So, from reading this article, I can deduce the following:
We're looking for a blind kid, heavyset, with a shaved head. Lives on the East side of Boston. Has a single mother, older brother, younger sister. His last name starts with W. His birthday is April 7, 1990. His mothers name is Amy Kahloul.
Hey, Wired, great job of protecting this kids identity! Shit, not only could I track him down, I could probably get a credit card in his name with all that!
(Of course, I wouldn't, because I like having a phone. )
This is similar to the "AS 7007" incident (Google it... there's no one good link) back in the late 1990s (one of two incidents in the history of the Internet that has brought the entire Internet down, IIRC). Amusingly, your post, saying to check google for more info, is one of the higher ranked hits when I google for more info.:)
And since I'm old and the hamster in a wheel who runs my brain is on strike, what was the second incident that brought the net down?
No one but Gore is to blame for Gore not being able to get enough votes.
I'd say that's probably the truth. If he could have carried his own state, he would have won. What is this obsession with carrying your own state? Like, because you were born there, everyone has to vote for you? What, they should all remember you from the old days and know what a great guy you were? Or, just because you were born there, you must automatically share the social and political views of the majority?
Seriously, I'm much less worried about a state exercising their brainpower and voting according to their beliefs, than I am about everyone voting for Jack Johnson because he's a good ole' boy and it's about time we have someone from Tennessee in the House. Unlike that nasty northerner, John Jackson.
I'm sure China was watching very closely, and would be jumping up and down with glee if they had proof the Americans were lying. This has received enough international attention that it would make the US look verrrrry bad if the Chinese pulled out some tape of the US taking a dozen shots before getting lucky and hitting it.
The US upgraded the Patriot as an ABM system in 1988, well before the 91 Gulf War. In fact, the PAC-2 upgrade (the upgrade to the upgrade) was deployed in late '90. I don't think that several years of testing and 3 years of actual field deployment count as "hastily repurposed".
That said, it did have (very) marginal success. Which, again, makes it odd that these were so ineffective, but the supposedly "hastily repurposed" missile they just used was so completely effective.
Although, i will give you that it's much easier to hit a target that you know as much about as they knew about the satellite. However, even when they were testing Star Wars and whatever they call their latest attempt at a missile shield, they couldn't even hit their own test target, in the most favourable conditions possible, with everything skewed in their favour. And now they just pull something off the shelf and headshot it? I don't think so.
Does anyone really believe that the US military just grabbed a stock missile, did some quick adjustments to it, and magically managed to kill a sat on the first shot? Come on. These are the same guys who couldn't reliably shoot down SCUDS during Gulf War 1. With a huge, expensive system specifically designed to shoot down SCUDS, years of effort and research, etc etc. But now, magically, they one-shot an exponentially harder target, with something they "just threw together"?
If you believe that, I have a bridge and some nice land in Florida to sell you...
Thank you, to the submitter, and the editor who actually approved it, for finally posting a REAL hacking story. Not some wussy "I changed a config line and now i'm 1337", but a real honest to god hard hack.
Plus, this now sounds like a really cool device. Built in GPS and FM transmitter? Awesome.
Ahh, finally a slashdot discussion that truly applies to my profession!
For me too! I drive the bus that hits people who have kept crucial organizational knowledge to themselves.
It's a living. (oblig)
Best. Post. Ever.
Of course, posting that, I now picture a loud vrooming noise, a thump, a screetch, and, from the dark, a whispered, cracked voice utters it's last words...
"I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT! "
Mod parent up, and also tag the story "badtitle". Because, well, it's completely wrong.:) They're not blocking paper ballots, they're blocking a particular method of counting which has problems.
Whilst I can understand why you'd still pirate, for the vast majority of downloaders, they just want to hear the song in something besides shitty AM radio quality. They won't notice or care at the bitrate of their MP3, as long as it doesn't sound like ass they're fine.
And, frankly, for myself, I'd be happy just getting stuff that didn't sound like ass, either. If I want a really good quality cut of a track I really like, I'll go buy it.
Pay a small flat rate, download all the music you want. I like it.
Of course, I think it should be optional, and if you're caught downloading music without paying the fee, you deserve to get raked over the coals (now that an alternative exists).
