From Wired: > Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Michigan) suggested additional punitive
measures. "I think hackers should also be considered terrorists and
sentences that hackers get should be in line with terrorist sentences,"
Let's see here...
Scanning port 137.
DDOSing eBay.
r00ting j00r b0x3n and writing 4LL J00r B4$3 R B3L0NG 2 US on your website!
Flying three 767s, fully-loaded with fuel, into office buildings, murdering 6000-7000 people in the process.
"One of these things is not like the other.
One of these things does not belong."
I'm gave up expecting wisdom out of our Congresscritters years ago.
As for their ability to grasp complex technological and constitutional issues, that's also hoping too much.
But at the moment, I'd settle for a demonstration that they're capable of understanding Sesame Street.
> Isn't that why the hell anyone who's actually read history understands the sheer terror that the words 'Star
Chamber' means?
Well, y'see, that's British history, and us 'murricans dun fought a war t'git away from y'all limey types. This hear's America, and we gunna teach our young'uns American history, dammit!
So the sad thing is that most of our countrymen never learned what Star Chamber was, nor why it's a mistake we should strive never to repeat.
There's a place for secrecy -- for instance, I have no fundamental problem with the philosophy behind FISA's secret court - if there's evidence which, if published, would result in the dissemination of classified material or other threats to national security - then so be it. And in such cases, the judge has a need to know everything, but I'd argue that the defence doesn't. It's a fine line, but we saw the system work in the case of the FBI's keylogger -- it took a while, but ultimately, enough information was released that the defence could prepare a defence, without compromising operational security.
(That is, the purpose of FISA is to prevent the openness of the court from being used as an excuse to bring things into evidence that would compromise national security -- just think of the damage that could be done by some twit just reciting classified information into the court record as part of his "testimony".)
But for Joe Skr1ptk1ddie - where the only "security threat" I can see is the publication of security holes that become widely known to the security community within hours of the crime (and the investigation won't happen for days, and the trial won't happen for months), this is worse than overkill, it's dangerous.
>#!/bin/sh >
while true; do wget www.riaa.com; done >
>
Wait for 0.2.. It's threaded.
Whaddya wanna bet that RIAA writes 0.2 and fork-bombs themselves off the 'net the first time they try this?
I can hear Hilary Rosen now - "Well, if one DOS client can block one file sharer, why not have a DOS client that spawns two DOS clients before it starts downloading! That'd be s00per 733+"
> how can Outlook protect more against spam
then, let say, Eudora, or any other POP3 client that have a filter option in it?
...through the clever use of security holes, Outleak allows others to periodically nuke the contents of your hard drive. During the day or two you spend restoring from backups or reconfiguring from scratch, you'll receive no spam;)
(Serious answer: They're trying to reduce outgoing spam, not incoming spam, in order to cut down on the number of abuse complaints they have to deal with. It's got nothing to do with protecting their users from inbound spam, and everything to do with cutting the costs of running the MSN portion of the ISP business and further-entrenching the Microsoft monopoly.)
> > Course, if you also realize that 'gonzo' also is a method of filming low-budget porno, this book takes on a whole
new meaning. > > "Gonzo" is not a method of filming porn. It has no meaning specific to porn. It is just an adjective roughly equivalent to "outrageous" (gonzo [dictionary.com]).
I do believe you owe the original poster an apology.
Though your point - "outrageous" - is equally well-taken.
For those at work and unable to check out the links, it appears that "gonzo porn" is to "tasteful erotica", as "goatse.cx" is to "national geographic".
> Marketing is not about selling people the things they want. Marketing is about convincing people to buy things
that they don't need!
"If the customer got exactly what he wanted, you haven't sold a thing."
- Salesman's adage.
Re:Confirms my theory
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Bert Is Evil
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>...that Osama was merely a puppet, while Bert was the true Mastermind. No wonder Condi is worried that Osama's speeches contain secret messages.
And to anyone who thinks that laughter isn't an important weapon in this war...
