[Speculation:ON]
Wouldn't it just be the most poetically ironic if the mechanism of the breech was due to one of there staff putting in a CD with the DRM root-kit into one of their connected system, which then allowed the propagation of further exploits? [Speculation:OFF]
Their entire response with the root-kit fiasco never sat well with me. Their apology was more like a child that was force to do so - I didn't feel they really had remorse or felt what they did was wrong. Afterall, who would even care if they had a root-kit on their system?
Despite all this doom and gloom, I don't think it will happen. Hyperinflation is a far more realistic fear. By the way, you'll notice I called homosexuality a sin. Imagine what could happen to me if I had posted this using a Trusted Internet ID that someone could report to whoever is in charge of hate crime prosecution!
Yet we have your IP address tracked and using the same prosecution techniques as the RIAA uses to arrest 90 year old grandmothers. Your hate crime information has been send to the hate crime prosecution.
You can expect your neighbor to receive your summons. Ain't unsecured wireless grand?
In fact, I believe the reactors were doing fine even after the earthquake. It's the damn tsunami that that occurred afterwards that threw the wrench into the gears.
The USA is the most obese nation on earth. 40 years ago children played by going outside and having pickup games of baseball or soccer or touch football, running around and getting exercise. Now, they "play" by sitting there and moving only their thumbs.
You forgot broom ball, street hockey (Car...Game on!) and how about just plain riding a bike? I remember some of the crazy stuff we used to do on our bikes and spend the entire day doing it.
if their security is as good as their programmers.... then we're in trouble
This reminds me of the old computer laws I had on a mug in the early '80s... If construction workers built buildings the same way that programmers built programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
I beg your pardon, not a marketing company? This is from Epsilon's site: "Epsilon is the world's largest permission-based email marketer."
It's the same Epsilon that College Board (and Kroger, and all these other companies) use, I believe.
I don't recall *giving* College Board permission to share my e-mail address, name, any information, with any third party other than schools our son
wanted to receive his test scores. Is there something implicit in giving that permission that granted them permission to share with third parties,
be they marketers or simply e-mail delivery services?
Man, when is this cavalier treatment of so many peoples' information, for the sake of corporate profit, going to end?
I think the time has come where privacy policies need to change where 3rd parties are not disclosed as 3rd parties - they should be disclosed by name and not the generic "3rd parties" description.
What is becoming more frustrating, is generally we have no idea of "who or where" our personal information is. It was news to me that Epsilon has my email address - hell back in the ChoicePoint fiasco, I didn't know they had my information.
Has the time for full disclosure regarding who these mysterious 3rd parties arrived?
debug
-g=c800:5 (or c800:ccc if Adaptec controler)
Let the fond memories begin...I remember running good old Spinrite (from Gibson Research - www.grc.com) that was able to do a non-destructive interleave optimization back on the old ST-506 interface drives. Was a very slick program at the time. I really miss having the ability to low level format drives.
Whitespace != readability. Even with whitespace it if looks like crap, it still can be unreadable.
Honestly, I think the whole new site looks like absolute horrible. Everything tends to bleed into itself. There are no clear delineations of sections. It is just looks like mess of crap.
I am of the same mind. I think he exemplifies the ability to use special effects to compliment the story - it is a refreshing change that has been long overdue from typical Hollywood.
If you haven't already, you should check out some of Nolan other works. Memento was particularly unique and interesting.
FTFA - they recommend that each and every application has a privacy policy and determine how gather information might be used... But they fail to mention that virtually all privacy policies have a little "get out of jail free card", a clause that reserves the right for the company to change the privacy policy from time, and continued use of the application constitutes acceptance of the new policy.
With an escape clause like that, privacy policies are pointless and useless. When company A with an application follows their original privacy policy and uses all that personal information for only its prescribed use, everything is great. But when the stockholders or the president of the company decide their payout are enough, or the economy drops, all that information can be sold to other companies that that will pay for it; and with our privacy policy that includes our "famous" escape clause" allows us to modify our policy and our users can't say a damn thing about it.
Or to put this in to slashdot terms....
1) Develop useless application that makes legit use of personal data 2)Have privacy policy escape clause 3) President/board demands more money 4) Modify privacy policy w/ famous escape clause 5) Sell private data to anyone that will pay. ... PROFIT!!!
With privacy policies like this, why are they even helpful?
Vista = Nightmare Home = Bigger Nightmare Basic = Why don't you kill me now?
