If a locksmith breaks into your home by picking your locks, he is still a burglar.
Your analogy, though correct, does not apply. He did not break in to any thing, he mearly found all the keys for the locks laying around in a public place.
I configured my spam filters to submit to these guys.
That sounds like a clever way of:
finding out which email addresses are 'live', and
tweaking a new spamification algorithm to see what penetrates the savviest users' filters.
But hey, maybe I'm just being cynical.
I don't think spammers care about clever users. Clever users are more likely to not be taken in by "Buy! V|AGr4 N0W!@" and whatnot so worrying about how to penetrate their defenses is pointless.
iteratively optimised on 80 CS lab computers over three months
This made me cringe... it always annoys me when I log in to use the lab computers only to find that the machine is running slowly because N students are running number crunching code on every lab machine they can find.
Some would go as far to lock the X console since they didn't understand how to use 'screen' to run their processes in a detachable console.
If students are going to do this is seems the very least they could do is get funding for the school to build a cluster exclusively for number crunching, or learn about screen and nice.
Anyway, nothing a good ctrl+alt+backspace or a hard reboot couldn't fix...
I'm not sure they would care. Artists already get very little money from royalties. This may only be a big deal to super-star mega-pop artists whose music is smeared across everything that can possibly make a noise.
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Ultraman . . . forever
Zap! Pow! Suwatch! After 40 years and 16 series, the Ultra Warriors are still saving the Earth and entertaining kids of all ages everywhere By MARK SCHILLING
Special to The Japan Times
The "Ultraman" live-action science-fiction series has been a rite of passage for Japanese boys (and a few girls) and their families for four decades now, since the first show was aired in 1966.
News photo Ultraman gets set to fire his "specium beam" in 1966's "Ultraman" series. (c) TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD
For many, one day you are the parent of a preschooler whose idea of fun television is "Sesame Street" or "Ponkikki," the next you are living with a junior superhero who makes strange cries and arm movements in addition to more familiar karatelike kicks and chops. Your child is, you notice, not merely knocking imaginary space monsters into the next galaxy, but vaporizing them with his "specium beam" fired from forearms crossed in an "L" position, with the upright arm doing the zapping.
He has also developed an insatiable craving for red-and-silver plastic figures -- members of the "Ultraman" extended alien family with Viking horns and grasshopper eyes thrown into the DNA mix, as well as the monsters they battle.
The fast-filling toy box, you will soon discover, is only the beginning: Tsuburaya Productions, the Tokyo-based company that makes the "Ultraman" shows, licenses more than 5,000 "Ultraman" products, from "tightie-whities" for tots to lighters for dads. There are also the inevitable movies, animations, DVDs and even an "Ultraman" channel on cable TV. In other words, "Ultraman" is still an ultraprolific, ultraprofitable franchise -- with no end in sight.
Should this be a cause for alarm? Should parents protest against the insidious influence of ultraviolence on the tender minds of their offspring? Few Japanese think so: By now, two generations of parents here have been "Ultraman" fans, and the series is as much a part of the national fabric as furikake (rice topping) and chopsticks -- both of which are available bearing the "Ultraman" logo. It would be like Americans rallying against Superman.
"Ultraman" was created by Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-70), the father of the tokusatsu (special effects) genre in Japan, who also worked for the Toho studio on many monsters pics, beginning with "Godzilla" in 1954. "Ultraman," however, was not the first special-effects TV show made by the company he founded in 1963. That honor goes to "Ultra Q," a 28-episode black-and-white series modeled on "The Twilight Zone." Broadcast from January to July 1966 on the TBS network, " Ultra Q" featured a human team that investigated extra- terrestrial phenomena and fought Tsuburaya's signature Toho monsters under new names. (Godzilla became the odd-sounding "Gomess.")
Nonetheless, for Tsuburaya and his company, "Ultraman" represented a big, ambitious step forward. The show was filmed in color, with a budget then considered huge for Japanese TV.
"It was in the red from the beginning," says Tsuburaya Managing Director Ken Fukui, who joined the company 20 years ago and is now its "Ultraman" historian. "Mr. Tsuburaya made the show the way he made movies for Toho -- the emphasis was on quality."
Also, notes Fukui, "the original target was adults." Back then, TV was a medium for the entire family, which watched the tube together, so shows had to appeal to dads as well as kiddies. "In time, the target shifted to children -- but that wasn't always the case," he adds.
News photo News photo News photo Ultraman in action against monsters come to Earth to wreak havoc, from 1966's "Ultraman" series (above left) and 1996's "Ultraman Tiga" series (above); and a beautifully wrought vinyl model of the monster Kanegon (left) from the famed Billiken toy-maker. (c) TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD; (c) 1966 TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD (left)
From the beginning, the "Ultraman" show stood out from the competition -- especially thanks to its titl
...thinking that the tapes were destroyed is not an acceptable answer. From a PR standpoint they should've just lied or said they were taking actions to make sure they were destroyed.
http://nanocrew.net/2006/01/08/deaacscom/..."dvd john" registered deaacs.com a while ago... here's hoping something shows up there if bd/hddvd becomes more popular.
and if you RTFA, it say it does poorly with grayscale and color documents.
