Lots of stuff can happen. He could be hit by a car or could have suffered heart attack. How come they would not consider this simple possibility of RL intervention.
I'm wondering just what kind of heart attack he could have had that let him still attend meetings and promise to do things, but not do or say anything else about them?
So he had a heart attack when he was hit by a car and has been lying around in a hospital bed for the last eight months, unable to speak or do anything... but in addition to attending the occasional meeting of the CentOS team he was able to rouse himself for just long enough to lock down his personal ownership of the centos.org domain without saying a word about it to anybody? Maybe he was sleepwalking when he did that.
Of course when we all have to go to Government run health care like Canada, we will have to wait in line for 3months for wound treatment and instead of nano-diamonds, we will have to make do with cubic zirconium dust covered in aspirin.
I've seen these celluloid things go into a not-so-mint-anymore condition after mere 10 years on non-optimal attic conditions, while CDs were just fine!
If you look through the world's museums and archives you won't find a single CD produced before 1979. Clearly these things cannot last more than thirty years. If anyone tries to tell you something different, insist that they show you a hundred year old CD. Sure, they'll probably come up with some lame story which explains why they can't produce one, but we all know the real truth.
That's why I have taken all of my most important data and carved it into the Nazca Plateau. You just can't beat that kind of reliability.
Notice that the summary suggested "Let's say you're standing in a library with 20 shelves in front of you and thousands of books. You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where the book you're looking for is." It didn't say "You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where you left your Fritos."
But if space aliens were to suddenly land in the U.S., they'd be voting, given free healthcare, and have their own Emmy-winning reality TV show before anyone could even examine them for xeno-viruses or concealed particle-beam sidearms.
Why is everybody always talking about Paris Hilton?
You could consider investing in more reliable cellulose-based storage media. You'll find that a lot of popular ebooks have been translated into this "paper" format over the last, oh, 500 years and there's a good chance that your city even has one or more brick-and-mortar retailers who specialize in them.
And then talking to a lawyer so you can find out which part of "By clicking accept you irrevocably grant ownership of your DNA and all derivative works" is really enforceable, and what that means for the rest of it.
I wonder why pretty much all astronomy sources are unwilling to state with certainty that Jupiter has a rocky core.
Well, next time you go there why don't you drop by and take a few samples? There would be a lot of "astronomy sources" who would be happy to see what you find.
An http server, running as root, accepts arbitrary commands, without authentication, embedded in a URL? That's not a bug thats... that's a design flaw... no... that's... unbelievable!
Actually, that's how the new firmware got on the router in the first place.
I was wondering: How can this attack be carried out if the external web management is turned off?
<A HREF="http://192.168.0.1/webmanagementinterface/ownyourfrakkingrouter.pl">Hey, since you're inside your network and able to access the web interface directly, why don't you click on this for me?</a>
That's how. For bonus points load the exploit as an image and inline it on as many web pages as you can find.
Need anything else explained? The London police probably won't arrest be for telling you that for at least another hour.
No, you've got it the wrong way around. Earlier models (up to v5.0) were hackable out-of-the-box. Linksys received quite some flak when they introduced the v5.0 model that had less memory and as such could not be easily re-flashed with third-party firmware. As a remedy they introduced the 54GL model that again had more memory (and a higher price of course).
So you agree that earlier models which were released shortly before the WRT54GL, were stripped and crippled. Except for the part where you said he was wrong you just agreed with everything the grandparent poster said.
After a few years of walking around on Mars you would get pretty hungry. And thirsty. And you might need to change the air in that spacesuit of yours too.
Keep in mind that to children under the age of, oh, I don't know, thirty, velcro strips are some of the most amazing toys ever made. Expect to have them stripped off of your cables and laid out on the floor the moment someone finds out you've got them.
Vacuum leaks? There's vacuum leaking OUT of the LHC?
Holy crap! If this continues that monster could leak enough vacuum to completely cover the entire world, possibly destroying all life on Earth. How long are these madmen going to keep playing with dangerous things like vacuum before somebody puts a stop to it all?
If it's an "Audio / Video Aggravation Service", isn't it directly competing with offerings like Fox News?
I don't see how they can possibly compete with that level of aggravation. Now that I have figured out it's not all a joke, just watching that makes my eyes bleed.
An HD movie in 3 minutes? Even if they are calling "480p" HD, there is no way in hell that is transfering wirelessly in 3 minutes to a cellular device.
Sure you can. I do that all the time. You just need to do away with some of your preconceptions.
Watch this. On the left I have a phone. It's a standard, off the shelf model, the same kind you can pick up just about anywhere pretty cheaply as long as you're willing to sign in blood.
On the right, a microSD card packed with about eight gigabytes of hard core, er, family friendly and perfectly legal video. Again, just a standard card you could buy from a store. Well, one that carried SD cards. Perhaps you shop smart, shop SD Mart.
Start the timer. In less than two seconds I can pick up the card with one hand, move it across the desk and plug it in to the phone. That's eight gigabytes of transfer in two seconds or 32Gb/s. All without using any wires, just fingers and those little metal contact thingies on the card. That's almost as much bandwidth as a station wagon filled with DLTs.
There you go. 32Gb/s of wireless transmission. Just remember not to divulge any of the details I have shown you to the investors until after you get their money.
