From this point, he launched nmap against Sdem's box (he didn't have the money for a more effective port scanner) and was greeted with the holy grail of sorts for BlackHats
I'm sorry, but a combination of overly grandiloquent (for lack of a better word) language and irrelevant cheap-shots is just the sort of thing that makes me not take a post seriously.
Oh, and what exactly do you need to do to be "Interview material" for slashdot? Over and over I am amazed at these comments that seem to equate slashdot with some sort of relevant news-source - it's a bloody blog for geeks for gods sake. The interview was interesting, far more so than most of the stuff we see here (I am sure Marcelo Tosatti's character is far above that of this "black-hat scum" - anyone remember his fascinating interview?), and quite frankly that's enough for me.
What's your point? Obviously they screw up, these posts that point out the specific instances are, far as I can tell, simply an opportunity to gloat at a minor inconvinience for a strongly reviled company. Don't see what's so hard to understand.
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CIA intel is largely ignored.
Good, I bet CIA AMD will be more cost effective anyway...
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So either someone's lying to the American people or the CIA's intello is faulty.
I don't see why this is necessarily an either/or proposition.
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The CIA's problem isn't a lack of funding, a lack of agents in the field or a lack of IT.
The problem is that since 1980 it hasn't figured out anything in advance.
I'll leave the obvious problems with your argument to others, and just stick to logical pedantry - not being able to "figure anything out" is not a problem, it's a symptom, which may very well be caused by the problems you listed.
$40M / 400 = $100,000 (average, of course)
Those were some VERY expensive employees, don't you think?
No, not in the slightest. Why do people seem to think that the salary is what an FTE costs a company? All in all the actual cost of an employee is usually over twice their salary, if not more.
Not to mention the savings in no longer doing what those employees were there to do.
As someone aptly pointed out about seven PHP/MySQL book reviews ago: There are three things the world doesn't need more of - cars, people and "Developing webapps with PHP and MySQL" books.
I know nothing will stem the tide of these, for all intents and purposes, xeroxed books, but I can at least implore (nay, beg) the people here to please, please stop sending in inept reviews/advertisements for them. There is just no damn reason for it.
Please stop trying to see the world as black and white / good and evil.
I beg your pardon! Over the last year it's been consistently explained to us by our leaders that the world consists of good people (us) and evil people (them). These evil-doers who hate freedom (actual quote, no less) and those who harbour them must be destroyed, because they are evil (presumably, once that happens, everything will be good), and we are good.
I don't know where you get your information from, but that is the official stance of this country, and I for one will not be one to go against the majority.
Lets not get carried away here, the copyright system is not nearly as fucked at the moment as, for example, the patent system. Copyright is working perfectly well for print media, software, etc., just because ??AA are trying their hardest to abuse it to save their doomed business model doesn't make the concept of copyright itself a bad thing.
You know, kinda like P2P networks aren't really responsible for people abusing them;)
You'll note my problem with it is not some sort of newfound sense of political correctness, propriety or sacredness - it's just what I said, when set in context I think this is a stupid idea.
Just because some people might find it "offensive" or "politically incorrect" doesn't automatically make it a good idea.
And I wasn't complaining, per se, just offering my opinion (I think that is what this place is all about).
Well, I wouldn't go that far. I can't help but suspect that the line between the two is blurred on purpose - after all, no one can argue that copyright protection is bad thing, right?
People tend to think Mozilla='Mozilla Application Suite'
Are you sure? I've never heard of "Mozilla Application Suite", "Firebird" and never heard anyone actually say "Mozilla Browser". To me 'Mozilla' == 'The browser that other people call Netscape'.
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Hell, what I want to know is when Windows will be ready for the desktop.
#98 A piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA verification [155 points]
Stupid, and in poor taste. I am sure I'll get bitched out for being far too "PC" (never heard this one in real life, for some reason) or for not having a sense of humor, which would somehow apply here, but that doesn't make it any less stupid.
Oh someone mentioned that they want it "NASA certified" so it's not debris they are looking for, well why the fuck don't they ask for Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour then?
Information on secured windows will vanish if another window is placed on top
I've discovered this feature of windowed GUIs a long time ago - you cake take virtually any window, place it over your current window and POOF! the data vanishes, completely obsucred by the new window on top of it. Isn't it neat?
It was about as subtle as a foot long brown shit sitting in the middle of a white tablecloth. Philosophical content was borderline nil.
Wait, either it was not subtle or it had no philosophical content - you can't not have something and not be subtle about having it, at the same time. (I think I just confused myself)
For one thing, I don't use Outlook at home (and we have good filtering at work).
