Now, what about the auto-web page changer which jumped to random website searchs and such every 1--5 minutes...
Why pick a random website. Even a non-random one can be annoying as hell, if the boss happens to be watching...
Re:NDAs are a necessary evil to some environments
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The Cult of the NDA
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Why are you on Slashdot telling us (trying to convince yourself) about how hard you are working?
Indeed, it's impossible to convince anybody on Slashdot that you are working hard. Indeed, if you were working hard, you wouldn't read Slashdot, much less posting to it...
Search for "Ginger" (development name of the Segway), then "Scooter"
This guy oughta edit his page and remove those comments since they look pretty silly nowdays.
Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. these comments here also look rather silly nowadays... (scroll down to section 5 for the juicy bits...). Read carefully, or you'll miss one of the double negations, and you'll find the text absolutely trivial. The irony of the text is that the author didn't foresee (at the time he wrote it) the full irony of the very phrase containing the word irony... (And yes, IIRC, that page stayed up until October... more than one full month after the event, and after featuring on cruel.com)
Actually, you are being unkind to virus writers here. Virus writers perform a valuable service to society: educating the masses that Windows is an unsecure operating system. By doing this, they are helping to hasten the downfall of Micro$oft, and this IMHO, can't be all bad.
Spam, on the other hand, serves no useful purpose.
I notice you have a Bellsouth address. It is a well known fact (btw, repeated in the article) that Bellsouth is a spam haven. Please be so kind and change providers. Bellsouth really doesn't need your money. It has enough with the spammer's money;-)
Using your arguments you could argue that installing Outlook on a machine is the same thing as putting a destructive virus on a floppy and leaving it in public place. Wouldn't the creator of the software/virus be held liable?
At the risk of being modded down as redundant, but it can't be said often enough:
Yes, the creator of the software/virus should be held liable. In both cases.
Although coffee cup cultures are often green, any disgusting colour is allowed.
Once discovered a bright-red coffee mould. It was in a paper filter of a coffee machine that we forgot to throw out. And yes, after thoroughly rinsing the machine, we still continued to use it...
Easy. If user queries for www.bush-is-a-baby-eater.com, reply NXDOMAIN. User's nameserver will then query for the NS of bush-is-a-baby-eater.com. Here, respond with a special NS that just has a single A record for www, and which points to sitefinder. In a word: wildcard NS delegation!
I guess if this goes through, I will have to sign up as a licensed creator of digital photographs and then assign all these "artists" tax dollars to myself.
Nope, won't work:
There is a chance that everyone will give all their money to themselves, but this can be prevented by only paying out to accounts that meet some higher threshold of cash.
It's a workflow problem, not a technical problem. With shredding there is no way an "improperly" disposed disk can get into the wrong hands, because then disposal never means reuse.
Not true. If the bank cannot be bothered to do the equivalent of cat/dev/zero >/dev/hda before giving the computer away to a third party, what makes you think that they would actually screw open the computer, remove the hard drives, and put the computer together again? Remember, these are white-collar workers, who'd never get their hands dirty doing any manual work;) So the likely outcome would be that they would have subcontracted the "remove the hard drives from the computers" part as well... With the possibility that the subcontractor would occasionnally "forget" to remove the drives, and to properly dispose of them...
But why don't banks just destroy the Hard Disks before selling off the Machines?
And more importantly, why do the bank trust a third party (Ecosys) with the "scrubbing", rather than doing it themselves?
My take on this is that even if the procedure had said "destroy hard drives", the actual work of removing the hard drives and destroying them would still have been subcontracted, and the same "warehouse" error might still have occurred ("is this a machine which still has its original drives, or is it one which already has new drives, ready for resale?")
Although this will make me a far less interesting time traveler, these are the rules I personally try to hold to:
1. I will not disclose any information that will cause someone to personally gain by its knowledge. This means no stock or sports tips.