In the alternative, I'd be just as happy if they started a repository of music, with a $5 monthly access fee, and had all the music in losses mp3 and ogg. I'd win, because I'd finally have a legal method to sample music, and they'd win, because $60/year is much more than i currently spend on physical media.
Just none of this DRM'd, restricted, only-one-label crap.
Everyone should be against the this kind of automation in the military. I'm all for better tanks and armor and whatever, but anything that can kill, should be a person. And not because of Terminator or The Matrix or any kind of hollywood crap. Simply because as long as Little Tommy has to go to war, and (more importantly) Little Tommys' mother will start a protest if he dies needlessly, then we're (somewhat) safe from nothing but constant war. But, no-one is going to care if a legion of robot killers is sent out every week, no-one (at least, in the US) is going to care if they march on Somalia and take the whole place over.
The only thing saving us from constant war is the fact that politicians have to justify the deaths of their citizens. Once that stops being the case, there's nothing to stop them. And for this reason, I, and everyone who can think ahead clearly, should be against this idea.
And I have close friends in the military, that I don't want to see die. But I'm still against this.
If you've got battlebots, why not have one against another to resolve international conflicts, rather than destroy infrastructure and the like? They tried that, but a crazed Russian built a super-robot with 6 legs that totally kicked the american robots ass, but then the american robot changed into a tank and started beating up on the russian robot, but then the russian robot grew a chainsaw out of it's crotch and almost killed the american dude, but then the american dude somehow managed to kill the russian dude by getting him to stand in front of his own illegal superweapon. And the moral of the story was that evil unibrow dudes will always try and spoil the righteous goodness of robots kicking ass. Also, bioengineered babes are hot, but crazy old dudes always win the day.
Profiteering hypocrites? Not that there's anything wrong with getting paid for your work, but, seriously, you're going to take a show that says "Please copy and share me" RIGHT ON IT, and discourage people from copying and sharing it?
I disagree. The message supported home taping (fair use). There's no way you can interpret that to apply to file-sharing as well. Heck, there was no such thing back when those shows were created. What, so because it's easier now, it's suddenly wrong? Before, you had to stick a tape in the VCR and hit "Record". Perhaps you even had a pair of VCRs and did some tape-to-tape copying. Sent em out one by one. You handed or mailed them out to friends, one at a time. Now, you have a vast library... err, network, of files, and you type in that cool show your friend briefly mentioned, and can almost immediately become hooked. And many people can do it all at once. But the concept is the same. "Hey, here's something you might like, come watch it."
Would it be less wrong if I burned the shows to DVD and handed that out? What if I just zipped it up and emailed it to individual friends?
I think they should reformat this robot into a little mouse droid. It'd finally give all those guys with custom Stormtrooper armor to get out of their parents basement for a few hours.
I just don't understand how people can live in a country where this can be a valid statement. Most people aren't given a choice about where they're born.
I'm assuming you're American... You have the power to vote, don't you? Use it and change the things that bother you instead of throwing your arms up in despair. I agree with you, the best way to change the system is by actually trying to change the system. Unfortunately, I'm Canadian, so all I can do is look at those poor bastards to the south, throw my arms up in despair, and and say "Hey, howze dat dem dere deadly infectious disease you got dere, eh? Sure sucks, eh? Right on." and also "Aboot"
Jokes aside, you have a country with socialized health care right up north. I'm surprised I don't see more americans moving here. (though there have been plenty more than usual in the last 7 years, for some reason...) And every time socialized medicine comes up down south, someone starts jumping up and down whining and complaining about having to pay when they're healthy.
Seriously, can we get some non-New-World perspective here? Am I just insulated? Is it normal in the rest of the world to not care whether your fellow citizen lives or dies?
"Keep circulating the tapes..."
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In reference to the "Box Set" question...
In the 90's, when it was really hard to get interest in the show, they encouraged people to copy it and share it.
Now, they've put it in a box set, and stand to make money off of it, so they're discouraging people from copying it and sharing it.
Profiteering hypocrites? Not that there's anything wrong with getting paid for your work, but, seriously, you're going to take a show that says "Please copy and share me" RIGHT ON IT, and discourage people from copying and sharing it?
As serious as the illness was, there was never any risk of me dying: my family is well enough off that I received good medical care. But for every guy like me with the resources to get by in the event of catastrophic illness, there are about a thousand who die, coughing and bleeding, in the gutters. And that, right there, should be the most damning indictment of the US health care system possible. (parent may or may not be american, but the statement is relevant regardless)
"I was rich enough not to die". I just don't understand how people can live in a country where this can be a valid statement.
