Given that so many know vb, especially so many new young programmers who are still pumped with their rebel phase, and know (and have known for a LONG time - microsft?) how easy it is to create macro virii, I am surprised we haven't seen more Melissa types ages ago. We are certainly gunna see a lot more now, as the mutations and copies already surfacing show.
I just hope the media pick up on the fact that this wouldn't (couldn't) happen if ms showed at least a modicum of respect for user level security.
First of all you must set up Ghostscript. Download the newest Alladin Ghostscript. There's an excellent hpdj patch for newer HP Deskjets at ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/ Download it an follow the instructions. Also there is a djetool program which uses features of that patch at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/printing / I have HP690C and it works well but I'm not sure if it will works well with your "se" printer.
To say that death is preferable to a life of pain is just stupid. Most of us live with pain every day, but not all of us are victims. Even rapists can be victims, does that mean they have a right to hurt others?
Spiritual dogma aside, you can recover from the trauma and shame of rape. You can rebuild your self-esteem and help others rebuild theirs. You can become stronger for having been harmed. It is hard to see how you can recover from murder.
Anybody who says death is better than life doesn't value life enough. But then again, most of them probably spend their entire lives avoiding pain, so what would they know about growing through it?
Where is the effort to reach out to the boy who has not yet raped? Shall we leave him to suffer alone? Perhaps it is too hard. Perhaps we should just punish and comfort. Righteousness takes much less effort than empathy. Punishment is a cheap alternative to justice.
Show me someone who wants to live, and I will show you someone who has already left behind the stigma of 'the victim'. Show me someone prepared to be hurt again, knowing better than most how much it can hurt, and I will show you the courage that idealogues will never know.
Compression of space isn't the only way that you can ( at least theoretically ) do FTL.
One other alternative is to unroll a higher dimension. The problem with this approach is that these higher dimensions are of the order of 1E-26 meters ( so you can only do it if you have a *very* small spacecraft ).
Another way is by disrupting space to create a "worm-hole". Most of the theoretical calculations on this approach indicate that a) this would violate causality and b) take us back to anhilating whole galaxies to create them.
Likewise with tachyons. As some of the other posters on this page have already noted, we arn't even sure if they even exist.
So it goes. For the moment, I'd rather concentrate on finding ways to get into outer-space and around the solar-system at an affordable price. To me, that's enough of a challenge at this point in time.
you may be leery of "absurd crime stats" but think about how many women you know have been raped. i only know 2 who havent. total. of every single woman i know/have known. how many do i know who have reported their rape? none.
how many of these women have been raped more than once? more than half.
how many times have i been raped? more than five. how many times have i reported it? none.
arguing about the validity and reliability of these stats is not the point.
to serve the need of a lobbying group? stopping violence against more than half the population is a lobbying group? thats an interesting concept.
this is not a statistical issue. this is a day-to-day reality for *at least* one woman you know. if you think otherwise, then you haven't been listening.
Yes, he does need a grammar check and a spell check. His essay is not focused. In short, he could use a good writing class. But....
HOWTOs often have misleading or, in some cases, simply inaccurate or outdated information. The assumed user knowledge in HOWTOs can, at times, be above the level of what I think the target audience. Remember a HOWTO is not a man page. It is reference of first resort. While our (the Linux User community) online tech support is considered by most as superb, we can sometimes attack those who we consider to be below us. I know, I've been on the receiving end of this. Why do we do this? This only reinforces the stereotype of Linux being elitist. Not a good thing.
On his point of KDE vs. GNOME vs. everybody's favorite X-widget set du jour, he is right on the money. Why is there so much duplicative effort? Do we really need that many different ways of looking and manipulating the VFS tree (MC, xfm, xfilemanager, and on and on). Just how many different variants of FVWM are there? This concept of having to reinvent the wheel is gonna kill Linux from the inside. Maybe we should look at Linus' example with the kernel. One vision (or direction, if you prefer) has kept it on an even united (more or less) path.
Maybe I'm just bitter having to maintain an NT LAN for a living. All but one one of my users is on Winblows 9x (the exception is NT, btw). I find myself dealing with even worse and sadly less coherent rants. The punch line is they expect me to fix inheirently broken software. This guy is a technical genius in comparison. I would gladly take an office full of Rowans. He, at least, has shown he has the ability to learn. My users... Well let's just some are better than others...
I will fight to death to protect Rowan's right to speak - grammatically incoherent or newbyish (is that even a word?!?) as it might seem. There are a lot more Rowans out there than than there are Alan Coxes or Linuses, or even ESRs. We need to embrace them, as well.
