In other news, Longhorn will no longer display the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" (BSoD) screen. According to a Microsoft representative, the solution was simple: "We used a different color."
This could make the best t shirt ever. Of course you could probably never wash it, but who cares if you smell. You'd be too pimpin for people to complain.
Instead of complaining, people would ask, "When was the last time you showered?"
It's so lovely to find pages torn (or carefully cut with an Xacto blade) out of a book or periodical...NOT! The greed of one person - in this case for $10,000 - destroys a reference material shared by all.
Hey Intel, why not donate $10,000 to every library which had this article stolen.
Hmmm.
"Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took it up a notch and announced yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.
Blogs that mention candidates for local office that receive more than 500 hits will be forced to pay a registration fee and will be subject to website traffic audits, according to Chad Jacobs, a San Francisco City Attorney."
That is a exact quote from the article. Tell me...where is it exactly that it is stated that the regulation is aimed at the communications of lobbists and not individuals? One might say that is a safe assumption. But it does not say that.
If MSN were smart, they'd hire Information Professionals such as librarians with experience in online searching; individuals who are able to formulate an effective search strategy by identifying entities which describe a given subject; individuals who understand how MSN indexes documents; individuals who are concerned with a database's precision and recall. High IQ alone does not make one an effective searcher. How many of Mensans have experience searching serious databases such as Dialog or Lexis/Nexis?
Precision = the ratio of relevant search results for a given input subject by the total number of search results returned.
Recall = the ratio of the number of relevant search results returned for a given input subject by the total number of relevant search results in the online database for that given subject.
Matt did a great installation; unfortunately, the touch screen display is obviously very conspicuous. How long before a car thief busts his car's windows? Maybe he could fabricate a stealth front cover?
I'd be concerned too about having the Mac Mini stored in the glove compartment. It's going to get hot in there on sunny days. Will the CPU have adequate cooling?
The Motion Picture Association's New Zealand representative, Kevin Holland, said the industry took seriously the job of keeping movies secure from pirates.
> Will we all have to have little meters attached to our computers?
Good point. Along these lines, does metered computer access mean one would be charged per packet? Would internet access providers such as libraries and schools be charged?
If such a tax were enabled it perpetuates the "Digital Divide" - i.e. users who can afford home internet access and those who cannot.
Why isn't the cell phone's embedded code not written and executed in read-only memory? I understand there *may* be a need for volatile memory to read/write data to a stack/heap; however, why should data written to such memory *ever* be executed as code! I'd really like to know from someone who writes embedded systems for cell phones.
I wonder too how susceptable the display is to pixel damage when a pixel retains it's color state for some arbitrary amount of time (two months, perhaps)?
Jason Lee Parson, the 18-year-old Minnesotan who was arrested Friday in connection with the Blaster worm, bragged of his exploits on his own Web site.
Parson, who was known online as "teekid," is suspected of creating and releasing a third version of the Blaster worm, a malicious program that spread itself around the Internet using a viral engine bearing his online moniker, "teekids.exe."
The Web site registered under his own name and Minnesota address -- www.t33kids.com -- is no longer up. But a cached version of his site on Google offers insight into the mind of a young hacker who was apparently proud of his work.
While nothing on his site specifically references Blaster, Parson bragged about several of his recent creations, including a worm called "p2p.teekid.c" that spread over file-sharing networks like Kazaa and iMesh. The site also offered links allowing people to download and potentially tweak his malicious programs.
"My little p2p worm spreads via Kazza and imesh, downloads a file from web. No biggee."
Parson also apparently broke into the Web site of the Minnesota Governor's office, leaving the message "site hacked by Teekid."
In an online forum, Teekid described himself as a "junior Trojaner." A Trojan horse is a malicious program that, when installed on a victim's computer, allows attackers to take complete control over the infected computer. One of the main alterations Parson allegedly made to the Blaster worm was the inclusion of a backdoor Trojan.
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Good solution! Just record the feed from the camera to the drive in real time.
Perhaps an Apple iSight cam and laptop with a large hard drive?
In other news, Longhorn will no longer display the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" (BSoD) screen. According to a Microsoft representative, the solution was simple: "We used a different color."
Heard of Mono?
Yeah. That's the kissing disease.
is stone tablets of course..
Just don't drop those stone tablets like Moses did in Mel Brook's 'History of the World: Part 1".
"The Fifteen...[drops stone tablet]...The Ten Commandments."
This could make the best t shirt ever. Of course you could probably never wash it, but who cares if you smell. You'd be too pimpin for people to complain.
Instead of complaining, people would ask, "When was the last time you showered?"
