The USGS is one of very few federal agencies that is actually useful to the people. Their research is valuable to all of us, and it should not be tampered with. I regularly check their seismic network web pages and read the Oat Mountain drum recorder. Why does the administration think it's bad for people to see this stuff?
I can tell you what one old-timer thinks: Bah! Code-slinging has defined the hobby since the days of spark, and it's still actively used today. (Pinkfud is WAØYSK).
Heh, I set my share of those landmines myself. Those were the days! It was also quite funny (for the evil-doer at least) to make a pair of popups that called each other. Pop-pop-pop-pop....
Yes, you could do that. But then you're talking about a lot of time unless you have a huge operation. And if you build the huge operation, then I think someone would wonder what the plant does. You might be able to make some profit on a small scale, but it certainly isn't attractive from an industrial viewpoint.
I used to be in the scrap metal industry about 35 years ago, so I know a bit about this. If a nickel is worth 2 cents over face value, then the "profit" from 100 nickels would be $2.00 - supposedly. But in fact, a nickel is (I think) 25% nickel and 75% copper. Those metals are very hard to separate. And you would have to separate them to (a) get the full value, and (b) to hide the origin of the metal. The process would cost considerably more than the supposed profit. Pennies would be easier to resolve into copper and zinc because zinc has a much lower melting point, but it's still not all profit.
The truth is, any nation that mixes common metals (not say, silver or gold) in their coins doesn't need to worry about the melting-down issue unless the metal prices go through the roof. It just wouldn't be profitable. Now Canada, I believe their nickel-based coins are pure or nearly so. That might be a different matter.
I live in Arizona, and I've come to believe McCain is a national disaster. Can you imagine what this bill would mean to the WikiMedia Projects, with all the vandalism they get? It would break them just to file the reports! Nonsense of the highest order.
I have a laptop with XP, and it's not a good idea to let it hibernate. Sometimes it wakes up fine, other times it crashes horribly. I actually didn't know this was a common problem. I just thought I had a buggy laptop. Now I feel better!
I think the time delay is perfectly reasonable. Amazing, in fact. Once the site escapes from the/. cloud so I can actually use it, I plan to do some research there. I suspect a number of governments will think the delay is much too short - no time to censor things!
If I could do something to the moon, I'm afraid everyone would be looking at F**K instead of a logo. The world has no idea how lucky it is that I don't have that power.
Haha, what would you expect? You can find that on DVD at your local video store. I plan to watch my mouth on here from now on. They indexed every comment I ever posted at Slashdot!
If these guys can pay a fine that size and still be in business, one has to wonder just how much loot they rake in with their wonderful little surprises.
Agreed. I have a vision of war starting somewhere, and we fire off a barrage of cruise missiles, then see them all turn around and come back. Golly-gee, someone put a backdoor in there and entered a reverse-course command. How could that have happened?:-/
I would think that code would be valuable to hostile countries. I mean, what opponent wouldn't like to see how our stuff works, and maybe develop a defense against it? Putting it in the hands of outsiders is just asking for trouble. Dumb!
Heh, yeah. That's exactly why I never put links to my sites on here. You guys are t3h cloggers of t3h tubes!
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Indeed, I would just love it if my sites got accidental traffic. I don't make them just to sit idle, after all. Personally, I wish there was no "trademark" issue with domain names. I actually worry about one of mine, because someone else has the dot-com, while I own the dot-net, dot-info and dot-us versions. I fear that someday I'll get in crap over that just because people love to start trouble.
But the ultimate responsibility lies with the crook
Exactly, and the crook is the guy who does the phishing, not the registrar who sold the domain name. Think about this: You go into a liquor store and pick up a bottle of Everclear (90% alcohol). At the counter, the clerk says "Oh, I won't sell you that. It's too dangerous!" Your response would be "What? You have it, I want it, and it's legal to buy! Don't tell me I can't have it!" - Right? Yes. we resellers are suspicious of people who buy these names. But we are in that business, and just like the liquor store, we have to sell what's available. We don't have to host the domains though, and most of us have TOS that would forbid their schemes. If I host a domain I'm suspicious of, you better believe I'll check frequently to see what they're doing. If it looks like a violation of my TOS, out they go.
I run a small domain reseller business called Net With Us. (No link because I don't want my poor little shop Slashdotted). That puts me in position to comment on this. The domain search engine we resellers use comes up with those look-alike names automatically when you do a search for availability. There's no practical way to block that and still have the functionality. There's also no legal/moral way to refuse the sale of a name that's available. You want buckinghampalaceonline.co.uk? If it's available, I'll sell it to you! I submit that banks can damn well afford to buy all the look-alike names and park them or redirect to their real sites. The onus is on them to protect their image, and it's their fault if they don't.
The reseller business is about as nasty and cut-throat a deal as you can get into. Competition is horrible, and we have to make any sale we can to stay in business. Want to try it? I'll sell you a reseller plan cheaper than Godaddy will, and it's the exact same plan. That's how cut-throat we are. So yeah, there's no incentive for resellers to fix a problem like this. I sell you a domain, and unless you host it with me (TOS), I could care less what you do with it.
Good luck to them on that project! I can see 4 unsecured ones right from here, and I live in a lower-class neighborhood! How many thousands of doors do they want to knock on?
I saw this happen. There were repeated racial slurs, very obscene comments, and multiple postings of good old Goatse. Someone kept creating usernames that were racially offensive as well. I saw "Willy on Wheels" from Wiktionary et al in there. I'm not entirely sure it was Slashdotters doing it, but have to admit the coincidence of timing was suspicious.
