I don't care what platform it is or how good you think you are at securing it, if you set up a box and tell the whole internet to "try and hack me" - guess what, YOU WILL GET HACKED.
I was hoping that this would provide some real evidence for Dark Matter. I have a problem with something so massive which, as far as I can see, is invented to explain a single fact: the anomalously fast rotation of galaxies.
Actually the galaxies are rotating just as they should - dark matter was invented to explain anomolies in our mathematics.
"Such observations have established that dark matter makes up about 85% of all the mass in the Universe."
Actually dark matter is only responsible for about 25% of the mass of the universe, with dark energy being responsible for the majority (about 70%). The remaining 5% is about 4.5% normal matter and 0.5% neutrinos.
ROFL! if this is what the world thinks a hacker is, then real hackers everywhere can breath a sigh of relief - the authorities don't have a clue or a chance.
>I think for purposes of this argument, we can fairly say that if it's not given at least an aisle at Best Buy, it's dead. LP's are dead as a doornail.
What an ignorant statement. LP's are a staple of DJ's and are actually selling quite well. Perhaps you are too young or too old to go to clubs.
That's fine.. if countries want to be short-sighted about technology, they will just shoot themselves in the foot. The fact is, VOIP is rapidly becoming THE communications protocol of choice - my whole company runs it's entire phone network on it, and I know many other businesses that have started doing the same.
Countries who resist this will only cause American businesses to pull out and no longer do business there. Since Costa Rica really doesn't have much going for them, my advice to them would be not to resist technology that promotes business growth.
Funny, I've never gotten that impression nor even thought about some of the wild accusations that you make. I think they only person that is drawing these conclusions is YOU. I didn't see anything in the article that indicated that Africans are mentally handicapped or anything like that.
Furthermore there is nothing wrong with the title, because Kenya is IN AFRICA. Therefore it is entirely accurate to call Kenyan schools African schools. Nobody is saying that as part of some big anti-African conspiracy or anything. Get over yourself.
i'm probably misguided, but these are my two cents:
1) they didn't lose the customer records, they lost the backup tapes -- maybe it's just semantics, but i see a big difference there.
2) so what if it "falls into the wrong hands"? the data is all encrypted right? so you find a box of backup tapes containing a bunch of encrypted customer records on it.. what do you do with it? statistically, don't you need a supercomputer and a few lifetimes to decrypt it? i thought the whole point of encryption was so that if the data was obtained by someone unauthorized, they can't use it...
of course lynx handles forms! it would be utterly useless if it didn't (you couldn't even search google)... it also does encryption so you can post those forms securely...
really?! you have an Epson *CD BURNER* that prints cd labels using the burner's laser? that's amazing, because Epson doesn't list that in their product line on their web site...... oh wait, you simply didn't read the article at all and you thought we were talking about printers, i see!
not only has this article been on slashdot before, but i'm pretty sure i've seen advertisements for lightscribe on slashdot.... in fact i first heard of this device by clicking on one of those ads, long before either of the articles was posted - i thought it was this site but it may have been another, so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
i'm probably reading into it, but the suggestion seems to be that despite the repeated failures of other companies, this is likely to work for apple, just because they are apple and in the past have been able to influence the industry into things like using glass pills instead of standard buttons.
i think it's pretty clear that people still want standard tower-sized powerhouses that they can easily modify. there is a whole industry built around "case modding" now, you think your average lanparty reveller wants to give their neon fans and plexi-panels and glow wires just for a smaller form factor? the computer towers in my house double as furniture - i set everything from cd spindles to scanners on them.
another slashdotter made the joke that 'size does matter - i want BIGGER'... joking aside, i think there's a lot of truth to that. i sent some earlier years working in a mom-and-pop computer shop in the southern united states. you don't see many rednecks driving around in mazda miata's - and likewise you don't see them buying tiny computers... i cannot count how many times the buying decision came down to size, and how many times i quite literally heard "gimme the biggest dang case ya got!"...
