Isn't Choicepoint the group that bungled background checks on some of the freshly minted Homeland Security people? Some were not completed properly and at least 85 felons were subsequently employed in Airport Security.
Are you sure that was a bungle, and not the intent? Maybe those felons have useful security skills....
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
-- CowboyNeal, editor/sniper
The article does nothing to suggest Microsoft bashing: no motives are given for why the announcement was made to a public mailing list and not to Microsoft.
One might reasonably assume that Microsoft bashing is a possibility; one the other hand, there might be no malice involved. We don't know, and I wouldn't want to guess.
-kgj
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This reminds me of those "What kind of man reads Playboy?" ads in Playboy.
I once met this girl that was a med student, and was ridiculously gorgeous. Although actually I guess managing to get nude pictures of her to put on my website doesn't really count as hitting on her, huh.
Doesn't count as hitting on her. But if there were any justice, those pix would send your karma rating sky-high.
Ok, well there was this other girl a few weeks ago that I asked out to coffee and then couldn't talk to...
Could be fake [wedding ring] to avoid being hit on by the/. geeks.
Oh, please. Let's review: young woman, beautiful, smart. That makes her a Slashdotter's dream. I think such a woman knows that Slashdotters won't dare hit on a woman of their dreams....
"The story quotes 'Industry wags are saying that God invented SCO to give people a company to
hate more than Microsoft.'" This is all speculation until such a suit is filed, though."
All speculation? Huh -- the part about part about God and hating SCO sounds pretty convincing to me....
What if jesus was a highly functioning schizophrenic?:)
Mohammed apparently experienced altered states of conciousness:
"He was drawn to solitary contemplation, and he often experienced visions, some violent and disturbing. Some modern scholars have theorized that he was epileptic."
But one thing is certain: the RF-ID chips will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new subdermal overlords... and I'd like to remind them that as a fat person with lots of surface area, I can be helpful in persuading others to get the implants and toil in their underground shopping malls....
Why is it that religion really brings out the nutcases.
Because religion is about belief; and being a nutcase is about deranged belief.
This is not to say that all religious belief is deranged; far from it. But nutcase belief often has something in common with religion. If I hear voices in my head, is it because of my deranged brain chemistry? Or because God is speaking to me? (Answer: God only knows.)
Aqua-man has become quite the hard-ass. He cut off his own hand and grafted on a harpoon instead. He no longer takes shit from anyone. He now acts like what he is, the king of 73% of the Earth's surface.
Yikes! Okay, I take back what I said about him -- this guy is the bad-ass of the deep.
Gets me thinking... 73% of the earth's surface isn't quite correct, because the ocean is measured in terms of volume, not surface... in terms of volume, Aquaman owns an even bigger piece of liquid real estate.
The obvious use will be delivering a nuclear (or large conventional) payload in the middle of an enemy port undetected.
That's the obvious obvious use.
The subtle obvious use: disguise this thing underwater bomb a manta ray, so it can turn Aquaman into shark fodder. Finally, a chance to prove what a second-rate superhero that guy really is!
I collect miscellaneous links on my web site. Over time, I've started adding excerpts along with links. The excerpts help remind me what the link was about, but they also serve another purpose: when the link goes bad, I can use keywords in the excerpt to search for related pages on the web.
Our knowledge of ancient history has proceeded in a similar manner. Much of what we know about, say, pre-socratic philosophers, we know because of references in Aristotle and other later scholars. The original sources may be totally lost, but at least we have some names and quotations.
I had heard before that Charlie Kaufman, of "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich", was working on it.
Both those movies have Phildickian tones... absurb worlds, replicated identities, time-shifts between reality and imagination, the struggle of the little guy to both make a living and survive as an artist in the world of big business.
I'm guessing Charlie Kaufman would turn in a stunning intepretation of Scanner Darkly.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd prefer a formal analysis of a normal proposal rather than a normal analysis of a formal proposal.
I'd rather have
a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.
-kgj
Isn't Choicepoint the group that bungled background checks on some of the freshly minted Homeland Security people? Some were not completed properly and at least 85 felons were subsequently employed in Airport Security.
....
Are you sure that was a bungle, and not the intent? Maybe those felons have useful security skills
-kgj
what if the US get caught by a coup d'etat?
Already happened -- November 22, 1963.
-kgj
I just hope someone does a parady of this shitfest soon.
It's been done, kind of: Wizards by Ralph Bakshi.
-kgj
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
-- CowboyNeal, editor/sniper
The article does nothing to suggest Microsoft bashing: no motives are given for why the announcement was made to a public mailing list and not to Microsoft.
