What's the problem? Phishing scams need to be stopped, plain and simple.
Now that more and more of the "unwashed masses" are using online services like Paypal and eBay, phishing scams are all over the place. It's getting a little ridiculous. These phishers need to be sent to Federal "pmita" Prison sooner rather than later. Phishers of that type (those stealing money and credit card numbers) lack integrity and they lack honor, and they need to be put away.
I couldn't sit there incrementing by one integer at a time. I'd go crazy before I did. I'd probably end up counting like this: "10 to the 22nd, 10 to the 23rd, 10 to the 24th... fuck this.. infinity. . goodnight"
The funniest part is that Slashdot is just acting as an aggregate to all the lame April fools jokes on tech sites across the web. So, Slashdot has become like a neutron star of lameness today.
The parent poster is referring to the Konami Code, a famous cheat code used in many Konami games. The inclusion of "select" by the parent means that he is starting a two person game (iirc).
Problem is that those actions don't do jack shit, except make a few innocent people have a shitty week because they have to fix the mess you made.
That type of stuff is ignorance at its best. Before you jump to the conclusion of "let's destroy shit", why don't you try something constructive? Find out what's really going on, and if it's really that bad, try to start some sort of protest.
But just knocking shit down simply because it's related to a company that is vaguely associated to actions you disagree with is pure and utter bullshit. That's the exact same type of shit as when people in the middle east protest America by destroying McDonalds restaurants (regardless of whether the owners are native there or not). Or when ecoterrorists do their sabotages harm the environment more than helps.
Think before you do shit. Don't be such an idiot, and you may actually be able to do something constructive.
We'll see an Audrey-like Linux Box with a Firefox and nothing else and it'll be called a GoogleBox. You can do your e-mail, web browsing, photo organizing, document writing, and music work on this box and you never need to run scandisk, install AV software, deal with adware, etc. etc. etc.
Plug into your cable modem and go.
It's not what I need or you need but it's what most people need.
Absolutely not. You highly underestimate the average user if you think their computing needs will be satiated so simply.
Such a box would face that same problems that the "other OSes" (i.e. non-Windows) are today. People can't just walk into the store and pick up a game or other Application and use it. People can't walk in to the store, buy a scanner, and expect it to work.
There is too much talk about the mythical user that only uses checks their email and browses the web. As far as I can tell, this user is the exception rather than the norm. Real users use all of that and more. It's like the saying about Microsoft Office, that even though few people use more than 10% of the features of Office, everyone uses a different 10% and thusly Microsoft can't really cut out the bloat without pissing a fair chunk of users.
It's the same way here. Everyone may use a minimal amount of software, but they all use different software, and to try to fill their needs with such a simple box is ludicrous.
Regardless though, what makes google so special that anyone should trust their entire computing experience to them? I thought computing monocultures were a bad thing in general. Why is it OK for google to have more control over a user than Microsoft ever had?
If I trust my computing experience to a web-based system, I am trusting it to too many fault points for comfort. What happens if the web goes down? Google gets hacked? DNS server goes down?
There are just too many dependencies in such a system for it to ever work (dependence on your net connection, that google will continue the service, that hardware makers will support the box. etc etc)
I guess my biggest issue isn't the fact that answers.com is making ad money off of wikipedia, it's the volume of hits (and $ as a consequence) they receive due to the linking on googles part.
I think the GNUFDL is fantastic but at the same time, there's a slight ethical issue when a site is using Wikipedia's content with ads and getting millions (billions?) of hits a day. Of course there is no real obligation on google/answers.com part to support Wikipedia, but I think as a show of goodwill, they should be willing to foot the relatively small Wikipedia bill.
Similarly, I feel that companies that make heavy use of OSS should contribute money/code back to the community to keep the ecosystem going.
