I am sure it is against EULAs and all, but theoretically how hard would it be to mod these definitions?
I suppose it would be worlds easier if they included data on H4x0red varients used by malicious (non-FBI) persons who in turn modded to original FBI software.
P.S. I really hope that made sense and I didn't just make an ass outta myself.
(you know, they have a basement full of fat middle aged women, bathed in red light, and neve allowed to leave, DON'T YOU???)
not true I used to work at one. (Quality Control (at a telemarketing firm, yes I am not being silly), not a sales person. But the system we worked on was a bong load of dumb terminals running into these massive dialers which ran HP-UX. We only had menu driven shells to work with, no #!sh tricks or anything. But when I ganked the admin manual and reset my terminal's terminal emulation it caused the screen to speak "chinese" (just a mess of garbled crap) it really confued the managers there. Lucky for me they had absolutly no tech support there and had to just mark that station "out of order" until they brought the system down on Sunday and it reset.
In your opinion Sir, what would be the best response to those who feel this monitoring should be fully funded and supported? My personal feelings are just if it is my business, it probably isn't any of yours.
Also, since most e-commerce is conducted on so called "secure" connections, how would the installation of government backdoors effect e-commerce. If a government back door was hacked and my credit information stolen and exploited, who would the blame fall on? The credit card company, the business I ordered from, or the government agency who installed a faulty back door?
L337 script kiddies would no longer have to worry about their Hard Drives telling the tale of all of their l337 ownz3r!ngs. As soon as the feds show up yank the plug.
This would also work for War3z fiends. *again, yanks plug* "What do you mean piracy, I don't even have an OS on there."
Seriously, I think it would only be useful if you could couple it with a RAID-like (I know it wouldn't be true RAID) system so if the power for whatever reason (Power outage, UPS goes bad, battery dies) you info wuold still be there, maybe a RAM-drive that does nightly/hourly back ups...
Here is a little problem. A vast majority of DOD computer users are exactly what you have in the civilian private sector, not very computer literate people who are just trying to get their job done, admin type people. In my relatively short time in the military (USAF) I would have to say that Admin people out number just about any other career field there is (the AF version of the MOS is called the Career field). I don't mean the admin career field is that huge, but every shop, weather they have an actual IM troop or not does have an admin section of some sort, and like the rest of the world the Admins run windows.
As far as security is concerned when I asked if I could set up a small SuSe file server for my users the Comm Squadron told me that we were expressly forbidden to run Linux on the network.
I pretty much think people use l33t-sp34k these days simply because they find it funny, it is kinda gamers (script kiddies r w4nk3rz) only language, i don't think there is anything worng with using it sparingly for humor, in games. I frequently use it in Q3.
Unfair termination of service" or "Violation of service agreement" as well as "Slanderous attacks"
I have no legal experience but I am pretty sure most ISP service agreements include clauses like, "...can terminate service at anytime, with or without notifying the user, for any reason deemed appropriate." or some such garbage. Take a look at your ISP's agreement, just what did you agree to???
"This match is simply marketing. They know their
computer is going to lose, but unlike IBM, those
guys actually _sell_ their chesscomputers. And
many people are going to want the one that was
good enough to play the World Champion. "
There is no way I would want to buy this thing. I could barely beat my Dad's Atari 800 XL at chess back in the day, take on one that contends against chanpions? Foo Fah
Like most large organizations I am sure there are different sections, or maybe factions if you will, and at IBM. There may be a team of developers who truley do believe in the rather cliche statement of "Peave, Love, Linux", and then another team of developers who are all like, "We are gunna get paid big time, go RIAA." The problem with you comment is you are branding IBM a singular entity, and they are not. The CPRM and SDMI issues are discouraging, but at the same time the Linux attention (at this time, it could change in the future) is exiting and promising.
Their public relations department is probably taking hard drugs to deal with the pain of the public backlash of from the SDMI faction vs the PLL faction.
I am an FSA(Functional Systems Administrator) on an Air Force Base, and the Communications Squadron expressly forbids us to use Linux on the network. "I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
This may be a little offtopic, but I couldn't help my self. There's this little pop-punk band from Allentown PA called Digger who wrote a song called Geek Love, just thought I'd share the lyrics with you all.
