>> I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful
We really need "Sheep -1000" mod now. For this. For real.
How about the sheep mods who actually mod me up because of that statement? I made a post a few weeks ago that was OT discussing the metamoderation system and I made a point that "Odds are as long as you look like you are correct, you'll be modded up. Watch, I probably will be too!". Sure enough, I was modded up.
All I want is Motorola hardware with... someone else's OS. Frankly, so far they all blow.
I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful, but I would really consider getting an iPhone. There's only one thing that will keep me from doing it: I want to be able to remove the battery from my phone. If I can't swap out my battery if I drop my phone in water or replace it on my own, then I don't want that phone.
To go with their new, incompatible OS, maybe they can introduce yet another new, incompatible power plug and a new, incompatible headphone jack!
Oh, yeah. I had a Blackjack and I had all the things I would need. Car adapter, headphone adapter, extended battery. I get the Blackjack II, it has all new adapters. So I have to buy a new headphone adapter, car adapter, and they don't include an extended battery with it in the box! In fact, they don't even have one!
Fuck Samsung's phones. They make great TVs, though.
Considering my neighbour is hot, blonde and single, if she wants to use my connection to download pr0n I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement...
I told most of my friends to avoid using someone's connection because there's a lot of creeps out there who will probably intercept their information. Parent is a perfect example.
Really. If you need to spend money to test if your password is secure. Its not. Get a better P@$sW0rD!. Otherwise Looks like I am finally getting FIOS!! lol.
Right, because it's so simple as just a password. We're not talking about your shitty residential ISP going to your moms basement hooked in to your DD-WRT router. We're talking about businesses who do their own internal audit on their network security. If $34 is all it would cost to make a point to your manager to approve infrastructure upgrade or serious changes, then that's well worth it.
You'd be very surprised how even a very complex password can be cracked with a dictionary attack, including "P@$sW0rD!".
The one thing that strikes me as silly about the "what if Google datamines our DNS requests" concern is that those people assume their ISPs aren't already doing so.
We already know they log our search requests. Call me naive, but what are they going to do with our DNS requests? As long as they aren't injecting ads or stealing data, that is...
I wasn't aware that.con wasn't a valid TLD (It should be valid for the scammers).
Really? We should dedicate a whole TLD just for scammers? Was that supposed to be a joke?
And.og was meant to be a joke.
Ok, I guess you did mean it as a joke if you thought that one would fly too. It went over like a lead balloon, though.
Here's a tip from an internet professional: Do research before you make posts on a site that you can't delete or edit your comments on. If you make a mistake, reply to yourself and correct it. Otherwise people who have karma to burn will correct you, much like myself.
Riiight - having ports open so that users can surf the web is a terrible thing - quick - block ports 80 and 443 on your machine! It's a security risk!
State law does require schools to have a filtering mechanism in place to block certain undesirable websites. There is a chance that he altered the whitelist to allow the SETI@Home traffic, which is just another thing they're using against him.
The hardware problems with the white boards have been covered elsewhere on slashdot - they're not unique to this school.
Electronic whiteboards are completely useless. Whoever bought them is probably trying to cover their ass.
The name brand Smartboards are flaky. If you use the bluetooth connection you can have it drop. Some people have flawless experiences while others have constant trouble.
Removing SETI@home from 5,000 machines will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000-$100,000,
... because it costs between $10 and $20 per computer to click "uninstall"... (or to push out an update that removes it from all the computers)... good thing you're still in your mom's basement instead of working in the biz.
I'm late on this comment, but It is a pain in the ass to go around and manually uninstall something. Assuming they actually have an imaging system they could just create a new image and reimage all of them.
Windows scripting is far easier then that. All you need to do is create a start up policy script to DEL/Q/S C:\seti, or whatever the directory is. If he had it running on start up or as a service, just have the script overwrite the registry entry. It's not rocket science. Shit, you don't even need GP access! You can just run the same script using psexec, all you need is the administrator account.
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>> I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful
We really need "Sheep -1000" mod now. For this. For real.
How about the sheep mods who actually mod me up because of that statement? I made a post a few weeks ago that was OT discussing the metamoderation system and I made a point that "Odds are as long as you look like you are correct, you'll be modded up. Watch, I probably will be too!". Sure enough, I was modded up.
All I want is Motorola hardware with... someone else's OS. Frankly, so far they all blow.
I know I'll either get flamed or modded +5 insightful, but I would really consider getting an iPhone. There's only one thing that will keep me from doing it: I want to be able to remove the battery from my phone. If I can't swap out my battery if I drop my phone in water or replace it on my own, then I don't want that phone.
I've written a few worthless OSes myself. One of them actually gets used still. But I wrote it out of desperation, not as a business model.
Hey guys, get your pitchforks and torches! I think I found the guy who wrote Windows!
To go with their new, incompatible OS, maybe they can introduce yet another new, incompatible power plug and a new, incompatible headphone jack!
Oh, yeah. I had a Blackjack and I had all the things I would need. Car adapter, headphone adapter, extended battery. I get the Blackjack II, it has all new adapters. So I have to buy a new headphone adapter, car adapter, and they don't include an extended battery with it in the box! In fact, they don't even have one!
