A linux Zealot doesn't necessarily have to be a cracker, or even a hacker... it's just somebody who loves linux. Now granted, linusers generally have more technical know-how than winusers, which means they have the potential to learn about hacking/cracking (both of which may take some skill)... but there's no difference between a overzealous windows cracker who is going about his "cause" the wrong way can do just as bad as a linux user...
Seriously though, I really have to question where this person gets his info. What if anything indicates that hack-attacks are occuring from linusers? I think that if you look at many DDOS/script-kiddy/etc attacks you will find that they come from windows users, or people exploiting windows users/software/vulnerabilies (see: spam viruses capable of possible DDOS attacking).
Yes, linux users can be a threat if they go bad, because of their technical knowledge, and yes, because linux is flexible it could theoretically be used for more cracking methods than windows, but that doesn't mean they will. What you have here is a statement indicating possiblity as a threat of action... I'm not about to go take out a building full of senior war veterans just because the majority of them are going to have arms knowledge... and therefore the potential to get hostile if somebody cut off their viagara supply.
Come on... some of the worst I've seen are people posting full names/addresses/etc and inviting mass-mailings/etc, and even these are not all linux zealots.
My understanding is that RAID-1 is slighly slower on writes (has to write two disks) but in the same logic, as above, faster on reads due to the fact that they may be simultaneous (2 disks to read from) rather than sequential (read one part of disk, move, read second part of disk)
If you pay for a good, high-end IDE card, they do tend to still last awhile too. I've noticed a lot of failures around the area of 30-40GB cards (particularly we've been returning a lot Fujitsu's on warrantee, which we're named fucrapsu) - but the higher end drives are decent. My 60GB drive, which was big at that time, is still working fine. I'd expect that the 200GB and expensive drives are still fairly reliable as well, and bang-for-buck wise they hold a lot more.
Not to look down on SCSI though. We've got a lot of old SCSI ultra-wide's that kick ass still... but at the cost it's still cheaper to buy two IDE's and just use RAID-1 on 'em.
As a side-project to this, how about something on how to modify up a little card-reader on the serial (or perhaps usb/parallel) port in order to access a machine. I mean, it's not a big deal to turn it on, that's fairly easy to bypass, but how about to login to the operating system.
Personally, I'd find it much cooler to have somebody get to my personalized spiffy "Authorized Access Only" logo screen and have to put in a card (or click a special point onscreen and enter a username/password as backup).
On the aside: for just turning on my machine, I saw a nifty little "Remote Xmas tree switch" for $20 which basically sits between the wall outlet and power plug, and then turns on with a car-alarm-style remote.
I think also, that age info is in some form tagged to a credit card. I know that many companies will not ship to an address that doesn't match the CC somewhat closely... indicating that they can grab certain amounts of personal info once they have your card #/expiry.
Is when somebody ruins a perfectly good machine, usually a laptop, through their own carelessness and then expects a replacement right away. I've seen this at computer stores (where they have to explain to irate customer that warantee on $2500 laptop does not cover dropping it off the desk and cracking it open, or other obvious carelessness-caused damage) and personally at work with coffee-related incidents (and yes, drinks are a *VERY* common cause of computer mishap).
The worst is that when somebody ruins a computer:
a) In their mind, it's your job to fix it. If you can't then you're the problem, not the original cause of the accident (my computer is down because the computer guy hasn't/won't fix it)
b) They continue the same thing that broke the computer in the first place (precarious desk position, not backing up, liquids near the computer)
c) They don't back up. A lot of people care about their data a lot more than their computer... but do you think they ever follow the procedures for making backups and moving them offsite?
Indeed. Are they considering use simply when somebody mistypes a domain and ends up in sitegrinder, or when they actually end up where they wanted to be (and how do they tell).
You might want to consider that the reason given was "age verification to protect children" - however, it requires subscription to a regular service. If you wanted to verify via Credit Card whether somebody was of age or not, a simple $2-3 charge, one time, would suffice.
More like an attempt at "get 'em hooked free, then make 'em pay for me." Gee... who else uses such a strategy?
If everyone was given a free yearly pass with the newspaper to use a local cellphone-type network, whatever, for about 1-2 years, and somebody else paid for the maintainence etc... what do you think would happen?
The majority of people would flock to the free provider, others would lose a lot of business, many might go under.
