There was a store in the area a few years ago that was demanding my ssn be written on any checks they took.
That's nuts. I can see them trying to require your driver's license, as that's the form of picture ID they'd use to identify you (if they bother, and most don't), but not SSN.
I really wish/. would make a section just for Wired article reposting, so those of us who read them already can ignore these when they dribble out a couple weeks after we get them via snail mail.
Where's Freaks & Geeks?
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The pointer says F&G made the list, but I've looked at it several times, no dice. Are others he mentioned missing, also?
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makes me wonder where the hell princo gets their media from, chinese prison labor?
prison labor to scrape the recycled AOL cds, with their little kids using industrial chemicals to polish them.
I think he means expectation of sales
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No such luck. Seems to be a randomly cobbled together list of films, the names of which were pulled from some sort of hat, possibly one of those large ones with beer cans on either side.
Notice how a prominent part of each selection's page is a price search link. Notice also how they're pushing things like 'Buena Vista series' and 'superbit'. I think the real point of this is pretty much like any other UGO advertorial: sell stuff.
Why else would Clerks X be rated higher than Fifth Element or even Tron?
I know wired is supposed to be "everyman's tech magazine" [...] Wired is getting really dumbed down of late.
You do know they got bought by Conde Nast some time ago, right? My guess is they were running silly fashion advertorials like half sister periodical Mondo 2K used to do, and when Wired needed the cash, they sold CN on the idea.
If I'm not mistaken, they bought Omni decades ago, and ran that into the ground, also.
Which is why there are only 79/.ers signed up. When they get the Linux client, they'll get 79,000/.ers.
I don't think so. Not if the current shrinkwrap agreement stays in force. The way I read it, the project can do whatever it wants with my cpu and bandwidth and memory. IBM can transfer control of the project to anyone else without prior notice. I'm responsible for any viruses on my system if the sever feeding me updates or data gets hacked. And on and on. Somehow, distributed.net's agreement seemed nicer.
Where someone is referred from is none of your business, mr violating our rights online.
You choose to use his resources, you can't complain when he uses information you're volunteering. If you don't want him to know, stop the referer response! If you can't do that, that's the fault of your gear, not his.
If you walk by my house to look at my garden, and I ask "hey, can I have a key to your house?" If you give it to me, am I violating your privacy? No.
If all Windows users start getting used to (and liking) Firefox & Thunderbird, then it's that much smaller a jump for them to migrate to Linux instead of staying on Windows.
I don't know about that. In my experience, most average users separate mentally "going to the internet" (doing mail&browsing) from "doing my Excel" and "doing my Word." They don't use generic terms like document or spreadsheet; they associate these tasks with specific icons and names. I can see where Thunderbird is different enough that someone who makes it past the learning curve should be ready to consider trying alternative suites like OpenOffice, but with Firefox, the experience is similar enough that a skin and icon change is just about all you need to sneak it in on most users. Well, unless they go to certain Flash sites. Or certain sites with popups, even enabled. Or...:) You see where I'm going, though.
Don't forget, every Windows system running Firefox and Thunderbird instead of IE and some version of Outlook is... still a Windows system. They won't worry so much about the negative impact of the bazillion vulnerabilities that remain, if more people start using other browser and email software. Meanwhile, they're still collecting the Windows tax on most consumer PCs.
It might even be in MS's interests to sneak Mozilla a million bucks sometime to continue developing alternative browsers, because it would pay them back umpteen times in reduced support and bad press. I wouldn't expect them to do it openly, however.
...oh, wait, you are!:) Just kidding. If you look closely, you'll see that actually, a LOT of the submissions that make the cut are actually submitted by people who wrote the article or worked on the team, or whatever. Slashdot is acting as a news summary service, they don't go out and do their own reporting. So people who offer a lot of material often find it getting through, especially if the first batch is well received. Or if it's a slow day. Or it hasn't been posted already in the last 4 hours. Or...
It's still a nice website, especially at my discounted rate.
