Every time I post, slashdot runs a port scan on 80, 1080, 3128, 8000 and 8080. wtf? anyone else?
That's probably to check if you're a proxy server. If so, you are allowed to do more posts in a certain amount of time, to avoid blocking thousands of Slashdotters who are surfing through their ISP's proxy servers.
Just like Huygens I'm Dutch, and thus I was taught a lot about him in school during the physics hours. The biggest thing Huygens brought the physica is the 'Huygens source'. A simplified explanation: A Huygens source starts sending out sound (air vibration) because the source itself got vibrated by another source. So, a Huygens source doesn't 'create' sound, but simply relays it.
Of course this is really simplified and in reality it's fairly more complex.
Second, the fact that IE is closed source means that you could not possibly know that it is coded badly.
No? Then how would you explain all the security bugs found in the past? It's not a bug, it's feature eh?
Third, nobody uses Firefox, but I can't wait til they do so we can see how many bugs hackers can find. (They're already taking advantage of the XPI Installer)
I think you've been living under a stone way too long, Firefox is getting bigger and bigger and really good on its way to become in the browser top3.
Fourth, you would have sounded more important if you'd spelled Therefore correctly. Instead you just sounded like a stupid parrot, repeating the advice already given to us.
If you had taken 3 seconds to check the link to my homepage you would see that I'm from The Netherlands, and therefore English isn't my native language. I often hear that my English is very decent, but nobody's perfect. I'm very eagered to hear your Dutch.
Hope you're proud of that "Insightful" point!
If you think that I'm a karma whore you should take a quick look at my Slashdot posting record. Instead of getting modded down to Flamebait and Troll as your record states my posts are modded up very often. You really think I have nothing better to do than improving my karma on Slashdot? Get a life you fool.
"CERT recommends that Explorer users consider other browsers that are not affected by the attack, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera."
Ofcourse they are advising something else: IE has a past of insecurity. This has two causes:
1) IE is crappy coded (it's closed-source, so there's no 'second opinion' on the code).
2) IE is wildly used, so very attractive to find a security bug in it (for malicious activities).
Therefor I recommend a non-IE browser (prefferably Opera or Firefox) to everyone.
How about cheap food in Africa, before cheap internet? After all, many people in Africa are hungry, few are wondering what geeks think about star trek.
Agreed, but it's better to teach a man how to fish than to give him the fish.
Getting Africa online will increase its economy in a way you can't imagine. Sending food and money (for food and weapons) to a Third World country hasn't been much of a help over the last couple of decades, it's time to get these countries on their own feet.
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"
You are completely right. Besides technical failures (which can happen), 'we' are also very prone to terrorist attacks on such facilities. Taking down major websites like the ones from the article cost real big $$$ and are really a pain for the economics. Especially in times like these.
I read a while ago about this technique also being used to switch off mobile phones in places like theatres, cinema's and churches. So, it has yet another 'feature' for the public. I don't want to be interrupted by a ringtone while watching Van Helsing, but I think switching my Nokia to 'silence' enables this far enough, I don't need help from others silencing my cellphone.
Seriously... a "data embargo" against Nigeria may very well be deserved at this point. They've clearly got a problem enforcing their own anti-scam laws.
I think you're forgetting one big point here: the 419 scammers mostly don't scam from Nigeria. Instead, they are active in a lot other countries, with The Netherlands being at the top of the list. So, forcing Nigeria to follow the 419'ers all the way to Hell isn't going to stop this.
"Hundreds of area technophiles wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world's strongest supercomputers. Organizers hoped to break into the ranks of the world's top 500 supercomputers through the event, which they called "Flashmob I."
Hundreds of geeks with their computers? And they want to build a top500-supercomputer? I think they'll need a little more power...
I can't imagine only 'hundreds' showed up, why stay at home when you could write history? Nice chance to get 15 minutes of fame;)
Is Slashdot a kernel.org announcement board?
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"Featuring a 367.6 KB changelog, the next Linux kernel is now ready for action. As always, enjoy!"
Why is it that Slashdot features *every* Linux kernel release? Every n-weeks a new Linux kernel is released, is it really necessary to post each release? At least don't post it to the frontpage. If you are a good admin, you should check out kernel.org every once in a while yourself.
No, since this is only the Linux kernel, it only fixes kernel bugs. However, if KDE didn't function properly because of bugs in the kernel, this could be solved by this new kernel release.