...but there are trivial image transformations that you can do to turn a color image into grayscale then a grascale image into a binary image. Any matrix manipulation package is capable of doing these transformations.
If you RFTA you'll find that he was fired a few days after the video appeared on YouTube and that Lockheed Martin claims that he was fired for financial reasons (he was transfered off the project on the ship even earlier when his complaints were first voiced). His claims have subjective merit but the politics dealing with him seem a little too convenient.
...explains why this myth persists (unless this posting isn't factual or there's other evidence to the contrary). It mainly boils down to a TCP/IP package that MS bought containing BSD licenses and the purchase of Hotmail by MS and the subsequent migration from FreeBSD to MS software. Hopefully the author got the rest of his facts correct!
I thought it meant vulnerabilities that where unknown to security professionals... lots of people know about it now. Zero day sounds cool, but it looses it's meaning when lame tech articles abuse it as a buzz word.
This is an urban legend which probably stems from Microsoft buying Hotmail (which was run entirely on FreeBSD) and the subsequent migration iterations. See this article from someone at Microsoft for explanation, assuming the article from kuro5hin is reliable:).
and just bought a "10.000 postcards" CD from CompUSA, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, only to discover they don't work on her you-bun-too laptop. Oh and also, she receives funny animated emails from her friends and/or colleagues, and a found Word document with the recipe for werewolf in dung sauce that she can't open.
Random windows software -> prepackaged windows emulator (wine?)
Word documents -> openoffice works find with these, crossover office could be packaged with the system
All that needs to happen is for this integration to be tight and usuable to the "average old lady". You -can- make it work in a world were Microsoft has vendor locked everyone, it just takes innovation and cash.
It is technically legal to download anime that's copyrighted in Japan but not yet licensed in the USA.
No , like TV programs, that's illegal too. Would you warezmonkeys please stop spreading lies to each other? You fools are the entire reason for this "educaton campaign" of suing people.
Fansubs violate copyrights
We have to admit it: the distribution of fansubs is technically a violation of copyright under the WTO TRIPS agreement. However the TRIPS agreement does not demand that distribution of copyrighted material is a criminal offence unless it is done on a commercial scale. This means it is up to the copyright holder to bring the offender to court. The copyright of unlicensed material is held by the original creator. In the case of anime this usually means the Japanese distribution company. If something is licenced, the licensee holds the copyright and thus the right to sue any copyright infringers within the area covered by the license. (source: ato's forum post)
Up until now fansub groups have had little to worry about legal pressure from Japan. However US companies are more likely to sue, therefore it is an additional reason for fansub groups to stop distributing a series once it gets licensed in the US.
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It fixed the people in the grand parent post alright.
That sounds like a clever way of:
But hey, maybe I'm just being cynical.
I don't think spammers care about clever users. Clever users are more likely to not be taken in by "Buy! V|AGr4 N0W!@" and whatnot so worrying about how to penetrate their defenses is pointless.Maybe at your school. The calculations students are running are running all the time for weeks on end sometimes.
This made me cringe... it always annoys me when I log in to use the lab computers only to find that the machine is running slowly because N students are running number crunching code on every lab machine they can find.
Some would go as far to lock the X console since they didn't understand how to use 'screen' to run their processes in a detachable console.
If students are going to do this is seems the very least they could do is get funding for the school to build a cluster exclusively for number crunching, or learn about screen and nice.
Anyway, nothing a good ctrl+alt+backspace or a hard reboot couldn't fix...
I'm not sure they would care. Artists already get very little money from royalties. This may only be a big deal to super-star mega-pop artists whose music is smeared across everything that can possibly make a noise.
Ultraman . . . forever
Zap! Pow! Suwatch! After 40 years and 16 series, the Ultra Warriors are still saving the Earth and entertaining kids of all ages everywhere
By MARK SCHILLING
Special to The Japan Times
The "Ultraman" live-action science-fiction series has been a rite of passage for Japanese boys (and a few girls) and their families for four decades now, since the first show was aired in 1966.
News photo
Ultraman gets set to fire his "specium beam" in 1966's "Ultraman" series. (c) TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD
For many, one day you are the parent of a preschooler whose idea of fun television is "Sesame Street" or "Ponkikki," the next you are living with a junior superhero who makes strange cries and arm movements in addition to more familiar karatelike kicks and chops. Your child is, you notice, not merely knocking imaginary space monsters into the next galaxy, but vaporizing them with his "specium beam" fired from forearms crossed in an "L" position, with the upright arm doing the zapping.
