Are these software companies simply selling a product and should not be concerned with how it is used or are they contributing to the problems of these repressive regimes?
Uh...do Antivirus vendors really want to rid the world of viruses?
Do lawyers really want a crime-free America?
Does the president want the war to end?
The answer, of course, is no. Money makes the world go round, and nobody cares about anything else.
are you honestly putting forward as a serious complaint the fact that Verizon doesn't sit back and let people hack their commercial, money-making service? if you don't like the service, don't use it.
No, I'm complaining that I can't do basic customization to something I own without paying for it. I mean, why have a color phone if I can't add pictures to it? Sure I can pay 1.99 per month per photo, which turns into $24 a YEAR for a stupid little customization, none of which is clearly stated when you purchase the phone. And this sort of feature should be free, hell I couldn't even e-mail pictures to my phone. Imagine having to pay a fee for every software application and picture on your computer, and not just one fee, a monthly fee, everyone would be trying to hack their way around it.
And as far as not using their service...I don't, and recommend nobody ever does.
Verizon has consistantly pissed me off since I got their service, they've killed Kannel on their network, upgraded to prevent hacking the GetItNow service, and the only way to add custom anything is to locate an impossible to find cable & hack it using
BitPim
Sure, you CAN add custom photos and ringtones, which I might do if I had to pay ONCE for, but Verizon charges a monthly fee just for having them on your phone. It's a blatent ripoff and I got tired of being fucked by Verizon.
I don't have any input on them crippling bluetooth, but frankly it doesn't suprise me. This company is a shit providor and I don't understand why anyone has their service. I'm sure they will offer better Bluetooth enabled devices, with many new features, as long as you pay X amount per month to have them enabled, and a fee for using them, and the fee for airtime, and the activation fee, and...
The only way I would ever find this useful, is if the option to purchase w/ a DVD copy would come *AFTER* you've watched the movie. That way you can tell if it's worth getting a hard copy.
i.e. You purchase the movie for $3.95 or whatever, at the end of the movie, you're prompted to purchase a discounted hardcopy at 13.05 ($17 - $PPV).
This is the only way I see it to be useful, otherwise you wind up with the same 'But I don't want to pay for a shitty movie' problem.
I worked for a company once that used pre-determined passwords, that were never changable, and the passwords were always a dictionary word of
What's wrong with that idea?
Well, we USED to be able to run our own free SMS services that only cost airtime via kannel, but Verizon quickly upgraded their network to stop people from bypassing their overly-inflated rates.
I've always thought of the word hacker as being a clever, knowledgeable, well-rounded programmer. I've really got no idea, but this seems like where the word would have originated from...I mean anyone who can really get into debugging, finding exploits, and reading hex would be a hacker.
But the media has really managed to screw up this word, and now nobody seems to know what it means. It can mean knowledgeable/evil or constructive/deconstuctive at the same time. And that seems to be the reason why we've made two labels, white hat or black hat hackers...
Well what the hell are crackers then? Wasn't crackers the word were using to describe the black hats? Or are the black-hats only out for personal gain, and the crackers are are only out to destroy whatever they can? Are those the right terms now?
And then there's the social engineers, people that can talk someone out of their info, or get them to do any number of things without using any technical ability. I guess you could consider these people to be hackers...but they're Social Engineers, we have an entire word for that now...
But to answer the question, no...by my definition you can't be a hacker without being a programmer.
Small gullies on Mars were carved by water recently and would be...
The post mentions this 'Recently' word too...when exactly was recently? Human lifetime recently? Century recently? Millennium recently? or are we talking age of the solar system recently?
Agreed, the size would be a problem...but if you're squeezing a terrabyte of data onto a disc, you'd think they could at least make it 1/6th the size, and put it in a small plastic holder, and you'd still get about 166GB's worth of storage...
I mean, I can't think of one other storage medium that holds the data out in the air. Floppy disks, zip disks, tape drives, flash cards, USB drives, hard drives, all of these have some sort of physical protection built around the sensitive part. Yet, the most popular method of storing data doesn't...it just seems like they're a made-to-fail product.
And...why do we keep insisting on using new technology on an old standard? That'd be like using a dial up accelerator.
Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of these unprotected, vulnerable, piece of shit mediums that we're suppost to hold our data on?
