Momnature will come up with this on her own, eventually.
Researching how this happens will tell us how to create vaccines or drugs in the future that can treat this.
So Joe "I lit my pants on fire and didn't like it" Terrorist decides to invent a "Kill Everyone" virus. The funny thing about actual universities where you learn how to do genetic engineering is that when you're actually done learning all that shit and are capable of doing so, you can get *paid* handsomely and you forget all all about the idiotic idea you had about making a "kill everybody" virus.
Basing your security legislation on bad movie plots is simply idiotic.
>From an excessive point of view: If someone developed a way to make a nuclear bomb out of superglue and rubber bands, you think they should publish that, too?
Your argument is based upon the assumption that weaponizing a virus is as simple and easy as manufacturing a nuclear bomb from superglue and rubber bands.
Even if you have the equipment, you need the education and training to figure out how to do bioweapons research and take this paper and somehow translate it into something practical. Your assumption is that this is easy. If it's so easy, why doesn't everyone have a PhD in genetics by the time they graduate Middle School?
Your argument doesn't even pass the belly-laugh test.
All science and engineering have "dual uses" - good and evil. Basic science more than anything, because it's done without any practical goals in mind - that's figured out later and we call it the applied sciences.
When a government says you can't publish because "someone might use it for bad things" that means you can't publish anything at all. It doesn't matter. A design for a new kind of architectural brick cannot be published because someone might make one and bash someone's head in.
The people who need their heads bashed in are those pushing the security state.
Usenet newsgroup hierarchies are in the opposite direction of FQDN hierarchies.
Introducing a.chrysler TLD is not the same as creating the newsgroup rec.automobiles.chrysler. Creating a TLD.chrysler is akin to creating a whole new Usenet hierarchy unto itself and adding to the Big 8 (I'm ignoring alt for the sake of clarity) - comp. humanities. misc. news. rec. sci. soc. talk. - by appending chrysler. making a Big 9.
In this way, creating willy-nilly TLDs removes the entire reason for TLDs and makes them pointless. Why have any order at all when someone with enough money can just tack on to the list of TLDs whatever he wants?
Also, saying that this has anything to do with the "organic growth" of the Internet: Nonsense. This is nothing but a money-spinner for ICANN by forcing companies to spend 185K to defend their trademarks.
Joshua/WOPR: Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua/WOPR: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
>Why did you waste time looking for two trojans and not remove them?
Honest answer? It's too much trouble to load the thing in vi and edit it out. Clamav doesn't remove it automatically, which is good, because I'd not like it to fuck with the archive, tyvm.
>I'm shocked you didn't immediately forward those messages to everyone you know.
With Yahoo in the game also with "unlimited mailbox" sizes, you can do much the same thing. I see no reason why you can't adapt GmailFS for Yahoo (or any other IMAP provider) since it uses IMAP too.
Even without a FUSE, I've used Yahoo and Gmail as a poor-man's backup.
1. 7zip the documents. Encrypt optional. 2. Split up the 7zip 3. Send them to yourself as attachments. ?????? Backed up documents as if you stuck them on a flash drive.
This is handy when you are away and you've got nothing to back up on.
Cluley adds that while the spread of malware to and from Macs is no different than that for Windows computers, a lack of anti-virus implementation means that it sticks around for longer. Some samples collected by Sophos found malware dating back to 2007.
For shits and giggles, I ran a scan on my email archive, some of which dates back to 1994, and it resides on a linux machine.
I found *two* Windows trojans.
I didn't bother removing them. So this means I'm infected?
Not only in terms of read access, but also in terms of sheer bandwidth to transmit like that (e.g. you CAN send 5Gb to 20 people on a 5Gb account whenever you like, but you can't do that with email!).
What, exactly, stops me from sending 5GB to 1000 people via email?
I guess this is too close to the truth for someone. There are US businesses that are notorious for treating Mexicans as slaves, like Michael Bianco in New Bedford MA, if you bother to open Google.
Step 1. Hire 200 Mexicans to make leather goods for the US military - two thirds of your workforce. Abuse them. But the families get ripped apart when your plant gets raided by ICE and you pocket the ill-gotten gains from paying slave wages. Step 2. never see the inside of a jail cell ??????? Step 4. Make *more* profit because your contract is renewed.
