...but would welcome any move to improve security and technology in the area.
Then let’s just kill all life in the area and fill it with self-replicating evolving robots! That is a 100% sure shot to improve security and technology.
You said *any* move! Don’t lie and act as if that was not exactly the direction you were thinking of.
Because the first thing you will do, is tell every single calling user, how to remove the worst of all malware from his computer: 1. Download Linux CD/DVD. 2. Burn to disc. (Do not take the disk out). 3. Reboot. 4. Click OK or press Enter, until you see a desktop again.
I’m seriously considering to send them my job application for that very reason. Don’t care, even if I’m fired again. Been there, lived trough it, got on my legs again. Pfft. ^^ Besides, it would be a hell of a lot of fun. Especially, if they’d decide to fire me anyway. Then I’d come barefoot, not showered or shaved all week, in trash clothes, at 10 am. And piss in the corner on the last day. ^^ I’m no approval junkie. And you can’t punish someone who got nothing to lose because it’s not worth anyting for him anyway.
I bet the old functionality is still in there somewhere. How about doing a diff of the UI files (basically XML) of the old and new version of the search, and making an extension out of it? That should be pretty easy. If the C code is there, it will work.
If not, then you would need to patch that. And only then gets it harder.
Good luck keeping all your data on the server of a company who is also the biggest internet advertisement company. Good luck when they switch things off. Good luck making backups. Good luck keeping your privacy. Good luck owning your data. And have fun with yet another pointless layer of inner platform.
Sorry, but web-based e-mail, instant-messaging, p2p file-sharing, etc, is just plain stupid because of exactly these things. Opera is going the right way, by allowing users to stay on their systems and not become dependent on someone else. And by providing a real interface/software instead of crap that is interpreted by an interpreted interpreter that gets interpreted in a interpreted virtual machine running in Emacs in a VM (on a mobile phone).:P
I friend of mine bought it, back then. And it hat not one, not two, not three, but four points in the loading of the game, where it could crash. Which means that pretty much everyone got into one.
And then, on all nVidia cards, all triangles were messed up. With one of the 3 points of each triangle being wayy off in its position, moving all over the screen. Like a ton of spikes.
There was not a single comment from Rockstar. Let alone a patch.
And now for the funny part: I loaded it of bittorrent, and as always, I went to gamecopyworld.com, to look for a crack. They not only had more than one working crack. No. They hay patches for every single of those four crash points, *and* the nVidia bug!
I couldn’t hold back to laugh at him. ^^
With GTA 4 it was not much better. Right from the start, the input lag was around 3 seconds! The intro was full of weird graphical errors. And the game still runs slow as hell, even on computers that have the power to run a game with those weak graphics and physics twice or thrice! 18 fps at 1024x786 with a Radeon 4850? Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me??
I imagined a scientist, talking to a monkey, going “My hovercraft is full of eels!”. ^^
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Protip: *Every* time you see anyone going “Humans are the only ones who can do this!“ or “We are the center of $something.”, without haven proven that to be true for a fact, you know you got an arrogant egocentric asshole in front of you, who is no better than a 19th century person going “We are the better race. Only we are real humans. The Earth is the center of the universe. Animals don't *really* think. They are just empty shells. Things without soul or feelings. Just as women, they don not *really* think like we do. And there are no other lifeforms elsewhere. That’s how special we are. $bullshit God $moreBullshit chosen $evenMoreBullshit”.
On an anecdote: A friend of mine told me that in South Africa, you see groups of monkeys roaming the streets like gangs. They come to the house, steal the food, and destroy everything.
But he saw them on the street, and a poor dog got into their way. They literally ripped the dog into pieces! Bear in mind that they have a pull strength up to 1700 pounds! So you can imagine the mess and gore of it. With blood and bowels all over the place.