This incident was unfortunate. The basic idea here was probably workable, and could have started a new era of "letters to the editor" that actually stood a chance of changing things.
Hopefully, the LAT will realize the Wiki software can be configured to help with this, and will put it back online. I have a Mediawiki site myself, so I know about the options.
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The USGS is one of very few federal agencies that is actually useful to the people. Their research is valuable to all of us, and it should not be tampered with. I regularly check their seismic network web pages and read the Oat Mountain drum recorder. Why does the administration think it's bad for people to see this stuff?
I can tell you what one old-timer thinks: Bah! Code-slinging has defined the hobby since the days of spark, and it's still actively used today. (Pinkfud is WAØYSK).
Heh, I set my share of those landmines myself. Those were the days! It was also quite funny (for the evil-doer at least) to make a pair of popups that called each other. Pop-pop-pop-pop....
Yes, and IMO there should be no nation allowed to make laws about an institution that is, by nature, international.
Yes, you could do that. But then you're talking about a lot of time unless you have a huge operation. And if you build the huge operation, then I think someone would wonder what the plant does. You might be able to make some profit on a small scale, but it certainly isn't attractive from an industrial viewpoint.
The truth is, any nation that mixes common metals (not say, silver or gold) in their coins doesn't need to worry about the melting-down issue unless the metal prices go through the roof. It just wouldn't be profitable. Now Canada, I believe their nickel-based coins are pure or nearly so. That might be a different matter.
I live in Arizona, and I've come to believe McCain is a national disaster. Can you imagine what this bill would mean to the WikiMedia Projects, with all the vandalism they get? It would break them just to file the reports! Nonsense of the highest order.
I have a laptop with XP, and it's not a good idea to let it hibernate. Sometimes it wakes up fine, other times it crashes horribly. I actually didn't know this was a common problem. I just thought I had a buggy laptop. Now I feel better!
Yeah, some of those BMP images are huge. No wonder the site is clobbered right now. Quit clicking the BMP links, you fools!
I think the time delay is perfectly reasonable. Amazing, in fact. Once the site escapes from the /. cloud so I can actually use it, I plan to do some research there. I suspect a number of governments will think the delay is much too short - no time to censor things!
Can I read Slashdot while walking through this mess of cables without falling down and taking half the room with me?
Drat! I've been saving white tiles for 20 years to build a giant toilet. Now these guys steal my thunder with a Colonel Panic.
If I could do something to the moon, I'm afraid everyone would be looking at F**K instead of a logo. The world has no idea how lucky it is that I don't have that power.
Haha, what would you expect? You can find that on DVD at your local video store. I plan to watch my mouth on here from now on. They indexed every comment I ever posted at Slashdot!
If these guys can pay a fine that size and still be in business, one has to wonder just how much loot they rake in with their wonderful little surprises.
Bravo! This is a good ruling. I doubt it's an omen of things to come, but at least they did well for once.
Agreed. I have a vision of war starting somewhere, and we fire off a barrage of cruise missiles, then see them all turn around and come back. Golly-gee, someone put a backdoor in there and entered a reverse-course command. How could that have happened? :-/
I would think that code would be valuable to hostile countries. I mean, what opponent wouldn't like to see how our stuff works, and maybe develop a defense against it? Putting it in the hands of outsiders is just asking for trouble. Dumb!
Heh, yeah. That's exactly why I never put links to my sites on here. You guys are t3h cloggers of t3h tubes!
Indeed, I would just love it if my sites got accidental traffic. I don't make them just to sit idle, after all. Personally, I wish there was no "trademark" issue with domain names. I actually worry about one of mine, because someone else has the dot-com, while I own the dot-net, dot-info and dot-us versions. I fear that someday I'll get in crap over that just because people love to start trouble.
Exactly, and the crook is the guy who does the phishing, not the registrar who sold the domain name. Think about this: You go into a liquor store and pick up a bottle of Everclear (90% alcohol). At the counter, the clerk says "Oh, I won't sell you that. It's too dangerous!" Your response would be "What? You have it, I want it, and it's legal to buy! Don't tell me I can't have it!" - Right? Yes. we resellers are suspicious of people who buy these names. But we are in that business, and just like the liquor store, we have to sell what's available. We don't have to host the domains though, and most of us have TOS that would forbid their schemes. If I host a domain I'm suspicious of, you better believe I'll check frequently to see what they're doing. If it looks like a violation of my TOS, out they go.
The reseller business is about as nasty and cut-throat a deal as you can get into. Competition is horrible, and we have to make any sale we can to stay in business. Want to try it? I'll sell you a reseller plan cheaper than Godaddy will, and it's the exact same plan. That's how cut-throat we are. So yeah, there's no incentive for resellers to fix a problem like this. I sell you a domain, and unless you host it with me (TOS), I could care less what you do with it.
Good luck to them on that project! I can see 4 unsecured ones right from here, and I live in a lower-class neighborhood! How many thousands of doors do they want to knock on?
I saw this happen. There were repeated racial slurs, very obscene comments, and multiple postings of good old Goatse. Someone kept creating usernames that were racially offensive as well. I saw "Willy on Wheels" from Wiktionary et al in there. I'm not entirely sure it was Slashdotters doing it, but have to admit the coincidence of timing was suspicious. This incident was unfortunate. The basic idea here was probably workable, and could have started a new era of "letters to the editor" that actually stood a chance of changing things. Hopefully, the LAT will realize the Wiki software can be configured to help with this, and will put it back online. I have a Mediawiki site myself, so I know about the options.
It's a start. If it establishes a precedent that can be used against others, it's well worthwhile.