now, i will submit that "bigger is better" is probably largely an american ideal (look at the popularity of SUV's, 'biggie sized' portions, etc).. and the slashdotter who commented that this might be very popular in japan has a valid point...
i regularly engage in lengthy debates about everything under the sun with a good friend of mine, who almost always takes an opposing view to mine. mainly his opposing stance is intentional, and he simply tries to debunk everything i say, even if he agrees with me. at first i found this extremely annoying - but now i regard these debates as an essential part of my intellectual growth. the reason is that he forces me to constantly re-evaluate what i already believe to be true. when i go back to research something to try and prove him wrong, i always discover a whole host of new details and factors that i did not know before. even if all the new data leads me back to the same conclusion, the point is that i wind up with an even more intimate understanding of the topic than before - and in some cases i find out i'm wrong.
i think this is true of any intellectual endeavor, whether it's software development, scientific research, or just debating with a friend. without friction, people become complacent, scientific theories don't get debunked, and software becomes stagnant. perhaps flaming each other is not the most effecient way to debate something - obviously a calm and organized exchange of ideas is generally a more beneficial way of interacting with people.
i think you are assuming that people do not search for WMP replacements because they are too lazy - i know plenty of people that purposely use WMP because they LIKE it... even if people WERE too lazy to find a replacement - it's silly to blame microsoft for that!
windows also comes with Paint - which is a total piece of junk as far as paint programs go - but has anybody ever heard of Adobe complaining that microsoft is using the windows monopoly to drive photoshop out of the market? no! because people who need more functionality than Paint provides will naturally look for that in other programs... same with WMP - if someone needs features that WMP doesn't provide, they will naturally look for another program... but if WMP satisfies a need, why should microsoft not be allowed to include it in their operating system just becasue other people also make similar products that are in competition?
i don't use windows much myself and i'm no microsoft fan by any means, but i think that this whole argument is stupid... nobody is forcing you to use WMP - if you don't want to use it, you don't have to... if you want to use something else, you can, with no ill effects on the system... maybe if realplayer and quicktime didn't suck so bad people would use them more... i haven't heard nullsoft complaining about this, because they recognize that people will still use winamp because it's a good product, and microsoft's proported "media player monopoly" doesn't seem to have affected nullsoft's success with winamp... what i really hate is when companies like realnetworks can't make a good product so they try to make money via litigation instead....
i've always wanted to mount one of these things in my rear window and hookup to a little keypad in front so i can send nasty messages to other drivers... a nice touch would be to have the ability to store a few presets for quick responses... imagine how great it would be to whip around someone and flash "get off your @#$! phone!" or "that pedal to the right is the gas"... or simply "you're a moron!"... the possibilities for offense are limitless...
obviously, no software is "bug free" or "100% secure", and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in an alternate reality. it's also fun to blame microsoft for everything "just because they suck". but do they deserve it? i can remember seeing one of ms's ads in a computer magazine recently, claiming that win2k server is orange book certified and 99.999% secure. surely this is an outright lie, as has been proven time and again. in my opinion, if you CLAIM something is perfect, then YES, you ARE responsible if it turns out otherwise. is it the coast guard's fault that they were operating under the misapprehension that they had a secure platform, just because they were sucker'd by microsoft's sales force? I'd say YES to both counts. Microslop is to blame for selling a third rate product and claiming it's first rate.. but the coast guard is also to blame for not researching the product and hiring proper technical staff.
imho, the very last person to blame is the virus author. that's just stupid. think of it this way: you build a house of cards and tell me that it's the most secure house of cards ever, and nothing i can do will knock it down... then i discover that by removing a particular card from the base the whole thing crumbles... am *I* to blame for finding a flaw you didn't think existed? certainly not...
wow slashdot has really gone downhill allowing crap like this to pass for front page news... who the hell gives a flying *#$(@*#$ about this moron and his stupid job? if it sucks so bad, just quit and find another job...