He has also developed an insatiable craving for red-and-silver plastic figures -- members of the "Ultraman" extended alien family with Viking horns and grasshopper eyes thrown into the DNA mix, as well as the monsters they battle.
The fast-filling toy box, you will soon discover, is only the beginning: Tsuburaya Productions, the Tokyo-based company that makes the "Ultraman" shows, licenses more than 5,000 "Ultraman" products, from "tightie-whities" for tots to lighters for dads. There are also the inevitable movies, animations, DVDs and even an "Ultraman" channel on cable TV. In other words, "Ultraman" is still an ultraprolific, ultraprofitable franchise -- with no end in sight.
Should this be a cause for alarm? Should parents protest against the insidious influence of ultraviolence on the tender minds of their offspring? Few Japanese think so: By now, two generations of parents here have been "Ultraman" fans, and the series is as much a part of the national fabric as furikake (rice topping) and chopsticks -- both of which are available bearing the "Ultraman" logo. It would be like Americans rallying against Superman.
"Ultraman" was created by Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-70), the father of the tokusatsu (special effects) genre in Japan, who also worked for the Toho studio on many monsters pics, beginning with "Godzilla" in 1954. "Ultraman," however, was not the first special-effects TV show made by the company he founded in 1963. That honor goes to "Ultra Q," a 28-episode black-and-white series modeled on "The Twilight Zone." Broadcast from January to July 1966 on the TBS network, " Ultra Q" featured a human team that investigated extra- terrestrial phenomena and fought Tsuburaya's signature Toho monsters under new names. (Godzilla became the odd-sounding "Gomess.")
Nonetheless, for Tsuburaya and his company, "Ultraman" represented a big, ambitious step forward. The show was filmed in color, with a budget then considered huge for Japanese TV.
"It was in the red from the beginning," says Tsuburaya Managing Director Ken Fukui, who joined the company 20 years ago and is now its "Ultraman" historian. "Mr. Tsuburaya made the show the way he made movies for Toho -- the emphasis was on quality."
Also, notes Fukui, "the original target was adults." Back then, TV was a medium for the entire family, which watched the tube together, so shows had to appeal to dads as well as kiddies. "In time, the target shifted to children -- but that wasn't always the case," he adds.
News photo News photo
News photo Ultraman in action against monsters come to Earth to wreak havoc, from 1966's "Ultraman" series (above left) and 1996's "Ultraman Tiga" series (above); and a beautifully wrought vinyl model of the monster Kanegon (left) from the famed Billiken toy-maker. (c) TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD; (c) 1966 TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD (left)
From the beginning, the "Ultraman" show stood out from the competition -- especially thanks to its titl
I'd have to vote for Matrix Reloaded with "sshnuke": http://www.securityfocus.com/print/news/4831 .
...thinking that the tapes were destroyed is not an acceptable answer. From a PR standpoint they should've just lied or said they were taking actions to make sure they were destroyed.
http://nanocrew.net/2006/01/08/deaacscom/ ..."dvd john" registered deaacs.com a while ago... here's hoping something shows up there if bd/hddvd becomes more popular.
If you RFTA you'll find that he was fired a few days after the video appeared on YouTube and that Lockheed Martin claims that he was fired for financial reasons (he was transfered off the project on the ship even earlier when his complaints were first voiced). His claims have subjective merit but the politics dealing with him seem a little too convenient.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/11/21 4250
Probably not the same judge?
As far as I know, this is a commonly believed myth. This story:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001
This kind of "revenge" is a bit sick. Is it really worth the money to ruin this guy's life?
Is the title purposely oxymoronic?
I thought it meant vulnerabilities that where unknown to security professionals... lots of people know about it now. Zero day sounds cool, but it looses it's meaning when lame tech articles abuse it as a buzz word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day
Link to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
LOL OMG WTF
I know what those mean too.
Dear Slashdot editors,
Please don't perpetuate the misconception that "alot" is an English word. It's TWO WORDS the first is "a" and the second is "lot".
Thanks,
Concerned Slashdot reader
Anal retentive spelling and grammar corrections are a slashdot tradition. Keep the faith alive!
The post assumes post-1994 NT.
This is an urban legend which probably stems from Microsoft buying Hotmail (which was run entirely on FreeBSD) and the subsequent migration iterations. See this article from someone at Microsoft for explanation, assuming the article from kuro5hin is reliable :).
- Random windows software -> prepackaged windows emulator (wine?)
- Word documents -> openoffice works find with these, crossover office could be packaged with the system
All that needs to happen is for this integration to be tight and usuable to the "average old lady". You -can- make it work in a world were Microsoft has vendor locked everyone, it just takes innovation and cash.It's not a lie.
Read here:
I assume the same is true for TV.