Geek Love by Digger I was wondering what you would think
of a stupid guy like me
'cause I was thinking it might be real cool
to be with a popular girl like you
you don't even look at me in school
what can I do
to get you to notice me
'cause I always notice you
I guess I was always way too short
I was never any good at sports
I don't want a letter on my shirt
I don't want to be just like Kurt
I want to be your man
I want to hold your hand
I want you to be my girlfriend
we could be a team, oh baby
we could be ok
we don't have to hear what they think
so why should we care what they say
we could go to the movies
get some popcorn and an icee-freeze
oh well I guess that that's ok
I forgot what I was going to say
doesn't really matter anyway, hey hey
I could call you on the phone
nobody has to know
maybe I could walk you home from school
that would be my dream, baby
please, that would be so cool
you don't have to tell anybody
you can still treat me like a fool
I might just be a geek
but I'm a geek in love with you
geek love
sorry to waste all you guy's (and gal's) time, if you are really curious about this band they are on Hopeless Records and you can buy all their CDs from either the label site or from interpunk.
SquareSoft does some of the best CGI movies in the world. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will be released on 13 July this year. It is the first major motion picture to be completely CG and not be a cartoon. Toy Story and it's sequal were CG correct, but very cartoonish, where as FF is attempting to be as life like as possible. Star Wars Episode I doesn't count, rumor is that a few of the characters were in fact real live actors on film.
I just saw Snatch two nights ago. My friend and I took two lady friends and lets just say it is a guy movie all the way. I don't think there was one chick there who wasn't smacking her sigificant other and whining about how terrible it was. At the same time I don't think there wasn't a guy there who thought it wasn't a great idea to feed your victems(abusive girlfriends who don't enjoy great action/comedy/whatever the fsck that was flicks) to pigs. One thing I noticed, after this and Fight Club, how can Brad pit get away with dressing the way he does, looking so thouroughly unwashed as he did, and most of the ladies leave the theater with tingles down below???
I hope the internet porn industry gets a hold of this and only sends me banners for porn I want to look at, no more "fat girlz here", "pregnant chicks", or "50 plus", lets not even touch the gay ads...
I am currently working in the military as a mindless paper pusher, (very soon getting moved to a sysadmin position, yippee) and while I am here I am getting college, when I get out in 2 and a half years I intend on looking into the NSA as a career option. Why you may ask, well i look at it like this, I have become spoiled with my military benefits. I recently broke my ankle in a sporting inncident and had to have a prosthetic plate installed, cost me nothing. Two weeks of convelecent leave also helped out. I do not know for sure, but I do intend on looking into it, I am hoping there are military like benefits involved with working in the NSA as they are DOD as well...
Slashdot Mirror
This may sound like nitpicking...
"With this month's launch of the two most advanced domestic computing consoles ever witnessed - Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox"
Nintendo is a Japanese company, and the Gamecube is hardly a domestic console. In fact I believe the X-Box to be the first truely domestic console.
As this is very important to developing the most important applications on any system... GAMES!!!!
I am sure it is against EULAs and all, but theoretically how hard would it be to mod these definitions?
I suppose it would be worlds easier if they included data on H4x0red varients used by malicious (non-FBI) persons who in turn modded to original FBI software.
P.S. I really hope that made sense and I didn't just make an ass outta myself.
(you know, they have a basement full of fat middle aged women, bathed in red light, and neve allowed to leave, DON'T YOU???) not true I used to work at one. (Quality Control (at a telemarketing firm, yes I am not being silly), not a sales person. But the system we worked on was a bong load of dumb terminals running into these massive dialers which ran HP-UX. We only had menu driven shells to work with, no #!sh tricks or anything. But when I ganked the admin manual and reset my terminal's terminal emulation it caused the screen to speak "chinese" (just a mess of garbled crap) it really confued the managers there. Lucky for me they had absolutly no tech support there and had to just mark that station "out of order" until they brought the system down on Sunday and it reset.
Time to dig out your War Dialers, there are bound to be dial ups on this thing. What's a War Dialer you ask? /me shakes head. Kids these days...
But given the ammount of time it would take for all the copies to die off you would only have an army of super strong old people.
"Night of the Living Geriatric Jet Lis"
In your opinion Sir, what would be the best response to those who feel this monitoring should be fully funded and supported? My personal feelings are just if it is my business, it probably isn't any of yours.
Also, since most e-commerce is conducted on so called "secure" connections, how would the installation of government backdoors effect e-commerce. If a government back door was hacked and my credit information stolen and exploited, who would the blame fall on? The credit card company, the business I ordered from, or the government agency who installed a faulty back door?
L337 script kiddies would no longer have to worry about their Hard Drives telling the tale of all of their l337 ownz3r!ngs. As soon as the feds show up yank the plug.
This would also work for War3z fiends. *again, yanks plug* "What do you mean piracy, I don't even have an OS on there."
Seriously, I think it would only be useful if you could couple it with a RAID-like (I know it wouldn't be true RAID) system so if the power for whatever reason (Power outage, UPS goes bad, battery dies) you info wuold still be there, maybe a RAM-drive that does nightly/hourly back ups...