...I invite you to consider the idea of Osama bin Laden as Evil Bert's hand puppet.
Yes, that's right. Osama bin Laden - no longer the avenger who cleanses the Holy Lands of Arabia from from the Infidel - just a whacko with a thing for having a goddamn alcoholic homosexual muppet rectally fist him. Just another guy into anal fisting - and craving a Master who doesn't stop at the traditional latex glove and gallon of lube, but rather, wraps his hand in a piece of yellow felt and foam rubber before shoving it so far up his ass that when he pinches his fingers together, Osama's lips move.
Word of that gets out in Afghanistan, and this war is fucking over, man. Fucking over. We won't have to fire another shot - the few Taliban who don't die laughing will join us and help us hunt him down like the pig he is.
I almost feel sorry for the fucker. I mean, it must be hard to run with a two-foot-tall muppet crammed up your ass.
> News Anchors & Crews, please show some restraint! Verify stories!
The ironic thing is that the whole story was over - the aircraft safely on the ground after having been escorted down - by the time any media web site picked it up. It was all over in half an hour.
Also recommended listening: Front 242, "Circling Overland", and Laibach's "Nato". (Same album as "War"). If you're into retrogaming, think "headphones", "lights out", and Microprose's classic "F-19 Stealth Fighter."
> Sometimes I wish I could just reach out and smack some
reporter who, by quick use of Email and communications, trumpets his "scoop" about what we're doing,
and where, before the operation is complete. Hey, goons, our side isn't the ONLY ones watching your
reports!
Thanks for saying this. Half the time I watch the news, my roommate wonders why the hell I blurt out a "Shut the fuck UP!" every hour or so. (Side note - not all reporters are idiots; mad props to one reporter who, when questioned as to his whereabouts by his anchorman, replied with "Y'know, I think they said it was OK to tell you where I am, but I'm going to err on the side of caution for now. I'll tell you tomorrow.")
To Slashdotters reading this - you can help.
Do not post reports of military activity in your area. If you see lots of planes taking off from an airbase, or lots of planes landing, or lots of trucks moving about, or anything that might indicate our future plans, keep your mouth shut about it for a day or so before telling folks what you saw. Don't post names of people you know are on duty or being called up. Don't post unit numbers.
Exceptions can be made for breaking news, such as yesterday's intercept over Chicago, where our forces wouldn't be jeopardized. But I'm sure that anyone, with a moment's thought, can see the difference between "Holy shit, sonic booms over Chicago!" and "I wonder where all those planes and ships are going?"
> stripped of structure with app. 100' water depth. Seller eager." > >
Now THAT's a big hot-tub. Anyone know the diameter of one of those launch silos? Care to figure out
how many gallons that comes to? You'd have the biggest hot tub in the world, if you could afford to heat
it.
> And child-bearing, and the birthing process itself (it's a stretch, but
imagine the results if NASA discovered that child-bearing in space was 10 times less painful for the mother;
...right up until birth, when she goes flying across the space station and conks herself out on a bulkhead. Well, I suppose that's painless:)
(Considering conservation of momentum, all of a sudden, the image of the obstetrician standing at the business end of the table, wearing a catcher's mitt, doesn't seem all that much out of place...)
> The payload section isn't pressurized, and the habitable area in the shuttle is pretty small. I doubt they'd be able
to get privacy without special request to the rest of the crew.
"...and if you can keep your mouths shut when we're on the ground, and maybe you can do more than watch next time."
...can belong to YOU, yes you, for the low, low price of $1.5 megabucks!
(Considering what the owner probably paid for it, and the improvements made, any handymen might seriously want to consider purchasing old silos and reconditioning them. Fun and profitable!)
> And if you could upload heroin I would agree with you. Thing is though that you must actually deliver it in some other more
tangible rhelm for it to be something more offensive than "/me passes Alex a bag of heroin.".
> XCOR wants to make replica planes of the ME163 AND the Bell X-1, using our modern (and SAFE) rocket
engines
Dude. This would rock.
