I work from a home office, and if my clients videoconferenced with me I think the sight of me in my pajamas surrounded by Star Wars action figures might tarnish my professional image.
> It's/dev/random, not/dev/rand. But even this would fail it because/dev/rand continually requires input from the mouse and/or keyboard to produce new entropy data! YOU FUCKED IT HARD!
I have 'ln -s/dev/random/dev/rand' and I have a hardware random number entropy generator.
All day long, every day, I find bugs in software and kill those bugs. I just found out that I would make more money if I spend all day long, every day, finding bugs under furniture and kill those bugs.
It's only a matter of time, perhaps 10 or 20 years, until a grad student or third world scientist will be able to easily engineer his own deadly plague virus.
Human nature is not going to change. We are petty and short sighted, driven by emotion. These things WILL be made, eventually. It is likely sooner or later something really bad will get loose.
I am afraid for the whole Human Race. How do we prepare for this or prevent this?
> If Microsoft had done this using a home-made format, then everybody would be screaming death to them for inventing their own standard "just like they did with Word documents". > And when they do use a public format like XML? Then we all scream death to them because XML is so bloated etc
Oh pleeeeeeeze. How about Microsoft uses the SPF proposed standard that everyone else has already started testing? How about they JOIN the rest of the technical community instead of trying to OWN it for once?
> Microsoft has been pretty good about not going after other companies with frivolous lawsuits over patenting issues
right....
You mean like how they aren't going after makers of memory cards for digital cameras for using the FAT file system? Oh wait, no they ARE going after them...
> I'm not trolling actually. Halifax has a surprisingly nice attitude to its customers. Even their letters saying you have no money left are polite.
I'm not saying they aren't great to their customers, but their primary purpose in existing is to make money. You, the customer, are their vehicle to making money. They, like all businesses, have a responsibility to their shareholders to make money, nothing else.
It's good to hear that they feel treating their customers with decency is a good strategy for making money. That could change as easily as some key manager changing jobs.
I say by all means reward this kind of company with more business! But it would be naive to think their interest in you extends beyond what will generate the most revenue.
> So, let me get this stright (no pun intended); you willingly said yes to scanning, cataloging and REVIEWING 2600 male gay porn videos?
Yeah, no kidding! It's the reviewing part where the original poster lost me. "GayBoys 26: This movie was just as gross as the last one" "GayBoys 27: This movie was even grosser than the last one" etc, etc.
> Big deal. I just gave one of those to my gardener because it was too slow. I'm installing Slackware right now on a $800M supercomputer that I built out of leaves and mud, and it's colocated in space.
"That's no moon!" "Oh my God, is it a Death-Star?" "Umm... no... it looks like a supercomputer built out of leaves and mud..."
> the place could already be under surveillance, giving THEM the blame for the crime...
That was the brilliant part of their scam. After removing the device and cleaning out all the bank accounts, they posted the whole thing to the Internet to create a cover story in case they were watched!
Slashdot Mirror
> The good news is you can just use a photo instead, if you like, or no image at all.
Thank goodness!
I've got my photo all ready to impress my clients with my professionalism...
Or perhaps this one is more impressive.
I work from a home office, and if my clients videoconferenced with me I think the sight of me in my pajamas surrounded by Star Wars action figures might tarnish my professional image.
> somebody changed their siggy-poo the right way
DOH! Caught...
I wasn't going to post any more in this thread...
>> I have 'ln -s /dev/random /dev/rand' and I have a hardware random number entropy generator.
SoupaSlow writes:
>Where is that? On the shelf next to your Universal Turing Machine and Flux Capacitor?
Use google before showing your ignorance. Here is one of 22,400 results for hardware random number entropy generators.
> It's /dev/random, not /dev/rand. But even this would fail it because /dev/rand continually requires input from the mouse and/or keyboard to produce new entropy data! YOU FUCKED IT HARD!
/dev/random /dev/rand'
I have 'ln -s
and I have a hardware random number entropy generator.
