Not true, at leat not always. With ImageMagick, converting a jpeg image with Exif info into png, and than back to jpeg again, the Exif info is still there.
An employee of the Swedish Bank was quoted as saying, "Gersh gurndy morn-dee hack-zee hack-zee!"
For once, that is actually true. Scams targetting Nordea are quite common, and while they claim it is because "We're the biggest bank", it's rather because their password system is weak.
Other banks hand out one-time password (OTP) calculators, gives a unique OTP challenge per transaction, and each password has a very limited lifetime.
Nordea has a model where you get a batch of OTPs on a piece of paper, usable for anything anytime as long as they're used in order. No challenge involved, since you scratch the paper like a lottery ticket to get the next one. OTPs harvested through fake sites are then usable until the next legitimate bank transaction occurs.
Actually, if everyone on earth lived like the average US citizen, we'd need four more earths. With everyone living like the typical Swede (like me) we'd need one or two more planets. If everyone lived like the average Chinese, we might just make it with the one we've got.
Do Slashdot fan boys get a nickel everytime they defend slashdot? Honestly, this website fan boy war needs to end, we are more civilized. Besides, if slashdot had as many users as digg.com, im sure their would be stupid fan boy comments popping up from left to right on slashdot.
Well, it didn't burn the entire surface of the earth, just a small part of it. To be able burn the entire surface of the earth, someone would have to have thousands of them.
First, it's not unlikely this will damage the social democrats, as they tend to get a lot of votes from people who otherwise wouldn't vote at all. Those people might just as well stay home because of this. Second, They could've planned it a lot better if it was a setup -- like waiting a few more days and bringing the whole thing closer to the election. Third, they reported it to the police earlier the same day they went public with it, and they didn't close the abused accounts until somewhere that same week.
What you're doing is just throwing around (up to now) highly ungrounded speculations. It might be true, but it doesn't seem very likely from what we actually know.
And in the end, if what you're saying IS true, giving your password to someone is stupid, and in this case both evil and undemocratic. On the other hand, using that password to your advantage in an election is all of the above AND punishable with up to two years in prison. See the difference?
Oh, and for the sake of clarity and killing bad humour: in swedish, the opposite of abstract ("abstrakt") is "konkret", while the material concrete is called "betong", which is the word that was used.
This story is a moving target; there's new information almost every hour and what was "true" this morning is no longer true. That applies to this/.-story too:
Security firm Sentor (for some reason I associate it to badly drawn superheroes), which did the initial investigation, has found that out of four accounts used at the office, three has been used for unauthorised access. The fourth account used a Secure VPN connection, while the other three were unencrypted. The office also used an unencrypted wireless connection.
Easy to crack or not, maybe the "password" used wasn't the weak link in this case. But as I said, nothing is certain at this time. And it doesn't get better with journalists running around (ab)using words they don't understand; I don't think I've ever heard someone confuse "concrete wall" with "firewall" before.
The internal server of the Socialist Party turned out to be a password protected http server containing some upcoming promotional campaign pictures, with some trivial password like hsp:redflower.
This wasn't a web server, but a FirstClass-system. The hacked account had access to all information, which is something only 26 people outside the central administration of the socialdemocratic party has.
The information accessed included detailed plans for the last days of the electorial campaign. Also, there were confidential information from the Swedish Secret Service (SäPo) concerning the personal security of several ministers. Some news sources also claimed there might have been access to internal documents from a company owned by the socialdemocratic party. A few leaked campaign posters are nothing compared to this.
I hope the swedish parties are more grown up than to play stupid games like that and I hope the swedish public is more educated than the hungarian, so that they can tell if nothing extraordinarily happened, just some PR hype..
There has yet to be a PR hype - the socialdemocrats hasn't said anything after the initial announcement, where they said they would wait until the police investigation finishes before making any political statements on this.
Because it is communism? Having chosen communism doesn't automatically imply not having a choice. There are positive and negative aspects of everything, and there are different kinds of communism.
But for the sake of not confusing the either-or-community, let's just distinguish between Good Communism and Bad Communism; we could call the former gCommunism, to make it more plausible here on/.
On the other hand, that would suggest a certain search company, governed only by people with lots of money*, which pays people to play at work, supports censorship, and keeps a huge database of information on everything they manage to put in it - including people and their opinions - is an example of Good Communism.
</confused sarcasm>
So I guess you're right, we might just as well call it social-democracy.
*Probably all of them are amongst the richest 5% in the world.
Seriously speaking... TFA is wrong in one aspect - cassette compensation has been around since 1982 in Sweden. That's why Jens Nylander considers it outdated.
And if you RTFA, you'll notice Jens Nylander really isn't against the cassette compensation law at all:
"In my opinion the compensation should be built into the price. To be able to transfer a song to an mp3 player should be included in the purchase of the music."
All he wants is to make MP3 players cheaper and music more expensive - that way he'll be the winner and the consumer will be the loser.
Actually, the Japanese civilian leaders wanted to surrender even before the bombings, but without the military agreeing on anything else than to fight, they didn't stand a chance to negotiate anything even though some tried. That's until the Hiroshima bombing, when they actually started to get some real attention. IMHO, the US could've waited at least a few more days to see how everything evolved politically in Japan, before bombing Nagasaki.