...how much would someone have to pay you for you to read this guy's book? Personally I'm in the 50-100k range. That is if he ever "archives" the feat of finishing it. I'm somewhat scared at the prospect of this guy spewing forth even more vile drivel. I really hope Rob is not planning on posting the next one.
I find it hard to believe that anyone could trust this stupid ID tracking system MS has embedded into their programs...I also don't know about the validity of this argument that they can even track the person who has created it. It seems like an overly bloated attempt to make something of nothing simply because of the quick spread of the virus. Lastly, anyone who has been infected ought to rethink their attempt to be computer savvy because it's obviously not working.
I should hope that any self-respecting Linux user would consider using only BBS's over AOL.:)Besides, you can get Earthlink almost anywere. And they don't make you use their proprietary software.
I realize this is off topic (but not much:-)) but uhm... well he was fairly accurate. Insurrection wasn't exactly up to par with the quality of the last few Star Trek movies Paramount dished out. (with the exception of 'Generations' it was right up there with that one.;-)) I think maybe they could have a Star Trek catagory, just because it would be fun.:-)
The license there is much closer to the NPL than the MPL, in that it grants relicensing rights to Metrowerks. Using the NPL was obviously not an option, because they don't want Netscape to get special rights to their code. =)
When thousands of people die for no god damn good reason then yes it is to much to ask. Its not my fault some of you in the east are to self centered to try to help. Out yourself in the shoes of the people who are getting pushed out of the country. How would you feel if you were 8 and saw your father get killed? How would you feel if you saw your whole life gone in a blink of an eye? Yes we have messed up in the past but to say that all of the Us sucks because of an error in the past is just wrong.
It is amazing what people get away with in our society.
Every day women are brutally raped yet...we would rather expend money and respouces on drug raids and "Consensual crimes" rather than going after violent criminals.
Then we have the actual attitude towards rape. We have the "but she was asking for it" group who either don't believe her or just don't care.
Then we have people who cheapen the word rape by applying it to consensual sex... because they were drunk/stoned/whatever and don't want to take responsibility for their actions.
The whol eidea just makes me sick. But more so that people use it to attack the "internet" I mean, for every person who preys on netizens...there are many more rapists out in the real world who don't need to use a computer to find their prey.
I think that it is time that we as a society stop trying to blame the net and actually do something.
Interesting how Slashdot is so eager to throw up a pic of Bill Gates, the Evil Borg (tm) and yet there is a happy dinosaur Netscape. So I suppose that MS is really more evil that AOL?
Doubt it would stop anyone from carrying out a rape. Remember, castration is removing the testicles, not the penis. And even if you did remove the penis, one could always use something else. Remember, rape is about PowerandCONTROL not getting off.
As for privacy, we should pay close attention to the development of all this. This is a mediatic demo for IDs and also for Clipper chips (so that the "bad guys" can be traced, right?). The supporters of those features and technologies will certanly use this as a showcase.
On the other hand, doesnt the ease with which those GUIDs were traced suggest how easily everybodys privacy can be broken into?
I would say that with the right spin (where are those privacy groups when you need them?) this case could be a perfect demonstration of what the GUID/Privacy issue a few weeks ago was all about.
M$ blatantly mishandled their users privacy by putting GUIDs into each document that are so easy to be traced - even by outsiders, like those two guys from the ZDNet story.
I don't think this has any place on Slashdot. I could make up a similarily touching and horrific story next week, and submit it. It would include the innocent victim, who was so trusting with a person she met on the internet (a friend of mine, of course) and the cops who were so mean and unfeeling.
Yes, it happens. 1 out of every 3 women will be sexually assaulted at least once in her lifetime. But I don't think hearsay stories (since this is his friend, and he is repeating what he heard about how the cops behaved, etc.) will do any good is stopping assaults.
Giving women the sense to be wary and cautious (whether in a chat room or bar room) and stand up for their right to be heard will help. How about giving girls enough self-esteem to where they aren't looking for love and acceptance from some anonymous ASCII person? Or if she is going to meet this person, how about in a safe and public place? Or with friends!
It is so frustrating to me that women (my friends! my family!) are so stupid and guilable that they just open themselves up to danger, and then wonder why.
