You struggle and struggle to protect your own identity and something like this sponsored by our own inept government happens. It's enough to make you honstly consider that 7x9 shack in the woods as a viable alternative to modern existence.
...in 5 different languages if it weren't for a borderless internet.
Thanks to a borderless internet, I played subspace (woohoo!) with people from all over the world. Most were American, but in those crazy college days, many friends and squad mates were foreign, due to the fact I often played at ungodly hours of the night which were quite normal on the other side of the planet. I learned to curse people out in languages from places as far west as the Phillipines and Malaysia to as far east as Russia.
Good music is out there, but you won't find it on the radio...
Correction... You won't hear it on commercial radio. DJs seem to be superfluous now days, as instead of truely sharing their favorite music and insight with us, now they just implement the play list and provide meaningless drivel between tracks. Useless.
Which is one of the reasons I love Kansas City's NPR station so much. I've become a huge fan of Bill Shapiro's show, Cyprus Avenue, since moving there in '03. Saturday afternoons in KC were awesome with Cyprus Avenue and Sonic Spectrum delivering 4 hours of the most refreshing music and discussion on the radio every week. I personally like Cyprus Avenue more with it's stronger rock influence, but for any true music fan, it's 4 hours of goodness.
And, oddly enough, hearing new music that I fall in love with on the air makes me go out and buy it. Cyprus Avenue is responsible for my last 10 CD purchases, my favorites being Uncle Tupelo and Mary Gauthier. Who the hell ever heard of either of these bands on commercial radio? No one I know, yet they're truely outstanding and without independent shows like Cyprus Avenue I'd never know they were there.
If you're looking for a good place to hear good music and live in KC, tune in to KCUR 89.3 FM on Saturday afternoons... If you don't live in KC, go to KCUR.org and listen to the stream every Saturday from 12pm-4pm, CST. We don't live in KC any more, but thanks to the Internet I still get to continue to listen to the best music shows on the air.
Perhaps because we suffer the results of our friends, relatives, etc getting hit with the kind of malware, worms, virii, etc that this guy maliciously spreads around the internet.
I'm not posting anonymously on this topic, nor will I. It's important enough to put my name with my comments.
Jerks like 0x80 -- and it's "hex eighty," not "x-eighty" as the article incorrectly indicated -- deserve to have the full weight of the law brought to bear on them and their illicit activity. I'm participating out of revenge. But if you would like a "moral" reason, how about performing a public service by removing this threat from the internet? It won't have a tangible affect on the overall threat count on the net, but it still serves a public good.
antifoidulus wrote on Wednesday February 22, @01:10PM
What he neglects to take into consideration is that chess and Street Fighter have very clearly defined goals: checkmate in the former, and beating the crap out of your opponent in the latter.
No wonder no one ever wants to play chess with me. I had that backwards. Oops.
Anonymous Coward wrote on Saturday February 18, @08:06AM
The picture is no longer linked from the article, but with the post here the damage has been done.
Quite right. The original article no longer links directly to the photo, but thanks to its removal I was motivated to find it and others with the aid of the Washington Post's own search tool.
Check out the Washington Post's multimedia search results for roland, ok. The first three appear to be from this article and all indicate a location of Roland, OK in the search results.
The metadata on the photos appears to be intact so I have no reason to doubt that the location information in the caption of each photo is accurate as well, although I suppose it could be disinformation or the place the photographer downloaded them or whatever. I had intended to display the metadata (EXIF picture/camera/exposure info + IPTC captions, etc) for each of the files here, but you'll have to go look at it yourselves because I can't quickly find a utility to export all of it to a nice text file. Even the small thumbnail photos still embedded in the story have the caption info showing the location, so just go expolore if you're looking for it.
Uhh... There's no one passing judgement on a group of people here. There's an activist group or groups trying to circumvent governmental entities with a unique program. There are many others out there of similar design and purpose.
I'm quite sure that if no one were to use these programs that the authors wouldn't sit up at night wondering,"WTF is wrong with those ignorant people and why won't they just take what we're trying to give them."
There is no cultural elitism here. This isn't about forcing anything on anyone. It's about restoring freedom of choice to those that would partake of it who would otherwise be denied it.
Wanting to provide choices is not elitist. If anything it's a moral imperative if you subscribe to the notions of free will and self determination. I don't see programs like this forcing a particular choice on anyone, but rather making those choices available instead of restricted.
