Or at least invent some sort of giant red forehead tattoo for Esperanto speakers so you can find your one counterpart among the thousand people you'll see in a week.
Hey good idea! I've put some work into it, and I think this tattoo design is both simple and obvious. Since I can't set colors in a/. comment, I'll substitute a bold font.
Here's the tattoo I think is the best:
L O S E R
(However, a friend suggested this one; it's a bit more complex, but is perhaps even more accurate:
K L I N G O N . L A N G U A G E . I N S T I T U T E . D R O P O U T
the old adage "ask a million girls for a date and no matter how ugly you are, you'll probably get a few takers"
Wasn't that adage disproved by Slashdotters?
Not even 1 girl in a million likes the smell of three-week old Dorito dusk on a man whose idea of a hot date is IM'ing each other over his home-built LAN in his mom's basement.
unpublished MediaMax management files placed on a user's computer
Yeah, I noticed this too. How's it "unpublished" if it's been placed on purchasers' computers?
Is what's unpublished the fact that this software will inject itself between the OS and the CD-ROM to scramble the data read from the CD-ROM? If so, shouldn't the EULA explain that to the end user?
It's one thing to provide software necessary to some functionality (in this case to play the.wma files); it's another thing entirely to package it with additional, detremental software. Isn't this exactly what, for instance Gator does? Packages ad-ware or spy-ware along with a "useful" program?
Funny? sure TrollBait? Perhaps but Informative???????!
Those are Canadian "Informatives".
The exchange rate is 5/4 of a Canadian "Informative" is equivalent to one American "Funny".
Were you set up to show my +1 Karma bonus modifier (as you should have been, I've had to whore for a year to keep that bonus!), it would be +4 "Informative" (Canadian), that is, +5 Funny (American).
Simple, once you know the exchange rate.
(Yeah, I was amazed to see it get modded "Informative" too. I thought for sure "Fenian Moviehouse" would have been a tip off. And yes, I was going for "Funny"; I wasn't attempting to troll.)
This webbug is actually put there to be discovered by us so that we will not suspect the existence of a far more ghastly thing lurking in the code of the DNC website;).
Real role players can play anywhere and everywhere. Sure dice dont work so well in theater seats, but a pda with a random number generator works well. Also theres the problem of seeing, but there is a simple solution glowsticks. And yes, some of the other people might complain but just answer them in character....
So resourceful they are when it comes to play-acting being an arch-mage.
And yet these same heroes are tongue-tied and shame-faced and able to talk only to their shoes as soon as they walk into a singles' bar.
Ah, the marvelous versatility of the human race (including those who prefer to think of themselves as hobbits)!
Many great inventions of the past were by women who then let a man release their invention because a woman simply wouldn't be taken seriously and it wouldn't be socially acceptable for them to do so.
So if these inventive women hid behind the male pawns who released their inventions, how do you know that the women were the inventors??
I'm not saying women can't or don't invent; I believe they can and do.
But where's your evidence? Did you go back in time and see the women inventing these great things? Did you perhaps channel their spirits? Or maybe they were reincarnated as you? Was the secret knowledge passed along like the half-remembered rituals of the crypto-Jewish marranos?
Web developers face the possibility of having to significantly rewrite their pages or strip them of commonly used technologies like Macromedia's Flash.
And that's bad... why? Woo hoo! No more "skip intro" buttons to click!
As someone (no doubt Protestant) once paraphrased (probably apocryphally) a Pope on the subject of the damnation of unbaptised infants, I will myself paraphrase the paraphraser:
"While in my private capacity I strongly regret it, in my official capacity I must fulsomely promote it."
(If anybody can supply my the real quote I'm thinking of, I'll appreciate it.)
Web developers face the possibility of having to significantly rewrite their pages or strip them of commonly used technologies like Macromedia's Flash.
Gentlemen, the tech employment slump is now over!
Please raise your hourly rates by $10.
