> Just what a business dependent on their software needs - an unproven "validity tester" shuts down your operations for three days while you're on ignore at the MS help line.
The ultimate DDOS: A worm that wanders random botnets of compromised XP and Vista boxen, phoning home with fake "Authenticate key 000001, 000002, 000003..." messages from all around teh Intarweb.
One month later, Vista boxen all around the planet start to fall over for no apparent reason.
(Historical precedent: Anyone who's ever bought a retail box with a CD key that was already revoked before the box was shipped, because teh warez d00dz were using keygens that mapped onto the set of actual, legitimate keys.)
Yes Sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie... It was me that put that post-it note saying "Works fine, Free CRT" on the CRT someone else left on the curb there.
So we'll sing it again the next time it comes 'round on the guitar.
The use of tabbed browsing (specifically, the ability to bookmark a series of tabs) in Mozilla greatly increases one's identifiability, even without persistent identifiers such as cookies.
Even if you run something in the background that submits random search queries or random spidering, the instant you open up a bookmark full of tabs, you've identified yourself.
User 12345: the clickstream consists of completely random clicks on flickr, delicio.us, and Digg links, except that (at least) once a day, someone initiates a series of TCP/IP connections to Slashdot, Digg, Google, two mainstream news sources, three blogs, and a brokerage firm, Delicio.us, and Flickr, all within five seconds of each other.
Back in the old days, that didn't mean anything, because Slashdot didn't have any way of finding out that you were reading Digg, and Doubleclick and its ilk - the only things likely to track your visits to multiple sites - were prevented from doing so by virtue of being firewalled at the router. And No Such Agency would refuse to be involved in such a project.
Today, of course, No Such Agency is involved in such a project:)
> What part of
> >
[Amendment IV]
> >
does the smaller Government, individual liberty-touting Republican Congress NOT understand?
Don't worry. They'll start understanding it as soon as President Clinton II is elected in 2008, along with gaining the House and Senate. Her inaugural address will consist largely of thanking President Bush II for giving the her everything it ever wanted.
The really interesting question is how long her constituency remembers the Fourth after she's elected.
I'm betting on somewhere between 24-48 hours (about the length of one news cycle) before her constituents completely forget the quaint little piece of paper, and the Republicans start quoting Franklin. It takes a village to raise a living document, or some such.
> You can mount an iRiver, an iPod, (and I gotta believe a Zune) as a UMS device, working just fine on the "next generation of car stereos with USB."
Read between the lines of this MS developer's post, in which he says "PlaysForSure does not require devices to support only MTP - UMS can be implemented too, but under certain conditions that prevent newbies from transferring content via MTP, switching to UMS and then calling tech support because they can't find/play their content"...
Now re-read that sentence while pondering the notion that Zune will not support PlaysForSure.
This is a Microsoft product. More so than Apple products, less so than Sony products, it's still all about vendor lock-in.
I speculate that Zune will be an MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)-only device. UMS (USB Mass Storage) cannot be supported, because only by eliminating UMS can Microsoft mandate the use of WMP10/11 and the accompanying XP/Vista DRM platform.
> New U.S. e-Passports contain a 64 kbit RFID chip with personal information about the passport holder.
After reading last night's thread, I suppose encoding ~250 copies of the string "Kip Hawley is an idiot. Michael Chertoff is also an idiot" into an off-the-shelf 64kbit chip, putting the chip in a small wad of gum, and then swallowing the gum, is no longer an option.
> Sex in Zero-G sounds awesome, but the lack gravity would make it tricky to get any leverage. The doc claims they tried several things, including ropes and a tube large enough to hold both "subjects".
Now that I've fixed your misplaced bold tags, what's the downside? (Giggity giggity goo!)
> Senator Bridge To Nowhere said, "It is not as if these morons can stop us from spending the money. Then why waste money helping them find the wasteful spending?"
...whereupon Senator McBridge was promptly set upon and flayed alive by enraged representatives - for his first sentence contained a truth, and the second was the foulest blasphemy his fellow politicians had ever heard.
> It's more about whether or not congressmen searching for 16 year old "escorts" on AOL might be discovered by their political opposition.
The AOL leaked database contains search records of 650,000 subscribers. There are 300M Americans. Statistically, one out of every 461 Americans is in the database.
At a minimum, there are several thousand present/past Congressmen/women, their spouses, and their immediate relatives. It's probable that the database contains the search records of at least one current Representative or Senator, and highly probable that their immediate families are included.
The only reason for the Video Privacy Protection Act is because a Supreme Court Justice Nominee's video records were leaked to the media during his confirmation hearings. In the words of the Swedish Chef, let's get someone Borked, Borked, Borked.
> $9 of electricity is about 100 KWh at national average rates. Passing that in 9 minutes gives you an average rate of 1.2 megawatts. What the hell knid of household has the circuit to handle that?