However, some people don't like the provider's phone, so many make their own and use the network. The service is still available to anyone, and there's no real visible difference in most cases between people using the official and non-official phones.
Then, one day, the provider decides to lock out all non-official phones. Now, anyone not using the "official" phone cannot talk to those using the official. Also, since free phones and service were given out, many other networks have already gone down or lapsed into the disuse by majority.
Users of unofficial phones now either have a choice of losing touch, getting their friends to switch to a different network, or switching to the provider's network. Oh, and you have to buy the overpriced and undervalued newspaper to get the phone.
Maybe not the best analogy, but the best I can think of offhand, with coupons coming in papers, etc.
MSN comes with windows, thus many people automatically use it, much like IE. One day, they decided that only the official client can use the network, thus killing it for others. It hurts competing IM networks, and it hurts competing OS's that can't use messenger. And I'm sure that somebody in MS thought of this, perhaps even planned it with the programs that are often included in windows. Basically, it's a case of "switch, and you lose the ability to interact with everyone else using this service." You can expect the same with MS Office soon... as DRM will likely make OpenOffice have a lot of difficulty in compatibility....
Between what a "child" is Vs a "Young Adult", etc.
Aged <= 13: and we're more-or-less in the child ballpark for most people
Aged 13-16: mid teens, youths... hormones are prevalent and frankly some extra education about sexuality is probably a good thing if you want to reduce pregnancies/STD's
17-18+: Young adults. How many people didn't know what it was all about by this age, at least in concept. How many people hadn't already experienced personal physical interaction with the opposite sex some years before (excluding many slashdotters, I know)
I think that, realistically, it's stupid to classify under 18 in the "child" demographic. Especially with trends towards early sexuality and other issues, many individuals - while not 100% coherent of the consequences of their actions - are engaging in "adult" activities. Most are self-aware in a sexual manner, but quite possibly lacking in necessary personal education that might be required for safety's sake. While I'd rather not see 14-yr-olds engaging in such activity, it's much better than seeing them pregnant at such an age because they lack knowledge.
I also hate to see "minors" get away with violence that would make most adults wince. Age is not necessarily a discriminator here, people, experience and maturity is.
Don't lock our youths away because of some fondly remembered concept of "protecting their innocence", and at the same time don't let them shrug off the consequences of their actions because said supposed innocence was tainted by media, video games, etc.
Basically in short, if your kids are giggling at "boobies" it's not going to kill em. If they're actively searching out hardcore stuff, or looking up STD info, they probably already know a bit on their own. The same applies to violence, etc... if they're acting in a manner which demonstrates an matured capability for violence... chances are that it's not the internet/video-games/etc that brought it about.
All "minors" are not equal... I just wish the gov't and general public would start realizing this.
Actually, this might not be too bad if you tried mixing some Gin, ginger-ale, and skittles or perhaps something not too sweet. Currently, I find Gin and Ginger ale somewhat unpleasant tasting. However if you add a little fruit syrop (natural is best, go for blackberry) to flavour it, you suddenly have a very nice drink.
Not sure if the same would apply to skittles, but they seem similar in principle. Perhaps less syrop to offset the additional skittle sweetness? I think I'll give that a go this weekend:-)
Indeed, for many people this should also apply to SMS. While *some* people do get a flat rate or have this included, on my plan I pay $0.10c per SMS or DSM, with certain exceptions.
Oh, and they might want to clue in that while the likelyhood that I will buy something while called at home is low, the likelyhood that I will buy something what called on my cell minutes in in the negetive range (whilst the likelyhood that some pleb calling my cell is very high), and the likelyhood that I will go postal on somebody SMS-spamming me is even greater.
One thing I've often wondered, what are the conditions on calling businesses. Whilst I think we've gotten charity calls at some places I've worked, the usual telemarketing BS doesn't apply - I assume there's some laws against it (Canada in my case, but should also apply in US). If they call my cellphone and I'm at work, would this fall in there somewhere?
I think that the "Angel's Pencil" (one of the first ships to encounter Kzinti) used a laser-based travel mechanism. Similar idea, but instead of the ship being fired into space by a big frickin' laser, it had one mounted which it used to bounce off various things for propulsion?
In latter books, it mentioned using lasers to propel cargo/cargo-ships around.
And the bonus is, of course, that when we are attacked by a carnivorous intelligent giant cat-species, we can use the lasers to fight back...
