Dude, I don't know how you posted those screenshots of that troll's computer to your web site without hacking into his box, but that makes you even more awesome. Did you sneak into his dorm room and use your digital camera to take pictures of his monitor? I have NO idea how you did it, but I just wanted to say that when I saw your "Troll Hunting 101" page on insecure.org, I became your biggest fan - you put the trolls in their place.
Thanks for a great interview, a great response, and a great tool! You rule man!
Do you think that posting links to gay pornography onto a weblog people read at work is funny? Well, I have a message from Fyodor and the rest of us: FUCK OFF. We don't want to get fired because you think it's cool to "troll slashdot".
Guess what, I saw Fyodor post screenshots of that guy getting hacked. I laughed my ass off. You are an idiot if you think anyone cares.
I used to lurk in "troll talk" in order to identify trolls and add them to my blacklisting project using the Foes list, so I was there when Fyodor posted his "Troll Busting 101" post to their forum.
You should read the cache of it: they freaked out! I mean, they were scared: downloading "Black Ice Defender" and being scared to log on to IRC. They even stopped trolling for a few weeks. Some of them never came back.
In short, Fyodor's one day of hacking effort did more damage to the "trolls" than almost all of the Slashcode fixes designed to stop them, combined. I couldn't care less that this happened: in fact, I wish Fyodor would keep at it.
We can't stop all the shit unless we track it back to the source and plug up the hole. I tip my hat to Fyodor for at least trying, no matter what color his hat is.
Employee signs NDA. Employee breaks NDA. Employer gets mad. This is news?
In the case of Apple Computer, yes, it is news. Remember that Wozniak was one of the founders, and he is a famous phone phreak, a blue box-er like Captain Crunch. He was hacking Ma Bell and hiding from the Feds back in the day.
Every corporation has a corporate culture. When was the last time you saw Microsoft publicly attacking it's one of its developers for 'leaking secrets'? It happens, but Apple has a disturbing history of jealously pursuing it's employees. The corporate culture of Apple has transitioned from the hackers' culture of Woz to a Culture of Fear. If you are a developer at Apple, high profile anti-employee actions like this send a message: secrecy first, collaboration second.
It's a very interesting transition. I'm not making a value judgement about, other than to say yes, it is News for Nerds.
Oh I don't mind. I'd just like full disclosure. And I'd like him to give CmdrTaco a portion of the profits that CmdrTaco is generating for him for free. It's only fair.
Hey, you should post a journal detailing how much cash you've made off of Slashdot users clicking your links. How much to you get for a SegWay purchase?
I hope at least you're kicking some of that money back to Rob in the form of a Slashdot subscription, since he's providing you a free business model.
Stop whining; Stop Trolling; Stop bitching offtopic. Read CmdrTaco's journal. Email him if you have a problem.
Now quick, somebody moderate me down. I posted at 1; I wish I had the option to post at -1. I could save you the trouble.
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They scaled back supply because they knew that Napster would pick up the slack.
I think what the original poster meant was that readers who want an innovative, Linux-assosciated chip manufacturer to succeed should do what they can to buy Transmeta products, and this is just one opportunity.
Otherwise I guess we just have to accept AMD/Intel's offerings.
Right. So if I give my girlfriend $150 for Christmas, and she gives me $150, then we have achieved what? Cash is a miserable gift if only for its fluidity; no gift should be cancelled out by its reciprocal.
...is something that isn't geeky. Chances are a geek is going to know more than you do about sdram, a tivo, an ipod, a palmpilot, or anything else geeky you can get them. The best thing to do with the gift giving opportunity of Christmas is to buy someone something they wouldn't know how to shop for themselves. Shopping is a skill as those of you with girlfriends know well. If you know a lot about comfortable hiking socks or shot glasses, consider getting some of those for somebody.
In short, the gift you're giving isn't just the amount you're spending (otherwise, give cash) but the knowledge you have about good products and where to find them. The worst thing to buy a computer geek is computer stuff - the worst thing to buy a carpenter is a new drill. Both will object to you usurping their extremely picky opinions. Buy them something they suck at shopping for - something you're great at shopping for. This will vary from person to person.
I stole my father's old slide collection from the attic and spent a couple months with a slide scanner digitizing it. He lost our family's photographic history when he lost his slide projector, and I'm going to give it back. Over a thousand images from when I was growing up that he hasn't seen in years, built into one DVD with a custom viewer application so all he has to do is put it in his computer and autoplay will do the rest. Just one idea, but you get the picture.
Space technology is our only answer against all extraterrestrial threats, from comet impact to solar flares to asteroids. Without interstellar space travel, our species is eventually doomed to extinction. Therefore all development of space technology is a step towards survival.
If I were to classify this article by sin, I'd shoot for envy. He sounds like a robot researcher fighting for funding from rat researchers:
Rat diversions aside, mechanical robot-based search and rescue continues despite the lack of funding increases after 9/11. No money appeared from the logical sources: FEMA hasn't yet funded research, and the various homeland defense agencies are only now beginning to discuss funding initiatives.
