This type of mindset begs for exploitation. While it's nice to consider that one should be happy with what he has, an intelligent man should also look at what the CEO is getting, and wonder whether part of the CEO's million dollar bonus this year came from your cancelled raise.
My first ISP support job I got paid $8.50 to do everything in that Craigslist article. It's just basic networking and windows skills, something any kid could learn given a week long training course. The going rate in this area for that type of work is 9-12$/hr
Card not supported? Isn't that what an API like Directx is for, so that developers don't have to write support for the cards directly into their games?
I don't think it would be difficult at all to find many, many models of PC that are only available with Windows. Dell, for instance, likes to charge you for Windows even if you don't want it.
Now we can make up lies about the government (or anyone really) and they are guaranteed to be unable to punish anyone for it! Hooray for freedom of speech!
Wow, so they have no telemarketers in europe, huh? You don't think that perhaps your belief of this has anything to do with the fact that that you're 17 and probably haven't even had a phone line in your own name yet (and if you have, it couldn't have been for long)?
How bout those 30+ errors in IE? How bout that ActiveX exploit that allows your box to be rooted just by VISITING a site? You can claim that by "keeping updated" you are protected, by what exactly does "keeping updated" do against a bug that MS hasn't gotten around to patching yet?
AFAIK this is UNTRUE. Legally radio stations can play any track they want without paying the RIAA a dime because the exposure that the artist and their music receives is considered to be fair compensation for the cost of the song.
In fact, in many cases it's just the opposite, record companies spend a great deal of money trying to convince radio DJ's to play their music.
the "damage" that X suffers in the case of a pirate who couldn't/wouldn't have bought the product anyway is simply the loss of the right to control who gets to experience that bit of media. Gosh, I'm getting all teary-eyed just thinking about all the starving movie studios like Paramount and Universal being deprived of this all-important right.
...what is the point of keeping phone numbers and the like "secret" when there are so many other social engineering methods to obtain them? Phone numbers, addresses, and the like should never be considered secure in the first place.
Some minor theory? battle tactics? Read a friggin book, play some laser tag or paintball, it'll take you a LOT farther. And come on, "shooting multiple targets"? "pattern recognition and evaluation"? Much of this can be learned entirely independent of games OR guns, it's just basic hand-eye coordination. If you were quite good on your first day, it's probably because you had a good instructor and some natural talent. Until you start strafing around your targets with an Mp5 in full auto, I doubt those skills are really going to translate
The most serious crimes I've committed in my life are petty shoplifting and drug use. I did these long before simulating either in a game, and have never particularly enjoyed simulating either in a game. Therefore, by Thompson's own logic, my committing these crimes caused these games to manifest themselves into existence.
If your server has holes open, then you are a SHITTY ADMINISTRATOR and you should NOT BE RUNNING A SERVER. If your boss would accept that BULLSHIT excuse "oh, i'm still porting it over to the new hardware... boohooo" as a reason to have SECURITY LOOPHOLES sitting open in your system, then he shouldn't be managing the IT department. The law does not exist to give you an excuse to be a lazy, shitty, incompetent security admin. it exists to exact a fitting punishment for the crime committed. Next time you recommend "pound you in the ass prison" for website defacement, why don't you think about the fact that instead of simple website defacement, that might have been a malicious hacker interested in SSN's or credit card #'s. And that could mean your job or worse. And oh yeah, go read some O'reilly books or something cause you're clearly an incompetent whiner.
Wrong. A far better analogy would be if you left your car door unlocked and someone broke in and wrote "LOCK IT NEXT TIME" in soap on the inside of your windshield. Yes, a bitch to clean up, but I bet you don't leave it unlocked next time, and your sorry ass should just be thanking your lucky stars your car didn't get JACKED. Legislation does not exist to give you an opportunity to be an idiot, it exists to punish those who do harm. Website defacement is harm on the scale of tagging a building- next to nil in the grande scheme of crime.
Bullshit. If anything, this will SAVE companies money in the long run. You think its BETTER for a web server to sit there with unpatched security exploits, waiting for a truly malicious hacker to do something nasty to the server like zombify it, than for some joker to deface it, and in doing so alert the administrators to the presence of the hole (hopefully closing it? Any company should be able to swiftly and easily restore their site from backups. If they don't have backups, they are STUPID and DESERVE what they get. It's technological darwinism, curtailing harmless hackers just helps loopholes survive for malicious hackers to exploit. Security flaws should be pointed out and if it takes a rude awakening like a website redesign, then so be it. Better than having your box end up participating in a worldwide DOS a year or two down the line.
Frazier was arrested in October 2002, when Customs agents tracking his operations found computer chips and hacking gear in his luggage on a flight from Canada.
Computer chips are illegal? And "hacking gear"? What would that be, a keyboard? A soldering iron? An oscilloscope?
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This type of mindset begs for exploitation. While it's nice to consider that one should be happy with what he has, an intelligent man should also look at what the CEO is getting, and wonder whether part of the CEO's million dollar bonus this year came from your cancelled raise.
My first ISP support job I got paid $8.50 to do everything in that Craigslist article. It's just basic networking and windows skills, something any kid could learn given a week long training course.
The going rate in this area for that type of work is 9-12$/hr
Doesn't seem unusual to me.
