet wants to set up a business. They say 50% of all businesses fail? Well, here's one for that half...
A card like this should be required for anyone connecting a Windows box (or even a novice connecting a Linux box) with a high-speed link to the Internet.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are a few people here who know how to configure a proper firewall, but most people with cable modems, DSL connections, or other high-speed access at home have no idea how to harden their desktop machines. What's worse, they run dangerously vulnerable email programs such as Outlook and use web browsers such as Internet Explorer. This opens them up to a wide variety of very vicious viruses, worms, and other nice programs which can be used to gain access to their computers and turn them into little more than bandwidth machine-guns.
With a network card such as this shipping in a relatively locked-down state, it would be easier to detect and block attacks originating from a compromised computer. Unfortunately, I can't smack every clueless computer user on the Internet upside the head with one of these things. Because of this, I'm sure things will only get worse before they get better.
I can't stand these "please help me. I want to get blood from a stone" Ask Slashdots. Sometimes you have to spend some money to get things to work satisfactorily. A PC simply will not boot without a video card. Buy one for each of your servers; a nasty old one can't cost more than $5. If you can't afford $25 or so, what on earth are you doing building computers with Win2K on them to begin with? (You *did* pay for that, didn't you?)
You want to archive your DVDs to DivX? Why? So that, when you destroy your DVDs, you'll have... vastly inferior copies of them on a single, non-mirrored hard drive which stands an even better chance of failing than the DVDs do?
Hell, I'd be more interested in backing your hard drive up to a DVD-R (or something sane, like DLT or DDS-3) if I were you.
1.) The original paper is very detailled and specific in it's security aspects. It is explicitely stating that nothing should be damaged, about whose functions one is not certain, because that could endanger humans or transports.
Ah, so, since the paper says not to damage anything, nobody will damage anything. If the paper said not to push the big shiny red button, I'm sure people wouldn't push it, right?
2.) The description was available on the internet for 4 to 5 years by now. It's publication on paper was not forbidden during this time.
Ah, so, since it had been around for a little while, it's okay for the government to allow its continued publication in spite of the grave threat to national security it may pose.
3.) The "Right to Resistance" is an explicit part of the German constitutional law.
Ah, so all of this is okay since it places nobody at risk. More of a censorship than a security issue? Letting people know where and when nuclear material is being delivered by train is something you've a right to do?
What the hell kind of fucked-up crack are you smoking?
I was in several classes in which work was assigned to "development teams" of 4 or 5 students. We were expected to hold "development meetings" and discuss "development strategies" whilst constructing the piece of software we'd been told to create.
A noble idea, right? Work together, just like in the real world? Get help from your peers, everyone does their share, all that happy horseshit?
Did it ever work that way for anyone? The smart kids in the group (if there were any) ended up doing all the work. The stupid kids hung around for one or two meetings and maybe sent off the occasional email asking when the next meeting was, but never contributed line one of code. The worst part came at the end of the semester, when we were all asked to rate our fellow teammates. What can you say? "This stupid retard was too busy fucking around and getting drunk to write any code, and when we asked him to debug this function, he sent it back exactly the way he received it"? Well, you can, but it doesn't seem to matter, as everyone always got the same grade.
Come to think of it, group work is exactly like working in the real world, because it's full of people who don't do jack shit and make you wonder why they're still hanging around like a festering boil on an unwashed butt cheek. Honestly, I don't know how some kids in my class got their degree.
The ad is clearly aimed squarely at every other UNIX-like operating system out there. There's no mention of Microsoft -- hell, the ad even features three prominently-placed Microsoft icons in the system's dock.
Yet Another Stroke of Retardation from slashdot...
I have read a number of things about IIS6: mostly that it is a from-scratch rewrite, with a particular eye on security. Also you can assume it'll perform pretty well.
Why should we assume this? Given the track record, it's like "expecting" Hulk Hogan to beat The Rock.
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So, you're the guy who does that?
Get back to work!! Stop posting on slashdot!! I hope they hire an assistant for you soon.
- A.P.
Er, didn't the X-Box do a pretty good job of that all by itself?
(Wouldn't the PS2 be one, too?)
- A.P.
I'd add the link, but I think it breaks slashdot's lame, arbitrary 255-character .Sig limit.
- A.P.
The image of Cardinal Law being buttfucked by some skinhead in the shower would be a fitting punishment.
This is the kind of stuff that gets +1, Insighful nowadays?
The parent post was talking about those wrongfully accused of these acts, not those who are guilty of it. Or do you think everyone who is accused is guilty? (Would such a post get +5, Insightful, too?)
- A.P.
...they'd be pictures of 8-year-old boys.
- A.P.
I worked for those fuckers. I took the special "4 week" plan back in January... man, am I glad I left that job. Apparently our department is having trouble getting approval to buy RAM.
- A.P.
If you buy a machinefrom a ``real company'', you get support. If a hard drive breaks, Dell will forward-ship you one overnight. If your AMD system breaks...um...you'll have some guy breathing down your neck while you hope CDW has some spares in stock.
In a corporate setting, there's simply no reason to roll your own systems.
- A.P.
Yet you completely overlook the computer/network security side of things. Why on earth would you need a bouncer in an Internet cafe? Wouldn't you rather concern yourself with more important shit, such as people using your computers to launch relatively anonymous attacks on other parts of the Internet? What about people installing software without your approval? How will you deal with users who know more about your computers and operating systems than you do? What if they successfully access the machine that has the business' financial information on it? (Since you're so naiive, I'm guessing you'd network that machine, too.) Would you firewall anything? Would you encrypt anything?
