"This is certainly a wake-up call, IM is just like any other communication media. The media needs to go hand in hand with security.'"
Should have been...
This is certainly a wake-up call, IM is just like any other "Microsoft Program". The Microsoft Program needs security."
There isn't a new yahoo virus flying around, nor is there an AIM virus flying around (sending a url that leads to a virus DOES NOT COUNT, as this is not the program itself spreading the virus but just a text link someone is stupid enough to click on) Nope, just Microsoft MSN viruses... Just like every other microsoft product?
So basically your father makes an ass of himself whenever people don't check signatures?
Nice, real nice.
Considering you can take the credit card home and wipe the signature off with some water or weak cleaner. Even if it's permanent marker. It's a waste of time for anyone to check the signature to begin with. I stopped signing my cards years ago. It rubbs off the back every 4-6 months anyway. Cashiers that notice always agree it'll just rub off so why bother. It's like they made the perfect perpetually erasable surface on those things...
For that $500 dollars. Do you get 512Mb of ram? Do you get a CD-RW drive? And a second, seperate DVD drive? Keyboard? Mouse? Monitor? Speakers?
Gee, that's funny. With a pc you can get all that for $400.
Hey, un-flamebait this person. Everything he said is completely true.
It goes so far that I live in a state where companies have begun going "non-smoking" All workers must submit to breath tests along with their drug tests to prove they haven't been smoking or they get fired. This greatly lowers the health insurance premiums.
That they actually admit in the article that they set up the linux server as the absolute default change no security settings leave it just as it comes right out of the box...
As they specifically state they left minimum configuration in place and linux users might do more.
Basically implying the study is a pile of sh*t since no company in there right mind would opt for a total linux solution and then leave the webservers running without changing any settings...
Yea, it doesnt matter if they were cracked or not... Its only 1,073,741,824 possible keys. Sit in a car for an hour or so with a key wired to a pda or computer and you can just try every combo.
Regards,
Steve
Except for the fact that after the first wrong key the car is programmed to automactically self destruck the fuel pump, lock the brakes, diable the transmission, disengage the steering column and take the electrical and computer systems offline...
You then have to take the car to a dealer and have half of it replaced and hand unlocked...
And that's just on a saturn from 3 years ago!
So maybe you wouldnt get so far with that brute force attack?
Guess we finally found a good use for those magnetic key storage boxes.:)
Best of all, they stick to tinfoil hats... (tinfoil, not aluminum foil so don't even go there)
Isn't who the heck uses such a small secutiry key, but who the heck makes one that broadcasts at all? A metal key in a metal ignition has no reason to broadcast its code through the air!
The robots can tell the difference between a team mate, which is 32 centimeters high... and a 5' to 6' high human being... Why does that not sound like much of an accomplishment. Its not like anything but the opposing team is going to come running at the robot with the ball...
It can also determine that the only mid sized spherical object with a black and white pattern on it is in fact a ball...
Once again doesnt sound like much of an accomplishment.
would Nintendo pass on the ability to come out with their own "Plug this into your pc and play games online against other people" sort of thing? With the level of graphics this thing has now I'm sure there's gonna be a few new features and addons coming out...
A phrase I heard years ago, though I don't remember where. It was something like...
"Sure, we could hundreds of miles per gallon out of todays cars, just as long as you don't care how fast you accelerate or how fast you get there..."
Personally, I could deal with a lot less acceleration...
This implies you'd actually be enough of a moron to go and try it?
As if the fact that it's our "Wonderful" --sarcasm president's Pet War isn't enough to drive you out of it, the fact that it's being repeatedly expressed that they do not want us over there should be.
Why would you want to be shot at, possibly abducted and in that mess anyway.
Might have something to do with the price of the accessories too.
50$ for a logitec optical mouse? Um. Sure. I payed 10 a month ago, but 50 sounds... yeah. Great.
No dark matter/energy, no confusing theories, new comcepts or new forms of anything.
The real reason?
All the other galaxies have better telecopes than us. They saw us coming and decided they better make a run for it while they can.:-D
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" In the US, it's illegal to BE passed on the right."
