Part of the allure may be that carrying out such an attack is a challenging problem to solve. Engineers are all about solving problems, figuring out puzzles, coming up with elegant solutions.
of the two is the malware threat. Most countries have labor restrictions (when i went to an improv festival in Toronto, Canadian officials wanted to be certain I wasn't there to make $25 or so performing somewhere some night). But the risk of getting a little extra code in your outsourced project is something about which execs ought to be aware.
Indeed.
Sarah works at SCO. Recent moves spur her to seek other employment. She's unhireable. Why? Because she didn't immeditately quit and beg for quarters on the street until she got a new job?
What an insane overreaction.
No, kid, you don't have to use computers on this job. You just use a shovel.
Here's your card. Swipe it at the terminal there to clock in. It will print up the address and directions of where you'll work for the day.
Then go to tools and swipe the card to open the gate. Grab a shovel, swipe your card at the terminal, and scan the barcode on the handle of the shovel to check it out of tools.
Got it?
In fact, some churches have paid fines for failing to pay for licenses for copyrighted hymns which they published in their own hymnals or bulletins.
It can be quite costly.
That's actually interesting - how many sites have contingency plans for the/. effect? How many businesses?
It's not just/., but just about any media can refer people to a real business site. For small companies, this could bring them down for some time. Imagine the "Bruce Almighty" effect, only with some business with a small-to-medium capacity connection, bombarded just because someone used http://www.slashdotme.com/ or spam@.me.into.oblivion.org in their movie.
The fact that so many sites are taken down by the/. effect causes me to believe that few sites and those who run them are truly prepared.
According to The Public Purpose, in 1996 the US had 1.058 traffic fatalities per 100,000,000 passenger miles.
The statistics aren't directly comparable because the auto statistics are per passenger mile and the shuttle statistics are per mile, but if we assume most US vehicles have a single occupant (my observation while driving), being in the shuttle is about 4 times as dangerous per mile as riding in a car.
It's been a long time since I took algebra, and I'll admit I got a little lost in the A B C...X Y Z of your post.
I remember reading AudioGalaxy's agreement saying that selling the list is how they support their service. Unless legislators want to make it illegal for me to enter into such an agreement, these agreements are going to be around.
Here's the thing: If you give me permission to sell information about you, and I sell it to someone who does something illegal with it, am I complicit in the illegal act for selling the information? Are you complicit in the crime for agreeing to let me sell it?
Judging from how much spam I got within a day of posting on slashdot with my special slashdot email address, I'll bet Mister Drecksel will get plenty of spam at his pcd@pwlaw.com address very soon.
Or Microsoft will have a registry for World Wide Windows. Imagine your computer using DLLs installed on webservers around the world! Finally, all will be Microsoft!
It will take forever for the 3d holograms to load over a broadband cable connection.
Well, sure, if you're still using that lousy broadband cable connection. What kind of ancient equipment would you be using? Everyone will be on fiber by then, Luddite!
Also, the psychic popup ads will be a real pain....
Nah, you won't even notice them. You'll be programmed to not notice them.
The front line in the war against spam is inside an unmarked building in Northern Virginia, where a bank of computer screens tracks the volume of e-mail pouring into the system used by America Online's 35 million subscribers.
If AOL is the front line, then it's "Springtime for Spammer and Pornography!"
The 40% figure is interesting - I wonder how they calculated that number?
At work, my email is about 80% spam, 15% inhouse email, and 5% legitimate internet email. My new slashdot@cindik.com address (started about two weeks ago and going away real soon now) is 100% spam (most of which is caught by SpamAssassin).
Hello, we'd like to ask you some questions about why you asked to be put on the national do not call registry.
We'd like to send you a small gift for your time.
The gift is free, except for shipping and handling.
Do I have permission to send you this gift and bill you for the shipping and handling?
Now please rate the following items on a scale of one to six, one being "an offer that makes me want to be on the do not call list" and six being "an offer that makes me wish I was not on the do not call list".
I think people are overly concerned about what our leaders are doing. They're our leaders - we should trust whatever they decide. I'd like to quote a great military (and medical) mind. (He must be great, he's on television in the USA.)
"The way I see it, unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free." - Maj. Frank Marion Burns, M.D. 4077th MASH
What technologies or devices have gone far beyond your expectations?
The feeble red light from the first light emitting diode could never have suggested full color displays and replacements for automotive tail lights, traffic lights, and even indoor area lighting. I was amazed to find white LED-based 120V incandescent light bulb replcements.
And to think there are still so many Earthlings who think that LED watches are a pretty cool idea.
is about as likely as making automobile superhighways safe for children. Unless you want to severely limit the traffic, it's not going to be "safe".
There is no substitute for parental supervision. I'd tell parents:
You bought the computer for your child. You paid for the internet service. You brought the big scary electronic world into your house and set your child in front of it. It's not the government's job to make it safe for your kid.
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Part of the allure may be that carrying out such an attack is a challenging problem to solve. Engineers are all about solving problems, figuring out puzzles, coming up with elegant solutions.
This story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/ 12/1755218) about a DoD router in space says they're contracting with IntelSat.
According to this story, they've a) been hacked and b) have links to Hezbolah.
Why would our government involve a company that's incompetent and has links to terrori...
...never mind.
You'll never be locked out with Microsoft. We make windows that anyone can open from the outside.
of the two is the malware threat. Most countries have labor restrictions (when i went to an improv festival in Toronto, Canadian officials wanted to be certain I wasn't there to make $25 or so performing somewhere some night). But the risk of getting a little extra code in your outsourced project is something about which execs ought to be aware.
