So when should we start worrying? When it's at stage nine? You're not being realistic. We need to nip this thing in the bud, not ignore it until it becomes an ever bigger problem.
I believe that it is the law in England (and Wales) that if you know of a criminal act taking place then if you do not report it to the police then you are deemed to be an accessory after the fact and have hence committed a criminal act yourself.
It's only a criminal act if the university says so. You're right, for crimes like murder there is no gray area, and it has to be reported to the police, but for things like computer "crime": the university can say the students didn't really break any laws and then deal with it internally. That's how most universities handle these sorts of things. It's kind of the equivalent of deciding to press charges or not. In murder cases, the state always presses charges, but in lesser cases, like in assault and battery or computer crime, the victim can decide not to press charges.
Just script kiddies. They managed to hack in... but they didn't manage to escape detection. Does it really matter if you can't get out cleanly? Now they're going to be facing heavy penalties. They should have planned it out better before they undertook their hack.
I don't get it. Can someone explain the article? What's so special about file download counters that will cause them to break in the new version of IE? I thought they were server-side anyway?
An iPod-size device that has one such connector. The device has a processor and a disk, which contains your favourite OS.
A processor? Are you kidding? You know how much heat those things generate? It'd need a big fan and heatsink. Certainly not suitable for an iPod-sized device. Why couldn't the processor be in the terminal?
No, the computer chose a single teenage kid (who looked like someone who had security access to the mainframe) who he was going to have enter the mainframe and turn it off.
As long as the U.S. falsely believes in its own security above all else, it will continue to be a criminal police state populated by hypocrites and irresponsible drones, run by the insane.
Every nation considers its own security above all else. To do the opposite would be to commit suicide.
This is just like so-called open container laws. It is already illegal to drive drunk. But, the very act of having an open bottle of booze in my car is illegal. Why? By itself, there is nothing wrong with it. The only problem is when I, as a drive, start drinking from it. But then I'm breaking an already existing law!!!
Come now, the reason for the open container law is because it's often hard to catch someone drinking in the act. But if they have an open container of alcohol in the car, what possible reason could that have other than that they've been drinking from it? I don't consider this unreasonable at all.
I happen to work at NIST and I'm on the Gaithersburg, MD campus right now. Perhaps reading this article can be considering reading slashdot and working at the same time?
>> if something goes wrong with a fusion reaction, it just fizzles out, it can NEVER start a chain reaction > More than 2,000 observed supernovae disagree with you.
Supernovae are actually caused when the fusable fuel in a star is used up. Without the outwards pressure of the fusion energy holding the star up, it collapses under gravitational pressure, and undergoes extreme fission (that's where the elements heavier than iron come from).
One thing I'd be interested in subscribing to is a good sci-fi magazine that has short stories or whatever every month. The local bookstores don't seem to sell anything like that, and thus I have no access to the magazines' names nor their subscription cards. The names of a few good ones would be a nice start. Thanks!
At what point has Google violated its maxim of "do no evil?" Assuming this claim by Orkut is true, has Google exceeded its maxim? It seems inevitable to me that any big company will inevitably get involved in less-than-ethical dealings. Saying "Do not evil" will only get you so far.
I'm not trying to be funny here... but at what point will it be until they sue 127.0.0.1? They've been suing everyone thus far, at which point will they have sued so many people that people simply won't put up with it anymore?
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I wasn't aware that base jumping was an acryonym. What does it stand for?
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I'm still waiting for war-base-jumping. You don't have a lot of time to scan for access points though.
You're wrong. Plain and simple, you're wrong. Escape velocity is a function of your distance from the Earth. The farther away you get, the lower the escape velocity becomes. Are you trying to tell me that if you're one light-year away from the Earth (assuming nothing else is in existence), you would have to accelerated to Mach 25 to escape it? Please!!! All you'd have to do is throw a wrench out the back and that'd be enough. You're the "person [who] took just enough physics to be dangerous."
Mach 25 is only the escape velocity at the Earth's surface. The farther away you get from Earth, the lower the escape velocity becomes. The escape velocity is a function of your distance from the planet.
Seems it's pretty clear to me, once you're in orbit, you pretty much have to be going at Mach 25 (relative to the ground, of course there's no air up there, or so little, this probably another source of confusion in this thread) to *stay* in orbit, because that's the definition of orbit: 'free-fall'
Wrong. To stay in orbit you simply need to maintain a velocity that is equal to the orbital velocity at that distance from the Earth. At the Earth's surface the required velocity is Mach 12.5 (half of the escape velocity), nevermind that air resistance would be a big problem:-) Farther out from the Earth, though, the orbital velocity is smaller - much less than Mach 12.5 the farther you get from the Earth.
I wish we had fewer armchair physicists on/. and more people who actually know what they're talking about. I don't understand why this poster seems to think you need to be at escape velocity to stay in orbit - by definition, once you've reached escape velocity, you're not in orbit anymore, you've, well, escaped. Also, escape/orbital velocity is not a constant like "Mach 25" - it is dependent upon how far away from the center of mass of the object you are.
In dorm rooms and such, there isn't a lot of room to have extra consoles laying around. There are many great games for the PSX that I play to this day, and the fact that the PS2 came with backwards compatibility had a big effect on my purchasing decision. It also didn't hurt that when the PS2 was launched it already had an instant library of thousands of games you could play on it.
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So when should we start worrying? When it's at stage nine? You're not being realistic. We need to nip this thing in the bud, not ignore it until it becomes an ever bigger problem.
I believe that it is the law in England (and Wales) that if you know of a criminal act taking place then if you do not report it to the police then you are deemed to be an accessory after the fact and have hence committed a criminal act yourself.