$20 if you do Java Server pages, a bad idea whose time has come (disclaimer: I do JSPs).
Time to dig out those hookers' business cards!
(And the office foosball table suppliers' cards too!)
Since slashdot's editors will probably not publish my latest AskSlashdot I'm going to do it here instead. Is there such a thing as a Star Trek communicator cellphone?
Yes, head on over to Toys R Us. Hope it looks good next to your tricorder.
Also there's Start Trak porn, for the well-rounded nerd. (Really: Sexy Trek. Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just....)
Bricklayer-->Bodybuilder-->Movie Star-->Governor of California
Bricklayer-->Bodybuilder-->Movie Star-->Crystal? O, grope her-->Governor of California
In the fullness of time, it had to happen! Slashdot word breaking to combat page widening produces a sort of poetry, and a commentary on current events!
The equipment you need has the initials "J.D."
on
Designing a Security Lab?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I've been asked by a university professor to design a network security lab for use by about 15 students... but little info was discussed on equipment. It needs to be vendor independent if possible.
Your first and most important piece of equipment: a lawyer.
No, I'm serious. Especially if you and your students will be investigating aspects of network security.
Given the current mess involving "business process" patents and "Intellectual Property" and stealth/submarine patents, there's no guarantee that what seems obvious to you or your students may not be something somebody else claims as their sole property for the next 20 years. So far, that only opens you to years of litigation and the possibility of crippling penalties. You're lucky it only goes that far.
Because...
Given the current state of the U.S. law -- specifically the DMCA -- it's no longer clear that reverse engineering is legal. Anytime somebody, er, some corporation -- such as printer manufacturer Lexmark -- claims they've built an anti-circumvention device into their product -- you and your students face the possibility of civil and criminal penalties.
And...
Not to mention that in our zeal to "protect" ourselves post 9-11, what may seem to you or your students to be reasonable and even noble acts -- like pointing out software vulnerabilities that hackers or terrorists might use -- may be itself construed as hacking or even terrorism. And prosecuted accordingly.
Perhaps I'm overstating the legal barriers to innovation and research. I hope I am. But you owe it to yourself, your students, and your institution to hope for the best while preparing for the worst.
And I'm afraid the way you prepare for the worst in America in 2003 is by getting yourself a lawyer.
(PS, is it just me, or is Slashdot intermittently very very slow to respond -- that is, is Slashdot being, uh, Slashdotted?)
Slashdot Mirror
Hey good idea! I've put some work into it, and I think this tattoo design is both simple and obvious. Since I can't set colors in a
Here's the tattoo I think is the best:
(However, a friend suggested this one; it's a bit more complex, but is perhaps even more accurate:
)
Well, the Census Bureau....
So does this line of reasoning work well as a line a singles' bars?
"Baby, you're number 619,342 on my list. Are you one of my 146 women?"
"Lemme explain, see, according to the Census Bureau --hey, hey, where you goin' babe? Babe?"
the old adage "ask a million girls for a date and no matter how ugly you are, you'll probably get a few takers"
Wasn't that adage disproved by Slashdotters?
Not even 1 girl in a million likes the smell of three-week old Dorito dusk on a man whose idea of a hot date is IM'ing each other over his home-built LAN in his mom's basement.
And Mr. Darwin days, "That's good!"
Woodward and Bernstein?
From the article:
The first suit was filed against Phillip Nixon of Palm Beach, Fla.
Nixon sues Nixon?
One of them has got to be a crook!
And only one of them will be able to go to China.
(1337 script-kiddies who are victims of America's "educational" system: you download an explanation of these allusions from KaZaa)
What a dickhead. Typical arrogant programmer. So you have training and experience. So what.
;)
Your wit has disarmed me.
But I've seen too many (kludgy, non-scalable, spaghetti-coded) Microsoft Access "solutions" not to be somewhat skeptical of amateur programmers.
