> > When asked if a phishing site was legit or a spoof, 23% of users use only the content of the website to make the decision! > > Phishing works because people don't understand (nor do they want to) the basics of the technology they use (example: Jerry Taylor).
Funny you should mention him, though.
"I do not follow instructions that show up when a website that I am not familiar with appears on my computer and I do not think anyone with experience would do so either." - Jerry Taylor
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time!
Although in the case of Jerry, it's more like even a blind seal finding a club:)
> I pray that there is a major change in the order of Congress this election year, or this kind of thing may not be far behind here in America. > >Yes, we'll still have Bush, but if we can a Democrat majority in Congress, especially a democrat majority with a fucking spine, Bush and them will spend the next two years fighting until we can hopefully replace all of them in '08 and start the long path of recovery...
Pop Quiz: On January 20, 2009, the leader of Democratic wing of the party, having retaken the House and Senate in '06, and the Presidency in 2008, will take a look at the powers available to it, and say:
a) "Look at all this power we just had dropped into our laps! Just in case we're ever tempted to use it, we'd better pass laws to prevent us from using it."
b) "Thank you very much, Republicans! It's just what we always wanted. Let us know what additional powers you'd like in place for 2016 when it's your turn."
It doesn't matter whether you work for the Democratic wing or the Republican wing. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
> Sadly, while Morrowind and so far Oblivion have been filled with goodness (I'm working on an Oblivion quest wiki in my meager spare time), Daggerfall was - blech. Crashes, needed patches, the whole "randomizing" dungeons just made it too hard to go anywhere and know what the hell was going on - and the map system was this 3d thing of horror. Towns were full of people, most of whom were just empty bodies, and there was hardly any way of keeping track of quests.
In other words, it's like a MMORPG. But not as buggy. And with more content. And the only reasons the NPCs failed the Turing Test was because they had better language skills and personalities.
Yeah, I felt that way too when I played Oblivion after WoW.
> You mean ActiveX websites will break? . . . And that's a *bad* thing?
They're going to fucking bury that technology. They have done it before, and they will do it again. They're going to fucking kill ActiveX.
Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads.
And someone, somewhere, will get an ActiveChair flung at them.
> Since EVERY SINGLE VOTER who uses these machines is
a potential hacker looking to alter election results, why is
Diebold so concerned?
Because if every single voter gets to hack the election results,
then it's be a fair election. Duh!
January 20, 2009: President Stallman took the oath of office today, after the GNU/ESR ticket (GNU's Not United-states!) narrowly beat the Gates/Ballmer team campaign in an election that stunned the ruling Demopublican coalition...
> BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has turned down
an offer for $750 million and is looking for 2 billion dollars.
BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has turned down an offer for
$750 million and is looking for 2 billion dollars.
Great. So the future of business looks like this:
sumredrok: yo
facebk: yo!
sumredrok: asm?
facebk: 2/lots/watugot?
sumredrok: 750m?
facebk: up urs n00b
sumredrok: wtf?
facebk: 2b
foxyrupert: pwn3d!
"Capital, capital, everywhere, and no VCs who think."
> > and already owns more than 4000 patents, including many patents on fundamental, but trivial technologies, like double clicks.
> > Patent the triple click or click(n + 1) and sue the bejesus out of Microsoft for all those times you have been waiting around for something to open and you just keep clicking.
The present invention propulsion devices for software developers, developers, developers, and, more particularly, to a method involving the combination of a trebuchet and a chair...
> You obviously have no clue the lengths the NASA contractors go to make safe spacecraft. The two shuttle disaster never had anything to do with the orbiter. It was always the add on stuff. Sure it was part of the whole package, but the contractor that made the orbiter did not make the external tanks and engines.
And the reason the contractor for the orbiter and the contractor for the external tank was... what? Why are pieces of the Shuttle made in all 50 states?
> > Out of curiosity -- would you prefer to fly JetBlue, or Aeroflot? > >
What a horrible example. What would you rather fly, SpaceX, the Shuttle, Soyuz, an Apollo circa 1972?