I had a small home network with an older home NAS device that used NTLM as it's authentication method. Talk about a nightmare trying to get that to work. Home basic has NTLM turned off by default through a local policy. And guess what, they also don't include any local policy editors with the home install. And to try and track down the specific registry key to disable that policy? Virtually impossible. Nothing worse than finding your knowledge base article that tells you how to fix your problem by modifying the local policy by using the local policy editor which isn't included. All these little things that one doesn't find out until the "shrinkwrap" is broken.
Just ended up wiping the machine and reloaded an OEM XP professional on it (while I upgraded the memory). Was cheaper, less of a nightmare, and knew it would work. In a corporate environment with a users own computer? I doubt I would have had that option... Yes, it would absolutely be a support nightmare.
I wonder if they have the same security bulletin writers as Microsoft does, it reads just like a patch Tuesday update description. No real details, except that your system can be completely compromised.
I remember my fries 10mb Sider for his Apple ][ - talk about a blast from the past. I remember my first 20mb HD thinking that was pretty kewl, until I got a RLL card and turned it into 32mb drive (that I thought would last a life time) How wrong we were.
yeah, I remember paying that also - but for the Timex-Sinclair 1000 (North American version of the ZX81). Damn scary when you think about it. Makes one think with now 8gb of memory, we should be mind-melding with computers now.
Go back a decade further to 1987 and I can tell you stories about paying just under $800/meg for my '286...Good old DIPP. needed to buy sets of 9 chips for a bank, 4 banks of 256k to make a megabyte, at ~$18 a chip. Now I look at the price of ram and never complain when I paid that price back then
In the end, no treatment beyond some physical therapy and some chiropractic treatments. Also being careful with lifting and moving heavy objects. The couple years afterward, I would get the occasional "twing" for lack of a better term (it would almost feel like a shift/shot of pressurized liquid (think: like a whoopie cushion releasing) in my lower back.)That would be a warning sign if I was pushing things too hard - I would know to back off.
After that, it's been about 10 years now without a problem and things have been pretty good. I know now there are more options than what there were 15 years ago, but it hasn't been enough of a problem to warrant even investigating those other options.
So in the end, not too much other than that. It's worked pretty well for me. Hasn't really stopped me that much either. Five years ago, I completed my 3rd annual summit of Devil's Tower (aka rock climbing). Haven't done that in the the past few years since I've returned back to school, but I will.
Yeah, they did. I was was taken by ambulance to the hospital, x-rayed, discovered I have an extra extra vertebra in lower lumbar which is where the disk was bulged. I was laid up for close to two weeks before I could even begin to straighten my back.
So, yeah, most circumstances they don't just hand out morphine, mine was a non-typical case. Even 25 years earlier, I had the same result with morphine after surgery from a ruptured appendix (ironically demoral worked well). Morphine was used for pain afterward, with the same non-result. As I later discovered, my cousin also has the same type of non-response to morphine also, as does her son.
So genetic abnormalities? Possible...with my cousin having similar issues, quite possible. All I know on both occasions that I have been given morphine, is has done absolutely nothing for pain management.
So does that mean that since the morphine didn't work, my pain was the result of a placebo effect? [chuckle]
Because the uninformed equate that placebo effect = not effective... where they should be thinking, placebo effect = effective without an identified factor/cause.
Honestly, if I have the choice between a placebo effect or some medication that has major side-effects (ie: damage to the liver/kidney), I will take the placebo. If one can elicit a placebo effect without the dangers of medication side-effects, why is that a bad thing?
For example, morphine does exactly zero for me with regards to pain management. When I had a pooched back (bulged lower lumbar), it did absolutely nothing, yet a regular ibuprofen did more. I tell you, I would have welcomed a placebo effect. All the morphine did was give me a headache and make my pi$$ stink like a S.o.B.
Man that errormessage is old school... What ya printing on? A HP LaserJet IIId?!?!?!?!? I haven't seen that error for almost a decade now.
[tongue in cheek]PC Load Letter = Paper Cartridge is empty or the wrong tray is in. In other words put in the letter sized tray. Back in those days, there were different trays for your different sized paper that you had to swap manually. Yeah, I know I will probably get modded down for this for not recognizing the joke here... But you know these young whippersnappers that will work anywhere, even in their kitchen.
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[Speculation:ON]
Wouldn't it just be the most poetically ironic if the mechanism of the breech was due to one of there staff putting in a CD with the DRM root-kit into one of their connected system, which then allowed the propagation of further exploits?