Flying an ME163 must have been intense. Solving the engineering problems and creating replicas of these historic aircraft, even if it doesn't get anyone into space, gives every air show in North America one hell of a crowd-pleaser.
> Why bother with braking at all? Why not just design the thing to survive smacking into the surface of the planet
at 4,000 kph or whatever it's going to be doing when it gets there?
Given our recent track record, "smacking into the surface of the planet at 4000 kph" is about all our probes have done anyways. Might as well build for it;)
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> Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Michigan) suggested additional punitive measures. "I think hackers should also be considered terrorists and sentences that hackers get should be in line with terrorist sentences,"
Let's see here...
"One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong."
I'm gave up expecting wisdom out of our Congresscritters years ago. As for their ability to grasp complex technological and constitutional issues, that's also hoping too much.
But at the moment, I'd settle for a demonstration that they're capable of understanding Sesame Street.
Well, y'see, that's British history, and us 'murricans dun fought a war t'git away from y'all limey types. This hear's America, and we gunna teach our young'uns American history, dammit!
So the sad thing is that most of our countrymen never learned what Star Chamber was, nor why it's a mistake we should strive never to repeat.
There's a place for secrecy -- for instance, I have no fundamental problem with the philosophy behind FISA's secret court - if there's evidence which, if published, would result in the dissemination of classified material or other threats to national security - then so be it. And in such cases, the judge has a need to know everything, but I'd argue that the defence doesn't. It's a fine line, but we saw the system work in the case of the FBI's keylogger -- it took a while, but ultimately, enough information was released that the defence could prepare a defence, without compromising operational security.
(That is, the purpose of FISA is to prevent the openness of the court from being used as an excuse to bring things into evidence that would compromise national security -- just think of the damage that could be done by some twit just reciting classified information into the court record as part of his "testimony".)
But for Joe Skr1ptk1ddie - where the only "security threat" I can see is the publication of security holes that become widely known to the security community within hours of the crime (and the investigation won't happen for days, and the trial won't happen for months), this is worse than overkill, it's dangerous.
> while true; do wget www.riaa.com; done
>
> Wait for 0.2.. It's threaded. Whaddya wanna bet that RIAA writes 0.2 and fork-bombs themselves off the 'net the first time they try this?
I can hear Hilary Rosen now - "Well, if one DOS client can block one file sharer, why not have a DOS client that spawns two DOS clients before it starts downloading! That'd be s00per 733+"
(Serious answer: They're trying to reduce outgoing spam, not incoming spam, in order to cut down on the number of abuse complaints they have to deal with. It's got nothing to do with protecting their users from inbound spam, and everything to do with cutting the costs of running the MSN portion of the ISP business and further-entrenching the Microsoft monopoly.)
"Disband them. Preferably by throwing their leaders in jail to send a message to anyone who would take their place."
Anyone got a better idea?
Are you sure you're talking about the Boy Scouts of America and not the Business Software Association?
I mean, have you ever seen them in the same place at once?
I thought not.
(Where do you think the BSA goons learn such aggression?)
Angry RIAA peasant in Monty-Pythonesque voice: "We have found an MP3, may we delete it?!"
>
> "Gonzo" is not a method of filming porn. It has no meaning specific to porn. It is just an adjective roughly equivalent to "outrageous" (gonzo [dictionary.com]).
Google query for "Gonzo porn"
I do believe you owe the original poster an apology.
Though your point - "outrageous" - is equally well-taken.
For those at work and unable to check out the links, it appears that "gonzo porn" is to "tasteful erotica", as "goatse.cx" is to "national geographic".
"If the customer got exactly what he wanted, you haven't sold a thing." - Salesman's adage.
And to anyone who thinks that laughter isn't an important weapon in this war...