This is seriously cool, but it would even be cooler if it would be available for PDAs and laptops due to the better systems these devices are running on. Of course a mobile phone has the advantage of locating, thus the PDA or laptop should be equiped with a GPS device, or something like GPRS. However, it would make these things much cooler than on the mobile phone: imagine virtual worlds based on the real world. So you can in-game walk the same street as you're walking in-real-life, but only in-game it's packed with action, wheres the in-real-life version is as boring as always. Now that would be reality gaming!
Why am I not surprised Microsoft claims its an internal problem?
Actually, it would make more sense when Microsoft would claim it was an attack. Internal problems can be blaimed on the company (bad software design, bad system administration, etc.), external attacks can't, only for a lack of security or something like that. But in most cases, a company gets away quite well with an external attack.
This 'feature' is already trespassed! Take a look in this forum (Dutch, sorry). It says there that when you scan multiple bills you won't get an error, and even when you crop them one-by-one, you're still not stopped in your job. Screenshots available.
Toward the beginning of the book they have a great deal of light, explanatory material as they cover the basics of PHP. As they move towards more advanced topics there is less explanation and a tighter packing of information.
Hmm.. shouldn't that be the other way 'round? I mean, I prefer to have the easy (self-speaking) topics with a tighter packing of information and less explanation than the hard topics, where I could use all help.
You could give your old systems away to schools and such. The schools with younger kids (up to the age of 10-12) are still able to do a lot of things with older systems, like grammar and mathematics educational games, requiring not more than MS-DOS. Of course there are enough schools with a rather big IT budget, but there also enough school who have to do it with less, is my experience. And they will really be glad with your donations.
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Every time I post, slashdot runs a port scan on 80, 1080, 3128, 8000 and 8080. wtf? anyone else?
That's probably to check if you're a proxy server. If so, you are allowed to do more posts in a certain amount of time, to avoid blocking thousands of Slashdotters who are surfing through their ISP's proxy servers.
Just like Huygens I'm Dutch, and thus I was taught a lot about him in school during the physics hours.
The biggest thing Huygens brought the physica is the 'Huygens source'. A simplified explanation: A Huygens source starts sending out sound (air vibration) because the source itself got vibrated by another source. So, a Huygens source doesn't 'create' sound, but simply relays it.
Of course this is really simplified and in reality it's fairly more complex.
considering all data received is 1h24m old
And we bitch when our CounterStrike match lags 300ms?!
Second, the fact that IE is closed source means that you could not possibly know that it is coded badly.
No? Then how would you explain all the security bugs found in the past? It's not a bug, it's feature eh?
Third, nobody uses Firefox, but I can't wait til they do so we can see how many bugs hackers can find. (They're already taking advantage of the XPI Installer)
I think you've been living under a stone way too long, Firefox is getting bigger and bigger and really good on its way to become in the browser top3.
Fourth, you would have sounded more important if you'd spelled Therefore correctly. Instead you just sounded like a stupid parrot, repeating the advice already given to us.
If you had taken 3 seconds to check the link to my homepage you would see that I'm from The Netherlands, and therefore English isn't my native language. I often hear that my English is very decent, but nobody's perfect. I'm very eagered to hear your Dutch.
Hope you're proud of that "Insightful" point!
If you think that I'm a karma whore you should take a quick look at my Slashdot posting record. Instead of getting modded down to Flamebait and Troll as your record states my posts are modded up very often. You really think I have nothing better to do than improving my karma on Slashdot?
Get a life you fool.
"CERT recommends that Explorer users consider other browsers that are not affected by the attack, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera."
Ofcourse they are advising something else: IE has a past of insecurity. This has two causes:
1) IE is crappy coded (it's closed-source, so there's no 'second opinion' on the code). 2) IE is wildly used, so very attractive to find a security bug in it (for malicious activities).
Therefor I recommend a non-IE browser (prefferably Opera or Firefox) to everyone.
How about cheap food in Africa, before cheap internet? After all, many people in Africa are hungry, few are wondering what geeks think about star trek.
Agreed, but it's better to teach a man how to fish than to give him the fish.
Getting Africa online will increase its economy in a way you can't imagine. Sending food and money (for food and weapons) to a Third World country hasn't been much of a help over the last couple of decades, it's time to get these countries on their own feet.
Just use whatever you want... ok?