[Speculation:OFF]
Their entire response with the root-kit fiasco never sat well with me. Their apology was more like a child that was force to do so - I didn't feel they really had remorse or felt what they did was wrong. Afterall, who would even care if they had a root-kit on their system?
Despite all this doom and gloom, I don't think it will happen. Hyperinflation is a far more realistic fear. By the way, you'll notice I called homosexuality a sin. Imagine what could happen to me if I had posted this using a Trusted Internet ID that someone could report to whoever is in charge of hate crime prosecution!
Yet we have your IP address tracked and using the same prosecution techniques as the RIAA uses to arrest 90 year old grandmothers. Your hate crime information has been send to the hate crime prosecution.
You can expect your neighbor to receive your summons. Ain't unsecured wireless grand?
It is easier to break 1 machine with 50,000 users than 50,000 machines with 1 user each.
It is more efficient to break 1 machine with 50,000 users than 50,000 machines with 1 user each.
Fixed it for ya. The number of users doesn't make it easier, it just makes the potential return on the effort more significant.
In fact, I believe the reactors were doing fine even after the earthquake. It's the damn tsunami that that occurred afterwards that threw the wrench into the gears.
The USA is the most obese nation on earth. 40 years ago children played by going outside and having pickup games of baseball or soccer or touch football, running around and getting exercise. Now, they "play" by sitting there and moving only their thumbs.
You forgot broom ball, street hockey (Car...Game on!) and how about just plain riding a bike? I remember some of the crazy stuff we used to do on our bikes and spend the entire day doing it.
Times have sure changed.
if their security is as good as their programmers .... then we're in trouble
This reminds me of the old computer laws I had on a mug in the early '80s... If construction workers built buildings the same way that programmers built programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
I beg your pardon, not a marketing company? This is from Epsilon's site: "Epsilon is the world's largest permission-based email marketer." It's the same Epsilon that College Board (and Kroger, and all these other companies) use, I believe. I don't recall *giving* College Board permission to share my e-mail address, name, any information, with any third party other than schools our son wanted to receive his test scores. Is there something implicit in giving that permission that granted them permission to share with third parties, be they marketers or simply e-mail delivery services? Man, when is this cavalier treatment of so many peoples' information, for the sake of corporate profit, going to end?
I think the time has come where privacy policies need to change where 3rd parties are not disclosed as 3rd parties - they should be disclosed by name and not the generic "3rd parties" description.
What is becoming more frustrating, is generally we have no idea of "who or where" our personal information is. It was news to me that Epsilon has my email address - hell back in the ChoicePoint fiasco, I didn't know they had my information.
Has the time for full disclosure regarding who these mysterious 3rd parties arrived?
I would take it one step more... two words - screen resolution. Without resolution on your screen, graphics card is pretty much crippled.
So what you are saying is that slashdot is feeding the trolls?
debug
-g=c800:5 (or c800:ccc if Adaptec controler)
Let the fond memories begin...I remember running good old Spinrite (from Gibson Research - www.grc.com) that was able to do a non-destructive interleave optimization back on the old ST-506 interface drives. Was a very slick program at the time. I really miss having the ability to low level format drives.
If I had mod points, I would mod this up - even if a AC
Whitespace != readability. Even with whitespace it if looks like crap, it still can be unreadable.
Honestly, I think the whole new site looks like absolute horrible. Everything tends to bleed into itself. There are no clear delineations of sections. It is just looks like mess of crap.
I am of the same mind. I think he exemplifies the ability to use special effects to compliment the story - it is a refreshing change that has been long overdue from typical Hollywood.
If you haven't already, you should check out some of Nolan other works. Memento was particularly unique and interesting.
FTFA - they recommend that each and every application has a privacy policy and determine how gather information might be used... But they fail to mention that virtually all privacy policies have a little "get out of jail free card", a clause that reserves the right for the company to change the privacy policy from time, and continued use of the application constitutes acceptance of the new policy.
With an escape clause like that, privacy policies are pointless and useless. When company A with an application follows their original privacy policy and uses all that personal information for only its prescribed use, everything is great. But when the stockholders or the president of the company decide their payout are enough, or the economy drops, all that information can be sold to other companies that that will pay for it; and with our privacy policy that includes our "famous" escape clause" allows us to modify our policy and our users can't say a damn thing about it.
Or to put this in to slashdot terms....
1) Develop useless application that makes legit use of personal data
2)Have privacy policy escape clause
3) President/board demands more money
4) Modify privacy policy w/ famous escape clause
5) Sell private data to anyone that will pay.
...
PROFIT!!!
With privacy policies like this, why are they even helpful?
