Wikipedia, as we all know, is based on the community modifying articles to be more correct/helpful. Taking away this right of the people just hurts its purpose.
On the other hand, today alone I got rid of 3 different advertisements for this resort in Honolulu from 3 totally different topics (tapioca pudding, salamander, telnet) so maybe the reason for this is that spammer. Seems like they are following the path that Planet Source Code started on August 1.
I definately agree. I know I am probably going to be modded troll for saying this, but Windows is a VERY reasonable OS. Crashes all the time you say? My computer hasnt crashed for over 3 years. Don't get me wrong, I use linux as well, but this site seems to be far too rabidly anti-MS.
Really does sound like they lost some of their 'charisma' (what was still left amongst the non/. crowd) by taking so long for making Vista, which from what I heard did not live up to its hype.
A report published this week from IBM Corp. suggests that phishing schemes are growing in sophistication, allowing would-be Internet criminals to target their victims by name.
A targeted or "spear phishing" attack is designed to extract data from a specific individual or organization,
maximizing damage caused and financial gain. IBM estimates that these types of attacks have grown ten-fold this year alone. According to the company, they can be used for identity theft, extortion, fraud and to steal specific intellectual property.
"We're seeing it as a targeted security threat within financial institutions as well as government regulatory bodies," said Michael Small, security practice leader for IBM Canada. "It's very targeted with a specific purpose to ensure that they try to get access to privileged information for, usually, profit. Its concerns are linked to cyberterrorism as well as obviously organized crime."
Until now, the most common form of phishing attacks were those that attempt to disguise themselves as e-mail from banks or common consumer Internet services like eBay or its payment arm PayPal. They aren't addressed to a specific person but are sent out as widely as possible in an attempt to snare a few unfortunates who are willing to part with bank account information or their eBay identities.
Mary Kirwan, CEO of Toronto-based security firm Headfry Inc., said that these types of attacks may be on the decline but agreed with IBM that spear phishing is a growing concern.
"These are higher payoff crimes, so it's in their interest to follow the money, essentially," she said. "There's no real consensus among the global banks as to how to deal with that right now. Some of the banks are acknowledging that you don't have to be a dummy to fall for these scams."
This isn't the first time banks have been identified as a lucrative target. In 2003, Symantec Corp. noted that a virus called Win32.Bugbear.B was sent by likeminded criminals to financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank and American Express. Security experts believed that Bugbear was designed to scan an inbox for any indication that it belonged to a bank employee.
Recovery from targeted attacks and malware in general costs a Canadian organization an average of $30,000 to $40,000, said Small. He added that IBM is sharing its research with customers, partners and vendors to help them prevent such attacks.
Nuisance e-mail like spam appears to be leveling off, according to the IBM report. In January of this year, spam accounted for 83 per cent of global e-mail. That number had fallen to 67 per cent by June.
There are new problems on the horizon, however. In March, a new threat called Domain Name Service (DNS) cache poisoning was discovered. Cache poisoning can hijack a user's browser and direct them towards a specific site or advertisement by corrupting a DNS server's ability to map machine host names to a correct IP address. Variations of these types of attacks have been around for years, but cache poisoning is becoming more sophisticated and a DNS server that isn't configured properly is particularly susceptible.
Don't get me wrong about this, I believe in evolution (have since I was 4, first in my family to do so, etc) but I would just like to play Devil's Advocate with a counter argument for that.
The No-Free-Lunch theorem (note: theorem NOT theory) results in the fact that:
'You're on foot and it's a moonless night; you've got two hours to reach the highest place you can. How to proceed? One sensible search algorithm might say, "Walk uphill in the steepest possible direction; if no direction uphill is available, take a couple of steps to the left and try again." This algorithm insures that you're generally moving upward. Another search algorithm--a so-called blind search algorithm--might say, "Walk in a random direction." This would sometimes take you uphill but sometimes down. Roughly, the N.F.L. theorems prove the surprising fact that, averaged over all possible terrains, no search algorithm is better than any other. In some landscapes, moving uphill gets you to higher ground in the allotted time, while in other landscapes moving randomly does, but on average neither outperforms the other.' (from here)
When used in biological terms, the 'algorithm' of natural selection is not any more efficient than random selection (due to climate changes, etc.)
WTF. I said the EXACT same thing 5 minutes before you, minus a comma, space, question mark, and the word dumass. Why do I get modded a 1 while he gets modded a 4. Someone explain THAT to me since it seems to be in serious need of EXPLANATION. Mod this post however the fuck you want but slashdot moderators need to do a better fucking job and people need to stop fucking copying what I say.
