Now, it may be true that they are black. Its also likely that other people who were not black were also involved, but bringing out one attribute such as ethnicity or a technical aptitude really does not describe the whole situation. What the headline should be is:
CRIMINAL HACKERS... or BLACK RAPISTS....
Which, instead of attributing *ALL* hackers or *ALL* black men to a certain criminal activity, makes the distinction that not all people with that attribute are criminals, only a certain minotiry who engage in the mentioned criminal activity.
Really, the West should concentrate on not giving the Chinese everything we have.
This is how it is working:
1) We have the ideas and make East Asian people make them cheap. 2) They profit we do not. 3) They buy everything we have. 4) They have the ideas and since we have all gone bankrupt we make it cheap.
And yeah, dump NASA and get yourself a working healthcare system at least! Then ban guns (yeah HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE OF GUN CRIME IN THE US?)
It's great for a bit of extra consultancy work when you have been made redundant too.. Walk out and guess what, a week later things break and you're on $1000 a day fixing it;-)
But really, the best thing to do is to treat your IT staff properly in the first place.
In the UK we have a special law when we're 'made' to give up encryption keys when asked by whoever arrested you. But what if the encryption keys have been destroyed, can they still make you give up what you do not have?
Yeah but he is not a troll, he is just telling the truth. In the US you have kids with leukemia with parents unable to afford the best treatment, but hey you it's OK because you can go to the moon! In the UK we have our kids looked after and getting the treatment they need but no moon..
Quite. I was walking past Pizza Hut the other day and they were trying to send their bluetooth shite to my phone. Not being happy with their crap spamming my phone and noticing the little bluetooth ad box plugged in by the window, I popped in and turned it off.
Well atually, part of the appeal is that when you have an apple, you know that all the people with scuzzy £400 craptops that will have plastic bits flapping off within a few months will look on with envy.
If apple kit was cheap then loads more people would have it and it would loose most of its appeal.
Its kind of like buying a Porsche, yeah they are overpriced, but that keeps the peasents from having them which is good.
My mother-in-law is from Trinidad, this explains everything. I always thought there was something a little odd about the way she spent so much time filling up the petrol in the car. I thought that odd sulphurous smell was the cream she used for a skin condition.
And all along, she was just a hydrocarbon sucking pitch lake alien!
The OS that just took 5 hours to install on a new box and then needed to grab a LOAD of patches to fix stuff, but it seems that patches are no longer available so I'll be selling a few V480s on Ebay in the next week or so and buying some more DELLs.
Though it was quite handy to be able to break into my old SS10 with the 'telnet -l "-fbin"' exploit when I forgot the passwords..
This is dumb. The terrorists will just get their mates in another country to get whatever it is they want.
Only the kind of stupid Americans that though that restricting the export of encryption technology would actually work would think of this. What happened there? They all got it anyway.
What exactly do they hope to achieve with this stupidity?
Good point, Sheila's Cleaners may get their contact database and steal all their business. This is why we should all hire a "Independent Mac and iPhone contractor, specialising in security issues." to make sure that we don't get pwned like this.
Now I have tried Sheila's cleaners and they are just not as good. For one, they didn't clean the table under the tablecloth and then they didn't iron my boxers.
If you run a cleaning company or you're a group of plumbers or perhaps you have a fairly large landscape gardening company then your data just is not that important or a target. So this survey is really quite useless, so what is Agnes Cleaners do not encrypt their thumb drives with their cleaning rota on it? Nobody cares.
So whilst all organisations should encrypt just because it is sensible, not all organisations really need to bother because the likelihood of anything happening to their data is so small that it's just not worth the effort of sorting out the idiots who call up the part-time IT admin guy because they have forgotten their encryption key (again).
I fail to understand why anybody would work an 80 hour week, really, what were you doing that for? Unless you actually do make a few million at the end of it when you sell your company, I really do not think it is worth it.
Now, it's 10:35AM, I have posted a/. article, I now need at least another cup of tea and a biscuit before I start doing any work. Somebody called me at 9:30AM this morning, 9:30AM! I wasn't even here..
Yeah so what is the issue here? What exactly is Monty trying to rescue? Does MySQL contain any IP that Oracle owns that is not covered by the GPL code license?
Yeah, it does, and it is certainly not worthy or watching on my 50 inch telly. I would like a small box that will connect to a SMB share and stream video from files on there, that supports a load of formats (hey just use embedded VLC) and has HDMI output.
I do not want USB sockets or built in youtube just something that works to stream from a shared drive.
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Why are we spending money finding planets we'll never see when there are kids starving to death?
Just don't bother doing any business in the US if you can happily avoid it..
This is true.. But look at this headline:
BLACK MEN RAPE YOUNG GIRLS
Now, it may be true that they are black. Its also likely that other people who were not black were also involved, but bringing out one attribute such as ethnicity or a technical aptitude really does not describe the whole situation. What the headline should be is:
CRIMINAL HACKERS...
or
BLACK RAPISTS....