Vista = Nightmare
Home = Bigger Nightmare
Basic = Why don't you kill me now?
I had a small home network with an older home NAS device that used NTLM as it's authentication method. Talk about a nightmare trying to get that to work. Home basic has NTLM turned off by default through a local policy. And guess what, they also don't include any local policy editors with the home install. And to try and track down the specific registry key to disable that policy? Virtually impossible. Nothing worse than finding your knowledge base article that tells you how to fix your problem by modifying the local policy by using the local policy editor which isn't included. All these little things that one doesn't find out until the "shrinkwrap" is broken.
Just ended up wiping the machine and reloaded an OEM XP professional on it (while I upgraded the memory). Was cheaper, less of a nightmare, and knew it would work. In a corporate environment with a users own computer? I doubt I would have had that option... Yes, it would absolutely be a support nightmare.
I wonder if they have the same security bulletin writers as Microsoft does, it reads just like a patch Tuesday update description. No real details, except that your system can be completely compromised.
Now I got an excuse... No Honey, I wasn't watching porn, the TV just switched and it won't let me change the channel!
I remember my fries 10mb Sider for his Apple ][ - talk about a blast from the past. I remember my first 20mb HD thinking that was pretty kewl, until I got a RLL card and turned it into 32mb drive (that I thought would last a life time) How wrong we were.
yeah, I remember paying that also - but for the Timex-Sinclair 1000 (North American version of the ZX81). Damn scary when you think about it. Makes one think with now 8gb of memory, we should be mind-melding with computers now.
Go back a decade further to 1987 and I can tell you stories about paying just under $800/meg for my '286...Good old DIPP. needed to buy sets of 9 chips for a bank, 4 banks of 256k to make a megabyte, at ~$18 a chip. Now I look at the price of ram and never complain when I paid that price back then
You insensitive clod!
In the end, no treatment beyond some physical therapy and some chiropractic treatments. Also being careful with lifting and moving heavy objects. The couple years afterward, I would get the occasional "twing" for lack of a better term (it would almost feel like a shift/shot of pressurized liquid (think: like a whoopie cushion releasing) in my lower back.)That would be a warning sign if I was pushing things too hard - I would know to back off.
After that, it's been about 10 years now without a problem and things have been pretty good. I know now there are more options than what there were 15 years ago, but it hasn't been enough of a problem to warrant even investigating those other options.
So in the end, not too much other than that. It's worked pretty well for me. Hasn't really stopped me that much either. Five years ago, I completed my 3rd annual summit of Devil's Tower (aka rock climbing). Haven't done that in the the past few years since I've returned back to school, but I will.
Yeah, they did. I was was taken by ambulance to the hospital, x-rayed, discovered I have an extra extra vertebra in lower lumbar which is where the disk was bulged. I was laid up for close to two weeks before I could even begin to straighten my back.
So, yeah, most circumstances they don't just hand out morphine, mine was a non-typical case. Even 25 years earlier, I had the same result with morphine after surgery from a ruptured appendix (ironically demoral worked well). Morphine was used for pain afterward, with the same non-result. As I later discovered, my cousin also has the same type of non-response to morphine also, as does her son.
So genetic abnormalities? Possible...with my cousin having similar issues, quite possible. All I know on both occasions that I have been given morphine, is has done absolutely nothing for pain management.
So does that mean that since the morphine didn't work, my pain was the result of a placebo effect? [chuckle]
Because the uninformed equate that placebo effect = not effective... where they should be thinking, placebo effect = effective without an identified factor/cause.
Honestly, if I have the choice between a placebo effect or some medication that has major side-effects (ie: damage to the liver/kidney), I will take the placebo. If one can elicit a placebo effect without the dangers of medication side-effects, why is that a bad thing?
For example, morphine does exactly zero for me with regards to pain management. When I had a pooched back (bulged lower lumbar), it did absolutely nothing, yet a regular ibuprofen did more. I tell you, I would have welcomed a placebo effect. All the morphine did was give me a headache and make my pi$$ stink like a S.o.B.
Cheers
Xyst.
Man that errormessage is old school... What ya printing on? A HP LaserJet IIId?!?!?!?!? I haven't seen that error for almost a decade now.
[tongue in cheek]PC Load Letter = Paper Cartridge is empty or the wrong tray is in. In other words put in the letter sized tray. Back in those days, there were different trays for your different sized paper that you had to swap manually. Yeah, I know I will probably get modded down for this for not recognizing the joke here... But you know these young whippersnappers that will work anywhere, even in their kitchen.