The only fair targets are the securelinux.hackpcweek.com, and securent.hackpcweek.com sites. To win the 1000 gift certificate you must mark up the home page or steal a file called top secret. Denial of Service attacks spoil it for everyone, and get nothing accomplished.
That's it. If that's all they have for official rules, then this guy should get the cash. While s/he (so as not to offend all those female crackers:) didn't exploit an OS-specific hole, the rules didn't say s/he had to, so it looks like PCWeek is out a grand on the deal. Oh well.
Looks to me like next time they need to include some fine print like every other contest does:)
I also seem to remember commercials from (1,2?) years ago touting Oracle's network computers as the "next big thing." Showing some kid in the inner city "surfing the 'net" & whatnot. Of course, they haven't exactly caught on.
Also, could someone enlighten me as to what exactly a network computer would require? I mean, I understand that they're essentially terminals with the actual programs residing on some remote server (now that's a new idea:), but wouldn't they require high bandwidth & high reliability? I mean, from the previous thred on cable vs. DSL, it seems like neither of those provides 100% reliable service. If your computer is totally dependent on some remote server, wouldn't you be SOL if your connection was down?
I don't know, it seems like it might be a bad idea to point out who's moderating what and why. While it might make the moderators more accountable, it might also make them a little more wary of what they moderate, for fear of being retaliated against. That might sound stupid, but a guy who's willing to post "yeah, I'm glad that guy died" would probably LOVE to find out who moderated his post into oblivion. Just my $.02.
I don't see why you couldn't set up a cron job to start mpg123 at a certain time of the day with the specified playlist. Of course, this assumes that the computer is in the same room as your bed & that you run some *nix variant:)
I'm not sure how exactly to do it (I need to read up more on my 'man cron'), but it should be doable.
I doubt the moderator thought that he was trying to be redundant, but it still is redundant, regardless of the fact that it wasn't his intention. It goes with the purpose of moderation to weed the needless posts out from the good. We all know that he was trying to be helpful, and had he gotten here about 2 minutes earlier, he probably would have gained points instead of getting a -1.
Also, having a single post at -1 won't throw off his alignment a great deal as long as he consistently gets his other posts bumped up a notch or two. Don't forget, too, that there are a few other items to be considered as to whether he gets access or not.
Well, in the channel I frequent, they've banned *!*@~*.home.com. That kills probably 99% of the Wingate abusers by filtering out those without ident.
As far as AOL being banned from IRC, it wasn't specifically because of the users that irc02.irc.aol.com was removed. From reading operlist for awhile (yes, I have no life), there was a lot of arguing about it, but it was finally decided to get rid of the server because the ircops on the server didn't do anything to regulate the users. I think it's pretty much the same thing here. AOL refuses to respond to complaints about their users on usenet, so stuff like this happens.
Also, I do know of a few IRC servers that allow AOL users (irc.prison.net, for one), so they aren't completely shut off.
I'm not taking one side or another, but having earnings from banner ads does not imply profits. For all we know, the revenue generated by the ads is just used to offset the costs of running Slashdot. As an example, my school's dining service is supposedly a non-profit organization, but they still (over)charge us for food because they do have to pay the workers and pay for ingredients and whatnot.
I quite personally think that NO ONE should be allowed to possess a weapon except for police.
Ok, I guess that's what I was trying to say in the first place, and it got blown out of proportion by people wondering about my definition of semi-automatic weapons (which, I must admit, I had always assumed were on a line with fully automatic weapons. Not knowing this doesn't make me "sadly misinformed," it just means I'm not as up on guns as some of you are) or trying to defend their right to bear arms. Anyway, thanks for putting it so concisely..
Don't worry, you didn't miss out on much. The quality was awful- sound was grainy, the screen was slightly cropped, just generally bad. Suffice to say, I watched a couple of minutes of it & decided I'd rather go see it in the theater and not miss out on the full experience:)
Please explain how, exactly, "more gun control then it wouldn't have been so easy for these kids to get access to semi-automatic weapons."
