He's probably a Merkin, where gas is cheap, but clean drinking water is expensive. In the US, the only thing that is cheaper than gas is donated blood....
I also don't beleive that blind people are being denied access to the net because a small number of websites use this type of authentication when you create a new account.
You are right. The number of sites who use this technologies are fortunately few and far between. Moreover, they do it to achieve a laudable goal (fighting spam).
What's far worse are those sites that require Internet Exploder for not good reason other than to strike their self-rigtheous ego. Probably, they are not even aware that by their posturing they are shutting out blind people which surf using lynx and a braille line. And if they were aware, they'd probably not even care, claiming that blind people are inferior.
a terrorist would simply hijack a plane that was going to the city he wanted to crash into.
Hmm, no. The WTC towers actually withstood the mechanical impact of the planes pretty well. What did them in was the hot burning kerosene. The terrorists specifically picked planes departing from an East coast city, bound to the West coast, and crashed them (relatively) close to their point of departure.
The attack would have failed if NY was the scheduled destination of the planes, as in that case the fuel tanks would have been almost empty.
the reason it's not entrapment is because the criminal is ready and willing to commit the crime.
Nope, the reason is because police were not tricking them into committing a crime. Picking up a lottery prize is not a crime. The arrest happened on basis of crimes that the criminal already had committed before (and of which he has already been convicted). The ruse is only performed to attract the criminal to a location where he can easily be arrested, it's not done to gather additional evidence.
No there aren't. There is no reasonable argument for not bringing the exploit to the vendor's attention first. There is meaningful debate over the question of what to do if the vendor chooses to ignore you or bully you, but I really don't see a good argument for alerting the world before alerting the vendor.
There is one special case where it might be useful to alert the public first. Or even: to alert the hacking underground first: if the vendor's name is a good description of the CEO's dick.
I put it more that is the last day of a Long weekend with many people having the 4th off. So a lot of stuff is going to slid until monday morning.
Yeah, but wouldn't it make more sense than to have the "world hacking day" on the 4th rather than the 7th. That way, the stuff is going to stay up 3 days, rather than just 1. Of course, it also means you have less time to prepare, but for most hackers, that's not a problem (just explore the vulnerabilities the weekend before, and actually deploy your customization on the evening of the 3rd. Or you may be on school holidays anyways, having all time you need!).
Well, I think a large majority of the US schools aren't on a year-round system, so most kids would already be able to do it any day in July without missing school. Next theory, please.
Indeed, it would have made much more sense to put this on a late Friday evening, or on a Saturday. Not for the availability of the "defacers". But for the unavailability of those who'd notice the defacements and remove it. Even better: do it at the first day of a long weekend (i.e. July 4th).
That way, your work of art would stay there 4th, 5th and 6th before being taken down!
I wonder whether the penguins will be back to the poll example at asp.net this weekend!
I remember, some, what, 15 years ago, one issue of Science Vie had a poster included (photo taken by the SPOT satellite) which could be viewed by 3D glasses (which were also included: it was just a piece cardboard with two differently colored cellophane windows for each eye). The poster showed a 3D birds-eye view of the French Alps. With the glasses, you could see the mountains pop out of the picture.
So, not only did prior art physically exist (albeit not for the purpose of copy protection reason), but it's actually quite some old technology.
Kinokuniya (which is apparently a Japanese chain) store in Singapore has some of its books and magazines in shrinkwrap,
... and more often than not, in a pile of shrinkwrapped books, you'll find at least one which had already been opened by a previous customer, who either wanted to "digitally shoplift" it, or more probably, just wanted to avoid buying a pig in a poke...
... and you're allowed to browse magazines if you just want to catch an article in one of those...
Not everywhere. As a poor student, when I had an hour to kill between connecting trains I would often wander into one of the station's kiosks, pick up a magazine, and read some articles... More often than not, after a while, a shop attendant would walk up to me, and inform me politely that magazines are not supposed to be read entirely in the shop, but rather be bought.
Not a big problem though, so I'd just walk to the next job (most train stations had several), found up the same magazine, and continued reading where I stopped...
Since the net is PRIMARILY a visual media, blind people would naturally be discrtminated against.
Says who? It's primarly a digital media. And digital information (text, etc.) can be represented in any number of ways, a monitor is just one of them (think braille lines, text-to-speech software, etc.)
Much like driving.
Yes, but in the physical world, blind people can still walk. And many cities do take action to make traffic easyer for blind people (pedestrian traffic lights that buzz, elevator buttons with braille markings, etc)
People reading/. do not read the articles or even click on links (after all the goatse.cx links I do not blame them).
So far, nobody has yet succeeded in sneaking a goatse link into an article submission. AFAIR, the best we've seen so far was a goatse link in a +5 Insightful comment, but not an article. But who knows, for everything there's a first...
On its Web site, Hormel states that it does not object to use of the word spam as a "slang term," as long as pictures of the product are not used with such references
Ah that's why the old can-of-spam icon was canned and replaced with that dull pig.
Regardless of whether this is true or not, why would you *want* to do business with a company like this at this point???
Good point. Maybe because the company did not say "no" upfront, but chose to wait long enough with their refusal that they thought their customer no longer had any other options (because the event was too close).
