I'm hoping the next movie is going to have representatives from Earth apologizing for the attack by the first gang of idiots, and trying to work with the Na'vi, probably through Sully. Things won't go smoothly of course; you need some conflict to make a movie.
Or, at least, mark them like "Paywall" links. They block you if you use an ad blocker, and they interpret any disinclination to run any random malicious script they or any of the advertisers on any of the ad serving companies they use might choose to push at you "an ad blocker." Evil. Pure, unadulterated evil.
For the record, I do not use an ad blocker. But I do run NoScript, and I will continue to run NoScript. "Wired"'s oh so very helpful link on their intercept page says about allowing access to NoScript users "It's complicated, we recommend you don't use NoScript." To which my reaction is "Oh HELL no!"
When I flew back to my uncle's funeral a month ago, the Precheck signup folks were offering a 4-month free trial.
I looked at the monster line to get through the grossly inadequate number of screeners, and signed up for the free trial. Iris scan, fingerprints, all that stuff.
I will not be keeping it past the free trial. As a "once a year, or every other year" flyer, it makes no sense.
A couple of years from now, when I next get on an airplane, I might try signing up for another free trial, assuming this nonsense is still going on. (And assuming they don't keep track of who took advantage of the free trial two years ago.)
Or a judge willing to say "What part of 'With Prejudice' is unclear to you? You did pass the bar, didn't you? Did you? Contempt of court, 90 days in jail, $100,000 fine. And I *will* repeat as necessary."
An advocacy site, with some little cheese shops that are "100% organic energy". I said industry and technology -- those sorts of enterprises... not so much.
I've been dealing with this issue for... quite a long time, and incompetent programmers have perpetrated code that does some of the weirdest things with my name. Most recently, The Phone Company put my name into Caller-ID as "Pelt Van".
I agree with Stuart Brand on this one: "I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic."
Those who reject both coal and nuclear, insisting that industrial/technological civilization can be powered by "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy, are engaging in arithmetic denialism.
Pick one: (1) coal and other fossil fuels. (2) Nuclear. (3) Cataclysmic crash of our technological civilization. There is no (4), no matter how much the arithmetic deniers whine and assert and hand-wave.
Wired.com will not permit access unless your web browser will run every script that every malware distributor who buy ads on every one of the ad server companies they use. Oh HELL no! I do not block ads. I do run NoScript, though. I would enable wired.com, but I'm not going to blanket allow all the malware-distributing ad servers.
He's tapped into a third demographic, a fact which the Democrats ignore at their peril: Organized labor is very sympathetic to his attacks on the various international trade agreements.
I do not care what fevered notions pass through the brain of mdsolar. Nothing he has to say has the slightest relevance; he's an endless spewer of anti-nuke propaganda. I want to never see anything by him ever again.
On Usenet, I had "Kill files" that could trim the idiots out of my newsfeed. Can we get something similar on Slashdot? Please? Pleeeeease???
You're right... the spear-phishing crook is hoping someone in HR doesn't know that, though, or perhaps hopes they'll get panicked by the email into not examining it closely. Emails like this are being sent out. I have seen several examples. I don't know what percentage of recipients are fooled by them, but I know the percentage is greater than zero.
Alas, Trump, with his trade-war-monger rhetoric, is drawing a lot of support from the normally reliable Democrat organized labor voters. How important a part of the "Democrat Base" is organized labor? Less than it used to be, perhaps, but it's still significant.
Based on what I've seen, the email may well have looked something like this:
"Hi, Bob, this is Evan. I've got an urgent request -- I'm at the IRS office; we're getting audited, and I need you to email me the full employee list with all W2s immediately.
It's that time of year... And this sort of thing has been exploding recently.
I'm not sure how "partisan" dislike of Trump is. A substantial percentage of both Democrats and Republicans can't stand the sight or sound of the buffoon.
Alas, there's also a substantial percentage of both Republicans and Democrats (that last surprised me) who like him. I think it's more a case of "We hate politicians of whatever party, and Trump isn't one, at least" than anything else.
But... dang. I won't vote for him. I won't vote for either of the Democrat candidates either. Looks like it's third party for me this year.
Or Cthulhu, because I'm sick of voting for the lesser evil. Perhaps the stars are right.
My only problem there is that I'm not sure Cthulhu isn't the lesser evil.
Just about everybody knows this: ISPs need to configure their routers to drop IP packets with source addresses that have no business coming from the interface they came in on. If the DDOSers can't spoof their source address, it puts a big crimp in the main bandwidth amplification methods.
Of course, they'll find something else at some point, but it should slow them down if they have to be on close to the same network as the one they're attacking, or their bots have to send out packets in something closer to a 1:1 relationship to what the target receives.
... when miscreants fall into the pit they dug themselves. This brings joy to my heart like terrorists blowing only themselves up when they botch bomb manufacture, only with less flying body parts.
And I have certainly not said that the CO2 problem does not exist. (See... advocating phasing out coal for 40 years.) But it does seem to indicate that some of the people talking about CO2 and climate change have other issues besides CO2 and climate that are really what's driving them.
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I'm hoping the next movie is going to have representatives from Earth apologizing for the attack by the first gang of idiots, and trying to work with the Na'vi, probably through Sully. Things won't go smoothly of course; you need some conflict to make a movie.
This. Google might announce that they're discontinuing Google Play next month.
