I deliberatly [1] spell my name / address slightly differently.
I won't show up if anyone googles for the real me, yet dosn't get anyone suspicious if I use a deliberate fasle name.
An added advantage is you get to see were employers/agencys share your details / mailing lists etc as when company X post something to you, you know they must have got your name from company Y as it contains the misspeling you gave solely to company Y.
[1] Yes I know it's spelt wrong, Im dyslexic and cant be arsed running ispell OK.
> The standards are all available, and it isn't hard at all to implement some of them
I can probably knock up a working implimentation of SSH in a few days.
Who do you trust most, openSSH code -peer reviewed code written by crypto geeks my code -a physicist with little formal programing training
Crypto algorithams are bombproof, but this isn't where people make mistakes, its in the implimentation of the code... Acidently writing passphrases to swap/tmp is one such example of how the best use of twofish/AES/3DES/IDEA etc can be shafted.
"The concept is used to keep robots, many of which are stronger and more intelligent than their masters, from rebelling; a belief chip is installed in robots to ensure that they will believe that they will go to Silicon Heaven after a life of servitude to humanity."
(Speaker Salesdroid)
Check it out!
Thirty feet of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping nuclear brain damage!
If you can't afford it, FINANCE IT! And here's the best part: when you die, they can BURY you in it!
In my post-doc days a housemate got hold of a UPS powered by a massive array of car batteries in the garage. He wired it into the house such that in a power outage, only his room (admitedly containing the house servers as well as his personal computers, lights, TV etc) would have power.
We did have a half-hour power outage during a storm and it worked fine when the rest of us were looking for candles. The main drawback was it did SAVAGE things to our electricity bill, more than doubleing it. Keeping an array of lead-acid batteries charged up 'just in case' is not cheap.
Do what we did and save money buying a bog standard normal UPS, either that or get someone else to pay your electric bill.
Safety Nazi Mode
Also leave a note on your house fusebox/master switch warning whoever turns the power off that one room in the house will still be live. (Very important in the UK where mains is 13A 230v that can be enough to kill, unlike US 110v mains)
and kept on thinking that the whole UK system was pretty shitty
Just wait until you fly to the US.
Then you will *truely* have fun in a US airport. A place where "Every ones a superhero, everyones a Captin Kirk" and nail clippers are considered weapons of mass murder:-)
It's not an everyday occurance and has hardly risen dramatically.
Actually, since handguns were banned post Dunblane, gun crime HAS risen in this country. (maybe you have your head burried in the sand)
You see, 80% of handguns were held illegally by criminals. The 20% of us law abiding citizens who had sporting guns legally regestered (with serious consiqunces if they were taken/loaded anywhere other than an authorised sports shooting range etc) had them taken away.
This stopped armed crime how?
Somehow I resented having 750 quids worth of my property confiscated just on the off chance that I was a mass murderer of school children.
Sorry dude,
Undoubtedly the dumbest one ever was a publicity press release we receved, with a disclaimer saying "privileged and/or confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s)"
I sent it back with a note asking WTF they wanted us to do with it.
Vegas pawn shops.... (thats pawn not pr0n!)
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If you want to leave Vegas with a small fortune, start with a large fortune.
And spend it in the pawn shops when you are there.
So many people literlay loose the shirt off there back [1] and are reduced to hocking cameras, guns etc. These can be bought very cheaply from pawnbrokers. Coupled with very cheep rooms (+ suites) and free shows to lure in gamblers, you can come away with more monney than you spend if you dont gamble!
[1]I even saw a tux in a pawn shop there. Trouble was it was typical vegas XXXXXL fat bastard size.
I could be mistaken, but acording to Fridays Today programme, this was a Mori telephone poll.
Perhaps Mori would have seen a different result if, every time someone told them to fuck off and slammed the phone down, they treated as an 'I value my privacy' responce.
I hope I'm wrong, but a 10,000 user trial doesn't actually sound that impressive
It isn't
Just don't preach to the converted and get down to www.faxyourmp.com instead. Tell our MP's both the civil libities AND technical reasons why this is bad. Most MP's havent a clue about electronic security. Tell them why biometrics are not the solution, why its a bad idea to have all your eggs (data) in one basket (or card), why this wont prevent "terrorists and pediatricians"(!) and why this is just a BAD idea.
Just tell them that embeded data in the.doc gave away there personal details, home phone number, time they spent editing the document etc (Go to Files, properties).
> So do yourself a favor and have your eyes tested.
UK slashdoters may not know that by law they are entiteld to free eye tests (paid for by there employer) if they use a VDU regularly as part of there job. (First google hit)
Employers wont go out of there way to give them for you, so you will need to ask.
I work in a laser lab and get free eye tests for obvious reasons.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but this robot obayed the zero'th law of robotics
A robot must not harm humanity or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm
By eliminating this fuckwit from the gene pool, the robot has truely done humanity a great service.
I deliberatly [1] spell my name / address slightly differently.
I won't show up if anyone googles for the real me, yet dosn't get anyone suspicious if I use a deliberate fasle name.
An added advantage is you get to see were employers/agencys share your details / mailing lists etc as when company X post something to you, you know they must have got your name from company Y as it contains the misspeling you gave solely to company Y.
[1] Yes I know it's spelt wrong, Im dyslexic and cant be arsed running ispell OK.
I can probably knock up a working implimentation of SSH in a few days.
Who do you trust most,
openSSH code -peer reviewed code written by crypto geeks
my code -a physicist with little formal programing training
Crypto algorithams are bombproof, but this isn't where people make mistakes, its in the implimentation of the code... Acidently writing passphrases to swap/tmp is one such example of how the best use of twofish/AES/3DES/IDEA etc can be shafted.