Furthermore, given the current political climate I highly doubt that you can extrapolate the actions of a government, western or otherwise, to indicate the will of the people it governs. There are always dissenters that aren't represented by their government's actions. If no one wants to use such tools to unrestrict their information access, then so be it. No harm, no foul. But if one person wants to and can't because it's not there then they are harmed.
Wouldn't it be more elitist or absolutist or whatever you want to call it to not provide such tools and effectively decide for other people what information they should and should not have available to them?
Were it not for my Oldest who uses it for what it was supposed to be, chatting and sharing vid's of his motorcyle movies and stunts, than I would just blacklist the damn thing.
Because, clearly, motorcycle stunts are way safer than chilling out with your friends and smoking pot.
Sounds like the kids, risking permanent injury in one case and incarceration in the other, are as smart as their father thinking one of those is acceptable.
It's rampant speculation like this that adds to a >105% rate of return on my piece of the rock, err... GOOG (I know, I got in late...). I welcome more rumor and conjecture that bring about more $20 increases in share price on a single day. What a great way to start my portfolio off in 2006! Keep it up!
:-)
I guess now I need to decide whether to sell prior to the google CES keynote disappointment or hold on until after the world-changing google CES keynote announcement/speech.
Wow. I know I get angry at stupid people, but this takes it to a whole new level.
This is like complaining about anyone on the web linking to you because you don't control what their referring page says/does.
I thought podcasters were web nerds and geeky enough to know:
Do not complain about this problem to other geeks because we H A T E people that think they have the right to control media
Solve the problem with existing technology such as mod_rewrite, checking the referring link/site/url, using dynamic content generation or a combination or a host of other shit that's been used for almost a decade to avoid deep linking.
And I really hate this asshole for this, but damn it, I'll say it. Sometimes marketing/branding is a good idea.
SAY THE NAME OF YOUR SHOW, URL AND WEBSITE IN YOUR DAMNED AUDIO FILE, YOU FUCKTARD.
I can't believe I actually had to say something positive about marketing. Screw this idiot and his podcast. He's dumb enough that they should be listening to someone else anyway.
He should fire his webmaster too. That moron is almost worse for not realizing how to address the problem from a technical standpoint just on their own server w/o contacting the referring domain owner(s).
Apparently there should be a license for people that want to get on the internet as a content provider. You must be at least this smart in order to ride this ride. If not, sit down, shut up and let the moderately intelligent do the work.
Who is supposed to be shocked at this? My family can't even figure out how to watch the TV in the correct aspect ratio on their widescreen non-HD TV. What's worse is that they don't even know that it is the WRONG aspect ratio, despite the short fat people on their screen that were previously tall and skinny. Oh wait. My dad knows. But he doesn't like the gray bars on the sides when it is in the correct aspect ratio. FFS. I swear.
Depending on consumers to do anything right is idiotic. It's why they're so easy to sell to in the first place.
Nothing like a nerd flame war comparing degree disciplines.
I haven't even heard of "Packing Science." Industrial Eng and PackSci weren't offered at my university (Univ. of Tulsa), so I can't comment specifically on their academic rigor.
I can see where IE could actually be construed as statistics more than engineering. But that being said, after having been in the workforce for 6+ years now I have come to understand why IE is important. It may "just" be the science of a process feed-back loop, but it sure is applicable in the field when things are done millions of times.
On more than one occassion I've thought about it as a Master's discipline in order to gain a better understanding of quality control, analysis and continuous improvement. But then I think how much people will make fun of me and I go back to thinking about an MSEE or MBA.
In regards to the PackSci frat guy, they did give him a book to figure out his problem. They were provided in HS for Geometry and Trig. LOL.
Wow. Talk about missing the point... Taco's essay was about identity and how important it is, particularly in a virtual world. The context was the WoW environment, but throughout the piece he aknowledged that it was a violation and as such, suitable punishment.
I wonder who thinks it is useful to hack these sites in retaliation for some perceived wrong against a stranger? The hackers at fault here prove no point, present no agenda, and generally smear the image of computer enthusiasts in the public eye. I'd rather they find a better way to protest than to attack private property.
Retaliation? Really? That's a great story to tell affected customers, but since we can only speculate as to motives, I've got a better idea.
