Am I missing something, or does nothing in TFA actually explain how they arrived at the conclusion that the attack was aimed at this one account? Seems like a huge conclusionary jump based on a very small amount of information.
I also have accounts on all three sites, how did they decide it wasn't aimed at ME? I assure you, I was very irritated that my "is teaching his coworker to make origami stars" tweet didn't go through.
I don't actively block ads on any of my browsing machines, though the proxy for work filters out the larger serving farms. I'm fine being served an ad, as long as it:
Doesn't pop up,
doesn't have audio unless I click (auto-sound and rollover sound are both very very irritating), and
doesn't consume huge amounts of system resources (xtube ads fail here massively).
All of the motherboards I've purchased have placed the most dangerous of the BIOS settings behind jumper protection--You have to move J1 so it bridges 1-2 before you can change the CPU voltage, for instance.
This is why I don't watch the news: sensationalist media. The best way to get views/ratings is to scare people; wildly unnecessarily, in this case. When reporters use the word "nuclear" in a negative way, the people think Chernobyl/Three Mile Island. Explosion. People dead. Are completely unlivable for the next hundred thousand years.
This simply disables the operating system. In a very minor way, no less. Your data is intact, though you may lose some OS settings. Your brother-in-law's nephew could fix it. It's hardly the death of your family and complete irradiation of your living area. The author of this article is in need of a sense of proportion.
I fully agree that "PIN Number", "ATM Machine", "NIC card", et al, are some of the most irritating things (up there with pluralizing with an apostrophe).
"NT", though, is more than an abbreviation. In this usage, it's a proper noun. Saying "NT Technology" is no more silly or redundant than saying "Linux Technology".
I agree that one company should not be forced to make their product compatible with other company's products. It is wrong to force them to do so.
However, I do think they should be prevented from taking steps to ensure that it can't work with other company's products.
GM designing their engines to work specifically in a Corvette and not formatting it to work in a Civic = Fine. GM including technology that ensures it does not work if installed in a Civic = Not Fine.
MS's Word file format designed to work with Word without being designed to work with OO.o = Fine. MS including code that checks the environment to prevent the format from being read if OO.o is running = Not Fine.
This is especially important in a monopolistic situation (e.g., MS). It prevents any form of competition. If the competitor's product can't work with the established norm, how do they obtain a user base? If 95% of the populace purchases their music from iTMS (and I'm not saying this is the case), how can a third-party Portable Entertainment Device manufacturer hope to get off the ground if Apple specifically prevents the music they sell from working in that Device?
Having never used eScrabble myself, I cannot attest to how good it is. But as to Why would Hasbro pay Jared? What are they getting out of it exactly?:
Well, they get an online version of their *really good* board game, without having to hire coders to write it. This online version shows people who've never played the game how much fun it is. It tells them it exists because of the ads that would be splotched all over the page "Like this version? Buy the board game and play with your technophobic friends!"
I'm seeing a lot of "EULA" talk during this discussion, and I've been wondering myself... What would the effectiveness be of having legislation that required, in the case of an EULA, a much shorter, to the point, EULAS-- End User License Agreement Summary. Something that is required to point out certain "must-reads" from the EULA itself?
I'm talking mainly things that your day-to-day joe user would have to worry about. How many computers you have license to put this software on, what programs are agreed to be installed, whether a paid subscription is required to obtain full functionality of the software, whether you are agreeing to be bombarded by our spam, whether we're going to sell your contact information to other companies, etc. Anything opt-out or opt-in would need to be expressed. I'm mainly looking at something that will let people know, up front, no questions about it, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH IF YOU INSTALL MY SOFTWARE.
I do fully agree that very few people really do read the EULA, and after this many years, if THAT hasn't changed, it won't.
If the article had been related to the "Free iPod" idea, the parent would probably've been modded +1 Insightful rather than -1 Offtopic. But then again, not posting as AC might've had the same effect.
Just goes to show. Real Estate may be "location, location, location," but with slashdot it's "timing, timing, timing"!
is like asking a fox how he can best ensure the safety of your chickens.
I understand the sentiment. However, how safe is asking a former hacker to work on your network security?
It's all about keeping them in line. Privacy legislation. I find nothing wrong with using RFID tags for inventory control, but using the tag and the personal information in, say, the method of payment to track purchases is wrong.
Keep in mind, though, that this is exactly how refrigerant compressors work (read: A/C and refrigerators). Both are expensive, and the most costly part of it is compressing the coolant back to a liquid. What you're suggesting in the first sentence of your second paragraph is essentially adding an A/C unit to your computer. Not very cost-efficient.