Card not supported? Isn't that what an API like Directx is for, so that developers don't have to write support for the cards directly into their games?
I don't think it would be difficult at all to find many, many models of PC that are only available with Windows. Dell, for instance, likes to charge you for Windows even if you don't want it.
Oh, the irony that forces me to make this post....
Irony? Perhaps if the nature and amount of the settlement was a "minor detail", you'd have made sense, but um, it's kind of the whole point.
Now we can make up lies about the government (or anyone really) and they are guaranteed to be unable to punish anyone for it! Hooray for freedom of speech!
Wow, so they have no telemarketers in europe, huh? You don't think that perhaps your belief of this has anything to do with the fact that that you're 17 and probably haven't even had a phone line in your own name yet (and if you have, it couldn't have been for long)?
How bout those 30+ errors in IE? How bout that ActiveX exploit that allows your box to be rooted just by VISITING a site?
You can claim that by "keeping updated" you are protected, by what exactly does "keeping updated" do against a bug that MS hasn't gotten around to patching yet?
...send their kids to school in tinfoil hats!
I have a Divx rip of the "28 Days Later" DVD. Watched it multiple times, no spots to be seen...
AFAIK this is UNTRUE. Legally radio stations can play any track they want without paying the RIAA a dime because the exposure that the artist and their music receives is considered to be fair compensation for the cost of the song.
In fact, in many cases it's just the opposite, record companies spend a great deal of money trying to convince radio DJ's to play their music.
the "damage" that X suffers in the case of a pirate who couldn't/wouldn't have bought the product anyway is simply the loss of the right to control who gets to experience that bit of media.
Gosh, I'm getting all teary-eyed just thinking about all the starving movie studios like Paramount and Universal being deprived of this all-important right.
and of course stan winston! i think he does effects for every single movie in existence now.
Cringely endorses spam! No need to read article!
Spam bam, thank you maam!
...slashdot must be pretty hard up for stories...
...what is the point of keeping phone numbers and the like "secret" when there are so many other social engineering methods to obtain them?
Phone numbers, addresses, and the like should never be considered secure in the first place.
...and the power of the source?
The [b]Crystal.[/b]
The [b]Crystal.[/b]
Some minor theory? battle tactics? Read a friggin book, play some laser tag or paintball, it'll take you a LOT farther. And come on, "shooting multiple targets"? "pattern recognition and evaluation"? Much of this can be learned entirely independent of games OR guns, it's just basic hand-eye coordination.
If you were quite good on your first day, it's probably because you had a good instructor and some natural talent. Until you start strafing around your targets with an Mp5 in full auto, I doubt those skills are really going to translate
The most serious crimes I've committed in my life are petty shoplifting and drug use. I did these long before simulating either in a game, and have never particularly enjoyed simulating either in a game. Therefore, by Thompson's own logic, my committing these crimes caused these games to manifest themselves into existence.
Bow to Zod.
Amen. Correllation is not causation, but that fact seems to be lost on Sen. Lieberman and his adoring mob of soccer moms.
If your server has holes open, then you are a SHITTY ADMINISTRATOR and you should NOT BE RUNNING A SERVER.
If your boss would accept that BULLSHIT excuse "oh, i'm still porting it over to the new hardware... boohooo" as a reason to have SECURITY LOOPHOLES sitting open in your system, then he shouldn't be managing the IT department.
The law does not exist to give you an excuse to be a lazy, shitty, incompetent security admin. it exists to exact a fitting punishment for the crime committed.
Next time you recommend "pound you in the ass prison" for website defacement, why don't you think about the fact that instead of simple website defacement, that might have been a malicious hacker interested in SSN's or credit card #'s. And that could mean your job or worse.
And oh yeah, go read some O'reilly books or something cause you're clearly an incompetent whiner.
Wrong. A far better analogy would be if you left your car door unlocked and someone broke in and wrote "LOCK IT NEXT TIME" in soap on the inside of your windshield. Yes, a bitch to clean up, but I bet you don't leave it unlocked next time, and your sorry ass should just be thanking your lucky stars your car didn't get JACKED.
Legislation does not exist to give you an opportunity to be an idiot, it exists to punish those who do harm. Website defacement is harm on the scale of tagging a building- next to nil in the grande scheme of crime.
Bullshit. If anything, this will SAVE companies money in the long run. You think its BETTER for a web server to sit there with unpatched security exploits, waiting for a truly malicious hacker to do something nasty to the server like zombify it, than for some joker to deface it, and in doing so alert the administrators to the presence of the hole (hopefully closing it?
Any company should be able to swiftly and easily restore their site from backups. If they don't have backups, they are STUPID and DESERVE what they get.
It's technological darwinism, curtailing harmless hackers just helps loopholes survive for malicious hackers to exploit. Security flaws should be pointed out and if it takes a rude awakening like a website redesign, then so be it.
Better than having your box end up participating in a worldwide DOS a year or two down the line.
$1000, before taxes, depending on the min. wage.
The point is, anyone making less than $35k a year is going to be seriously wiped out by this.
Frazier was arrested in October 2002, when Customs agents tracking his operations found computer chips and hacking gear in his luggage on a flight from Canada.
Computer chips are illegal? And "hacking gear"? What would that be, a keyboard? A soldering iron? An oscilloscope?