"Current Web services implementations do not typically provide effective means for potential consumers to discover or locate Web services that are desired or that may be of interest."
Ever heard of google?
Don't get me wrong, I support open source as well, but in cases where you are going to view the source rarely, if ever, why bother? In other words, if someone has an annoying bug, it should be easier to google it than to look at the source, understand what is going on, then either modifying the compiler to fit your needs or just modifying your code. Thanks for pointing out Mono though.
What's this with people's bias towards open source? Sure, it is very nice to know how things work, but atleast I find it wrong to blindly bias yourself towards a certain language/platform for that reason alone. One clear example I note is Visual C#. The lone fact that it was made by MSFT (which you all know is basically the arch nemesis of the open source community) causes it to not be as popular as some other languages, even though some people that avoid it call it a "great language".
'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'
We heard what the thinks about Windows, but what does he say about linux?
Will someone suspend this guy's account? Out of 24 posts only 2 of them are positive. Sorry if I'm doing something wrong for responding to a troll but geez just have a system where if someone's point total is below -10 then delete their account.
Ladies and gentlemen, he might finally have a good point. At my current school, one that has approximately 2000 students, the minimum requirement of 12 students per class to keep it active was not met for ANY computer class (web/graphic design excluded), so they will ALL be canceled next year. This WILL (excluding the debt, corruption, etc) be the reason for the US becoming a second or third world nation, unless this trend is reversed.
Tell me if I am wrong, but to me it looks like the same thing as many windows users asking to see the source code of, say, windows 95? There is almost 0% chance of this occuring, so why bother posting it on/.?
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I don't know how it began but I know most /.ers are most likely not interested by this. Zonk, you lost your touch :(.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Wikipedia, as we all know, is based on the community modifying articles to be more correct/helpful. Taking away this right of the people just hurts its purpose.
On the other hand, today alone I got rid of 3 different advertisements for this resort in Honolulu from 3 totally different topics (tapioca pudding, salamander, telnet) so maybe the reason for this is that spammer. Seems like they are following the path that Planet Source Code started on August 1.
Read the article?? You must be new here
To quote someone else from this site "I thought slashdot is for people just to read the headlines and then overreact to them" (or something like that)
I definately agree. I know I am probably going to be modded troll for saying this, but Windows is a VERY reasonable OS. Crashes all the time you say? My computer hasnt crashed for over 3 years. Don't get me wrong, I use linux as well, but this site seems to be far too rabidly anti-MS.
/. crowd) by taking so long for making Vista, which from what I heard did not live up to its hype.
Really does sound like they lost some of their 'charisma' (what was still left amongst the non
Because the server is being /.ed, heres TFA:
A report published this week from IBM Corp. suggests that phishing schemes are growing in sophistication, allowing would-be Internet criminals to target their victims by name. A targeted or "spear phishing" attack is designed to extract data from a specific individual or organization, maximizing damage caused and financial gain. IBM estimates that these types of attacks have grown ten-fold this year alone. According to the company, they can be used for identity theft, extortion, fraud and to steal specific intellectual property. "We're seeing it as a targeted security threat within financial institutions as well as government regulatory bodies," said Michael Small, security practice leader for IBM Canada. "It's very targeted with a specific purpose to ensure that they try to get access to privileged information for, usually, profit. Its concerns are linked to cyberterrorism as well as obviously organized crime." Until now, the most common form of phishing attacks were those that attempt to disguise themselves as e-mail from banks or common consumer Internet services like eBay or its payment arm PayPal. They aren't addressed to a specific person but are sent out as widely as possible in an attempt to snare a few unfortunates who are willing to part with bank account information or their eBay identities. Mary Kirwan, CEO of Toronto-based security firm Headfry Inc., said that these types of attacks may be on the decline but agreed with IBM that spear phishing is a growing concern. "These are higher payoff crimes, so it's in their interest to follow the money, essentially," she said. "There's no real consensus among the global banks as to how to deal with that right now. Some of the banks are acknowledging that you don't have to be a dummy to fall for these scams." This isn't the first time banks have been identified as a lucrative target. In 2003, Symantec Corp. noted that a virus called Win32.Bugbear.B was sent by likeminded criminals to financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citibank and American Express. Security experts believed that Bugbear was designed to scan an inbox for any indication that it belonged to a bank employee. Recovery from targeted attacks and malware in general costs a Canadian organization an average of $30,000 to $40,000, said Small. He added that IBM is sharing its research with customers, partners and vendors to help them prevent such attacks. Nuisance e-mail like spam appears to be leveling off, according to the IBM report. In January of this year, spam accounted for 83 per cent of global e-mail. That number had fallen to 67 per cent by June. There are new problems on the horizon, however. In March, a new threat called Domain Name Service (DNS) cache poisoning was discovered. Cache poisoning can hijack a user's browser and direct them towards a specific site or advertisement by corrupting a DNS server's ability to map machine host names to a correct IP address. Variations of these types of attacks have been around for years, but cache poisoning is becoming more sophisticated and a DNS server that isn't configured properly is particularly susceptible.
