I used to have a passion for everything. I used to love learning every minute detail I could about whatever it was I was interested in.
And one day, it all just stopped. I think it was when my interests became intertwined with my job. When what I was "interested in" was dictacted to me by whoever was paying me.
I have often times thought about pulling and "office space", and just ditching the whole thing, and doing something physically rewarding, but somehow, I end up stuck in that part of the movie where you're getting paid more and more for doing less and less. And like with crack cocaine, it's just hard to say no.
Maybe presenting some reformed hackers as semi-normal people will help change the public preception of "hackers" in general.
Or maybe presenting some never-weres, as "reformed" anythings, when they are only media whores, will just confuse the public into thinking that all hackers are idiots, and thus harmless.
I don't think it'd help the TSA much at all, because I'm sure by now they can authenticate any form of acceptable ID with a computer check to make sure that the ID's name, number, and picture all exist on one that was really issued.
Actually, there is not much a local cop can do to tell the difference between a real ID and fake ID. He can run the number, get a physical description back. But I can listen to my police scanner, collect descriptions and ID numbers, until I find one that matches me. Whip up a fake ID, and then what?
Google took Yahoo.. took away all the lame "portal" crap that was the "craze" then.. rewrote a whole new, better search engine, and set it loose on the world.
Amazon took the stripped down look of Google, tied it into their marketing, and set it loose on Slashdot.
Okay, quick look on the net - http://www.pricewatch.com/, and I see USB hard drives with 40GB of space for under $60. Why buy it from Iomega for more?
You aren't taking into account Iomega's value-added features, such as slower transfer rates, propietary software interfaces, and generally shoody construction. When you do, you can see they have the clear advantage.
Previous versions of NetSky copies itself to any folder containing the word "shared" in it. As in "My Shared Folder." To spread itself via Kazaa and other file sharing programs.
If welfare were on a time trial basis.. like one month. That would be cool. I can understand being out of luck for month, and needing help. Out of luck for 12 years? Your life? No.. screw that.. get a job. Libertarianism indeed.:D
I know I'm going to get modded down. And that's fine. But really.. a vulnerability in the Help Subsystem? There have been remote exploits in SSH, SMTP, WUFTP, Telnetd, Apache, and every other Linux program that accepts connections. Where are the blaring headlines? The super-critical replies?
I know there have been stories.. but still. This is pretty insignificant. Why can't you mod article submissions? This might be modded down as flame bait.
Flamebait? I related a relevant, true story. I didn't add anything aggravating at all. If you think it's flamebait, it's probably because it pisses you off as much as it does me. It's true though..
I grew up with a kid who now is on welfare. His mom, and sister are on welfare. His sister taught him how to fake an illness to receive even more money. They have 3 kids now, thousands of dollars in surplus money.. two refrigerators to hold all of their food, a decent car. He has a nicer computer than me, a new laptop.
He has his school paid for.. everything paid for.
They have enough money to support his wife's meth addiction and his rampant alcoholism.
Welfare is a terrible idea. Low income housing is a joke. These people know it, and thrive off of it.
On a side note.. what kind of jackass expects privacy in the lobby of any building any more? That's the ghetto mentality though. Rob a store, and then try to sue for being video taped.
Maybe you were being sarcastic, but I think the joke was that you don't need to worry about getting poor, uneducated people out of the ghetto.. they'll do it themselves (through suicide).
Because of system admins like you sending files through email is becoming more and more difficult for us developers. You know, some people do need to send and receive binary executable and non-executable files through email.
If I worked for an ISP, I could see that being valid, but I work for a large law firm. No one seems to need any binaries, and if they someday do.. they'll be in quarantine. Seems a lot easier than dealing with trusting the update cycle of the AV vendors to me.
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I used to love computers. Seriously.
I used to have a passion for everything. I used to love learning every minute detail I could about whatever it was I was interested in.
And one day, it all just stopped. I think it was when my interests became intertwined with my job. When what I was "interested in" was dictacted to me by whoever was paying me.
I have often times thought about pulling and "office space", and just ditching the whole thing, and doing something physically rewarding, but somehow, I end up stuck in that part of the movie where you're getting paid more and more for doing less and less. And like with crack cocaine, it's just hard to say no.
Microsoft == Bad
Sony == Just as Bad
MemoryStick? Patooey!
I think this is the fastest invocation of Godwin's Law on /. ever. One post!
/Captain Literal
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
This has nothing to do with Godwin's Law. He wasn't making a comparison at all, but a joke.
You know your world is too small when...
