> 'Sunnyvale, You Have a Problem' > >'Growth is expected as factories become more computerized and remote services expand to include controlling plant temperatures from afar and even monitoring who enters and exits the premises. Theoretically,' says Azim Premji, chairman and founder of India
outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., 'anything on a network can be managed
remotely from India.'"
"Practically", say several million skript kiddies, crackers,
and Slashdotters, "anything on a network that can be managed
remotely from India, won't remain on a network for very much
longer. And it's spelled 'Hilarity', not 'Growth'".
> I believe we are in need of a new Slashdot section: Horrifying
One key to rule them all; one key to find them.
One key to bring them in and in the darkness grind them.
In the land of Norsefire, where England Prevails.
The Semantic Traffic Analyzer received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Orwell, G. Functional Specification, Narus STA 6400 (rev. 1984)
From TFA, the deliverable:
We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their VOIP calls.
Seeing as how these are the same frames that got released a year or two ago, except that today they have the stamp "official" on 'em, the tinfoil crowd's gonna be going nuts today.
So let's recap the ground rules as written by Pynchon:
Proverbs for Paranoids:
1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
4. You hide, they seek.
5. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
"Is it a plane or a missile" that hit the Pentagon? Did "pull it" in the context of WTC7 mean "destroy the building" or "pull the firemen out for their own safety?" Is that fiery stuff "molten iron" or just melted bits of plastic dripping out of WTC1 and 2?
Anyone seriously asking any of those questions needs to have Proverb #3 pounded into their forehead with a rubber stamp mounted to the nose of 767 until they achieve illumination.
Ditto for Proverb #5. But that's just what they'd expect me to say, because I'm obviously part of the conspiracy fnord too.:)
If you haven't already done so, you and your professor need to contact the Computer History Museum in San Jose.
Next week's big festivities involve a restored PDP-1.
Their collection of hardware is pretty much unmatched, and is open to the public. What's on display is the tip of their collection's iceberg. Who knows what might be kicking around in the background, just waiting for a small team of geeks to restore?
And conversely, who knows what might be kicking around in your classmates' basements that's on CHM's wish list?
"There's nothing to suggest that in the statute," Edwards replied. "Stating that doesn't make it so."
> Actually, wait for ad hominem attacks on Edward > >You know, he's a damn activist judge who's putting pesky rights and fruity ideals in the way of keeping the nation safe for obese children and their fear-stricken parents.
Edwards oldthinker! Edwards unbellyfeel Amsoc! E
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"Trafficking in consumers' confidential telephone records is outrageous," FTC consumer protection chief Lydia Parnes said in a statement. "It robs consumers of their privacy and exposes them to everything from snoops to stalkers."
Don't steal. Your Government's surveillance programme hates competition.
> This has been done already on a nokia mobile handset. The game even incorporated the image from the camera in the game. I forget what it was called, but the system was flawed in two ways. Firstly it was inaccurate especially when you got close to objects (read: walls). Secondly it made me very dizzy.
But on the bright side, the Nokia version was a lot cheaper to alpha-test than the Ferrari Enzo version, which also exhibited similar flaws regarding inaccuracy near objects, particularly while the player was dizzy.
> Naughty America: The Game >A cross between online dating and an MMO, Naughty America: The Game is primarily a social space with added sex. Cartoon sex, that is.
Because after I put on my robe and wizard hat, what could possibly go wrong?
This post is called "Natalie's Restaurant", and it's about Natalie, and the Restaurant, but "Natalie's Restaurant" is not the name of the Restaurant, it's the name of the post, and that's why I named this post "Natalie's Restaurant".
You can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant,
You can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant,
Monitors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBatteries, just around the back,
Just a half a mile from the railroad track,
And you can get any grits you want at Natalie's Restaurant.
Now, it all started about two posts ago, it's on two posts ago when CmdrTaco and I went up to eat some hot grits at Natalie's restaurant...