The kind of household that has a petroleum distillate conductor wrapped around a thick rubber insulator. Fuel is stored in an underground tank. There are probably a few places like that within a mile or two.
An electric fueling station would probably require a similar-diameter conductor around a thick rubber insulator (to handle the thousands of amperes of current), with a pebble-bed reactor in the same underground storage space as a gas station's underground fuel tank.
Now, the only question is how to secure several hundred thousand independently owned and operated pebble-bed reactors from being dug up by contractors... but that's a human problem, not an engineering problem:)
> The reason most vuln scanners can't find XSS vulns on modern sites is because of the increased amount of JavaScript and Flash (with ActionScript) that's in use.
Which is why I'm so happy that the currently-in-demonstration phase of the new Slashdot discussion system presumes/requires that Javascript be active.
Diebold, and Congress, and plot.
I see no reason why election season,
Should ever be forgot.
> [How come I feel like "Post Anonymously" gives me no protection from the government in this post?]
Because it doesn't.
What I'm not cleared to^W^W^Wwanna know is why the DoJ went to the trouble of demanding Google for a billion random search records last year when it could have just politeley asked NSA for all of 'em.
> Not to mention we won't have to think of "Danger Zone", "you've lost that loving feelin'" (when he sings it), and we won't have to think of Navy training jets as MIGs anymore!
But we'll never forget Sega's 2-degree-of-freedom arcade game After Burner II.
It came out one year later, had the same sprite-scaled love that Space Harrier great, and it had a soundtrack better than the movie that indirectly inspired it. When the enemy fighter appeared behind you, you could indeed "hit the brakes, he'll fly right by me" and blow the guy away. Suicide in any actual air-to-air encounter, but it made for great coin-op lovin'...
The pattern is full... but negative, Ghostrider, neither is the coin box in my basement arcade. Don't ask how I got it down got there, and I won't tell you you have to land until Stage 23.
> The automakers should countersue the California Legislature on the grounds that the emission of carbon dioxide, a known greenhouse gas, by the California state government constitutes the same harm to the resources, infrastructure and environmental health, demanding that the members of the California government cease respiration immediately as mitigation of this harm.
I'm confused. Why are we worried about the CO2, when it's the methane that's the problem?
And isn't the bigger greenhouse problem the methane coming from bullshit spewing out of their mouths?
Which reminds me... Once upon a time, bullshit came out of a bull's ass, and horseshit came out of a horse's ass. Life was simple.
Two years ago, in an election-year fit of pique, California voters passed a $3B stem cell research bill, and now look at us. All we have to show for our $3B is a bunch of genetically-enhanced horses' asses that can switch between spewing bullshit and horseshit, out of either their asses or their asses' mouths. And we gave them all the keys to the Treasury.
Tip the United States on its left, and everything loose lands in California.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing to see here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> WAIT
Time passes...
> RELOAD
There is a Diebold thread here. You do not have a sword with which to attack the trolls.
> DOWNLOAD THE COMPETITION GAMES
The site serving the software is in the process of being Slashdotted.
> FUCK!
Such language in a high-class establishment like this! (What do you think this is, Leather Goddesses of Phobos?)
> QUIT
Your score would be 0 (Total of 400 points), in 6 moves.
This score gives you the rank of CmdrTaco.
***END OF SESSION***
The ultimate DDOS: A worm that wanders random botnets of compromised XP and Vista boxen, phoning home with fake "Authenticate key 000001, 000002, 000003..." messages from all around teh Intarweb.
One month later, Vista boxen all around the planet start to fall over for no apparent reason.
(Historical precedent: Anyone who's ever bought a retail box with a CD key that was already revoked before the box was shipped, because teh warez d00dz were using keygens that mapped onto the set of actual, legitimate keys.)
>
>That depends a good deal on what you call prOn.
I may not know art when I see it, but I know what I like!
So we'll sing it again the next time it comes 'round on the guitar.
Which companion did you have in mind?
Should I do Peri on her side, or Tegan in the rectum? Or maybe use a double-ended wormhole to connect 'em?
Even if you run something in the background that submits random search queries or random spidering, the instant you open up a bookmark full of tabs, you've identified yourself.
User 12345: the clickstream consists of completely random clicks on flickr, delicio.us, and Digg links, except that (at least) once a day, someone initiates a series of TCP/IP connections to Slashdot, Digg, Google, two mainstream news sources, three blogs, and a brokerage firm, Delicio.us, and Flickr, all within five seconds of each other.
Back in the old days, that didn't mean anything, because Slashdot didn't have any way of finding out that you were reading Digg, and Doubleclick and its ilk - the only things likely to track your visits to multiple sites - were prevented from doing so by virtue of being firewalled at the router. And No Such Agency would refuse to be involved in such a project.
Today, of course, No Such Agency is involved in such a project :)
>
>How about a game of chess?
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
What's the difference?
23 years since Stanislav Petrov decided not to play.
And 23 years since I saw the movie WarGames.
