In reality ANYONE is a firefighter in an emergency. The only people that aren't are those that are physically incapable due to age or some other infirmity.
... or those that already have a different task in that same emergency (ambulance staffers, police,...). Or those who don't have the knowledge or equipment to efficiently fight the fire (who would put themselves in more danger than they would be able to help)
This is approximately the equivalent of walking into my work, saying you're a m@d skillz hacker, and finding that 1 person with their login password on a sticky note on their monitor and saying you hacked their login...and I guess it's like someone really nice or something lol. Absolutely pathetic.
Still useful to make a point:
why was that sticky note in a space where the public had access?
why was the resource protected by that password only protected by a password, and not some additionally security measure (such as restricted only to access from a well-protected internal network?)
why did the password give access to all database records, rather than only the ones of interest to the account owner?
why was some irrelevant data (the is_nigger bool column....) included in the database at all?
Hacking charities, not so much.
Some charities (or their agent) embezzle money away from its intended purpose. This may be via excessive administrative overhead. Or via good old-fashioned nepotisim (buying products and services from relatives of executives, rather than from open market). Without knowing the details about the "charity", it's a little bit premature to condemn the hacker.
Anonymous doesn't have morals, and suggesting that they wouldn't attack charity sites is silly.
Especially since charities, or their agents, may become corrupt too, and embezzle funds away from their intended purpose. In such a case, an Anonymous attack would be perfectly defensible!
There is another way to work GP's bias into the cover story's water cooler paragraph:
In every office, standing by the water cooler, there is a person. Let's call him Joe. Joe tells stories about his vacation to the Middle East, followed by racist jokes about Muslims, and everyone politely laughs as they shuffle around him to get their cup of water. "Why does Joe continue telling these jokes?" everyone wonders.
If you want to catch a criminal, you need to think like a criminal
And if you want to evade police, you need to think like the police. I.e. run their algorithm, and commit your crime where the algorithm says it is least likely...
Actually, drives usually have tiny "breather" holes to allow air through for pressure equalization if ambient air pressure changes. These also let through along any humidity that is in the air. The only thing that they are designed to hold back is tiny dust particles, which might otherwise cause a head crash. The environment within a hard drive is merely dust free but not a vacuum.
When I see a particularly insightful quote on one of these photos, the first thing I do, I usually type it (not copy-paste...) into google to learn more about the quote, who said it, the backstory, etc.
But what's more annoying than these Facebook photos are all those "tutorial" or "news" videos. Not only are they almost always flash, but often the "news" videos don't show any actual footage of the event they're about, but just a guy reading off a script...
Result: I cannot use this in my open-office without bothering the neighbours. I cannot quickly skim or skip over those parts that I already know. I cannot search through it, to go straight to the juicy bits. I cannot copy-paste command line examples from those tutorials directly into my shell. When I try to save them for later reference, they are huge... Give me back text any day!
id imagine its exactly the same as in a car...do something wrong and you can be stopped...give them suspicions and they can search you.....being ona bike has nothing to do with it.
A friend of mine used to live in Munich, and police routinely attempted to stop him for riding a bike without a light after dark, or similar silliness.
Eventually, he moved to Dortmund, and police managed to stop him while he was riding his bike, and send him to prison in Munich...
So, even on a bike you may be bothered if you annoy the authorities enough.
What we don't know if Skype was built this way or not. And that's the problem.
... and even if Skype was built that way initially, we have no way of knowing whether this is still the case. Being closed source, and updateable, this could change at any moment...
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In reality ANYONE is a firefighter in an emergency. The only people that aren't are those that are physically incapable due to age or some other infirmity.
... or those that already have a different task in that same emergency (ambulance staffers, police, ...). Or those who don't have the knowledge or equipment to efficiently fight the fire (who would put themselves in more danger than they would be able to help)
If an employer wants my Facebook Password, it is really simple, "NO". I don't need a law to protect me.
What if you need the job? And what if the employer next door wants your password too?
This is approximately the equivalent of walking into my work, saying you're a m@d skillz hacker, and finding that 1 person with their login password on a sticky note on their monitor and saying you hacked their login...and I guess it's like someone really nice or something lol. Absolutely pathetic.
