In the 3 years I've been using eBay, I know of several security breaches, one of which allowed people to access an administration interface through the web, giving them access to personal information of nearly anyone using the eBay message boards [which shares login information with the main site].
I'd trust eBay with security [and PayPal with fairness] about as far as I can throw it.
I'd actually welcome a team of Microsoft hackers making exploits for Firefox and releasing the discovery of the holes. It would give Mozilla something to work on, and it would essentially be a free testing team doing free work for them.
"What I think makes this blog so interesting is that while he knows their is a potential audience out there, it's not pandered to."
That's how I strive to make my blog. It's a mix of my daily thoughts, rantings on various chat boards, daily events, the photos I take, and a log and simple review of the movies I watch. My primary audience is *me* a few years from now, or when I want to look back and see what I was doing on a particular day should I need to know that and can't remember. It's a way family or friends can catch up, or new people can get to know my creative writing side.
In a sense it is therapy, although I rarely put intensely personal thoughts on it, as that has always proved to be a bad idea in a public forum such as the Internet. It's just a fun way to keep a record of my daily writings, in one place, instead of having them strewn over the net, and eventually lost forever in the great thread muncher in the sky.
Why isn't this stuff being used as an emergency rescue material, to make ladders that can be telescoped up to the 30th floor of skyscrapers? Surely there could be less ambitious projects for this material before committing to something that has to deal with the extreme stresses and temperatures in space and the upper atmosphere?
Make a model of a space ladder/elevator, by designing something that can save lives here at home, and it will take off like a rocket in the public's eye, pardon the pun.
I think I saw that movie. Wasn't it about the guy that editted things, using editing techinques? I don't remember what they called the guy, but I think it was something like, "the one who fixes broken writing things using corrective measures, and maintains quality content"-person.
" From winmx.com cache: "WinMX from winmx.com does not contain ANYTHING besides WinMX. No spyware or other parasite programs will ever be in our software. We respect your privacy and security.""
I'm still not saying WinMX has spyware, just that my hunch is that it does, from my limited experience. However, I would not put much weight into the site from which the software orinates. The only sure thing would be if it claims to have spyware, not if it claims not to. My Web Search doesn't claim to wreck your computer, but it does just that, for example.
Don't worry about it. People have known for years that if they want to get a story published on slashdot they only need to read what's already been published, rewrite the story, and submit it as their own. I'm not saying you did this, but it's become yet another funny cliche of the Slashdot.org world.
And don't admit to making a mistake on Slashdot, it'd have been better if you claimed you submitted the story first, and got posted second, so as to garner some Funny moderations. Turn lemons into lemonade so to speak.
Pardon me if I don't take the word of Anonymous Coward. I think an AC vouching for something is the definition of FUD spreading.
And I never said the computer with WinMX got spyware from WinMX, just that it had spyware [that could have come from WinMX, since I don't know what else on the computer could have infected it].
It's not an encrypted P2P network, the downloader is known to the source, and I thought spyware was associated with it. If anyone wants to vouch for WinMX as being spyware free please do, but I've seen it only on two systems, both infected with spyware.
And there is a link, but even if there isn't a link between global warming and bigger hurricanes, it makes the extreme pollution the people reading this comment are responsible for, no less destructive. Climate Change is being contributed to by our air pollution, and things like deforestation, so stop worrying about moot points like weather [pun] or not global warming is making hurricanes worse.
Don't worry it will be easy to spot those theives though. They'll be the people trying to hump your pocket with something that beeps in their pants when they get close to your wallet.
It'll be easy to avoid the Google viruses though, just never install anything you find on http://virus.google.com/ especially if it's out of Beta version.
Taco's spelling to improve too
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Do you think taht by 2018 CmdrTaco will know the difference between "to" and "too"?
"from the stuff-to-listen-too dept"
Scientists predict that Taco's spelling will be 10 times more accurate, with sufficient funding from Congress.
"The fact is that a self respecting population would have Bush so far behind in popularity that a win by him would immediately be declared bogus."
The trouble is that the US population is not self respecting. Look at average weights of people, teen pregnancy levels, and I suspect also declining literacy, and you have a population ripe for the picking if you're a power crazed family like the Clintons or Bushes. Things just aren't that bad in most of the country, so it would take a widespread depression over several months before uprisings would even take place. It's nothing like Ukraine where a fishy election had the population massing in the streets until justice was served to them with the help of democratic countries like the USA and Canada sending election representatives who knew what they were doing.
I think EVERY democratic nation should conduct their elections with international observers in some polling places. It would serve a two fold purpose: 1) Keeps the country's election honest, or at least flagged. 2) Distributes electoral HOWTO to nations with less experienced, or imperfect electoral systems.