On whether an "expected" answer might be the same for a number of people. If the question is impossible, but people are likely to screw up in the same way, then they'll still come out the same.
Of course, if somebody knows that such questions will be asked, a bright soul might just mark "not possible" (which would be the correct answer)
I think that most mail apps support return receipts? Heck, even webmail will. A big problem is that even if email is sent, there's no guarantee that it will be read in a timely manner. At least if you train your personnel to use return receipts, they'll know themselves whether or not the message got read (and if they don't get it by when they want, pick up the phone!).
Is there an equivilient server-side protocol to return a receipt if mail is sucessfully delivered? I suppose you could just write it into your SMTP delivery system, that a mail returns a message if it went through (or a web-visible mail queue, whatever).
The big question here is: Will he fold and settle or actually take this through court? As with most students, the individual probably has little money and less time to spend on idiotic lawsuits. Maybe Princeton will help him out, as I find it hard to see how they could support one of their students being blasted over something so obvious and still claim being a haven to academia.
Can somebody please post up some screenshots, preferable from both Linux and Windows version. If you've got a GeForce card with NVidia's accelerated driver, it should run/look quite nice in 'nix
In fact, I'm using it right now, and honestly if I swapped it on a few windows desktops, changed the icon to IE so that people would click it, and left it for a month very few people would probably notice the difference or think to ask about it.
Is if they had links to locations where these games can be purchased. "Blood" is showing low on ebay's radar, and the link from the official "lith" site is expired...
Games that are let out into the pasture should become available for free, or at least retain some form of ordering availability
Will probably prevent them from calling. Seriously, do you think telemarketers would be so prolific here if it cost them $0.25/min to call? If so, it'd be hella fun to stick 'em on the line for awhile.
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A linux Zealot doesn't necessarily have to be a cracker, or even a hacker... it's just somebody who loves linux. Now granted, linusers generally have more technical know-how than winusers, which means they have the potential to learn about hacking/cracking (both of which may take some skill)... but there's no difference between a overzealous windows cracker who is going about his "cause" the wrong way can do just as bad as a linux user...
Seriously though, I really have to question where this person gets his info. What if anything indicates that hack-attacks are occuring from linusers? I think that if you look at many DDOS/script-kiddy/etc attacks you will find that they come from windows users, or people exploiting windows users/software/vulnerabilies (see: spam viruses capable of possible DDOS attacking).
Yes, linux users can be a threat if they go bad, because of their technical knowledge, and yes, because linux is flexible it could theoretically be used for more cracking methods than windows, but that doesn't mean they will. What you have here is a statement indicating possiblity as a threat of action... I'm not about to go take out a building full of senior war veterans just because the majority of them are going to have arms knowledge... and therefore the potential to get hostile if somebody cut off their viagara supply.
Come on... some of the worst I've seen are people posting full names/addresses/etc and inviting mass-mailings/etc, and even these are not all linux zealots.
My understanding is that RAID-1 is slighly slower on writes (has to write two disks) but in the same logic, as above, faster on reads due to the fact that they may be simultaneous (2 disks to read from) rather than sequential (read one part of disk, move, read second part of disk)
If you pay for a good, high-end IDE card, they do tend to still last awhile too. I've noticed a lot of failures around the area of 30-40GB cards (particularly we've been returning a lot Fujitsu's on warrantee, which we're named fucrapsu) - but the higher end drives are decent. My 60GB drive, which was big at that time, is still working fine. I'd expect that the 200GB and expensive drives are still fairly reliable as well, and bang-for-buck wise they hold a lot more.
Not to look down on SCSI though. We've got a lot of old SCSI ultra-wide's that kick ass still... but at the cost it's still cheaper to buy two IDE's and just use RAID-1 on 'em.
Indeed, how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?
I'm assuming that it's a statement apart from current war-related issues, since the french were often bashed before anyhow.
As a side-project to this, how about something on how to modify up a little card-reader on the serial (or perhaps usb/parallel) port in order to access a machine. I mean, it's not a big deal to turn it on, that's fairly easy to bypass, but how about to login to the operating system.
Personally, I'd find it much cooler to have somebody get to my personalized spiffy "Authorized Access Only" logo screen and have to put in a card (or click a special point onscreen and enter a username/password as backup).
