If Lynn just wanted to help people, he could have published his information anonymously. But he wanted to use this to build his reputation so he has to take whatever lumps he finds in the refined sugar of fame.
The lesson to be learned here is that full, immediate and anonymous disclosure is the best way to publish vulnerabilities. It's too bad that vendors and law enforcement have scared the shit out of such that this is necessary, but they too have to live with the consequences of their actions.
Obviously with minimal effort many dupes could be avoided, but I think it's unreasonable to complain when your lead time was only 10 minutes. Do you know how many emails these people get on a regular basis?
I don't give a flying chili-bean fart how much mail they get every day. They could at least read Slashdot like we do and recognize when a story has been submitted before. If the current editors are too feeble-minded to remember a story posted two days ago then fire them and hire someone who can remember.
Or are web jobs the latest work program for people too retarded to push a broom?
No company will stop doing something that makes them money unless it starts costing them money. A subset of people on the internet casting about rumor about supposed unseemly behavior won't cost them a dime.
Thus the only true satisfaction to be found in these situations is obtained by paying a final visit to your employer with a couple handguns, a shotgun and satchel full of ammo. Nobody gives a fuck about your grievances anyway, so don't even bother leaving a note. Just let them wonder.
There's no reason to worry about people like this. Eventually this Stoller character will run into the mob or a front company for jihadis or some other group that has no compunction about laying hands on their fellow man rather than "paying him to go away". When faced with Stoller's extortion they will simple crush his testicles in a vice and soon he'll be willing to pay them to go away.
If people would simply grow up, stop expecting something for nothing, and pay for value received, we wouldn't have all of these DRM issues to contend with in the first place...
Yes, we would. Years before today's P2P wars, the
Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 mandated that manufacturers of digital recording devices treat users of technology like criminals. The Act mandated copy management systems like SCMS and added the royalty tax to the price of audio CD-Rs. Guilt was assumed so you paid the tax and accepted crippled equipment whether you did anything wrong or not. Or you paid artificially high prices for "professional" equipment that lacked the restrictions.
For this reason Sony, the RIAA and anyone who's in bed with them can suck my dick. Bad attitudes are contagious.
Enough is enough. Majel Roddenberry must be as rich as Croesus by now. Give another sf widow a chance. Poul Anderson has been dead for a while now; it's about time for his wife to cash in and let the movie industry butcher his works.
I don't agree with Niven that it's a bad idea. I'd rather have James Halperin's truth machine, but Niven's organ banks will have to suffice in the real world. If you don't like the rules you can always emigrate. It's only tyranny if you can't opt out of the system.
File timestamps: If I have a collection of several thousand or tens of thousands of DVD
... then you've collected enough pr0n. Your pud is going to fall off long before all those DVDs decay.
If you already have 10,000+ discs and only now are thinking of having a separate index of metadata for all those data and media, then you ought to hire someone who knows what they're doing before it is too late. With some scripts and a minimum wage ape to load and unload the media, they can still dig you out of this for a few thousand dollars of labor.
That doesn't mean the death penalty won't deter other crimes. Maybe if I'm pissed enough to kill somebody, I don't give a fuck if I get the chair. On the other hand, how badly does anyone ever want to drive 55 mph in 25 zone? Badly enough to risk being broken up for their blood and organs on the first offense? Unlikely. So hey, let's bring in capital punishment for minor offenses. Run a red light? Death. Throw trash out on the highway? Death. Sell drugs to kids? Death.
I put motorcyclists in the same class as Vespa riders and bicyclists--- brave, quixotic souls who will be well able to advise the rest of us when the time is right for change, assuming they live long enough to see that day.
Me, I'm going to ride in the heaviest vehicle I can afford, up to and including a surplus halftrack if I can find one.
Yeah, but if you're ever in a highway accident on that Vespa, there won't be enough left of you to put in a taco. I appreciate you Messianic early adopters; I'm sure we'll all be riding around in or on energy efficient vehicles when oil prices get high enough. But until that day comes we will continue to make hamburger out of you on our highways.
... that this page was indeed assembled by a herd of dyspeptic zebras or whatever. Are the editors so stupified by their jobs that glaring typos roll right past them now?
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What's wrong with existing as a human? Why do we have to constantly "improve" upon our existence?