Every nation could benefit, including Canada and the USA.
New Orleans was a levee user for decades, but their false sense of security proved to be rather destructive, didn't it?
Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't happen tomorrow. The article is right that a virus could easily wipe out half of the computers connected to the Internet, if it was professionally programmed, using multiple vectors and multiple payloads. It just wouldn't be profitable at this stage, but just wait until something like Circuit City who repairs computers gets into the computer destroying racket.
And unless the paper is printed before your eyes, and deposited into THE ballot box in front of your eyes, then I wouldn't trust the system either. What are the scrutineering laws [observers for each party/candidate in the room with the voters and ballot box] in the United States? Are there observers overseeing the ballot takers and counters in each polling place like in Canada?
Canada's system works quite well, and it would scale to work in American consituancies quite well, since we have the same system in Toronto, as we do in Nunavut with no complaints that I'm aware of in either location.
'The Sex' is attainable, but not if you have a desire to cut your face up to look "better". The first step is to get in shape naturally by eating right and moving more than just fingers and eyeballs. Next you need to shore up your self esteem, because you can get just as much action in the type of crowd you desire if you have the right level of self confidence and practice. You don't get practice by sitting on Slashdot unless you're trying to score with a 40 year old male virgin.
Fans of Cage or Travolta will already know this procedure is old news. It was performed on a police officer to infiltrate a prison in the movie Face Off.
Since it's impossible to test the bio samples of the 14th century for the Black Death, we may never know for certain that it was the plague that wiped out a 1/3 of Europes population in the 1300s. All of our evidence is based on descriptions of the sickness, and so we can't even be certain that fleas were the actual means of transmission for the plague back then.
Obviously any planet nuked to death would have an easily seen radioactive green, or possibly yellow glow to it. Oh wait, that's cartoon physics I'm thinking of, never mind.
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In the 3 years I've been using eBay, I know of several security breaches, one of which allowed people to access an administration interface through the web, giving them access to personal information of nearly anyone using the eBay message boards [which shares login information with the main site].
I'd trust eBay with security [and PayPal with fairness] about as far as I can throw it.
I'd actually welcome a team of Microsoft hackers making exploits for Firefox and releasing the discovery of the holes. It would give Mozilla something to work on, and it would essentially be a free testing team doing free work for them.
"What I think makes this blog so interesting is that while he knows their is a potential audience out there, it's not pandered to."
That's how I strive to make my blog. It's a mix of my daily thoughts, rantings on various chat boards, daily events, the photos I take, and a log and simple review of the movies I watch. My primary audience is *me* a few years from now, or when I want to look back and see what I was doing on a particular day should I need to know that and can't remember. It's a way family or friends can catch up, or new people can get to know my creative writing side.
In a sense it is therapy, although I rarely put intensely personal thoughts on it, as that has always proved to be a bad idea in a public forum such as the Internet. It's just a fun way to keep a record of my daily writings, in one place, instead of having them strewn over the net, and eventually lost forever in the great thread muncher in the sky.
Why isn't this stuff being used as an emergency rescue material, to make ladders that can be telescoped up to the 30th floor of skyscrapers? Surely there could be less ambitious projects for this material before committing to something that has to deal with the extreme stresses and temperatures in space and the upper atmosphere?
Make a model of a space ladder/elevator, by designing something that can save lives here at home, and it will take off like a rocket in the public's eye, pardon the pun.
" And we shall call him THE EDITORATOR!"
I think I saw that movie. Wasn't it about the guy that editted things, using editing techinques? I don't remember what they called the guy, but I think it was something like, "the one who fixes broken writing things using corrective measures, and maintains quality content"-person.
"
From winmx.com cache:
"WinMX from winmx.com does not contain ANYTHING besides WinMX.
No spyware or other parasite programs will ever be in our software. We respect your privacy and security.""
I'm still not saying WinMX has spyware, just that my hunch is that it does, from my limited experience. However, I would not put much weight into the site from which the software orinates. The only sure thing would be if it claims to have spyware, not if it claims not to. My Web Search doesn't claim to wreck your computer, but it does just that, for example.
Don't worry about it. People have known for years that if they want to get a story published on slashdot they only need to read what's already been published, rewrite the story, and submit it as their own. I'm not saying you did this, but it's become yet another funny cliche of the Slashdot.org world.
And don't admit to making a mistake on Slashdot, it'd have been better if you claimed you submitted the story first, and got posted second, so as to garner some Funny moderations. Turn lemons into lemonade so to speak.