What better way is there to get a shortlist of domains likely running exploitable Cisco gear than to raid Cisco's internal database of email addresses which are required for customers to get support, patches, etc? Perhaps more than login credentials were taken, such as profiles detailing registered equipment.
While we're at it, most people use very similar ID/PW combos at all web sites, so it'd be worth automating a check of those stolen combos at bank sites, auction sites, ecommerce sites, etc.
Who really cares about the cisco support accounts? The value is in the list of cisco customers and another pool of ID/PW combos to add to the list of IDs to try for online theft.
WhiteHat> Err, you guys have a problem...
Cisco> No we don't.
WhiteHat> No really, it's there. I can prove it.
Cisco> Ohh, so you violated the DMCA to hack us, huh? Well that is ILLEGAL mr. security guru. We're calling our lawyers.
* WhiteHat scratches his head. *
WhiteHat> Err, guys? If I didn't tell you about it, BlackHat would find out, keep it a secret and exploit it on every device he could. Wouldn't you rather know so you can fix it and prevent widespread carnage on the networks of your customers?
Cisco> It is company policy to not speak about pending litigation. BTW, you're being sued.
* BlackHat begins nullrouting all cisco routers he can find and extorting billions from ISPs, financial institutions, ecommerce sites, etc. *
BlackHat> *Phew* Glad that flaw doesn't exist since it was illegally obtained.
* BlackHat cackles with glee *
If you want a hidden/accessible computer, this isn't the solution to use.
He should have used an LCD panel that flips down from under a cabinet and stored the mac mini or other SFF PC in the cabinet above it and routed cables accordingly. All hardware hidden and wires too.
This guy must have an understanding wife. Mine would've shot me if I put a custom (i.e. crappy) dremeled face plate in her kitchen wall and wanted to use counter space for a monitor. Not to mention how much she hates cabling.
These things only bother the ignorant and the self-important. Anyone that's dealt with an office environment where you have 5 ways of being contacted knows that if you want to be highly focused on a project or whatever, you turn all that crap off and deal with it later.
Personally I only answer the phone if it's my wife (w/ small baby at home) or a number I don't recognize which is rare. As for email, IM, etc., they are turned off and only checked twice a day.
And by the way, for any low functioning PHBs that read slashdot: none of that other shit is any more distracting than you walking by my desk, pulling up a chair and asking "so, where are we" every couple of hours. In fact, probably all of them combined are less distracting because I can ignore them easily and don't get pissed off every time they interrupt me. You on the other hand...
Google came up with the idea that popularity (in terms of links) makes a good algorithim to index the Internet
Actually, Google didn't invent this. They came up with their own algorithm to make it their own, but citation referencing is a quite established principle from (I think) library science and has been in use for a long time. Google just applied it to web sites/links instead of printed texts/bibliographies.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is anyone shocked that the internet is under surveilance? It originated as a DOD project. It's just coming full circle back to where it began.
And then a step to the right...
-Chorus
PS - Surely everyone in the US knows of which you speak. They'd have to have been living under a rock for a few decades to not get that.
You struggle and struggle to protect your own identity and something like this sponsored by our own inept government happens. It's enough to make you honstly consider that 7x9 shack in the woods as a viable alternative to modern existence.
...in 5 different languages if it weren't for a borderless internet.
Thanks to a borderless internet, I played subspace (woohoo!) with people from all over the world. Most were American, but in those crazy college days, many friends and squad mates were foreign, due to the fact I often played at ungodly hours of the night which were quite normal on the other side of the planet. I learned to curse people out in languages from places as far west as the Phillipines and Malaysia to as far east as Russia.
Which is one of the reasons I love Kansas City's NPR station so much. I've become a huge fan of Bill Shapiro's show, Cyprus Avenue, since moving there in '03. Saturday afternoons in KC were awesome with Cyprus Avenue and Sonic Spectrum delivering 4 hours of the most refreshing music and discussion on the radio every week. I personally like Cyprus Avenue more with it's stronger rock influence, but for any true music fan, it's 4 hours of goodness.
And, oddly enough, hearing new music that I fall in love with on the air makes me go out and buy it. Cyprus Avenue is responsible for my last 10 CD purchases, my favorites being Uncle Tupelo and Mary Gauthier. Who the hell ever heard of either of these bands on commercial radio? No one I know, yet they're truely outstanding and without independent shows like Cyprus Avenue I'd never know they were there.