If there had been more gun control in the first place, semi-automatic weapons wouldn't be produced. While I realize that the guns these kids used are illegal anyway, if they hadn't been able to get those guns, they would have easily been able to find another legal alternative. Where is the need for the civilian to have semi-automatic weapons in the first place? Do hunters need them to combat all those deer who are armed to the teeth? Do men keep them in the night stand beside the bed in order to defend their home in case of burglary?
Most of the responses to my post have said that gun control wouldn't have helped, that these kids had bombs & other implements of destruction, too. Well, that's true. I agree if someone wants to kill, he will probably find a way to do it, but if his choices are reduced, hopefully the killing would be as well.
By scapegoating the computer gaming industry (and television, movies, etc.), people are saying that these things are causing the violence. However, easy access to guns doesn't cause violence, it facilitates it. He's not blaming guns, he's just pointing out that if we had more gun control then it wouldn't have been so easy for these kids to get access to semi-automatic weapons.
-mike kania
Where on my HD is eBay info stored? Its not...
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It's not just viewing an auction. This requires the user to place a bid on the auction (which requires entering the username & password), so it only affects a few people.
Don't know if you are a college student or not, but I am continually bombarded with calls from credit card companies in my dorm room. A few weeks ago, there was some company (don't remember which offhand since I've taken to just hanging up on them now) that would call at 8:30am EVERY DAY asking for either my roommate or me. Suffice to say, that gets really old after a while.
As far as asking to be taken off the list, well, I've done that, but there's just so many damn companies out there that it hasn't helped. I think for every company that I ask to take me off their list, 3 more add me to their list. Bleh.
Does anyone else have any other solutions to this that won't set me back $1k? My wrists have started really aching lately, and I'd love to get an ergo keyboard or something, but I want to get the best I can find. So, if you slashdotters could direct me in any way, I'd appreciate it.
I shorted my motherboard once, and the only ill effect it had was that it caused Windows to take 25 minutes to boot. Anyway, once it booted, it ran fine, but it took quite a while to get to that point. Weird stuff.
I've noticed that to be true here. As I said in the article on whether or not geeks should attend college, I find the inclusion of COBOL in the curriculum here to be pretty dumb. I realize it's still in wide use in a bunch of older systems, but I dunno, methinks I'd rather learn something that'll have more future applications. As far as actual use, I do most coding in C++, whether for class or for personal use.
Well, as I said, this is merely my opinion, but I'm not sure just what benefits college has for the average geek. I'm currently a freshman at Miami University in southern Ohio, and am majoring in systems analysis. While my courses have helped me to learn more about C++ programming and other useful stuff like that, I've also found that there are a lot of "liberal education" requirements that seem quite useless to me. The common argument for these courses is that they help to "broaden my horizons" by making me study things other than what my major is related to, such as chemistry and psychology. However, I feel that these are the type of things that high school is meant for. I always assumed through my years of schooling that once I got to college I'd be able to focus solely on my major, since I'd taken years and years of English and history and other such courses. However, that is not the case. I'm still forced to take courses that (I feel) don't really benefit me in the long run instead of courses that could be better suited for my major. Another point that the article makes is that the curriculum has a hard tinme staying current with the day's technology, and I am also finding that to be true. One of the important parts of the curriculum here is COBOL programming. COBOL? While I have little real-world experience, I really don't think COBOL is one of the things that employers are searching for on a college graduate's resume. I dunno, just my two cents.
Eh, I'll reply, mainly to find out my score. I suppose in order to avoid getting moderated to oblivion, I'll say that I don't know if this is necessarily a good idea. I liked the old idea of having the moderators moderate good posts up & bad posts down. Just cause someone has managed a few insightful comments in the past doesn't mean that he/she will keep up with that level of intelligence.. I dunno, more of a "wait & see" type of thing, I guess.