I chose passenger airlines to avoid the problem you're trying to bring up. Passenger aircraft have flown in US and Russia for approximately the same length of time. There have been improvements over the past 30 years, but fundamentally, passenger planes haven't changed much. The reason you're safer flying JetBlue over Aeroflot has nothing to do with the quality of engineering done at Airbus vs. that of Ilyushin.
> Wait..you're saying private investors are more likely to have safety concerns? > >
*boggle*
Yes, that is what I'm saying.
When NASA becomes "Need Another Seven Astronauts", they burn through several billion dollars in funding to fly nowhere, and to change the name to "Need Another Seven, Again".
When SpaceX, or Scaled Composities, or Armadillo, or any other startup blows up a manned spacecraft - twice - and for the same fundamental reason, they'll go out of business.
Out of curiosity -- would you prefer to fly JetBlue, or Aeroflot?
C'mon, Elon! This isn't rocket sci... oh, right. Well then, there we are.
And to add insult to injury, we'll link your web server from Slashdot.
Seriously, Elon. Good on you. SpaceX is doing something risky and interesting. Make as many mistakes as it takes to get the job done. Unlike NASA, the bulk of your funding comes from a free market, and you're therefore motivated to learn from your mistakes. The day you build something your investors are willing to let you slap a "man-rated" label on, I'll be in line with tickets to fly on it.
> "One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner." >"Who's scruffy-lookin'?" >
"Where did you dig up that old fossil?" >
"And I thought they smelled bad on the outside" >
"It's not my fault!" >
"I've got a bad feeling about this" >
"Then I'll see you in hell"
You forgot the One True Line for SOE/SWG:
"Pull out, Raph, you can't do any good back there."
> > We can only hope his ass is now the recepticle for junk male...
> > Rape is HILARIOUS.
If he doesn't enjoy the assreaming he's getting from inmate #49147, he can simply opt out of future pelvic thrusts by saying "I opt out of future pelvic thrusts" to inmate #49147.
Of course, inmate #49148 has as much right as #49147 to offer his exciting products and and services as #49147 does. It's only one stroke, right? Just opt out, Rizler! Just opt out!
Quoth Daniel Lyons in TFA: > Instead, we got a demo that was about as compelling as a root canal followed by a 15-minute press conference with Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive who seems incapable of speaking at any level softer than a bellow. >[...] >I wonder if Ballmer ever feels like the guy in Groundhog Day, reliving the same press conference, over and over. I know I do.
(I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met Natalie Portman. We ate hot grits and drank pina coladas from tikis made of petrified wood. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over...)
Old pilot's motto: "Airspeed, altitude or brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."
> "If everything goes to plan, the experiment will begin at a height of 35 km. As the engine continues its downward path the fuel in the scramjet is expected to automatically ignite. The scientists will then have just six seconds to monitor its performance before the £1m engine eventually crashes into the ground."
Revised for 2006: "We'll settle for one out of three these days... as long as you have a hell of a lot of it to compensate."
> Nothing to see here, and half of it's advertising.
> >
Hey! They're scoring coconuts now so they're easier to break open!
Because if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun, and those coconuts are gonna get scored like a butterfly ballot made of beef jerky and left to cure an alligator-infested Florida swamp.
Seriously, Dan, we never knew you had a Slashdot account! How's the turnip soup? I love biscuits with gravy.
The paper you quote appears to be discussing designs for interplanetary flights using technologies achievable today. (A reasonable approach - I'm mainly addressing the folks who are talking about time dilation effects as related to space travel:)
2.1: Electrostatic requirements "exceed the state of the art by over an order of magnitude".
The paper was written in 2000. 2000's state of the art is better than that of the 60s and 70s. We're still several orders of magnitude away from spacecraft where relativistic/time dilation effects take precedence.