If you're looking for a good place to hear good music and live in KC, tune in to KCUR 89.3 FM on Saturday afternoons... If you don't live in KC, go to KCUR.org and listen to the stream every Saturday from 12pm-4pm, CST. We don't live in KC any more, but thanks to the Internet I still get to continue to listen to the best music shows on the air.
Perhaps because we suffer the results of our friends, relatives, etc getting hit with the kind of malware, worms, virii, etc that this guy maliciously spreads around the internet.
I'm not posting anonymously on this topic, nor will I. It's important enough to put my name with my comments.
Jerks like 0x80 -- and it's "hex eighty," not "x-eighty" as the article incorrectly indicated -- deserve to have the full weight of the law brought to bear on them and their illicit activity. I'm participating out of revenge. But if you would like a "moral" reason, how about performing a public service by removing this threat from the internet? It won't have a tangible affect on the overall threat count on the net, but it still serves a public good.
Check out the Washington Post's multimedia search results for roland, ok. The first three appear to be from this article and all indicate a location of Roland, OK in the search results.
You can see the pictures themselves
The metadata on the photos appears to be intact so I have no reason to doubt that the location information in the caption of each photo is accurate as well, although I suppose it could be disinformation or the place the photographer downloaded them or whatever. I had intended to display the metadata (EXIF picture/camera/exposure info + IPTC captions, etc) for each of the files here, but you'll have to go look at it yourselves because I can't quickly find a utility to export all of it to a nice text file. Even the small thumbnail photos still embedded in the story have the caption info showing the location, so just go expolore if you're looking for it.
Uhh... There's no one passing judgement on a group of people here. There's an activist group or groups trying to circumvent governmental entities with a unique program. There are many others out there of similar design and purpose.
I'm quite sure that if no one were to use these programs that the authors wouldn't sit up at night wondering,"WTF is wrong with those ignorant people and why won't they just take what we're trying to give them."
There is no cultural elitism here. This isn't about forcing anything on anyone. It's about restoring freedom of choice to those that would partake of it who would otherwise be denied it.
Wanting to provide choices is not elitist. If anything it's a moral imperative if you subscribe to the notions of free will and self determination. I don't see programs like this forcing a particular choice on anyone, but rather making those choices available instead of restricted.
Furthermore, given the current political climate I highly doubt that you can extrapolate the actions of a government, western or otherwise, to indicate the will of the people it governs. There are always dissenters that aren't represented by their government's actions. If no one wants to use such tools to unrestrict their information access, then so be it. No harm, no foul. But if one person wants to and can't because it's not there then they are harmed.
Wouldn't it be more elitist or absolutist or whatever you want to call it to not provide such tools and effectively decide for other people what information they should and should not have available to them?
If Disney et. al. hadn't fought so hard to make copyright perpetual they could've had the rabbit and Al Michaels too.
Sounds like the kids, risking permanent injury in one case and incarceration in the other, are as smart as their father thinking one of those is acceptable.
It's rampant speculation like this that adds to a >105% rate of return on my piece of the rock, err... GOOG (I know, I got in late...). I welcome more rumor and conjecture that bring about more $20 increases in share price on a single day. What a great way to start my portfolio off in 2006! Keep it up!
:-)
I guess now I need to decide whether to sell prior to the google CES keynote disappointment or hold on until after the world-changing google CES keynote announcement/speech.
Nothing like getting busted by a your own inability to use secure document authoring tools.
This is like complaining about anyone on the web linking to you because you don't control what their referring page says/does.
I thought podcasters were web nerds and geeky enough to know:
And I really hate this asshole for this, but damn it, I'll say it. Sometimes marketing/branding is a good idea.
SAY THE NAME OF YOUR SHOW, URL AND WEBSITE IN YOUR DAMNED AUDIO FILE, YOU FUCKTARD.
I can't believe I actually had to say something positive about marketing. Screw this idiot and his podcast. He's dumb enough that they should be listening to someone else anyway.
He should fire his webmaster too. That moron is almost worse for not realizing how to address the problem from a technical standpoint just on their own server w/o contacting the referring domain owner(s).