No messin’ around with those little bastards! ^^
(Think about it: If we still were cavemen, then we'd be able to overpower even them. Sad that humans got so weak.:/)
I predict some politicians with huge loads of torrented child porn (with sound tracks out of commercial music) on their PCs. ^^
The best way to get to their computers, is to become the technician, and make it a time capsule which goes off some random time when you’ve left and are forgotten. Don’t try any office computer shit. Their *private* computers are where you should do it. The security there is basically zero. Get yourself and a friend invited there. The friend distracts them, you stick in the USB stick, run autostart, pull it out, and done. Because of the incubation delay, you’re out of the question.
Now all you need is social engineering to get him to invite you. ^^ Think about what he wants. Learn to understand him. Fulfill his greed. Has he prostitutes coming over? Does he buy drugs? Those are sure shots. But really, any weird thing that he really wants, will make him open up. Easy peasy.
No, I am not a special agent, and I have better things to do than such stuff.:) I recommend reading some leaked CIA manuals though, so they can’t pull this shit on you. ^^
He questions just how much effort agencies take to reduce false positives when it comes to DMCA notices.
Hasn’t he got the memo? Doesn’t he get anything at all? I didn’t think that there still are people out there, who are so incredibly naive, to believe, that the point of those DMCA notices is, to stop you from copying the music! No. Everybody realized for a looong time, that the whole point is solely, to make money! I mean, if you realized it, it’s so obvious! The whole point of a business is to make money. Since when does it matter, how and by which means? At the end of the day, the most successful strategy of making money, is what will be done. That’s natural selection... kinda.
How can he call himself an expert, and not know that?? Seriously! It boggles the mind!
I’ve seen it twice: Even if you started to pay money, but stop right in the middle... you’ll never hear something from them again. It already was profitable. Now the effort would be bigger than the profit. So they won’t take any further actions.
From practical experience, I know that the best experience is, to simply tell them to get lost, that you are an expert in the area, *know* that they got shit, and will kick their ass to hell and back if they ever contact you again. Sometimes, they will not stop at a letter from a lawyer, but try some pseudo-scary shit. Like a letter from court and such. Just send a letter back that you completely disagree with all claims. Because then they have to come up with some proof. Which they can’t. 99% of the time, that’s it. In rare cases, they come up with fake “proof”. Only in these cases, hope that your judge is not a total backwards retard.
But I don’t have to tell you that it’s better to live in a country with competent courts, do I? ^^
Besides: Where would they get that injection from anyway?
There is no shortage! There is a non-equal distribution. Which, depending on who you want to help, is either what you want, or really wrong. I understand that you want to help others more than yourself... oh wait... state it, and complain about it, but not doing anything real at all. (Donating $5 a year (or month) to “starving children” is not going to make anything better. Rather worse even.) Instead you do what we all to: Work for our own good, and the “good” of those who benefit us.
So first, follow your own philosophy, by spreading all your money across the world equally, until you all have the same amount. Or admit that you’re really only doing things for yourself. Both is fine with me. I’m not here do judge. Just to point out how things are. But stop being a hypocrite!
There are no “facts”. Everything you know is data processed by your brain, your senses, the source that you got the data from, etc, etc, etc. You can’t ever determine the “true” state. Or if there even is such a thing. Let alone if the data everyone receives of something is the same. You can’t even prove that anything other than yourself exists at all.
$20?? Pad me $10 offer a tool that generates an unlimited number of military-grade security passwords that even a young child can remember forever, and optionally also generates public/private keys to use in-between.
<fearmongering>Plus a guide on proper usage and a link list if you’re interested in learning more about how to prevent your young daughter being online-raped, your partner being raped in the ass in prison because of someone framing her, and you getting caught by Chinese/Russian/American/Colombian/whatever intelligence and thrown in a gulag to be raped to the end of your life because you got cracked and were the central of the biggest botnet in human history.</fearmongering>
I’m sorry, but if your password is found in a dictionary, you fail, and deserve to be cracked. I don’t care if you’re 50 year old steel worker with no higher education. You are still a human. The most intelligent being on the planet! Behave like one, would ya?