On the aside: for just turning on my machine, I saw a nifty little "Remote Xmas tree switch" for $20 which basically sits between the wall outlet and power plug, and then turns on with a car-alarm-style remote.
I think also, that age info is in some form tagged to a credit card. I know that many companies will not ship to an address that doesn't match the CC somewhat closely... indicating that they can grab certain amounts of personal info once they have your card #/expiry.
As applied to IT:
a) The tall people are the ones that can quickly reach the RESET but on the NT Server (at the top of the rack) when it crashes
b) The tall guy's head is visible over the cubicle wall when he's at the desk working late
c) You can see the short guy's monitor over his head, and tell when he's playing nethack. No so with the tall one.
Is when somebody ruins a perfectly good machine, usually a laptop, through their own carelessness and then expects a replacement right away. I've seen this at computer stores (where they have to explain to irate customer that warantee on $2500 laptop does not cover dropping it off the desk and cracking it open, or other obvious carelessness-caused damage) and personally at work with coffee-related incidents (and yes, drinks are a *VERY* common cause of computer mishap).
The worst is that when somebody ruins a computer: a) In their mind, it's your job to fix it. If you can't then you're the problem, not the original cause of the accident (my computer is down because the computer guy hasn't/won't fix it)
b) They continue the same thing that broke the computer in the first place (precarious desk position, not backing up, liquids near the computer)
c) They don't back up. A lot of people care about their data a lot more than their computer... but do you think they ever follow the procedures for making backups and moving them offsite?
Indeed. Are they considering use simply when somebody mistypes a domain and ends up in sitegrinder, or when they actually end up where they wanted to be (and how do they tell).
You might want to consider that the reason given was "age verification to protect children" - however, it requires subscription to a regular service. If you wanted to verify via Credit Card whether somebody was of age or not, a simple $2-3 charge, one time, would suffice.
More like an attempt at "get 'em hooked free, then make 'em pay for me." Gee... who else uses such a strategy?
If everyone was given a free yearly pass with the newspaper to use a local cellphone-type network, whatever, for about 1-2 years, and somebody else paid for the maintainence etc... what do you think would happen?
The majority of people would flock to the free provider, others would lose a lot of business, many might go under.
However, some people don't like the provider's phone, so many make their own and use the network. The service is still available to anyone, and there's no real visible difference in most cases between people using the official and non-official phones.
Then, one day, the provider decides to lock out all non-official phones. Now, anyone not using the "official" phone cannot talk to those using the official. Also, since free phones and service were given out, many other networks have already gone down or lapsed into the disuse by majority.
Users of unofficial phones now either have a choice of losing touch, getting their friends to switch to a different network, or switching to the provider's network. Oh, and you have to buy the overpriced and undervalued newspaper to get the phone.
Maybe not the best analogy, but the best I can think of offhand, with coupons coming in papers, etc.
MSN comes with windows, thus many people automatically use it, much like IE. One day, they decided that only the official client can use the network, thus killing it for others. It hurts competing IM networks, and it hurts competing OS's that can't use messenger. And I'm sure that somebody in MS thought of this, perhaps even planned it with the programs that are often included in windows. Basically, it's a case of "switch, and you lose the ability to interact with everyone else using this service." You can expect the same with MS Office soon... as DRM will likely make OpenOffice have a lot of difficulty in compatibility....
I'd say that, if anything, this case should now have a weight of precedence in the opposite direction...
I wonder if Mr Groening was using KDE when he thought up this episode...?
- Aged <= 13: and we're more-or-less in the child ballpark for most people
- Aged 13-16: mid teens, youths... hormones are prevalent and frankly some extra education about sexuality is probably a good thing if you want to reduce pregnancies/STD's
- 17-18+: Young adults. How many people didn't know what it was all about by this age, at least in concept. How many people hadn't already experienced personal physical interaction with the opposite sex some years before (excluding many slashdotters, I know)
I think that, realistically, it's stupid to classify under 18 in the "child" demographic. Especially with trends towards early sexuality and other issues, many individuals - while not 100% coherent of the consequences of their actions - are engaging in "adult" activities. Most are self-aware in a sexual manner, but quite possibly lacking in necessary personal education that might be required for safety's sake. While I'd rather not see 14-yr-olds engaging in such activity, it's much better than seeing them pregnant at such an age because they lack knowledge.I also hate to see "minors" get away with violence that would make most adults wince. Age is not necessarily a discriminator here, people, experience and maturity is.