Does anyone find it a bit disconcerting that answers.com gets ad revenue for wikipedia's content. Exactly how much is google funding wikipedia? IMO, they should fund the entire operation considering how much money they (and answers.com) must be making off the content. Think of how much traffic google must generate to the "definition" link in each search.
WTF are you talking about? Competitors DO have the right to make better products with more and better features. They don't however, have the right to shamelessly rip off the design and marketing of a product.
There is nothing stopping anyone from making a cheaper, smaller, and more featureful mp3 player than the iPod shuffle.
Why doesn't he sell the iPod, and with the money get a new laptop harddrive and iPod shuffle.
Sounds like a win-win to me. Sure the shuffle might not be as good as the regular iPod, but if he overheats his iPod he's gonna be out a harddrive and an iPod.
Slashdot's nested system was designed so that you or I can make superfluous comments and not have them interrup the flow of the board. I think it does a pretty damn good job at that, and I don't feel like I'm really "polluting the board" by suggesting that moderators mod a funny post up.
There is too much modding down at Slashdot. I've done my fair share of modding people down, but I try to do it only if I feel someone got unwarranted mod points for an effortless or blatantly troll post. All the time I see good posts get moderated up-and-down and up-and-down, often due to political or otherwise heated disagreements.
Don't get me wrong, I don't expect to have a huge impact on a moderator, but I don't mind throwing out an opinion in the offchance that someone will heed it.
Golly gee. OS X Jaguar only allows 8 character passwords. (It will allow for more, but only authenticates on the first 8. If you have Jaguar, make a > 8 character password, then at the install screen only type in the first 8 characters: you're in!. )
Another note: As any user in Jaguar, open the terminal and type "nidump passwd.". BAM! Encrypted password hashes for all users. Run that through John the Ripper and get anyone in the systems passwords. Combined with the fact that passwords can only be 8 characters long, and well.:)
Could this help find unknown species or help determine what *could've* happened in the evoultion of animals had things gone differently? i.e. presumably there is a finite number of genetic "bar code" combinations, so there would be a finite number of species that could exist... no? yes?
Compromise and negotiation are possible with a reasonable person on the other side of the table. When you realize how insane the Bush agenda really is, you realize that there is no compromise.
Cause David Hasselhoff's music is really popular in Germany. From my experience abroad, it seems that a lof of American has-beens can hit it big in places like Europe and Japan.
Those pirate's bay responses are pretty funny, until you think about them for a couple seconds. What the hell good comes out of any of these countries with "sane" copyright laws?
Perhaps our laws in the US::gasp:: allow creativitiy to thrive and creative works to actually be created. Maybe this is why most of the world leeches off of American pop culture. Their own laws are too bass ackwards to allow any productive creativity or any of their own popular culture. Oh wait, they do have culture, it just hasn't been updated since the 19th century.
Had that article been about Islam (and I could basically convert the article to a believable one about Islam by running a few global substiutions), it would've been modded down and called hateful. As it is, it's modded up. It's a pure good ol' fashioned troll, without showing compromise or humility. It's on the same level as Michael Moore, just a little bit smarter.
My biggest problem with both sides of the political fence is the lack of compromise. No one can admit where the other one is right. People always complain about how this country is so polarized, but never want to do anything about it on a small scale. The first thing to do to stop the division is to compromise, but instead of actually compromising , most people will continue doing what they do and sluffing off any accountability to other people. That article sounds credible, but hot damn if it isn't willing to show any compromise or present the other side of the argument.
If you want to make things better, you have to start taking action in the most minute of ways. Instead of saying "OMG, the Iraq war is all for naught. Bush is awful" (in more words), make some damn compromise about it, and give credit where credit is due. If Bush's actions contributed to something positive, give the man some damn credit. Same goes for republicans as well. Instead of defensively praising Bush at every step, point out where he could have done better.