By training and title I am a Mechanical Engineer. I have never been involved with any serious software development
By training and experience I'm a software developer. I've never been involved with any serious mechanical engineering.
I plan to build a steam engine. I don't know anything about the tensile strength of the metals I'll be using, or how to calculate the steam pressure.
But I figure, hey, it can't be that hard, right?
So why won't anyone sell me life insurance once I tell them about my project?
I found your post amusing up until the point that I realized I was eating Fritos AND Drinking a Mountain Dew...
As the frat boys say when reminded of embarrassing moments:
"Good times, good times."
Look it's one thing to assume that
That's ok, and it's probably true.
But implying they are so nerdy as to speak Esperanto?
That, sir, goes too far!
For that, we will duel with plastic "light sabers" at dawn! (Nerd dawn that is, 1 PM local time.)
unpublished MediaMax management files placed on a user's computer
.wma files); it's another thing entirely to package it with additional, detremental software. Isn't this exactly what, for instance Gator does? Packages ad-ware or spy-ware along with a "useful" program?
Yeah, I noticed this too. How's it "unpublished" if it's been placed on purchasers' computers?
Is what's unpublished the fact that this software will inject itself between the OS and the CD-ROM to scramble the data read from the CD-ROM? If so, shouldn't the EULA explain that to the end user?
It's one thing to provide software necessary to some functionality (in this case to play the
(Score:3, Informative)
Funny? sure
TrollBait? Perhaps but Informative???????!
Those are Canadian "Informatives".
The exchange rate is 5/4 of a Canadian "Informative" is equivalent to one American "Funny".
Were you set up to show my +1 Karma bonus modifier (as you should have been, I've had to whore for a year to keep that bonus!), it would be +4 "Informative" (Canadian), that is, +5 Funny (American).
Simple, once you know the exchange rate.
(Yeah, I was amazed to see it get modded "Informative" too. I thought for sure "Fenian Moviehouse" would have been a tip off. And yes, I was going for "Funny"; I wasn't attempting to troll.)
This webbug is actually put there to be discovered by us so that we will not suspect the existence of a far more ghastly thing lurking in the code of the DNC website ;).
Cthulhu?
Gary Coleman?
ooooh! pick on the kids who play d&d.
As Triumph the Insult Comic Dog said to the Star Wars nerds, "I kid, I keeed!"
I had dice in various polyhedral shapes. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Alright. I am curious how you would know [about State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed.Cir.1998)].
Googled?
Perhaps IANAL, and YANAL, but HIAL (or SIAL, or HOSIAL)?
Real role players can play anywhere and everywhere. Sure dice dont work so well in theater seats, but a pda with a random number generator works well. Also theres the problem of seeing, but there is a simple solution glowsticks. And yes, some of the other people might complain but just answer them in character....
So resourceful they are when it comes to play-acting being an arch-mage.
And yet these same heroes are tongue-tied and shame-faced and able to talk only to their shoes as soon as they walk into a singles' bar.
Ah, the marvelous versatility of the human race (including those who prefer to think of themselves as hobbits)!
Many great inventions of the past were by women who then let a man release their invention because a woman simply wouldn't be taken seriously and it wouldn't be socially acceptable for them to do so.
So if these inventive women hid behind the male pawns who released their inventions, how do you know that the women were the inventors??
I'm not saying women can't or don't invent; I believe they can and do.
But where's your evidence? Did you go back in time and see the women inventing these great things? Did you perhaps channel their spirits? Or maybe they were reincarnated as you? Was the secret knowledge passed along like the half-remembered rituals of the crypto-Jewish marranos?
And that's bad
As someone (no doubt Protestant) once paraphrased (probably apocryphally) a Pope on the subject of the damnation of unbaptised infants, I will myself paraphrase the paraphraser:
"While in my private capacity I strongly regret it, in my official capacity I must fulsomely promote it."
