People do NOT learn to use the GUI. They barely are able to use what buttons to press when. The problem comes from the fact that what is explained is just that: what buttons to press.
This starts in school where people learn to work with a specific program in a specific way. This continues at the workplace. Most of the people I come in contact with have absolutely no idea as to what is the idea behind it.
I often ask what the numbers are for something specific. The people can answer me almost immidiatly. However when I ask what it means or how it is calculated, I suddenly get blank stares.
Some programmer can then tell me how it is calculated, but then has no idea what he IS calculating.
And this is with a large European company where none of the people who report to management have a clue as to what the numbers mean they are reporting.
Now imagine that suddenly the button to press that gives them the average $WHATEVER suddenly is gone or moved 3 pixels. Panick!
I've always felt that one should be able to say or write anything that suits their fancy. Short of something that could put someone in immediate harm (i.e. shouting, "Fire!" in a crowded place).
On person who read her own card saw that she was born in 1682. You can buy a reader and write your own application, if you so desire. The source is available, so go ahead and play with it.:-D
Perhaps they can not monitor that, but they sure as hell are interested in who meets whom. If you meet many people who are linked to some organisation, you will most likely be part of that organisation as well and might need further investigation.
That way they will already be monitoring you when suddenly you sms "The flight has been delayed and mother is sick" to all those people. No, they do not know what and if something will be happening. That is not always the point. Links and relations is the key.
Usenet. That would be my prefered way of comunication. That together with other means of encription. The advantage over Flicr is that there is no proof of contact between the sender and the reciever.
e.g. I post daily to alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper and put sometimes a message encrypted in the series I post. It has been a while, but still. I post them at my provider.
The target (whom I might not even know) can pic it up at his provider, decrypt it and read the message. Now as I am posting on-topic and often, there is no reason why you wouldn't download them. Many thousands do so.
Yes, they could arrest me. However I might not know the reciever. the reciever will most likely be warned that I do not send anything anymore and take apropriate action.
Basicaly it is the Internet version of broadcasting 'Jean has a large moustache'. The thing with messages is often not so much what is in them, but who is talking to whom. So if you make it harder to detect the network, that would be better (from a terorist point of view)
how do you know if you aren't the intended recipient?
Look at the headers. If it isn't pointing at your mailbox somehow, it was not intended for you. Look at the Delivered-To: and read uponm the SMTP RFC and you will understand that each mail that you recieve was intended for you from a reciever point of view.
The fact that the sender did not intended it to go to you (or to the whole company) is not the recievers fault, but the senders. If I send it to the wrong person, or if I do a reply-all, it will be I who is responsible, no matter how ling the disclaimer is I send.
If somebody sues you over such a disclaimer, send them disclaimers that they are agreeing to pay you X amount per recieved mail and then sue THEM. Then look how fast they will drop charges. If they keep on pressing, just use the identical arguments against them and collect money for free.:-D
Question Two: these companies are registered in other countries - perhaps typosquatting is legal there?
Could be, and if said companies don't actually do business in the US, then Dell may be SOL; but if those companies have US assets, or even do business with US companies there could be consequences.
They have.com names. Several millions of them . Take those away as they are owned by a american company. Even those that are NOT affected by the lawsuit.
Better use tracert or traceroute instead of ping. That way you can not only see if your network connection is up, but also see what the problem is if it doesn't.
It doesn't matter whether you like somebody's smile, what their F-ing religion is or how rich they are. What matters is what they plan on doing if they become president.
That is how we Europeans look at it. Mericans seem to just go with whatever somebody tells them to do.
And the people here on slashdot are better informed in general then the general public.
It seems to come to 'who do you dislike least'? Also the differences between the two are not that big as the differences between the parties in Europe.
It's more likely that a middle eastern group is doing this to reduce western influence without any real grasp on just how resilient the network is.
That would asume that those people are complete idiots. The people who might be able to pull this off are anything but idiots. It might be that the people who walk around with a bomb and blow themselves up are idiots. People planning such an attach are certainly not.
