The method used to choose the applications was 'random' (as in unexpected. The error was kinda random (well, 'stupid') -- but, once you understood the method/error, the results were entirely predictable and, thus not random.
Or, just buy a shitty second router, and set it to be 2Megabit 802.11 -- or 11megabit 802.11b (depending on your broadband connection). If your ISP allows 2 MAC addresses, then you're done (just need a dumb switch) otherwise, connect your (encrypted, or wired-only) private router to the public router (that way your network traffic is somewhat protected from snooping).
Beowulf is one of the oldest pieces of (pre)english literature in existence, and would probably classify as fantasy. Is the BBC going to banish that into the depths of obscurity as well?
The users attacked weren't the final targets.. It was probably something like a receptionist or other non-technical staff that was used as the shoe-horn to get into the system. RTFA
I mean, it's not like there are no known Linux exploits, but -- when you've got average users using windows for day-to-day work, it's just a matter of time....
Security by obscurity, but -- among other things -- the attacker would, have to figure out that you're not using Windows.
Best time to have sex is when your SO is in the mood.
Then again, I did have one girlfriend who never let me live down the time I started snoring mid-sex, so -- yeah, you can really be too tired to have sex, but it's pretty rare.
If it's OK to sift through a kid's backpack or notebook, then the same circumstances should allow a teacher to go through the kid's cellphone.
Yes, today's cell phones (and laptops) can hold a lot more data than the (paper) notebooks of the '80s, but I find it hard to justify giving the electronic equivalents more protection than their low-tech predecessors. At some point, you have to draw a line (in both directions).
We should make war on the reason why pushers push these drugs onto people -- profits -- and not just why kids take them. Most kids that do Meth do it because they're addicted. Avoiding the addiction means removing the incentive to 'market' it.
Most of the problems with the lighter drugs (like Pot) have to do with the fact that the drug is illegal. As such, legalization would go a long way (but not all the way) to minimizing the harm that they do. The other step would be to regulate the drugs such that it's a bitch to make a profit on them.. That way dealers wouldn't have much reason to trick kids into using this crap.
I've seen what Meth can do to kids It's highly addicting -- and really does rot the brain (some of the rot is temporary, but a lot of the rot from long-term use is permanent). Just legalizing it without reasonable regulation would make it open season on our kids for unscrupulous corporations
(really -- the Hells Angels are just a corporation that is willing to take blatantly illegal action to increase it's profits. If you made the action legal (if unethical) and didn't remove the profit motive, they'd just keep on with the same actions (but more out in the open).
In this case, with the drug being illegal -- and thus high profit -- seizing the proceeds of the illegal dealing is completely appropriate. If Meth was made legal and regulated, I'd still keep the laws that allow seizing the proceeds of improper trading.
If he's a meth dealer and he's using the comic books to launder his drug profits, then there's nothing unusual about this other than the method of laundering.
If he had been trading houses to launder his drug money, this wouldn't have made page 34 of his local paper, much less the front page of Slashdot. Even so, there's not a whole lot to say about it.
yeah, but with the Mac, you also get almost another decade of (usable) history. MacOS started off as a fully functional and usable system in 1984, whereas most people didn't consider Windows usable until about windows 3.1.
Not from my point of view. Between me and my girlfriend (2 different locations), we have about 8 different computers (including her I-Phone) and none of them run windows (I think the laptop that I'm using still has a working (japanese) version of windows, on it, but I'm afraid to test it, in case it breaks something).
I've got no real use for windows for myself, and I'm not interested in spending the time to read the MS EULA license to decide if I can really accept all of the limitations that it places on me.
So, giving out his Facebook password, by violating facebook's terms of service, would make his (and the facility's) access of the facebook a federal crime (by some legal theories and decisions).
Break a crime as part of a job interview? For a job as a prison guard -- and end up in jail with his former charges??? hell no... better to sue for wrongful dismissal!
It's effective, and it's done quite differently. There they actually focus on finding the bombers and avoiding the damage (including majour delays), rather than making it look like something's being done.
I still say that the biggest deterrent to another 9/11 style attack is that passengers would no longer sit still if someone got up and attacked a stewardess. Prior to 9/11 the most that most passengers would have done would have been to start a pool as to how many visible bruises/wounds she'd end up with.
During the 2010 Olympics here in Vancouver, I was moaning about that. $1B worth of security -- to prevent what?.
If someone wanted to create death and mayhem at the games, all they'd have to do is toss a grenade into the security lineups (sometimes hours long). This seems to be precisely what these bombers have done.. blown themselves up before getting inside the security line up -- yet, despite the fact that this security theatre doesn't do much to protect us against a threat that's less likely to kill us than the trip to and from the airport, we're still forced to submit ourselves to very personal searches between the greater threat and getting on the airplane.