Don't get me wrong about this, I believe in evolution (have since I was 4, first in my family to do so, etc) but I would just like to play Devil's Advocate with a counter argument for that.
The No-Free-Lunch theorem (note: theorem NOT theory) results in the fact that: 'You're on foot and it's a moonless night; you've got two hours to reach the highest place you can. How to proceed? One sensible search algorithm might say, "Walk uphill in the steepest possible direction; if no direction uphill is available, take a couple of steps to the left and try again." This algorithm insures that you're generally moving upward. Another search algorithm--a so-called blind search algorithm--might say, "Walk in a random direction." This would sometimes take you uphill but sometimes down. Roughly, the N.F.L. theorems prove the surprising fact that, averaged over all possible terrains, no search algorithm is better than any other. In some landscapes, moving uphill gets you to higher ground in the allotted time, while in other landscapes moving randomly does, but on average neither outperforms the other.' (from here)
When used in biological terms, the 'algorithm' of natural selection is not any more efficient than random selection (due to climate changes, etc.)
In unrelated news, Batman's defeat of Joker has bought time, but that the villanous forces will regroup and try again.
WTF. I said the EXACT same thing 5 minutes before you, minus a comma, space, question mark, and the word dumass. Why do I get modded a 1 while he gets modded a 4. Someone explain THAT to me since it seems to be in serious need of EXPLANATION. Mod this post however the fuck you want but slashdot moderators need to do a better fucking job and people need to stop fucking copying what I say.
"Current Web services implementations do not typically provide effective means for potential consumers to discover or locate Web services that are desired or that may be of interest." Ever heard of google?
Can the wayback archive be used as a tool for showing admins on /. that this article is basically a dupe?
I think a period was forgotten. It should be Internet Explorer will still. Work...
Hitachi makes their own stuff. Heck, they dont even have the same cache algorithm as IBM anymore. (Given my job, I would know)
But there is a no free lunch theorem! http://no-free-lunch.org/
Don't get me wrong, I support open source as well, but in cases where you are going to view the source rarely, if ever, why bother? In other words, if someone has an annoying bug, it should be easier to google it than to look at the source, understand what is going on, then either modifying the compiler to fit your needs or just modifying your code. Thanks for pointing out Mono though.
What's this with people's bias towards open source? Sure, it is very nice to know how things work, but atleast I find it wrong to blindly bias yourself towards a certain language/platform for that reason alone. One clear example I note is Visual C#. The lone fact that it was made by MSFT (which you all know is basically the arch nemesis of the open source community) causes it to not be as popular as some other languages, even though some people that avoid it call it a "great language".
I love the way he was modded redunda*t.
'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'
We heard what the thinks about Windows, but what does he say about linux?
Will someone suspend this guy's account? Out of 24 posts only 2 of them are positive. Sorry if I'm doing something wrong for responding to a troll but geez just have a system where if someone's point total is below -10 then delete their account.
Ladies and gentlemen, he might finally have a good point. At my current school, one that has approximately 2000 students, the minimum requirement of 12 students per class to keep it active was not met for ANY computer class (web/graphic design excluded), so they will ALL be canceled next year. This WILL (excluding the debt, corruption, etc) be the reason for the US becoming a second or third world nation, unless this trend is reversed.
Tell me if I am wrong, but to me it looks like the same thing as many windows users asking to see the source code of, say, windows 95? There is almost 0% chance of this occuring, so why bother posting it on /.?
small bug:
if (read) { !true }
I'm assuming this flamebait was purposeful?
All of those [slashdot.org]s next to your links make your post look more like subliminal advertising than it should.
But because Apple didn't super-hype the product years before it was released, Apple had a head start on the competition.
Apple didn't make the first mp3 player.
If you call someone back and tell them to forget your last conversation, do you get your money back?