If Google did to Usenet what AOL did to Usenet, December 11th would be considered a creepy Usenet parallel to what happened just two months prior to the day, the same year.
What happend on October 11, 2001? I seem to have missed it.
Why? Because code that the Soviets stole from the US turned out to be (from their perspective) defective?
From the article (emphasis added by me): Operatives working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline. So this was a part of the system which was not stolen.
I don't think it's terrorism if my car blows up while you, having stolen it, are driving it around.
I'm pretty sure that if you made a car which deliberately blew up if someone steals it, and a thief died due to this, you'd be convicted for murder.
Hey, I've found a way to write a true Linux worm! It can infect all Linux computers which have a user named "wormhole" with password "unsafe", and have a suid-root copy of bash installed at/bin/rootbash which is executable by user "wormhole". Ah, and of course the user "wormhole" must be able to remote login through either rlogin or ssh with password authentication enabled. To spread, the worm also needs the file/etc/wormspreadrc, which must contain a list of other vulnerable computers, one hostname or IP number per line.
While what you say is technically correct, I think one can still call a force due to reduced pressure relative to the surrounding a "pull". Otherwise one could also argue that a vacuum cleaner doesn't suck - the "sucking" is just the outside pressure pushing the air to the inside, since the pressure in the inside has been reduced by pushing some of the inside air to outside through a different way.
One of my main issues with going to the movies, outside of the stupidly high food prices, listening to ads before the movie starts, being asked to not pirate (When I just bought a ticket), is that my wife hates movies.
So I resort to downloading them off of the internet if I can't get a friend to go with me.
Does your local cinema have a policy which doesn't allow a single person to see movies there, so you need to find someone to go with you? Otherwise, why not simply go to the cinema alone?
0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00003039? That's the kind of encryption key an idiot would have on his luggage!
Good to know. Therefore I'm not an idiot, because mine is 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF.:-)
Do it the other way round: Have the encrypted files hidden with steganography. It doesn't hurt if someone sees the images, movies or sound files you've hidden your info in (that's the point of steganography), and since a good encryption looks just like noise, it should be extra hard to detect where files may be hidden (I guess you would have to try to brute-force decrypt the noise of every single file, because it might actually be encrypted, hidden data, and then you may still not find the stuff because it's maybe actually hidden in three files whose noise has to be xored together to get the encrypted data).
Of course that assumes the files you hide your stuff in are otherwise legal:-)
No sorry, for something which is so gigantic, you need some name which resembles the gigantism... galactic, yes, that's it. Let's call it the Encyclopedia Galactica!
And yet look at KDE. Look at any end-user-centric Unixy distro (Gentoo, Debian and the BSDs don't count here). If you consider the windowing and desktop environments to be "part of the operating system", and most people do, then these situations are exactly the same. You can't have a KDE system without Konq. And yet we don't yell, "Evil KDE! Evil Knoppix!"
hold down the fucking shift key, Einstein. Getting around DRM is mindnumbingly easy.
In other news, the RIAA demands that computers don't come with shift keys, because they are a circumvention device and therefore forbidden under the DMCA.
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of rebelling robots! Of course the question is: Will they run Linux? I for one welcome our new robotic overlords, you insensitive clod! BTW, in Korea only old people defend against robots, while in Soviet Russia robots defend against YOU. Netcraft confirms: Robots are dying due to the missing option. The CowboyNeal option was not a sufficient replacement. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Hello has turned Cat, this one disturba, if you stop to analyze your station of the work tonight? It is murderous! It is collapse! Ouais, is he a breathing. Jim
Seriously, the Internet makes it almost too easy to access information. If I want pizza, I go online and order it. If I want a movie, I go online and order it. To submit homework, I go online to submit it. To get a job, I email applications and lookup company profiles on the internet. I guess the Internet is the new opiate for the masses.
Seriously, shops make it almost too easy to get products. If I want pizza, I go to the pizza shop and buy it. If I want a movie, I go to a shop and buy it on DVD. I guess shops are the new opiate for the masses.