CD's can get scratched horribly with normal use, and it's even worse when you get a disc with more data crammed into it. I remember years ago seeing computers with larger CD-ROMS that took an entire jewel case, with the CD inside...why is it that years later, we're acutally using WORSE technology? I mean put the fucking thing in a case, I'm tired of my CD's getting scratched.
...It said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees computer network...The PLA has likely established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems.
Wish I could find pictures but at least I found the cheat again, apparently, from wikipedia:
Another Easter egg actually came about from a rumored glitch. In the original arcade version of the first Mortal Kombat, a rumor stated that the game would sometimes present problems due to a bug and mix two characters together. This would usually be two of the ninja characters, resulting in a ninja in a semi-red suit. The computer would display his name as "ERMAC", short for "error macro." As word spread, people thought they had found a secret character
I can't say I remember the name Ermac, but the character always looked like some sort of glitch, the first time I saw it, it was Sonya, and sometimes the game would freeze in the middle of the battle...strange tho
Saw her/him/it a few times, if I remember right you had to get a flawless on everything, including reptile, then get to the double matches, and do the uppercut/moonshadow/whatever thing, and you'd get a different version of reptile!
It was normally a glowing green Sonya, but I remember getting different glowing green characters there too, and they were hard as hell to beat.
any dictionary attack worth it's weight will have found 80%+ of those accounts anyway
Uhm, no...
e-mail usernames are hardly EVER in a dictionary, because they're usually abbreviations or otherwise obsecured.
any <random_string_of_characters> @ aol.com will almost certainly come up with a match
A brute force attack would never find 80% of those emails, at least not in any reasonable amount of time. I mean figure it out, figuring at base 36, to account for letters and numbers, a six character username yields 2,176,782,336 possibilities.
Now, if you were to send 1 email to each address every second, it would take you 2176782336/(24*60*60) = 25,194 days, or just over 69 years to send to each of those addresses, and that's only for all combinations of 1-6 character usernames.
come up with a match, or at least a partial match.
What the hell is a partial match? Last time I checked, e-mail addresses can't contain wildcards.
This would be great for getting the percieved "attitude" out of tech support calls.
Yeah right, this system would totally blow for tech support QA. Working tech support you're required to be a jerk...the trick is to be a jerk and fix the issue, then you're labled as smart.
Advertising just seems to keep getting more and more out of hand, it's bad enough I have to sit through 10 commercials when I paid $10 to see Star Wars. Now I get to PAY for a game AND watch their god damn advertisements.
I don't like having products crammed down my throat, if I'm interested in something, I'll look it up ON MY OWN. This is why I love my Tivo.
If they're going to start forcing me to watch their advertisements in game, AND collect how many seconds I sat around hating the goddamn thing. Then we should also be getting the game for a major discount, or free. Which of course would never happen, and personally, I wouldn't feel guilty at all for pirating this game, although I probably wouldn't play it cuz of the goddamn ads.
I once worked with a guy who lived in Bosnia, and according to him, satellite equipment must be purchased, but all the channels are free once you get the equipment setup. And why?? Because of the FUCKING commercials. They're already making money off the advertised product, why are they charging us more?
And TV commercials are getting worse too, every channel is synchronized so you can't get away from them by skipping channels, and they run them every 10 minutes. But at least TV is somewhat regulated.
Not like the goddamn internet, where advertisers are free to do WHATEVER they want, spam, spim, malware, adware, spyware, and general scumware. I DON'T WANT TO ENLARGE MY FUCKING PENIS! It just goes to show you how pathetically desperate and far these people are willing to go.
But still, I wish them all the same fate as Vardan Kushnir </RANT>
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Where's the story here?
I like food with my salt.
Wow, this guy is so fucked...
Not only releasing a self propagating worm, but openly confessing to copyright infringement in his explanation.
If I were Samy, I'd be on the first flight out of the country.
Are these software companies simply selling a product and should not be concerned with how it is used or are they contributing to the problems of these repressive regimes?
Uh...do Antivirus vendors really want to rid the world of viruses?
Do lawyers really want a crime-free America?
Does the president want the war to end?
The answer, of course, is no. Money makes the world go round, and nobody cares about anything else.
How old were you when people stopped reading and started watching?