Besides that, why demonstrate the power of the bomb on populated and mostly civilian targets?
It's the "popup addiction" at work. People can't stand popups and anything to get them out of the way for good is they way they want to go.
This happened to my brother's computer about a month ago, when a friend of ours started IE and tried to reach some tripod page. I guess he mistyped the URL, because he ended up with a 404-page and the software firewall asked if some process could launch WMP. He clicked yes without thinking (or listening). Luckily, the anti-virus monitor saved the day.
Cost is not the only criterion here. It is a sad truth that countries which suspect/fear that the US will cut off their access to technology by issuing a Department of Commerce export notification are increasingly turning to Open Source as a viable option that circumvents real or prophesized export controls.
I have an other possible way of looking at it.
Many developing countries in Asia tried during the 70's and 80's to reach more independance on the world market through restricting imports and putting their own people at work in industries to produce what they didn't import. For most countries, this strategy was replaced with the more IMF, WB and US-friendly approach of the "Washington Consensus", which involves a high (and often considered excessive) degree of free trade and commercialisation (is this the right word here?) of public services.
Malaysia, being in South East Asia, isn't one of the countries I've studied, so I'm not sure if this is applies the way it applies to South Asia.
Anyhow, there are still strong traces of this development strategy in South and South East Asia.
Good for Open-source, bad for the world at large and for mainstream US industry in particular.
I disagree on one point. It isn't bad for the world at large, since they gain in level of economic independence, and in the long run also in intellectual independence (if braindrain isn't too big). If something is bad for the US industry, it doesn't always mean it's bad for the whole world. Here, I don't think that is the case.
As for Open Source being unpatriotic, I sure hope it is. Here in Scandinavia, and in many countries in the european continent, patriotism is considered disguised racism. (Heck, you'll even get strange looks from people if you sing the Swedish anthem without being: A) in church with school at the beginning of summer holidays B) playing hockey or C) having the king somewhere nearby.)
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1) File sharing in Sweden is legal, therefore legal considerations are an aside.
Actually, sharing copyrighted material is illegal in Sweden, if the author hasn't allowed you to do so.
Sam Leffler's code is dual-licensed. Reyk Floeter's isn't.
Not true, at leat not always. With ImageMagick, converting a jpeg image with Exif info into png, and than back to jpeg again, the Exif info is still there.
An employee of the Swedish Bank was quoted as saying, "Gersh gurndy morn-dee hack-zee hack-zee!"
For once, that is actually true. Scams targetting Nordea are quite common, and while they claim it is because "We're the biggest bank", it's rather because their password system is weak.
Other banks hand out one-time password (OTP) calculators, gives a unique OTP challenge per transaction, and each password has a very limited lifetime.
Nordea has a model where you get a batch of OTPs on a piece of paper, usable for anything anytime as long as they're used in order. No challenge involved, since you scratch the paper like a lottery ticket to get the next one. OTPs harvested through fake sites are then usable until the next legitimate bank transaction occurs.
Actually, if everyone on earth lived like the average US citizen, we'd need four more earths. With everyone living like the typical Swede (like me) we'd need one or two more planets. If everyone lived like the average Chinese, we might just make it with the one we've got.
Wikipedia has an article on this: ecological footprint.
That's my site! I just put my new site online!! I'm the 100 millionth website!!1!
No, Hell is in Norway, and it's raining over there.
"display: inline-block" is NOT CSS 2, it's CSS 2.1, and CSS 2.1 is still only a Working Draft.
Do Slashdot fan boys get a nickel everytime they defend slashdot? Honestly, this website fan boy war needs to end, we are more civilized. Besides, if slashdot had as many users as digg.com, im sure their would be stupid fan boy comments popping up from left to right on slashdot.
Try searching for information about a popular digital camera from someone who isn't trying to sell them. It is next to impossible.
Sounds like you might wanna give Yahoo! Mindset a try.
Actually, most swedes can hardly speak english at all. Those who claim otherwise are just ignorant of people above the age of ~30.
Well, it didn't burn the entire surface of the earth, just a small part of it. To be able burn the entire surface of the earth, someone would have to have thousands of them.
First, it's not unlikely this will damage the social democrats, as they tend to get a lot of votes from people who otherwise wouldn't vote at all. Those people might just as well stay home because of this. Second, They could've planned it a lot better if it was a setup -- like waiting a few more days and bringing the whole thing closer to the election. Third, they reported it to the police earlier the same day they went public with it, and they didn't close the abused accounts until somewhere that same week.
What you're doing is just throwing around (up to now) highly ungrounded speculations. It might be true, but it doesn't seem very likely from what we actually know.
And in the end, if what you're saying IS true, giving your password to someone is stupid, and in this case both evil and undemocratic. On the other hand, using that password to your advantage in an election is all of the above AND punishable with up to two years in prison. See the difference?
Oh, and for the sake of clarity and killing bad humour: in swedish, the opposite of abstract ("abstrakt") is "konkret", while the material concrete is called "betong", which is the word that was used.