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So, from reading this article, I can deduce the following:
We're looking for a blind kid, heavyset, with a shaved head. Lives on the East side of Boston. Has a single mother, older brother, younger sister. His last name starts with W. His birthday is April 7, 1990. His mothers name is Amy Kahloul.
Hey, Wired, great job of protecting this kids identity! Shit, not only could I track him down, I could probably get a credit card in his name with all that!
(Of course, I wouldn't, because I like having a phone. )
And since I'm old and the hamster in a wheel who runs my brain is on strike, what was the second incident that brought the net down?
I'd say that's probably the truth. If he could have carried his own state, he would have won. What is this obsession with carrying your own state? Like, because you were born there, everyone has to vote for you? What, they should all remember you from the old days and know what a great guy you were? Or, just because you were born there, you must automatically share the social and political views of the majority?
Seriously, I'm much less worried about a state exercising their brainpower and voting according to their beliefs, than I am about everyone voting for Jack Johnson because he's a good ole' boy and it's about time we have someone from Tennessee in the House. Unlike that nasty northerner, John Jackson.
I'm sure China was watching very closely, and would be jumping up and down with glee if they had proof the Americans were lying. This has received enough international attention that it would make the US look verrrrry bad if the Chinese pulled out some tape of the US taking a dozen shots before getting lucky and hitting it.
The US upgraded the Patriot as an ABM system in 1988, well before the 91 Gulf War. In fact, the PAC-2 upgrade (the upgrade to the upgrade) was deployed in late '90. I don't think that several years of testing and 3 years of actual field deployment count as "hastily repurposed".
That said, it did have (very) marginal success. Which, again, makes it odd that these were so ineffective, but the supposedly "hastily repurposed" missile they just used was so completely effective.
Although, i will give you that it's much easier to hit a target that you know as much about as they knew about the satellite. However, even when they were testing Star Wars and whatever they call their latest attempt at a missile shield, they couldn't even hit their own test target, in the most favourable conditions possible, with everything skewed in their favour. And now they just pull something off the shelf and headshot it? I don't think so.
Does anyone really believe that the US military just grabbed a stock missile, did some quick adjustments to it, and magically managed to kill a sat on the first shot?
Come on. These are the same guys who couldn't reliably shoot down SCUDS during Gulf War 1. With a huge, expensive system specifically designed to shoot down SCUDS, years of effort and research, etc etc. But now, magically, they one-shot an exponentially harder target, with something they "just threw together"?
If you believe that, I have a bridge and some nice land in Florida to sell you...
"I call it a Hawking Hole".
Edmonton, Alberta Canada had between 50 and 100 people, depending on who you listen to.
For all those people posting "What about Wii" comments...
Did you ever play Duke Nukem?
Can you imagine some of the gestures they'd include in a Wii version??
Do you really think Nintendo would do anything other than gag and possibly pass out, upon seeing the demo???
Yeah, no way they'd get licensed.
"Experts find way to make sexually active HIV folks non-infectious."
Today, tens of thousands of hopeful HIV men were gathered in a room as experts promised they had figured out a way to make them all non-infectious.
Once the men were inside, they locked the doors and proceeded to castrate them all.
Poor bastards.
I'm Tom Tucker, with Channel 9 news.
I can't decide, so I'm just going to vote for both.
Ya'll still have those Diebold machines down there, right?
Thank you, to the submitter, and the editor who actually approved it, for finally posting a REAL hacking story. Not some wussy "I changed a config line and now i'm 1337", but a real honest to god hard hack.
Plus, this now sounds like a really cool device. Built in GPS and FM transmitter?
Awesome.
I wanna go dust off my soldering gun now.
For me too! I drive the bus that hits people who have kept crucial organizational knowledge to themselves.
It's a living. (oblig)
Best.
Post.
Ever.
Of course, posting that, I now picture a loud vrooming noise, a thump, a screetch, and, from the dark, a whispered, cracked voice utters it's last words...
"I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT! "
That's just what I was coming to write.
:) They're not blocking paper ballots, they're blocking a particular method of counting which has problems.
Mod parent up, and also tag the story "badtitle". Because, well, it's completely wrong.
