... i know that microwave ovens and serious radio signals can cause havoc for pacemakers...
But with a brain pacemaker, does this mean that someone can blow away everyone in say, a Best Buy store or convenience store and say "THEM WIRES IN ME HAID MADE ME DO IT!!"
??
i know this sounds kinda off the deep end, but fwiw, i can attest that subwoofers (or any deep bass source such as thumpin' car stereos) *do* resonate in my skull and make be both nauseous and VERY irritable, such as instantly furious about minor stuff.
Which really sux because i'd otherwise enjoy movie theatres etc.
Like we should listen to some pay-to-mail scheme from bill gates.....
Microsoft Exchange Servers configured as an open relay are probably instrumental in a majority of the spam out there being sent.
Yes i *know* that the local sysadmin should administer the mailservers better, but it is Microsofts MCSE program that sends them out in the world naive/instructed to do this, and the buggy ass software that makes it so easy/desireable to configure it this way.
iirc, they are an open relay by default.
What an arrogant jackass.
Tell me if this is the wrong attitude....
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... Sure there are both extremes in ways of thinking with this.
But am I wrong to think that
1)anything i do online *may* be subject to monitoring, storing or somehow intercepted by one or more individuals or agencies that i don't intend?
2) therefore make sure that i don't discuss my cc numbers or that multiple homicide i pulled off last summer freely amongst people
3) consider exactly what it would take in forms of hardware, computing and people resources to collect, organize, interpret and investigate the amount of raw data that would be generated in server-side logs, on a service that is (for all intensive purposes) provided for little to no cost.
4) consider that in the logs above (or email archives, or...) that about 99.9% is going to be completely useless and/or boring drivel about tons of other people you don't know or care about.
???
I dunno.. shoot. I see the whole "invasion of privacy" and "do this today, and here's what it will lead to" argument, and it makes sense, but then i consider the points above and it all seems blown out of proportion.
Which is funny, because I'm sure i once saw a list of security holes dating from win98 to XP (including NT and 2000 also) that have *yet* to be patched.
I tried to google the list, but it appears to be missing now....
Dammit. There were also applications included too, like the infamous IIS and Exchange stuff.
b) wait till 6 is released, because going from barely having a grasp on 5 and then trying to learn 6 would just confuse myself?
i realise that all the perl5 code in the world won't suddenly cease function the minute perl6 is released, but still..
I can see the value in perl, and what a great tool it is, but for some reason i have a hard time wrapping my lil brain around it. It's a bit less "structured" or "consistent" than say C is. I suppose it has to be that way in order to do what it does, though.
To rework a famous old saying, no-one ever went broke overestimating the impact of appealing to the male ego.
That's brilliant marketing to use a female rep to demo a product to a bunch of men.
A lot of companies would do well to follow that example, I think.
and on that same token, every woman has a feminist buried deep inside her. Appeal to her inner feminist by telling her "women are superior men in every way" and she'll eat right out of your hand.
[b] This laptop doesn't seem like it is that good aside from the paint job. IMHO, the Ferrari products that carried the Ferrari name, but were manufactured by someone else just seem tacky and sucky. This joins the Ferrari mountain bike in my mind as a sucky marketing ploy. Fortunately, the Article mentions how this is mainly designed to appeal to PHB's who think that because a company is good (or arguably the best) at making cars, the laptop bearing their name is good, or arguably the best.[/b]
Well said, and way to see through the bullshit. This joins the Corvette DustBuster(tm). Boy did that product placement/union suck.
[b] Sounds like everyone is looking for something like the FreeBSD ports collection.[/b]
Except for the Gentoo Weenies, who claim that Gentoo does "ports" better than FreeBSD.
I've never used Gentoo, but i kinda doubt it.
That said, FreeBSD just gives me the warm fuzzies, and their Ports system *is* an act to follow. 99% of the time it works just flawlessly. Some say that there's no need to compile the ports, and they should be all binary, but oh well.
There are benefits to binary-package installation. I will say that debian's apt-get/aptitude/deb system is the best i've seen, but i'm no expert.
I will however say that in my experience RPM's are a poorly implemented packaging system. I'm sure plenty will mod me as a Troll or Flamebait, and other's who've never used a linux outside of RH or MDK will pipe up extolling the beneifts of RPMs and i'm just a stupid, lazy fsck, blah blah.....
I mean, wouldn't it be best to have someone pissed off to vent on the machines, instead of on a real, live person with real, live emotions?
Unless they've factored in the risk and costs of sharp increases employee shooting sprees, and they still save money.
That's why i got out of the (phone company) call centre type job. Maybe i'm a sissy, but i couldn't handle it. 9 straight hours of insults and threats from callers, plus 9 straight hours of insults and threats from my supervisor because i couldn't bring myself to sell a bunch of stuff to someone who didn't need what they got jacked on to start with.