Even if I did, this app only works if you open the message, in the "preview pane" (what an awful misnomer) the message is still rendered in HTML, making the addin completely useless (I don't think I've ever opened a message, rather than just read it in the "preview").
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I'm sorry, but a combination of overly grandiloquent (for lack of a better word) language and irrelevant cheap-shots is just the sort of thing that makes me not take a post seriously.
Oh, and what exactly do you need to do to be "Interview material" for slashdot? Over and over I am amazed at these comments that seem to equate slashdot with some sort of relevant news-source - it's a bloody blog for geeks for gods sake. The interview was interesting, far more so than most of the stuff we see here (I am sure Marcelo Tosatti's character is far above that of this "black-hat scum" - anyone remember his fascinating interview?), and quite frankly that's enough for me.
They do? Maybe higher end SCSI ones, but I don't think I've ever seen an IDE motherboard with hardware RAID.
Is that 'two thirds' or 'two or three'?
What's your point? Obviously they screw up, these posts that point out the specific instances are, far as I can tell, simply an opportunity to gloat at a minor inconvinience for a strongly reviled company. Don't see what's so hard to understand.
Good, I bet CIA AMD will be more cost effective anyway...
I don't see why this is necessarily an either/or proposition.
The problem is that since 1980 it hasn't figured out anything in advance.
I'll leave the obvious problems with your argument to others, and just stick to logical pedantry - not being able to "figure anything out" is not a problem, it's a symptom, which may very well be caused by the problems you listed.
Um, no. If you program is in assembly it is compiled, that's what compilation does - produce assembly code.
+5 Insightful my ass, back to Compilers 101 with you.
Those were some VERY expensive employees, don't you think?
No, not in the slightest. Why do people seem to think that the salary is what an FTE costs a company? All in all the actual cost of an employee is usually over twice their salary, if not more.
Not to mention the savings in no longer doing what those employees were there to do.
Ugh, that just means 'rpm -e'ing a lot more stuff after an install to install it the way I like it.
I know nothing will stem the tide of these, for all intents and purposes, xeroxed books, but I can at least implore (nay, beg) the people here to please, please stop sending in inept reviews/advertisements for them. There is just no damn reason for it.
Not to be outmatched by your spelling skills, though. :)
I beg your pardon! Over the last year it's been consistently explained to us by our leaders that the world consists of good people (us) and evil people (them). These evil-doers who hate freedom (actual quote, no less) and those who harbour them must be destroyed, because they are evil (presumably, once that happens, everything will be good), and we are good.
I don't know where you get your information from, but that is the official stance of this country, and I for one will not be one to go against the majority.
You know, kinda like P2P networks aren't really responsible for people abusing them ;)
Just because some people might find it "offensive" or "politically incorrect" doesn't automatically make it a good idea.
And I wasn't complaining, per se, just offering my opinion (I think that is what this place is all about).
Well, I wouldn't go that far. I can't help but suspect that the line between the two is blurred on purpose - after all, no one can argue that copyright protection is bad thing, right?
Are you sure? I've never heard of "Mozilla Application Suite", "Firebird" and never heard anyone actually say "Mozilla Browser". To me 'Mozilla' == 'The browser that other people call Netscape'.
Hell, what I want to know is when Windows will be ready for the desktop.
Stupid, and in poor taste. I am sure I'll get bitched out for being far too "PC" (never heard this one in real life, for some reason) or for not having a sense of humor, which would somehow apply here, but that doesn't make it any less stupid.
Oh someone mentioned that they want it "NASA certified" so it's not debris they are looking for, well why the fuck don't they ask for Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour then?
I've discovered this feature of windowed GUIs a long time ago - you cake take virtually any window, place it over your current window and POOF! the data vanishes, completely obsucred by the new window on top of it. Isn't it neat?
"Have you noticed, hard drives are just so huge now! Oh my gosh, pretty soon we are all going to archive our entire lives! Whoa, I am a visionary!"
Ok, we are not really batteries for robot overlords, the subtlety comes in in how that relates to actual concepts in philosophy.
Wait, either it was not subtle or it had no philosophical content - you can't not have something and not be subtle about having it, at the same time. (I think I just confused myself)
"They sounds" - geez, I can't type at all today, can I? Just disregard everything else I say (generally a good idea).
For one thing, I don't use Outlook at home (and we have good filtering at work).
Even if I did, this app only works if you open the message, in the "preview pane" (what an awful misnomer) the message is still rendered in HTML, making the addin completely useless (I don't think I've ever opened a message, rather than just read it in the "preview").