Agreed, as long as it is OpenBSD.
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"
You are completely right. Besides technical failures (which can happen), 'we' are also very prone to terrorist attacks on such facilities. Taking down major websites like the ones from the article cost real big $$$ and are really a pain for the economics. Especially in times like these.
I've got to copy and paste the code to emacs
This says it all, you're obviously using the wrong editor.
I read a while ago about this technique also being used to switch off mobile phones in places like theatres, cinema's and churches. So, it has yet another 'feature' for the public.
I don't want to be interrupted by a ringtone while watching Van Helsing, but I think switching my Nokia to 'silence' enables this far enough, I don't need help from others silencing my cellphone.
Seriously... a "data embargo" against Nigeria may very well be deserved at this point. They've clearly got a problem enforcing their own anti-scam laws.
I think you're forgetting one big point here: the 419 scammers mostly don't scam from Nigeria. Instead, they are active in a lot other countries, with The Netherlands being at the top of the list. So, forcing Nigeria to follow the 419'ers all the way to Hell isn't going to stop this.
In a break from /. style I actually RTFA - it says 80 hours of MiniDisc use.
But keep in mind that current MiniDiscs (well, the ones from Sony) have battery runtime of 36 hours with a single normal penlite battery.
"Hundreds of area technophiles wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world's strongest supercomputers. Organizers hoped to break into the ranks of the world's top 500 supercomputers through the event, which they called "Flashmob I."
;)
Hundreds of geeks with their computers? And they want to build a top500-supercomputer? I think they'll need a little more power...
I can't imagine only 'hundreds' showed up, why stay at home when you could write history? Nice chance to get 15 minutes of fame
"Featuring a 367.6 KB changelog, the next Linux kernel is now ready for action. As always, enjoy!"
Why is it that Slashdot features *every* Linux kernel release? Every n-weeks a new Linux kernel is released, is it really necessary to post each release? At least don't post it to the frontpage. If you are a good admin, you should check out kernel.org every once in a while yourself.
Will this fix bugs in KDE?
No, since this is only the Linux kernel, it only fixes kernel bugs. However, if KDE didn't function properly because of bugs in the kernel, this could be solved by this new kernel release.
Step 4) Record song from Sound Card's 'Line In' using a high-quality program like Goldwave.
Yes, and this is where it goes 'wrong': recording a song non-digitally (analoge) isn't really good for the song's quality.
This is seriously cool, but it would even be cooler if it would be available for PDAs and laptops due to the better systems these devices are running on. Of course a mobile phone has the advantage of locating, thus the PDA or laptop should be equiped with a GPS device, or something like GPRS. However, it would make these things much cooler than on the mobile phone: imagine virtual worlds based on the real world. So you can in-game walk the same street as you're walking in-real-life, but only in-game it's packed with action, wheres the in-real-life version is as boring as always. Now that would be reality gaming!
Why am I not surprised Microsoft claims its an internal problem?
Actually, it would make more sense when Microsoft would claim it was an attack. Internal problems can be blaimed on the company (bad software design, bad system administration, etc.), external attacks can't, only for a lack of security or something like that. But in most cases, a company gets away quite well with an external attack.
This 'feature' is already trespassed! Take a look in this forum (Dutch, sorry). It says there that when you scan multiple bills you won't get an error, and even when you crop them one-by-one, you're still not stopped in your job. Screenshots available.
Toward the beginning of the book they have a great deal of light, explanatory material as they cover the basics of PHP. As they move towards more advanced topics there is less explanation and a tighter packing of information.
Hmm.. shouldn't that be the other way 'round? I mean, I prefer to have the easy (self-speaking) topics with a tighter packing of information and less explanation than the hard topics, where I could use all help.
If the majority of the public knows him as "DVD-Jon", why should we call him different? That would only make things confusing.
One of my friends gave me Mandrake Linux for Christmas. Cheap bastard.
Well, still better than SCO Linux, because then you would had ended up *paying* for your christmas gift.
You could give your old systems away to schools and such. The schools with younger kids (up to the age of 10-12) are still able to do a lot of things with older systems, like grammar and mathematics educational games, requiring not more than MS-DOS. Of course there are enough schools with a rather big IT budget, but there also enough school who have to do it with less, is my experience. And they will really be glad with your donations.
Asuming the host will be down sooner than you can say 'Slashdotted', are there any locations of .torrent files?