A little googling reveals that couple a years ago one journalist tracked possible responsibility for the tiles down to one "verna sevrino", who he was ultimately unable to contact, even though he had an address in philadelphia.
google turns up a funeral home in philadelphia called "verna sevrino funeral home", hmmm what might a funeral home have to do with resurrecting people on mars?
more googling turns up philadelphia councilwoman Anna C. Verna, who is married to " husband, Severino Verna, a funeral director, were born and raised in South Philadelphia.".
And finally, everything you ever wanted to know about Anna C Verna is here I, for one, welcome our new neptune resurrectionist overlord.
you're not going to see many better all-ages movies this year. Unless of course Harry Potter is everything it could be...
ummm...LOTR?
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As yet I haven't heard anyone suggest the obvious in terms of preventing this type of disaster on commercial aircraft... put a steel door between the pilots and the passengers. In the event of a hijacking, pilots NEVER open the door. period.
Yes this means that the pilots may have to bring bag lunches and pee in cups, but it's a hell of a lot less expensive that hiring armed 'air-marshalls' to sit on every plane (when they are not needed the huge majority of the time).
The bottom line is that time has come to stop thinking of airtravel safety exclusively in terms of passenger/pilot safety and start thinking of it in terms of the safety of people in tall buildings. A plane is a very large guided missile full of jet-fuel, equivalent in explosive power to a block-buster bomb (as another slashdotter noted). Best make it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone but the pilots to have access to the cockpit.
my deepest sympathies to everyone affected
by this terrible tragedy.
It seems the best strategy would be to remain popular (or at least innocuous) amoung all the other contestants, to decrease the likelihood of being voted 'off' the island.
However, if island 'cliques' emerge, things could get interesting....for example, in-group agreements to support each other (ie, not vote each other out) could emerge. Groups could also collectively target a (possibly random) specific individual in some other group to be 'voted out', thereby preserving safety within the group.
In that scenario, the largest clique wins, and then in-group battles would break out, possibly with the formation of sub-cliques, etc..
What's also interesting is that the ultimate victor has to remain more popular with the last seven contestants than his rival. That's probably why the contest isn't open to CANADIANS! (we're too innocuous/friendly and we'd win every time).
Scully should be replaced by a gorgeous woman with telepathic abilities, and Mulder should be replaced by a more authoritarian, comandeering figure... possibly a bald ship captain.
Also, they should change the mood of X-files to something a little brighter and more futuristic... maybe a spaceship... and swap out smoking man for an android. Now THAT would be cool. Modify the name of the show to something more funky, like "ne-X-t Generation", and voila... the show must go on.
I was at Defcon as a speaker, and although *some* of the details of this article were correct (eg great parties to which windbags like Glass were not invited), overall this is a *horrible* piece on Defcon.
The CIH computer virus was found on *copies* of the bo2k cd's distributed at Defcon, not the originals, correct me if I'm wrong.
The idea that bo2k contains obfuscated trojans is laughable, cosidering it's open source. Leave it to Glass to connect the dots... open source + GPL = plot to hide backdoor. (?!) Brett... if you don't trust the binaries, compile the source. And if you don't trust the source, then show us why... Maybe you can contribute to some bugs that have already been spotted and patched in bo2k.
Of course, this is probably asking too much from someone that's proud to amid to secretly tape-recording comments at a post-conference party and consiers his own 10-year-old phreaking activities a passport to the underground.
"one cannot trust the group's output and must regard it as not only untrustworthy but dangerous. "
fear + ignorance = loathing, that's understandable, but I'm disappointed that Hemos referred to it as "Very well written coverage".
A hotmail programmer inadevertently commented out a line of code, that handled password authentication. Anyone could log in with any password. But nobody noticed because the login script was an OLD login script, that was (for some stupid reason) left on a production server.
"if we software developers were really doing our jobs instead of resting and vesting our stock options, word processors would have already bloated into 99.999 percent reliable voice-recognition software. Your computer would have fused the functions of your telephone, television, and fax machine into one seamless whole. Your computer would have become the instantly searchable repository of all your correspondence, financial transactions, data searches, and phone conversations. Plus, it would be making smart connections between your data and actions."
Hmmm, I thought your point was that satisfying consuder demand was paramount. But I'm not convinced that consumers *want* all their information tools merged into 'one seamless whole'. What's so great about seamlessness? I like modularity. Let's not forget, the entity doing the "seaming" has vested interest in seaming together useful tools with gargabe we don't want. Remember push-technology seamed-in with the browsers... wasn't that just grande; advertising seamlessly packaged with the browser (and OS?), pushed right into our faces. Is this what we really want?
Do we really want our software to anticipate our needs. Or is MS and other corps. telling US this is what we need? When you type a search term into a search-engine, do you prefer the engine to respond to your direct request for pages containing keywords, or do you prefer the engine to figure out what you 'REALLY' are asking for?
Modularity over seamlessness, Responsiveness over anticipation, any day.