Don't lock our youths away because of some fondly remembered concept of "protecting their innocence", and at the same time don't let them shrug off the consequences of their actions because said supposed innocence was tainted by media, video games, etc.
Basically in short, if your kids are giggling at "boobies" it's not going to kill em. If they're actively searching out hardcore stuff, or looking up STD info, they probably already know a bit on their own. The same applies to violence, etc... if they're acting in a manner which demonstrates an matured capability for violence... chances are that it's not the internet/video-games/etc that brought it about.
All "minors" are not equal... I just wish the gov't and general public would start realizing this.
Actually, this might not be too bad if you tried mixing some Gin, ginger-ale, and skittles or perhaps something not too sweet. Currently, I find Gin and Ginger ale somewhat unpleasant tasting. However if you add a little fruit syrop (natural is best, go for blackberry) to flavour it, you suddenly have a very nice drink.
:-)
Not sure if the same would apply to skittles, but they seem similar in principle. Perhaps less syrop to offset the additional skittle sweetness? I think I'll give that a go this weekend
Indeed, for many people this should also apply to SMS. While *some* people do get a flat rate or have this included, on my plan I pay $0.10c per SMS or DSM, with certain exceptions.
Oh, and they might want to clue in that while the likelyhood that I will buy something while called at home is low, the likelyhood that I will buy something what called on my cell minutes in in the negetive range (whilst the likelyhood that some pleb calling my cell is very high), and the likelyhood that I will go postal on somebody SMS-spamming me is even greater.
One thing I've often wondered, what are the conditions on calling businesses. Whilst I think we've gotten charity calls at some places I've worked, the usual telemarketing BS doesn't apply - I assume there's some laws against it (Canada in my case, but should also apply in US). If they call my cellphone and I'm at work, would this fall in there somewhere?
I think that the "Angel's Pencil" (one of the first ships to encounter Kzinti) used a laser-based travel mechanism. Similar idea, but instead of the ship being fired into space by a big frickin' laser, it had one mounted which it used to bounce off various things for propulsion?
In latter books, it mentioned using lasers to propel cargo/cargo-ships around.
And the bonus is, of course, that when we are attacked by a carnivorous intelligent giant cat-species, we can use the lasers to fight back...
You don't need nuclear batteries, you could charge them up anytime by plugging into one of these
On whether an "expected" answer might be the same for a number of people. If the question is impossible, but people are likely to screw up in the same way, then they'll still come out the same.
Of course, if somebody knows that such questions will be asked, a bright soul might just mark "not possible" (which would be the correct answer)
I think that most mail apps support return receipts? Heck, even webmail will. A big problem is that even if email is sent, there's no guarantee that it will be read in a timely manner. At least if you train your personnel to use return receipts, they'll know themselves whether or not the message got read (and if they don't get it by when they want, pick up the phone!).
Is there an equivilient server-side protocol to return a receipt if mail is sucessfully delivered? I suppose you could just write it into your SMTP delivery system, that a mail returns a message if it went through (or a web-visible mail queue, whatever).
The big question here is: Will he fold and settle or actually take this through court? As with most students, the individual probably has little money and less time to spend on idiotic lawsuits. Maybe Princeton will help him out, as I find it hard to see how they could support one of their students being blasted over something so obvious and still claim being a haven to academia.
Can somebody please post up some screenshots, preferable from both Linux and Windows version. If you've got a GeForce card with NVidia's accelerated driver, it should run/look quite nice in 'nix
slow as hell, unresponsive, doesn't have many special/exclusive features that people would want
Most here are talking about firebird, not Mozilla.
Slow: Nope
Unresponsive: Nope
Features: Popup blocker, themeable,tabbed browsing (my fav), etc
In fact, I'm using it right now, and honestly if I swapped it on a few windows desktops, changed the icon to IE so that people would click it, and left it for a month very few people would probably notice the difference or think to ask about it.
Is if they had links to locations where these games can be purchased. "Blood" is showing low on ebay's radar, and the link from the official "lith" site is expired...
Games that are let out into the pasture should become available for free, or at least retain some form of ordering availability
Will probably prevent them from calling. Seriously, do you think telemarketers would be so prolific here if it cost them $0.25/min to call? If so, it'd be hella fun to stick 'em on the line for awhile.