and what's with the moderators? is slashdot no longer about news, and instead becoming a giant blog for people to rant about their personal lives? fsck that!
hmm.. thanks for the interesting correction... i was going by memory though, not by what someone wrote in some book... i'm curious as to your source though, since in the 50's, really only the government and military had computers, and i wouldn't imagine they allowed much access "without permission"... (the military has classicly been pretty good at controlling access to things, especially something like a giant room-sized computer)... and the 50's was before networking (i thought), sooo...
since when was this new technology? plenty of geek bands have been using midi-synced text-to-speech technology for years (console, 386dx, etc)... granted, text-to-speech is still not that great, but it's only a matter of time...
i guess this is the way most things are... a certain technology could be available for years.. but it's not officially "new" until some newspaper says so
a HACKER can be two things:
1) an enthusiastic programmer/tinkerer who takes pride in finding clever ways to solve problems and tries to gain an intimate understanding of computers/code/technology (this was the original definition, appearing in the late 60's/ early 70's)
2) a person who specializes in bypassing computer security systems, whether maliciously or not [more often for the sake of knowledge, not malice] (this definition came about in the early 80's)
both of these definitions are correct
a CRACKER is someone who specializes in CRACKING software copy protection.. it's a term from the warez scene, also from early 80's...
a PHREAKER is someone who specializes in unauthorized use of telephone systems and networks.. also from early 80's
a TWEAKER is someone who specializes in computer hardware and pushing it beyond its limits, from mid-late 90's
a LAMER is someone who thinks the terms HACKER and CRACKER are interchangeable
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EVERY SYSTEM IS HACKABLE!
I don't care what platform it is or how good you think you are at securing it, if you set up a box and tell the whole internet to "try and hack me" - guess what, YOU WILL GET HACKED.
I was hoping that this would provide some real evidence for Dark Matter. I have a problem with something so massive which, as far as I can see, is invented to explain a single fact: the anomalously fast rotation of galaxies.
Actually the galaxies are rotating just as they should - dark matter was invented to explain anomolies in our mathematics.
"Such observations have established that dark matter makes up about 85% of all the mass in the Universe."
Actually dark matter is only responsible for about 25% of the mass of the universe, with dark energy being responsible for the majority (about 70%). The remaining 5% is about 4.5% normal matter and 0.5% neutrinos.
ROFL! if this is what the world thinks a hacker is, then real hackers everywhere can breath a sigh of relief - the authorities don't have a clue or a chance.
>I think for purposes of this argument, we can fairly say that if it's not given at least an aisle at Best Buy, it's dead. LP's are dead as a doornail.
What an ignorant statement. LP's are a staple of DJ's and are actually selling quite well. Perhaps you are too young or too old to go to clubs.
am i the only one who thinks an operating system should simply operate the system?
i must say this is the first time i've heard of an operating system having a "sound track". will amazon soon be offering "Windows: The OST"?
personally i'd rather them spend that money on debugging.
... for continuing to prevent /. from ever being a serious news source with his constant and endless supply of pointless and stupid articles.
That's fine.. if countries want to be short-sighted about technology, they will just shoot themselves in the foot. The fact is, VOIP is rapidly becoming THE communications protocol of choice - my whole company runs it's entire phone network on it, and I know many other businesses that have started doing the same.
Countries who resist this will only cause American businesses to pull out and no longer do business there. Since Costa Rica really doesn't have much going for them, my advice to them would be not to resist technology that promotes business growth.
Funny, I've never gotten that impression nor even thought about some of the wild accusations that you make. I think they only person that is drawing these conclusions is YOU. I didn't see anything in the article that indicated that Africans are mentally handicapped or anything like that.
Furthermore there is nothing wrong with the title, because Kenya is IN AFRICA. Therefore it is entirely accurate to call Kenyan schools African schools. Nobody is saying that as part of some big anti-African conspiracy or anything. Get over yourself.
i'm probably misguided, but these are my two cents:
1) they didn't lose the customer records, they lost the backup tapes -- maybe it's just semantics, but i see a big difference there.
