Again, social engineering will always beat hacking
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If Mitnick prooved anything, it was that social engineering will always be a greater threat than the script kiddie thing. Attacks from 'within' are more dangerous, and often harder to detect than outside attacks. I still believe the best measure of your systems' vulnerability is the inside-facing attitude your team and co-workers have towards your security methodologies.
Also, because the internet is as subject to fads and trends as any other social medium, I think you'll find 'script kiddy-ing' become less and less 'cool' over the days. There is always a renaissance towards the more hand-made, home-grown ways of doing something; in the case of hacking, this narrows the list of possible offenders considerably due to the increased need for talent and knowledge in such hacking styles.
Of course it's a hoax; everyone knows that if Saddam was really worth his evil dictator worth in salt, he'd be waiting for nintendo's Game Cube.
He could rule the adults by linking up the Game Cube's to a geostatic topsphere ATG missle array, and he could rule the kids by kicking their ass at Pokeman Stadium
Sites are kept alive by advertising. (slashdot included.)
Advertisers will stop paying for banner ads.
Advertising isn't going away.
The suggestions made in this article may or may not work, but they miss the point:
Advertisers have to find a way of making advertising/interesting/, and the advertising must offer value. A better model for advertising would be interactive-advertising whereby the advertiser offers a small service (sports scores to a cell phone, contest entries, etc) right from the banner (or whatever you want to call the advertising content space.)
Anyhow, its not going away.. those people with 'content-for-free' demands are living in a dreamworld. We all work for companies, and our companies rely on advetising, in whatever form, to be able to print your paycheque, so you can browse the web in your spare time and check out sites that are kept in business by advertising... etc, etc.
Stuff like this makes me wonder how much of Be's youth has to do with it.
Younger, leaner code, et al... anyone have any similar thoughts?
I do remember using a preview copy of Be 1 and trying out that terrain demo on a PowerPC. Seeing a mac render so many polygons at one time at full 35fps almost gave me a heart attack. I dont know the details of why Be is so good on the graphics side, but it looks like its still the same way..
Considering the huge user-base of Ever Quest and Diablo.. and the fact that most women probably never let on as such online, cause who wants to get hit on by HNGs? (Horny net geeks)
Anyhow, it wouldn't surprise me, and it shouldn't surprise me that you didn't know. I know some geeks that would consider a trade for a composite +6 bow as a proposition for courtship. If something has never been said/seen/heard before, best stop to think about why that is.
It's about advertising, eh?
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Content that masquerades as advertising is what this is all about... companies are attempting to avoid the barrage of advertising we claim we all fear.. on your car, on your house, your street.. whatever.
Eventually we'll run out of space for billboards. There are only 24 hours in the day to run ads on television and radio.
A webpage is essensially a billboard you can create out of mid-air. One page can house dozens of 'advertising' links or promotions, and it doesn't take up any space in our physical world.
The danger is that there is no reason to not show more advertising. If Disney shows 20,000,000 ads this year, and you're Fox, you are essentially forced to show 20,500,000 ads. Then Disney goes to 30,000,000 ads. A company running a branding campaign's mission is simply to show you their name/logo more ofte than The Other Guy (tm). Product quality is almost a moot point now. Virtually any corperation can create a soft-drink that tastes nice or an animated feature that you kids beg you to go see. So you just have to make sure you're on the top of the list in the person's head when they think about that soft-drink to drink or what movie to see or what toy to purchase. There's no reason to scale back, if you own the 'billboard' and it costs you a fixed value per year. There is absolutely nothing in the capitalist model that encourages scaling back on 'brand'-style campaigns. If you can just add another web page and find some way to make people come to it, then you've essentially side-stepped the physical limitations of advertising. And it's advertising that's keeping the internet alive; believe it. If something has never been said/seen/heard before, best stop to think about why that is.
C'mon, really, who expected this not to happen when SGI picked up Cray awhile back? Long gone are Cray's glory days, where it was whispered on the lips of computer geeks who swore theyd own one when they grew up.
I knew I shouldn't have sold all my lego. I really really wanted to become a world player in the volleyball robot field, but who knew lego would be the way to get me there! Arg!
Are they going to release this series next year? Town lego, space lego, Tecnique Lego, and Robot Volleyball Lego? Heehee.
Judging from how long it takes Blizzard to finishing their (quality, admittedly) releases, this should come out just about the time I'm a grandpa. (And I'm only 21 now.) Blizzard news releases are about the useless things on the planet.. you know it's coming, but don't start counting the days.