The radiation induced by flying headlong into whatever ionized crap happens to be in interstellar space (however thinly-dispersed it may be) at 0.99c almost certainly dwarfs the GCR effects. I'd also be pretty worried about shielding myself from the ship's own power source than either the induced radiation and the background radiation.
Long story short, by the time we've built a spacecraft flying at 0.99c (centuries, even if Moore's Law applied to spaceships), we'll have had plenty of time to solve the shielding problem (because we'll have had to make commensurate results in just about every other technology in order to build such a ship in the first place).
Maybe we solve it by building something that accelerates so quickly (and yet doesn't squash the crew to a pulp) that the crew only has to experience a few moments of ship-time, and the flight experience is less like spaceflight than like getting the galaxy's least-efficient chest X-Ray.
Maybe we solve it through passive shielding, and if that means our ships being size of small planets... why not use small planets? Enceladus and Europa would make lovely vacation spots if only they were closer to the Sun. But almost any star will do.
> What's wrong is the idea that you can use the time-dilation effect to get to another solar system safely if you can get close enough to light speed, since even short times in space cause health effects.
What everyone's overlooking here is this:
If you've got a power source capable of accelerating a spaceship to 0.99c for years at a time, you've got also a power source capable of deflecting the induced radiation from your travels, and you're probably not so worried about ship mass that you can't afford to build in shielding materials.
Consider that you encounter hundreds of times more mosquitoes on a cross-country drive than you do on a single evening barbecuing. You both may be clawing your faces off by Monday morning, but only one of you will be doing so because of mosquito bites.
Buggy bot: Would you like to shut us down now or wait 'till you get home?
Daffy fuck: SHUT HIM DOWN NOW! SHUT HIM DOWN NOW!
Buggy bot: You keep out of this. He doesn't have to shut you down now.
Daffy fuck: He does SO have to shut me down now! I demand
that you shut me down now. (Nyeah!)
Spammer: daffy# shutdown -now
Botnet: *reboots*
Daffy fuck: Let's read those logs again.
Buggy bot: Okay. bugbot: would you like to shut us down now or wait 'till
you get home?
Daffy fuck: daffy: shut him down now
Buggy bot: bugbot: you keep out of this, he doesn't have to shut
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It's not 'he doesn't have to shut you down now, it's he doesn't
have to shut me down now.' Well, I say he does
have to shut me down now! So shut me down now!
Slashdot Mirror
>
> Phishing works because people don't understand (nor do they want to) the basics of the technology they use (example: Jerry Taylor).
Funny you should mention him, though.
"I do not follow instructions that show up when a website that I am not familiar with appears on my computer and I do not think anyone with experience would do so either."
- Jerry Taylor
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time!
Although in the case of Jerry, it's more like even a blind seal finding a club :)
You buy 'em a better video card, another stick of RAM, you order a pizza, and you say "yes" whenever he asks if you wanna go on a raid.
Or did you mean to help him do something else? :)
>
>Yes, we'll still have Bush, but if we can a Democrat majority in Congress, especially a democrat majority with a fucking spine, Bush and them will spend the next two years fighting until we can hopefully replace all of them in '08 and start the long path of recovery...
Pop Quiz: On January 20, 2009, the leader of Democratic wing of the party, having retaken the House and Senate in '06, and the Presidency in 2008, will take a look at the powers available to it, and say:
a) "Look at all this power we just had dropped into our laps! Just in case we're ever tempted to use it, we'd better pass laws to prevent us from using it."
b) "Thank you very much, Republicans! It's just what we always wanted. Let us know what additional powers you'd like in place for 2016 when it's your turn."
It doesn't matter whether you work for the Democratic wing or the Republican wing. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
In other words, it's like a MMORPG. But not as buggy. And with more content. And the only reasons the NPCs failed the Turing Test was because they had better language skills and personalities.
Yeah, I felt that way too when I played Oblivion after WoW.
They're going to fucking bury that technology. They have done it before, and they will do it again. They're going to fucking kill ActiveX.
And someone, somewhere, will get an ActiveChair flung at them.
