About 6 or so years ago, I had a domain with GoDaddy, and purchasing/managing it was a fairly straightforward process. It dropped after a couple years of use, so I stopped visiting GoDaddy's site. A few months ago, I registered a new domain, which I planned to point to my own DNS servers and maintain full control over.
Dear God.
I had to click "no thanks" to 3-4 screens offering me e-mail hosting, web hosting, "search engine visibility" services, "certified domains" (what the hell does that even mean?) - then I spent another hour trying to figure out how to configure the domain to *not* use their crappy DNS control panel and use my own nameservers instead.
So, yes, I guess I can't blame them for not wanting to make their already horrific purchase system even more convoluted.
This may be true; however, I can state with almost certainty that Wikileaks does not have the authority or understanding to determine what is validly classified and what is not.
Well, if a company were to set up shop here, they'd have to comply with all applicable federal/state/local environmental and safety guidelines, and pass on the cost to their buyers.
Companies operating in China have no such problems (or, at least, not to the degree that they would here) and therefore would be able to sell those materials at a lower cost.
Consequently, such a venture wouldn't be profitable UNLESS China cut off their exports of those materials.
Disagree. I'm friends on Facebook with people I know from my childhood (like the family who lived down the street from me for 10 years) and can keep up with what's happening with them. I'm fairly certain that not everybody on my friend-list would remember to e-mail me about major events in their life, but if they post it on Facebook, there it is.
"i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?"
My friends do. Maybe they don't care about every single status update I post, but a lot of them care about the more significant things I post - including people who I wouldn't remember to e-mail.
It took me about 10 minutes to skim through the backstory, but it's pretty sparse on the details and supporting evidence.
"Instead, he decided to access the email accounts of Crimson editors and review their emails. How did he do this? Here's how Mark described his hack to a friend:"
Oh, a friend said Mark said... right.
"Nevertheless, during 2004, Mark Zuckerberg still appeared to be obsessed with ConnectU. Specifically, he appears to have hacked into ConnectU's site and made changes to multiple user profiles, including Cameron Winklevoss's."
"At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address."
It "appeared" that way? According to whom, and based on what?
Seriously, the whole article is a long string of "it looks like" and "he said she said Mark said" with nothing to back any of it up.
One of the things I learned very quickly when working at a helpdesk was to always remote into the machine and look at the problem for myself before doing anything else.
After I got promoted to senior technician, one of the constant thorns in my side was junior technicians taking the user's word for what the problem is.
Like when I get something escalated to me because the rep worked for half an hour trying to solve a printer problem ("I can't print") when what the user actually meant was "I can't start the application that generates the reports that I then print."... but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir...
On Windows, disconnecting the physical media immediately resets all your remote TCP connections.
If something happens such as an upstream router locking up for 30 seconds (as seems to happen fairly often here in my hotel room) but not losing your connection state afterward, then most applications wait a little while for the server to start answering again before judging the connection as lost.
To be fair, in most situations, the connection would get reset. But not always.
Well, you did say "Yup, you go right on cracking your jokes. Ha fucking ha. You won't be laughing so loud when you see the red flag of China over the Sea of Tranquility."
That can be taken several ways.
And it's not necessarily you, I've seen quite a few people express that opinion.
I have to admit I'm at a complete loss when I see people (apparently) hoping for China to replace the US as world superpower.
Yes, we have screwed up, but if you really, truly think that the PRC is going to be better for the world than the USA is... well, I don't know what to say.
Semi-related: I've heard that you can disconnect Chinese WoW users advertising in-game for gold selling services, by whispering "Free Tibet" to them. Don't know if it's true or not.
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About 6 or so years ago, I had a domain with GoDaddy, and purchasing/managing it was a fairly straightforward process. It dropped after a couple years of use, so I stopped visiting GoDaddy's site. A few months ago, I registered a new domain, which I planned to point to my own DNS servers and maintain full control over.
Dear God.
I had to click "no thanks" to 3-4 screens offering me e-mail hosting, web hosting, "search engine visibility" services, "certified domains" (what the hell does that even mean?) - then I spent another hour trying to figure out how to configure the domain to *not* use their crappy DNS control panel and use my own nameservers instead.