Apparently there should be a license for people that want to get on the internet as a content provider. You must be at least this smart in order to ride this ride. If not, sit down, shut up and let the moderately intelligent do the work.
Who is supposed to be shocked at this? My family can't even figure out how to watch the TV in the correct aspect ratio on their widescreen non-HD TV. What's worse is that they don't even know that it is the WRONG aspect ratio, despite the short fat people on their screen that were previously tall and skinny. Oh wait. My dad knows. But he doesn't like the gray bars on the sides when it is in the correct aspect ratio. FFS. I swear.
Depending on consumers to do anything right is idiotic. It's why they're so easy to sell to in the first place.
ROFL.
Nothing like a nerd flame war comparing degree disciplines.
I haven't even heard of "Packing Science." Industrial Eng and PackSci weren't offered at my university (Univ. of Tulsa), so I can't comment specifically on their academic rigor.
I can see where IE could actually be construed as statistics more than engineering. But that being said, after having been in the workforce for 6+ years now I have come to understand why IE is important. It may "just" be the science of a process feed-back loop, but it sure is applicable in the field when things are done millions of times.
On more than one occassion I've thought about it as a Master's discipline in order to gain a better understanding of quality control, analysis and continuous improvement. But then I think how much people will make fun of me and I go back to thinking about an MSEE or MBA.
In regards to the PackSci frat guy, they did give him a book to figure out his problem. They were provided in HS for Geometry and Trig. LOL.
HAHAHA
MOD PARENT UP!
Wow. Talk about missing the point... Taco's essay was about identity and how important it is, particularly in a virtual world. The context was the WoW environment, but throughout the piece he aknowledged that it was a violation and as such, suitable punishment.
Retaliation? Really? That's a great story to tell affected customers, but since we can only speculate as to motives, I've got a better idea.
What better way is there to get a shortlist of domains likely running exploitable Cisco gear than to raid Cisco's internal database of email addresses which are required for customers to get support, patches, etc? Perhaps more than login credentials were taken, such as profiles detailing registered equipment.
While we're at it, most people use very similar ID/PW combos at all web sites, so it'd be worth automating a check of those stolen combos at bank sites, auction sites, ecommerce sites, etc.
Who really cares about the cisco support accounts? The value is in the list of cisco customers and another pool of ID/PW combos to add to the list of IDs to try for online theft.
Don't you just love that logic?
WhiteHat> Err, you guys have a problem...
Cisco> No we don't.
WhiteHat> No really, it's there. I can prove it.
Cisco> Ohh, so you violated the DMCA to hack us, huh? Well that is ILLEGAL mr. security guru. We're calling our lawyers.
* WhiteHat scratches his head. *
WhiteHat> Err, guys? If I didn't tell you about it, BlackHat would find out, keep it a secret and exploit it on every device he could. Wouldn't you rather know so you can fix it and prevent widespread carnage on the networks of your customers?
Cisco> It is company policy to not speak about pending litigation. BTW, you're being sued.
* BlackHat begins nullrouting all cisco routers he can find and extorting billions from ISPs, financial institutions, ecommerce sites, etc. *
BlackHat> *Phew* Glad that flaw doesn't exist since it was illegally obtained.
* BlackHat cackles with glee *
Shouldn't that be the Order of Magnitude Effect?
If you want a hidden/accessible computer, this isn't the solution to use.
He should have used an LCD panel that flips down from under a cabinet and stored the mac mini or other SFF PC in the cabinet above it and routed cables accordingly. All hardware hidden and wires too.
This guy must have an understanding wife. Mine would've shot me if I put a custom (i.e. crappy) dremeled face plate in her kitchen wall and wanted to use counter space for a monitor. Not to mention how much she hates cabling.
These things only bother the ignorant and the self-important. Anyone that's dealt with an office environment where you have 5 ways of being contacted knows that if you want to be highly focused on a project or whatever, you turn all that crap off and deal with it later.
Personally I only answer the phone if it's my wife (w/ small baby at home) or a number I don't recognize which is rare. As for email, IM, etc., they are turned off and only checked twice a day.
And by the way, for any low functioning PHBs that read slashdot: none of that other shit is any more distracting than you walking by my desk, pulling up a chair and asking "so, where are we" every couple of hours. In fact, probably all of them combined are less distracting because I can ignore them easily and don't get pissed off every time they interrupt me. You on the other hand...