If he'd co-ordinated with the software vendor, the software vendor would have thanked him (probably through clenched teeth, but thanked all the same) and then told him to butt out. Which is exactly what he should have done. He was not employed by them to penetration test their system, he was not qualified to test their system, he was not authorised to test their system.
Seriously, he was an naive idiot thinking they'd be ok with him doing this. He might have had the best of intentions, but that's the problem with acting on his own without authorisation, only he can tell what his intentions were. To everyone else they have to assume they weren't good.
Except vulnerability testing in the physical world is equally a good thing. You'll find security consultants do exactly that for domestic and commercial property all the time. It leads to "fixes". IT is no different.
The point about gaining authorisation for testing security is to prove that you are bona-fide, before you're caught. If I am caught "testing" a stranger's locked doors in the middle of the night, yes it is a good thing if I find they are being lax about security and tell them. But I may find it difficult convincing police that this was my true intention from the start.
In your world of "bona-fide unauthorized access", any criminal caught attempting to exploit an online vulnerability need only say; "I was testing it, honest" to walk free.
You are making a common error in consumer understanding of retail economics. Cost of production is only the start in determining price.
Lego is expensive because that's the optimal price for the company to maximize its profits. It's expensive because enough people are prepared to buy it at that price. It wouldn't matter if a lego brick cost 0.01 to produce, if they can get enough people to buy it for 10 then that's the price they'll sell it at.
They come from the they're-all-ayrabs-terrorists school of U.S. foreign studies. It's a very easy topic to major in. All you need is to know is when someone looks suspiciously dark without being comfortably Afro-American, and has a funny accent. Exactly the kind of facts that Al Jazeera will hide from its viewers!
That's not to say that Qatar is a shining light of liberal attitudes, but you cannot paint all countries in the Middle East (that's the bit beyond Europe, where it's warmer, no, that's Korea, back a bit, too far.. that's Africa, there you go!) with the same brush.
You are aware that being intoxicated affects decision making capabilities... right?
Yes, and so does everyone else. So you know before you decide to drink drive that your decision is likely to be a bad one. If you're still in charge of your faculties enough to get in the car and start it, you're in charge enough to remember what was obvious fact, and what was culturally hammered into you, when you were sober.
Driving while mentally impaired, i.e., irrationally angered, after taking NyQuil or other cold medicine, tired, distracted by screaming kids, intoxicated, tripping on shrooms, etc. all increase the chances of an accident.
Indeed. But only the last two are totally avoidable and totally needless. That's why they're illegal.
In that case, arrest the world you prick, everyone's endangering EVERYONE!
Do you always resort to petty name calling when lost for a coherent argument?
Drunk driving is not a "mistake". You chose to get drunk. You chose to drive. You know it's wrong. You know it's dangerous. You know you may kill someone. You choose to do it anyway. That's not a "mistake", that's wilful culpable recklessness.
there's no point in getting a criminal record if you've learned your lesson and aren't going to do it again.
"if" being the keyword. How do we know you've learned your lesson? Only you know for sure, and you're a dangerous idiot, so who's going to believe a word you say? The point of getting a criminal record is that if you've a habit of not learning your lesson, then someone ought to be keeping track of just how much more of a lesson you need, before it gets through your thick skull.
and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
And if you don't know the name of the programme or applet? Tough luck, Windows 8 is going to do nothing to help you find it. So you've a quick way of finding something, as long as you have already found it before. Looking for it the first time? Good luck with that.
No one is forcing you to use metro for all your apps.
Yes they are. Microsoft has made it impossible to start applications without going back through Metro. Unless you install a third part application that (kind-of) gives you back what Microsoft decided to take away from you. And why did they take it away?? I can't think of a single user-driven reason for this. The user doesn't benefit one bit. The UI doesn't benefit one bit. The only reason that can be sensibly reached is that Microsoft benefits, because it funnels users into Metro whether they like it or not. And once there they are much more likely to purchase Microsoft Apps than if they'd stayed on the desktop. Cos this is what it's all really about. Microsoft wants a app cash-cow just like Apple and Google, and there's no easy way to get that integrated into the existing desktop.