The more I read this Ask Slashdot, the sadder I become. I must go.
- A.P.
What kind of system should I run? Obviously most games are only going to run on windows, (and wine is a bitch, and imagine the bitchiness multiplied out against X machines), but I don't want to buy windows licenses.
Dear slashdot. I don't want to steal, but I may have to. Please help me justify my theft!
This person appears to have done absolutely no research, yet wants to set up a business. They say 50% of all businesses fail? Well, here's one for that half...
- A.P.
A card like this should be required for anyone connecting a Windows box (or even a novice connecting a Linux box) with a high-speed link to the Internet.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are a few people here who know how to configure a proper firewall, but most people with cable modems, DSL connections, or other high-speed access at home have no idea how to harden their desktop machines. What's worse, they run dangerously vulnerable email programs such as Outlook and use web browsers such as Internet Explorer. This opens them up to a wide variety of very vicious viruses, worms, and other nice programs which can be used to gain access to their computers and turn them into little more than bandwidth machine-guns.
With a network card such as this shipping in a relatively locked-down state, it would be easier to detect and block attacks originating from a compromised computer. Unfortunately, I can't smack every clueless computer user on the Internet upside the head with one of these things. Because of this, I'm sure things will only get worse before they get better.
- A.P.
I can't stand these "please help me. I want to get blood from a stone" Ask Slashdots. Sometimes you have to spend some money to get things to work satisfactorily. A PC simply will not boot without a video card. Buy one for each of your servers; a nasty old one can't cost more than $5. If you can't afford $25 or so, what on earth are you doing building computers with Win2K on them to begin with? (You *did* pay for that, didn't you?)
- A.P.
You want to archive your DVDs to DivX? Why? So that, when you destroy your DVDs, you'll have... vastly inferior copies of them on a single, non-mirrored hard drive which stands an even better chance of failing than the DVDs do?
Hell, I'd be more interested in backing your hard drive up to a DVD-R (or something sane, like DLT or DDS-3) if I were you.
- A.P.
How much frigging cheaper than $40 do these cheap bastards need a processor to be before they buy one?
Hell, at some point, shipping is gonna cost more than the chip.
- A.P.
What the hell is a "mydrid"? Some sort of leaf-eating insect?
- A.P.
I'd rather a guy who likes blowjobs in the oval office over a guy who just likes blow.
- A.P.
Is it too much to ask you to tone down the language?
Fuck yeah, it is.
- A.P.
1.) The original paper is very detailled and specific in it's security aspects. It is explicitely stating that nothing should be damaged, about whose functions one is not certain, because that could endanger humans or transports.
Ah, so, since the paper says not to damage anything, nobody will damage anything. If the paper said not to push the big shiny red button, I'm sure people wouldn't push it, right?
2.) The description was available on the internet for 4 to 5 years by now. It's publication on paper was not forbidden during this time.
Ah, so, since it had been around for a little while, it's okay for the government to allow its continued publication in spite of the grave threat to national security it may pose.
3.) The "Right to Resistance" is an explicit part of the German constitutional law.
Ah, so all of this is okay since it places nobody at risk. More of a censorship than a security issue? Letting people know where and when nuclear material is being delivered by train is something you've a right to do?
What the hell kind of fucked-up crack are you smoking?
- A.P.
since when was using anything in IE safe?
I've found that clicking on the little square with the "X" in it at the top of the window is pretty safe.
- A.P.
I was in several classes in which work was assigned to "development teams" of 4 or 5 students. We were expected to hold "development meetings" and discuss "development strategies" whilst constructing the piece of software we'd been told to create.
A noble idea, right? Work together, just like in the real world? Get help from your peers, everyone does their share, all that happy horseshit?
Did it ever work that way for anyone? The smart kids in the group (if there were any) ended up doing all the work. The stupid kids hung around for one or two meetings and maybe sent off the occasional email asking when the next meeting was, but never contributed line one of code. The worst part came at the end of the semester, when we were all asked to rate our fellow teammates. What can you say? "This stupid retard was too busy fucking around and getting drunk to write any code, and when we asked him to debug this function, he sent it back exactly the way he received it"? Well, you can, but it doesn't seem to matter, as everyone always got the same grade.
Come to think of it, group work is exactly like working in the real world, because it's full of people who don't do jack shit and make you wonder why they're still hanging around like a festering boil on an unwashed butt cheek. Honestly, I don't know how some kids in my class got their degree.
- A.P.
Without a bong and a handle of Gordon's $5 Vodka, what would there be left to do at college?
- A.P.
"The screen measures just four inches in diameter"
Um, so is oQo introducing the hot new 1940s-style-television round-screen craze to the market, too?
- A.P.
Yeah, it worked really well on wehavethewayout.com.
Fucking retard.
- A.P.
The ad is clearly aimed squarely at every other UNIX-like operating system out there. There's no mention of Microsoft -- hell, the ad even features three prominently-placed Microsoft icons in the system's dock.
Yet Another Stroke of Retardation from slashdot...
- A.P.
I have read a number of things about IIS6: mostly that it is a from-scratch rewrite, with a particular eye on security. Also you can assume it'll perform pretty well.
Why should we assume this? Given the track record, it's like "expecting" Hulk Hogan to beat The Rock.
- A.P. (christ, i feel so rednecky)
So, instead, we should blame everyone else but the sole person responsible?
You're a fucking retard.
- A.P.