[b] Actually, as I'm thinking about it.. hacking is fairly easy.. I've watched several hollywood movies and I think that I am now certified to do hacking... infact let me see.. based on what I've learned you bring up an SSH prompt and then start banging away at keys and the password is always something like 'password', 'opensesame', or some random array of characters that you will just happen to hit with your hand... it's really very easy![/b]
And if all else fails, be sure to just type something like "MANUAL OVERRIDE" all in caps. I've seen that work many times.
In my experience in Tech Support, there are people who are not looking to take responsibility for what they do.
They just want someone else to "fix it when it's broke" so they can go back to forwarding jokes and flash email.
I've explained to them until i'm blue in the face that 99% of their problems can be prevented if they just adhered to some simple rules. But they don't want to hear rules, they just want to do what they want to do without someone telling them they are wrong.
I've lost a few customers this way. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions and what they do to themselves and everyone else, and since i don't tell them what they want to hear, which is ("awwww i don't know why you are being picked on. It's not YOUR fault, you didn't do anything wrong"), they respond with a "GET THIS CLEANED UP ASAP OR I'M GOING TO GET A NEW SERVER".
It's one thing to be naive, but it's another to be naive and not want to learn, just to go fsck shit up and expect someone else to drop everything and fix it.
A group of online (what else) hacker friends (not cracker) put together a load of information and evidence that greatly suggested a lot of the worms being generated are done directly, or bankrolled by the big name AntiVirus companies. There was even a link to a website of a major AV company that just about candidly admitted that there are thousands of viruses that exist only inside their "Virus Lab", and not outside of it. Perhaps it is all just Marketing Fluff (mimicking the Biomedical industry) or something. But really, we all know that these worms and viruses don't just *spawn* out of thin air, they must be thought about and written.
Further points mentioned that AV companies pay MS a percentage/commission to open up/keep holes open in the OS and its applications for them.
It was very convincing, i wish i had the URL for that.
And of course, i know, just because it's convincing doesn't mean it's accurate, but there were a lot of points brought up, with evidence and references cited that at least -I-, in my humble knowledge, could not argue against.
Doesn't mean i'm knowledgeable.
As a side-note, i had totally forgotten about the Attrition website... thanks!
I'm still waiting for Gran Turismo 2000 to hit the shelves.
Software Etc. will listen with empathy about my loud proclamations of GT2K == GT3-Aspec, and the sales weasels will agree with me. But the mgmt. shall not, will not, could not would not refund my money, nor give me a store credit until:
1) A game called Gran Turismo 2000 ships. 2) Official word from Sony arrives that the game is canceled.
-I- have noticed it. Thanks for saying something, because all my collegues are telling me "oh, you just weren't paying attention to it".
It's an epidemic.
And worse yet, there are a shiiteload of "PopUp Blocker Tools" that are actually pop up ad servers. Some block other's ads and show their own, and others just add theirs to the mix.
Why don't you make a list of the apps they like (like the calendar) find an open source or otherwise free/nocost equivalent that doesn't have the adtrojan, and suggest it (with link) when they complain? As time goes by, and your list of free-as-in-I'm-in-control-of-my-computer and free-as-in-beer apps gets longer, you'll be able make more and more users happy. 3,000 years ago in Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.
It's certainly a kind gesture, but invariably i will end up supporting these programs as well. Maybe i'm selfish, or being selective, but after working with all the "real" internet problems, i don't have much time left over to hunt these programs down, verify that they don't do anything sneaky, or are not broken, or don't screw something else up, and then teach someone how to install, configure ect.
Don't get me wrong, i *want* to help these people out and i would love to be able to advocate free/open alternatives to what they are doing, but i'm only one person, there are only so many hours in the day and i only get paid to do so much (most people i know on IRC that do my job get paid 150%-400% more money than i do).
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what is the difference between Windows and Linux?
Everyone knows that Windows is a computer and Linux is a hacker tool that runs in a DOS box...
(insert sexy female voice):
At BASF, we don't put the electric shocks in your brain, we put them in your brain deeper.
teehee?
In Soviet Russia, your Brain shocks YOU!!
... i know that microwave ovens and serious radio signals can cause havoc for pacemakers...
But with a brain pacemaker, does this mean that someone can blow away everyone in say, a Best Buy store or convenience store and say "THEM WIRES IN ME HAID MADE ME DO IT!!"
??
i know this sounds kinda off the deep end, but fwiw, i can attest that subwoofers (or any deep bass source such as thumpin' car stereos) *do* resonate in my skull and make be both nauseous and VERY irritable, such as instantly furious about minor stuff.
Which really sux because i'd otherwise enjoy movie theatres etc.
Like we should listen to some pay-to-mail scheme from bill gates.....
Microsoft Exchange Servers configured as an open relay are probably instrumental in a majority of the spam out there being sent.