This story is a moving target; there's new information almost every hour and what was "true" this morning is no longer true. That applies to this /.-story too:
Security firm Sentor (for some reason I associate it to badly drawn superheroes), which did the initial investigation, has found that out of four accounts used at the office, three has been used for unauthorised access. The fourth account used a Secure VPN connection, while the other three were unencrypted. The office also used an unencrypted wireless connection.
Easy to crack or not, maybe the "password" used wasn't the weak link in this case. But as I said, nothing is certain at this time. And it doesn't get better with journalists running around (ab)using words they don't understand; I don't think I've ever heard someone confuse "concrete wall" with "firewall" before.
The internal server of the Socialist Party turned out to be a password protected http server containing some upcoming promotional campaign pictures, with some trivial password like hsp:redflower.
This wasn't a web server, but a FirstClass-system. The hacked account had access to all information, which is something only 26 people outside the central administration of the socialdemocratic party has.
The information accessed included detailed plans for the last days of the electorial campaign. Also, there were confidential information from the Swedish Secret Service (SäPo) concerning the personal security of several ministers. Some news sources also claimed there might have been access to internal documents from a company owned by the socialdemocratic party. A few leaked campaign posters are nothing compared to this.
I hope the swedish parties are more grown up than to play stupid games like that and I hope the swedish public is more educated than the hungarian, so that they can tell if nothing extraordinarily happened, just some PR hype..
There has yet to be a PR hype - the socialdemocrats hasn't said anything after the initial announcement, where they said they would wait until the police investigation finishes before making any political statements on this.
Because it is communism? Having chosen communism doesn't automatically imply not having a choice. There are positive and negative aspects of everything, and there are different kinds of communism.
/.
But for the sake of not confusing the either-or-community, let's just distinguish between Good Communism and Bad Communism; we could call the former gCommunism, to make it more plausible here on
On the other hand, that would suggest a certain search company, governed only by people with lots of money*, which pays people to play at work, supports censorship, and keeps a huge database of information on everything they manage to put in it - including people and their opinions - is an example of Good Communism.
</confused sarcasm>
So I guess you're right, we might just as well call it social-democracy.
*Probably all of them are amongst the richest 5% in the world.
Actually, he claims he has Asperger's syndrome.
... patent swinging on a swing.
Does this mean I can become a licensed swinger?
Seriously speaking... TFA is wrong in one aspect - cassette compensation has been around since 1982 in Sweden. That's why Jens Nylander considers it outdated.
And if you RTFA, you'll notice Jens Nylander really isn't against the cassette compensation law at all:
"In my opinion the compensation should be built into the price. To be able to transfer a song to an mp3 player should be included in the purchase of the music."
All he wants is to make MP3 players cheaper and music more expensive - that way he'll be the winner and the consumer will be the loser.
Actually, the Japanese civilian leaders wanted to surrender even before the bombings, but without the military agreeing on anything else than to fight, they didn't stand a chance to negotiate anything even though some tried. That's until the Hiroshima bombing, when they actually started to get some real attention. IMHO, the US could've waited at least a few more days to see how everything evolved politically in Japan, before bombing Nagasaki.
Besides that, why demonstrate the power of the bomb on populated and mostly civilian targets?
It's the "popup addiction" at work. People can't stand popups and anything to get them out of the way for good is they way they want to go.
This happened to my brother's computer about a month ago, when a friend of ours started IE and tried to reach some tripod page. I guess he mistyped the URL, because he ended up with a 404-page and the software firewall asked if some process could launch WMP. He clicked yes without thinking (or listening). Luckily, the anti-virus monitor saved the day.
Cost is not the only criterion here. It is a sad truth that countries which suspect/fear that the US will cut off their access to technology by issuing a Department of Commerce export notification are increasingly turning to Open Source as a viable option that circumvents real or prophesized export controls.
I have an other possible way of looking at it.
Many developing countries in Asia tried during the 70's and 80's to reach more independance on the world market through restricting imports and putting their own people at work in industries to produce what they didn't import. For most countries, this strategy was replaced with the more IMF, WB and US-friendly approach of the "Washington Consensus", which involves a high (and often considered excessive) degree of free trade and commercialisation (is this the right word here?) of public services.
Malaysia, being in South East Asia, isn't one of the countries I've studied, so I'm not sure if this is applies the way it applies to South Asia. Anyhow, there are still strong traces of this development strategy in South and South East Asia.
Good for Open-source, bad for the world at large and for mainstream US industry in particular.
I disagree on one point. It isn't bad for the world at large, since they gain in level of economic independence, and in the long run also in intellectual independence (if braindrain isn't too big). If something is bad for the US industry, it doesn't always mean it's bad for the whole world. Here, I don't think that is the case.
As for Open Source being unpatriotic, I sure hope it is. Here in Scandinavia, and in many countries in the european continent, patriotism is considered disguised racism. (Heck, you'll even get strange looks from people if you sing the Swedish anthem without being: A) in church with school at the beginning of summer holidays B) playing hockey or C) having the king somewhere nearby.)
This search gave me a whole bunch of good ones. Here's one of'em