That does not mean they did not do it. It could be just an act of terror, meaning that it is not so much an objective to hold any information as it is to let the USofA and/or the rest of the world think: OMG. We are now even MORE afraid!!!1!1!!
Actually, it didn't cost him a cent. We have euros, you see.
And how do you call 1/100th of 1 EURO? Although the smalles coin in Finland is 0.05EUR, there are still payments in cents. Senttiä in Suomi, cent in Swedish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro for more information.
Worried about your email adresses? Why not buy a domain and then forward it to whatever is the latests adress with filter you use at that moment?
That way people see your adress, but you grab it from anywhere you desire, without the roblems of setting up your own filters.
If 10USD a year (or less) is not worth it, it is not worth moaning over.
You then have about a year to move over the websites you find. The ones you do not catchm you will not have used anyway and you can set up a new account.
If you cut three at the same time, people start to wonder and pay much more attention to both the repairs and the remaining lines.
This could be something like: OK, we are going to do something, but we do not want anybody in the world to know about it, so how do we do it? Cut off their intertubes. That way they can not tell anubody else.
Installing a tab you do not do by entering a building and tell the people there is a problem with the phone, after you caused that disturbence. What you do is place the bugs, without anybody having anything in their memory that could link it to a specific time and space.
If on purpose, it was not because they could isten in. If anything, the reason was that they coul NOT listen in. This way the laces that they CAN listen in will be still open.
Obviously this will also let the people you want to listen in on, be aware of that, so perhaps they can NOT listen in on those other lines and let them believe they can so those lines (be it phone, mue ar smoke signal) are closed and new lines of information are opend, where you hope you can listen in on.
It is strange that a country that is on the USofAs shitlist is blocked out.
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People do NOT learn to use the GUI. They barely are able to use what buttons to press when. The problem comes from the fact that what is explained is just that: what buttons to press.
This starts in school where people learn to work with a specific program in a specific way. This continues at the workplace. Most of the people I come in contact with have absolutely no idea as to what is the idea behind it.
I often ask what the numbers are for something specific. The people can answer me almost immidiatly. However when I ask what it means or how it is calculated, I suddenly get blank stares.
Some programmer can then tell me how it is calculated, but then has no idea what he IS calculating.
And this is with a large European company where none of the people who report to management have a clue as to what the numbers mean they are reporting.
Now imagine that suddenly the button to press that gives them the average $WHATEVER suddenly is gone or moved 3 pixels. Panick!
They both worship the same God.
Are you surprised that they do the same thing as many other religions?
Who says I have nothing to hide? I have plenty to hide. Perhaps none of it illegal, yet I do not want others to see it.
If you arer talking about Belgium, you can even read what is stored on the card. Software : http://www.belgium.be/zip/eid_datacapture_nl.html
:-D
On person who read her own card saw that she was born in 1682. You can buy a reader and write your own application, if you so desire.
The source is available, so go ahead and play with it.
You can also download it from Here: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=eid if you run openSUSE
Perhaps they can not monitor that, but they sure as hell are interested in who meets whom. If you meet many people who are linked to some organisation, you will most likely be part of that organisation as well and might need further investigation.
That way they will already be monitoring you when suddenly you sms "The flight has been delayed and mother is sick" to all those people. No, they do not know what and if something will be happening. That is not always the point. Links and relations is the key.
Usenet. That would be my prefered way of comunication. That together with other means of encription. The advantage over Flicr is that there is no proof of contact between the sender and the reciever.
e.g. I post daily to alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper and put sometimes a message encrypted in the series I post. It has been a while, but still. I post them at my provider.
The target (whom I might not even know) can pic it up at his provider, decrypt it and read the message. Now as I am posting on-topic and often, there is no reason why you wouldn't download them. Many thousands do so.