Here is a little problem. A vast majority of DOD computer users are exactly what you have in the civilian private sector, not very computer literate people who are just trying to get their job done, admin type people. In my relatively short time in the military (USAF) I would have to say that Admin people out number just about any other career field there is (the AF version of the MOS is called the Career field). I don't mean the admin career field is that huge, but every shop, weather they have an actual IM troop or not does have an admin section of some sort, and like the rest of the world the Admins run windows.
As far as security is concerned when I asked if I could set up a small SuSe file server for my users the Comm Squadron told me that we were expressly forbidden to run Linux on the network.
I pretty much think people use l33t-sp34k these days simply because they find it funny, it is kinda gamers (script kiddies r w4nk3rz) only language, i don't think there is anything worng with using it sparingly for humor, in games. I frequently use it in Q3.
Unfair termination of service" or "Violation of service agreement" as well as "Slanderous attacks"
I have no legal experience but I am pretty sure most ISP service agreements include clauses like, "...can terminate service at anytime, with or without notifying the user, for any reason deemed appropriate." or some such garbage. Take a look at your ISP's agreement, just what did you agree to???
"This match is simply marketing. They know their
computer is going to lose, but unlike IBM, those
guys actually _sell_ their chesscomputers. And
many people are going to want the one that was
good enough to play the World Champion. "
There is no way I would want to buy this thing. I could barely beat my Dad's Atari 800 XL at chess back in the day, take on one that contends against chanpions? Foo Fah
"I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
Their public relations department is probably taking hard drugs to deal with the pain of the public backlash of from the SDMI faction vs the PLL faction.
"I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
I am an FSA(Functional Systems Administrator) on an Air Force Base, and the Communications Squadron expressly forbids us to use Linux on the network.
"I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
Could this theory in any way apply to the mystery of how Stonehenge was built? Or did someone solve that one while I wasn't looking?
"I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
Majel was also Nurse Chapel in the original series.
"I wish I didn't care,
but I do."
This may be a little offtopic, but I couldn't help my self. There's this little pop-punk band from Allentown PA called Digger who wrote a song called Geek Love, just thought I'd share the lyrics with you all.
Geek Love by Digger
I was wondering what you would think
of a stupid guy like me
'cause I was thinking it might be real cool
to be with a popular girl like you
you don't even look at me in school
what can I do
to get you to notice me
'cause I always notice you
I guess I was always way too short
I was never any good at sports
I don't want a letter on my shirt
I don't want to be just like Kurt
I want to be your man
I want to hold your hand
I want you to be my girlfriend
we could be a team, oh baby
we could be ok
we don't have to hear what they think
so why should we care what they say
we could go to the movies
get some popcorn and an icee-freeze
oh well I guess that that's ok
I forgot what I was going to say
doesn't really matter anyway, hey hey
I could call you on the phone
nobody has to know
maybe I could walk you home from school
that would be my dream, baby
please, that would be so cool
you don't have to tell anybody
you can still treat me like a fool
I might just be a geek
but I'm a geek in love with you
geek love
sorry to waste all you guy's (and gal's) time, if you are really curious about this band they are on Hopeless Records and you can buy all their CDs from either the label site or from interpunk.
Okay, mod me down now...
SquareSoft does some of the best CGI movies in the world. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will be released on 13 July this year. It is the first major motion picture to be completely CG and not be a cartoon. Toy Story and it's sequal were CG correct, but very cartoonish, where as FF is attempting to be as life like as possible. Star Wars Episode I doesn't count, rumor is that a few of the characters were in fact real live actors on film.
I just saw Snatch two nights ago. My friend and I took two lady friends and lets just say it is a guy movie all the way. I don't think there was one chick there who wasn't smacking her sigificant other and whining about how terrible it was. At the same time I don't think there wasn't a guy there who thought it wasn't a great idea to feed your victems(abusive girlfriends who don't enjoy great action/comedy/whatever the fsck that was flicks) to pigs. One thing I noticed, after this and Fight Club, how can Brad pit get away with dressing the way he does, looking so thouroughly unwashed as he did, and most of the ladies leave the theater with tingles down below???
I hope the internet porn industry gets a hold of this and only sends me banners for porn I want to look at, no more "fat girlz here", "pregnant chicks", or "50 plus", lets not even touch the gay ads...
I am currently working in the military as a mindless paper pusher, (very soon getting moved to a sysadmin position, yippee) and while I am here I am getting college, when I get out in 2 and a half years I intend on looking into the NSA as a career option. Why you may ask, well i look at it like this, I have become spoiled with my military benefits. I recently broke my ankle in a sporting inncident and had to have a prosthetic plate installed, cost me nothing. Two weeks of convelecent leave also helped out. I do not know for sure, but I do intend on looking into it, I am hoping there are military like benefits involved with working in the NSA as they are DOD as well...