Any Red Dwarf fan knows Silicon Heaven does exist.
"The concept is used to keep robots, many of which are stronger and more intelligent than their masters, from rebelling; a belief chip is installed in robots to ensure that they will believe that they will go to Silicon Heaven after a life of servitude to humanity."
Christians don't threaten death to company executives or members of the press if they disagree with their opinions.
You don't know anything about US abortion clinics do you?
Compare http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.st
Prof Ross Anderson encourages government for crypto backdoor in windows vista
With this http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&sear ch=0x4B2700B9
The Professors PGP key to keep his e-mail private.
Are we cynical yet?
But I don't see Christians rioting in the street, setting things on fire, and calling for people to die over these things, do you?
US abortion clinic.
'Nuff said.
Malware can be categorized by the goal of the creator.
You forgot the most obvious goal
9. Because they can
Have you not seen Ruthless People?
(Speaker Salesdroid)
Check it out!
Thirty feet of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping nuclear brain damage!
If you can't afford it, FINANCE IT!
And here's the best part: when you die, they can BURY you in it!
In my post-doc days a housemate got hold of a UPS powered by a massive array of car batteries in the garage. He wired it into the house such that in a power outage, only his room (admitedly containing the house servers as well as his personal computers, lights, TV etc) would have power.
We did have a half-hour power outage during a storm and it worked fine when the rest of us were looking for candles. The main drawback was it did SAVAGE things to our electricity bill, more than doubleing it. Keeping an array of lead-acid batteries charged up 'just in case' is not cheap.
Do what we did and save money buying a bog standard normal UPS, either that or get someone else to pay your electric bill.
Safety Nazi Mode Also leave a note on your house fusebox/master switch warning whoever turns the power off that one room in the house will still be live. (Very important in the UK where mains is 13A 230v that can be enough to kill, unlike US 110v mains)
Not sure about your driving example.
The EU was suposed to bring about many common standards for trade, but dispite EU harmonisation
The British still drive on the left,
the French still drive on the right, and
the Italians still drive on both.
Cell had wrong VPI(0)/VCI(0)
Hard to tell from your limited error logs, but on a UK line the VPI value should be set to 0 and the VCI value 38.
I've known shitty USB modems to throw a wobbler and reset these values to 0 0 before (on a windoze box) which is *possably* what your problem is.
and kept on thinking that the whole UK system was pretty shitty
Just wait until you fly to the US. :-)
Then you will *truely* have fun in a US airport. A place where "Every ones a superhero, everyones a Captin Kirk" and nail clippers are considered weapons of mass murder
Ah, the irony. I love my job.
Irony! dude, read an MSM [1] newspaper!,
These days it's nanotechnology thats ironic. "Cyberspace" "information superhighway" and VR were all ironic ten years ago :-)
[1] MSM = Main stream media... not a blog
Wasn't the idea behind Galileo that us Europeans would have our own indipendent GPS system.
The idea being that if the US decides to do something silly and switch off sections of GPS, we wont be screwed?
Anyojne gotta link?
> he said that they didn't hire pot smokers Well... Thats pretty much our entire physics department fucked then.
Actually, since handguns were banned post Dunblane, gun crime HAS risen in this country. (maybe you have your head burried in the sand)
You see, 80% of handguns were held illegally by criminals. The 20% of us law abiding citizens who had sporting guns legally regestered (with serious consiqunces if they were taken/loaded anywhere other than an authorised sports shooting range etc) had them taken away.
This stopped armed crime how?
Somehow I resented having 750 quids worth of my property confiscated just on the off chance that I was a mass murderer of school children.
*yawn*
This was initaited in London years ago suposidly in resopnce to a large IRA bomb attack.
And dont even get me started on the automatic congestion charge cameras.
More details here
Sorry dude,
Undoubtedly the dumbest one ever was a publicity press release we receved, with a disclaimer saying "privileged and/or confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s)"
I sent it back with a note asking WTF they wanted us to do with it.
If you want to leave Vegas with a small fortune, start with a large fortune.
And spend it in the pawn shops when you are there.
So many people literlay loose the shirt off there back [1] and are reduced to hocking cameras, guns etc. These can be bought very cheaply from pawnbrokers. Coupled with very cheep rooms (+ suites) and free shows to lure in gamblers, you can come away with more monney than you spend if you dont gamble!
[1]I even saw a tux in a pawn shop there.
Trouble was it was typical vegas XXXXXL fat bastard size.
I could be mistaken, but acording to Fridays Today programme, this was a Mori telephone poll.
Perhaps Mori would have seen a different result if, every time someone told them to fuck off and slammed the phone down, they treated as an 'I value my privacy' responce.
I hope I'm wrong, but a 10,000 user trial doesn't actually sound that impressive
It isn't
Just don't preach to the converted and get down to www.faxyourmp.com instead.
Tell our MP's both the civil libities AND technical reasons why this is bad. Most MP's havent a clue about electronic security. Tell them why biometrics are not the solution, why its a bad idea to have all your eggs (data) in one basket (or card), why this wont prevent "terrorists and pediatricians"(!) and why this is just a BAD idea.
Dont sit on your arse. Get faxing!
Just tell them that embeded data in the
Works every time :-)
I think you might be incorect
Mar 18 2004 05:11:22PM XX.XXX.XX.XX Netherlands 6 Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001).CD2.DVD SCREENER.DVL.ShareReactor.avi.exe
Although admitedly most of hte downloads do look like keygens.
> So do yourself a favor and have your eyes tested.
UK slashdoters may not know that by law they are entiteld to free eye tests (paid for by there employer) if they use a VDU regularly as part of there job. ( First google hit)
Employers wont go out of there way to give them for you, so you will need to ask. I work in a laser lab and get free eye tests for obvious reasons.