2. I will not disclose any detailed information that would allow someone to avoid death by probability. This means no earthquake or bomb information.
3. I will not disclose any information that may compromise any future actions by individual people or threaten their family and well-being. I will not disclose names or events associated with individuals.
And yes, he did speak about the war on Iraq:
Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?
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Why pick a random website. Even a non-random one can be annoying as hell, if the boss happens to be watching...
Indeed, it's impossible to convince anybody on Slashdot that you are working hard. Indeed, if you were working hard, you wouldn't read Slashdot, much less posting to it...
Search for "Ginger" (development name of the Segway), then "Scooter"
This guy oughta edit his page and remove those comments since they look pretty silly nowdays.
Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. these comments here also look rather silly nowadays... (scroll down to section 5 for the juicy bits...). Read carefully, or you'll miss one of the double negations, and you'll find the text absolutely trivial. The irony of the text is that the author didn't foresee (at the time he wrote it) the full irony of the very phrase containing the word irony... (And yes, IIRC, that page stayed up until October... more than one full month after the event, and after featuring on cruel.com)
Missed a beat, indeed.
Spam, on the other hand, serves no useful purpose.
I notice you have a Bellsouth address. It is a well known fact (btw, repeated in the article) that Bellsouth is a spam haven. Please be so kind and change providers. Bellsouth really doesn't need your money. It has enough with the spammer's money ;-)
Shhht! Don't tell anybody, or do you want Versign to wildcard that TLD too?
About the Segway:
About Iraq's WMD's and the war:
But the UK was part of the coalition of the willing, and Blair is Bush's poodle, so the pound should still work, shouldn't it?
What if your wife got hold of your Oyster card, and "used" this feature to list your trips to your maitresse...
At the risk of being modded down as redundant, but it can't be said often enough:
Yes, the creator of the software/virus should be held liable.
In both cases.
You should not say French Fries. Nowadays, it's Liberty Fries. Or are you an Al Qaeda terrorist in disguise?
Probably they got tired of all those anti-spam activists exploiting the SQL-injection vulnerabilities in their .asp scripts.
Once discovered a bright-red coffee mould. It was in a paper filter of a coffee machine that we forgot to throw out. And yes, after thoroughly rinsing the machine, we still continued to use it...
This gives me an idea:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 64.94.110.11 -j DNAT --to-destination 198.247.175.96
Nope, doesn't work, I just get a boring "hosted by hick" page :-(
Easy. If user queries for www.bush-is-a-baby-eater.com, reply NXDOMAIN. User's nameserver will then query for the NS of bush-is-a-baby-eater.com. Here, respond with a special NS that just has a single A record for www, and which points to sitefinder. In a word: wildcard NS delegation!
Nope, won't work:
Not true. If the bank cannot be bothered to do the equivalent of cat /dev/zero >/dev/hda before giving the computer away to a third party, what makes you think that they would actually screw open the computer, remove the hard drives, and put the computer together again? Remember, these are white-collar workers, who'd never get their hands dirty doing any manual work ;) So the likely outcome would be that they would have subcontracted the "remove the hard drives from the computers" part as well... With the possibility that the subcontractor would occasionnally "forget" to remove the drives, and to properly dispose of them...
And more importantly, why do the bank trust a third party (Ecosys) with the "scrubbing", rather than doing it themselves?
My take on this is that even if the procedure had said "destroy hard drives", the actual work of removing the hard drives and destroying them would still have been subcontracted, and the same "warehouse" error might still have occurred ("is this a machine which still has its original drives, or is it one which already has new drives, ready for resale?")
To what would you ground it to? You're in the air...
Who said he was flying coach? Grand-parent was probably lucky enough to work at a company who still pay their employees business or first class...
Ah, that's how Stevie Wonder drives around! But I wonder whether it still works after a couple of glasses of beer...
Somebody had to say that difficult word...
Provinces, you nitpick
And yes, he did speak about the war on Iraq:
Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?