This is a clear case of crippling the UI in order to maximize follow-on sales and consumption. This is why Microsoft have planted Metro on top on Windows 7, like some 10 tonne tombstone. The conclusion near the end of the video is spot on. Windows 8 is optimized for content consumption, not content production. As someone who is a producer of content, Windows 8 sucks.
You are absolutely correct. With regards to a person's overall intelligence; a high IQ means you will score highly in IQ tests. There is an undeniable correlation between the two and only a fool would say otherwise.
Further extrapolation beyond this, however, is questionable and subject to a thousand and one exceptions and caveats.
You forgot to account for the wacky time dilation you get everywhere in space. The time each impacted relative to the other is entirely subjective to each.
Or the submitter screwed up the English language, and slashdot doesn't do copy-editing. Whatever.
Considering you were an IT department supposed to assist users, not hinder, this sounds like a very good way of getting fired. I can think of a hundred ways that could have back-fired badly and ended in your ass hitting the pavement.
I wrote a DOS batch script that called a C program I wrote and installed both on her PC. When the PC got powered up, the batch script called my C program.
So you wrote a batch file that called the C program? What called the batch script at power up? The AUTOEXEC? A batch file to call a batch file to call a C program? Who was the barely computer literate one again?
Your rosie outlook rather depends on humanity acting logically and collectively after the impact. What's more likely is mass panic, murderous conflict over extreme shortages, and a large part of the global damage done being self-inflicted.
The solution is for governments of all countries to wise up to the fact that multi-national companies, especially the biggest ones, are playing them all for fools. They play one off the other for tax-breaks in establishing factories, and then vanish whenever it suits them. They funnel money from one country to the other in completely fabricated exchanges in order to minimize the tax liability. If anyone complains, they threaten to go strike up a deal with another country willing to be the next sucker in return for short-term gain.
Time for governments to realise that if they don't act together, multi-nationals will continue skipping around the globe avoiding taxes as they go. I won't be holding my breath.
Uh uh! Western countries would never ever commit such underhand tricks! No way! We are morally incapable, not like those sneaky foreign types. They just don't have a moral compass like what we do. Some of them just don't care What Jesus Would Do neither!
This all sounds great until you realise that 50% of the data on online CD databases is crap submitted by illiterates. They're handy as a starting point, but I would never trust them to get things right in a batch job.
You're also far better putting your tag data in the MP3s first, then do the file naming and directories from the tags. The way you're did it must have left you with really sparse tags that said nothing that the file names and directory didn't already.
I did 500+ CDs nursed along on a single drive. Just like you it was a case of letting it get on with things while you did other work. It did not take years.
Offering the product of someone else's labour for nothing, against them selling it for just about any price is not "competition", it's a certain walk over. It's the equivalent of mugging the runner on the last leg of the relay and crossing the line with the baton. Sure, it may look like they've competed at the photo finish, but they didn't.
Being the only producer of a game doesn't make you an eeeevil monopolist, it makes you an innovator. It makes you the runner in the relay who has trained smartest and hardest. Why should you be forced to give up your advantage to those lesser runners who haven't?
Physics does not say WASP-1b cannot exist, just that it's not going to stay where it exists for very long.
Physics does not say the moon is "too big", it says that the moon is of a size that makes it unlikely to have been a passing object "captured" by the Earth's gravity.
The age of the dust on the moon is accountable by the simple and obvious fact that much of it did not originate from the moon's rocks, which are younger. This fits in nicely with the moon not being a captured satellite.
So all your examples don't prove anything you're saying. All they demonstrate is you don't pay attention to what science is saying.