BTW: If we put as much work into preventing drunk driving as we do against 'terrorism', we'd probably save about 100 times as many lives. (And, from what I can tell, this would be doubly true in Moscow).
If you accept this change, then either astrology has been useless bunk for much of the last millennium or so... or it is now.
and that's not necessarily an exclusive 'or'.
Produce a list of non-GEMA songs and distribute it to kindergartens. Tell them that they should only teach non-GEMA (PD and Creative Commons) songs to their children, and explain to them how they have to use their allowance money if they want to use commercial music. Also teach them (to the extent to which they understand, which is often pretty extensive) about Creative Commons and how that works...
I think that it might be worthwhile to go after the foreign banks (attach them as third parties to the suit) that first accepted and then rejected the cheques. I'm guessing that they knew what was happening and were, in some way or another, party to the process.
I would among other things, ask for the original cheques back and proof that the modifications that they claimed had been done -- and done improperly. It seems rather likely to me that the banks involved in this transaction know what's going on, and it's time for them to be taken to task.
One thing to note about this action is that it does not make a final determination. It's simply a case of the bank attaching to the property in case it wins the actual suit -- just to prevent Peters from getting rid of the property before the actual lawsuit finishes. There is a lot of fighting that could go on in the case, (e.g. the SCO litigation) and it's not absolutely clear that the bank will be the clear victor in the end (even the judge in the case raises some questions).
or, you can pay $0.0149 to download Open Office . Then you'll really live and breathe free!
You won't have to worry about MS License police deciding that you're not (any longer) qualified for the student discount and should pay $x0,000 in license fees and penalties.
..... I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago.....But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. When something doesn't work between MS Office versions he can blame Microsoft. Perfect deflection.
Has he ever read MS's EULA? If it breaks, you can blame Microsoft (just like you can blame Oracle if Open Office breaks), but you can't ask for any reparations. You have no better protection against broken code with Microsoft than you do with freed software -- Actually Microsoft is worse.
Going with Microsoft, you're not allowed to look at the broken code, much less fix it nor are you allowed to sue them for the costs of broken code -- even if you can prove negligence... and, on top of that, you have to deal with things like license audits that will cost you random amounts of money on top of their 'insurance' fees. With freed software, you still don't have the rights of suing for broken code, but you do have the right to (pay someone to) look at the broken code and fix it. At that point Even if the product's originator (Oracle, in this case) doesn't like your fix, you can always keep a (not so) private fork with your improvements. Try and do that with Micorosoft Office code.
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and neither does anybody else who shows up on my facebook page.
It's still a sneaker net -- just a different kind of 'sneak'.
The method used to choose the applications was 'random' (as in unexpected. The error was kinda random (well, 'stupid') -- but, once you understood the method/error, the results were entirely predictable and, thus not random.
It's pretty hard to do if you're a WIndows programmer... Not everybody uses a Unix-based computer.
Or, just buy a shitty second router, and set it to be 2Megabit 802.11 -- or 11megabit 802.11b (depending on your broadband connection). If your ISP allows 2 MAC addresses, then you're done (just need a dumb switch) otherwise, connect your (encrypted, or wired-only) private router to the public router (that way your network traffic is somewhat protected from snooping).
Beowulf is one of the oldest pieces of (pre)english literature in existence, and would probably classify as fantasy. Is the BBC going to banish that into the depths of obscurity as well?
Rather like Mozart vs Salieri. Salieri was the 'in' musician in their lifetimes, but it's Mozart's work that is remembered over the ages.
The users attacked weren't the final targets.. It was probably something like a receptionist or other non-technical staff that was used as the shoe-horn to get into the system. RTFA
I mean, it's not like there are no known Linux exploits, but -- when you've got average users using windows for day-to-day work, it's just a matter of time....
Security by obscurity, but -- among other things -- the attacker would, have to figure out that you're not using Windows.
..... i'm a former examiner and i've come across many, many outrageous applications. this one isn't all that absurd though.
Oh, now that's scary!
Then again, I did have one girlfriend who never let me live down the time I started snoring mid-sex, so -- yeah, you can really be too tired to have sex, but it's pretty rare.
If it's OK to sift through a kid's backpack or notebook, then the same circumstances should allow a teacher to go through the kid's cellphone.
Yes, today's cell phones (and laptops) can hold a lot more data than the (paper) notebooks of the '80s, but I find it hard to justify giving the electronic equivalents more protection than their low-tech predecessors. At some point, you have to draw a line (in both directions).