According to Yahoo!, there is a critical flaw in TCP that affects everyone and everything.
Maybe presenting some reformed hackers as semi-normal people will help change the public preception of "hackers" in general.
Or maybe presenting some never-weres, as "reformed" anythings, when they are only media whores, will just confuse the public into thinking that all hackers are idiots, and thus harmless.
And at least two of those mentioned are self-proclaimed, and only that. Poor ZDNet.
I loved the Dreamcast. I loved the controls, the games, everything. I still say it's more fun to play than the PS2.
I don't think it'd help the TSA much at all, because I'm sure by now they can authenticate any form of acceptable ID with a computer check to make sure that the ID's name, number, and picture all exist on one that was really issued.
Actually, there is not much a local cop can do to tell the difference between a real ID and fake ID. He can run the number, get a physical description back. But I can listen to my police scanner, collect descriptions and ID numbers, until I find one that matches me. Whip up a fake ID, and then what?
Don't most driver's license cards have barcodes on the back that liquor stores, etc. can scan?
:)
Yes, and like everything else, there are tools on the net to generate fake ones.
The biggest problem with all of these is that there are 51 different issing bodies, one in every state plus one for Washington, D.C.
:)
Pluuuus, American Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, & the US Virgin Islands.
Not to mention that we do and will most likely continue to accept Canadian and Mexican IDs without much hassle.
Without POP and SMTP support, who really cares? I don't have time to check 50 emails a day on a web interface.
For web email I use mailvault, and for real email I use gmx, which still gives you free POP3 and SMTP.
Google took Yahoo.. took away all the lame "portal" crap that was the "craze" then.. rewrote a whole new, better search engine, and set it loose on the world.
Amazon took the stripped down look of Google, tied it into their marketing, and set it loose on Slashdot.
Okay, quick look on the net - http://www.pricewatch.com/, and I see USB hard drives with 40GB of space for under $60. Why buy it from Iomega for more?
/Sarcasm
You aren't taking into account Iomega's value-added features, such as slower transfer rates, propietary software interfaces, and generally shoody construction. When you do, you can see they have the clear advantage.
Probably why it was setup as such, whoever wrote it was hoping the **AA cartels would be blamed.
All of this rational and logical thinking is starting to make me worry about the direction that Slashdot is headed.
God, I'm an idiot.. and didn't RTFA. Please disregard.
Previous versions of NetSky copies itself to any folder containing the word "shared" in it. As in "My Shared Folder." To spread itself via Kazaa and other file sharing programs.
If welfare were on a time trial basis.. like one month. That would be cool. I can understand being out of luck for month, and needing help. Out of luck for 12 years? Your life? No.. screw that.. get a job. Libertarianism indeed. :D
I know I'm going to get modded down. And that's fine. But really.. a vulnerability in the Help Subsystem? There have been remote exploits in SSH, SMTP, WUFTP, Telnetd, Apache, and every other Linux program that accepts connections. Where are the blaring headlines? The super-critical replies?
I know there have been stories.. but still. This is pretty insignificant. Why can't you mod article submissions? This might be modded down as flame bait.
Not really, back in 95 or so.. ALL of their routers had this "feature."
Flamebait? I related a relevant, true story. I didn't add anything aggravating at all. If you think it's flamebait, it's probably because it pisses you off as much as it does me. It's true though..
I grew up with a kid who now is on welfare. His mom, and sister are on welfare. His sister taught him how to fake an illness to receive even more money. They have 3 kids now, thousands of dollars in surplus money.. two refrigerators to hold all of their food, a decent car. He has a nicer computer than me, a new laptop.
He has his school paid for.. everything paid for.
They have enough money to support his wife's meth addiction and his rampant alcoholism.
Welfare is a terrible idea. Low income housing is a joke. These people know it, and thrive off of it.
On a side note.. what kind of jackass expects privacy in the lobby of any building any more? That's the ghetto mentality though. Rob a store, and then try to sue for being video taped.
Uh, huh? Why would they name it that?
Maybe you were being sarcastic, but I think the joke was that you don't need to worry about getting poor, uneducated people out of the ghetto.. they'll do it themselves (through suicide).
This will be the best thing since SFII the movie! I CAN'T WAIT!
In short: No.
Because of system admins like you sending files through email is becoming more and more difficult for us developers. You know, some people do need to send and receive binary executable and non-executable files through email.
If I worked for an ISP, I could see that being valid, but I work for a large law firm. No one seems to need any binaries, and if they someday do.. they'll be in quarantine. Seems a lot easier than dealing with trusting the update cycle of the AV vendors to me.