This is exactly what's happened to me, also. At the one domain I used to report everything through Spamcop, uce@ftc.gov, etc., I now get a lot of these bouncebacks. I've got the same domain under other TLDs and I get no bouncebacks of forged messages. SPF still seems to be uncommon enough that this hasn't slowed after setting up the text record, either. Interestingly, though, unlike the late 90s, I *never* get email from people who think my domain sent them the spam - people are at least learning not to believe the from: line, or more likely have just stopped bothering to complain and just delete everything.
I was a bit more disturbed by "I've played this on my cell phone" coming from a 10-year-old.
Me, too. His parents must love him more than mine love me. The only games on my phone are Blackjack, Mastermind, and a Pong clone. And I had to buy it myself.
If CNC had their own whois server published, I could look at information about which customer of theirs is spamming. However, it's all Chinese space, and frankly I don't care if they block the whole/19 until CNC stops knowingly hosting spammers. I'd have pasted more about the netblock, but/. doesn't like that idea.
Spamcop reports as originally being from a "ajicccln.info" address. They're using a nameguessing system, too. I wonder why Google doesn't just block their IPs totally?
You don't think that having a huge vacation resort in orbit around the Earth, with theme parks and man-made oceans (read: no Great White Sharks, but lots of good diving), and Earth-like gravity so even old people can go there, would be a good thing?
No, I don't! Not until we have a permanent, self-sufficient off-world presence further out in the solar system, at least.
Terran resource levels will be the bottleneck towards our drive outward. Spend your resources (including time) on pleasure domes, and what do you do when you see a 20-mile asteroid bearing down on planet Earth?
I think I speak for everyone when I say that terraforming the moon has to be a major priority if we're to, erm, get away from this planet.
No, you don't. While it may be useful and even practical to develop industry on Luna, I can't think of a real reason to terraform it. Mars, on the other hand, is a much better candidate for terraforming, or at least modifying to create some atmosphere and agriculture sufficient to meet population demands.
Besides, the primary reason to get off the planet is preservation of the species. Terraforming Luna, which due to its proximity would very possibly be catastrophically affected by any major cataclysm of extra-terrestrial origin affecting Earth, really does not meet this goal.
They're underpowered and the screens are too small.
I want one with a 15.4" widescreen, that I can reorient to portrait mode. I want a really fast and reasonably cheap processor, like an AMD64. I can understand why the screens haven't ramped up yet, but why haven't they moved to faster processors and better memory, yet?
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Now that's what you call high-maintenance.
Seriously, have you looked at the service contracts SGI pushes?
That's nuts. I can see them trying to require your driver's license, as that's the form of picture ID they'd use to identify you (if they bother, and most don't), but not SSN.
If he'd just published the vulnerabilities, he could claim it was in the public interest. But publishing working exploits? That's a huge difference.
That's a bit like saying hey, a gunshot to the temple will kill you, versus handing out guns and bullets to anyone who comes by.
I really wish /. would make a section just for Wired article reposting, so those of us who read them already can ignore these when they dribble out a couple weeks after we get them via snail mail.
The pointer says F&G made the list, but I've looked at it several times, no dice. Are others he mentioned missing, also?
prison labor to scrape the recycled AOL cds, with their little kids using industrial chemicals to polish them.
Notice how a prominent part of each selection's page is a price search link. Notice also how they're pushing things like 'Buena Vista series' and 'superbit'. I think the real point of this is pretty much like any other UGO advertorial: sell stuff.
Why else would Clerks X be rated higher than Fifth Element or even Tron?
please ensure your students know how to read.
You should be trying socks, anyway.
You do know they got bought by Conde Nast some time ago, right?
My guess is they were running silly fashion advertorials like half sister periodical Mondo 2K used to do, and when Wired needed the cash, they sold CN on the idea.
If I'm not mistaken, they bought Omni decades ago, and ran that into the ground, also.
I don't think so. Not if the current shrinkwrap agreement stays in force. The way I read it, the project can do whatever it wants with my cpu and bandwidth and memory. IBM can transfer control of the project to anyone else without prior notice. I'm responsible for any viruses on my system if the sever feeding me updates or data gets hacked. And on and on. Somehow, distributed.net's agreement seemed nicer.
You choose to use his resources, you can't complain when he uses information you're volunteering. If you don't want him to know, stop the referer response! If you can't do that, that's the fault of your gear, not his.