Does anyone else besides me see this as a potential problem? We've seen Nintendo's (over)reactions to emulation, such as their suit against the authors of UltraHLE (that is, if it's actually still happening & wasn't just an empty threat). Anyway, I can't imagine Nintendo would react any more favorably to emulation of Game Boy than they did to N64.
We all know that id has said they'd be releasing the game for multiple platforms at the same time, but does anyone know if they're going to be releasing Q3test for Linux, too? I'm just curious cause I'm dying to have a look at this thing and don't want to wait till the game actually comes out:)
Wow, this has to be one of the fastest articles I've ever seen slashdotted. Must be running it off his 56k modem or something. Anyway, does anyone (hopefully) have a mirror for us readers who didn't make it to the site in the 30 seconds before it got trashed?
If I'm not mistaken, a Leatherman is one of those Swiss-army type gadgets, only it has quite a few more useful things in it, like pliers & whatnot. Definitely useful for the true geek who's forced to take his computer (and other things) apart a lot:) (Check www.leatherman.com for more info).
Again, this doesn't seem to be an issue specifically with open source. As was shown with the ProMail thing for Windows (don't have a specific link; go check hackernews.com for info), a trojan can be slipped into a Windows program pretty easily, and running some sort of installation wizard is no safer than doing "rpm -Uvh *.rpm".
You say that it's more vulnerable because of the "highly configurable set of tools/packages that one can choose to put on one's system," but there are a wide range of tools available for Windows systems as well, so I wouldn't say it's vulnerable more often than Windows. Again, I'll point to ProMail, which got on download.com & simtel.net, huge, supposedly safe software archives, and was downloaded thousands of times before someone realized it was sending people's passwords to a net@ddress account.
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:) didn't exploit an OS-specific hole, the rules didn't say s/he had to, so it looks like PCWeek is out a grand on the deal. Oh well.
:)
The only fair targets are the securelinux.hackpcweek.com, and securent.hackpcweek.com sites. To win the 1000 gift certificate you must mark up the home page or steal a file called top secret. Denial of Service attacks spoil it for everyone, and get nothing accomplished.
That's it. If that's all they have for official rules, then this guy should get the cash. While s/he (so as not to offend all those female crackers
Looks to me like next time they need to include some fine print like every other contest does
-mike kania
I also seem to remember commercials from (1,2?) years ago touting Oracle's network computers as the "next big thing." Showing some kid in the inner city "surfing the 'net" & whatnot. Of course, they haven't exactly caught on.
:), but wouldn't they require high bandwidth & high reliability? I mean, from the previous thred on cable vs. DSL, it seems like neither of those provides 100% reliable service. If your computer is totally dependent on some remote server, wouldn't you be SOL if your connection was down?
Also, could someone enlighten me as to what exactly a network computer would require? I mean, I understand that they're essentially terminals with the actual programs residing on some remote server (now that's a new idea
-mike kania
I don't know, it seems like it might be a bad idea to point out who's moderating what and why. While it might make the moderators more accountable, it might also make them a little more wary of what they moderate, for fear of being retaliated against. That might sound stupid, but a guy who's willing to post "yeah, I'm glad that guy died" would probably LOVE to find out who moderated his post into oblivion. Just my $.02.
-mike kania
I don't see why you couldn't set up a cron job to start mpg123 at a certain time of the day with the specified playlist. Of course, this assumes that the computer is in the same room as your bed & that you run some *nix variant :)
I'm not sure how exactly to do it (I need to read up more on my 'man cron'), but it should be doable.
-mike kania
I doubt the moderator thought that he was trying to be redundant, but it still is redundant, regardless of the fact that it wasn't his intention. It goes with the purpose of moderation to weed the needless posts out from the good. We all know that he was trying to be helpful, and had he gotten here about 2 minutes earlier, he probably would have gained points instead of getting a -1.