Accountability goes hand in hand with compromise. Accept that you are accountable for any change you want to have happen. You don't have to act on a global level to promote change. Let's stop the polarity of the nation one person at at a time, by promoting compromise. As an example: if you want the planet to be clean, then don't litter. I see so much fucking hypocrisy with things like that. As an example, people talking about how corporation xyz is ruining the environment, but then go around and litter or dirty the environment themselves. Integrity and accountability start with you at the smallest level.
One of the best examples of a place with lack of accountability is Slashdot. The editors act like a bunch of little kids who bitch and bitch and bitch but never want to show they can do better than those they complain about. If you are the eternal critic no one is going to take you seriously. It all starts with compromise. I'm sure the powers at be are convinced that the bias and unprofessionalness of Slashdot today is much of its drawing power and are hesitant to bring any change. I enjoy Slashdot, but man it could go for a serious overhaul on many fronts.
Meh whatever. Forgive the somewhat disjointed nature of my post. I could write a lot more on all of this, and I'm sure there some holes in my points, but just get my gist and I'll be happy.
I'm reading these posts and it seems that half the people here wrote a fake Novell login prompt to get passwords back in school. So was this some well known and common "hack", or what's going on?
It won't protect against attacks on any services it's not blocking access to
No shit sherlock. However, there are more network daemons than are visible in the Sharing pane in OS X. It's nice to know that with a firewall, services that a) may have been left on accidentally or activated by software not maintained by the system, or b) been maliciously turned on for whatever purpose, will be blocked.
For example a telnetd is installed in OS X by default. Without a firewall, this or any other daemon that's not visible in the Sharing pane could be harmful to my system. With a firewall, only those that are explicitly allowed will be granted access. So things such as telnet, or a user-installed version of apache (or whatever) that gets forgotten about won't be a potential liability.
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What's the problem? Phishing scams need to be stopped, plain and simple.
Now that more and more of the "unwashed masses" are using online services like Paypal and eBay, phishing scams are all over the place. It's getting a little ridiculous. These phishers need to be sent to Federal "pmita" Prison sooner rather than later.
Phishers of that type (those stealing money and credit card numbers) lack integrity and they lack honor, and they need to be put away.
It'd be way too easy to cheat that way.
I couldn't sit there incrementing by one integer at a time. I'd go crazy before I did. I'd probably end up counting like this: "10 to the 22nd, 10 to the 23rd, 10 to the 24th... fuck this.. infinity. . goodnight"
The funniest part is that Slashdot is just acting as an aggregate to all the lame April fools jokes on tech sites across the web.
So, Slashdot has become like a neutron star of lameness today.
:) Slap it in your journal. That was an interesting read.
The parent poster is referring to the Konami Code, a famous cheat code used in many Konami games.
The inclusion of "select" by the parent means that he is starting a two person game (iirc).
Problem is that those actions don't do jack shit, except make a few innocent people have a shitty week because they have to fix the mess you made.
That type of stuff is ignorance at its best. Before you jump to the conclusion of "let's destroy shit", why don't you try something constructive? Find out what's really going on, and if it's really that bad, try to start some sort of protest.
But just knocking shit down simply because it's related to a company that is vaguely associated to actions you disagree with is pure and utter bullshit. That's the exact same type of shit as when people in the middle east protest America by destroying McDonalds restaurants (regardless of whether the owners are native there or not). Or when ecoterrorists do their sabotages harm the environment more than helps.
Think before you do shit. Don't be such an idiot, and you may actually be able to do something constructive.
We'll see an Audrey-like Linux Box with a Firefox and nothing else and it'll be called a GoogleBox. You can do your e-mail, web browsing, photo organizing, document writing, and music work on this box and you never need to run scandisk, install AV software, deal with adware, etc. etc. etc.
Plug into your cable modem and go.
It's not what I need or you need but it's what most people need.
Absolutely not. You highly underestimate the average user if you think their computing needs will be satiated so simply.
Such a box would face that same problems that the "other OSes" (i.e. non-Windows) are today. People can't just walk into the store and pick up a game or other Application and use it. People can't walk in to the store, buy a scanner, and expect it to work.