If I remember correctly from my time as a peon at ELN's DSL Pre-Install technical support, any kind of electronics on the line (and I believe repeaters fall into this category) completely negated the consumer's option of having DSL over that line. I believe it caused an echo that essentially extended the consumer's distance to the CO.
Additionally, The reason DSL required one to be so close to the CO ( just under three miles, line length, not crow flying, though some telcos/ISPs made it shorter [ELN included] to avoid potential problems in the greater distances) was because telephone lines are low-power. Lines that carry electrical power, on the other hand, should extend this significantly.
Russian site, I haven't seen any evidence that it's illegit, pay per song, approx $.01/meg, and you get a non-DRM mp3 file-- You can do whatever you want with it. No limits on burns or anything like that. I've had good success with it, they've got a good selection (not everything, though, but I think they're pretty new, so I'm hopeful for a lot of new additions in the coming days/months).
So I wrote my own. When you use a utility that downloads the information off the internet, you're sometimes left with foreign or otherwise incorrect spelling, incorrect information, and incomplete information. So I spend an extra couple of minutes at rip time and ensure my ripper has the right information. The result: All my ID3 tags are properly formatted have have the correct inforamation, with Track, Artist, Album, Genre, and Year.
At current count, I've got 8,486 files, totalling 44.5GB.
The information is stored in a mysql database, as well as the ID3 tags in the files themselves.
Perhaps it'll work in reverse order? Don't you think maybe Microsoft did it before the porn popups did? Perhaps it's another one ploy to get a legal ground against popups, like AT&T did with spam.
And how many homes have you walked into that featured an American-made television? Kitchen appliances?
As for "buy Japanese", I was aiming more at foreign import duties.
Both of us have valid points in this discussion, I acknowledge yours with vehemence: I like my PS2, because it's backwards-compatible with the PSX and so includes its vast library of puzzles and RPGS, my favorite genres.
I didn't say "nothign foreign will sell," I said "nothign foreign will sell WELL."
Obviously you have also not heard the phrase "foreign import duties." Look it up.
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Am I missing something, or does nothing in TFA actually explain how they arrived at the conclusion that the attack was aimed at this one account? Seems like a huge conclusionary jump based on a very small amount of information.
I also have accounts on all three sites, how did they decide it wasn't aimed at ME? I assure you, I was very irritated that my "is teaching his coworker to make origami stars" tweet didn't go through.
Came here specifically to say this. How many times did the name of the product appear in the summary?
I count five times. In only FOUR sentences.
All of the motherboards I've purchased have placed the most dangerous of the BIOS settings behind jumper protection--You have to move J1 so it bridges 1-2 before you can change the CPU voltage, for instance.
This is why I don't watch the news: sensationalist media. The best way to get views/ratings is to scare people; wildly unnecessarily, in this case. When reporters use the word "nuclear" in a negative way, the people think Chernobyl/Three Mile Island. Explosion. People dead. Are completely unlivable for the next hundred thousand years.
This simply disables the operating system. In a very minor way, no less. Your data is intact, though you may lose some OS settings. Your brother-in-law's nephew could fix it. It's hardly the death of your family and complete irradiation of your living area. The author of this article is in need of a sense of proportion.
...HHG notwithstanding. =P
The thing about torrents is that once you have a portion of the file downloaded, your client begins uploading. So you ARE an uploader.
I knew I couldn't have been the only one to notice! Error looks to be submitter's. This is the first page.
I fully agree that "PIN Number", "ATM Machine", "NIC card", et al, are some of the most irritating things (up there with pluralizing with an apostrophe).
"NT", though, is more than an abbreviation. In this usage, it's a proper noun. Saying "NT Technology" is no more silly or redundant than saying "Linux Technology".
"ZOMG Blizzard made another game with Orcs in it!" World. Of. WARCRAFT. WTB [Clue] PST.
I agree that one company should not be forced to make their product compatible with other company's products. It is wrong to force them to do so.
However, I do think they should be prevented from taking steps to ensure that it can't work with other company's products.
GM designing their engines to work specifically in a Corvette and not formatting it to work in a Civic = Fine.
GM including technology that ensures it does not work if installed in a Civic = Not Fine.
MS's Word file format designed to work with Word without being designed to work with OO.o = Fine.
MS including code that checks the environment to prevent the format from being read if OO.o is running = Not Fine.
This is especially important in a monopolistic situation (e.g., MS). It prevents any form of competition. If the competitor's product can't work with the established norm, how do they obtain a user base? If 95% of the populace purchases their music from iTMS (and I'm not saying this is the case), how can a third-party Portable Entertainment Device manufacturer hope to get off the ground if Apple specifically prevents the music they sell from working in that Device?
