... an additional thing to think of - change your signature to the following in gmail:
If you are receiving this at your Hotmail account, please keep in mind that you might not be able to receive it after November, when Microsoft implements YABIS (Yet Another Broken Incompatable Standard).
You may want to switch to a GMail Account or a Yahoo Account if you want to continue receiving emails from non-Microsoft accounts.
See... Microsoft isn't the only one capable of spreading FUD.
Roger Cheswick has made a career for decades in explaining the problems with the castle-wall theory of computer defense. apparently he did so in vain, for there's always some clothpate who doesn't get the word.
There's only one word in that sentence that I don't get, and it sure as hell doesn't involve security. Congratulations, you have invented a word that even Google cannot find.
clothpate
cloth: rag pate: head
Putting them together is an exercise left for the reader.
You obviously forget that people generally aren't THAT stupid. If they are giving away passwords for chocolate, then the password must be fake!
People ARE that stupid. In one on-site survey, they found that half of all the users on one side of a building had picked the smae password - it was on a billboard visible from their windows.
Also, how many people get suckered in by phishing scams? Or put in credit card numbers to "verify their age"? Or leave their password on a post-it on their monitor, or under their keyboard?
Simiarly, how many people write their PIN number on their bank card?
Installing the plugin for firefox/linux is just a matter of clicking on the icon that says "install flash plugin" when you go to a site with flash content.
Most of us also install flashblock because most flash content sucks.
Re:Slashdot is being sued
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If you go to merkeylaw.com (instead of www.merkeylaw.com) you get the Fedora Core "If you are seeing this, the site owner ios an idiot who forgot to add content or didn't set up his vhosts properly!" page.
I'm disappointed - the only people named on slashdot are "John Doe" 1 through 200. Shit - how do I get this loser/fucking moron/asswipe to sue *me* sometime before the year 2056?
Maybe this will work: Merkey - you're a fuckwad loser, a poser, and a total asshole. Sue me. PLEASE SUE ME!
I don't expect Slashdotters to know a lot about sex, but doggy style is still vaginal.
... not necessarily, and definitely not between Batman and Robin (unless he also has a vagina as well as the usual meat and 2 potatoes, in which case he really is a "boy wonder").
DO YOU Honestly think people are being honest? With all the recent lawsuits, people are becoming less and less open about downloading. From the people I know, few would admit to downloads, but would do it anyways.
They offered them chocolate (hey, it works for passwords)
If slashdot had been around then, he'd have never invented the IC - he'd have been too busy posting from his teletype machine during working hours at 120 baud (yes, there are speeds lower than 300), then doing work off-hours to make up for it.
... they could have at least published the notice in true slashdot form (you know, cut-n-paste the "Stephen King found dead" troll)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby was found dead at 91 in his Maine home this morning. There wasn't any more details, but athorities think he was hacked to death with a blunt spoon by author Stephen King. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will be willing to provide an alibi for Stephen - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture by creating the IC, thus allowing us to troll millions. Truly a World icon.
I mean, show some respect. If he hadn't invented the IC, we wouldn't *have* Troll Tuesday.
... gp poster... "Plutonic relation my arse" ... parent reply... "Platonic", you ignorant poltroon! A "plutonic" relationship would be one you had with an igneous rock formed by solidification at considerable depth beneath the earth's surface.
Note the exact wording of the original - "Plutonic relation" and "my arse". Sounds like doing it doggie style, a la "Pluto the cartoon dog". Sounds about right for a Bat-"man-love"/Robin thing.
Slide 6: Adding more servers and egress capacity to absorb pick load is quite expensive
... or this (which sounds more like "ingrish")
Solutions that require to have full
knowledge of who has what are non-
scalable
... or this...
If server suddenly goes down (after serving the full file one)
No wonder their software is always so buggy - they keep dropping bytes at random. If this is an example of a Microserf MVP*, Open Source has NOTHING to worry about...
*(Yeah, I know, it's *usually* to be spelled s-t-u-p-i-d-space-m-o-t-h-e-r-f-u-c-k-e-r. So sue me)
For example, I could say "He's not fit to sleep with a pig", then, when he complains, say, "Okay, he is fit to sleep with a pig. My bad.", or words to that effect.
What really gets me is that "people began inserting obscene content faster than the editors could remove it."
Stupid stupid stupid. Guess they don't know how to write a script to automate the cleaning-up process.
They should have hired this guy - he *ahem* seems to know a thing or two about scripts (wink wink nudge nudge)...
Heck, they probably would have done better picking ANY slashdot user at random than having people so clueless as not to be able to just check the referrer field and divert them to a honeypot that put their comments in/dev/null if it contained "slashdot".