The subpoenas not only cover the records of the thiefâ(TM)s calls, but also encompass calls to and from the victim on the day of the theft. In some cases the records can include calls made to and from a victimâ(TM)s new cellphone, if the stolen phoneâ(TM)s number has been transferred, three detectives said in interviews.
That means they have records of YOUR phone calls as well, the ones YOU made before the phone was stolen, and possibly ones after as well. Still happy for the police to be storing up that data?
In which case, if their concern was really about pest eradication, or improvement of the environment, they'd have a quick and humane way of killing the captured birds. Instead they go to some lengths to kill them in the most inefficient and potentially painful way. No wonder people suspect that it is all about a mindless enjoyment in destruction of life. Nothing more. No noble hunters, no nature's food chain, no dirty-job-but-someone's-got-to-do-it, no greater good, not even a demonstration of shooting skill. Just an ugly glee in smashing the life out of something.
The lives of these pigeon's don't matter a whole lot to me. There are plenty of ways they could be killed and I wouldn't care. What concerns me is I may one day have to have dealings with the people who get their kicks from this activity in particular. What else are they capable of? How can I rely on them on having any kind of decency?
So if I bred some kittens as my "property", then set them loose in a field to shoot them, preferably from a distance of 10 yards of the box they came in, that would be ok?
And who, exactly, gets to determine who the "true" journalists are?
Well, Slashdot, apparently. As the introduction to this story has not only decided that Wikileaks is "journalism", but also that depriving it of funds is "damaging".
Is it ok for someone to determine this as long as you are in agreement?
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If he'd co-ordinated with the software vendor, the software vendor would have thanked him (probably through clenched teeth, but thanked all the same) and then told him to butt out. Which is exactly what he should have done. He was not employed by them to penetration test their system, he was not qualified to test their system, he was not authorised to test their system.
Seriously, he was an naive idiot thinking they'd be ok with him doing this. He might have had the best of intentions, but that's the problem with acting on his own without authorisation, only he can tell what his intentions were. To everyone else they have to assume they weren't good.
Except vulnerability testing in the physical world is equally a good thing. You'll find security consultants do exactly that for domestic and commercial property all the time. It leads to "fixes". IT is no different.
The point about gaining authorisation for testing security is to prove that you are bona-fide, before you're caught. If I am caught "testing" a stranger's locked doors in the middle of the night, yes it is a good thing if I find they are being lax about security and tell them. But I may find it difficult convincing police that this was my true intention from the start.
In your world of "bona-fide unauthorized access", any criminal caught attempting to exploit an online vulnerability need only say; "I was testing it, honest" to walk free.
The USSR was not a communist state. It claimed to be, but plain fact demonstrated it was not. Read a book.
The USSR was a totalitarian state, which fully explains the Kulaks and KGB without any need to implicate communism.
So your conclusions are based on a false premise from the start.
You are making a common error in consumer understanding of retail economics. Cost of production is only the start in determining price.
Lego is expensive because that's the optimal price for the company to maximize its profits. It's expensive because enough people are prepared to buy it at that price. It wouldn't matter if a lego brick cost 0.01 to produce, if they can get enough people to buy it for 10 then that's the price they'll sell it at.
For those under 30...
Kristallnacht was in 1938, so I don't follow what being born before 1983 makes to knowing about it.
Or is this some weird numerology thing about the digits being the same, just different order?
Where are these "facts" coming from?
They come from the they're-all-ayrabs-terrorists school of U.S. foreign studies. It's a very easy topic to major in. All you need is to know is when someone looks suspiciously dark without being comfortably Afro-American, and has a funny accent. Exactly the kind of facts that Al Jazeera will hide from its viewers!
That's not to say that Qatar is a shining light of liberal attitudes, but you cannot paint all countries in the Middle East (that's the bit beyond Europe, where it's warmer, no, that's Korea, back a bit, too far.. that's Africa, there you go!) with the same brush.
You are aware that being intoxicated affects decision making capabilities... right?