You must live in a different US than I live in. In the US that I live in, we have these things called "passing lanes." These lanes can be on the right, or the left. In fact, they even teach this concept in "drivers education" about it being legal to pass as long as there is a clear and designated lane in which to do it...
"I spend a lot of my time doing interstate driving. As such, I realize that there are plenty of assholes out there doing 65mph in the passing lane where the speed limit is 70. But drivers who tailgate in the passing lane (or any lane, really) are IMO just as much of a risk for accidents."
Wow. That's pretty cool. Cause the 3 states I drive in routinely have this law about "2 miles over." It means that your allowed 2mph leeway from the speedlimit, passing or not. Since interstate is 65mph, I guess that means 65+2=70 by your logic.
"Nine times out of ten, the driver in front of you is not going to "get the message" and yield his position."
Perhaps that's because 9 times out of 10, the person who is stuck behind another car is some asshole trying to go 85mph+ and weaving through traffic cutting people off, occasionally flipping the middle finger at them when he cant get around fast enough. It's the people who drive like complete morons that piss the rest of us off enough that we don't feel like moving every time someone can't save a little fuel and join the convoy.
Pretty cool guess. Except then how would those laptop solar panels work that you can buy to use a laptop while camping? They arent several meters across, theyre not even 2 feet across.
And a solar powered home wouldnt work so well with 20-30 watts per meter, since they only put up a few panels to power the whole home...
All cell phones are already a "Do Not Call" telemarketing item. You don't have to be on any list because its the same as a fax machine. You pay the charges for the call because its your minutes, and so they can be reported and fined with no signup.
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This statement...
"This is certainly a wake-up call, IM is just like any other communication media. The media needs to go hand in hand with security.'"
Should have been...
This is certainly a wake-up call, IM is just like any other "Microsoft Program". The Microsoft Program needs security."
There isn't a new yahoo virus flying around, nor is there an AIM virus flying around (sending a url that leads to a virus DOES NOT COUNT, as this is not the program itself spreading the virus but just a text link someone is stupid enough to click on) Nope, just Microsoft MSN viruses... Just like every other microsoft product?
In That case, you need to see where I live... From the customers I get, I'd say it's closer to 90%...
So basically your father makes an ass of himself whenever people don't check signatures?
Nice, real nice.
Considering you can take the credit card home and wipe the signature off with some water or weak cleaner. Even if it's permanent marker. It's a waste of time for anyone to check the signature to begin with. I stopped signing my cards years ago. It rubbs off the back every 4-6 months anyway. Cashiers that notice always agree it'll just rub off so why bother. It's like they made the perfect perpetually erasable surface on those things...
Why does it always seem to be large cities that people are making these complaints from?
Half the time when I find/read a site complaining about some company it's customer complaints about the service in blah blah megatropolis...
Do all these people really not put it together in their heads that it's the local store they go to that sucks, not the whole company?
For that $500 dollars. Do you get 512Mb of ram? Do you get a CD-RW drive? And a second, seperate DVD drive? Keyboard? Mouse? Monitor? Speakers? Gee, that's funny. With a pc you can get all that for $400.
" Because slashdot still does not have a "-1, RTF summary you insolent clod"" Should be a -5 RTFM with a 2 week ban from posting on slashdot.
Hey, un-flamebait this person. Everything he said is completely true. It goes so far that I live in a state where companies have begun going "non-smoking" All workers must submit to breath tests along with their drug tests to prove they haven't been smoking or they get fired. This greatly lowers the health insurance premiums.
That they actually admit in the article that they set up the linux server as the absolute default change no security settings leave it just as it comes right out of the box... As they specifically state they left minimum configuration in place and linux users might do more. Basically implying the study is a pile of sh*t since no company in there right mind would opt for a total linux solution and then leave the webservers running without changing any settings...
A link! Haha... I bet you've never even seen the "Abandon Your Car" light. Such a funny little light too.