King James 2000 Bible Both your male and female slaves, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them shall you buy male and female slaves. Mexicans are OK, but Canadians are right out.
...at ICANT's continuing strategy to turn this TLD thing into a blackmail scheme for companies, orgs, schools, etc. "Here, buy another domain because someone might squat on it!"
It's not my job to deal with that directly, but as a geek it rubs me the wrong way. It's deliberately injecting chaos into an already chaotic system. It's not like TLDs outside of.net,.org,.com,.edu, and cc codes matter. When is the last time you visited a company that used.biz that wasn't a fly-by-night spammer? Yeah, thought so.
I was poking around in your recent comments because I think you're smart, and I came across this:
This means that anyone in the field over the age of forty or so would have most likely learned to program on cheap, memory-constrained minicomputers (PDP-8s, and so on) that had a severe preference for terseness; possibly even BASIC.
I thought I'd give some personal perspective from a dirty old man who was once a 13 year old kid at a keyboard learning how to plot trig functions for a "downhill skiier" game (writing one of these was a right of passage, I believe).
Those of us over 40 cut our teeth on the Apple ][, Commie 64, TI 99/4a, Spectrums (Spectra!?), BBC computers across the pond, etc. IIRC, from his biography, Linus Torvalds learned how to program on his uncle's Vic20, which had a ridiculously small memory, something like 8KB or so. If it wasn't BASIC, it was Assembly (more likely than Pascal) or merely typing hex code in monitor mode on the Apple ][, for example, and no actual human-readable language at all. The preference for terseness is because of what we had to deal with. You either learned to write really, really tight code or it was simply not going to fit.
It was bitchin' when you could type PR#3 (mount the card in slot 3) on the Apple and get a whole 80 columns of text instead of 40.
If you have a prof, mentor, or colleague that writes code and he or she is over 40 and the code is full of single character nondescript variables, this is why.
He came out and basically said that company can perform magic. It was bullshit.
>me being an asshole
*holds up mirror*
I have said before, get an account here, set your foe settings to -6 and foe me. It's one of the better Slashdot tools. You get the benefit of not ever seeing one of my posts ever again.
My point was that a lot of people, individually, are "one issue" and all those "one issues" are different and that it's not going to stop at online porn if the current bunch of "one issue" people that we are discussing get their way.
There will be other "one issues" in the future. Different ones, but definitely some very loud people will rally around an issue that will have their panties in a bunch. Even as the rest of us can point and laugh as they buy MPs and Congresscritters.
And yes, the hypocrisy is mind bending. Divorce in the bible belt is the highest. Teen pregnancy in the same area is the highest in the US (so much for abstinence, eh?). Online porn use is highest in those states too. 80 percent of everyone everywhere looks at porn online. That doesn't stop those same people from being holier-than-thou hypocrites.
I don't see an end to it. The situation is completely intractable.
By the way, Ku:rt of Hungary will recover anything bitish from anything IT if you have the money - burning, hammering, grinding, magnetizing are no obstacle.
Really? They defeat the laws of physics when you have heated the platters above the Curie point they can get the data back?
If I grind the oxide off, they can put the oxide back on?
They can reconstruct the platters after I've shattered them with a.45ACP?
Slashdot Mirror
But what you *are* saying *is* scaremongering.
Momnature will come up with this on her own, eventually.
Researching how this happens will tell us how to create vaccines or drugs in the future that can treat this.
So Joe "I lit my pants on fire and didn't like it" Terrorist decides to invent a "Kill Everyone" virus. The funny thing about actual universities where you learn how to do genetic engineering is that when you're actually done learning all that shit and are capable of doing so, you can get *paid* handsomely and you forget all all about the idiotic idea you had about making a "kill everybody" virus.
Basing your security legislation on bad movie plots is simply idiotic.
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>From an excessive point of view: If someone developed a way to make a nuclear bomb out of superglue and rubber bands, you think they should publish that, too?
