Really, what kind of idiot to you have to be to run a machine configured like that these days?
How about 90% of the people on the internet, those who are in the "mom and pop" or "poor student" class of user and don't actually know anything about computers except for turning them on and off, and double-clicking the Outlook Express and Internet Explorer icons.
There really should be a license requirement for using computers on the internet - you don't let unlicensed drivers on the road, do you?
Regardless of which site is compromised, two reasons why having your e-mail address harvested is bad news:
Spammers will send more spam directly to you.
Spammers will send more spam to everybody else using your e-mail address - so you get more complaints from internet noobs fed-up with spam and thinking that you were the sender.
It has always been climate change and always will be. The media just like to hype it up as global warming. Forty years ago it was the looming ice age coming from some of the same people selling us global warming now, like Dr. Stephen Schneider.
The Oriental hornet has a unique ability to harvest solar energy, scientists have discovered.
Not true. Many marine organisms use Zooanthella to harvest solar energy. This is why a number of corals and anemone are very difficult to keep in marine aquariums - the spectrum and power of artificial light has to be "just right" otherwise the organisms eject their zooantehlla cells and as a result starve to death over the following weeks or months.
Bought that G4 used but the osx filesystem started to have that particular problem Apple's fsck can't fix (but a few commercial disk repair wares can, wtf Jobs?)
It's called planned obsolescence. Jobs mustn't have counted on third parties fixing the issue.
United States Copyright extends to the life of the author +70 years (assuming there was proper renewal etc.). Even if the authors immediately dropped dead after writing these stories they haven't entered the public domain yet.
There, fixed that for you.
It's only life+50 years for member countries operating under the Berne Convention, although some works-for-hire have 120 years from creation or 95 years from publication.
And while we're at it, you do realize a vast vast vast majority of virus infections do NOT come from people manually downloading and installing viruses, right? That most are from plugin exploits?
Yeah, right. Because nobody at all falls for those "Your computer's time is out of sync!" or "A virus is trying to infect your computer!" popup messages. I had to pat my fiancée on the head just last week for clicking one of those... luckily she has a guest-like account, so almost no damage was done.
Australia can simply filter dns responses as they reach the mainland, since theres only one or two lines entering the country.
You must be using out-of-date info from someone like telegeography. Even The Guardian shows six internet cables coming into Australia and Greg's Cable Map shows seven (plus two to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu).
Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents'
Posted by Soulskill on Sat November 20, 0:31
from the collateral-profit dept.
nk497 writes "A UK legal watchdog has claimed lawyers who sent out letters demanding settlement payments from alleged file-sharers knew they would end up hitting innocent people. The Solicitors Regulators Authority said the two Davenport Lyons lawyers 'knew that in conducting generic campaigns against those identified as IP holders whose IP numeric had been used for downloading or uploading of material that they might in such generic campaigns be targeting people innocent of any copyright breach.' The SRA also said the two lawyers lost their independence because they convinced right holders to allow them to act on their behalf by waiving hourly fees and instead taking a cut of the settlements. The pair earned £150,000 of the £370,000 collected from alleged file-sharers. Because they were looking to recoup their own costs, the lawyers ignored clients' concerns about the negative publicity the letter campaign could — and eventually did — cause, the SRA claimed."
"What the airplane gives is mobility, because we can travel 500 miles an hour anywhere," he said.
The ARES plane continues to be modified at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Here, the plane is tested in wind tunnels to withstand winds of up to 100 mph.
The important technology in the Kinect is supplied by PrimeSense. (Microsoft supplied the case and packaging materials.) Their web site describes the operation of the depth-sensing system, including the Structured Light projection used:
If they'd just looked at pretty much any similar example in history to see that the open driver was inevitable, they could've played it in such a manner that they distanced themselves from supporting or condoning it, but congratulated the community for their innovation.
Microsoft should have realised the immense usefulness of this product in computer vision and robotics and just released an open source driver themselves. Even if they increased the shelf price of the device from US$150 to US$250, it's still way cheaper than any other commercial vision system out there.
Instead, their marketing department saw red and decided to threaten everybody. Idiots.
I'd always thought that most AV's hook into file system drivers so that their operation is hidden from the application layer. On Windoze at least they're called "file system filter drivers."
Yes, going from blood->skin would be more useful. Especially for people with brittle skin who often have to go through painful skin grafts after losing areas of the skin from something as simple as bumping into a piece of furniture.
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Don't worry, there'll be plenty more on the way as soon as Microsoft releases Gene#
Exhibit A: Beer Goggles for Gmail :)
Really, what kind of idiot to you have to be to run a machine configured like that these days?
How about 90% of the people on the internet, those who are in the "mom and pop" or "poor student" class of user and don't actually know anything about computers except for turning them on and off, and double-clicking the Outlook Express and Internet Explorer icons.