Yes i *know* that the local sysadmin should administer the mailservers better, but it is Microsofts MCSE program that sends them out in the world naive/instructed to do this, and the buggy ass software that makes it so easy/desireable to configure it this way.
iirc, they are an open relay by default.
What an arrogant jackass.
... Sure there are both extremes in ways of thinking with this.
But am I wrong to think that
1)anything i do online *may* be subject to monitoring, storing or somehow intercepted by one or more individuals or agencies that i don't intend?
2) therefore make sure that i don't discuss my cc numbers or that multiple homicide i pulled off last summer freely amongst people
3) consider exactly what it would take in forms of hardware, computing and people resources to collect, organize, interpret and investigate the amount of raw data that would be generated in server-side logs, on a service that is (for all intensive purposes) provided for little to no cost.
4) consider that in the logs above (or email archives, or...) that about 99.9% is going to be completely useless and/or boring drivel about tons of other people you don't know or care about.
???
I dunno.. shoot. I see the whole "invasion of privacy" and "do this today, and here's what it will lead to" argument, and it makes sense, but then i consider the points above and it all seems blown out of proportion.
What do slashbots think?
Which is funny, because I'm sure i once saw a list of security holes dating from win98 to XP (including NT and 2000 also) that have *yet* to be patched.
I tried to google the list, but it appears to be missing now....
Dammit. There were also applications included too, like the infamous IIS and Exchange stuff.
Even when explorer crashes in 2k or XP, it just starts right up again.
;)
And then goes right back down in flames?
napster loses again!
This makes what, the 3rd time that he's/they're getting jacked by the industry they put into motion?
for shame.
cLive ;-)
;)
actually, i lurk there sometimes as "phaeton"
maybe i need to get more active
...would be able to tell me if i should
a) start learning 5 anyways
or
b) wait till 6 is released, because going from barely having a grasp on 5 and then trying to learn 6 would just confuse myself?
i realise that all the perl5 code in the world won't suddenly cease function the minute perl6 is released, but still..
I can see the value in perl, and what a great tool it is, but for some reason i have a hard time wrapping my lil brain around it. It's a bit less "structured" or "consistent" than say C is. I suppose it has to be that way in order to do what it does, though.
To rework a famous old saying, no-one ever went broke overestimating the impact of appealing to the male ego.
That's brilliant marketing to use a female rep to demo a product to a bunch of men.
A lot of companies would do well to follow that example, I think.
and on that same token, every woman has a feminist buried deep inside her. Appeal to her inner feminist by telling her "women are superior men in every way" and she'll eat right out of your hand.
This is no shit.
hat, sir, is not a handlebar moustache, these are handlebar moustaches. Look on these work, ye mighty, and despair.
Holy fsck those things are hideous. I will *never* grow that much crap on my face.
Now i wonder if i should ask why you are carrying around links of stodgy old men with loads of facial hair?
[b] This laptop doesn't seem like it is that good aside from the paint job. IMHO, the Ferrari products that carried the Ferrari name, but were manufactured by someone else just seem tacky and sucky. This joins the Ferrari mountain bike in my mind as a sucky marketing ploy. Fortunately, the Article mentions how this is mainly designed to appeal to PHB's who think that because a company is good (or arguably the best) at making cars, the laptop bearing their name is good, or arguably the best.[/b]
Well said, and way to see through the bullshit. This joins the Corvette DustBuster(tm). Boy did that product placement/union suck.
[b] Sounds like everyone is looking for something like the FreeBSD ports collection.[/b]
Except for the Gentoo Weenies, who claim that Gentoo does "ports" better than FreeBSD.
I've never used Gentoo, but i kinda doubt it.
That said, FreeBSD just gives me the warm fuzzies, and their Ports system *is* an act to follow. 99% of the time it works just flawlessly. Some say that there's no need to compile the ports, and they should be all binary, but oh well.
There are benefits to binary-package installation. I will say that debian's apt-get/aptitude/deb system is the best i've seen, but i'm no expert.
I will however say that in my experience RPM's are a poorly implemented packaging system. I'm sure plenty will mod me as a Troll or Flamebait, and other's who've never used a linux outside of RH or MDK will pipe up extolling the beneifts of RPMs and i'm just a stupid, lazy fsck, blah blah.....
And if you do, screw off...
I mean, wouldn't it be best to have someone pissed off to vent on the machines, instead of on a real, live person with real, live emotions?
Unless they've factored in the risk and costs of sharp increases employee shooting sprees, and they still save money.
That's why i got out of the (phone company) call centre type job. Maybe i'm a sissy, but i couldn't handle it. 9 straight hours of insults and threats from callers, plus 9 straight hours of insults and threats from my supervisor because i couldn't bring myself to sell a bunch of stuff to someone who didn't need what they got jacked on to start with.