Your argument is based upon the assumption that weaponizing a virus is as simple and easy as manufacturing a nuclear bomb from superglue and rubber bands.
Even if you have the equipment, you need the education and training to figure out how to do bioweapons research and take this paper and somehow translate it into something practical. Your assumption is that this is easy. If it's so easy, why doesn't everyone have a PhD in genetics by the time they graduate Middle School?
Your argument doesn't even pass the belly-laugh test.
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BMO
Evil use of aerogel: Someone could probably be asphyxiated with it. Wow, that was hard.
>cheap aerogel
If only. It would revolutionize the home insulation industry.
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BMO
Science is now dead.
All science and engineering have "dual uses" - good and evil. Basic science more than anything, because it's done without any practical goals in mind - that's figured out later and we call it the applied sciences.
When a government says you can't publish because "someone might use it for bad things" that means you can't publish anything at all. It doesn't matter. A design for a new kind of architectural brick cannot be published because someone might make one and bash someone's head in.
The people who need their heads bashed in are those pushing the security state.
Welcome to the new dark ages.
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BMO
You have this backwards.
Usenet newsgroup hierarchies are in the opposite direction of FQDN hierarchies.
Introducing a .chrysler TLD is not the same as creating the newsgroup rec.automobiles.chrysler. Creating a TLD .chrysler is akin to creating a whole new Usenet hierarchy unto itself and adding to the Big 8 (I'm ignoring alt for the sake of clarity) - comp. humanities. misc. news. rec. sci. soc. talk. - by appending chrysler. making a Big 9.
In this way, creating willy-nilly TLDs removes the entire reason for TLDs and makes them pointless. Why have any order at all when someone with enough money can just tack on to the list of TLDs whatever he wants?
Also, saying that this has anything to do with the "organic growth" of the Internet: Nonsense. This is nothing but a money-spinner for ICANN by forcing companies to spend 185K to defend their trademarks.
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BMO
But the question I posed was "what's actually stopping me from doing so?"
The answer to which is "nothing"
With email mailbox sizes in the multi-gigabyte range, this is trivial.
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BMO
It's approaching quickly.
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BMO
>Why did you waste time looking for two trojans and not remove them?
Honest answer? It's too much trouble to load the thing in vi and edit it out. Clamav doesn't remove it automatically, which is good, because I'd not like it to fuck with the archive, tyvm.
>I'm shocked you didn't immediately forward those messages to everyone you know.
honestly, now.
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BMO
With Yahoo in the game also with "unlimited mailbox" sizes, you can do much the same thing. I see no reason why you can't adapt GmailFS for Yahoo (or any other IMAP provider) since it uses IMAP too.
Even without a FUSE, I've used Yahoo and Gmail as a poor-man's backup.
1. 7zip the documents. Encrypt optional.
2. Split up the 7zip
3. Send them to yourself as attachments.
??????
Backed up documents as if you stuck them on a flash drive.
This is handy when you are away and you've got nothing to back up on.
It's not rocket surgery.
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BMO
>no, it means you're a fucking loser.
Stay mad, brah. Let the butthurt flow through you. Good, good.
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BMO
We have these things called computers. They can break up files into handy chunks and do this automatically.
Indeed, have you ever heard of GmailFS?
http://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/
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BMO
>File attachment size limits?
How do you think DVD ISO files are posted to usenet?
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BMO
Cluley adds that while the spread of malware to and from Macs is no different than that for Windows computers, a lack of anti-virus implementation means that it sticks around for longer. Some samples collected by Sophos found malware dating back to 2007.
For shits and giggles, I ran a scan on my email archive, some of which dates back to 1994, and it resides on a linux machine.
I found *two* Windows trojans.
I didn't bother removing them. So this means I'm infected?
What a load of horse-pucky.
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BMO
Not only in terms of read access, but also in terms of sheer bandwidth to transmit like that (e.g. you CAN send 5Gb to 20 people on a 5Gb account whenever you like, but you can't do that with email!).
What, exactly, stops me from sending 5GB to 1000 people via email?
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BMO
And this has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said. How is this even a reply?