I admit I don't read much anymore except off a monitor, but reading requires thinking. A dog can watch and listen.
On a less serious note, this was already tried on cereal boxes in Minority Report, with mixed customer acceptance.
Resilin condoms. One size really does fit all.
Good for 100 million uses!
are you honestly putting forward as a serious complaint the fact that Verizon doesn't sit back and let people hack their commercial, money-making service? if you don't like the service, don't use it.
No, I'm complaining that I can't do basic customization to something I own without paying for it. I mean, why have a color phone if I can't add pictures to it? Sure I can pay 1.99 per month per photo, which turns into $24 a YEAR for a stupid little customization, none of which is clearly stated when you purchase the phone. And this sort of feature should be free, hell I couldn't even e-mail pictures to my phone. Imagine having to pay a fee for every software application and picture on your computer, and not just one fee, a monthly fee, everyone would be trying to hack their way around it.
And as far as not using their service...I don't, and recommend nobody ever does.
Verizon has consistantly pissed me off since I got their service, they've killed Kannel on their network, upgraded to prevent hacking the GetItNow service, and the only way to add custom anything is to locate an impossible to find cable & hack it using BitPim
...
Sure, you CAN add custom photos and ringtones, which I might do if I had to pay ONCE for, but Verizon charges a monthly fee just for having them on your phone. It's a blatent ripoff and I got tired of being fucked by Verizon.
I don't have any input on them crippling bluetooth, but frankly it doesn't suprise me. This company is a shit providor and I don't understand why anyone has their service. I'm sure they will offer better Bluetooth enabled devices, with many new features, as long as you pay X amount per month to have them enabled, and a fee for using them, and the fee for airtime, and the activation fee, and
The only way I would ever find this useful, is if the option to purchase w/ a DVD copy would come *AFTER* you've watched the movie. That way you can tell if it's worth getting a hard copy.
i.e. You purchase the movie for $3.95 or whatever, at the end of the movie, you're prompted to purchase a discounted hardcopy at 13.05 ($17 - $PPV).
This is the only way I see it to be useful, otherwise you wind up with the same 'But I don't want to pay for a shitty movie' problem.
I guess I should stick to .torrents so the Firm of the Actors Guild won't sue me for reading only seven pages.
Yea, if the FAGS try to fuck me I'm gonna make sure I take the whole thing...
my karma is sinking into a black hole
I worked for a company once that used pre-determined passwords, that were never changable, and the passwords were always a dictionary word of
What's wrong with that idea?
The point here is, Mac users are stupid.
Well, we USED to be able to run our own free SMS services that only cost airtime via kannel, but Verizon quickly upgraded their network to stop people from bypassing their overly-inflated rates.
Fuck Verisign, er...Verizon
Wow, this page is slashdotted already and there's no posts...
That's what happens when you use a Mac.
I've always thought of the word hacker as being a clever, knowledgeable, well-rounded programmer. I've really got no idea, but this seems like where the word would have originated from...I mean anyone who can really get into debugging, finding exploits, and reading hex would be a hacker.
But the media has really managed to screw up this word, and now nobody seems to know what it means. It can mean knowledgeable/evil or constructive/deconstuctive at the same time. And that seems to be the reason why we've made two labels, white hat or black hat hackers...
Well what the hell are crackers then? Wasn't crackers the word were using to describe the black hats? Or are the black-hats only out for personal gain, and the crackers are are only out to destroy whatever they can? Are those the right terms now?
And then there's the social engineers, people that can talk someone out of their info, or get them to do any number of things without using any technical ability. I guess you could consider these people to be hackers...but they're Social Engineers, we have an entire word for that now...
But to answer the question, no...by my definition you can't be a hacker without being a programmer.
Small gullies on Mars were carved by water recently and would be...
The post mentions this 'Recently' word too...when exactly was recently? Human lifetime recently? Century recently? Millennium recently? or are we talking age of the solar system recently?
Agreed, the size would be a problem...but if you're squeezing a terrabyte of data onto a disc, you'd think they could at least make it 1/6th the size, and put it in a small plastic holder, and you'd still get about 166GB's worth of storage...