It's only a criminal act if the university says so. You're right, for crimes like murder there is no gray area, and it has to be reported to the police, but for things like computer "crime": the university can say the students didn't really break any laws and then deal with it internally. That's how most universities handle these sorts of things. It's kind of the equivalent of deciding to press charges or not. In murder cases, the state always presses charges, but in lesser cases, like in assault and battery or computer crime, the victim can decide not to press charges.
Just script kiddies. They managed to hack in ... but they didn't manage to escape detection. Does it really matter if you can't get out cleanly? Now they're going to be facing heavy penalties. They should have planned it out better before they undertook their hack.
I don't get it. Can someone explain the article? What's so special about file download counters that will cause them to break in the new version of IE? I thought they were server-side anyway?
An iPod-size device that has one such connector. The device has a processor and a disk, which contains your favourite OS.
A processor? Are you kidding? You know how much heat those things generate? It'd need a big fan and heatsink. Certainly not suitable for an iPod-sized device. Why couldn't the processor be in the terminal?
No, the computer chose a single teenage kid (who looked like someone who had security access to the mainframe) who he was going to have enter the mainframe and turn it off.
As long as the U.S. falsely believes in its own security above all else, it will continue to be a criminal police state populated by hypocrites and irresponsible drones, run by the insane.
Every nation considers its own security above all else. To do the opposite would be to commit suicide.
This is just like so-called open container laws. It is already illegal to drive drunk. But, the very act of having an open bottle of booze in my car is illegal. Why? By itself, there is nothing wrong with it. The only problem is when I, as a drive, start drinking from it. But then I'm breaking an already existing law!!!
Come now, the reason for the open container law is because it's often hard to catch someone drinking in the act. But if they have an open container of alcohol in the car, what possible reason could that have other than that they've been drinking from it? I don't consider this unreasonable at all.
I happen to work at NIST and I'm on the Gaithersburg, MD campus right now. Perhaps reading this article can be considering reading slashdot and working at the same time?
>> if something goes wrong with a fusion reaction, it just fizzles out, it can NEVER start a chain reaction
> More than 2,000 observed supernovae disagree with you.
Supernovae are actually caused when the fusable fuel in a star is used up. Without the outwards pressure of the fusion energy holding the star up, it collapses under gravitational pressure, and undergoes extreme fission (that's where the elements heavier than iron come from).
Continuity errors bore me, and I try to ignore the plot holes, but The IMDB's trivia page is often fascinating.
"Christopher Walken was considered for Doctor Octopus."
How awesome would that have been?!
Yeah, your math is wrong, it's not 16!, it's 10^16.
The Rio Karma comes with a 30 day warranty. The iPod comes with a 1 year warranty. That should've told you something right off the bat.
One thing I'd be interested in subscribing to is a good sci-fi magazine that has short stories or whatever every month. The local bookstores don't seem to sell anything like that, and thus I have no access to the magazines' names nor their subscription cards. The names of a few good ones would be a nice start. Thanks!
I read PC Gamer, Wired, GMR, PSM, Newsweek, Time, Scientific American, and Technology Review.
Does anyone have any recommendations on good Linux magazines?
At what point has Google violated its maxim of "do no evil?" Assuming this claim by Orkut is true, has Google exceeded its maxim? It seems inevitable to me that any big company will inevitably get involved in less-than-ethical dealings. Saying "Do not evil" will only get you so far.
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(Yes, I've been itching to say that.)
I've been saying that for months now in my sig. Don't steal my glory
I'm not trying to be funny here ... but at what point will it be until they sue 127.0.0.1? They've been suing everyone thus far, at which point will they have sued so many people that people simply won't put up with it anymore?
I wasn't aware that base jumping was an acryonym. What does it stand for?
I'm still waiting for war-base-jumping. You don't have a lot of time to scan for access points though.
You're wrong. Plain and simple, you're wrong. Escape velocity is a function of your distance from the Earth. The farther away you get, the lower the escape velocity becomes. Are you trying to tell me that if you're one light-year away from the Earth (assuming nothing else is in existence), you would have to accelerated to Mach 25 to escape it? Please!!! All you'd have to do is throw a wrench out the back and that'd be enough. You're the "person [who] took just enough physics to be dangerous."
Mach 25 is only the escape velocity at the Earth's surface. The farther away you get from Earth, the lower the escape velocity becomes. The escape velocity is a function of your distance from the planet.
Seems it's pretty clear to me, once you're in orbit, you pretty much have to be going at Mach 25 (relative to the ground, of course there's no air up there, or so little, this probably another source of confusion in this thread) to *stay* in orbit, because that's the definition of orbit: 'free-fall'
:-) Farther out from the Earth, though, the orbital velocity is smaller - much less than Mach 12.5 the farther you get from the Earth.
/. and more people who actually know what they're talking about. I don't understand why this poster seems to think you need to be at escape velocity to stay in orbit - by definition, once you've reached escape velocity, you're not in orbit anymore, you've, well, escaped. Also, escape/orbital velocity is not a constant like "Mach 25" - it is dependent upon how far away from the center of mass of the object you are.
Wrong. To stay in orbit you simply need to maintain a velocity that is equal to the orbital velocity at that distance from the Earth. At the Earth's surface the required velocity is Mach 12.5 (half of the escape velocity), nevermind that air resistance would be a big problem
I wish we had fewer armchair physicists on
You're right, thanks for noticing my mistake and correcting it. Of course it's 2GM/r ... I was just confusing it with GMm/r^2.
In dorm rooms and such, there isn't a lot of room to have extra consoles laying around. There are many great games for the PSX that I play to this day, and the fact that the PS2 came with backwards compatibility had a big effect on my purchasing decision. It also didn't hurt that when the PS2 was launched it already had an instant library of thousands of games you could play on it.