The saying goes that if your throw a frog into boiling water he will jump right back out. But, if you put him in cold water and slowly raise the tempurature he will sit happily till he is cooked. I don't know if this is true or not but I think it's sposed ta be one of them meta-4's or maybe one of them Smilm- Slimel- Slilmelimelies..
I dont blame slashdot so much.. I mean I would rather know about it than not know about it- and it does have to do with technology. If they tried to make it sound all cool and hip to torture citizens of a foriegn country that would be a bit much.
I guess I am more disgusted with the people who funded and developed this technology with the intent on using it on Iraqis... Yea, that wont make them hate us.. jeeze, even I hate us for doing it.
with all our technology, science, power and resources, all we seem to do is come up with more and more fucking evil disgusting ways of hurting people? This is fucking sick..
Does nobody else see this?
Interesting... Can I (or my parents) copyright me as an original work? It would be interesting to try and see if I could enforce something like chicago is doing.
Wow you just described me! By the way I have credit problems too and I have kind of a high rate on my mortgage. Ive been thinking of getting into MLM tho so my problems should be over soon!
Yikes- maybe I should offer to sort through email for $18.95/month- I would only need about 150 customers to make a living. I already check email 150 times a day- but this way I could make some cash while I do it.
Thanks. I couldn't remember where that story came from. I knew the gist of it but it didn't really fit my point so I left out the ending. You did a much better job telling it anyway.
I understand what you are saying is the law. I don't know if this is true or not but it seems like a silly law if it is. If your TV is on and your window is open opposite my front porch, am I not allowed to look at it? If the guys next door are blasting copyrighted music at full volume am I not allowed to listen to it? If they leave the porch light on am I not allowed to use the light to find my keys?
It reminds me of the old story about the baker who is angry that his neighbors get to smell the bread baking without paying for it. He went to the judge and demanded that his neighbors pay for the bread they smelled. - It's just damn silly.
If people don't want you to use their wifi they need to make it secure. Regardless of silly laws.
Um.. This isn't even close to proving any point involving the accuracy of ICBMs. But to try to answer your questions: The reason for dismantling them is different depending on who you ask, some say it is a step towards nuke disarmament, others say they are impractical and out of date compared to smaller cruise missiles, others think that bombing the fuck out of innocent people to get one bastard is kinda fucked up. Using a bomb to get Saddam or Osama is like burning your entire block down to get rid of roaches in your house, it's just damn stupid.
As for a pre-emptive strike on China- Um, that idea is just entirely insane for reasons so numerous that I don't know where to begin.
Well, I've just been reading an interesting little article on New Scientist's website about new crowd control weapons that electrocute/stun the targets.
If you electrocute them you can't stun them. They would be DEAD! Electrocute means to kill by electric shock. Not just get a little jolt. I see this error everywhere but I am surprised to see it on slashdot.
Just do a pisspoor job and get fired or drag it out till you can't take it anymore. If you have worked at the company for more than six months you get unemployment, at least where I live. The only way you can't is if you quit. This is to prevent people from working for six months, quitting, getting unemployment, finding another job, quitting etc.
I would talk like a smurfy all day while training: "This is the smurfy server! It runs smurfily! Just hit this smurfy switch right here and it smurfs!" etc etc..
Should do the trick till your smurfed by management.
Assholism? What a cool word. It should be added to the dictionary along with 'dicketry'. As in 'You are acting like a dick! Stop your dicketry!"
Really tho any Sys admin or Network admin worth what they are paid doesn't worry about script kiddies. Its the hardcore blackhat hackers that are scary. That and the clue-sers opening email attatchments all willy nilly.
..argument may come back to haunt linux proponents. I know I will get moded down to nothing for saying so, but Linux has been relatively obscure until recently and not worth trying to exploit. Anyone who wanted to create as much havoc as possible would choose the most widely used operating system to attack. That happened to be (and still is) some flavor of Windows.
As Linux comes to be more and more ubiquitous I predict that we will see viruses and worms written for linux that will actually spread. This is not to say that linux is any more or less secure than windows, but all operating systems have weaknesses that can be exploited. Windows main weakness is clueless users in my opinion. Linux doesn't have that problem, but it may have the problem of having over confident users.
I have the most secure system in the world sitting in my den. It is a windows 95 box with no modem and no network card. I will give anyone $1000 if they can even do a port scan on it. Oh and the power supply is bad. Ultimate security! Almost as obscure er..secure as OSX!
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The saying goes that if your throw a frog into boiling water he will jump right back out. But, if you put him in cold water and slowly raise the tempurature he will sit happily till he is cooked. I don't know if this is true or not but I think it's sposed ta be one of them meta-4's or maybe one of them Smilm- Slimel- Slilmelimelies..
Couldn't the student just claim that they wrote the Wikipedia entry too? Is it possible to prove them wrong?
How about "War on Terror" to "The global struggle against extremism"?
The sad thing is how many people fall for it. Doesn't anybody read 1984 anymore?