Before anyone flames me (if anyone even reads these) Yes, I have done stupid things and put myself in danger in my stupid youth. And yes, I have paid the consequences, and was too afraid to seek help. This is what frustrated me so. You can't control what happens to you--you could be coming out of Chuck E Cheese and be attacked--but you can be cautious, and hope that you can be the other 2 women who aren't living with the aftermath of a sexual assault.
Also, i think it would be relavent to point out that this cop obviosly for whatever reason, feels he needs to intimidate the girl to ensure a conviction. From the original post it is obvious that the cop has little practical knowledge of irc/icq/webchats/ etc
As far as nerds being abused by cops, hell, who HAVN'T the police abused?
u4ic-fx - he who cary's the bigest stick, better watch out for the next guy
Not that I dont feel sympathy and compassion for the victims of such incidents, but realistically a little common sense go's a long way, there are many guidelines for meeting people from the internet and unfortunatly, untill you actually meet that person, you'll never know if anything of what they've said is true, that being said for those who will continue to find new friends online and meet them irl here are a few common sense things to take into consideration..
talk on the phone first, before meeting someone for the first time, hearing their voice will give you an indication of whether or not they are who/what they say they are ie a 40 year old claiming to be 18 etc
insist on a meeting in a public place, with your friends and their friends ie a coffee shop
make sure atleast several people online have given u "references" about the person..
yeah its being a bit paranoid, but hey, better to be paranoid, than a rape/kidnapping victim, for complete lists of suggested idea's check a search engine for bdsm sites (yeah its off topic) but they usually have a faq about saftey for meeting someone for the first time.. its not totally relevant but alot of the concepts cross over, above all think with your brain, not your sexdrive
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by Bryan Lawson:
Given that so many know vb, especially so many new young programmers who are still pumped with their rebel phase, and know (and have known for a LONG time - microsft?) how easy it is to create macro virii, I am surprised we haven't seen more Melissa types ages ago. We are certainly gunna see a lot more now, as the mutations and copies already surfacing show.
I just hope the media pick up on the fact that this wouldn't (couldn't) happen if ms showed at least a modicum of respect for user level security.
Posted by karlo:
g /
First of all you must set up Ghostscript.
Download the newest Alladin Ghostscript.
There's an excellent hpdj patch for newer HP Deskjets at
ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/
Download it an follow the instructions.
Also there is a djetool program which uses features of that patch at
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/printin
I have HP690C and it works well but I'm not sure if it will works well with your "se" printer.
Posted by thex:
To say that death is preferable to a life of pain is just stupid. Most of us live with pain every day, but not all of us are victims. Even rapists can be victims, does that mean they have a right to hurt others?
Spiritual dogma aside, you can recover from the trauma and shame of rape. You can rebuild your self-esteem and help others rebuild theirs. You can become stronger for having been harmed. It is hard to see how you can recover from murder.
Anybody who says death is better than life doesn't value life enough. But then again, most of them probably spend their entire lives avoiding pain, so what would they know about growing through it?
Where is the effort to reach out to the boy who has not yet raped? Shall we leave him to suffer alone? Perhaps it is too hard. Perhaps we should just punish and comfort. Righteousness takes much less effort than empathy. Punishment is a cheap alternative to justice.
Show me someone who wants to live, and I will show you someone who has already left behind the stigma of 'the victim'. Show me someone prepared to be hurt again, knowing better than most how much it can hurt, and I will show you the courage that idealogues will never know.
peace, love, unity, respect
thex
Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
Compression of space isn't the only way that you can ( at least theoretically ) do FTL.
One other alternative is to unroll a higher dimension. The problem with this approach is that these higher dimensions are of the order of 1E-26 meters ( so you can only do it if you have a *very* small spacecraft ).
Another way is by disrupting space to create a "worm-hole". Most of the theoretical calculations on this approach indicate that a) this would violate causality and b) take us back to anhilating whole galaxies to create them.
Likewise with tachyons. As some of the other posters on this page have already noted, we arn't even sure if they even exist.
So it goes. For the moment, I'd rather concentrate on finding ways to get into outer-space and around the solar-system at an affordable price. To me, that's enough of a challenge at this point in time.
Posted by nernin:
you may be leery of "absurd crime stats" but think about how many women you know have been raped. i only know 2 who havent. total. of every single woman i know/have known. how many do i know who have reported their rape? none.
how many of these women have been raped more than once? more than half.
how many times have i been raped? more than five.
how many times have i reported it? none.
arguing about the validity and reliability of these stats is not the point.
to serve the need of a lobbying group? stopping violence against more than half the population is a lobbying group? thats an interesting concept.
this is not a statistical issue. this is a day-to-day reality for *at least* one woman you know. if you think otherwise, then you haven't been listening.