[b] Actually, as I'm thinking about it.. hacking is fairly easy.. I've watched several hollywood movies and I think that I am now certified to do hacking... infact let me see.. based on what I've learned you bring up an SSH prompt and then start banging away at keys and the password is always something like 'password', 'opensesame', or some random array of characters that you will just happen to hit with your hand... it's really very easy![/b]
And if all else fails, be sure to just type something like "MANUAL OVERRIDE" all in caps. I've seen that work many times.
I really wish i had some mod points to spend on your post. This deserves no less than a +5 Insightful.
In my experience in Tech Support, there are people who are not looking to take responsibility for what they do.
They just want someone else to "fix it when it's broke" so they can go back to forwarding jokes and flash email.
I've explained to them until i'm blue in the face that 99% of their problems can be prevented if they just adhered to some simple rules. But they don't want to hear rules, they just want to do what they want to do without someone telling them they are wrong.
I've lost a few customers this way. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions and what they do to themselves and everyone else, and since i don't tell them what they want to hear, which is ("awwww i don't know why you are being picked on. It's not YOUR fault, you didn't do anything wrong"), they respond with a "GET THIS CLEANED UP ASAP OR I'M GOING TO GET A NEW SERVER".
It's one thing to be naive, but it's another to be naive and not want to learn, just to go fsck shit up and expect someone else to drop everything and fix it.
i hate my job.
OH! i forgot to ask...
Anyone else subscribe to this conspiracy theory? Or seen/heard/read anything that supports or suggests this claim?
just curious.
sorry for being such a dork.
A group of online (what else) hacker friends (not cracker) put together a load of information and evidence that greatly suggested a lot of the worms being generated are done directly, or bankrolled by the big name AntiVirus companies. There was even a link to a website of a major AV company that just about candidly admitted that there are thousands of viruses that exist only inside their "Virus Lab", and not outside of it. Perhaps it is all just Marketing Fluff (mimicking the Biomedical industry) or something. But really, we all know that these worms and viruses don't just *spawn* out of thin air, they must be thought about and written.
Further points mentioned that AV companies pay MS a percentage/commission to open up/keep holes open in the OS and its applications for them.
It was very convincing, i wish i had the URL for that.
And of course, i know, just because it's convincing doesn't mean it's accurate, but there were a lot of points brought up, with evidence and references cited that at least -I-, in my humble knowledge, could not argue against.
Doesn't mean i'm knowledgeable.
As a side-note, i had totally forgotten about the Attrition website... thanks!
Each glove contains five small heat pipes, one for each finger, that are about 14 inches long and 1 mm x 2 mm in the cross section.
The Goatse guy could easily keep his hands (and arms) warm with....
Btw, what fate hath befallen him? There is no more Goatse.cx Guy!!
What shall slashdot do without the Icon of Perpetual Gags?
any one got a news on Gran Turismo 4 and Driver 3 for the Playstation2?
I've followed these for the first year, and after watching the dates get pushed back again and again, i haven't looked in a bit.
Just curious if anyone's got info before i spend half the day weeding through all the google hits for "driver 3 release date" over the last 1.5 years.
oh please oh please oh please be better than the Stuntman game
.... of why you shouldn't Pre-Order stuff.
I'm still waiting for Gran Turismo 2000 to hit the shelves.
Software Etc. will listen with empathy about my loud proclamations of GT2K == GT3-Aspec, and the sales weasels will agree with me. But the mgmt. shall not, will not, could not would not refund my money, nor give me a store credit until:
1) A game called Gran Turismo 2000 ships.
2) Official word from Sony arrives that the game is canceled.
bastards.
-I- have noticed it. Thanks for saying something, because all my collegues are telling me "oh, you just weren't paying attention to it".
It's an epidemic.
And worse yet, there are a shiiteload of "PopUp Blocker Tools" that are actually pop up ad servers. Some block other's ads and show their own, and others just add theirs to the mix.
Why don't you make a list of the apps they like (like the calendar) find an open source or otherwise free/nocost equivalent that doesn't have the adtrojan, and suggest it (with link) when they complain?
As time goes by, and your list of free-as-in-I'm-in-control-of-my-computer and free-as-in-beer apps gets longer, you'll be able make more and more users happy.
3,000 years ago in Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.
It's certainly a kind gesture, but invariably i will end up supporting these programs as well. Maybe i'm selfish, or being selective, but after working with all the "real" internet problems, i don't have much time left over to hunt these programs down, verify that they don't do anything sneaky, or are not broken, or don't screw something else up, and then teach someone how to install, configure ect.
Don't get me wrong, i *want* to help these people out and i would love to be able to advocate free/open alternatives to what they are doing, but i'm only one person, there are only so many hours in the day and i only get paid to do so much (most people i know on IRC that do my job get paid 150%-400% more money than i do).
Oh and btw, cats suck.