Who's the big wig who suddenly decided we all had to observe the leap second at midnight December 31st? You can all adjust your your clocks to account for the leap second if you want, but I'm banking mine. I'll just observe it some time later when its convenient, like when I need one extra second of something. Plus, until then, I exist one second in the future relative to all of you. And yes, it is a cool future, but no, no jet packs yet. ^_^
TechTV guy: No, I think our game content is fine the way it is. Plus our rating have never been higher.
Comcast G4 guy: Fine, I didn't want to own your network anyway. I'll just go start my own network with my own shows, with black-jack, and hookers. Infact, forget the shows.
I can understand why these politicians what to protect this sensitive and important data, but lets get our priorities strait! There is a whole host of public data that must be protected before it falls into the wrong hands. Please refer to the following list.
My Credit Report - The terrorist might try and deny me a new credit-card as part of their nefarious plan to prevent US citizens from purchasing top notch 3d hardware.
Station ID Badges - If we allow the terrorist to see what channel they are watching while a program is on, then they will know which TV stations to attack.
Web Page Advertising Links - If we provide hyperlinks to some of Americas most important companies on our unrelated web page, then it is far too easy for the terrorist to find their way to the companies' web sites. To be on the safe side, we should probably ban company websites all together.
The Words on the Karaoke Screen - By simply providing the terrorist with the lyrics to Americas treasure trove of musical tallent, we make it that much easer for them to learn the ways of our culture and blend into our society.
Magazine Subscription Inserts - Each magazine contains a card listing not only the address and content of the magazine, but how much it costs!?! And formatted into a pocket sized card that is easily removable and constructed of heavy durable paper! What are we thingking? These cards are practically treason.
Political Advertising - By broadcasting to the public the names, faces, and issue positions of each political candidate, we are only making them targets for the terrorists.
Spinach - By providing this vitamin laden vegetable to the general public, we are practically inviting the terrorists to obtain it in large quantities and become big and strong so that they can overpower our military. Spinach must be tightly controlled by the government.
Reality TV Shows - These programs describe step by step for the terrorists dangerous skills such as wilderness survival, business tactics, how to run casinos, build or renovate buildings, and how to convince weak people to do things they don't what to for no reason.
My Grades - By providing ready access to my educational records to all potential employers and parental garidans, the government is divulging information about this country's youth's readiness to serve and protect the country and level of expertise in important national security fields such as calculus, african american studies, and spelling. This information must be protected at all costs.
News Crawls / Stock Tickers - The national security value of protecting J-Lo's latest breakup is unquestionably paramount.
Spam E-Mail - Providing the terrorist with information on cheep home loans and ready pharmaceuticals access is tantamount to handing them the keys to Congress.
Here is a tip for all of you budding reporters out there. When you are going to write an article about the 10 ethical laws of robotics, it might be a good idea to include at least one of the laws in the article. Especially if you were able to find space to include someone else's laws, a discussion of that person's books, and information about one of the movie stars who appears in a movie that is loosely based on those books.
For those unfortunate slashdot readers of lesser ISP fortitude, slashdot is proud to offer the following descriptive video summery.
Brought to you by The Undergraduate Research Assistants Pool - a statistically significant proportion of particle physicists agree, only Undergraduate Research Assistants can stand up to the kind of abuse a particle physicist demands.
[TITLE SEQUENCE]
[lively tour of facility]
[8 minutes of reality-show-finally like filler including:
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with female research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant in blue hard hat]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with Physicist]
[clip montage of scientific equipment]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant in blue hard hat]
]
[nasa tv style clip of scientists congratulating each other over inscrutable data on distant CRT's during and after triumphant success]
[replay of triumphant success, this time with wholly satisfying video of glowing blue science goodness]
[obligatory fade out to historical prospective text that scrolls by too quickly]
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
Microsoft's liability in this situation is minute when compared to the heartless and evil tact the worlds paper companies have taken in selling their paper products in countries where they will be used to contain the endless bureaucracy that fuels human rights abuses. Just think, if ruthless dictatorships could not keep detailed paper records of the atrocities they inflict on their people...well...i don't have to draw you a picture.
And don't get me started on the rubber glove and jumper cable industries!
I lived in an apartment in Japan that used a system like this. One day, after some adverse weather conditions, the power to the building was out.
I'll never forget the pointless small talk i had with 4 Japanese businessmen standing around in front of the parking structure full of working cars and dead car delivery systems, unable to get their cars out and go to work, and trying to remember how the salesmen had convinced them that cars would be more convenient than the train.
From apple product security update mailing list: OpenSSH: Mac OS X 10.2.8 contains the patches to address CVE
CAN-2003-0693, CAN-2003-0695, and CAN-2003-0682. On Mac OS X
versions prior to 10.2.8, the vulnerability is limited to a denial
of service from the possibility of causing sshd to crash. Each
login session has its own sshd, so established connections are
preserved up to the point where system resources are exhausted by
an attack.