I havn't had/too/ much trouble finding women, but don't go to them).
I'll tell you one thing.. no matter how much you love computers, unless you're betting like the lottary, you actually have to expend some effort to go out and find one. Take a 2 month vacation from computers. Try not to use them outside of work. I'll try not to make it sound too material, but just like you have to spend a few hours getting that script done, finding yourself a soul mate also takes a little bit of deticated time and effort.
Good point. As always, we take woman==partener for granted. Unfortunately it will take many many years to move from this mindset.. it's far too ingrained in our culture, still. Maybe forever, but I hope not.
I must imagine you are in a difficult place - so many men around you in your workforce, but one wrong move and you could be in a very compromising position.
Hey, we could raise your taxes, and add a redundant system with the money from that? I'm assuming that in the States (I'm in Canada), the Emergency response department is funded by the govenment, no? Where do you get the money for a hot swap failover cluster?
> "This tax would extend to cover all recordable media (audio cassette tapes, CDs, video tapes, etc - not pre-recorded media), and is designed to help reduce copyright infringement of copyrighted materials...."
... but takes with it anyone using recordable media for legal purposes. Ergo, it's a blanket tax. Like charging everyone in the city for a 'parking' tax, regardless of whether or not you own a car.
"How acceptable is a safety-critical component of a system if it has been artificially evolved and nobody knows how it works?" he asks. "Will an expert in a white coat give a guarantee? And who can be sued if it fails?"
This is the funniest thing I have ever read (well, today.) Yeah! Who can be sued when it fails? What good is human existance without somebody or some organization to blame things on? Using one of these circuits and then suing the maker if it fails is like drinking until you sustain braindamage, and then suing the beer company. Is there no such thing as personal accountability anymore? Doesn't anyone take respocibility for their own actions? For that matter, why don't they just 'evolve' a circuit that always knows who to sue? (Although, when when that breaks down,/then/ who do you sue?)
Oh, incidentally, I'm an independant musician. Now I get to spend another 2-4 dollars per blank CD that ends up in the pockets of succesful Canadian musicians. I'm really happy about that too. As an intelligent, cultured musician, I'm proud to say my tax dollars will end up in the pockets of such amazing Canadian musicians as:
Brian Adams Celine Dion Sarah McLaughlan
And yes, I'm being just a tiny bit sarcastic. Thank god for mp3.com
I live in Canada, and tho I'd never move from it, let me say this: Canada will and does find a way to tax just about everything. It's the cost of social programs I suppose, but we also have this insane notion that the way to protect our culture and musicians is by taxing the consumer. So now, when I buy a CD, it'll be: 7% provicial tax (Ontario) 8% GST (federal tax) 74 cents per 15 minutes (so another 2 dollars)?
> The purchase of Cerent is Cisco's costliest to date and is the latest sign of the Internet's mind-boggling impact on corporate valuations. Cerent commanded the extraordinary price even though it has posted only $10 million in sales in 2 1/2 years in business and has never turned a profit.
Sure makes ya think. So far we can tune into audio, video, stocks, text, 3d all over the web. I wonder if stuff like this is still going to happen once we develop a protocol to pipe/reality/ through the Internet's intestines?
Actually, I'm just being silly. I'm assuming the technologies that Cerent is working on look to be the next big thing inso far as network infrastructure is concerned? Still, it's amazing how the face of business is changing. From RedHat's intergalactic stock launch to this, is common sense losing it's place in business and economics? Are we setting ourselves up for some sort of reality shock? Where is the money actually going to and coming from?
With the latest antics of Microsoft (re the NT/Alpha thing), maybe they could collaberate with Bill Gates, who seems to be providing my life with just as much humour these days as Cleese and the gang: "Monty Python's Flying Circuits?"
Alert, alert! Hide your kids!
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Hemos, you nitwit!:)
www.jenicam.com is pr0n!
www.jennicam.com is what you're looking for.
But thanks for linkin' to jenicam.com.. yet another page to bookmark.;)
Hey, infringements or not, it's always good to welcome another flavour in compu-world. Why.. it's almost even.. *sniff*.. nostalgic. Interesting to see where this goes...
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If Mitnick prooved anything, it was that social engineering will always be a greater threat than the script kiddie thing. Attacks from 'within' are more dangerous, and often harder to detect than outside attacks. I still believe the best measure of your systems' vulnerability is the inside-facing attitude your team and co-workers have towards your security methodologies.