*e.
Yes, he does need a grammar check and a spell check. His essay is not focused. In short, he could use a good writing class. But....
HOWTOs often have misleading or, in some cases, simply inaccurate or outdated information. The assumed user knowledge in HOWTOs can, at times, be above the level of what I think the target audience. Remember a HOWTO is not a man page. It is reference of first resort. While our (the Linux User community) online tech support is considered by most as superb, we can sometimes attack those who we consider to be below us. I know, I've been on the receiving end of this. Why do we do this? This only reinforces the stereotype of Linux being elitist. Not a good thing.
On his point of KDE vs. GNOME vs. everybody's favorite X-widget set du jour, he is right on the money. Why is there so much duplicative effort? Do we really need that many different ways of looking and manipulating the VFS tree (MC, xfm, xfilemanager, and on and on). Just how many different variants of FVWM are there? This concept of having to reinvent the wheel is gonna kill Linux from the inside. Maybe we should look at Linus' example with the kernel. One vision (or direction, if you prefer) has kept it on an even united (more or less) path.
Maybe I'm just bitter having to maintain an NT LAN for a living. All but one one of my users is on Winblows 9x (the exception is NT, btw). I find myself dealing with even worse and sadly less coherent rants. The punch line is they expect me to fix inheirently broken software. This guy is a technical genius in comparison. I would gladly take an office full of Rowans. He, at least, has shown he has the ability to learn. My users... Well let's just some are better than others...
I will fight to death to protect Rowan's right to speak - grammatically incoherent or newbyish (is that even a word?!?) as it might seem. There are a lot more Rowans out there than than there are Alan Coxes or Linuses, or even ESRs. We need to embrace them, as well.
Posted by OGL:
...how much would someone have to pay you for you to read this guy's book? Personally I'm in the 50-100k range. That is if he ever "archives" the feat of finishing it. I'm somewhat scared at the prospect of this guy spewing forth even more vile drivel. I really hope Rob is not planning on posting the next one.
-W.W.
Posted by OGL:
Sense of humor alert!
-W.W.
Posted by skitzo:
I find it hard to believe that anyone could trust this stupid ID tracking system MS has embedded into their programs...I also don't know about the validity of this argument that they can even track the person who has created it. It seems like an overly bloated attempt to make something of nothing simply because of the quick spread of the virus. Lastly, anyone who has been infected ought to rethink their attempt to be computer savvy because it's obviously not working.
lataz...
Posted by Aelfgifu:
:)Besides, you can get Earthlink almost anywere. And they don't make you use their proprietary software.
I should hope that any self-respecting Linux user would consider using only BBS's over AOL.
Posted by Aelfgifu:
Anyone who works for an ISP knows that AOL isn't doing nearly enough.
Ok, I cranked up Premeire and RealEncoder and have RealVideo, AVI, and Quicktime versions at
http://solo.gatech.edu
If I get a chance, I'll mirror the MPEG version there tomorrow.
-adam a
Posted by Kwizatz Aderach:
One in six women raped or harassed befor high school ?!? Wow, i'm glad I don't live in the US...
Posted by JerTheNerd:
:-)) but uhm... well he was fairly accurate. Insurrection wasn't exactly up to par with the quality of the last few Star Trek movies Paramount dished out. (with the exception of 'Generations' it was right up there with that one. ;-)) I think maybe they could have a Star Trek catagory, just because it would be fun. :-)
I realize this is off topic (but not much
Just my two cents, feel free to dispense change!
Posted by shaver@netscape.com:
The license there is much closer to the NPL than the MPL, in that it grants relicensing rights to Metrowerks. Using the NPL was obviously not an option, because they don't want Netscape to get special rights to their code. =)
Posted by Lassie:
When thousands of people die for no god damn good reason then yes it is to much to ask. Its not my fault some of you in the east are to self centered to try to help. Out yourself in the shoes of the people who are getting pushed out of the country. How would you feel if you were 8 and saw your father get killed? How would you feel if you saw your whole life gone in a blink of an eye? Yes we have messed up in the past but to say that all of the Us sucks because of an error in the past is just wrong.
Posted by Dr. Bert:
I'm all for crucifiction of digital vandals. But this is a perfect example of why I refuse to use Microsoft products for any reason.
Posted by Stephen "The Carp" Carpenter:
It is amazing what people get away with
in our society.