I don't know where you live but in the country I live in everyone could use another 20 IQ points and I mean right fucking today. George W. Bush has the authority to start a nuclear war and he is about to be elected to a second term.
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When Burt Rutan and Paul Allen have the guts to ride that fucker then I'll get in it. If it's such a fun thing why haven't they been up in it yet?
The lesson to be learned here is that full, immediate and anonymous disclosure is the best way to publish vulnerabilities. It's too bad that vendors and law enforcement have scared the shit out of such that this is necessary, but they too have to live with the consequences of their actions.
I don't give a flying chili-bean fart how much mail they get every day. They could at least read Slashdot like we do and recognize when a story has been submitted before. If the current editors are too feeble-minded to remember a story posted two days ago then fire them and hire someone who can remember.
Or are web jobs the latest work program for people too retarded to push a broom?
Does anyone other than retailers actually use the term SOHO?
Says Rufus R Freight-Train Jones.
Thus the only true satisfaction to be found in these situations is obtained by paying a final visit to your employer with a couple handguns, a shotgun and satchel full of ammo. Nobody gives a fuck about your grievances anyway, so don't even bother leaving a note. Just let them wonder.
There's no reason to worry about people like this. Eventually this Stoller character will run into the mob or a front company for jihadis or some other group that has no compunction about laying hands on their fellow man rather than "paying him to go away". When faced with Stoller's extortion they will simple crush his testicles in a vice and soon he'll be willing to pay them to go away.
Sure, because as our corporate overlords like to say, "Your Time Is Our Money."
Go back to sleep. When the affordable android Natalie Portman fuck-toys appear, we'll let you know.
And without using the Force. Hell, if he had Jedi training he might not even need to use ship. Just fly around zapping baddies like Space Ghost. :)
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
--- Mark Twain
Yes, we would. Years before today's P2P wars, the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 mandated that manufacturers of digital recording devices treat users of technology like criminals. The Act mandated copy management systems like SCMS and added the royalty tax to the price of audio CD-Rs. Guilt was assumed so you paid the tax and accepted crippled equipment whether you did anything wrong or not. Or you paid artificially high prices for "professional" equipment that lacked the restrictions.
For this reason Sony, the RIAA and anyone who's in bed with them can suck my dick. Bad attitudes are contagious.
Enough is enough. Majel Roddenberry must be as rich as Croesus by now. Give another sf widow a chance. Poul Anderson has been dead for a while now; it's about time for his wife to cash in and let the movie industry butcher his works.
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"What the fuck, O my God, BARBECUE?!"
Natalie Portman can keep her scrawniness to herself. She isn't woman enough to wear that outfit.
I don't agree with Niven that it's a bad idea. I'd rather have James Halperin's truth machine, but Niven's organ banks will have to suffice in the real world. If you don't like the rules you can always emigrate. It's only tyranny if you can't opt out of the system.
That doesn't mean the death penalty won't deter other crimes. Maybe if I'm pissed enough to kill somebody, I don't give a fuck if I get the chair. On the other hand, how badly does anyone ever want to drive 55 mph in 25 zone? Badly enough to risk being broken up for their blood and organs on the first offense? Unlikely. So hey, let's bring in capital punishment for minor offenses. Run a red light? Death. Throw trash out on the highway? Death. Sell drugs to kids? Death.
Me, I'm going to ride in the heaviest vehicle I can afford, up to and including a surplus halftrack if I can find one.
Yeah, but if you're ever in a highway accident on that Vespa, there won't be enough left of you to put in a taco. I appreciate you Messianic early adopters; I'm sure we'll all be riding around in or on energy efficient vehicles when oil prices get high enough. But until that day comes we will continue to make hamburger out of you on our highways.
... that this page was indeed assembled by a herd of dyspeptic zebras or whatever. Are the editors so stupified by their jobs that glaring typos roll right past them now?
Girdles are underwear, too.
The nuke boys are always first in line for these things. How about some AI researchers for a change?
I don't know where you live but in the country I live in everyone could use another 20 IQ points and I mean right fucking today. George W. Bush has the authority to start a nuclear war and he is about to be elected to a second term.
And being the nerd that he is he's figured out a way to do it that doesn't require anyone to get any pussy.