Is everyone else done with the Subway jokes?
Having never used eScrabble myself, I cannot attest to how good it is. But as to Why would Hasbro pay Jared? What are they getting out of it exactly?:
Well, they get an online version of their *really good* board game, without having to hire coders to write it. This online version shows people who've never played the game how much fun it is. It tells them it exists because of the ads that would be splotched all over the page "Like this version? Buy the board game and play with your technophobic friends!"
I so did NOT mean to mod this redundant. It was supposed to be "Insightful!"
This post is simply to remove the incorrect moderation.
I'm seeing a lot of "EULA" talk during this discussion, and I've been wondering myself... What would the effectiveness be of having legislation that required, in the case of an EULA, a much shorter, to the point, EULAS-- End User License Agreement Summary. Something that is required to point out certain "must-reads" from the EULA itself?
I'm talking mainly things that your day-to-day joe user would have to worry about. How many computers you have license to put this software on, what programs are agreed to be installed, whether a paid subscription is required to obtain full functionality of the software, whether you are agreeing to be bombarded by our spam, whether we're going to sell your contact information to other companies, etc. Anything opt-out or opt-in would need to be expressed. I'm mainly looking at something that will let people know, up front, no questions about it, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH IF YOU INSTALL MY SOFTWARE.
I do fully agree that very few people really do read the EULA, and after this many years, if THAT hasn't changed, it won't.
If the article had been related to the "Free iPod" idea, the parent would probably've been modded +1 Insightful rather than -1 Offtopic. But then again, not posting as AC might've had the same effect.
Just goes to show. Real Estate may be "location, location, location," but with slashdot it's "timing, timing, timing"!
Bah. Accidentally modded as "Interesting". Posting to invalidate...
Please see this Home Star Runner cartoon for an explanation.
Am I the only one who saw all of these as phallic references?
is like asking a fox how he can best ensure the safety of your chickens.
I understand the sentiment. However, how safe is asking a former hacker to work on your network security?
It's all about keeping them in line. Privacy legislation. I find nothing wrong with using RFID tags for inventory control, but using the tag and the personal information in, say, the method of payment to track purchases is wrong.
Keep in mind, though, that this is exactly how refrigerant compressors work (read: A/C and refrigerators). Both are expensive, and the most costly part of it is compressing the coolant back to a liquid. What you're suggesting in the first sentence of your second paragraph is essentially adding an A/C unit to your computer. Not very cost-efficient.
If I remember correctly from my time as a peon at ELN's DSL Pre-Install technical support, any kind of electronics on the line (and I believe repeaters fall into this category) completely negated the consumer's option of having DSL over that line. I believe it caused an echo that essentially extended the consumer's distance to the CO.
Additionally, The reason DSL required one to be so close to the CO ( just under three miles, line length, not crow flying, though some telcos/ISPs made it shorter [ELN included] to avoid potential problems in the greater distances) was because telephone lines are low-power. Lines that carry electrical power, on the other hand, should extend this significantly.
I prefer club.mp3search.ru.
Russian site, I haven't seen any evidence that it's illegit, pay per song, approx $.01/meg, and you get a non-DRM mp3 file-- You can do whatever you want with it. No limits on burns or anything like that. I've had good success with it, they've got a good selection (not everything, though, but I think they're pretty new, so I'm hopeful for a lot of new additions in the coming days/months).
To use a utility like this.
So I wrote my own. When you use a utility that downloads the information off the internet, you're sometimes left with foreign or otherwise incorrect spelling, incorrect information, and incomplete information. So I spend an extra couple of minutes at rip time and ensure my ripper has the right information. The result: All my ID3 tags are properly formatted have have the correct inforamation, with Track, Artist, Album, Genre, and Year.
At current count, I've got 8,486 files, totalling 44.5GB.
The information is stored in a mysql database, as well as the ID3 tags in the files themselves.
Perhaps it'll work in reverse order? Don't you think maybe Microsoft did it before the porn popups did? Perhaps it's another one ploy to get a legal ground against popups, like AT&T did with spam.
And how many homes have you walked into that featured an American-made television? Kitchen appliances? As for "buy Japanese", I was aiming more at foreign import duties. Both of us have valid points in this discussion, I acknowledge yours with vehemence: I like my PS2, because it's backwards-compatible with the PSX and so includes its vast library of puzzles and RPGS, my favorite genres.
I didn't say "nothign foreign will sell," I said "nothign foreign will sell WELL." Obviously you have also not heard the phrase "foreign import duties." Look it up.