2) so what if it "falls into the wrong hands"? the data is all encrypted right? so you find a box of backup tapes containing a bunch of encrypted customer records on it.. what do you do with it? statistically, don't you need a supercomputer and a few lifetimes to decrypt it? i thought the whole point of encryption was so that if the data was obtained by someone unauthorized, they can't use it...
i'm a fan of Adams' work, but i hardly think some random opinion of a movie that isn't even finished yet is news worthy...
of course lynx handles forms! it would be utterly useless if it didn't (you couldn't even search google)... it also does encryption so you can post those forms securely...
no, 10 is X
VIIV is NOT a valid roman numeral, just a string of characters, therefore trademarkable
even with your goofy logic i could argue that VIIV is not 6 and 4, but 7 and 5, which is 13 - so maybe we should start reading into _that_ now...
really?! you have an Epson *CD BURNER* that prints cd labels using the burner's laser? that's amazing, because Epson doesn't list that in their product line on their web site... ... oh wait, you simply didn't read the article at all and you thought we were talking about printers, i see!
not only has this article been on slashdot before, but i'm pretty sure i've seen advertisements for lightscribe on slashdot.... in fact i first heard of this device by clicking on one of those ads, long before either of the articles was posted - i thought it was this site but it may have been another, so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
i'm probably reading into it, but the suggestion seems to be that despite the repeated failures of other companies, this is likely to work for apple, just because they are apple and in the past have been able to influence the industry into things like using glass pills instead of standard buttons. i think it's pretty clear that people still want standard tower-sized powerhouses that they can easily modify. there is a whole industry built around "case modding" now, you think your average lanparty reveller wants to give their neon fans and plexi-panels and glow wires just for a smaller form factor? the computer towers in my house double as furniture - i set everything from cd spindles to scanners on them. another slashdotter made the joke that 'size does matter - i want BIGGER'... joking aside, i think there's a lot of truth to that. i sent some earlier years working in a mom-and-pop computer shop in the southern united states. you don't see many rednecks driving around in mazda miata's - and likewise you don't see them buying tiny computers... i cannot count how many times the buying decision came down to size, and how many times i quite literally heard "gimme the biggest dang case ya got!"... now, i will submit that "bigger is better" is probably largely an american ideal (look at the popularity of SUV's, 'biggie sized' portions, etc).. and the slashdotter who commented that this might be very popular in japan has a valid point...
i regularly engage in lengthy debates about everything under the sun with a good friend of mine, who almost always takes an opposing view to mine. mainly his opposing stance is intentional, and he simply tries to debunk everything i say, even if he agrees with me. at first i found this extremely annoying - but now i regard these debates as an essential part of my intellectual growth. the reason is that he forces me to constantly re-evaluate what i already believe to be true. when i go back to research something to try and prove him wrong, i always discover a whole host of new details and factors that i did not know before. even if all the new data leads me back to the same conclusion, the point is that i wind up with an even more intimate understanding of the topic than before - and in some cases i find out i'm wrong.
i think this is true of any intellectual endeavor, whether it's software development, scientific research, or just debating with a friend. without friction, people become complacent, scientific theories don't get debunked, and software becomes stagnant. perhaps flaming each other is not the most effecient way to debate something - obviously a calm and organized exchange of ideas is generally a more beneficial way of interacting with people.
