In Australia public library passes are free. Or at least they were when I got mine, which was probably eight or ten years ago. No expiry date on it, so I haven't had to get a new one for a very long time.
Great sources of information, although I admit I spend more time in the Fiction section than the Non-Fiction and Reference areas.;)
Also reminds me of Welchia, which specifically targeted the Blaster worm.
'course, Welchia exploited the same RPC vulnerability as Blaster and also caused user's machines to crash the same way as Blaster did anyway. Kind of defeated the purpose for the average home user having their megahurtz stoeled.
Like a True-Neutral alignment in D&D terminology.
They're a kit of the Hacker class, focused on searching out and exposing security vulnerabilities in software, and releasing that information to the public at large.
Lawful-Good White Hats would be more likely to send in the information to the company without public exposure.
Chaotic-Evil Black Hats (crackers) are the types more likely to exploit the vulnerabilities for their own nefarious purposes.
Grey Hats are quite cool.
True of course, however it seems to me that intentionally transmitting advertisments outside our planet would get us a lot more bad interstellar PR than unintentional broadcast "leakage".
Quick, we have to pre-emptively beam ad blocker software and filtering rules into space to prepare the extra terrestrials for the onslaught.
Think they've Got Firefox yet?:p
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4,000 years before, actually.
Knights of the Old Republic series rocks.
In Australia public library passes are free. Or at least they were when I got mine, which was probably eight or ten years ago. No expiry date on it, so I haven't had to get a new one for a very long time. ;)
Great sources of information, although I admit I spend more time in the Fiction section than the Non-Fiction and Reference areas.
Also reminds me of Welchia, which specifically targeted the Blaster worm.
'course, Welchia exploited the same RPC vulnerability as Blaster and also caused user's machines to crash the same way as Blaster did anyway. Kind of defeated the purpose for the average home user having their megahurtz stoeled.
Like a True-Neutral alignment in D&D terminology. They're a kit of the Hacker class, focused on searching out and exposing security vulnerabilities in software, and releasing that information to the public at large. Lawful-Good White Hats would be more likely to send in the information to the company without public exposure. Chaotic-Evil Black Hats (crackers) are the types more likely to exploit the vulnerabilities for their own nefarious purposes. Grey Hats are quite cool.
True of course, however it seems to me that intentionally transmitting advertisments outside our planet would get us a lot more bad interstellar PR than unintentional broadcast "leakage".
Quick, we have to pre-emptively beam ad blocker software and filtering rules into space to prepare the extra terrestrials for the onslaught. Think they've Got Firefox yet? :p