Slashdot Mirror


User: infonography

infonography's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,239
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,239

  1. Clearing house for bugs Nice idea however on 3Com to Buy Security Flaws? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They don't share the info on the exploits. With CERT the bug is known even if crucial details are not. With 3Com, it's a murky secret. According to their own data they will sit on them until they have notified every security company first. Only then will they tell the public putting everybody at risk. Worst yet from a business standpoint they can pay of a exploit only to have somebody else notify the world the next day. That's money lost. Unless they want to go an copyright the exploit they are assed out.

  2. Is it too late to put ZONK on that list? on E-Mail Snafu Sparks Spam Attack On Journalists · · Score: 1

    Repeatedly regurgitated news is something he's an expert in.

  3. Re:Not black and white. on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Joe Barton (R-Tx) however is a retard and evil. Party affiliation aside the guy is a bastard. He gives a bad name to Texas.

  4. I love the smell of FUD in the morning on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 0, Troll

    This won't happen. Microsoft would be open to so many lawsuits that they would actually notice.

  5. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    something like that showed up a while back, instead of randomly mailings it mailed back the user's email and the scumbag would send you a demand for money to unlock the files.

  6. Happy to help on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 3, Funny

    too bad I am dsylecxic my seepling is just aufful.

    hire is thee key

    the pass code is "My hovercraft is full of eels."
    RSA key mynipplesexplodewithdelight

    here is a little test message;

    Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy? If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I...I am no longer infected.

  7. dot dot dot dash dash dot dot!!!!! on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 3, Funny

    dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dash dot dot dot dash dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash dot dot dash

    and I am sure you all agree with me on that!

    [w/ apologies to Kenny on South Park. ]

  8. Unobtainium on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Element: Unobtainium Still trying to obtain the atomic weight of that one.

  9. Re:Netcraft on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1
    According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.

    Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.

    If we are only 587, does that mean we can't slashdot them? I feel soo weak......

  10. Re:In other news... on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1

    'Preview' is for Users (typos)
    'Older Stuff' is for editors. (Dups)

  11. Re:Cats on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 1

    The mod is an idiot, he's never heard that managing programmers is like herding cats.

  12. Cats on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Herding Cats. Some are big, some are small, some aren't cats at all.

  13. Please tell me where and when your dumping it. on Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster · · Score: 1

    Seriously I know lots of the technically unsavy who will trade other stuff for a computer. If there is a CD key on the box I have the media and my 10 mins of time to start a wipe and install vs what ever they trade is well worth the time.

  14. Titus would be tame by today's standards. on How the ESRB Rates Games · · Score: 1

    Titus Andronicus had quite a bit of gore, I doubt anyone could have come close even with a BFG 9000.

  15. a witches stew. on How the ESRB Rates Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.

    [Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]

    FIRST WITCH.
    Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

    SECOND WITCH.
    Thrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.

    THIRD WITCH.
    Harpier cries:--"tis time, 'tis time.

    FIRST WITCH.
    Round about the caldron go;
    In the poison'd entrails throw.--
    Toad, that under cold stone,
    Days and nights has thirty-one
    Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
    Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!

    ALL.
    Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

    And we all agree, rate this one E for Everybody!

  16. Seems fair, but feels foul. on Ethanol More Trouble Than It's Worth? · · Score: 1

    While ethanol isn't as cheap as drilling out of ground it does have several factors that are being ignored.

    The oil industry is mature and well run, they buy in massive massive bulk and save save save.

    Oil rich lands are controlled by raving loonies, just look at Alaska. Getting to the oil has dangers attached. Cold, Raving loonies, Raving loonies w/ guns. etc.

    In 150 years, we can still make ethanol, in the quanties we need and likely for a lot cheaper per unit then now. It literially grows out of the ground. In Fact thats just what is does. We are using food crop corn to make ethanol, GM grains may make for better yeilds in ethanol. The Raving Loonies in Iowa and Texas are a lot easier to contain then the ones in other parts of the world.

  17. The Gcache Link coutesty of Firefox on Nigerian Scammers Brought to Justice · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. Re:voice work is fine it's money on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    I have only one thing to say to you.

    Macbeth!

  19. "Pirate's Life" on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 0, Troll

    THE VANDALS LYRICS

    "Pirate's Life"

    Seven hits of L
    and nobody could tell
    So I spent every dime
    just to get to Aniehem

    I was in the Magic Kingdom
    Now I'm in the Carribean
    You get something really wicked
    when you spend an E-ticket

    High adventure on the sea,
    but it's not the life for me
    Now those harry tatooed pirates are all chasing after me
    I was threatened with a knife by a pirate playing fife
    Now I'm sailing for my life thanks to LSD 25

    Where can I hide?
    I don't want to buy a bride
    I'm alone as I float
    Hey, there were others in my boat

    Up ahead, one of the men
    he said he would be my friend
    He'd guide me to the hole
    If I deeded him my soul

    To the hole I didn't make it
    That doesn't mean he didn't take it
    He laughed at my plight
    He said you'll be one of us tonight

    High adventure on the sea,
    but it's not the life for me
    Now those harry tatooed pirates are all chasing after me
    I was threatened with a knife by a pirate playing fife
    Now I'm sailing for my life thanks to LSD 25

    He was right, I'm still here
    as I have been, for over a year
    With my last bit of hope,
    a tin can and rope
    I just want to break free

    But I can't get away
    No I can't get away
    cause that damn dog's got the key
    No one listens as I tell
    of my ordeal in this cell

    They stand right by
    but they don't fell
    Is this for real?
    Is this for real!

    Based on the lyrics, I think I know why they are doing this.

  20. Re:Proof there is life after ST- DS9 etc. on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I am not meaning it in those terms. Once you leave the Trek Universe you can never show your face again.

  21. Help Wanted -- MCP over the age of 9. on Homeland Security Adds Cybersecurity Position · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apply Homeland Security Administration Dept of Buzzwording. Security Clearance not required.

  22. voice work is fine it's money on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    but sadly they can't show their faces without everybody thinking they are seeing a Trek knockoff. Michael Dorn has done a few things, but he's mostly working voice for Cartoon Network and narrator stuff. Same for almost all of the main actors in ST-NG. They were all unknowns before Trek, unlike Stewart, Jeffrey Combs, and a few other veterans. After Trek they vanished back into obscurity. The Trek Universe is a one way ticket to oblivion.

  23. Proof there is life after ST- DS9 etc. on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    NOT!

    James Callis has such an uncanny resemblance in both look and accent to DS9's Alexander Siddig, had me fooled into believing someone other then Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig escaped with a real acting career intact. (sorry, voice work isn't acting). And before you start flaming Star Trek 'movies' are not an escape.

  24. Re:How much control does the US really have? on Governing the Internet Report Released · · Score: 1

    ok, I thought interpol was international police, som offshoot of the UN.

  25. How much control does the US really have? on Governing the Internet Report Released · · Score: 1

    Managing the root servers is one thing, but that is not overseeing the Internet. Truthfully Interpol is the only recognized international police force. Interpol is not a court it is a police force. A police force in a country outside the US will be more willing to heed a warrant from interpol then one from the US. Interpol isn't playing with creepy agendas like the US has been of late.