I for one think it's double plus good.
I dont blame slashdot so much.. I mean I would rather know about it than not know about it- and it does have to do with technology. If they tried to make it sound all cool and hip to torture citizens of a foriegn country that would be a bit much. I guess I am more disgusted with the people who funded and developed this technology with the intent on using it on Iraqis... Yea, that wont make them hate us.. jeeze, even I hate us for doing it.
with all our technology, science, power and resources, all we seem to do is come up with more and more fucking evil disgusting ways of hurting people? This is fucking sick.. Does nobody else see this?
Interesting... Can I (or my parents) copyright me as an original work? It would be interesting to try and see if I could enforce something like chicago is doing.
WHAT? um... I guess i just dont understand trademark law what with things happening before they happen but only after they happen first.
Okay Mr AC.. Whatever you say.."
Google hosted Mozilla Developer Day on its campus, a gathering of programmers that work together to build sequels to the re-named Netscape browser.
Mozilla is Mozilla.
Netscape is Netscape
Already, its Gmail free e-mail system gives users 100 megabytes of storage space on a remote network
Can you say 1000 megs? or 1 gig?
This story is fluff. I wonder what else "journalists" are letting slip throught the cracks.
Wow you just described me! By the way I have credit problems too and I have kind of a high rate on my mortgage. Ive been thinking of getting into MLM tho so my problems should be over soon!
Yikes- maybe I should offer to sort through email for $18.95/month- I would only need about 150 customers to make a living. I already check email 150 times a day- but this way I could make some cash while I do it.
I am so glad someone is fighting corporate america and their fascist contol of the media.. um.. oh wait, did you say microsoft?
Nevermind.
Thanks. I couldn't remember where that story came from. I knew the gist of it but it didn't really fit my point so I left out the ending. You did a much better job telling it anyway.
I understand what you are saying is the law. I don't know if this is true or not but it seems like a silly law if it is. If your TV is on and your window is open opposite my front porch, am I not allowed to look at it? If the guys next door are blasting copyrighted music at full volume am I not allowed to listen to it? If they leave the porch light on am I not allowed to use the light to find my keys?
It reminds me of the old story about the baker who is angry that his neighbors get to smell the bread baking without paying for it. He went to the judge and demanded that his neighbors pay for the bread they smelled. - It's just damn silly.
If people don't want you to use their wifi they need to make it secure. Regardless of silly laws.
Offtopic, Overrated, Redundant, whatever.. Museum mouse? Give me a break.
Um.. This isn't even close to proving any point involving the accuracy of ICBMs.
But to try to answer your questions: The reason for dismantling them is different depending on who you ask, some say it is a step towards nuke disarmament, others say they are impractical and out of date compared to smaller cruise missiles, others think that bombing the fuck out of innocent people to get one bastard is kinda fucked up. Using a bomb to get Saddam or Osama is like burning your entire block down to get rid of roaches in your house, it's just damn stupid.
As for a pre-emptive strike on China- Um, that idea is just entirely insane for reasons so numerous that I don't know where to begin.
We call them airplanes.
"Apple has accused RealNetworks of using the 'tactics and ethics of a hacker'...."
That is high praise from Apple. RealNetworks should publicize this more..
HA HA!
now I have to write exploits for TWO different browsers. Damnit!
Well, I've just been reading an interesting little article on New Scientist's website about new crowd control weapons that electrocute/stun the targets.
If you electrocute them you can't stun them. They would be DEAD! Electrocute means to kill by electric shock. Not just get a little jolt. I see this error everywhere but I am surprised to see it on slashdot.
turn off your cellphone, turn off your engine, put out all smoking materials, all for wimps! Wimps!
Just do a pisspoor job and get fired or drag it out till you can't take it anymore. If you have worked at the company for more than six months you get unemployment, at least where I live. The only way you can't is if you quit. This is to prevent people from working for six months, quitting, getting unemployment, finding another job, quitting etc.
I would talk like a smurfy all day while training: "This is the smurfy server! It runs smurfily! Just hit this smurfy switch right here and it smurfs!" etc etc..
Should do the trick till your smurfed by management.
Assholism? What a cool word. It should be added to the dictionary along with 'dicketry'. As in 'You are acting like a dick! Stop your dicketry!"
Really tho any Sys admin or Network admin worth what they are paid doesn't worry about script kiddies. Its the hardcore blackhat hackers that are scary. That and the clue-sers opening email attatchments all willy nilly.
...or care about.
As Linux comes to be more and more ubiquitous I predict that we will see viruses and worms written for linux that will actually spread. This is not to say that linux is any more or less secure than windows, but all operating systems have weaknesses that can be exploited. Windows main weakness is clueless users in my opinion. Linux doesn't have that problem, but it may have the problem of having over confident users.
I have the most secure system in the world sitting in my den. It is a windows 95 box with no modem and no network card. I will give anyone $1000 if they can even do a port scan on it. Oh and the power supply is bad. Ultimate security! Almost as obscure er..secure as OSX!