Although it doesn't prove the AC is who he says
Exactly!
been an AC lurker since 2000. Maybe I should get an account
Posting as an AC reduces the credibility of your "Personal story".
So what is this BotBlock service you'd written? Do you have a URL? Doh! I forgot. That may reveal your identification.
I have a decent job and a bright career to look foward to so even the slightest dealings with these tarts will taint me forever.
Taint you *forever* ??? Whoa! That's pretty serious.
Mod me down if you like. I'm not the one who believed this AC's story.
This is a librarian's nightmare.
It's so lovely to find pages torn (or carefully cut with an Xacto blade) out of a book or periodical...NOT! The greed of one person - in this case for $10,000 - destroys a reference material shared by all.
Hey Intel, why not donate $10,000 to every library which had this article stolen.
May I suggest you read the proposed legislation. It begins on page 11 under "Amendments to Current Law". The article you cited, San Francisco May Regulate Blogging, sounds like nothing more than FUD.
"Intel inside, don't divide"
If MSN were smart, they'd hire Information Professionals such as librarians with experience in online searching; individuals who are able to formulate an effective search strategy by identifying entities which describe a given subject; individuals
who understand how MSN indexes documents; individuals who are concerned with a database's precision and recall. High IQ alone does not make one an effective searcher. How many of Mensans have experience searching serious databases such as Dialog or Lexis/Nexis?
Precision = the ratio of relevant search results for a given input subject by the total number of search results returned.
Recall = the ratio of the number of relevant search results returned for a given input subject by the total number of relevant search results in the online database for that given subject.
Matt did a great installation; unfortunately, the touch screen display is obviously very conspicuous. How long before a car thief busts his car's windows? Maybe he could fabricate a stealth front cover?
I'd be concerned too about having the Mac Mini stored in the glove compartment. It's going to get hot in there on sunny days. Will the CPU have adequate cooling?
The Motion Picture Association's New Zealand representative, Kevin Holland, said the industry took seriously the job of keeping movies secure from pirates.
They hired an 800 lb. gorilla.
> Will we all have to have little meters attached to our computers?
Good point. Along these lines, does metered computer access mean one would be charged per packet? Would internet access providers such as libraries and schools be charged?
If such a tax were enabled it perpetuates the "Digital Divide" - i.e. users who can afford home internet access and those who cannot.
Why isn't the cell phone's embedded code not written and executed in read-only memory? I understand there *may* be a need for volatile memory to read/write data to a stack/heap; however, why should data written to such memory *ever* be executed as code! I'd really like to know from someone who writes embedded systems for cell phones.
Off topic but I found an interesting link to videotape preservation
I'd think the critical component here is tape formulation. Digital recordings are more sensitive to tape imperfections than analog, are they not?
Bush didn't want any satellite photos of him smoking a joint.
I wonder too how susceptable the display is to pixel damage when a pixel retains it's color state for some arbitrary amount of time (two months, perhaps)?
SCO is taking the show on the road.
To avoid the dictionary attack, why not use some random letters/numbers for your username? Something truly random, looking fake.
Switch to an alternative root server such as this.
RIAA: Sign this amnesty form certifying you will delete all unauthorized music files from your computer.
File sharer: How about instead I give you the finger and you sell CD's at reasonable prices.
Hacker Suspect Bragged of Exploits
Jason Lee Parson, the 18-year-old Minnesotan who was arrested Friday in connection with the Blaster worm, bragged of his exploits on his own Web site.
Parson, who was known online as "teekid," is suspected of creating and releasing a third version of the Blaster worm, a malicious program that spread itself around the Internet using a viral engine bearing his online moniker, "teekids.exe."
The Web site registered under his own name and Minnesota address -- www.t33kids.com -- is no longer up. But a cached version of his site on Google offers insight into the mind of a young hacker who was apparently proud of his work.
While nothing on his site specifically references Blaster, Parson bragged about several of his recent creations, including a worm called "p2p.teekid.c" that spread over file-sharing networks like Kazaa and iMesh. The site also offered links allowing people to download and potentially tweak his malicious programs.
"My little p2p worm spreads via Kazza and imesh, downloads a file from web. No biggee."
Parson also apparently broke into the Web site of the Minnesota Governor's office, leaving the message "site hacked by Teekid."
In an online forum, Teekid described himself as a "junior Trojaner." A Trojan horse is a malicious program that, when installed on a victim's computer, allows attackers to take complete control over the infected computer. One of the main alterations Parson allegedly made to the Blaster worm was the inclusion of a backdoor Trojan.
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