I'm from the side that believes that increased trade and business relationships, emmigration, as well as improved communications in general, are the only way to effect real change.
Samizdat didn't bring down the Soviet empire - the rest of the world continuing to advance economically and politically, along with trade sanctions, did them in. Same with South Africa. Eventually the "grass is grener" becomes irresistable, because, with increased trade, too many people are exposed to knowledge that there are other ways.
The worker in China making toys for WalMart must wondeer what wonderful place all those millions of colourful fun things are going to, all those toys, gadgets, electronics. Its not just the people who interface with the RotW (Rest of the World) who are exposed - its the whole supply chain.
This is one thing people tend to overlook, because its "just some worker on an assembly line." but when its millions of workers on thousands of assembly lines, shipping companies, truckers, boxers, sub-contractors, etc., they all become "contaminated" with knowledge that there's a whole other world out there.
You're underestimating the mental acuity of the "little people" and overestimating the impact of blogs.
There's a difference between free speech and abusing someone's trust to post lies and set them up to take the blame.
BTW, free speech isn't an absolute - you do not have the freedom to shout fire in a crowded theatre if there's no fire, for example.
I would be pissed as all hell if they were
tell me that they were reporting on a civil rights protest, but it was really recipes for "how to wok your dog" in chinese and that I am one of the prime "dog ranchers" with really choice cuts from a wide selection of breeds.
Or maybe you'd have no problem with them saying to the whole world how much you like to perform certain sex acts that are illegal in your jurisdiction? After all, "agents provocateur" have been known to do that sort of thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, how many people get suckered in by phishing scams? Or put in credit card numbers to "verify their age"? Or leave their password on a post-it on their monitor, or under their keyboard?
Simiarly, how many people write their PIN number on their bank card?
People ARE stupid.
Most of us also install flashblock because most flash content sucks.
I'm disappointed - the only people named on slashdot are "John Doe" 1 through 200. Shit - how do I get this loser/fucking moron/asswipe to sue *me* sometime before the year 2056?
Maybe this will work: Merkey - you're a fuckwad loser, a poser, and a total asshole. Sue me. PLEASE SUE ME!
22 flash items. 22 . fucking . flash . items.
The article should have come with a warning:
Besides, I seriously doubt people will be running Flash 7 (or ANY version of flash) in 2056.Well, the real old-timers did it in morse, but the %$"&*£ lameness filter put an end to that.
If slashdot had been around then, he'd have never invented the IC - he'd have been too busy posting from his teletype machine during working hours at 120 baud (yes, there are speeds lower than 300), then doing work off-hours to make up for it.
Lets just say he didn't die - he cashed in his chips. (cashed in his cache? cached in his chips?)
Just look for what's the most stolen. If it can't handle "falling off the back of a truck" its certainly not going to last.
From the "slide show":
For example, I could say "He's not fit to sleep with a pig", then, when he complains, say, "Okay, he is fit to sleep with a pig. My bad.", or words to that effect.
Stupid stupid stupid. Guess they don't know how to write a script to automate the cleaning-up process.
They should have hired this guy - he *ahem* seems to know a thing or two about scripts (wink wink nudge nudge) ...
Heck, they probably would have done better picking ANY slashdot user at random than having people so clueless as not to be able to just check the referrer field and divert them to a honeypot that put their comments in /dev/null if it contained "slashdot".
Samizdat didn't bring down the Soviet empire - the rest of the world continuing to advance economically and politically, along with trade sanctions, did them in. Same with South Africa. Eventually the "grass is grener" becomes irresistable, because, with increased trade, too many people are exposed to knowledge that there are other ways.
The worker in China making toys for WalMart must wondeer what wonderful place all those millions of colourful fun things are going to, all those toys, gadgets, electronics. Its not just the people who interface with the RotW (Rest of the World) who are exposed - its the whole supply chain.
This is one thing people tend to overlook, because its "just some worker on an assembly line." but when its millions of workers on thousands of assembly lines, shipping companies, truckers, boxers, sub-contractors, etc., they all become "contaminated" with knowledge that there's a whole other world out there.
You're underestimating the mental acuity of the "little people" and overestimating the impact of blogs.
BTW, free speech isn't an absolute - you do not have the freedom to shout fire in a crowded theatre if there's no fire, for example.
I would be pissed as all hell if they were tell me that they were reporting on a civil rights protest, but it was really recipes for "how to wok your dog" in chinese and that I am one of the prime "dog ranchers" with really choice cuts from a wide selection of breeds.
Or maybe you'd have no problem with them saying to the whole world how much you like to perform certain sex acts that are illegal in your jurisdiction? After all, "agents provocateur" have been known to do that sort of thing.