Because if every single voter gets to hack the election results, then it's be a fair election. Duh!
January 20, 2009: President Stallman took the oath of office today, after the GNU/ESR ticket (GNU's Not United-states!) narrowly beat the Gates/Ballmer team campaign in an election that stunned the ruling Demopublican coalition...
Warning: Do not stare into laser with remaining eye.
Nothing for you to see here. Please learn to make better use of your non-dominant eye.
Great. So the future of business looks like this:
sumredrok: yo
facebk: yo!
sumredrok: asm?
facebk: 2/lots/watugot?
sumredrok: 750m?
facebk: up urs n00b
sumredrok: wtf?
facebk: 2b
foxyrupert: pwn3d!
"Capital, capital, everywhere, and no VCs who think."
>
> Patent the triple click or click(n + 1) and sue the bejesus out of Microsoft for all those times you have been waiting around for something to open and you just keep clicking.
Patent #13,378,008,135: Method for trebuchet-Barcalounger-based propulsion.
The present invention propulsion devices for software developers, developers, developers, and, more particularly, to a method involving the combination of a trebuchet and a chair...
>
>because they arent the underdogs?
And because in Korea, only old underdogs can bundle an episode of chair-throwing with their opera*WOOF*fling*THUNK*
NO CARRIER
(Have no fear, the guy who'll fucking bury Google is here!)
But wake me when it beats Evolution Control Committee's divinely-inspired Rocked By Rape (4.1 megabytes, MP3)
And the reason the contractor for the orbiter and the contractor for the external tank was... what? Why are pieces of the Shuttle made in all 50 states?
> > Out of curiosity -- would you prefer to fly JetBlue, or Aeroflot?
>
> What a horrible example. What would you rather fly, SpaceX, the Shuttle, Soyuz, an Apollo circa 1972?
I chose passenger airlines to avoid the problem you're trying to bring up. Passenger aircraft have flown in US and Russia for approximately the same length of time. There have been improvements over the past 30 years, but fundamentally, passenger planes haven't changed much. The reason you're safer flying JetBlue over Aeroflot has nothing to do with the quality of engineering done at Airbus vs. that of Ilyushin.
>
> *boggle*
Yes, that is what I'm saying.
When NASA becomes "Need Another Seven Astronauts", they burn through several billion dollars in funding to fly nowhere, and to change the name to "Need Another Seven, Again".
When SpaceX, or Scaled Composities, or Armadillo, or any other startup blows up a manned spacecraft - twice - and for the same fundamental reason, they'll go out of business.
Out of curiosity -- would you prefer to fly JetBlue, or Aeroflot?
And to add insult to injury, we'll link your web server from Slashdot.
Seriously, Elon. Good on you. SpaceX is doing something risky and interesting. Make as many mistakes as it takes to get the job done. Unlike NASA, the bulk of your funding comes from a free market, and you're therefore motivated to learn from your mistakes. The day you build something your investors are willing to let you slap a "man-rated" label on, I'll be in line with tickets to fly on it.
>"Who's scruffy-lookin'?"
> "Where did you dig up that old fossil?"
> "And I thought they smelled bad on the outside"
> "It's not my fault!"
> "I've got a bad feeling about this"
> "Then I'll see you in hell"
You forgot the One True Line for SOE/SWG:
"Pull out, Raph, you can't do any good back there."
>
> Rape is HILARIOUS.
If he doesn't enjoy the assreaming he's getting from inmate #49147, he can simply opt out of future pelvic thrusts by saying "I opt out of future pelvic thrusts" to inmate #49147.
Of course, inmate #49148 has as much right as #49147 to offer his exciting products and and services as #49147 does. It's only one stroke, right? Just opt out, Rizler! Just opt out!
> Instead, we got a demo that was about as compelling as a root canal followed by a 15-minute press conference with Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive who seems incapable of speaking at any level softer than a bellow.
>[...]
>I wonder if Ballmer ever feels like the guy in Groundhog Day, reliving the same press conference, over and over. I know I do.