Indeed. Sarah works at SCO. Recent moves spur her to seek other employment. She's unhireable. Why? Because she didn't immeditately quit and beg for quarters on the street until she got a new job? What an insane overreaction.
No, kid, you don't have to use computers on this job. You just use a shovel. Here's your card. Swipe it at the terminal there to clock in. It will print up the address and directions of where you'll work for the day. Then go to tools and swipe the card to open the gate. Grab a shovel, swipe your card at the terminal, and scan the barcode on the handle of the shovel to check it out of tools. Got it?
I wonder how many "real jobs" are left that involve no contact whatsoever with computers.
In fact, some churches have paid fines for failing to pay for licenses for copyrighted hymns which they published in their own hymnals or bulletins. It can be quite costly.
That's actually interesting - how many sites have contingency plans for the /. effect? How many businesses?
It's not just /., but just about any media can refer people to a real business site. For small companies, this could bring them down for some time. Imagine the "Bruce Almighty" effect, only with some business with a small-to-medium capacity connection, bombarded just because someone used http://www.slashdotme.com/ or spam@.me.into.oblivion.org in their movie.
The fact that so many sites are taken down by the /. effect causes me to believe that few sites and those who run them are truly prepared.
According to NASA, the shuttle orbits at 17,440 mph miles per hour and all shuttle missions combined have logged 19240 hours, for a total of about 333256040 miles. This works out to one fatality per 23,804,002 miles travelled.
According to The Public Purpose, in 1996 the US had 1.058 traffic fatalities per 100,000,000 passenger miles.
The statistics aren't directly comparable because the auto statistics are per passenger mile and the shuttle statistics are per mile, but if we assume most US vehicles have a single occupant (my observation while driving), being in the shuttle is about 4 times as dangerous per mile as riding in a car.
It's been a long time since I took algebra, and I'll admit I got a little lost in the A B C...X Y Z of your post.
I remember reading AudioGalaxy's agreement saying that selling the list is how they support their service. Unless legislators want to make it illegal for me to enter into such an agreement, these agreements are going to be around.
Here's the thing: If you give me permission to sell information about you, and I sell it to someone who does something illegal with it, am I complicit in the illegal act for selling the information? Are you complicit in the crime for agreeing to let me sell it?
Judging from how much spam I got within a day of posting on slashdot with my special slashdot email address, I'll bet Mister Drecksel will get plenty of spam at his pcd@pwlaw.com address very soon.
Maybe we'll get the .web registry to go through.
Or Microsoft will have a registry for World Wide Windows. Imagine your computer using DLLs installed on webservers around the world! Finally, all will be Microsoft!
It will take forever for the 3d holograms to load over a broadband cable connection.
Well, sure, if you're still using that lousy broadband cable connection. What kind of ancient equipment would you be using? Everyone will be on fiber by then, Luddite!
Also, the psychic popup ads will be a real pain....
Nah, you won't even notice them. You'll be programmed to not notice them.
In fact, you never read this message.
Hook this into the artificial hippocampus mentioned in another /. article.
Forget the video blog, you can invite the rest of the world into your brain! Shades of Herman's Head!
Marijuana does not increase terrorism.
Marijuana increases typographical errors.
The direct link would be to http://www.snopes.com/rumors/putcall.htm.
If it will make you feel better, I'll send you a giant pic of Janet Reno out of her bikini.
The front line in the war against spam is inside an unmarked building in Northern Virginia, where a bank of computer screens tracks the volume of e-mail pouring into the system used by America Online's 35 million subscribers.
If AOL is the front line, then it's "Springtime for Spammer and Pornography!"
The 40% figure is interesting - I wonder how they calculated that number?
At work, my email is about 80% spam, 15% inhouse email, and 5% legitimate internet email. My new slashdot@cindik.com address (started about two weeks ago and going away real soon now) is 100% spam (most of which is caught by SpamAssassin).
Or at least someone who is wearing the underwear of the opposite sex
I see it as...
Hello, we'd like to ask you some questions about why you asked to be put on the national do not call registry.
We'd like to send you a small gift for your time.
The gift is free, except for shipping and handling.
Do I have permission to send you this gift and bill you for the shipping and handling?
Now please rate the following items on a scale of one to six, one being "an offer that makes me want to be on the do not call list" and six being "an offer that makes me wish I was not on the do not call list".
An exciting credit opportunity
Aluminum siding for your home
A second mortgage for your home
A subscription to Newsweek
Switching to Chum and Exchange Long Distance
ad nauseum.
I think people are overly concerned about what our leaders are doing. They're our leaders - we should trust whatever they decide. I'd like to quote a great military (and medical) mind. (He must be great, he's on television in the USA.)
"The way I see it, unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free." - Maj. Frank Marion Burns, M.D. 4077th MASH
What technologies or devices have gone far beyond your expectations?
The feeble red light from the first light emitting diode could never have suggested full color displays and replacements for automotive tail lights, traffic lights, and even indoor area lighting. I was amazed to find white LED-based 120V incandescent light bulb replcements.
And to think there are still so many Earthlings who think that LED watches are a pretty cool idea.
is about as likely as making automobile superhighways safe for children. Unless you want to severely limit the traffic, it's not going to be "safe".
There is no substitute for parental supervision. I'd tell parents:
You bought the computer for your child. You paid for the internet service. You brought the big scary electronic world into your house and set your child in front of it. It's not the government's job to make it safe for your kid.