Thanks, Stanislav. Because you chose not to play, we all get to play!
>
> [Amendment IV]
>
> does the smaller Government, individual liberty-touting Republican Congress NOT understand?
Don't worry. They'll start understanding it as soon as President Clinton II is elected in 2008, along with gaining the House and Senate. Her inaugural address will consist largely of thanking President Bush II for giving the her everything it ever wanted.
The really interesting question is how long her constituency remembers the Fourth after she's elected.
I'm betting on somewhere between 24-48 hours (about the length of one news cycle) before her constituents completely forget the quaint little piece of paper, and the Republicans start quoting Franklin. It takes a village to raise a living document, or some such.
Read between the lines of this MS developer's post, in which he says "PlaysForSure does not require devices to support only MTP - UMS can be implemented too, but under certain conditions that prevent newbies from transferring content via MTP, switching to UMS and then calling tech support because they can't find/play their content"...
Now re-read that sentence while pondering the notion that Zune will not support PlaysForSure.
This is a Microsoft product. More so than Apple products, less so than Sony products, it's still all about vendor lock-in.
I speculate that Zune will be an MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)-only device. UMS (USB Mass Storage) cannot be supported, because only by eliminating UMS can Microsoft mandate the use of WMP10/11 and the accompanying XP/Vista DRM platform.
After reading last night's thread, I suppose encoding ~250 copies of the string "Kip Hawley is an idiot. Michael Chertoff is also an idiot" into an off-the-shelf 64kbit chip, putting the chip in a small wad of gum, and then swallowing the gum, is no longer an option.
Well, so much for my weekend.
The Barbie PC: Proof that a curvy pink box can be less sexy than a plain beige box.
Now that I've fixed your misplaced bold tags, what's the downside? (Giggity giggity goo!)
And if you were a hot chick, we'd demand proof.
The AOL leaked database contains search records of 650,000 subscribers. There are 300M Americans. Statistically, one out of every 461 Americans is in the database.
At a minimum, there are several thousand present/past Congressmen/women, their spouses, and their immediate relatives. It's probable that the database contains the search records of at least one current Representative or Senator, and highly probable that their immediate families are included.
The only reason for the Video Privacy Protection Act is because a Supreme Court Justice Nominee's video records were leaked to the media during his confirmation hearings. In the words of the Swedish Chef, let's get someone Borked, Borked, Borked.
The kind of household that has a petroleum distillate conductor wrapped around a thick rubber insulator. Fuel is stored in an underground tank. There are probably a few places like that within a mile or two.
An electric fueling station would probably require a similar-diameter conductor around a thick rubber insulator (to handle the thousands of amperes of current), with a pebble-bed reactor in the same underground storage space as a gas station's underground fuel tank.
Now, the only question is how to secure several hundred thousand independently owned and operated pebble-bed reactors from being dug up by contractors... but that's a human problem, not an engineering problem :)
>
> But I'd have to put on clothes to go there.
Aight. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Which is why I'm so happy that the currently-in-demonstration phase of the new Slashdot discussion system presumes/requires that Javascript be active.
Of course not. (Sixth post!)
Diebold, and Congress, and plot.
I see no reason why election season,
Should ever be forgot.
> [How come I feel like "Post Anonymously" gives me no protection from the government in this post?]
Because it doesn't.
What I'm not cleared to^W^W^Wwanna know is why the DoJ went to the trouble of demanding Google for a billion random search records last year when it could have just politeley asked NSA for all of 'em.
But we'll never forget Sega's 2-degree-of-freedom arcade game After Burner II.
It came out one year later, had the same sprite-scaled love that Space Harrier great, and it had a soundtrack better than the movie that indirectly inspired it. When the enemy fighter appeared behind you, you could indeed "hit the brakes, he'll fly right by me" and blow the guy away. Suicide in any actual air-to-air encounter, but it made for great coin-op lovin'...
The pattern is full... but negative, Ghostrider, neither is the coin box in my basement arcade. Don't ask how I got it down got there, and I won't tell you you have to land until Stage 23.
(Man, I am so going to Gitmo if my joke turns out to be right.)
I'm confused. Why are we worried about the CO2, when it's the methane that's the problem?
And isn't the bigger greenhouse problem the methane coming from bullshit spewing out of their mouths?
Which reminds me... Once upon a time, bullshit came out of a bull's ass, and horseshit came out of a horse's ass. Life was simple.
Two years ago, in an election-year fit of pique, California voters passed a $3B stem cell research bill, and now look at us. All we have to show for our $3B is a bunch of genetically-enhanced horses' asses that can switch between spewing bullshit and horseshit, out of either their asses or their asses' mouths. And we gave them all the keys to the Treasury.
Tip the United States on its left, and everything loose lands in California.
>
> But, I thought it was "war president".
> Must have been too long...
When I was your age, it was "living document". Uphill. Both ways. During a Congressional recess.