One might reasonably assume that Microsoft bashing is a possibility; one the other hand, there might be no malice involved. We don't know, and I wouldn't want to guess.
-kgj
Who Is An ISP?
This reminds me of those "What kind of man reads Playboy?" ads in Playboy.
-kgj
I once met this girl that was a med student, and was ridiculously gorgeous. Although actually I guess managing to get nude pictures of her to put on my website doesn't really count as hitting on her, huh.
Doesn't count as hitting on her. But if there were any justice, those pix would send your karma rating sky-high.
Ok, well there was this other girl a few weeks ago that I asked out to coffee and then couldn't talk to...
The Slashdot Effect, dammit.
Maybe skip the coffee, try alcohol instead?
-kgj
Could be fake [wedding ring] to avoid being hit on by the /. geeks.
....
Oh, please. Let's review: young woman, beautiful, smart. That makes her a Slashdotter's dream. I think such a woman knows that Slashdotters won't dare hit on a woman of their dreams
-kgj
Seriosly though, a hot Swedish mathematician? That's so much like my dreams it's scary.
... but in the picture it looks like she's wearing a wedding ring, so dream on ....
I know what ya mean
-kgj
-kgj
Maybe you're just an earlier type of human.
Good call.
-kgj
What if jesus was a highly functioning schizophrenic? :)
Mohammed apparently experienced altered states of conciousness:
"He was drawn to solitary contemplation, and he often experienced visions, some violent and disturbing. Some modern scholars have theorized that he was epileptic."
Link
But one thing is certain: the RF-ID chips will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new subdermal overlords ... and I'd like to remind them that as a fat person with lots of surface area, I can be helpful in persuading others to get the implants and toil in their underground shopping malls ....
Why is it that religion really brings out the nutcases.
Because religion is about belief; and being a nutcase is about deranged belief.
This is not to say that all religious belief is deranged; far from it. But nutcase belief often has something in common with religion. If I hear voices in my head, is it because of my deranged brain chemistry? Or because God is speaking to me? (Answer: God only knows.)
-kgj
... unless we're faking our humanity for advertising purposes only, of course.
Thank God a mega-corp isn't actually demonstrating REAL humanity for advertising purposes. That would cause devastating confusion.
Let's not even get started with genuine corporate humanity: my cynicism is perfectly functional under the current arrangement.
-kgj
"The election you have reached is not in service.
Please check the election, and try again."
-kgj
Aqua-man has become quite the hard-ass. He cut off his own hand and grafted on a harpoon instead. He no longer takes shit from anyone. He now acts like what he is, the king of 73% of the Earth's surface.
... 73% of the earth's surface isn't quite correct, because the ocean is measured in terms of volume, not surface ... in terms of volume, Aquaman owns an even bigger piece of liquid real estate.
Yikes! Okay, I take back what I said about him -- this guy is the bad-ass of the deep.
Gets me thinking
-kgj
The obvious use will be delivering a nuclear (or large conventional) payload in the middle of an enemy port undetected.
That's the obvious obvious use.
The subtle obvious use: disguise this thing underwater bomb a manta ray, so it can turn Aquaman into shark fodder. Finally, a chance to prove what a second-rate superhero that guy really is!
-kgj
I collect miscellaneous links on my web site. Over time, I've started adding excerpts along with links. The excerpts help remind me what the link was about, but they also serve another purpose: when the link goes bad, I can use keywords in the excerpt to search for related pages on the web.
Our knowledge of ancient history has proceeded in a similar manner. Much of what we know about, say, pre-socratic philosophers, we know because of references in Aristotle and other later scholars. The original sources may be totally lost, but at least we have some names and quotations.
-kgj
I had heard before that Charlie Kaufman, of "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich", was working on it.
... absurb worlds, replicated identities, time-shifts between reality and imagination, the struggle of the little guy to both make a living and survive as an artist in the world of big business.
Both those movies have Phildickian tones
I'm guessing Charlie Kaufman would turn in a stunning intepretation of Scanner Darkly.
-kgj
How about 87 Billon?
... but something tells me that it's a puny downpayment on the final unpayable bill.
Eighty-seven billion will do for a start
-kgj
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
....
You mean Darl McBride? Then maybe it's not soup
-kgj
are we going to invade nigeria/china/indonesia for sending spam?
Probably not. Instead, we'll invade them for the oil.
-kgj
... unlimited damages for fraud and abuse.
...?!
What the -- unlimited damages
Holy crap, get ready for the undead legion of attorneys to rise from the grave!
-kgj
This is a great read:
THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY by Carlo M. Cipolla
Excerpt:
"... human beings fall into four basic categories: the helpless, the intelligent, the bandit and the stupid."
See also:
True Stupidity
-kgj