Also, having a single post at -1 won't throw off his alignment a great deal as long as he consistently gets his other posts bumped up a notch or two. Don't forget, too, that there are a few other items to be considered as to whether he gets access or not.
-mike kania
Well, in the channel I frequent, they've banned *!*@~*.home.com. That kills probably 99% of the Wingate abusers by filtering out those without ident.
As far as AOL being banned from IRC, it wasn't specifically because of the users that irc02.irc.aol.com was removed. From reading operlist for awhile (yes, I have no life), there was a lot of arguing about it, but it was finally decided to get rid of the server because the ircops on the server didn't do anything to regulate the users. I think it's pretty much the same thing here. AOL refuses to respond to complaints about their users on usenet, so stuff like this happens.
Also, I do know of a few IRC servers that allow AOL users (irc.prison.net, for one), so they aren't completely shut off.
-mike kania
I'm not taking one side or another, but having earnings from banner ads does not imply profits. For all we know, the revenue generated by the ads is just used to offset the costs of running Slashdot. As an example, my school's dining service is supposedly a non-profit organization, but they still (over)charge us for food because they do have to pay the workers and pay for ingredients and whatnot.
-mike kania
For those of you who can't resolve the domain name yet or something, www.tunelinux.com is 193.243.238.236.
-mike kania
Yup, Katz's article (including a few choice quotes) is mentioned in the LA Times today. Follow the link to read it.
-mike kania
I quite personally think that NO ONE should be allowed to possess a weapon except for police.
Ok, I guess that's what I was trying to say in the first place, and it got blown out of proportion by people wondering about my definition of semi-automatic weapons (which, I must admit, I had always assumed were on a line with fully automatic weapons. Not knowing this doesn't make me "sadly misinformed," it just means I'm not as up on guns as some of you are) or trying to defend their right to bear arms. Anyway, thanks for putting it so concisely..
-mike kania
Don't worry, you didn't miss out on much. The quality was awful- sound was grainy, the screen was slightly cropped, just generally bad. Suffice to say, I watched a couple of minutes of it & decided I'd rather go see it in the theater and not miss out on the full experience :)
-mike kania
Please explain how, exactly, "more gun control then it wouldn't have been so easy for these kids to get access to semi-automatic weapons."
If there had been more gun control in the first place, semi-automatic weapons wouldn't be produced. While I realize that the guns these kids used are illegal anyway, if they hadn't been able to get those guns, they would have easily been able to find another legal alternative. Where is the need for the civilian to have semi-automatic weapons in the first place? Do hunters need them to combat all those deer who are armed to the teeth? Do men keep them in the night stand beside the bed in order to defend their home in case of burglary?
Most of the responses to my post have said that gun control wouldn't have helped, that these kids had bombs & other implements of destruction, too. Well, that's true. I agree if someone wants to kill, he will probably find a way to do it, but if his choices are reduced, hopefully the killing would be as well.
-mike kania
By scapegoating the computer gaming industry (and television, movies, etc.), people are saying that these things are causing the violence. However, easy access to guns doesn't cause violence, it facilitates it. He's not blaming guns, he's just pointing out that if we had more gun control then it wouldn't have been so easy for these kids to get access to semi-automatic weapons.
-mike kania
It's not just viewing an auction. This requires the user to place a bid on the auction (which requires entering the username & password), so it only affects a few people.
-mike kania
Don't know if you are a college student or not, but I am continually bombarded with calls from credit card companies in my dorm room. A few weeks ago, there was some company (don't remember which offhand since I've taken to just hanging up on them now) that would call at 8:30am EVERY DAY asking for either my roommate or me. Suffice to say, that gets really old after a while.
As far as asking to be taken off the list, well, I've done that, but there's just so many damn companies out there that it hasn't helped. I think for every company that I ask to take me off their list, 3 more add me to their list. Bleh.
-mike kania
Does anyone else have any other solutions to this that won't set me back $1k? My wrists have started really aching lately, and I'd love to get an ergo keyboard or something, but I want to get the best I can find. So, if you slashdotters could direct me in any way, I'd appreciate it.