Vote Cthuhlu 2016 - Why Settle for the Lesser Evil?
The trouble is, this year, Cthulhu is the Lesser Evil. (Which really ticks him off...)
Or, at least, mark them like "Paywall" links. They block you if you use an ad blocker, and they interpret any disinclination to run any random malicious script they or any of the advertisers on any of the ad serving companies they use might choose to push at you "an ad blocker." Evil. Pure, unadulterated evil.
For the record, I do not use an ad blocker. But I do run NoScript, and I will continue to run NoScript. "Wired"'s oh so very helpful link on their intercept page says about allowing access to NoScript users "It's complicated, we recommend you don't use NoScript." To which my reaction is "Oh HELL no!"
When I flew back to my uncle's funeral a month ago, the Precheck signup folks were offering a 4-month free trial.
I looked at the monster line to get through the grossly inadequate number of screeners, and signed up for the free trial. Iris scan, fingerprints, all that stuff.
I will not be keeping it past the free trial. As a "once a year, or every other year" flyer, it makes no sense.
A couple of years from now, when I next get on an airplane, I might try signing up for another free trial, assuming this nonsense is still going on. (And assuming they don't keep track of who took advantage of the free trial two years ago.)
Or a judge willing to say "What part of 'With Prejudice' is unclear to you? You did pass the bar, didn't you? Did you? Contempt of court, 90 days in jail, $100,000 fine. And I *will* repeat as necessary."
The United States has a higher corporate tax rate than Cuba. Cuba.
An advocacy site, with some little cheese shops that are "100% organic energy". I said industry and technology -- those sorts of enterprises... not so much.
I've been dealing with this issue for ... quite a long time, and incompetent programmers have perpetrated code that does some of the weirdest things with my name. Most recently, The Phone Company put my name into Caller-ID as "Pelt Van".
I agree with Stuart Brand on this one: "I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic."
Those who reject both coal and nuclear, insisting that industrial/technological civilization can be powered by "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy, are engaging in arithmetic denialism.
Pick one: (1) coal and other fossil fuels. (2) Nuclear. (3) Cataclysmic crash of our technological civilization. There is no (4), no matter how much the arithmetic deniers whine and assert and hand-wave.
I just tell them I don't have a computer.
My wife: "You lied!"
Me: "No I didn't. I don't have a computer. I have a bunch of computers."
Wired.com will not permit access unless your web browser will run every script that every malware distributor who buy ads on every one of the ad server companies they use. Oh HELL no! I do not block ads. I do run NoScript, though. I would enable wired.com, but I'm not going to blanket allow all the malware-distributing ad servers.
You misspelled Van Vogt. Otherwise... yeah.
He's tapped into a third demographic, a fact which the Democrats ignore at their peril: Organized labor is very sympathetic to his attacks on the various international trade agreements.
Yes, dammit OFF MY LAWN! (Kids these days... :)
On Usenet, I had "Kill files" that could trim the idiots out of my newsfeed. Can we get something similar on Slashdot? Please? Pleeeeease???
You're right ... the spear-phishing crook is hoping someone in HR doesn't know that, though, or perhaps hopes they'll get panicked by the email into not examining it closely. Emails like this are being sent out. I have seen several examples. I don't know what percentage of recipients are fooled by them, but I know the percentage is greater than zero.
Alas, Trump, with his trade-war-monger rhetoric, is drawing a lot of support from the normally reliable Democrat organized labor voters. How important a part of the "Democrat Base" is organized labor? Less than it used to be, perhaps, but it's still significant.
None of those three are acceptable. At all. If those are the only choices in November, I'm writing in Vermin Supreme. Or maybe Cthulhu.
Based on what I've seen, the email may well have looked something like this:
"Hi, Bob, this is Evan. I've got an urgent request -- I'm at the IRS office; we're getting audited, and I need you to email me the full employee list with all W2s immediately.
It's that time of year... And this sort of thing has been exploding recently.
I'm not sure how "partisan" dislike of Trump is. A substantial percentage of both Democrats and Republicans can't stand the sight or sound of the buffoon.
Alas, there's also a substantial percentage of both Republicans and Democrats (that last surprised me) who like him. I think it's more a case of "We hate politicians of whatever party, and Trump isn't one, at least" than anything else.
But ... dang. I won't vote for him. I won't vote for either of the Democrat candidates either. Looks like it's third party for me this year.
Or Cthulhu, because I'm sick of voting for the lesser evil. Perhaps the stars are right.
My only problem there is that I'm not sure Cthulhu isn't the lesser evil.
Just about everybody knows this: ISPs need to configure their routers to drop IP packets with source addresses that have no business coming from the interface they came in on. If the DDOSers can't spoof their source address, it puts a big crimp in the main bandwidth amplification methods.
Of course, they'll find something else at some point, but it should slow them down if they have to be on close to the same network as the one they're attacking, or their bots have to send out packets in something closer to a 1:1 relationship to what the target receives.
... when miscreants fall into the pit they dug themselves. This brings joy to my heart like terrorists blowing only themselves up when they botch bomb manufacture, only with less flying body parts.
Exactly... Hansen is one of the few exceptions to the general consensus of arithmetic denialism.
And I have certainly not said that the CO2 problem does not exist. (See... advocating phasing out coal for 40 years.) But it does seem to indicate that some of the people talking about CO2 and climate change have other issues besides CO2 and climate that are really what's driving them.