Developers. Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
Gee, I wonder why it feels like Groundhog Day.
(I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met Natalie Portman. We ate hot grits and drank pina coladas from tikis made of petrified wood. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over...)
> "If everything goes to plan, the experiment will begin at a height of 35 km. As the engine continues its downward path the fuel in the scramjet is expected to automatically ignite. The scientists will then have just six seconds to monitor its performance before the £1m engine eventually crashes into the ground."
Revised for 2006: "We'll settle for one out of three these days... as long as you have a hell of a lot of it to compensate."
>
> Hey! They're scoring coconuts now so they're easier to break open!
Because if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun, and those coconuts are gonna get scored like a butterfly ballot made of beef jerky and left to cure an alligator-infested Florida swamp.
Seriously, Dan, we never knew you had a Slashdot account! How's the turnip soup? I love biscuits with gravy.
>
>No, active shielding doesn't help much against GCR.
The paper you quote appears to be discussing designs for interplanetary flights using technologies achievable today. (A reasonable approach - I'm mainly addressing the folks who are talking about time dilation effects as related to space travel :)
2.1: Electrostatic requirements "exceed the state of the art by over an order of magnitude".
The paper was written in 2000. 2000's state of the art is better than that of the 60s and 70s. We're still several orders of magnitude away from spacecraft where relativistic/time dilation effects take precedence.
The radiation induced by flying headlong into whatever ionized crap happens to be in interstellar space (however thinly-dispersed it may be) at 0.99c almost certainly dwarfs the GCR effects. I'd also be pretty worried about shielding myself from the ship's own power source than either the induced radiation and the background radiation.
Long story short, by the time we've built a spacecraft flying at 0.99c (centuries, even if Moore's Law applied to spaceships), we'll have had plenty of time to solve the shielding problem (because we'll have had to make commensurate results in just about every other technology in order to build such a ship in the first place).
Maybe we solve it by building something that accelerates so quickly (and yet doesn't squash the crew to a pulp) that the crew only has to experience a few moments of ship-time, and the flight experience is less like spaceflight than like getting the galaxy's least-efficient chest X-Ray.
Maybe we solve it through passive shielding, and if that means our ships being size of small planets... why not use small planets? Enceladus and Europa would make lovely vacation spots if only they were closer to the Sun. But almost any star will do.
You forgot the even-more-ironic second line to the chorus.
In Sov'yet Britain, Britannia waives the rules! Britons, ever ever shall be slaves to fools.
What everyone's overlooking here is this:
If you've got a power source capable of accelerating a spaceship to 0.99c for years at a time, you've got also a power source capable of deflecting the induced radiation from your travels, and you're probably not so worried about ship mass that you can't afford to build in shielding materials.
Consider that you encounter hundreds of times more mosquitoes on a cross-country drive than you do on a single evening barbecuing. You both may be clawing your faces off by Monday morning, but only one of you will be doing so because of mosquito bites.
Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo marketroidum.
There is nothing so absurd but some dude in marketing has said it.
- Cicero.
Buggy bot: Would you like to shut us down now or wait 'till you get home?
Daffy fuck: SHUT HIM DOWN NOW! SHUT HIM DOWN NOW!
Buggy bot: You keep out of this. He doesn't have to shut you down now.
Daffy fuck: He does SO have to shut me down now! I demand that you shut me down now. (Nyeah!)
Spammer: daffy# shutdown -now
Botnet: *reboots*
Daffy fuck: Let's read those logs again.
Buggy bot: Okay. bugbot: would you like to shut us down now or wait 'till you get home?
Daffy fuck: daffy: shut him down now
Buggy bot: bugbot: you keep out of this, he doesn't have to shut you down now
Daffy fuck: Aha! Hold it right there. DNS cacne poisoning. It's not 'he doesn't have to shut you down now, it's he doesn't have to shut me down now.' Well, I say he does have to shut me down now! So shut me down now!
Spammer: daffy# shutdown -now
Botnet: *reboots*