Whilst I can understand why you'd still pirate, for the vast majority of downloaders, they just want to hear the song in something besides shitty AM radio quality. They won't notice or care at the bitrate of their MP3, as long as it doesn't sound like ass they're fine.
And, frankly, for myself, I'd be happy just getting stuff that didn't sound like ass, either. If I want a really good quality cut of a track I really like, I'll go buy it.
I love clear concise Canadian thinking.
Pay a small flat rate, download all the music you want. I like it.
Of course, I think it should be optional, and if you're caught downloading music without paying the fee, you deserve to get raked over the coals (now that an alternative exists).
In the alternative, I'd be just as happy if they started a repository of music, with a $5 monthly access fee, and had all the music in losses mp3 and ogg. I'd win, because I'd finally have a legal method to sample music, and they'd win, because $60/year is much more than i currently spend on physical media.
Just none of this DRM'd, restricted, only-one-label crap.
Everyone should be against the this kind of automation in the military. I'm all for better tanks and armor and whatever, but anything that can kill, should be a person. And not because of Terminator or The Matrix or any kind of hollywood crap. Simply because as long as Little Tommy has to go to war, and (more importantly) Little Tommys' mother will start a protest if he dies needlessly, then we're (somewhat) safe from nothing but constant war. But, no-one is going to care if a legion of robot killers is sent out every week, no-one (at least, in the US) is going to care if they march on Somalia and take the whole place over.
The only thing saving us from constant war is the fact that politicians have to justify the deaths of their citizens. Once that stops being the case, there's nothing to stop them. And for this reason, I, and everyone who can think ahead clearly, should be against this idea.
And I have close friends in the military, that I don't want to see die. But I'm still against this.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0102800 You think I'm kidding, don't you?
I disagree. The message supported home taping (fair use). There's no way you can interpret that to apply to file-sharing as well. Heck, there was no such thing back when those shows were created. What, so because it's easier now, it's suddenly wrong?
Before, you had to stick a tape in the VCR and hit "Record". Perhaps you even had a pair of VCRs and did some tape-to-tape copying. Sent em out one by one. You handed or mailed them out to friends, one at a time. Now, you have a vast library... err, network, of files, and you type in that cool show your friend briefly mentioned, and can almost immediately become hooked. And many people can do it all at once. But the concept is the same. "Hey, here's something you might like, come watch it."
Would it be less wrong if I burned the shows to DVD and handed that out? What if I just zipped it up and emailed it to individual friends?
I think they should reformat this robot into a little mouse droid. It'd finally give all those guys with custom Stormtrooper armor to get out of their parents basement for a few hours.
I'd like to agree with the parent, and reiterate a very important point.
If you don't want anyone seeing something, don't fucking put it on the fucking internet,you fuckwad.
Thank you, have a nice day.
You'll have to pardon me, I'm slightly confused. .... some sort of physical media?
You mean to say, there are people who still get movies on
Hm.
How quaint.
I'm assuming you're American... You have the power to vote, don't you? Use it and change the things that bother you instead of throwing your arms up in despair. I agree with you, the best way to change the system is by actually trying to change the system.
Unfortunately, I'm Canadian, so all I can do is look at those poor bastards to the south, throw my arms up in despair, and and say "Hey, howze dat dem dere deadly infectious disease you got dere, eh? Sure sucks, eh? Right on."
and also
"Aboot"
Jokes aside, you have a country with socialized health care right up north. I'm surprised I don't see more americans moving here. (though there have been plenty more than usual in the last 7 years, for some reason...)
And every time socialized medicine comes up down south, someone starts jumping up and down whining and complaining about having to pay when they're healthy.
Seriously, can we get some non-New-World perspective here? Am I just insulated? Is it normal in the rest of the world to not care whether your fellow citizen lives or dies?
In reference to the "Box Set" question...
In the 90's, when it was really hard to get interest in the show, they encouraged people to copy it and share it.
Now, they've put it in a box set, and stand to make money off of it, so they're discouraging people from copying it and sharing it.
Profiteering hypocrites? Not that there's anything wrong with getting paid for your work, but, seriously, you're going to take a show that says "Please copy and share me" RIGHT ON IT, and discourage people from copying and sharing it?
(parent may or may not be american, but the statement is relevant regardless)
"I was rich enough not to die".
I just don't understand how people can live in a country where this can be a valid statement.