Loser.
All day long, every day, I find bugs in software and kill those bugs.
I just found out that I would make more money if I spend all day long, every day, finding bugs under furniture and kill those bugs.
> detail to the paynes.
> Every little thing in the payne
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
> learn how to use a shovel... a bunker, and a couple years worth of rice ...don't panic
> sig:
After reading your post, I find your sig somewhat ironic.
It's only a matter of time, perhaps 10 or 20 years, until a grad student or third world scientist will be able to easily engineer his own deadly plague virus.
Human nature is not going to change. We are petty and short sighted, driven by emotion. These things WILL be made, eventually. It is likely sooner or later something really bad will get loose.
I am afraid for the whole Human Race. How do we prepare for this or prevent this?
> I reverse-engineered Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books
Back then that was legal.
> The implication there is that only Microsoft finds exploits.
I hate to be an instigator... but that sounds like a ch4113ng3 to me...
> i get worried when technological advantages allow us to overcome a physical limitation
Well I hope you don't use a calculator, catch your food fresh each day, and walk to work.
Oh, but it's very EASY to send spam pretending to be from Hotmail. Or anywhere else.
SPF and/or Caller-ID will stop this.
> If Microsoft had done this using a home-made format, then everybody would be screaming death to them for inventing their own standard "just like they did with Word documents".
> And when they do use a public format like XML? Then we all scream death to them because XML is so bloated etc
Oh pleeeeeeeze. How about Microsoft uses the SPF proposed standard that everyone else has already started testing?
How about they JOIN the rest of the technical community instead of trying to OWN it for once?
> Microsoft has been pretty good about not going after other companies with frivolous lawsuits over patenting issues
right....
You mean like how they aren't going after makers of memory cards for digital cameras for using the FAT file system? Oh wait, no they ARE going after them...
> What if Goat-boy and Tub-girl had offspring?
Your sig needs a LINK!
(seriously the DS2 is the lamest idea I've heard in a long time)
> I'm not trolling actually. Halifax has a surprisingly nice attitude to its customers. Even their letters saying you have no money left are polite.
I'm not saying they aren't great to their customers, but their primary purpose in existing is to make money. You, the customer, are their vehicle to making money. They, like all businesses, have a responsibility to their shareholders to make money, nothing else.
It's good to hear that they feel treating their customers with decency is a good strategy for making money.
That could change as easily as some key manager changing jobs.
I say by all means reward this kind of company with more business! But it would be naive to think their interest in you extends beyond what will generate the most revenue.
> Halifax [Bank is] not just interested in me as a source of money
I know you are trolling but... nah... I'm not feeding the troll...
> broadband is Comcast's excuse for cable service
I'm sticking with cable.
I have Optimum Online from Cablevision (in New York) and I am getting over a full T-1 inbound.
I just checked... 1.8mbps
I can't complain.
> So, let me get this stright (no pun intended); you willingly said yes to scanning, cataloging and REVIEWING 2600 male gay porn videos?
Yeah, no kidding! It's the reviewing part where the original poster lost me.
"GayBoys 26: This movie was just as gross as the last one"
"GayBoys 27: This movie was even grosser than the last one"
etc, etc.
> That's a few bucks short of making our money back. But in the long run, you usually break even due to the sheer volume of what you move.
Brilliant. So what you are saying is you lose money on each one, but you make it up in volume?
> Big deal. I just gave one of those to my gardener because it was too slow. I'm installing Slackware right now on a $800M supercomputer that I built out of leaves and mud, and it's colocated in space.
"That's no moon!"
"Oh my God, is it a Death-Star?"
"Umm... no... it looks like a supercomputer built out of leaves and mud..."
> Austin is the #3 location in the U.S. for game development
Where is the #1 and #2 location for game development?
> the place could already be under surveillance, giving THEM the blame for the crime...
That was the brilliant part of their scam. After removing the device and cleaning out all the bank accounts, they posted the whole thing to the Internet to create a cover story in case they were watched!