Hi, this is blue_adept, the creator of the ebayla bug. I noticed that the only link mentioned in the article is to http://tbtf.com. That site updates itself daily... a static source of information on the bug is http://www.because-we-can.com
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A little googling reveals that couple a years ago one journalist tracked possible responsibility for the tiles down to one "verna sevrino", who he was ultimately unable to contact, even though he had an address in philadelphia.
google turns up a funeral home in philadelphia called "verna sevrino funeral home", hmmm what might a funeral home have to do with resurrecting people on mars?
more googling turns up philadelphia councilwoman Anna C. Verna, who is married to " husband, Severino Verna, a funeral director, were born and raised in South Philadelphia.".
And finally, everything you ever wanted to know about Anna C Verna is here I, for one, welcome our new neptune resurrectionist overlord.
And what world currently has an underpopulation problem?
The birthrate in north america and most of europe is under 2.0, in other words, in the absence of immigration, the population is declining.
you're not going to see many better all-ages movies this year. Unless of course Harry Potter is everything it could be...
ummm...LOTR?
As yet I haven't heard anyone suggest the obvious in terms of preventing this type of disaster on commercial aircraft... put a steel door between the pilots and the passengers. In the event of a hijacking, pilots NEVER open the door. period.
Yes this means that the pilots may have to bring bag lunches and pee in cups, but it's a hell of a lot less expensive that hiring armed 'air-marshalls' to sit on every plane (when they are not needed the huge majority of the time).
The bottom line is that time has come to stop thinking of airtravel safety exclusively in terms of passenger/pilot safety and start thinking of it in terms of the safety of people in tall buildings. A plane is a very large guided missile full of jet-fuel, equivalent in explosive power to a block-buster bomb (as another slashdotter noted). Best make it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone but the pilots to have access to the cockpit.
my deepest sympathies to everyone affected
by this terrible tragedy.
"Pearl?" hmmmm... Is that *P*ractical *E*xtraction *A*nd *R*eporting *L*anguage? hhehe. nevermind.
However, if island 'cliques' emerge, things could get interesting....for example, in-group agreements to support each other (ie, not vote each other out) could emerge. Groups could also collectively target a (possibly random) specific individual in some other group to be 'voted out', thereby preserving safety within the group.
In that scenario, the largest clique wins, and then in-group battles would break out, possibly with the formation of sub-cliques, etc..
What's also interesting is that the ultimate victor has to remain more popular with the last seven contestants than his rival. That's probably why the contest isn't open to CANADIANS! (we're too innocuous/friendly and we'd win every time).
Scully should be replaced by a gorgeous woman with telepathic abilities, and Mulder should be replaced by a more authoritarian, comandeering figure... possibly a bald ship captain.
Also, they should change the mood of X-files to something a little brighter and more futuristic... maybe a spaceship... and swap out smoking man for an android. Now THAT would be cool. Modify the name of the show to something more funky, like "ne-X-t Generation", and voila... the show must go on.
Hmmm.. I missed those. Do you have any left?
I was at Defcon as a speaker, and
although *some* of the details of this
article were correct (eg great parties to which
windbags like Glass were not invited), overall this is a *horrible* piece on Defcon.
The CIH computer virus was found on
*copies* of the bo2k cd's distributed at
Defcon, not the originals, correct me if I'm wrong.
The idea that bo2k contains obfuscated
trojans is laughable, cosidering it's open
source. Leave it to Glass to connect the
dots... open source + GPL = plot to hide
backdoor. (?!) Brett... if you don't
trust the binaries, compile the source.
And if you don't trust the source,
then show us why... Maybe you
can contribute to some bugs that have already
been spotted and patched in bo2k.
Of course, this is probably asking
too much from someone that's proud to
amid to secretly tape-recording
comments at a post-conference party and
consiers his own 10-year-old phreaking
activities a passport to the underground.
"one cannot trust the group's output and must regard it as not only untrustworthy but dangerous. "
fear + ignorance = loathing, that's understandable, but I'm disappointed
that Hemos referred to it as "Very well
written coverage".
That was a very informative, well written comment, one of only a few I've
saved locally.
I'm sure there are many ./ readers that
could write essays from unique perspectives,
I hope to see more in the future.
katz calling berners-lee 'naive' on ANY issue related to the web is so laughable it hardly deserves a response...
A hotmail programmer inadevertently commented out a line of code, that handled password authentication. Anyone could log in with any password. But nobody noticed because the login script was an OLD login script, that was (for some stupid reason) left on a production server.
Hmmm, I thought your point was that
satisfying consuder demand was paramount. But I'm not convinced that consumers *want* all their information tools merged into 'one seamless whole'. What's so great about seamlessness?
I like modularity. Let's not forget, the entity
doing the "seaming" has vested interest in seaming together useful tools with gargabe we
don't want. Remember push-technology seamed-in
with the browsers... wasn't that just grande; advertising seamlessly packaged with the
browser (and OS?), pushed right into our faces.
Is this what we really want?
Do we really want our software to anticipate our needs. Or is MS and other corps. telling US this is what we need? When you type a search term into a search-engine, do you prefer the engine to respond to your direct request for pages containing keywords, or do you prefer the engine to figure out what you 'REALLY' are asking for?
Modularity over seamlessness, Responsiveness over anticipation, any day.
Hi, this is blue_adept, the
creator of the ebayla bug. I noticed
that the only link mentioned in the article
is to http://tbtf.com. That site updates itself daily... a static source of information on the bug is http://www.because-we-can.com