Yes, they could arrest me. However I might not know the reciever. the reciever will most likely be warned that I do not send anything anymore and take apropriate action.
Basicaly it is the Internet version of broadcasting 'Jean has a large moustache'. The thing with messages is often not so much what is in them, but who is talking to whom. So if you make it harder to detect the network, that would be better (from a terorist point of view)
Take the train from Brussels to London. Still the same security theater.
That is not a better solution. A better solution is that the DNS is NOT blocked. What you propose is a workaround, nit a solution.
In fact it is WORSE as it agrees with the fact that the ISP must be filtering.
Also as a workaround, you can add "83.140.176.146 thepriratebay.org" to your hosts file.
Hey, it worked for Microsoft.
Modded insightfull. Only on /.
Look at the Delivered-To: and read uponm the SMTP RFC and you will understand that each mail that you recieve was intended for you from a reciever point of view.
The fact that the sender did not intended it to go to you (or to the whole company) is not the recievers fault, but the senders. If I send it to the wrong person, or if I do a reply-all, it will be I who is responsible, no matter how ling the disclaimer is I send.
If somebody sues you over such a disclaimer, send them disclaimers that they are agreeing to pay you X amount per recieved mail and then sue THEM. Then look how fast they will drop charges. If they keep on pressing, just use the identical arguments against them and collect money for free.
To me domain names are assets as well.
I hope nobody messes with those IP adresses, as I have hackme.houghi.org pointing to one of those adresses.
It is a bitch to get a reversed though.
I for one am glad that they stopped the monopoly position that specific company/person had on that market share.
M$:You stole our code.
L:No we didn't. Show us.
M$:I'm sorry that is a trade secret, just take our word for it.
I believe we have seen a lawsuit that ran for a few years with almost the same wording.
Better use tracert or traceroute instead of ping. That way you can not only see if your network connection is up, but also see what the problem is if it doesn't.
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That is how we Europeans look at it. Mericans seem to just go with whatever somebody tells them to do.
And the people here on slashdot are better informed in general then the general public.
It seems to come to 'who do you dislike least'? Also the differences between the two are not that big as the differences between the parties in Europe.
That would asume that those people are complete idiots. The people who might be able to pull this off are anything but idiots.
It might be that the people who walk around with a bomb and blow themselves up are idiots. People planning such an attach are certainly not.
That does not mean they did not do it. It could be just an act of terror, meaning that it is not so much an objective to hold any information as it is to let the USofA and/or the rest of the world think: OMG. We are now even MORE afraid!!!1!1!!
And how do you call 1/100th of 1 EURO? Although the smalles coin in Finland is 0.05EUR, there are still payments in cents. Senttiä in Suomi, cent in Swedish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro for more information.
Worried about your email adresses? Why not buy a domain and then forward it to whatever is the latests adress with filter you use at that moment?
That way people see your adress, but you grab it from anywhere you desire, without the roblems of setting up your own filters.
If 10USD a year (or less) is not worth it, it is not worth moaning over.
You then have about a year to move over the websites you find. The ones you do not catchm you will not have used anyway and you can set up a new account.
If you cut three at the same time, people start to wonder and pay much more attention to both the repairs and the remaining lines.
This could be something like: OK, we are going to do something, but we do not want anybody in the world to know about it, so how do we do it? Cut off their intertubes. That way they can not tell anubody else.
Installing a tab you do not do by entering a building and tell the people there is a problem with the phone, after you caused that disturbence. What you do is place the bugs, without anybody having anything in their memory that could link it to a specific time and space.
If on purpose, it was not because they could isten in. If anything, the reason was that they coul NOT listen in. This way the laces that they CAN listen in will be still open.
Obviously this will also let the people you want to listen in on, be aware of that, so perhaps they can NOT listen in on those other lines and let them believe they can so those lines (be it phone, mue ar smoke signal) are closed and new lines of information are opend, where you hope you can listen in on.
It is strange that a country that is on the USofAs shitlist is blocked out.