Didn't work out in this case though, it appears that now the Linuxfest guys are pressing their CDs at Stebbing Recording Studio.
Yeah, rather than winning the contest through technical means, they'd do it through social engineering: makeing Microsoft think that they have the technical means, and conning them into releasing an official bootloader. Reminds me of the "superintendent" solution to the
barometer puzzle.
Third, if there is not somebody in your company who can handle an installation as mindless as XP or 2000 then maybe your company should think about hiring one of the millions of out of work MCSE's out there.
Or better yet: switch to Linux, and contract with an outside company to do third party support.
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He's probably a Merkin, where gas is cheap, but clean drinking water is expensive. In the US, the only thing that is cheaper than gas is donated blood....
You are right. The number of sites who use this technologies are fortunately few and far between. Moreover, they do it to achieve a laudable goal (fighting spam).
What's far worse are those sites that require Internet Exploder for not good reason other than to strike their self-rigtheous ego. Probably, they are not even aware that by their posturing they are shutting out blind people which surf using lynx and a braille line. And if they were aware, they'd probably not even care, claiming that blind people are inferior.
It's an ugly world out there :-(
Hmm, no. The WTC towers actually withstood the mechanical impact of the planes pretty well. What did them in was the hot burning kerosene. The terrorists specifically picked planes departing from an East coast city, bound to the West coast, and crashed them (relatively) close to their point of departure.
The attack would have failed if NY was the scheduled destination of the planes, as in that case the fuel tanks would have been almost empty.
False. Two high school students thought about it in 1999. And guess when one of the guy's birthday was?
I was thinking more along the lines of very small and not really hard.
Nope, the reason is because police were not tricking them into committing a crime. Picking up a lottery prize is not a crime. The arrest happened on basis of crimes that the criminal already had committed before (and of which he has already been convicted). The ruse is only performed to attract the criminal to a location where he can easily be arrested, it's not done to gather additional evidence.
There is one special case where it might be useful to alert the public first. Or even: to alert the hacking underground first: if the vendor's name is a good description of the CEO's dick.
Yeah, but wouldn't it make more sense than to have the "world hacking day" on the 4th rather than the 7th. That way, the stuff is going to stay up 3 days, rather than just 1. Of course, it also means you have less time to prepare, but for most hackers, that's not a problem (just explore the vulnerabilities the weekend before, and actually deploy your customization on the evening of the 3rd. Or you may be on school holidays anyways, having all time you need!).
Indeed, it would have made much more sense to put this on a late Friday evening, or on a Saturday. Not for the availability of the "defacers". But for the unavailability of those who'd notice the defacements and remove it. Even better: do it at the first day of a long weekend (i.e. July 4th). That way, your work of art would stay there 4th, 5th and 6th before being taken down!
I wonder whether the penguins will be back to the poll example at asp.net this weekend!
Where can I get them 3D glasses ?
I remember, some, what, 15 years ago, one issue of Science Vie had a poster included (photo taken by the SPOT satellite) which could be viewed by 3D glasses (which were also included: it was just a piece cardboard with two differently colored cellophane windows for each eye). The poster showed a 3D birds-eye view of the French Alps. With the glasses, you could see the mountains pop out of the picture.
So, not only did prior art physically exist (albeit not for the purpose of copy protection reason), but it's actually quite some old technology.
Not everywhere. As a poor student, when I had an hour to kill between connecting trains I would often wander into one of the station's kiosks, pick up a magazine, and read some articles... More often than not, after a while, a shop attendant would walk up to me, and inform me politely that magazines are not supposed to be read entirely in the shop, but rather be bought.
Not a big problem though, so I'd just walk to the next job (most train stations had several), found up the same magazine, and continued reading where I stopped...
Says who? It's primarly a digital media. And digital information (text, etc.) can be represented in any number of ways, a monitor is just one of them (think braille lines, text-to-speech software, etc.)
Much like driving.
Yes, but in the physical world, blind people can still walk. And many cities do take action to make traffic easyer for blind people (pedestrian traffic lights that buzz, elevator buttons with braille markings, etc)
So far, nobody has yet succeeded in sneaking a goatse link into an article submission. AFAIR, the best we've seen so far was a goatse link in a +5 Insightful comment, but not an article. But who knows, for everything there's a first...
5a. Call a friend to continue stirring and fish out your watch, because that's not edible...
Ah that's why the old can-of-spam icon was canned and replaced with that dull pig.
Codex.lu
Wall Street Journal sues Corbis for putting up an unauthorized (... and very crappy...) scan of its copyrighted article on the web!
Try it out, it's hilarous! (Yes, that's an international number. Just use your office phone!)
Good point. Maybe because the company did not say "no" upfront, but chose to wait long enough with their refusal that they thought their customer no longer had any other options (because the event was too close).
Didn't work out in this case though, it appears that now the Linuxfest guys are pressing their CDs at Stebbing Recording Studio.
Press release here
Yeah, rather than winning the contest through technical means, they'd do it through social engineering: makeing Microsoft think that they have the technical means, and conning them into releasing an official bootloader. Reminds me of the "superintendent" solution to the barometer puzzle.
Or better yet: switch to Linux, and contract with an outside company to do third party support.