Also, because the internet is as subject to fads and trends as any other social medium, I think you'll find 'script kiddy-ing' become less and less 'cool' over the days. There is always a renaissance towards the more hand-made, home-grown ways of doing something; in the case of hacking, this narrows the list of possible offenders considerably due to the increased need for talent and knowledge in such hacking styles.
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicacorn
Of course it's a hoax; everyone knows that if Saddam was really worth his evil dictator worth in salt, he'd be waiting for nintendo's Game Cube.
He could rule the adults by linking up the Game Cube's to a geostatic topsphere ATG missle array, and he could rule the kids by kicking their ass at Pokeman Stadium
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicacorn
Very very simple point:
/interesting/, and the advertising must offer value. A better model for advertising would be interactive-advertising whereby the advertiser offers a small service (sports scores to a cell phone, contest entries, etc) right from the banner (or whatever you want to call the advertising content space.)
.. those people with 'content-for-free' demands are living in a dreamworld. We all work for companies, and our companies rely on advetising, in whatever form, to be able to print your paycheque, so you can browse the web in your spare time and check out sites that are kept in business by advertising ... etc, etc.
Sites are kept alive by advertising. (slashdot included.)
Advertisers will stop paying for banner ads.
Advertising isn't going away.
The suggestions made in this article may or may not work, but they miss the point:
Advertisers have to find a way of making advertising
Anyhow, its not going away
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicacorn
Stuff like this makes me wonder how much of Be's youth has to do with it.
... anyone have any similar thoughts?
..
Younger, leaner code, et al
I do remember using a preview copy of Be 1 and trying out that terrain demo on a PowerPC. Seeing a mac render so many polygons at one time at full 35fps almost gave me a heart attack. I dont know the details of why Be is so good on the graphics side, but it looks like its still the same way
Considering the huge user-base of Ever Quest and Diablo .. and the fact that most women probably never let on as such online, cause who wants to get hit on by HNGs? (Horny net geeks)
Anyhow, it wouldn't surprise me, and it shouldn't surprise me that you didn't know. I know some geeks that would consider a trade for a composite +6 bow as a proposition for courtship.
If something has never been said/seen/heard before, best stop to think about why that is.
Content that masquerades as advertising is what this is all about ... companies are attempting to avoid the barrage of advertising we claim we all fear .. on your car, on your house, your street .. whatever.
Eventually we'll run out of space for billboards. There are only 24 hours in the day to run ads on television and radio.
A webpage is essensially a billboard you can create out of mid-air. One page can house dozens of 'advertising' links or promotions, and it doesn't take up any space in our physical world.
The danger is that there is no reason to not show more advertising. If Disney shows 20,000,000 ads this year, and you're Fox, you are essentially forced to show 20,500,000 ads. Then Disney goes to 30,000,000 ads. A company running a branding campaign's mission is simply to show you their name/logo more ofte than The Other Guy (tm). Product quality is almost a moot point now. Virtually any corperation can create a soft-drink that tastes nice or an animated feature that you kids beg you to go see. So you just have to make sure you're on the top of the list in the person's head when they think about that soft-drink to drink or what movie to see or what toy to purchase. There's no reason to scale back, if you own the 'billboard' and it costs you a fixed value per year. There is absolutely nothing in the capitalist model that encourages scaling back on 'brand'-style campaigns. If you can just add another web page and find some way to make people come to it, then you've essentially side-stepped the physical limitations of advertising. And it's advertising that's keeping the internet alive; believe it.
If something has never been said/seen/heard before, best stop to think about why that is.
C'mon, really, who expected this not to happen when SGI picked up Cray awhile back? Long gone are Cray's glory days, where it was whispered on the lips of computer geeks who swore theyd own one when they grew up.
Well, at least this pospones the time when McDonalds, SubWay and Wendy's will set up franchises in space.
At any rate, how much would it cost to stay in such a 'space hotel'? Do rich people really need more toys?
I knew I shouldn't have sold all my lego. I really really wanted to become a world player in the volleyball robot field, but who knew lego would be the way to get me there! Arg!
Are they going to release this series next year? Town lego, space lego, Tecnique Lego, and Robot Volleyball Lego? Heehee.
Judging from how long it takes Blizzard to finishing their (quality, admittedly) releases, this should come out just about the time I'm a grandpa. (And I'm only 21 now.) Blizzard news releases are about the useless things on the planet .. you know it's coming, but don't start counting the days.
G
I'm an idiot (I knew there was a reason for 'preview'). The above should read:
/too/ much trouble finding women.
.. blah blah, etc .. (see parent post)
(if you don't go to them).