Yea, it doesnt matter if they were cracked or not... Its only 1,073,741,824 possible keys. Sit in a car for an hour or so with a key wired to a pda or computer and you can just try every combo. Regards, Steve Except for the fact that after the first wrong key the car is programmed to automactically self destruck the fuel pump, lock the brakes, diable the transmission, disengage the steering column and take the electrical and computer systems offline... You then have to take the car to a dealer and have half of it replaced and hand unlocked... And that's just on a saturn from 3 years ago! So maybe you wouldnt get so far with that brute force attack?
Guess we finally found a good use for those magnetic key storage boxes. :)
Best of all, they stick to tinfoil hats... (tinfoil, not aluminum foil so don't even go there)
Isn't who the heck uses such a small secutiry key, but who the heck makes one that broadcasts at all? A metal key in a metal ignition has no reason to broadcast its code through the air!
The robots can tell the difference between a team mate, which is 32 centimeters high... and a 5' to 6' high human being...
Why does that not sound like much of an accomplishment.
Its not like anything but the opposing team is going to come running at the robot with the ball...
It can also determine that the only mid sized spherical object with a black and white pattern on it is in fact a ball...
Once again doesnt sound like much of an accomplishment.
How slowly do they do this at the present time?
on my dreamcast. NesterDC can process 1024 roms on a cd, and apply game genie codes and do save and load game states...
would Nintendo pass on the ability to come out with their own "Plug this into your pc and play games online against other people" sort of thing? With the level of graphics this thing has now I'm sure there's gonna be a few new features and addons coming out...
A phrase I heard years ago, though I don't remember where. It was something like... "Sure, we could hundreds of miles per gallon out of todays cars, just as long as you don't care how fast you accelerate or how fast you get there..." Personally, I could deal with a lot less acceleration...
The RIAA a window of about, what, 5 seconds to notice an illegal song download happening? lol...
This implies you'd actually be enough of a moron to go and try it? As if the fact that it's our "Wonderful" --sarcasm president's Pet War isn't enough to drive you out of it, the fact that it's being repeatedly expressed that they do not want us over there should be. Why would you want to be shot at, possibly abducted and in that mess anyway.
Might have something to do with the price of the accessories too. 50$ for a logitec optical mouse? Um. Sure. I payed 10 a month ago, but 50 sounds... yeah. Great.
No dark matter/energy, no confusing theories, new comcepts or new forms of anything. The real reason? All the other galaxies have better telecopes than us. They saw us coming and decided they better make a run for it while they can. :-D
" In the US, it's illegal to BE passed on the right." You must live in a different US than I live in. In the US that I live in, we have these things called "passing lanes." These lanes can be on the right, or the left. In fact, they even teach this concept in "drivers education" about it being legal to pass as long as there is a clear and designated lane in which to do it...
"I spend a lot of my time doing interstate driving. As such, I realize that there are plenty of assholes out there doing 65mph in the passing lane where the speed limit is 70. But drivers who tailgate in the passing lane (or any lane, really) are IMO just as much of a risk for accidents." Wow. That's pretty cool. Cause the 3 states I drive in routinely have this law about "2 miles over." It means that your allowed 2mph leeway from the speedlimit, passing or not. Since interstate is 65mph, I guess that means 65+2=70 by your logic. "Nine times out of ten, the driver in front of you is not going to "get the message" and yield his position." Perhaps that's because 9 times out of 10, the person who is stuck behind another car is some asshole trying to go 85mph+ and weaving through traffic cutting people off, occasionally flipping the middle finger at them when he cant get around fast enough. It's the people who drive like complete morons that piss the rest of us off enough that we don't feel like moving every time someone can't save a little fuel and join the convoy.
Wrong.
The usb joke would actually be.
PCI-X = Full-Speed 2.0
PCI-Express = Hi-Speed 2.0
Or before they changed the numbers...
PCI-X = Full-Speed 1.1
PCI-Express = Hi-Speed 2.0
Pretty cool guess. Except then how would those laptop solar panels work that you can buy to use a laptop while camping? They arent several meters across, theyre not even 2 feet across. And a solar powered home wouldnt work so well with 20-30 watts per meter, since they only put up a few panels to power the whole home...
All cell phones are already a "Do Not Call" telemarketing item. You don't have to be on any list because its the same as a fax machine. You pay the charges for the call because its your minutes, and so they can be reported and fined with no signup.