i think you are assuming that people do not search for WMP replacements because they are too lazy - i know plenty of people that purposely use WMP because they LIKE it... even if people WERE too lazy to find a replacement - it's silly to blame microsoft for that! windows also comes with Paint - which is a total piece of junk as far as paint programs go - but has anybody ever heard of Adobe complaining that microsoft is using the windows monopoly to drive photoshop out of the market? no! because people who need more functionality than Paint provides will naturally look for that in other programs... same with WMP - if someone needs features that WMP doesn't provide, they will naturally look for another program... but if WMP satisfies a need, why should microsoft not be allowed to include it in their operating system just becasue other people also make similar products that are in competition? i don't use windows much myself and i'm no microsoft fan by any means, but i think that this whole argument is stupid... nobody is forcing you to use WMP - if you don't want to use it, you don't have to... if you want to use something else, you can, with no ill effects on the system... maybe if realplayer and quicktime didn't suck so bad people would use them more... i haven't heard nullsoft complaining about this, because they recognize that people will still use winamp because it's a good product, and microsoft's proported "media player monopoly" doesn't seem to have affected nullsoft's success with winamp... what i really hate is when companies like realnetworks can't make a good product so they try to make money via litigation instead....
i've always wanted to mount one of these things in my rear window and hookup to a little keypad in front so i can send nasty messages to other drivers... a nice touch would be to have the ability to store a few presets for quick responses... imagine how great it would be to whip around someone and flash "get off your @#$! phone!" or "that pedal to the right is the gas"... or simply "you're a moron!"... the possibilities for offense are limitless...
obviously, no software is "bug free" or "100% secure", and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in an alternate reality. it's also fun to blame microsoft for everything "just because they suck". but do they deserve it? i can remember seeing one of ms's ads in a computer magazine recently, claiming that win2k server is orange book certified and 99.999% secure. surely this is an outright lie, as has been proven time and again. in my opinion, if you CLAIM something is perfect, then YES, you ARE responsible if it turns out otherwise. is it the coast guard's fault that they were operating under the misapprehension that they had a secure platform, just because they were sucker'd by microsoft's sales force? I'd say YES to both counts. Microslop is to blame for selling a third rate product and claiming it's first rate.. but the coast guard is also to blame for not researching the product and hiring proper technical staff. imho, the very last person to blame is the virus author. that's just stupid. think of it this way: you build a house of cards and tell me that it's the most secure house of cards ever, and nothing i can do will knock it down... then i discover that by removing a particular card from the base the whole thing crumbles... am *I* to blame for finding a flaw you didn't think existed? certainly not...
wow slashdot has really gone downhill allowing crap like this to pass for front page news... who the hell gives a flying *#$(@*#$ about this moron and his stupid job? if it sucks so bad, just quit and find another job... and what's with the moderators? is slashdot no longer about news, and instead becoming a giant blog for people to rant about their personal lives? fsck that!
hmm.. thanks for the interesting correction... i was going by memory though, not by what someone wrote in some book... i'm curious as to your source though, since in the 50's, really only the government and military had computers, and i wouldn't imagine they allowed much access "without permission"... (the military has classicly been pretty good at controlling access to things, especially something like a giant room-sized computer)... and the 50's was before networking (i thought), sooo...
since when was this new technology? plenty of geek bands have been using midi-synced text-to-speech technology for years (console, 386dx, etc)... granted, text-to-speech is still not that great, but it's only a matter of time...
i guess this is the way most things are... a certain technology could be available for years.. but it's not officially "new" until some newspaper says so
so where is this list of the most powerful supercomputers? i'd like to see it...
still looks like everyone is abusing terms...
a HACKER can be two things:
1) an enthusiastic programmer/tinkerer who takes pride in finding clever ways to solve problems and tries to gain an intimate understanding of computers/code/technology (this was the original definition, appearing in the late 60's/ early 70's)
2) a person who specializes in bypassing computer security systems, whether maliciously or not [more often for the sake of knowledge, not malice] (this definition came about in the early 80's)
both of these definitions are correct
a CRACKER is someone who specializes in CRACKING software copy protection.. it's a term from the warez scene, also from early 80's...
a PHREAKER is someone who specializes in unauthorized use of telephone systems and networks.. also from early 80's
a TWEAKER is someone who specializes in computer hardware and pushing it beyond its limits, from mid-late 90's
a LAMER is someone who thinks the terms HACKER and CRACKER are interchangeable