-mike kania
I shorted my motherboard once, and the only ill effect it had was that it caused Windows to take 25 minutes to boot. Anyway, once it booted, it ran fine, but it took quite a while to get to that point. Weird stuff.
-mike kania
I've noticed that to be true here. As I said in the article on whether or not geeks should attend college, I find the inclusion of COBOL in the curriculum here to be pretty dumb. I realize it's still in wide use in a bunch of older systems, but I dunno, methinks I'd rather learn something that'll have more future applications. As far as actual use, I do most coding in C++, whether for class or for personal use.
-mike kania
Well, as I said, this is merely my opinion, but I'm not sure just what benefits college has for the average geek. I'm currently a freshman at Miami University in southern Ohio, and am majoring in systems analysis. While my courses have helped me to learn more about C++ programming and other useful stuff like that, I've also found that there are a lot of "liberal education" requirements that seem quite useless to me. The common argument for these courses is that they help to "broaden my horizons" by making me study things other than what my major is related to, such as chemistry and psychology. However, I feel that these are the type of things that high school is meant for. I always assumed through my years of schooling that once I got to college I'd be able to focus solely on my major, since I'd taken years and years of English and history and other such courses. However, that is not the case. I'm still forced to take courses that (I feel) don't really benefit me in the long run instead of courses that could be better suited for my major.
Another point that the article makes is that the curriculum has a hard tinme staying current with the day's technology, and I am also finding that to be true. One of the important parts of the curriculum here is COBOL programming. COBOL? While I have little real-world experience, I really don't think COBOL is one of the things that employers are searching for on a college graduate's resume.
I dunno, just my two cents.
-mike kania
Eh, I'll reply, mainly to find out my score. I suppose in order to avoid getting moderated to oblivion, I'll say that I don't know if this is necessarily a good idea. I liked the old idea of having the moderators moderate good posts up & bad posts down. Just cause someone has managed a few insightful comments in the past doesn't mean that he/she will keep up with that level of intelligence.. I dunno, more of a "wait & see" type of thing, I guess.
-mike kania
Does anyone else besides me see this as a potential problem? We've seen Nintendo's (over)reactions to emulation, such as their suit against the authors of UltraHLE (that is, if it's actually still happening & wasn't just an empty threat). Anyway, I can't imagine Nintendo would react any more favorably to emulation of Game Boy than they did to N64.
-mike kania
We all know that id has said they'd be releasing the game for multiple platforms at the same time, but does anyone know if they're going to be releasing Q3test for Linux, too? I'm just curious cause I'm dying to have a look at this thing and don't want to wait till the game actually comes out :)
-mike kania
Wow, this has to be one of the fastest articles I've ever seen slashdotted. Must be running it off his 56k modem or something. Anyway, does anyone (hopefully) have a mirror for us readers who didn't make it to the site in the 30 seconds before it got trashed?
-mike kania
If I'm not mistaken, a Leatherman is one of those Swiss-army type gadgets, only it has quite a few more useful things in it, like pliers & whatnot. Definitely useful for the true geek who's forced to take his computer (and other things) apart a lot :) (Check www.leatherman.com for more info).
-mike kania
Again, this doesn't seem to be an issue specifically with open source. As was shown with the ProMail thing for Windows (don't have a specific link; go check hackernews.com for info), a trojan can be slipped into a Windows program pretty easily, and running some sort of installation wizard is no safer than doing "rpm -Uvh *.rpm".
You say that it's more vulnerable because of the "highly configurable set of tools/packages that one can choose to put on one's system," but there are a wide range of tools available for Windows systems as well, so I wouldn't say it's vulnerable more often than Windows. Again, I'll point to ProMail, which got on download.com & simtel.net, huge, supposedly safe software archives, and was downloaded thousands of times before someone realized it was sending people's passwords to a net@ddress account.
-mike kania