Exercise for the reader: Do the same for cars (make it too easy to get to other places), vacuum cleaners (make it too easy to clean your room), washing machines (make it too easy to wash), electric cookers (make it too easy to cook), hoists (make it too easy to move things upward), ways (make it too easy to walk),...
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What happend on October 11, 2001? I seem to have missed it.
Well, I guess he has to pay for his bandwidth.
Bugs in programs are always human error. Don't forget that the programs are written by humans.
From the article (emphasis added by me):
Operatives working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline.
So this was a part of the system which was not stolen.
I'm pretty sure that if you made a car which deliberately blew up if someone steals it, and a thief died due to this, you'd be convicted for murder.
Hey, I've found a way to write a true Linux worm! It can infect all Linux computers which have a user named "wormhole" with password "unsafe", and have a suid-root copy of bash installed at /bin/rootbash which is executable by user "wormhole". Ah, and of course the user "wormhole" must be able to remote login through either rlogin or ssh with password authentication enabled. To spread, the worm also needs the file /etc/wormspreadrc, which must contain a list of other vulnerable computers, one hostname or IP number per line.
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While what you say is technically correct, I think one can still call a force due to reduced pressure relative to the surrounding a "pull". Otherwise one could also argue that a vacuum cleaner doesn't suck - the "sucking" is just the outside pressure pushing the air to the inside, since the pressure in the inside has been reduced by pushing some of the inside air to outside through a different way.
Does your local cinema have a policy which doesn't allow a single person to see movies there, so you need to find someone to go with you? Otherwise, why not simply go to the cinema alone?
Good to know. Therefore I'm not an idiot, because mine is
01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF 01234567 89ABCDEF.
30 days to figure out how to write "Allah" in arabic.
60 days to figure out how to type an arabic password.
You misspelled pr0n.
Do it the other way round: Have the encrypted files hidden with steganography. It doesn't hurt if someone sees the images, movies or sound files you've hidden your info in (that's the point of steganography), and since a good encryption looks just like noise, it should be extra hard to detect where files may be hidden (I guess you would have to try to brute-force decrypt the noise of every single file, because it might actually be encrypted, hidden data, and then you may still not find the stuff because it's maybe actually hidden in three files whose noise has to be xored together to get the encrypted data).
:-)
Of course that assumes the files you hide your stuff in are otherwise legal
No sorry, for something which is so gigantic, you need some name which resembles the gigantism ... galactic, yes, that's it. Let's call it the Encyclopedia Galactica!
I guess those hyphens should actually have been dashes.
If printed on acid-free paper, it may be worthwhile for future archaeologists to partially recover from the digital dark age.
It must be true, it got Score +5 on Slashdot!
KDE hardly has a monopoly.
A happy GNOME user.
In other news, the RIAA demands that computers don't come with shift keys, because they are a circumvention device and therefore forbidden under the DMCA.
updatedb (started by cron) feels very much like a local DoS attack ...
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of rebelling robots! Of course the question is: Will they run Linux? I for one welcome our new robotic overlords, you insensitive clod! BTW, in Korea only old people defend against robots, while in Soviet Russia robots defend against YOU. Netcraft confirms: Robots are dying due to the missing option. The CowboyNeal option was not a sufficient replacement.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Did I forget anything?
I tried to computer-translate that sentence, but all I got was some text which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike German.
The nice thing about 180 degree turns is that you after doing two of them, you're back in the original direction, just a bit behind.
I guess people who both hate Microsoft and love Unix need dual-boot?
Seriously, shops make it almost too easy to get products. If I want pizza, I go to the pizza shop and buy it. If I want a movie, I go to a shop and buy it on DVD. I guess shops are the new opiate for the masses.
Exercise for the reader: Do the same for cars (make it too easy to get to other places), vacuum cleaners (make it too easy to clean your room), washing machines (make it too easy to wash), electric cookers (make it too easy to cook), hoists (make it too easy to move things upward), ways (make it too easy to walk),
So you went directly to the Slashdot server to type that message?