I mean, I can't think of one other storage medium that holds the data out in the air. Floppy disks, zip disks, tape drives, flash cards, USB drives, hard drives, all of these have some sort of physical protection built around the sensitive part. Yet, the most popular method of storing data doesn't...it just seems like they're a made-to-fail product.
And...why do we keep insisting on using new technology on an old standard? That'd be like using a dial up accelerator.
Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of these unprotected, vulnerable, piece of shit mediums that we're suppost to hold our data on?
CD's can get scratched horribly with normal use, and it's even worse when you get a disc with more data crammed into it. I remember years ago seeing computers with larger CD-ROMS that took an entire jewel case, with the CD inside...why is it that years later, we're acutally using WORSE technology? I mean put the fucking thing in a case, I'm tired of my CD's getting scratched.
Did anyone read the second page?
...It said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees computer network...The PLA has likely established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems.
RBCP does it again!
http://www.phonelosers.org
Wish I could find pictures but at least I found the cheat again, apparently, from wikipedia:
Another Easter egg actually came about from a rumored glitch. In the original arcade version of the first Mortal Kombat, a rumor stated that the game would sometimes present problems due to a bug and mix two characters together. This would usually be two of the ninja characters, resulting in a ninja in a semi-red suit. The computer would display his name as "ERMAC", short for "error macro." As word spread, people thought they had found a secret character
I can't say I remember the name Ermac, but the character always looked like some sort of glitch, the first time I saw it, it was Sonya, and sometimes the game would freeze in the middle of the battle...strange tho
Anyone remember She-Reptile?!
Saw her/him/it a few times, if I remember right you had to get a flawless on everything, including reptile, then get to the double matches, and do the uppercut/moonshadow/whatever thing, and you'd get a different version of reptile!
It was normally a glowing green Sonya, but I remember getting different glowing green characters there too, and they were hard as hell to beat.
any dictionary attack worth it's weight will have found 80%+ of those accounts anyway
Uhm, no...
e-mail usernames are hardly EVER in a dictionary, because they're usually abbreviations or otherwise obsecured.
any <random_string_of_characters> @ aol.com will almost certainly come up with a match
A brute force attack would never find 80% of those emails, at least not in any reasonable amount of time. I mean figure it out, figuring at base 36, to account for letters and numbers, a six character username yields 2,176,782,336 possibilities.
Now, if you were to send 1 email to each address every second, it would take you 2176782336/(24*60*60) = 25,194 days, or just over 69 years to send to each of those addresses, and that's only for all combinations of 1-6 character usernames.
come up with a match, or at least a partial match.
What the hell is a partial match? Last time I checked, e-mail addresses can't contain wildcards.
Damn, I guess I won't be moderating now....
This would be great for getting the percieved "attitude" out of tech support calls.
Yeah right, this system would totally blow for tech support QA.
Working tech support you're required to be a jerk...the trick is to be a jerk and fix the issue, then you're labled as smart.
Advertising just seems to keep getting more and more out of hand, it's bad enough I have to sit through 10 commercials when I paid $10 to see Star Wars. Now I get to PAY for a game AND watch their god damn advertisements.
I don't like having products crammed down my throat, if I'm interested in something, I'll look it up ON MY OWN. This is why I love my Tivo.
If they're going to start forcing me to watch their advertisements in game, AND collect how many seconds I sat around hating the goddamn thing. Then we should also be getting the game for a major discount, or free. Which of course would never happen, and personally, I wouldn't feel guilty at all for pirating this game, although I probably wouldn't play it cuz of the goddamn ads.
I once worked with a guy who lived in Bosnia, and according to him, satellite equipment must be purchased, but all the channels are free once you get the equipment setup. And why?? Because of the FUCKING commercials. They're already making money off the advertised product, why are they charging us more?
And TV commercials are getting worse too, every channel is synchronized so you can't get away from them by skipping channels, and they run them every 10 minutes. But at least TV is somewhat regulated.
Not like the goddamn internet, where advertisers are free to do WHATEVER they want, spam, spim, malware, adware, spyware, and general scumware. I DON'T WANT TO ENLARGE MY FUCKING PENIS! It just goes to show you how pathetically desperate and far these people are willing to go.
But still, I wish them all the same fate as Vardan Kushnir
</RANT>
Looks like flat bed scanners are gonna have a new use! And here I am stuck with my shitty handheld.