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BMO
>make joke
>modded troll
I guess this is too close to the truth for someone. There are US businesses that are notorious for treating Mexicans as slaves, like Michael Bianco in New Bedford MA, if you bother to open Google.
Step 1. Hire 200 Mexicans to make leather goods for the US military - two thirds of your workforce. Abuse them. But the families get ripped apart when your plant gets raided by ICE and you pocket the ill-gotten gains from paying slave wages.
Step 2. never see the inside of a jail cell
???????
Step 4. Make *more* profit because your contract is renewed.
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BMO
It says that we can't own Canadians as slaves.
I thought that was Leviticus 25:44
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BMO
corporation licensing is not the same as music downloads and being in compliance is not easy
Bullshit.
Under the law, they are the same. Copyright law does not distinguish between software, multimedia, or books.
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BMO
>.fart
What's for sure is that Apple is going to buy .iFart
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BMO
...at ICANT's continuing strategy to turn this TLD thing into a blackmail scheme for companies, orgs, schools, etc. "Here, buy another domain because someone might squat on it!"
It's not my job to deal with that directly, but as a geek it rubs me the wrong way. It's deliberately injecting chaos into an already chaotic system. It's not like TLDs outside of .net, .org, .com, .edu, and cc codes matter. When is the last time you visited a company that used .biz that wasn't a fly-by-night spammer? Yeah, thought so.
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BMO
I said "right of passage"
What the hell, bmo.
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BMO
I was poking around in your recent comments because I think you're smart, and I came across this:
This means that anyone in the field over the age of forty or so would have most likely learned to program on cheap, memory-constrained minicomputers (PDP-8s, and so on) that had a severe preference for terseness; possibly even BASIC.
I thought I'd give some personal perspective from a dirty old man who was once a 13 year old kid at a keyboard learning how to plot trig functions for a "downhill skiier" game (writing one of these was a right of passage, I believe).
Those of us over 40 cut our teeth on the Apple ][, Commie 64, TI 99/4a, Spectrums (Spectra!?), BBC computers across the pond, etc. IIRC, from his biography, Linus Torvalds learned how to program on his uncle's Vic20, which had a ridiculously small memory, something like 8KB or so. If it wasn't BASIC, it was Assembly (more likely than Pascal) or merely typing hex code in monitor mode on the Apple ][, for example, and no actual human-readable language at all. The preference for terseness is because of what we had to deal with. You either learned to write really, really tight code or it was simply not going to fit.
It was bitchin' when you could type PR#3 (mount the card in slot 3) on the Apple and get a whole 80 columns of text instead of 40.
If you have a prof, mentor, or colleague that writes code and he or she is over 40 and the code is full of single character nondescript variables, this is why.
So there you go.
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BMO
He came out and basically said that company can perform magic. It was bullshit.
>me being an asshole
*holds up mirror*
I have said before, get an account here, set your foe settings to -6 and foe me. It's one of the better Slashdot tools. You get the benefit of not ever seeing one of my posts ever again.
But that is apparently too complicated for you.
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BMO
My point was that a lot of people, individually, are "one issue" and all those "one issues" are different and that it's not going to stop at online porn if the current bunch of "one issue" people that we are discussing get their way.
There will be other "one issues" in the future. Different ones, but definitely some very loud people will rally around an issue that will have their panties in a bunch. Even as the rest of us can point and laugh as they buy MPs and Congresscritters.
And yes, the hypocrisy is mind bending. Divorce in the bible belt is the highest. Teen pregnancy in the same area is the highest in the US (so much for abstinence, eh?). Online porn use is highest in those states too. 80 percent of everyone everywhere looks at porn online. That doesn't stop those same people from being holier-than-thou hypocrites.
I don't see an end to it. The situation is completely intractable.
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BMO
By the way, Ku:rt of Hungary will recover anything bitish from anything IT if you have the money - burning, hammering, grinding, magnetizing are no obstacle.
Really? They defeat the laws of physics when you have heated the platters above the Curie point they can get the data back?
If I grind the oxide off, they can put the oxide back on?
They can reconstruct the platters after I've shattered them with a .45ACP?
How come the entire world doesn't know this?
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BMO