Most of the problems with the lighter drugs (like Pot) have to do with the fact that the drug is illegal. As such, legalization would go a long way (but not all the way) to minimizing the harm that they do. The other step would be to regulate the drugs such that it's a bitch to make a profit on them.. That way dealers wouldn't have much reason to trick kids into using this crap.
I've seen what Meth can do to kids It's highly addicting -- and really does rot the brain (some of the rot is temporary, but a lot of the rot from long-term use is permanent). Just legalizing it without reasonable regulation would make it open season on our kids for unscrupulous corporations (really -- the Hells Angels are just a corporation that is willing to take blatantly illegal action to increase it's profits. If you made the action legal (if unethical) and didn't remove the profit motive, they'd just keep on with the same actions (but more out in the open).
In this case, with the drug being illegal -- and thus high profit -- seizing the proceeds of the illegal dealing is completely appropriate. If Meth was made legal and regulated, I'd still keep the laws that allow seizing the proceeds of improper trading.
If he had been trading houses to launder his drug money, this wouldn't have made page 34 of his local paper, much less the front page of Slashdot. Even so, there's not a whole lot to say about it.
yeah, but with the Mac, you also get almost another decade of (usable) history. MacOS started off as a fully functional and usable system in 1984, whereas most people didn't consider Windows usable until about windows 3.1.
Well... aren't you special..
Not from my point of view. Between me and my girlfriend (2 different locations), we have about 8 different computers (including her I-Phone) and none of them run windows (I think the laptop that I'm using still has a working (japanese) version of windows, on it, but I'm afraid to test it, in case it breaks something).
I've got no real use for windows for myself, and I'm not interested in spending the time to read the MS EULA license to decide if I can really accept all of the limitations that it places on me.
Break a crime as part of a job interview? For a job as a prison guard -- and end up in jail with his former charges??? hell no... better to sue for wrongful dismissal!
I still say that the biggest deterrent to another 9/11 style attack is that passengers would no longer sit still if someone got up and attacked a stewardess. Prior to 9/11 the most that most passengers would have done would have been to start a pool as to how many visible bruises/wounds she'd end up with.
If someone wanted to create death and mayhem at the games, all they'd have to do is toss a grenade into the security lineups (sometimes hours long). This seems to be precisely what these bombers have done.. blown themselves up before getting inside the security line up -- yet, despite the fact that this security theatre doesn't do much to protect us against a threat that's less likely to kill us than the trip to and from the airport, we're still forced to submit ourselves to very personal searches between the greater threat and getting on the airplane.
BTW: If we put as much work into preventing drunk driving as we do against 'terrorism', we'd probably save about 100 times as many lives. (And, from what I can tell, this would be doubly true in Moscow).
If you accept this change, then either astrology has been useless bunk for much of the last millennium or so ... or it is now.
and that's not necessarily an exclusive 'or'.
then see if that bites into GEMA's income stream.
I would among other things, ask for the original cheques back and proof that the modifications that they claimed had been done -- and done improperly. It seems rather likely to me that the banks involved in this transaction know what's going on, and it's time for them to be taken to task.
One thing to note about this action is that it does not make a final determination. It's simply a case of the bank attaching to the property in case it wins the actual suit -- just to prevent Peters from getting rid of the property before the actual lawsuit finishes. There is a lot of fighting that could go on in the case, (e.g. the SCO litigation) and it's not absolutely clear that the bank will be the clear victor in the end (even the judge in the case raises some questions).
or, you can pay $0.0149 to download Open Office . Then you'll really live and breathe free!
You won't have to worry about MS License police deciding that you're not (any longer) qualified for the student discount and should pay $x0,000 in license fees and penalties.
..... I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago.....But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. When something doesn't work between MS Office versions he can blame Microsoft. Perfect deflection.
Has he ever read MS's EULA? If it breaks, you can blame Microsoft (just like you can blame Oracle if Open Office breaks), but you can't ask for any reparations. You have no better protection against broken code with Microsoft than you do with freed software -- Actually Microsoft is worse.
Going with Microsoft, you're not allowed to look at the broken code, much less fix it nor are you allowed to sue them for the costs of broken code -- even if you can prove negligence... and, on top of that, you have to deal with things like license audits that will cost you random amounts of money on top of their 'insurance' fees. With freed software, you still don't have the rights of suing for broken code, but you do have the right to (pay someone to) look at the broken code and fix it. At that point Even if the product's originator (Oracle, in this case) doesn't like your fix, you can always keep a (not so) private fork with your improvements. Try and do that with Micorosoft Office code.
So, stop taking showers!