Still useful to make a point:
Hacking charities, not so much.
Some charities (or their agent) embezzle money away from its intended purpose. This may be via excessive administrative overhead. Or via good old-fashioned nepotisim (buying products and services from relatives of executives, rather than from open market). Without knowing the details about the "charity", it's a little bit premature to condemn the hacker.
Anonymous doesn't have morals, and suggesting that they wouldn't attack charity sites is silly.
Especially since charities, or their agents, may become corrupt too, and embezzle funds away from their intended purpose. In such a case, an Anonymous attack would be perfectly defensible!
You should also mention that to all of the volunteer firefighters out there.
Volunteer firefighters have uniforms/protective clothing too...
In every office, standing by the water cooler, there is a person. Let's call him Joe. Joe tells stories about his vacation to the Middle East, followed by racist jokes about Muslims, and everyone politely laughs as they shuffle around him to get their cup of water. "Why does Joe continue telling these jokes?" everyone wonders.
But they do have the advantage of having a good excuse to explain away a positive doping test.
Trouble is, sometimes the answer is no.
... and sometimes, the answer is "both"...
You mean if no one tells me I suck, I won't think I suck?
Please tell that to Hillary Clinton
No, Hillary was his wife. You're thinking about Monica...
Suckers...
Hillary too?
You mean if no one tells me I suck, I won't think I suck?
Please tell that to Hillary Clinton
No, Hillary was his wife. You're thinking about Monica...
If you want to catch a criminal, you need to think like a criminal
And if you want to evade police, you need to think like the police. I.e. run their algorithm, and commit your crime where the algorithm says it is least likely...
Add to that that many people don't know the difference between their computer and its hard disk...
For fuck's sake, am I the only one who knows how hard drives work?
Actually, it looks more like you are the only one who doesn't know how hard disks work.
Even if a drive were stuffed full of air (pretty sure they're a vacuum),
Actually, the drive does contain air. The HDD's spindle system relies on air pressure inside the disk enclosure to support the heads at their proper flying height while the disk rotates.
it's not high humidity air
Actually, drives usually have tiny "breather" holes to allow air through for pressure equalization if ambient air pressure changes. These also let through along any humidity that is in the air. The only thing that they are designed to hold back is tiny dust particles, which might otherwise cause a head crash. The environment within a hard drive is merely dust free but not a vacuum.
Nerds like to joke too. Especially about certain subjects...
but was really a pain when I left my usb stick in the lab or had to keep running back and forth to test a new build
But that's the point: even more walking...
pedantic grammar slashdotter
Way to insult all slashdotters by equating them to n...
But what's more annoying than these Facebook photos are all those "tutorial" or "news" videos. Not only are they almost always flash, but often the "news" videos don't show any actual footage of the event they're about, but just a guy reading off a script...
Result: I cannot use this in my open-office without bothering the neighbours. I cannot quickly skim or skip over those parts that I already know. I cannot search through it, to go straight to the juicy bits. I cannot copy-paste command line examples from those tutorials directly into my shell. When I try to save them for later reference, they are huge... Give me back text any day!
... where your office is at one end, and your lab at the other.
... insider trading by cabbies who get hot stock exchange info from their riders who work at banks?
and your blood taken,
Only if you happen to ride in the Tour de France...
id imagine its exactly the same as in a car...do something wrong and you can be stopped...give them suspicions and they can search you.....being ona bike has nothing to do with it.
A friend of mine used to live in Munich, and police routinely attempted to stop him for riding a bike without a light after dark, or similar silliness.
Eventually, he moved to Dortmund, and police managed to stop him while he was riding his bike, and send him to prison in Munich...
So, even on a bike you may be bothered if you annoy the authorities enough.
What we don't know if Skype was built this way or not. And that's the problem.
... and even if Skype was built that way initially, we have no way of knowing whether this is still the case. Being closed source, and updateable, this could change at any moment...
O, and I thought that was the modern equivalent to the Reichtagsbrand...
Yes, just like Pearl Harbor...
The Aurora shooting suspect left a digital path a mile wide indicating he was up to something nefarious.
No, they've got nothing. He doesn't use facebook