If you walk by my house to look at my garden, and I ask "hey, can I have a key to your house?" If you give it to me, am I violating your privacy? No.
If you say so; I think the lock is too tight for the loss of IE and O (or OE) to tip the scale for someone.
I don't know about that. In my experience, most average users separate mentally "going to the internet" (doing mail&browsing) from "doing my Excel" and "doing my Word." They don't use generic terms like document or spreadsheet; they associate these tasks with specific icons and names. I can see where Thunderbird is different enough that someone who makes it past the learning curve should be ready to consider trying alternative suites like OpenOffice, but with Firefox, the experience is similar enough that a skin and icon change is just about all you need to sneak it in on most users. Well, unless they go to certain Flash sites. Or certain sites with popups, even enabled. Or...
Don't forget, every Windows system running Firefox and Thunderbird instead of IE and some version of Outlook is... still a Windows system. They won't worry so much about the negative impact of the bazillion vulnerabilities that remain, if more people start using other browser and email software. Meanwhile, they're still collecting the Windows tax on most consumer PCs.
It might even be in MS's interests to sneak Mozilla a million bucks sometime to continue developing alternative browsers, because it would pay them back umpteen times in reduced support and bad press. I wouldn't expect them to do it openly, however.
He's certainly a potential juror, anyway. Or do you think they don't count, any more? I think OJ would say otherwise.
"And are you paying for your access?"
:) Just kidding. If you look closely, you'll see that actually, a LOT of the submissions that make the cut are actually submitted by people who wrote the article or worked on the team, or whatever. Slashdot is acting as a news summary service, they don't go out and do their own reporting. So people who offer a lot of material often find it getting through, especially if the first batch is well received. Or if it's a slow day. Or it hasn't been posted already in the last 4 hours. Or...
...oh, wait, you are!
It's still a nice website, especially at my discounted rate.
This is exactly what's happened to me, also. At the one domain I used to report everything through Spamcop, uce@ftc.gov, etc., I now get a lot of these bouncebacks. I've got the same domain under other TLDs and I get no bouncebacks of forged messages. SPF still seems to be uncommon enough that this hasn't slowed after setting up the text record, either. Interestingly, though, unlike the late 90s, I *never* get email from people who think my domain sent them the spam - people are at least learning not to believe the from: line, or more likely have just stopped bothering to complain and just delete everything.
Me, too. His parents must love him more than mine love me. The only games on my phone are Blackjack, Mastermind, and a Pong clone. And I had to buy it myself.
Well, here's at least one of the blocks they're consistently using:
/19 until CNC stops knowingly hosting spammers. I'd have pasted more about the netblock, but /. doesn't like that idea.
inetnum: 202.102.224.0 - 202.102.255.255
netname: CNCGROUP-HA
country: CN
descr: CNCGROUP Henan province network
If CNC had their own whois server published, I could look at information about which customer of theirs is spamming. However, it's all Chinese space, and frankly I don't care if they block the whole
Spamcop reports as originally being from a "ajicccln.info" address. They're using a nameguessing system, too. I wonder why Google doesn't just block their IPs totally?
I see. So you're basically not actually interested in this topic, then?
No, I don't! Not until we have a permanent, self-sufficient off-world presence further out in the solar system, at least.
Terran resource levels will be the bottleneck towards our drive outward. Spend your resources (including time) on pleasure domes, and what do you do when you see a 20-mile asteroid bearing down on planet Earth?
No, you don't. While it may be useful and even practical to develop industry on Luna, I can't think of a real reason to terraform it. Mars, on the other hand, is a much better candidate for terraforming, or at least modifying to create some atmosphere and agriculture sufficient to meet population demands.
Besides, the primary reason to get off the planet is preservation of the species. Terraforming Luna, which due to its proximity would very possibly be catastrophically affected by any major cataclysm of extra-terrestrial origin affecting Earth, really does not meet this goal.
They're underpowered and the screens are too small.
I want one with a 15.4" widescreen, that I can reorient to portrait mode. I want a really fast and reasonably cheap processor, like an AMD64. I can understand why the screens haven't ramped up yet, but why haven't they moved to faster processors and better memory, yet?