Pardon me if I don't take the word of Anonymous Coward. I think an AC vouching for something is the definition of FUD spreading.
And I never said the computer with WinMX got spyware from WinMX, just that it had spyware [that could have come from WinMX, since I don't know what else on the computer could have infected it].
It's not an encrypted P2P network, the downloader is known to the source, and I thought spyware was associated with it. If anyone wants to vouch for WinMX as being spyware free please do, but I've seen it only on two systems, both infected with spyware.
It's not lame though, it's a common sentence if you use motherloving Microsoft products after a Black Patch Tuesday.
And there is a link, but even if there isn't a link between global warming and bigger hurricanes, it makes the extreme pollution the people reading this comment are responsible for, no less destructive. Climate Change is being contributed to by our air pollution, and things like deforestation, so stop worrying about moot points like weather [pun] or not global warming is making hurricanes worse.
Don't worry it will be easy to spot those theives though. They'll be the people trying to hump your pocket with something that beeps in their pants when they get close to your wallet.
It'll be easy to avoid the Google viruses though, just never install anything you find on http://virus.google.com/ especially if it's out of Beta version.
Do you think taht by 2018 CmdrTaco will know the difference between "to" and "too"?
"from the stuff-to-listen-too dept"
Scientists predict that Taco's spelling will be 10 times more accurate, with sufficient funding from Congress.
"The fact is that a self respecting population would have Bush so far behind in popularity that a win by him would immediately be declared bogus."
The trouble is that the US population is not self respecting. Look at average weights of people, teen pregnancy levels, and I suspect also declining literacy, and you have a population ripe for the picking if you're a power crazed family like the Clintons or Bushes. Things just aren't that bad in most of the country, so it would take a widespread depression over several months before uprisings would even take place. It's nothing like Ukraine where a fishy election had the population massing in the streets until justice was served to them with the help of democratic countries like the USA and Canada sending election representatives who knew what they were doing.
I think EVERY democratic nation should conduct their elections with international observers in some polling places. It would serve a two fold purpose:
1) Keeps the country's election honest, or at least flagged.
2) Distributes electoral HOWTO to nations with less experienced, or imperfect electoral systems.
Every nation could benefit, including Canada and the USA.
New Orleans was a levee user for decades, but their false sense of security proved to be rather destructive, didn't it?
Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't happen tomorrow. The article is right that a virus could easily wipe out half of the computers connected to the Internet, if it was professionally programmed, using multiple vectors and multiple payloads. It just wouldn't be profitable at this stage, but just wait until something like Circuit City who repairs computers gets into the computer destroying racket.
And unless the paper is printed before your eyes, and deposited into THE ballot box in front of your eyes, then I wouldn't trust the system either. What are the scrutineering laws [observers for each party/candidate in the room with the voters and ballot box] in the United States? Are there observers overseeing the ballot takers and counters in each polling place like in Canada?
Canada's system works quite well, and it would scale to work in American consituancies quite well, since we have the same system in Toronto, as we do in Nunavut with no complaints that I'm aware of in either location.
You know the old computer saying:
"Garbage In / Garbage Out"
I'm not surprised that the Diebold model number of the voting machines last election were GIGO 5000s.
"I could really use 'the sex'".
'The Sex' is attainable, but not if you have a desire to cut your face up to look "better". The first step is to get in shape naturally by eating right and moving more than just fingers and eyeballs. Next you need to shore up your self esteem, because you can get just as much action in the type of crowd you desire if you have the right level of self confidence and practice. You don't get practice by sitting on Slashdot unless you're trying to score with a 40 year old male virgin.
Fans of Cage or Travolta will already know this procedure is old news. It was performed on a police officer to infiltrate a prison in the movie Face Off.
VIrtually every EMACS thread is going to have some VIcious person bringing up the VItality of competing text editors.
Now if you managed to say what you did with a LISP, I think moderators would give you a few bonus karma points for that vocabulary VIctory.
How much karma do I whore by... posting links to Uncyclopedia from Slashdot? The standard average for Wikipedia is about +3, so is Uncyclopedia -3?
Since it's impossible to test the bio samples of the 14th century for the Black Death, we may never know for certain that it was the plague that wiped out a 1/3 of Europes population in the 1300s. All of our evidence is based on descriptions of the sickness, and so we can't even be certain that fleas were the actual means of transmission for the plague back then.
"The lesson to learn here, of course, is to forget about your Google search ranking and engage in shameless plugging on Slashdot."
I don't have an insightful mod to give you, so I'm just replying instead.
Obviously any planet nuked to death would have an easily seen radioactive green, or possibly yellow glow to it. Oh wait, that's cartoon physics I'm thinking of, never mind.