So, yes, I guess I can't blame them for not wanting to make their already horrific purchase system even more convoluted.
This may be true; however, I can state with almost certainty that Wikileaks does not have the authority or understanding to determine what is validly classified and what is not.
Google as an entity doesn't have a lot to lose from doing that, but have they considered what may happen to their employees?
> and that the names of certain websites indicate the content of their images.
Contrary to what one might expect, there were no goats at goatse.cx.
Well, if a company were to set up shop here, they'd have to comply with all applicable federal/state/local environmental and safety guidelines, and pass on the cost to their buyers.
Companies operating in China have no such problems (or, at least, not to the degree that they would here) and therefore would be able to sell those materials at a lower cost.
Consequently, such a venture wouldn't be profitable UNLESS China cut off their exports of those materials.
It's nice that they're taking a stand, even if the gap will be filled by Baidu fairly quickly.
With security clearances, sexual orientation only becomes a concern if the investigator thinks that it opens you up to blackmail or coercion.
Disagree. I'm friends on Facebook with people I know from my childhood (like the family who lived down the street from me for 10 years) and can keep up with what's happening with them. I'm fairly certain that not everybody on my friend-list would remember to e-mail me about major events in their life, but if they post it on Facebook, there it is.
"i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?"
My friends do. Maybe they don't care about every single status update I post, but a lot of them care about the more significant things I post - including people who I wouldn't remember to e-mail.
It took me about 10 minutes to skim through the backstory, but it's pretty sparse on the details and supporting evidence.
"Instead, he decided to access the email accounts of Crimson editors and review their emails. How did he do this? Here's how Mark described his hack to a friend:"
Oh, a friend said Mark said... right.
"Nevertheless, during 2004, Mark Zuckerberg still appeared to be obsessed with ConnectU. Specifically, he appears to have hacked into ConnectU's site and made changes to multiple user profiles, including Cameron Winklevoss's."
"At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address."
It "appeared" that way? According to whom, and based on what?
Seriously, the whole article is a long string of "it looks like" and "he said she said Mark said" with nothing to back any of it up.
... who the hell goes to North Korea for their higher education?
All 10 cars, yes.
One of the things I learned very quickly when working at a helpdesk was to always remote into the machine and look at the problem for myself before doing anything else.
After I got promoted to senior technician, one of the constant thorns in my side was junior technicians taking the user's word for what the problem is.
Like when I get something escalated to me because the rep worked for half an hour trying to solve a printer problem ("I can't print") when what the user actually meant was "I can't start the application that generates the reports that I then print." ... but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir...
And this has what to do with my rights online, again?
i herd u dont liek TKIPs?
PC Gamer is not 100% accurate on that.
On Windows, disconnecting the physical media immediately resets all your remote TCP connections.
If something happens such as an upstream router locking up for 30 seconds (as seems to happen fairly often here in my hotel room) but not losing your connection state afterward, then most applications wait a little while for the server to start answering again before judging the connection as lost.
To be fair, in most situations, the connection would get reset. But not always.
They tried something similar to this in Futurama. Didn't go so well.
If you're 14, it probably does seem that way.
Things will look a little different when you're older.
I've seen some notably bad summaries on /. but I'm pretty sure this one beats them all.
> Google needs to find one niche for the age 13-20 crowd
> Personally, I think that niche is security.
You must know different 13-20 year olds than I do.
Well, you did say "Yup, you go right on cracking your jokes. Ha fucking ha. You won't be laughing so loud when you see the red flag of China over the Sea of Tranquility."
That can be taken several ways.
And it's not necessarily you, I've seen quite a few people express that opinion.
I have to admit I'm at a complete loss when I see people (apparently) hoping for China to replace the US as world superpower.
Yes, we have screwed up, but if you really, truly think that the PRC is going to be better for the world than the USA is... well, I don't know what to say.
This would be one of the reasons why we're sending our military.
Love,
The USA
Amateurs.
Semi-related: I've heard that you can disconnect Chinese WoW users advertising in-game for gold selling services, by whispering "Free Tibet" to them. Don't know if it's true or not.
Computer/network ops, actually.
Yes, it is retarded, but you can't easily keep people (especially people who have to handle that kind of data) from doing it anyway.