Has anybody done a disassembly of Sobig? How is it even distributed, as a binary or as a script? I don't think we should attribute Sobig to the spammers just yet.
OTOH, I have no friggin' idea what I'm talking about...
Re:Enough of those double standards!
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SCSI is dead
Many people here disagree with you. I wish I had SCSI hardware... you troll... now you've hurt my feelings...
and NFG, who noted that the "cellular phone gaming sector was booming... [and] is Namco's biggest source of profit by division."
Am I only one who is skeptical about the cellphone being the gaming platform of the future? What is it supposed to do, obsolete dedicated handheld games, such as the Gameboy?
So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.
All the neolib economists, starting with old man Milton, would just love to tear down the state and the protections it provides and let us become modern day serfs.
You can't mention Milton Friedman and the word "serf" in the same sentence without mentioning Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Hayek being the sort-of predecessor to Friedman.
Similar thing with me. I run a simple Fvwm environment on everything I have. And Slack. I like my overhead at a minimum, so that all my programs get the resources.
After all, I'm trying to escape the 'Doze, ain't I? Why waste cycles and memory on fancy effects? It can look pretty without all the sugar.
spammers who want to sell me placebos to increase my sexual prowess.
Why do you need the placebos when you could have a pin-up of a government official? Dressed as a Luddite, nonetheless. I don't know about you, but I have a Luddite fetish.
Oh, shit! I... uh...
[Narrator: Things are not looking up for Bersl...]
And I thought I was going to get yelled at if I had written "telinit 3" instead of "init 3"... CONSERVATION OF KEYSTROKES IS NOT, IN OF ITSELF, A PURPOSE TO EXIST! What happened to personal preference?
$ su - # cd patches #./download-updates wget -c 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/*.tgz' wget -c 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/kde/*.tgz' # ls -ltr # shutdown now (or)/etc/rc.d/rc.whatever stop (or) killall whatever # upgradepkg whatever.tgz # (edit whatever's config files) # init 3 (or) so on...
And if it's not a Slackware package, it gets 'make uninstall'ed or otherwise deleted, and recompiled.
Obviously, this 'Swaret' tool would just fsck up my homegrown solution. And I can't be having that, can I.
Joy!
P.S.: Whenever I start posting actual procedures I use on my computer onto Slashdot, they're usually very bad as far as *nix protocol. Examples: sudo/sbin/lsmod
Begins?! How long will it last? Hours? Days? How will it be done? Crucifixion? Impalement? I guess the RIAA is no longer bound to the 8th amendment now...
OK, so he gives money away. So did Rockefeller. So do most of the monopolists.
How he makes his money and what he does with his money are completely different items.
He, driven by greed, is abhorent in how he makes his money; he is commendable (unless it's just for tax reasons) in what he does with it.
Personally, I value the former reason over the latter, as it strikes too close to home. You are free to feel otherwise.
BTW, Rockefeller always felt that it was his divine mission to make money at all costs, so that he could give it back. I wonder what drives Billy Boy...
We're Knights of the Round Table We dance whene'er we're able We do routines and chorus scenes With footwork impecable We're opera-mad in Camelot We eat ham and jam and spam a lot
</song>
I wanted to do something to the Camelot Song for a skit at school. Just have people doing crazy shit on stage.
Also, LEGO did the Camelot Song using their eponymous objects. The movie used to be on the LEGO site, but they seem to have removed it. It was very amusing to listen to it in a fast forward.
This is just the same has forced childhood immunization for better public heath.
The last time such a human "patch" was so risky to apply was before the original vaccination, when they gave children the live smallpox in order to give them immunity (but many still died because of this).
Also, if a computer breaks from patching, you can still format the drive and install your favorite Linux or BSD distro...;-P
Me: Why should I buy an Xbox? Him: Uh... Halo? Me: OK, I'd be supporting a monopoly; I'd be spending extra money for another console (and probably the online service); most other things I can get on other consoles; I'm a Nintendo and Sega fanboy. So now what? Him: Uh... Madden? Me: Try again. Him: Uh... Halo?
If these are the only reasons (one complete BS, the other half-assed) for him to buy an Xbox, I seriously pity him, and it wouldn't be due to my fanboy status. Waitaminute... I already pitied this guy: he's in my comp sci class, and he has absolutely no clue. At all.
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Has anybody done a disassembly of Sobig? How is it even distributed, as a binary or as a script? I don't think we should attribute Sobig to the spammers just yet.
OTOH, I have no friggin' idea what I'm talking about...
SCSI is dead
Many people here disagree with you. I wish I had SCSI hardware... you troll... now you've hurt my feelings...
with the professed aim of raising young people's awareness of the dangers of spending too much time in front of a computer.
The personal computer: our revenge for when they fluoridated our water supply...
It's TCP/IP over Morse code.
Talk about lag...
and NFG, who noted that the "cellular phone gaming sector was booming... [and] is Namco's biggest source of profit by division."
Am I only one who is skeptical about the cellphone being the gaming platform of the future? What is it supposed to do, obsolete dedicated handheld games, such as the Gameboy?
So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.