Yes, that's right. Osama bin Laden - no longer the avenger who cleanses the Holy Lands of Arabia from from the Infidel - just a whacko with a thing for having a goddamn alcoholic homosexual muppet rectally fist him. Just another guy into anal fisting - and craving a Master who doesn't stop at the traditional latex glove and gallon of lube, but rather, wraps his hand in a piece of yellow felt and foam rubber before shoving it so far up his ass that when he pinches his fingers together, Osama's lips move.
Word of that gets out in Afghanistan, and this war is fucking over, man. Fucking over. We won't have to fire another shot - the few Taliban who don't die laughing will join us and help us hunt him down like the pig he is.
I almost feel sorry for the fucker. I mean, it must be hard to run with a two-foot-tall muppet crammed up your ass.
The ironic thing is that the whole story was over - the aircraft safely on the ground after having been escorted down - by the time any media web site picked it up. It was all over in half an hour.
Science, religion, domination, communication. GM, IBM, Newsweek, CNN, Universal, Siemens, Sony...
Recommended Listening: Laibach's cover of "War", whose lyrics contain the aformentioned list.
Album review found here: NATO.
Also recommended listening: Front 242, "Circling Overland", and Laibach's "Nato". (Same album as "War"). If you're into retrogaming, think "headphones", "lights out", and Microprose's classic "F-19 Stealth Fighter."
Thanks for saying this. Half the time I watch the news, my roommate wonders why the hell I blurt out a "Shut the fuck UP!" every hour or so. (Side note - not all reporters are idiots; mad props to one reporter who, when questioned as to his whereabouts by his anchorman, replied with "Y'know, I think they said it was OK to tell you where I am, but I'm going to err on the side of caution for now. I'll tell you tomorrow.")
To Slashdotters reading this - you can help.
Do not post reports of military activity in your area. If you see lots of planes taking off from an airbase, or lots of planes landing, or lots of trucks moving about, or anything that might indicate our future plans, keep your mouth shut about it for a day or so before telling folks what you saw. Don't post names of people you know are on duty or being called up. Don't post unit numbers.
Exceptions can be made for breaking news, such as yesterday's intercept over Chicago, where our forces wouldn't be jeopardized. But I'm sure that anyone, with a moment's thought, can see the difference between "Holy shit, sonic booms over Chicago!" and "I wonder where all those planes and ships are going?"
Loose lips sink ships.
Never mind a taxi driver. I have visions of pilots doing this right now over a certain part of the world ;-)
>
> Now THAT's a big hot-tub. Anyone know the diameter of one of those launch silos? Care to figure out how many gallons that comes to? You'd have the biggest hot tub in the world, if you could afford to heat it.
Easy. That's what the missile's for. ;-)
I'm still playing with alternating left/right words in sentences. Great way to fsck up a touch-typist :)
(Considering conservation of momentum, all of a sudden, the image of the obstetrician standing at the business end of the table, wearing a catcher's mitt, doesn't seem all that much out of place...)
"...and if you can keep your mouths shut when we're on the ground, and maybe you can do more than watch next time."
Privacy problem rendered moot.
(Considering what the owner probably paid for it, and the improvements made, any handymen might seriously want to consider purchasing old silos and reconditioning them. Fun and profitable!)
Now what?
Dude. This would rock.
Flying an ME163 must have been intense. Solving the engineering problems and creating replicas of these historic aircraft, even if it doesn't get anyone into space, gives every air show in North America one hell of a crowd-pleaser.
> kkkkkkkkkk
Which reminds me, touch-typists can have a lot of fun grepping /usr/dict/words and typing one-handed:
i join my hippy union. you pin holly on johnny; i jump on you only. in my opinion, you look plump - kill my unholy puppy.
>
> > That's what the middle fingers function will be for...
And just think, if it facilitates one-handed typing, too!
H0T $M$ $TUD SKS H0T $M$ B4B3 4 CYBER! W00T!
Last time I checked, it didn't say "Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. Choose any two."
For some of us, any two are meaningless unless accompanied by the third.
Given our recent track record, "smacking into the surface of the planet at 4000 kph" is about all our probes have done anyways. Might as well build for it ;)