...we got up there, found a couple of monitors in the dumpster behind Natalie's, and we figured it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the spare monitors and distribute 'em around to our other friends at the University that didn't have 21" CRTs, 'cause that's what the Movement was supposed to be all about in the first place, right?
Now ain't y'all glad it was a Microbus instead of a MicroVAX that had all the implements of destruction? I mrean really, you ever try to power a MicroVAX on batteries?
> The article doesn't have any pictures; one can be found here [http://www.jpassion.net/sitepix/blank_square.gif] .
Nothing to see there. Moving right along...
From TFA:
Prof Milton's team calculated that when certain objects are placed next to superlenses, the light bouncing off them is essentially erased by light reflecting off the superlens, making the object invisible.
Sounds an awful lot like the technology speculated about in Dean Ing's Ransom of Black Stealth One about ten years ago.
> I will smash a bunch of glass vases against the outside of the theater, then I'll go in and watch until the song comes on, when I'll bore a hole in the top inside of the theater and jump out of it onto the glass, thereby saving myself from the pain of ever hearing that song again!
Well, since you reminded me of that song, and since I can't get it out of my head anymore either... might as well share the misery.
Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands.
We run Linux, FreeBSD, and - Omega/GNU.
We come here on Slashdot today, to post bad filk for you!
We got the earbug rhythm, you insensitive clod, that'll make
'em click a mouse to to downward mod.
We got CmdrTaco on the violin, and Hemos and Zonk will be joining in.
We got Goatse guy, with the bunghole red, grits for Natalie Portman,
Stephen King is dead,
and there's All Your Base to which we belong, in Soviet Russia when
the joke goes wrong,
And just when, for one, you've seen it all, welcome header X-Bender,
overlord of all.
So jump on the glass through the hole you've bored, and post a video.torrent onto the board!
/cue synthesizer bleeps, frickin' lasers, and shattering glass sound effects
Slashdot Mirror
So, umm.... in Soviet Russia, you spy on NSA?
NSA doesn't need your wireless phone company's co-operation for SIGINT.
>
>'Growth is expected as factories become more computerized and remote services expand to include controlling plant temperatures from afar and even monitoring who enters and exits the premises. Theoretically,' says Azim Premji, chairman and founder of India outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., 'anything on a network can be managed remotely from India.'"
"Practically", say several million skript kiddies, crackers, and Slashdotters, "anything on a network that can be managed remotely from India, won't remain on a network for very much longer. And it's spelled 'Hilarity', not 'Growth'".
One key to rule them all; one key to find them. One key to bring them in and in the darkness grind them. In the land of Norsefire, where England Prevails.
From TFA, the deliverable:
We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their VOIP calls.
AT&T. Your world, delivered.
60s technology you want, 60s technology you shall get!
You're going to the moon, Alice!
(POW! Right in the kisser!) Hamana-hamana-hamana-hamana...
Correct.
Seeing as how these are the same frames that got released a year or two ago, except that today they have the stamp "official" on 'em, the tinfoil crowd's gonna be going nuts today.
So let's recap the ground rules as written by Pynchon:
"Is it a plane or a missile" that hit the Pentagon? Did "pull it" in the context of WTC7 mean "destroy the building" or "pull the firemen out for their own safety?" Is that fiery stuff "molten iron" or just melted bits of plastic dripping out of WTC1 and 2?
Anyone seriously asking any of those questions needs to have Proverb #3 pounded into their forehead with a rubber stamp mounted to the nose of 767 until they achieve illumination.
Ditto for Proverb #5. But that's just what they'd expect me to say, because I'm obviously part of the conspiracy fnord too. :)
Leaks viewing/listening history through firewall directly to MPAA/RIAA?
Security leaks?
Leaks memory?
Oh, wait, you mean, the product itself was leaked.
Never mind, I'm sure the other types of leaks will follow soon enough.
The man who uses one NTP server always knows what time it is. The man who uses two NTP servers is never sure.
The man who wrote the firmware for D-Link is why nobody's sure anymore.
In Soviet Russia, people listen to their government!