There is too much talk about the mythical user that only uses checks their email and browses the web. As far as I can tell, this user is the exception rather than the norm. Real users use all of that and more.
It's like the saying about Microsoft Office, that even though few people use more than 10% of the features of Office, everyone uses a different 10% and thusly Microsoft can't really cut out the bloat without pissing a fair chunk of users.
It's the same way here. Everyone may use a minimal amount of software, but they all use different software, and to try to fill their needs with such a simple box is ludicrous.
Regardless though, what makes google so special that anyone should trust their entire computing experience to them? I thought computing monocultures were a bad thing in general. Why is it OK for google to have more control over a user than Microsoft ever had?
If I trust my computing experience to a web-based system, I am trusting it to too many fault points for comfort. What happens if the web goes down? Google gets hacked? DNS server goes down?
There are just too many dependencies in such a system for it to ever work (dependence on your net connection, that google will continue the service, that hardware makers will support the box. etc etc)
Point taken.
I guess my biggest issue isn't the fact that answers.com is making ad money off of wikipedia, it's the volume of hits (and $ as a consequence) they receive due to the linking on googles part.
I think the GNUFDL is fantastic but at the same time, there's a slight ethical issue when a site is using Wikipedia's content with ads and getting millions (billions?) of hits a day. Of course there is no real obligation on google/answers.com part to support Wikipedia, but I think as a show of goodwill, they should be willing to foot the relatively small Wikipedia bill.
Similarly, I feel that companies that make heavy use of OSS should contribute money/code back to the community to keep the ecosystem going.
Does anyone find it a bit disconcerting that answers.com gets ad revenue for wikipedia's content. Exactly how much is google funding wikipedia? IMO, they should fund the entire operation considering how much money they (and answers.com) must be making off the content. Think of how much traffic google must generate to the "definition" link in each search.
WTF are you talking about? Competitors DO have the right to make better products with more and better features. They don't however, have the right to shamelessly rip off the design and marketing of a product.
There is nothing stopping anyone from making a cheaper, smaller, and more featureful mp3 player than the iPod shuffle.
Quit your bitching.
Why doesn't he sell the iPod, and with the money get a new laptop harddrive and iPod shuffle.
Sounds like a win-win to me. Sure the shuffle might not be as good as the regular iPod, but if he overheats his iPod he's gonna be out a harddrive and an iPod.
Slashdot's nested system was designed so that you or I can make superfluous comments and not have them interrup the flow of the board. I think it does a pretty damn good job at that, and I don't feel like I'm really "polluting the board" by suggesting that moderators mod a funny post up.
There is too much modding down at Slashdot. I've done my fair share of modding people down, but I try to do it only if I feel someone got unwarranted mod points for an effortless or blatantly troll post. All the time I see good posts get moderated up-and-down and up-and-down, often due to political or otherwise heated disagreements.
Don't get me wrong, I don't expect to have a huge impact on a moderator, but I don't mind throwing out an opinion in the offchance that someone will heed it.
That's pretty funny stuff.
It's not an analogy, it's an idiom. Personally if I were going to misuse a word, I would've just called it "shitfuck". But that's just me.
Why not stick with insertion then? It has a run time of n on perfectly sorted data...
Golly gee. OS X Jaguar only allows 8 character passwords. (It will allow for more, but only authenticates on the first 8. If you have Jaguar, make a > 8 character password, then at the install screen only type in the first 8 characters: you're in!. )
.". BAM! Encrypted password hashes for all users. Run that through John the Ripper and get anyone in the systems passwords. :)
Another note: As any user in Jaguar, open the terminal and type "nidump passwd
Combined with the fact that passwords can only be 8 characters long, and well.
Quit the Microsoft conspiracy theories.
Why swat a fly with a sledgehammer?
As an exercise of motor skills.