Fuck Samsung's phones. They make great TVs, though.
BadOS? Was Windows Mobile rebranded?
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Anybody who responds with a LMGTFY link comes across as a smug douche. How about you just provide some relevant links on the nation instead?
As long as there isn't a mainstream movie about it, people won't know/care.
Have fun remembering that off the top of your head.
Also, WPA2 passwords are limited to 256 bits, so the maximum length would be 64. Want a quick pseudo-random password? Type this into any bash prompt:
cat /dev/random | tr -dc [:alnum:][:punct:] | head -c64
Not reccomended for commercial application, but it'll keep that stupid kid next door from getting in.
Considering my neighbour is hot, blonde and single, if she wants to use my connection to download pr0n I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement...
I told most of my friends to avoid using someone's connection because there's a lot of creeps out there who will probably intercept their information. Parent is a perfect example.
Really. If you need to spend money to test if your password is secure. Its not. Get a better P@$sW0rD!. Otherwise Looks like I am finally getting FIOS!! lol.
Right, because it's so simple as just a password. We're not talking about your shitty residential ISP going to your moms basement hooked in to your DD-WRT router. We're talking about businesses who do their own internal audit on their network security. If $34 is all it would cost to make a point to your manager to approve infrastructure upgrade or serious changes, then that's well worth it.
You'd be very surprised how even a very complex password can be cracked with a dictionary attack, including "P@$sW0rD!".
That's for the US, though. This is the Canadian affiliate, WESUC.
I wish I had mod points. I actually laughed out loud and now my coworker is looking at me.
The one thing that strikes me as silly about the "what if Google datamines our DNS requests" concern is that those people assume their ISPs aren't already doing so.
We already know they log our search requests. Call me naive, but what are they going to do with our DNS requests? As long as they aren't injecting ads or stealing data, that is...
So by that definition a lawyer is someone with two internal organs missing - a heart and a brain.
Hey, they could play a double role in The Wizard of Oz! Tin Man and Scarecrow!
I wasn't aware that .con wasn't a valid TLD (It should be valid for the scammers).
Really? We should dedicate a whole TLD just for scammers? Was that supposed to be a joke?
And .og was meant to be a joke.
Ok, I guess you did mean it as a joke if you thought that one would fly too. It went over like a lead balloon, though.
Here's a tip from an internet professional: Do research before you make posts on a site that you can't delete or edit your comments on. If you make a mistake, reply to yourself and correct it. Otherwise people who have karma to burn will correct you, much like myself.
Riiight - having ports open so that users can surf the web is a terrible thing - quick - block ports 80 and 443 on your machine! It's a security risk!
State law does require schools to have a filtering mechanism in place to block certain undesirable websites. There is a chance that he altered the whitelist to allow the SETI@Home traffic, which is just another thing they're using against him.
The hardware problems with the white boards have been covered elsewhere on slashdot - they're not unique to this school.
Electronic whiteboards are completely useless. Whoever bought them is probably trying to cover their ass.
The name brand Smartboards are flaky. If you use the bluetooth connection you can have it drop. Some people have flawless experiences while others have constant trouble.
I'm late on this comment, but It is a pain in the ass to go around and manually uninstall something. Assuming they actually have an imaging system they could just create a new image and reimage all of them.
Windows scripting is far easier then that. All you need to do is create a start up policy script to DEL /Q /S C:\seti, or whatever the directory is. If he had it running on start up or as a service, just have the script overwrite the registry entry. It's not rocket science. Shit, you don't even need GP access! You can just run the same script using psexec, all you need is the administrator account.
The incompetence of some people is staggering.
Hm. It would have been a little bit funnier if Ed.the.Manager hadn’t registered that name just to say that.
Way to be a buzzkill.
Careful now, that line of thinking is how we ended up with words like:
Hey hey... no need for profanity.
Wait, wasn't the real skill of snipers to move between shots?
This.
Take a shot, move a bit. Take a shot, move a bit. After a few kills, move to a new spot completely. Sitting in one spot makes it far too easy.
It depends what aspect of nuclear power you are seeking to learn about:
(Not sure about slashdot's policy on posting links)
Wikipedia: Nuclear_Safety has a pretty good run down of the safety features.
If you're interested in the terminology and general theory behind nuclear reactors, check out Wikipedia: Nuclear_reactor_physics
Based on my experience in the Naval Nuclear program, the information presented in those articles should be good enough.
If you want information on the physical layout of the reactor systems, go to the NRC website, under "Reactors" --> "Power reactors."
Slashdot doesn't care about posting links, but we might get modded off-topic by some stupid mod who doesn't understand how to moderate correctly.
Thanks for those links, I'll start there.
Somehow I doubt that would be a good fit on even the largest of seafaring vessels, all issues of weight and practicality aside.
You, sir, lack imagination.
The problem with nuclear power is that understanding it requires more learning than most people are willing to do, and so they fear it instead.
Do you have a place where someone could start to learn about it?
Incontinental? Ewww. Put this in idle, please...
Wait, what? Intercontinental? Ohh! Nevermind...
A case in point is my own set of backup scripts (this is not) Backup Buddy
My primal instincts kicked in and I was ready to attack since I misread that as Bonzi Buddy.