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Maybe you could read something more than just the summary. "Lance basically is not actively involved in the project anymore. He attends meetings irregularly. If he was present and was asked certain things, he usually said that he need to look that up or he will do that later. But that never happened. And next to the meetings we do not see or hear from him at all."
I'm wondering just what kind of heart attack he could have had that let him still attend meetings and promise to do things, but not do or say anything else about them?
"http://lestighaniker.de/2009/07/30#open-letter-to-lance-davis"> "
So he had a heart attack when he was hit by a car and has been lying around in a hospital bed for the last eight months, unable to speak or do anything... but in addition to attending the occasional meeting of the CentOS team he was able to rouse himself for just long enough to lock down his personal ownership of the centos.org domain without saying a word about it to anybody? Maybe he was sleepwalking when he did that.
It's easy, really. All you need to do is use a fake address which happens to be exactly the same as your real address.
It's as simple as closing a user's browser window without using Javascript.
It is now.
This vulnerability also gives the three people running DJB DNS a much needed opportunity for some smugness.
Somehow I doubt that the world's third largest producer of diamonds would have any trouble with that, even if it were a real issue.
To say nothing of whale transport.
This book is almost a thousand years old. Where's the thousand year old CD copy? Huh?
If you look through the world's museums and archives you won't find a single CD produced before 1979. Clearly these things cannot last more than thirty years. If anyone tries to tell you something different, insist that they show you a hundred year old CD. Sure, they'll probably come up with some lame story which explains why they can't produce one, but we all know the real truth.
That's why I have taken all of my most important data and carved it into the Nazca Plateau. You just can't beat that kind of reliability.
They said "What is this thing, and where are you going with that shark?"
Did Not Write the Footnote, Vern.
Notice that the summary suggested "Let's say you're standing in a library with 20 shelves in front of you and thousands of books. You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where the book you're looking for is." It didn't say "You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where you left your Fritos."
Why is everybody always talking about Paris Hilton?
You could consider investing in more reliable cellulose-based storage media. You'll find that a lot of popular ebooks have been translated into this "paper" format over the last, oh, 500 years and there's a good chance that your city even has one or more brick-and-mortar retailers who specialize in them.
Get 'em before the fad passes.
And then talking to a lawyer so you can find out which part of "By clicking accept you irrevocably grant ownership of your DNA and all derivative works" is really enforceable, and what that means for the rest of it.
Well, next time you go there why don't you drop by and take a few samples? There would be a lot of "astronomy sources" who would be happy to see what you find.
Actually, that's how the new firmware got on the router in the first place.
Seriously, look it up.
<A HREF="http://192.168.0.1/webmanagementinterface/ownyourfrakkingrouter.pl">Hey, since you're inside your network and able to access the web interface directly, why don't you click on this for me?</a>
That's how. For bonus points load the exploit as an image and inline it on as many web pages as you can find.
Need anything else explained? The London police probably won't arrest be for telling you that for at least another hour.
So you agree that earlier models which were released shortly before the WRT54GL, were stripped and crippled. Except for the part where you said he was wrong you just agreed with everything the grandparent poster said.
That reminds me of an old joke.
Two people are in a truck. One says to the other "Look at that sign on the overpass. It says 'No trucks over eight feet high'."
The second person looks around and then replies "I don't see any cops around. Let's go for it."
After a few years of walking around on Mars you would get pretty hungry. And thirsty. And you might need to change the air in that spacesuit of yours too.
Keep in mind that to children under the age of, oh, I don't know, thirty, velcro strips are some of the most amazing toys ever made. Expect to have them stripped off of your cables and laid out on the floor the moment someone finds out you've got them.
You're too late. Canadian forces have already invaded New York City.
It's a good thing tall people haven't tried to hold a party. The police would need to deploy rubber nuclear weapons to break it up.
Vacuum leaks? There's vacuum leaking OUT of the LHC?
Holy crap! If this continues that monster could leak enough vacuum to completely cover the entire world, possibly destroying all life on Earth. How long are these madmen going to keep playing with dangerous things like vacuum before somebody puts a stop to it all?
I see that this is your first time visiting England.
The police are far too busy tracking down dangerous criminals to worry about your petty concerns.
If it's an "Audio / Video Aggravation Service", isn't it directly competing with offerings like Fox News?
I don't see how they can possibly compete with that level of aggravation. Now that I have figured out it's not all a joke, just watching that makes my eyes bleed.
Sure you can. I do that all the time. You just need to do away with some of your preconceptions.
Watch this. On the left I have a phone. It's a standard, off the shelf model, the same kind you can pick up just about anywhere pretty cheaply as long as you're willing to sign in blood.
On the right, a microSD card packed with about eight gigabytes of hard core, er, family friendly and perfectly legal video. Again, just a standard card you could buy from a store. Well, one that carried SD cards. Perhaps you shop smart, shop SD Mart.
Start the timer. In less than two seconds I can pick up the card with one hand, move it across the desk and plug it in to the phone. That's eight gigabytes of transfer in two seconds or 32Gb/s. All without using any wires, just fingers and those little metal contact thingies on the card. That's almost as much bandwidth as a station wagon filled with DLTs.
There you go. 32Gb/s of wireless transmission. Just remember not to divulge any of the details I have shown you to the investors until after you get their money.