Could this help find unknown species or help determine what *could've* happened in the evoultion of animals had things gone differently? i.e. presumably there is a finite number of genetic "bar code" combinations, so there would be a finite number of species that could exist... no? yes?
Compromise and negotiation are possible with a reasonable person on the other side of the table. When you realize how insane the Bush agenda really is, you realize that there is no compromise.
Then you lose, plain and simple.
Cause David Hasselhoff's music is really popular in Germany. From my experience abroad, it seems that a lof of American has-beens can hit it big in places like Europe and Japan.
Those pirate's bay responses are pretty funny, until you think about them for a couple seconds. What the hell good comes out of any of these countries with "sane" copyright laws?
::gasp:: allow creativitiy to thrive and creative works to actually be created. Maybe this is why most of the world leeches off of American pop culture. Their own laws are too bass ackwards to allow any productive creativity or any of their own popular culture. Oh wait, they do have culture, it just hasn't been updated since the 19th century.
Perhaps our laws in the US
Had that article been about Islam (and I could basically convert the article to a believable one about Islam by running a few global substiutions), it would've been modded down and called hateful. As it is, it's modded up. It's a pure good ol' fashioned troll, without showing compromise or humility. It's on the same level as Michael Moore, just a little bit smarter.
My biggest problem with both sides of the political fence is the lack of compromise. No one can admit where the other one is right. People always complain about how this country is so polarized, but never want to do anything about it on a small scale. The first thing to do to stop the division is to compromise, but instead of actually compromising , most people will continue doing what they do and sluffing off any accountability to other people. That article sounds credible, but hot damn if it isn't willing to show any compromise or present the other side of the argument.
If you want to make things better, you have to start taking action in the most minute of ways. Instead of saying "OMG, the Iraq war is all for naught. Bush is awful" (in more words), make some damn compromise about it, and give credit where credit is due. If Bush's actions contributed to something positive, give the man some damn credit.
Same goes for republicans as well. Instead of defensively praising Bush at every step, point out where he could have done better.
Accountability goes hand in hand with compromise. Accept that you are accountable for any change you want to have happen. You don't have to act on a global level to promote change. Let's stop the polarity of the nation one person at at a time, by promoting compromise. As an example: if you want the planet to be clean, then don't litter. I see so much fucking hypocrisy with things like that. As an example, people talking about how corporation xyz is ruining the environment, but then go around and litter or dirty the environment themselves. Integrity and accountability start with you at the smallest level.
One of the best examples of a place with lack of accountability is Slashdot. The editors act like a bunch of little kids who bitch and bitch and bitch but never want to show they can do better than those they complain about. If you are the eternal critic no one is going to take you seriously. It all starts with compromise. I'm sure the powers at be are convinced that the bias and unprofessionalness of Slashdot today is much of its drawing power and are hesitant to bring any change. I enjoy Slashdot, but man it could go for a serious overhaul on many fronts.
Meh whatever. Forgive the somewhat disjointed nature of my post. I could write a lot more on all of this, and I'm sure there some holes in my points, but just get my gist and I'll be happy.
I'm reading these posts and it seems that half the people here wrote a fake Novell login prompt to get passwords back in school. So was this some well known and common "hack", or what's going on?
It won't protect against attacks on any services it's not blocking access to
No shit sherlock. However, there are more network daemons than are visible in the Sharing pane in OS X. It's nice to know that with a firewall, services that a) may have been left on accidentally or activated by software not maintained by the system, or b) been maliciously turned on for whatever purpose, will be blocked.
For example a telnetd is installed in OS X by default. Without a firewall, this or any other daemon that's not visible in the Sharing pane could be harmful to my system. With a firewall, only those that are explicitly allowed will be granted access. So things such as telnet, or a user-installed version of apache (or whatever) that gets forgotten about won't be a potential liability.
Nice of you to do and all... but did you even check to see if the site had been taken down? It loads fine here.