There really should be a license requirement for using computers on the internet - you don't let unlicensed drivers on the road, do you?
No, here's some prior art... http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/02/18/591493.aspx
well now you can really play doctor, with really fake dying people.
Only the bottom half. The top half is a live actor sticking through the cot and screaming like his leg's just been blown off. No, seriously:
The screaming soldier is an actor, lying on a cot, who has only the top half of his body exposed. The bottom half is the mannequin.
Regardless of which site is compromised, two reasons why having your e-mail address harvested is bad news:
It has always been climate change and always will be. The media just like to hype it up as global warming. Forty years ago it was the looming ice age coming from some of the same people selling us global warming now, like Dr. Stephen Schneider.
The Oriental hornet has a unique ability to harvest solar energy, scientists have discovered.
Not true. Many marine organisms use Zooanthella to harvest solar energy. This is why a number of corals and anemone are very difficult to keep in marine aquariums - the spectrum and power of artificial light has to be "just right" otherwise the organisms eject their zooantehlla cells and as a result starve to death over the following weeks or months.
Bought that G4 used but the osx filesystem started to have that particular problem Apple's fsck can't fix (but a few commercial disk repair wares can, wtf Jobs?)
It's called planned obsolescence. Jobs mustn't have counted on third parties fixing the issue.
United States Copyright extends to the life of the author +70 years (assuming there was proper renewal etc.). Even if the authors immediately dropped dead after writing these stories they haven't entered the public domain yet.
There, fixed that for you.
It's only life+50 years for member countries operating under the Berne Convention, although some works-for-hire have 120 years from creation or 95 years from publication.
And while we're at it, you do realize a vast vast vast majority of virus infections do NOT come from people manually downloading and installing viruses, right? That most are from plugin exploits?
Yeah, right. Because nobody at all falls for those "Your computer's time is out of sync!" or "A virus is trying to infect your computer!" popup messages. I had to pat my fiancée on the head just last week for clicking one of those... luckily she has a guest-like account, so almost no damage was done.
Australia can simply filter dns responses as they reach the mainland, since theres only one or two lines entering the country.
You must be using out-of-date info from someone like telegeography. Even The Guardian shows six internet cables coming into Australia and Greg's Cable Map shows seven (plus two to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu).
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/19/1339220
Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents'
Posted by Soulskill on Sat November 20, 0:31
from the collateral-profit dept.
nk497 writes "A UK legal watchdog has claimed lawyers who sent out letters demanding settlement payments from alleged file-sharers knew they would end up hitting innocent people. The Solicitors Regulators Authority said the two Davenport Lyons lawyers 'knew that in conducting generic campaigns against those identified as IP holders whose IP numeric had been used for downloading or uploading of material that they might in such generic campaigns be targeting people innocent of any copyright breach.' The SRA also said the two lawyers lost their independence because they convinced right holders to allow them to act on their behalf by waiving hourly fees and instead taking a cut of the settlements. The pair earned £150,000 of the £370,000 collected from alleged file-sharers. Because they were looking to recoup their own costs, the lawyers ignored clients' concerns about the negative publicity the letter campaign could — and eventually did — cause, the SRA claimed."
Don't you hate it when you think W-O-Z and it comes out J-O-B-S?
But it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy.
Thus, Windows.
You think that's funny, but may well be the case in the next few years. We aren't far away from driver-less cars now.
"What the airplane gives is mobility, because we can travel 500 miles an hour anywhere," he said.
The ARES plane continues to be modified at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Here, the plane is tested in wind tunnels to withstand winds of up to 100 mph.
Oops, I guess the plane tears itself apart.
The important technology in the Kinect is supplied by PrimeSense. (Microsoft supplied the case and packaging materials.) Their web site describes the operation of the depth-sensing system, including the Structured Light projection used:
http://www.primesense.com/
I always thought it was Matroska.
If they'd just looked at pretty much any similar example in history to see that the open driver was inevitable, they could've played it in such a manner that they distanced themselves from supporting or condoning it, but congratulated the community for their innovation.
Four words: Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Microsoft should have realised the immense usefulness of this product in computer vision and robotics and just released an open source driver themselves. Even if they increased the shelf price of the device from US$150 to US$250, it's still way cheaper than any other commercial vision system out there.
Instead, their marketing department saw red and decided to threaten everybody. Idiots.
I'd always thought that most AV's hook into file system drivers so that their operation is hidden from the application layer. On Windoze at least they're called "file system filter drivers."
You obviously don't move in corporate circles.
I wish I had points...
BlackSheep is not a counter-measure, it doesn't attack Firesheep. It is only a detector.
Yes, going from blood->skin would be more useful. Especially for people with brittle skin who often have to go through painful skin grafts after losing areas of the skin from something as simple as bumping into a piece of furniture.