His article is one giant dismissal of the recently invented "roborat" technology, with a conspicuous emphasis on funding guidelines. I'm no expert and I won't pretend to be able to comment with authority on whether "rescue rats" have any merit, but I believe there is a clear conflict of interest when a robot-rescue researcher who lives off robot-rescue grant money dismisses an alternative approach to assisted search and rescue.
All this aside I'd rather send rats, robots, snakes, worms, or whatever into a flaming nuclear reactor before I'd send people. But that's just me.
"There's something to be said for smaller ISP's..."
Yes, and I will say it. Smaller ISPs are wonderful, except they always get bought out by large ISPs, and then you get screwed. It's happened to me three times. Now there are no local ISPs left in my area.
I also was impressed that they spend less than half the money other towns do on their IT. Of course, from the sysadmin POV that's bad as it means they aren't paid much. But that's the price of freedom, I guess.
This conclusion you've drawn is so fundamentally flawed I can't even begin to fathom it. Linux trained administrators are often higher paid than their MCS* counterparts. RedHat training costs more and is more comprehensive than MCS*, and it also lasts longer, because it teaches you system fundamentals instead of a flow-chart driven O/S template for a specific version of windows. The total IT cost for Linux shops is lower because the software licenses are zero cost, not because they underpay the admins!
But of course, you know this. You have made a career on Slashdot of posting bullshit and insults. You are an abusive user bent on malice, and hopefully once the administrators are alerted, they will delete your account.
Look how they copy Microsoft's tactic of giving away computers with their OS.
I thought that Apple invented the tactic of discounting computers for education so that students would grow up familiar with the O/S and Microsoft copied Apple, not the other way around. Microsoft did however take it a step further by requiring people to test out of Microsoft software, though.
You do realize that games like Counterstrike and Quake already have mass market appeal, right? Heh.
Well, that's true, I guess you could consider Slashdot to be a mass market. But I bet you a "Deer Hunter Cyber Cafe" would do well in Tenessee, and a "Dance Dance Barbie" kiosk would work great next to The Gap.
Girls only make up half of the population, we don't need them.
You know, you should try intercourse and then check back with me on that.
That's a terrible position to be in, having to choose between your ethics and the law. The law says it's stealing, but your ethics say it's better than paying up.
I don't know what I would do if I was stuck in that kind of paradox! My life is pretty simple by comparison.
You know as much as gamers think of games like Quake and Counterstrike, I think the best way to get mass market appeal in a setting like this is to add head-to-head Tetris, chess, or checkers to the menu. Girls LOVE Tetris.
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Dude, I don't know how you posted those screenshots of that troll's computer to your web site without hacking into his box, but that makes you even more awesome. Did you sneak into his dorm room and use your digital camera to take pictures of his monitor? I have NO idea how you did it, but I just wanted to say that when I saw your "Troll Hunting 101" page on insecure.org, I became your biggest fan - you put the trolls in their place.
Thanks for a great interview, a great response, and a great tool! You rule man!
Do you think that posting links to gay pornography onto a weblog people read at work is funny? Well, I have a message from Fyodor and the rest of us: FUCK OFF. We don't want to get fired because you think it's cool to "troll slashdot".
Guess what, I saw Fyodor post screenshots of that guy getting hacked. I laughed my ass off. You are an idiot if you think anyone cares.
I have three words for you: LIVE IN FEAR!
Oh an by the way, what's your IP address?
I used to lurk in "troll talk" in order to identify trolls and add them to my blacklisting project using the Foes list, so I was there when Fyodor posted his "Troll Busting 101" post to their forum.
You should read the cache of it: they freaked out! I mean, they were scared: downloading "Black Ice Defender" and being scared to log on to IRC. They even stopped trolling for a few weeks. Some of them never came back.
In short, Fyodor's one day of hacking effort did more damage to the "trolls" than almost all of the Slashcode fixes designed to stop them, combined. I couldn't care less that this happened: in fact, I wish Fyodor would keep at it.
We can't stop all the shit unless we track it back to the source and plug up the hole. I tip my hat to Fyodor for at least trying, no matter what color his hat is.
In the case of Apple Computer, yes, it is news. Remember that Wozniak was one of the founders, and he is a famous phone phreak, a blue box-er like Captain Crunch. He was hacking Ma Bell and hiding from the Feds back in the day.
Every corporation has a corporate culture. When was the last time you saw Microsoft publicly attacking it's one of its developers for 'leaking secrets'? It happens, but Apple has a disturbing history of jealously pursuing it's employees. The corporate culture of Apple has transitioned from the hackers' culture of Woz to a Culture of Fear. If you are a developer at Apple, high profile anti-employee actions like this send a message: secrecy first, collaboration second.
It's a very interesting transition. I'm not making a value judgement about, other than to say yes, it is News for Nerds.
Oh I don't mind. I'd just like full disclosure. And I'd like him to give CmdrTaco a portion of the profits that CmdrTaco is generating for him for free. It's only fair.
Too bad they couldn't decode the message:
"Hey guys, Veeger's here, and she's pissed."
Hey, you should post a journal detailing how much cash you've made off of Slashdot users clicking your links. How much to you get for a SegWay purchase?