Every day women are brutally raped yet...we
would rather expend money and respouces
on drug raids and "Consensual crimes" rather
than going after violent criminals.
Then we have the actual attitude towards rape.
We have the "but she was asking for it" group
who either don't believe her or just don't care.
Then we have people who cheapen the word
rape by applying it to consensual sex...
because they were drunk/stoned/whatever and
don't want to take responsibility for their
actions.
The whol eidea just makes me sick. But more so
that people use it to attack the "internet"
I mean, for every person who preys on
netizens...there are many more rapists out in
the real world who don't need to use a computer
to find their prey.
I think that it is time that we as a society stop
trying to blame the net and actually do something.
Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:
So is David Hasslehoff.
So much Noise...
and yet,
Some Noise is better than others
Posted by Aelfgifu:
Interesting how Slashdot is so eager to throw up a pic of Bill Gates, the Evil Borg (tm) and yet there is a happy dinosaur Netscape. So I suppose that MS is really more evil that AOL?
Posted by Aelfgifu:
Doubt it would stop anyone from carrying out a rape. Remember, castration is removing the testicles, not the penis. And even if you did remove the penis, one could always use something else. Remember, rape is about PowerandCONTROL not getting off.
As for privacy, we should pay close attention to the development of all this. This is a mediatic demo for IDs and also for Clipper chips (so that the "bad guys" can be traced, right?). The supporters of those features and technologies will certanly use this as a showcase.
On the other hand, doesnt the ease with which those GUIDs were traced suggest how easily everybodys privacy can be broken into?
I would say that with the right spin (where are those privacy groups when you need them?) this case could be a perfect demonstration of what the GUID/Privacy issue a few weeks ago was all about.
M$ blatantly mishandled their users privacy by putting GUIDs into each document that are so easy to be traced - even by outsiders, like those two guys from the ZDNet story.
Posted by Aelfgifu:
I don't think this has any place on Slashdot. I could make up a similarily touching and horrific story next week, and submit it. It would include the innocent victim, who was so trusting with a person she met on the internet (a friend of mine, of course) and the cops who were so mean and unfeeling.
Yes, it happens. 1 out of every 3 women will be sexually assaulted at least once in her lifetime. But I don't think hearsay stories (since this is his friend, and he is repeating what he heard about how the cops behaved, etc.) will do any good is stopping assaults.
Giving women the sense to be wary and cautious (whether in a chat room or bar room) and stand up for their right to be heard will help. How about giving girls enough self-esteem to where they aren't looking for love and acceptance from some anonymous ASCII person? Or if she is going to meet this person, how about in a safe and public place? Or with friends!
It is so frustrating to me that women (my friends! my family!) are so stupid and guilable that they just open themselves up to danger, and then wonder why.
Before anyone flames me (if anyone even reads these) Yes, I have done stupid things and put myself in danger in my stupid youth. And yes, I have paid the consequences, and was too afraid to seek help. This is what frustrated me so. You can't control what happens to you--you could be coming out of Chuck E Cheese and be attacked--but you can be cautious, and hope that you can be the other 2 women who aren't living with the aftermath of a sexual assault.
Heather
Posted by u4ic-fx:
Also, i think it would be relavent to point out that this cop obviosly for whatever reason, feels he needs to intimidate the girl to ensure a conviction. From the original post it is obvious that the cop has little practical knowledge of irc/icq/webchats/ etc
As far as nerds being abused by cops, hell, who HAVN'T the police abused?
u4ic-fx - he who cary's the bigest stick, better watch out for the next guy
Posted by u4ic-fx:
Not that I dont feel sympathy and compassion for the victims of such incidents, but realistically
a little common sense go's a long way, there are many guidelines for meeting people from the internet and unfortunatly, untill you actually meet that person, you'll never know if anything of what they've said is true, that being said
for those who will continue to find new friends online and meet them irl here are a few common sense things to take into consideration..
talk on the phone first, before meeting someone for the first time, hearing their voice will give you an indication of whether or not they are who/what they say they are ie a 40 year old claiming to be 18 etc
insist on a meeting in a public place, with your friends and their friends ie a coffee shop
make sure atleast several people online have given u "references" about the person..
yeah its being a bit paranoid, but hey, better to be paranoid, than a rape/kidnapping victim,
for complete lists of suggested idea's check a search engine for bdsm sites (yeah its off topic) but they usually have a faq about saftey for meeting someone for the first time.. its not totally relevant but alot of the concepts cross over, above all think with your brain, not your sexdrive