Protip: Adding just ONE special character to your password is going to wreck even faster brute force attacks. Let alone dictionary ones. If you want your password being “penis”, and it complains that it’s too short, no problem. Add a exclamation mark, or maybe more than one, and you’re not good. You’re great! I repeat: “penis”: BAD. penis!!!1“: GREAT. ^^
I found some other nice techniques:
1. Use 1337(0d3. ^^ (Or some other keys that only you know what they mean.)
2. (My favorite:) Draw one, two or even more big letters on your keyboard, using all the keys. This works especially well with a custom keyboard layout (I use the German Neo 2.0 layout, which is rather rare. Which makes it rather hard to enter the password on other keyboards though. Then again, that is a feature. As then nobody can log your input on his computer.)
3. If you can, use public key authentication. Let’s see them brute-force a 2048 bit key!
X. Do them all together. E.g. draw “p3n“ on the keys of your keyboard, to decrypt a public key. But: No, I do *not* expect Joe Sixpack to know that. Then again, he also does not need it. It’s just a bit of evolutionary advantage for us experts. ^^
It’s sad, how often Slashdot is full of hype about Google or Apple doing things, that others did for a loong time. Must be sad to live the 3rd world of the mobile phone industry.:/
It’s really hard not to do a “shameless plug” for Nokia phones yet again...
Oh what a nice follower of rules you are. You don’t care for the actual *intention*, the reason or any morale that was the origin of a law. You would have made a nice servant/slave. Hitler would have loved you.
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...but would welcome any move to improve security and technology in the area.
Then let’s just kill all life in the area and fill it with self-replicating evolving robots! That is a 100% sure shot to improve security and technology.
You said *any* move!
Don’t lie and act as if that was not exactly the direction you were thinking of.
Preferably as a managing director!
Because the first thing you will do, is tell every single calling user, how to remove the worst of all malware from his computer:
1. Download Linux CD/DVD.
2. Burn to disc. (Do not take the disk out).
3. Reboot.
4. Click OK or press Enter, until you see a desktop again.
I’m seriously considering to send them my job application for that very reason. Don’t care, even if I’m fired again. Been there, lived trough it, got on my legs again. Pfft. ^^
Besides, it would be a hell of a lot of fun.
Especially, if they’d decide to fire me anyway. Then I’d come barefoot, not showered or shaved all week, in trash clothes, at 10 am. And piss in the corner on the last day. ^^
I’m no approval junkie. And you can’t punish someone who got nothing to lose because it’s not worth anyting for him anyway.
I bet the old functionality is still in there somewhere.
How about doing a diff of the UI files (basically XML) of the old and new version of the search, and making an extension out of it?
That should be pretty easy. If the C code is there, it will work.
If not, then you would need to patch that. And only then gets it harder.
Good luck keeping all your data on the server of a company who is also the biggest internet advertisement company. Good luck when they switch things off. Good luck making backups. Good luck keeping your privacy. Good luck owning your data. And have fun with yet another pointless layer of inner platform.
Sorry, but web-based e-mail, instant-messaging, p2p file-sharing, etc, is just plain stupid because of exactly these things. Opera is going the right way, by allowing users to stay on their systems and not become dependent on someone else. And by providing a real interface/software instead of crap that is interpreted by an interpreted interpreter that gets interpreted in a interpreted virtual machine running in Emacs in a VM (on a mobile phone). :P
I friend of mine bought it, back then. And it hat not one, not two, not three, but four points in the loading of the game, where it could crash. Which means that pretty much everyone got into one.
And then, on all nVidia cards, all triangles were messed up. With one of the 3 points of each triangle being wayy off in its position, moving all over the screen. Like a ton of spikes.
There was not a single comment from Rockstar. Let alone a patch.
And now for the funny part: I loaded it of bittorrent, and as always, I went to gamecopyworld.com, to look for a crack.
They not only had more than one working crack. No. They hay patches for every single of those four crash points, *and* the nVidia bug!
I couldn’t hold back to laugh at him. ^^
With GTA 4 it was not much better. Right from the start, the input lag was around 3 seconds! The intro was full of weird graphical errors. And the game still runs slow as hell, even on computers that have the power to run a game with those weak graphics and physics twice or thrice!