I hope at least you're kicking some of that money back to Rob in the form of a Slashdot subscription, since he's providing you a free business model.
Stop whining; Stop Trolling; Stop bitching offtopic. Read CmdrTaco's journal. Email him if you have a problem. Now quick, somebody moderate me down. I posted at 1; I wish I had the option to post at -1. I could save you the trouble.
They scaled back supply because they knew that Napster would pick up the slack.
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NOT!
I think what the original poster meant was that readers who want an innovative, Linux-assosciated chip manufacturer to succeed should do what they can to buy Transmeta products, and this is just one opportunity.
Otherwise I guess we just have to accept AMD/Intel's offerings.
Right. So if I give my girlfriend $150 for Christmas, and she gives me $150, then we have achieved what? Cash is a miserable gift if only for its fluidity; no gift should be cancelled out by its reciprocal.
...is something that isn't geeky. Chances are a geek is going to know more than you do about sdram, a tivo, an ipod, a palmpilot, or anything else geeky you can get them. The best thing to do with the gift giving opportunity of Christmas is to buy someone something they wouldn't know how to shop for themselves. Shopping is a skill as those of you with girlfriends know well. If you know a lot about comfortable hiking socks or shot glasses, consider getting some of those for somebody.
In short, the gift you're giving isn't just the amount you're spending (otherwise, give cash) but the knowledge you have about good products and where to find them. The worst thing to buy a computer geek is computer stuff - the worst thing to buy a carpenter is a new drill. Both will object to you usurping their extremely picky opinions. Buy them something they suck at shopping for - something you're great at shopping for. This will vary from person to person.
I stole my father's old slide collection from the attic and spent a couple months with a slide scanner digitizing it. He lost our family's photographic history when he lost his slide projector, and I'm going to give it back. Over a thousand images from when I was growing up that he hasn't seen in years, built into one DVD with a custom viewer application so all he has to do is put it in his computer and autoplay will do the rest. Just one idea, but you get the picture.
Space technology is our only answer against all extraterrestrial threats, from comet impact to solar flares to asteroids. Without interstellar space travel, our species is eventually doomed to extinction. Therefore all development of space technology is a step towards survival.
His article is one giant dismissal of the recently invented "roborat" technology, with a conspicuous emphasis on funding guidelines. I'm no expert and I won't pretend to be able to comment with authority on whether "rescue rats" have any merit, but I believe there is a clear conflict of interest when a robot-rescue researcher who lives off robot-rescue grant money dismisses an alternative approach to assisted search and rescue.
All this aside I'd rather send rats, robots, snakes, worms, or whatever into a flaming nuclear reactor before I'd send people. But that's just me.
Well, here's their customer FAQ that explains a lot.
"There's something to be said for smaller ISP's..."
Yes, and I will say it. Smaller ISPs are wonderful, except they always get bought out by large ISPs, and then you get screwed. It's happened to me three times. Now there are no local ISPs left in my area.
"Never got an apology or anything, and I'm willing to determine who is more in need of 'getting a life', me or michael."
Maybe you guys should seek arbitration (-:
I don't believe that your criticism of FortKnox is justified. He may have posted a lot of comments, but he's posted a lot of good comments.
However I must agree with Michael on this one that it's ok to post Linux game announcements on Slashdot. This is where they belong.
This conclusion you've drawn is so fundamentally flawed I can't even begin to fathom it. Linux trained administrators are often higher paid than their MCS* counterparts. RedHat training costs more and is more comprehensive than MCS*, and it also lasts longer, because it teaches you system fundamentals instead of a flow-chart driven O/S template for a specific version of windows. The total IT cost for Linux shops is lower because the software licenses are zero cost, not because they underpay the admins!
But of course, you know this. You have made a career on Slashdot of posting bullshit and insults. You are an abusive user bent on malice, and hopefully once the administrators are alerted, they will delete your account.
I don't think that the government has yet classified the use of 802.11 as terrorism, rather they have claimed that anyone running 802.11 without encryption or building devices capable of this are enabling terrorism. Which is in itself rather chilling and idiotic, but we should at least stick to being terrified of what the government is actually doing.
I thought that Apple invented the tactic of discounting computers for education so that students would grow up familiar with the O/S and Microsoft copied Apple, not the other way around. Microsoft did however take it a step further by requiring people to test out of Microsoft software, though.
Saturday!!
Well, that's true, I guess you could consider Slashdot to be a mass market. But I bet you a "Deer Hunter Cyber Cafe" would do well in Tenessee, and a "Dance Dance Barbie" kiosk would work great next to The Gap.
You know, you should try intercourse and then check back with me on that.
That's a terrible position to be in, having to choose between your ethics and the law. The law says it's stealing, but your ethics say it's better than paying up.
I don't know what I would do if I was stuck in that kind of paradox! My life is pretty simple by comparison.
You know as much as gamers think of games like Quake and Counterstrike, I think the best way to get mass market appeal in a setting like this is to add head-to-head Tetris, chess, or checkers to the menu. Girls LOVE Tetris.