I second that.
Both parts.
All the neolib economists, starting with old man Milton, would just love to tear down the state and the protections it provides and let us become modern day serfs.
You can't mention Milton Friedman and the word "serf" in the same sentence without mentioning Hayek's The Road to Serfdom , Hayek being the sort-of predecessor to Friedman.
Similar thing with me. I run a simple Fvwm environment on everything I have. And Slack. I like my overhead at a minimum, so that all my programs get the resources.
After all, I'm trying to escape the 'Doze, ain't I? Why waste cycles and memory on fancy effects? It can look pretty without all the sugar.
The difference is that your consulting job is not on the line when you post alternative viewpoints on Slashdot.
Now, if you get fired for reading too much Slashdot on company time, we are absolutely not responsible.
spammers who want to sell me placebos to increase my sexual prowess.
Why do you need the placebos when you could have a pin-up of a government official? Dressed as a Luddite, nonetheless. I don't know about you, but I have a Luddite fetish.
Oh, shit! I... uh...
[Narrator: Things are not looking up for Bersl...]
And I thought I was going to get yelled at if I had written "telinit 3" instead of "init 3"... CONSERVATION OF KEYSTROKES IS NOT, IN OF ITSELF, A PURPOSE TO EXIST! What happened to personal preference?
</psycho>
OK, all better...
$ su - ./download-updates9 .0/patches/packages/*.tgz'9 .0/patches/packages/kde/*.tgz' /etc/rc.d/rc.whatever stop (or) killall whatever
/sbin/lsmod
# cd patches
#
wget -c 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-
wget -c 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-
# ls -ltr
# shutdown now (or)
# upgradepkg whatever.tgz
# (edit whatever's config files)
# init 3 (or) so on...
And if it's not a Slackware package, it gets 'make uninstall'ed or otherwise deleted, and recompiled.
Obviously, this 'Swaret' tool would just fsck up my homegrown solution. And I can't be having that, can I.
Joy!
P.S.: Whenever I start posting actual procedures I use on my computer onto Slashdot, they're usually very bad as far as *nix protocol. Examples: sudo
Go figure. Also go lightly.
and execution begins tonight.
Begins?! How long will it last? Hours? Days? How will it be done? Crucifixion? Impalement? I guess the RIAA is no longer bound to the 8th amendment now...
What's even worse is that some of the flaws were pointed out nearly two years ago, but... some of the protocols still haven't been fixed.
Unacceptable.
There's no other way of putting it.
OK, so he gives money away. So did Rockefeller. So do most of the monopolists.
How he makes his money and what he does with his money are completely different items.
He, driven by greed, is abhorent in how he makes his money; he is commendable (unless it's just for tax reasons) in what he does with it.
Personally, I value the former reason over the latter, as it strikes too close to home. You are free to feel otherwise.
BTW, Rockefeller always felt that it was his divine mission to make money at all costs, so that he could give it back. I wonder what drives Billy Boy...
Because sometimes that "land" has been previously owned, and the rights to it expired (not always intentionally).
There's nothing wrong about cybersquatting, but it's Just Not Right(TM).
I wanted to do something to the Camelot Song for a skit at school. Just have people doing crazy shit on stage.
Also, LEGO did the Camelot Song using their eponymous objects. The movie used to be on the LEGO site, but they seem to have removed it. It was very amusing to listen to it in a fast forward.
IRC style: ...
BillG: I'm going to open up some standards for everybody so we can all benefit.
bersl2:
But seriously, did the Earth get swallowed by a black hole, and we reappeared in some alternate universe? Maybe here, things can make negative sense.
Lastly, who is sticking their hand up Gates' ass and puppeting him, because that's not the Billy Boy we all know and love to hate.
This ad is all over Slashdot today.
This is just the same has forced childhood immunization for better public heath.
;-P
The last time such a human "patch" was so risky to apply was before the original vaccination, when they gave children the live smallpox in order to give them immunity (but many still died because of this).
Also, if a computer breaks from patching, you can still format the drive and install your favorite Linux or BSD distro...
Actual conversation today with somebody:
Me: Why should I buy an Xbox?
Him: Uh... Halo?
Me: OK, I'd be supporting a monopoly; I'd be spending extra money for another console (and probably the online service); most other things I can get on other consoles; I'm a Nintendo and Sega fanboy. So now what?
Him: Uh... Madden?
Me: Try again.
Him: Uh... Halo?
If these are the only reasons (one complete BS, the other half-assed) for him to buy an Xbox, I seriously pity him, and it wouldn't be due to my fanboy status. Waitaminute... I already pitied this guy: he's in my comp sci class, and he has absolutely no clue. At all.
What about the dude who smells people's armpits to test deodorant? I know it's overdone, but it's surely not overrated...
In Soviet Russia, The U.S.S.R. is back in you!
[dodges tomatoes]
from the look-for-the-special-logo dept.
Maybe we should give sites that survive the Slashdot effect our own seal of approval... in the form of a 1600x1200 TIFF...
(Note: Yeah, I know: TIFFs don't work without a plugin. It's just funnier this way.)