18 fps at 1024x786 with a Radeon 4850? Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me??
I imagined a scientist, talking to a monkey, going “My hovercraft is full of eels!”. ^^
Protip: *Every* time you see anyone going “Humans are the only ones who can do this!“ or “We are the center of $something.”, without haven proven that to be true for a fact, you know you got an arrogant egocentric asshole in front of you, who is no better than a 19th century person going “We are the better race. Only we are real humans. The Earth is the center of the universe. Animals don't *really* think. They are just empty shells. Things without soul or feelings. Just as women, they don not *really* think like we do. And there are no other lifeforms elsewhere. That’s how special we are. $bullshit God $moreBullshit chosen $evenMoreBullshit”.
On an anecdote: A friend of mine told me that in South Africa, you see groups of monkeys roaming the streets like gangs. They come to the house, steal the food, and destroy everything.
But he saw them on the street, and a poor dog got into their way. They literally ripped the dog into pieces!
Bear in mind that they have a pull strength up to 1700 pounds!
So you can imagine the mess and gore of it. With blood and bowels all over the place.
No messin’ around with those little bastards! ^^
(Think about it: If we still were cavemen, then we'd be able to overpower even them. Sad that humans got so weak. :/)
I predict some politicians with huge loads of torrented child porn (with sound tracks out of commercial music) on their PCs. ^^
The best way to get to their computers, is to become the technician, and make it a time capsule which goes off some random time when you’ve left and are forgotten. Don’t try any office computer shit. Their *private* computers are where you should do it. The security there is basically zero.
Get yourself and a friend invited there. The friend distracts them, you stick in the USB stick, run autostart, pull it out, and done.
Because of the incubation delay, you’re out of the question.
Now all you need is social engineering to get him to invite you. ^^
Think about what he wants. Learn to understand him. Fulfill his greed. Has he prostitutes coming over? Does he buy drugs? Those are sure shots. But really, any weird thing that he really wants, will make him open up. Easy peasy.
No, I am not a special agent, and I have better things to do than such stuff. :)
I recommend reading some leaked CIA manuals though, so they can’t pull this shit on you. ^^
Well obviously!
With that “taste” of “music”, would you stay on the net, not being completely and perfectly military-grade anonymized?? :D
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He questions just how much effort agencies take to reduce false positives when it comes to DMCA notices.
Hasn’t he got the memo? Doesn’t he get anything at all?
I didn’t think that there still are people out there, who are so incredibly naive, to believe, that the point of those DMCA notices is, to stop you from copying the music!
No. Everybody realized for a looong time, that the whole point is solely, to make money!
I mean, if you realized it, it’s so obvious! The whole point of a business is to make money. Since when does it matter, how and by which means? At the end of the day, the most successful strategy of making money, is what will be done. That’s natural selection... kinda.
How can he call himself an expert, and not know that?? Seriously! It boggles the mind!
I’ve seen it twice: Even if you started to pay money, but stop right in the middle... you’ll never hear something from them again. It already was profitable. Now the effort would be bigger than the profit. So they won’t take any further actions.
From practical experience, I know that the best experience is, to simply tell them to get lost, that you are an expert in the area, *know* that they got shit, and will kick their ass to hell and back if they ever contact you again.
Sometimes, they will not stop at a letter from a lawyer, but try some pseudo-scary shit. Like a letter from court and such. Just send a letter back that you completely disagree with all claims. Because then they have to come up with some proof. Which they can’t. 99% of the time, that’s it. In rare cases, they come up with fake “proof”. Only in these cases, hope that your judge is not a total backwards retard.
But I don’t have to tell you that it’s better to live in a country with competent courts, do I? ^^
Do those carts have the same problems as Daleks?
And to they solve them in the same way? ^^
That’s what machine guns are for.
Besides: Where would they get that injection from anyway?
There is no shortage! There is a non-equal distribution. Which, depending on who you want to help, is either what you want, or really wrong.
I understand that you want to help others more than yourself... oh wait... state it, and complain about it, but not doing anything real at all. (Donating $5 a year (or month) to “starving children” is not going to make anything better. Rather worse even.)