To deliver the update in a rapid and reliable manner, only the
patches for CVE IDs listed above were applied, and not the entire
set of patches for OpenSSH 3.7.1. Thus, the OpenSSH version in
Mac OS X 10.2.8, as obtained via the "ssh -V" command, is:
OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2003-0693, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090609f
In a connected story today, the New York Times is reporting that RIAA attorneys will be issuing warrants for the arrest of anyone found to be aiding and abetting file swappers later this week at a joint press conference. As one of the recording industry attorneys put it:
"...we're seeking anyone who may have given these criminals the tools, skills, or abilities to commit their crimes. This will include the teachers who taught them to read and write, any government road worker responsible for upkeep of roads that allowed these criminals transit to locations where they obtained their equipment, and any doctor involved in their pre-natal, birth, or childhood healthcare."
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Who's the big wig who suddenly decided we all had to observe the leap second at midnight December 31st? You can all adjust your your clocks to account for the leap second if you want, but I'm banking mine. I'll just observe it some time later when its convenient, like when I need one extra second of something. Plus, until then, I exist one second in the future relative to all of you. And yes, it is a cool future, but no, no jet packs yet. ^_^
comcast board meeting transcript (spring 2004):
TechTV guy: No, I think our game content is fine the way it is. Plus our rating have never been higher.
Comcast G4 guy: Fine, I didn't want to own your network anyway. I'll just go start my own network with my own shows, with black-jack, and hookers. Infact, forget the shows.
someone, for the love of god, get James Burke on the phone.
They built a robot that plays the bagpipes? CMU has the robot thing down, but maybe they should think about adding a robot ethics course.
Here is a tip for all of you budding reporters out there. When you are going to write an article about the 10 ethical laws of robotics, it might be a good idea to include at least one of the laws in the article. Especially if you were able to find space to include someone else's laws, a discussion of that person's books, and information about one of the movie stars who appears in a movie that is loosely based on those books.
Just a hint...
For those unfortunate slashdot readers of lesser ISP fortitude, slashdot is proud to offer the following descriptive video summery.
...
Brought to you by The Undergraduate Research Assistants Pool - a statistically significant proportion of particle physicists agree, only Undergraduate Research Assistants can stand up to the kind of abuse a particle physicist demands.
[TITLE SEQUENCE]
[lively tour of facility]
[8 minutes of reality-show-finally like filler including:
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with female research assistant]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant in blue hard hat]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with Physicist]
[clip montage of scientific equipment]
[uncomfortable in-your-face interview with research assistant in blue hard hat]
]
[nasa tv style clip of scientists congratulating each other over inscrutable data on distant CRT's during and after triumphant success]
[replay of triumphant success, this time with wholly satisfying video of glowing blue science goodness]
[obligatory fade out to historical prospective text that scrolls by too quickly]
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming
Microsoft's liability in this situation is minute when compared to the heartless and evil tact the worlds paper companies have taken in selling their paper products in countries where they will be used to contain the endless bureaucracy that fuels human rights abuses. Just think, if ruthless dictatorships could not keep detailed paper records of the atrocities they inflict on their people...well...i don't have to draw you a picture.
And don't get me started on the rubber glove and jumper cable industries!
I lived in an apartment in Japan that used a system like this. One day, after some adverse weather conditions, the power to the building was out.
I'll never forget the pointless small talk i had with 4 Japanese businessmen standing around in front of the parking structure full of working cars and dead car delivery systems, unable to get their cars out and go to work, and trying to remember how the salesmen had convinced them that cars would be more convenient than the train.
From apple product security update mailing list:
OpenSSH: Mac OS X 10.2.8 contains the patches to address CVE
CAN-2003-0693, CAN-2003-0695, and CAN-2003-0682. On Mac OS X
versions prior to 10.2.8, the vulnerability is limited to a denial
of service from the possibility of causing sshd to crash. Each
login session has its own sshd, so established connections are
preserved up to the point where system resources are exhausted by
an attack.
To deliver the update in a rapid and reliable manner, only the
patches for CVE IDs listed above were applied, and not the entire
set of patches for OpenSSH 3.7.1. Thus, the OpenSSH version in
Mac OS X 10.2.8, as obtained via the "ssh -V" command, is:
OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2003-0693, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090609f
amen ^_^
In a connected story today, the New York Times is reporting that RIAA attorneys will be issuing warrants for the arrest of anyone found to be aiding and abetting file swappers later this week at a joint press conference. As one of the recording industry attorneys put it:
...film at 11.
"...we're seeking anyone who may have given these criminals the tools, skills, or abilities to commit their crimes. This will include the teachers who taught them to read and write, any government road worker responsible for upkeep of roads that allowed these criminals transit to locations where they obtained their equipment, and any doctor involved in their pre-natal, birth, or childhood healthcare."
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Lets see, i can lose cpu performance to make things dance on my desktop with this thing...
;-)
or i can lose brain perfomance by maken 'em dance the ol' fashioned way...
Heck, it could be the Linux motto
"Why Not!"