Yes, and so does everyone else. So you know before you decide to drink drive that your decision is likely to be a bad one. If you're still in charge of your faculties enough to get in the car and start it, you're in charge enough to remember what was obvious fact, and what was culturally hammered into you, when you were sober.
Driving while mentally impaired, i.e., irrationally angered, after taking NyQuil or other cold medicine, tired, distracted by screaming kids, intoxicated, tripping on shrooms, etc. all increase the chances of an accident.
Indeed. But only the last two are totally avoidable and totally needless. That's why they're illegal.
In that case, arrest the world you prick, everyone's endangering EVERYONE!
Do you always resort to petty name calling when lost for a coherent argument?
It's called learning from mistakes.
Drunk driving is not a "mistake". You chose to get drunk. You chose to drive. You know it's wrong. You know it's dangerous. You know you may kill someone. You choose to do it anyway. That's not a "mistake", that's wilful culpable recklessness.
there's no point in getting a criminal record if you've learned your lesson and aren't going to do it again.
"if" being the keyword. How do we know you've learned your lesson? Only you know for sure, and you're a dangerous idiot, so who's going to believe a word you say? The point of getting a criminal record is that if you've a habit of not learning your lesson, then someone ought to be keeping track of just how much more of a lesson you need, before it gets through your thick skull.
Anti-virus company predicts viruses.
Not to say they're wrong, but hardly an unbiased opinion.
and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
And if you don't know the name of the programme or applet? Tough luck, Windows 8 is going to do nothing to help you find it. So you've a quick way of finding something, as long as you have already found it before. Looking for it the first time? Good luck with that.
No one is forcing you to use metro for all your apps.
Yes they are. Microsoft has made it impossible to start applications without going back through Metro. Unless you install a third part application that (kind-of) gives you back what Microsoft decided to take away from you. And why did they take it away?? I can't think of a single user-driven reason for this. The user doesn't benefit one bit. The UI doesn't benefit one bit. The only reason that can be sensibly reached is that Microsoft benefits, because it funnels users into Metro whether they like it or not. And once there they are much more likely to purchase Microsoft Apps than if they'd stayed on the desktop. Cos this is what it's all really about. Microsoft wants a app cash-cow just like Apple and Google, and there's no easy way to get that integrated into the existing desktop.
This is a clear case of crippling the UI in order to maximize follow-on sales and consumption. This is why Microsoft have planted Metro on top on Windows 7, like some 10 tonne tombstone. The conclusion near the end of the video is spot on. Windows 8 is optimized for content consumption, not content production. As someone who is a producer of content, Windows 8 sucks.
You are absolutely correct. With regards to a person's overall intelligence; a high IQ means you will score highly in IQ tests. There is an undeniable correlation between the two and only a fool would say otherwise.
Further extrapolation beyond this, however, is questionable and subject to a thousand and one exceptions and caveats.
You forgot to account for the wacky time dilation you get everywhere in space. The time each impacted relative to the other is entirely subjective to each.
Or the submitter screwed up the English language, and slashdot doesn't do copy-editing. Whatever.
Considering you were an IT department supposed to assist users, not hinder, this sounds like a very good way of getting fired. I can think of a hundred ways that could have back-fired badly and ended in your ass hitting the pavement.
I wrote a DOS batch script that called a C program I wrote and installed both on her PC. When the PC got powered up, the batch script called my C program.
So you wrote a batch file that called the C program? What called the batch script at power up? The AUTOEXEC? A batch file to call a batch file to call a C program? Who was the barely computer literate one again?
Your rosie outlook rather depends on humanity acting logically and collectively after the impact. What's more likely is mass panic, murderous conflict over extreme shortages, and a large part of the global damage done being self-inflicted.
The solution is for governments of all countries to wise up to the fact that multi-national companies, especially the biggest ones, are playing them all for fools. They play one off the other for tax-breaks in establishing factories, and then vanish whenever it suits them. They funnel money from one country to the other in completely fabricated exchanges in order to minimize the tax liability. If anyone complains, they threaten to go strike up a deal with another country willing to be the next sucker in return for short-term gain.