(If anybody can supply my the real quote I'm thinking of, I'll appreciate it.)
Web developers face the possibility of having to significantly rewrite their pages or strip them of commonly used technologies like Macromedia's Flash.
Gentlemen, the tech employment slump is now over!
Please raise your hourly rates by $10.
$20 if you do Java Server pages, a bad idea whose time has come (disclaimer: I do JSPs).
Time to dig out those hookers' business cards!
(And the office foosball table suppliers' cards too!)
Glad to be of assistance to all out Canadian (or is it Canadien?) friends!
Lord of the Rings will be playing at the following theaters (or is it theatres?) for our northern neighbors:
We hope you enjoy our movies and our hemispheric hegemony!
Oh yeah, of the above, one's freeware, one's BSD'd, and the rest are GPL'd.
I GNU you'd want to know.
Since slashdot's editors will probably not publish my latest AskSlashdot I'm going to do it here instead. Is there such a thing as a Star Trek communicator cellphone?
Yes, head on over to Toys R Us. Hope it looks good next to your tricorder.
Also there's Start Trak porn, for the well-rounded nerd. (Really: Sexy Trek. Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just....)
All from the Zaurus Software Index
;)
Google is your friend.
Wireless LAN Monitor
Wellenreiter II
Kismet
Kismet w/GUI
Discoverer
ZNetMeter
WirelessApplet
If you's like more research done, let's discuss hourly rates.
Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 8.9).
I'm glad this was reported, and I think it needs to be looked into more closely.
But.
There's this taunting little voice in my head wondering if somebody didn't say,
Web Developer 1: "Hey, let's add a web bug to Do Not Call page, and then we'll leak it to Slashdot."
Web Developer 2: "WTF would we want to do that?
Web Developer 1: "So when they find out about it, we can watch those Slashdot monkeys dance!"
Web Developer 2: "Yeah, yeah, dance dance dance in their tin-foil hats! Coool!"
Physician-->Electrophysiologist-->Crystallograp her-->Nobel Laureate.
Bricklayer-->Bodybuilder-->Movie Star-->Governor of California
Bricklayer-->Bodybuilder-->Movie Star-->Crystal? O, grope her-->Governor of California
In the fullness of time, it had to happen! Slashdot word breaking to combat page widening produces a sort of poetry, and a commentary on current events!
I've been asked by a university professor to design a network security lab for use by about 15 students... but little info was discussed on equipment. It needs to be vendor independent if possible.
...
Your first and most important piece of equipment: a lawyer.
No, I'm serious. Especially if you and your students will be investigating aspects of network security.
Given the current mess involving "business process" patents and "Intellectual Property" and stealth/submarine patents, there's no guarantee that what seems obvious to you or your students may not be something somebody else claims as their sole property for the next 20 years. So far, that only opens you to years of litigation and the possibility of crippling penalties. You're lucky it only goes that far.
Because...
Given the current state of the U.S. law -- specifically the DMCA -- it's no longer clear that reverse engineering is legal. Anytime somebody, er, some corporation -- such as printer manufacturer Lexmark -- claims they've built an anti-circumvention device into their product -- you and your students face the possibility of civil and criminal penalties.
And
Not to mention that in our zeal to "protect" ourselves post 9-11, what may seem to you or your students to be reasonable and even noble acts -- like pointing out software vulnerabilities that hackers or terrorists might use -- may be itself construed as hacking or even terrorism. And prosecuted accordingly.
Perhaps I'm overstating the legal barriers to innovation and research. I hope I am. But you owe it to yourself, your students, and your institution to hope for the best while preparing for the worst.
And I'm afraid the way you prepare for the worst in America in 2003 is by getting yourself a lawyer.
(PS, is it just me, or is Slashdot intermittently very very slow to respond -- that is, is Slashdot being, uh, Slashdotted?)
You've obviously never tried it on a directory with 200,000 images in it.
Studying, uh, "comparative anatomy" again?