Instead you do what we all to: Work for our own good, and the “good” of those who benefit us.
So first, follow your own philosophy, by spreading all your money across the world equally, until you all have the same amount.
Or admit that you’re really only doing things for yourself.
Both is fine with me. I’m not here do judge. Just to point out how things are.
But stop being a hypocrite!
I think you mean East German during the 70s and 80s.
But in the 90s and later? Hmm, I don’t think she looks like a man at all, does she?
“-1, Troll”. But still true.
You can mod it all the way to repression. Won’t change a thing.
If you modded me down, it’s obvious, that YOU’re one of them, and of course can’t stand the truth being called out.
Go watch some Fox News, or sit on a sharp stone, or something, would ya? ^^
Just put all his private stuff up the Internet. Indexed by Google itself. ^^
Then lock the FOX speculation-hate-machine onto it.
Let’s see him not worry about his privacy then. ^^
For fun and giggles, we can add some fake stuff in there too that will get him into pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
Is that some kind of Streisand effect, or do we need a new name?
I don’t wear any shoes, you insensitive clod!
What? So they literally ship Windows?
By why go on the high seas and capture a ship, when you can simply download it?
Or are you a **AA FUD drone?
There are no “facts”. Everything you know is data processed by your brain, your senses, the source that you got the data from, etc, etc, etc. You can’t ever determine the “true” state. Or if there even is such a thing. Let alone if the data everyone receives of something is the same.
You can’t even prove that anything other than yourself exists at all.
Noobs. ^^
$20?? Pad me $10 offer a tool that generates an unlimited number of military-grade security passwords that even a young child can remember forever, and optionally also generates public/private keys to use in-between.
<fearmongering>Plus a guide on proper usage and a link list if you’re interested in learning more about how to prevent your young daughter being online-raped, your partner being raped in the ass in prison because of someone framing her, and you getting caught by Chinese/Russian/American/Colombian/whatever intelligence and thrown in a gulag to be raped to the end of your life because you got cracked and were the central of the biggest botnet in human history.</fearmongering>
Buy now! ^^
I’m sorry, but if your password is found in a dictionary, you fail, and deserve to be cracked. I don’t care if you’re 50 year old steel worker with no higher education. You are still a human. The most intelligent being on the planet! Behave like one, would ya?
Protip: Adding just ONE special character to your password is going to wreck even faster brute force attacks. Let alone dictionary ones.
If you want your password being “penis”, and it complains that it’s too short, no problem. Add a exclamation mark, or maybe more than one, and you’re not good. You’re great!
I repeat: “penis”: BAD. penis!!!1“: GREAT. ^^
I found some other nice techniques:
1. Use 1337(0d3. ^^ (Or some other keys that only you know what they mean.)
2. (My favorite:) Draw one, two or even more big letters on your keyboard, using all the keys. This works especially well with a custom keyboard layout (I use the German Neo 2.0 layout, which is rather rare. Which makes it rather hard to enter the password on other keyboards though. Then again, that is a feature. As then nobody can log your input on his computer.)
3. If you can, use public key authentication. Let’s see them brute-force a 2048 bit key!
X. Do them all together. E.g. draw “p3n“ on the keys of your keyboard, to decrypt a public key.
But: No, I do *not* expect Joe Sixpack to know that. Then again, he also does not need it. It’s just a bit of evolutionary advantage for us experts. ^^
Here. You can test it right now:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/nokia-point-and-find
It’s sad, how often Slashdot is full of hype about Google or Apple doing things, that others did for a loong time. :/
Must be sad to live the 3rd world of the mobile phone industry.
It’s really hard not to do a “shameless plug” for Nokia phones yet again...
Oh what a nice follower of rules you are. You don’t care for the actual *intention*, the reason or any morale that was the origin of a law. You would have made a nice servant/slave. Hitler would have loved you.
Oh wait, you already said that! ^^
Yes, I AM an attorney.
“Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a pedophile... Some people are just nice.”
Same as in meetings: The DOOR and the CLOCK of course! ^^