Time for governments to realise that if they don't act together, multi-nationals will continue skipping around the globe avoiding taxes as they go. I won't be holding my breath.
China isn't the only place this goes on...
Uh uh! Western countries would never ever commit such underhand tricks! No way! We are morally incapable, not like those sneaky foreign types. They just don't have a moral compass like what we do. Some of them just don't care What Jesus Would Do neither!
This all sounds great until you realise that 50% of the data on online CD databases is crap submitted by illiterates. They're handy as a starting point, but I would never trust them to get things right in a batch job.
You're also far better putting your tag data in the MP3s first, then do the file naming and directories from the tags. The way you're did it must have left you with really sparse tags that said nothing that the file names and directory didn't already.
I did 500+ CDs nursed along on a single drive. Just like you it was a case of letting it get on with things while you did other work. It did not take years.
Offering the product of someone else's labour for nothing, against them selling it for just about any price is not "competition", it's a certain walk over. It's the equivalent of mugging the runner on the last leg of the relay and crossing the line with the baton. Sure, it may look like they've competed at the photo finish, but they didn't.
Being the only producer of a game doesn't make you an eeeevil monopolist, it makes you an innovator. It makes you the runner in the relay who has trained smartest and hardest. Why should you be forced to give up your advantage to those lesser runners who haven't?
What, so only young, hip, consumers spend money? All production should focus on the desires of 20 year olds?
Seems like marketing is limiting the market for their products for no good reason.
Physics does not say WASP-1b cannot exist, just that it's not going to stay where it exists for very long.
Physics does not say the moon is "too big", it says that the moon is of a size that makes it unlikely to have been a passing object "captured" by the Earth's gravity.
The age of the dust on the moon is accountable by the simple and obvious fact that much of it did not originate from the moon's rocks, which are younger. This fits in nicely with the moon not being a captured satellite.
So all your examples don't prove anything you're saying. All they demonstrate is you don't pay attention to what science is saying.
From TFA;
The subpoenas not only cover the records of the thiefâ(TM)s calls, but also encompass calls to and from the victim on the day of the theft. In some cases the records can include calls made to and from a victimâ(TM)s new cellphone, if the stolen phoneâ(TM)s number has been transferred, three detectives said in interviews.
That means they have records of YOUR phone calls as well, the ones YOU made before the phone was stolen, and possibly ones after as well. Still happy for the police to be storing up that data?
In which case, if their concern was really about pest eradication, or improvement of the environment, they'd have a quick and humane way of killing the captured birds. Instead they go to some lengths to kill them in the most inefficient and potentially painful way. No wonder people suspect that it is all about a mindless enjoyment in destruction of life. Nothing more. No noble hunters, no nature's food chain, no dirty-job-but-someone's-got-to-do-it, no greater good, not even a demonstration of shooting skill. Just an ugly glee in smashing the life out of something.
The lives of these pigeon's don't matter a whole lot to me. There are plenty of ways they could be killed and I wouldn't care. What concerns me is I may one day have to have dealings with the people who get their kicks from this activity in particular. What else are they capable of? How can I rely on them on having any kind of decency?
So if I bred some kittens as my "property", then set them loose in a field to shoot them, preferably from a distance of 10 yards of the box they came in, that would be ok?
Didn't think so.
And who, exactly, gets to determine who the "true" journalists are?
Well, Slashdot, apparently. As the introduction to this story has not only decided that Wikileaks is "journalism", but also that depriving it of funds is "damaging".
Is it ok for someone to determine this as long as you are in agreement?
Dear gaming world;
You cannot recapture your youth and the fun you had on ancient games simply by re-making an old classic for new technology.
It's never the same and it's always ends as a big disappointment. Why? Because gaming isn't the same as it was and neither are you.
Leave it as a happy memory, for pity sake, and move on.