Which, instead of attributing *ALL* hackers or *ALL* black men to a certain criminal activity, makes the distinction that not all people with that attribute are criminals, only a certain minotiry who engage in the mentioned criminal activity.
So whatever way you look at it, it is sloppy.
Errm, nobody seems to have noticed the headline of this story..
"Hackers Respond To Help Wanted Ads With Malware" ..
FFS Slashdot, these are not Hackers they are Criminals.
Really, if they are going to be any good, they will most likely ALREADY know what Linux is and how it works.
If they don't, really, don't bother them with it. It'll just confuse them.
An excellent summary..
Really, the West should concentrate on not giving the Chinese everything we have.
This is how it is working:
1) We have the ideas and make East Asian people make them cheap.
2) They profit we do not.
3) They buy everything we have.
4) They have the ideas and since we have all gone bankrupt we make it cheap.
And yeah, dump NASA and get yourself a working healthcare system at least! Then ban guns (yeah HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE OF GUN CRIME IN THE US?)
You just dont take jobs hundreds of miles away from your family...
It's great for a bit of extra consultancy work when you have been made redundant too.. Walk out and guess what, a week later things break and you're on $1000 a day fixing it ;-)
But really, the best thing to do is to treat your IT staff properly in the first place.
In the UK we have a special law when we're 'made' to give up encryption keys when asked by whoever arrested you. But what if the encryption keys have been destroyed, can they still make you give up what you do not have?
Yeah but he is not a troll, he is just telling the truth. In the US you have kids with leukemia with parents unable to afford the best treatment, but hey you it's OK because you can go to the moon! In the UK we have our kids looked after and getting the treatment they need but no moon..
guess what I would rather have.
Looks like nobody took you seriously ;-)
Quite. I was walking past Pizza Hut the other day and they were trying to send their bluetooth shite to my phone. Not being happy with their crap spamming my phone and noticing the little bluetooth ad box plugged in by the window, I popped in and turned it off.
NO I DONT WANT A BLOODY PIZZA HUT SPECIAL OFFER.
Well atually, part of the appeal is that when you have an apple, you know that all the people with scuzzy £400 craptops that will have plastic bits flapping off within a few months will look on with envy.
If apple kit was cheap then loads more people would have it and it would loose most of its appeal.
Its kind of like buying a Porsche, yeah they are overpriced, but that keeps the peasents from having them which is good.
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I didn't even get my install to boot up!
A memory leak would have been luxury...
My mother-in-law is from Trinidad, this explains everything. I always thought there was something a little odd about the way she spent so much time filling up the petrol in the car. I thought that odd sulphurous smell was the cream she used for a skin condition.
And all along, she was just a hydrocarbon sucking pitch lake alien!
But I bet they don't loose their luggage....
The OS that just took 5 hours to install on a new box and then needed to grab a LOAD of patches to fix stuff, but it seems that patches are no longer available so I'll be selling a few V480s on Ebay in the next week or so and buying some more DELLs.
Though it was quite handy to be able to break into my old SS10 with the 'telnet -l "-fbin"' exploit when I forgot the passwords..
Sheesh.
This is dumb. The terrorists will just get their mates in another country to get whatever it is they want.
Only the kind of stupid Americans that though that restricting the export of encryption technology would actually work would think of this. What happened there? They all got it anyway.
What exactly do they hope to achieve with this stupidity?
Good point, Sheila's Cleaners may get their contact database and steal all their business. This is why we should all hire a "Independent Mac and iPhone contractor, specialising in security issues." to make sure that we don't get pwned like this.
Now I have tried Sheila's cleaners and they are just not as good. For one, they didn't clean the table under the tablecloth and then they didn't iron my boxers.
If you run a cleaning company or you're a group of plumbers or perhaps you have a fairly large landscape gardening company then your data just is not that important or a target. So this survey is really quite useless, so what is Agnes Cleaners do not encrypt their thumb drives with their cleaning rota on it? Nobody cares. So whilst all organisations should encrypt just because it is sensible, not all organisations really need to bother because the likelihood of anything happening to their data is so small that it's just not worth the effort of sorting out the idiots who call up the part-time IT admin guy because they have forgotten their encryption key (again).
I fail to understand why anybody would work an 80 hour week, really, what were you doing that for? Unless you actually do make a few million at the end of it when you sell your company, I really do not think it is worth it. Now, it's 10:35AM, I have posted a /. article, I now need at least another cup of tea and a biscuit before I start doing any work. Somebody called me at 9:30AM this morning, 9:30AM! I wasn't even here..
Yeah so what is the issue here? What exactly is Monty trying to rescue? Does MySQL contain any IP that Oracle owns that is not covered by the GPL code license?
So MySQL sold for a cool $1 billion in whatever it was, and now he wants to get it back for free? This is so funny it may just work.
Yeah, it does, and it is certainly not worthy or watching on my 50 inch telly. I would like a small box that will connect to a SMB share and stream video from files on there, that supports a load of formats (hey just use embedded VLC) and has HDMI output. I do not want USB sockets or built in youtube just something that works to stream from a shared drive.