I havn't had
I'll tell
I havn't had /too/ much trouble finding women, but don't go to them).
.. no matter how much you love computers, unless you're betting like the lottary, you actually have to expend some effort to go out and find one. Take a 2 month vacation from computers. Try not to use them outside of work. I'll try not to make it sound too material, but just like you have to spend a few hours getting that script done, finding yourself a soul mate also takes a little bit of deticated time and effort.
I'll tell you one thing
Good point. As always, we take woman==partener for granted. Unfortunately it will take many many years to move from this mindset .. it's far too ingrained in our culture, still. Maybe forever, but I hope not.
I must imagine you are in a difficult place - so many men around you in your workforce, but one wrong move and you could be in a very compromising position.
Hetro, gay supportin' geek,
SirSlud
Hey, we could raise your taxes, and add a redundant system with the money from that? I'm assuming that in the States (I'm in Canada), the Emergency response department is funded by the govenment, no? Where do you get the money for a hot swap failover cluster?
> "This tax would extend to cover all recordable media (audio cassette tapes, CDs, video tapes, etc - not pre-recorded media), and is designed to help reduce copyright infringement of copyrighted materials...."
... but takes with it anyone using recordable media for legal purposes. Ergo, it's a blanket tax. Like charging everyone in the city for a 'parking' tax, regardless of whether or not you own a car.
"How acceptable is a safety-critical component of a system if it has been artificially evolved and nobody knows how it works?" he asks. "Will an expert in a white coat give a guarantee? And who can be sued if it fails?"
/then/ who do you sue?)
This is the funniest thing I have ever read (well, today.) Yeah! Who can be sued when it fails? What good is human existance without somebody or some organization to blame things on? Using one of these circuits and then suing the maker if it fails is like drinking until you sustain braindamage, and then suing the beer company. Is there no such thing as personal accountability anymore? Doesn't anyone take respocibility for their own actions? For that matter, why don't they just 'evolve' a circuit that always knows who to sue? (Although, when when that breaks down,
actually, isn't that every government?
Oh, incidentally, I'm an independant musician. Now I get to spend another 2-4 dollars per blank CD that ends up in the pockets of succesful Canadian musicians. I'm really happy about that too. As an intelligent, cultured musician, I'm proud to say my tax dollars will end up in the pockets of such amazing Canadian musicians as:
Brian Adams
Celine Dion
Sarah McLaughlan
And yes, I'm being just a tiny bit sarcastic. Thank god for mp3.com
I live in Canada, and tho I'd never move from it, let me say this: Canada will and does find a way to tax just about everything. It's the cost of social programs I suppose, but we also have this insane notion that the way to protect our culture and musicians is by taxing the consumer. So now, when I buy a CD, it'll be:
7% provicial tax (Ontario)
8% GST (federal tax)
74 cents per 15 minutes (so another 2 dollars)?
I'll tell you though, I'm reaching my limit.
> The purchase of Cerent is Cisco's costliest to date and is the latest sign of the Internet's mind-boggling impact on corporate valuations. Cerent commanded the extraordinary price even though it has posted only $10 million in sales in 2 1/2 years in business and has never turned a profit.
/reality/ through the Internet's intestines?
Sure makes ya think. So far we can tune into audio, video, stocks, text, 3d all over the web. I wonder if stuff like this is still going to happen once we develop a protocol to pipe
Actually, I'm just being silly. I'm assuming the technologies that Cerent is working on look to be the next big thing inso far as network infrastructure is concerned? Still, it's amazing how the face of business is changing. From RedHat's intergalactic stock launch to this, is common sense losing it's place in business and economics? Are we setting ourselves up for some sort of reality shock? Where is the money actually going to and coming from?
And Manual, of Fawlty Towers fame could be their tech support rep:
"I know nothing, I know nothing!"
> I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
....
Uhoh, the HHGTTG quotes have come out to play! Is that a yellow bulldozer I see outside your window? I hope you've got the server mirrored
With the latest antics of Microsoft (re the NT/Alpha thing), maybe they could collaberate with Bill Gates, who seems to be providing my life with just as much humour these days as Cleese and the gang:
"Monty Python's Flying Circuits?"
Hemos, you nitwit! :)
.. yet another page to bookmark. ;)
www.jenicam.com is pr0n!
www.jennicam.com is what you're looking for.
But thanks for linkin' to jenicam.com
Hey, infringements or not, it's always good to welcome another flavour in compu-world. Why .. it's almost even .. *sniff* .. nostalgic. Interesting to see where this goes ...