Bachelors, Masters, Ph.Ds,
For the coders want less sunlight
And they hate MCSEs.
There's trouble with UI group,
(And they're quite convinced the're right)
They say the coders are just too lofty
And they just don't see the light.
But the devs can't help their feelings
If they like how it's designed.
And they wonder why UI types
Can't just use the CLI.
So the techies formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"These designers are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more tech oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the hackers only hack now,
With hatchet, axe, and saw.
This is true. Whenever I travel, folks take one look at me and say, "You're an ass, man!"
>
>I have 4 words for you: procedural procedural procedural procedural...
Oh, crap. Will's just procedurally evolved a Steve Ballmer.
Oh, double crap. The procedure's viral, too.
Next week's big festivities involve a restored PDP-1.
Their collection of hardware is pretty much unmatched, and is open to the public. What's on display is the tip of their collection's iceberg. Who knows what might be kicking around in the background, just waiting for a small team of geeks to restore?
And conversely, who knows what might be kicking around in your classmates' basements that's on CHM's wish list?
> Actually, wait for ad hominem attacks on Edward
>
>You know, he's a damn activist judge who's putting pesky rights and fruity ideals in the way of keeping the nation safe for obese children and their fear-stricken parents.
Edwards oldthinker! Edwards unbellyfeel Amsoc! E
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Well, that is the problem here, isn't it?
Don't steal. Your Government's surveillance programme hates competition.
It's like a MMORPG, but with content.
(And because most player interaction is verbal, it doesn't matter whether or not DungeonMasterTaco can spell :)
But on the bright side, the Nokia version was a lot cheaper to alpha-test than the Ferrari Enzo version, which also exhibited similar flaws regarding inaccuracy near objects, particularly while the player was dizzy.
> > 802.11n Spec Still In The Air
>
>Cute!
> [/sarcasm] The article poster's an incorrigible punster. Don't incorrige 'im!
>
> MMO History: Neither a Hello Kitty MMO nor a Sanrio-based MMO have been seen before...
What the fuck? What the figgety-fucking fuck??
(Obligatory bash.org: that's what the fuck.)
> Naughty America: The Game
>A cross between online dating and an MMO, Naughty America: The Game is primarily a social space with added sex. Cartoon sex, that is.
Because after I put on my robe and wizard hat, what could possibly go wrong?
1) Bluetooth-enabled RFID-implant-based bioauthentication system.
2) ???
3) PROFIT!
Are you suggesting that the missing link is "Chair"?
It was about the mandatory recyclin' o' computer stuff in Californ-eye-ayy.
An' in that thread, some enterprisin' geeky soul said that if he had to pay a recyclin' tax, why he'd...
> > > pay the "old pit by the highway" to take care of my old computers...
And some other enterprisin' geeky soul said that if someone used the old pit by the highway, well,
> > rather than make two small piles of garbage. . .
> > [he'd] Sing it with me the next time it comes around on the guitar.
An' that's when it came around on the guitar.
Now ain't y'all glad it was a Microbus instead of a MicroVAX that had all the implements of destruction? I mrean really, you ever try to power a MicroVAX on batteries?
Nothing to see there. Moving right along...
From TFA:
Sounds an awful lot like the technology speculated about in Dean Ing's Ransom of Black Stealth One about ten years ago.
Well, since you reminded me of that song, and since I can't get it out of my head anymore either... might as well share the misery.
Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands. .torrent onto the board!
We run Linux, FreeBSD, and - Omega/GNU.
We come here on Slashdot today, to post bad filk for you!
We got the earbug rhythm, you insensitive clod, that'll make 'em click a mouse to to downward mod.
We got CmdrTaco on the violin, and Hemos and Zonk will be joining in.
We got Goatse guy, with the bunghole red, grits for Natalie Portman, Stephen King is dead,
and there's All Your Base to which we belong, in Soviet Russia when the joke goes wrong,
And just when, for one, you've seen it all, welcome header X-Bender, overlord of all.
So jump on the glass through the hole you've bored, and post a video