What exactly is your plausible scenario of attack?
Oh, I don't know, something that involves the workstations being connected to the internet, which is what the article is about anyways.
Although I doubt that even a containment dome could withstand a direct hit from a 747 traveling at top speed with a full tank of fuel. The Pentagon fared pretty well considering, but it was still heavily damaged.
If the middle east can't solve their own damn problems that pose a threat to the US
You fucking piece of shit moron.
What threat did they pose?
The entire world poses a threat to the US, should we go out and fix the entire world? Is America competent enough to do that? Many of our past attempts at playing "world police" have completely failed.
When our government lies about WMD in Iraq, lies about Iraqi connections to terrorist groups, lies about Iraq's involvement in 9/11 and then invades Iraq based on those lies and kills thousands of people, how exactly does that mitigate the threat? The Bush administration has created far more problems then they could ever solve, and we're going to be paying for their mistakes for decades to come.
The fact that the suppliment was this long in coming makes me even more nervous.
Everyone and their brother have been concerned about security at Nuclear plants since (and even before) 9/11.
If a terrorist organization wanted to cause a spectacular level level of chaos and death, bombing a nuclear power plant is towards the top of the list.
This is a good indicator that the Bush Administration is incompetent, or really isn't concerned with your security. I like how they kept talking about Dirty Bombs and duct tape, but neglected these few huge glaring targets.
Perhaps they were too busy chasing ghosts in Iraq???
For the longest time, (it might still be there), there's a pallet of at least 50 sets of retail-boxed Intel Pentium Pro Overdrive upgrade kits (still shrink-wrapped) sitting in one of our meeting rooms which were purchased by some tech lead (for $200 when they were retailing for $80) and when P2's were bottoming out in price.
That's not limited to government. It happens at large companies all the time. My parent company paid several million dollars for some Websphere and DB2 licenses (Based on the advice from a consulting company which charged them a million dollars) in order to migrate a website from an old platform. They made this purchase BEFORE they evaluated the old platform. Now it's 6 months later, they've scrapped the whole project because they couldn't figure out how to migrate from the old to the new platform.
This sort of shit happens all the fucking time in Fortune 500 companies... the machine just keeps churning it's wheels. People that point out the errors are fired or laid off.
It's why I want to work at a small company... at least you have a better idea what is going on, and you can go out for coffee with the CEO...
And if you have trouble visualizing what Pi calculated to 1.7billion digits, the CD conveniently comes in the shape of a near-perfect circle for reference.
I would be surprised if bzip could do any better than that.
Out of curiosity--
Bzip could could only improve on that if it found some repeating data the stream, right? Any improvement beyond the 50% compression ratio would be pretty revolutionary...
He's still a filthy billionaire, but is more generous then most other billionaires.
Truth is, just about every Nonprofit organization started with a grant from a filthy-rich person, or at least started with a grant from a Foundation which was founded by a filthy-rich person.
MS writes off a billion dollars on its 2005 taxes.
Microsoft is a different entity from the Gates Foundation. There is certainly a relationship between the two, but the relationship is limited.
MS has no need to dump old software onto the Gates Foundation-- they want people using WinXP anyways, MS offers a substantial discount to nonprofit organizations, they can already write off unsold copies of Windows 2.0 as a loss (I think...). If MS tried to dump old software onto the Gates Foundation, some watchdog groups would have a field day.
So are you saying that the Gates Foundation shouldn't make a $750 Million donation? What purpose would that serve? You'd end up with millions of unvaccinated children, and the Gates Foundation would end up with more money.
One of tesla's famous experiments was powering an electric motor over a distance of several miles, to a farmhouse nearby his laboratory.
WHere's the proof to this claim?
Any pictures, film, 3rd party verifiable observations, etc?
We've all seen wireless power transmission over a few feet, which is cool but it couldn't transmit power a few miles unless the machine was huge, and it would probably be hazardous to your health (See the video in one of the other threads here), and we've seen Tesla coils. But where's the proof that he transmitted power wirelessly over several miles?
Alot of things have been said about Tesla: Inventing small machines which can cause the earth to shake tremendously (like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge), wireless power transmission over a few miles, communication with aliens, or that Tesla was killed by the government and all of his worked is locked away in a secret lab...
but alot of this is pure rumor, sometimes with a few sketchy notes. Where's the proof?
Hence you are 100% correct when you say "Exteem lite does not contain spyware", and the parent is correct in saying that Exteem does.
I never said that "Exteem lite does not contain spyware".
I'm asking the authors of Exceem lite to provide proof that Exceem has spyware. They don't back up their claim or provide details, which is dissapointing.
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What exactly is your plausible scenario of attack?
Oh, I don't know, something that involves the workstations being connected to the internet, which is what the article is about anyways.
Although I doubt that even a containment dome could withstand a direct hit from a 747 traveling at top speed with a full tank of fuel. The Pentagon fared pretty well considering, but it was still heavily damaged.
You hacker, I'm going to arrest you for breaking into my website!
Afghanistan was a total sucess. They have freedom and democrocy now
Are you joking or are you fucking moron? If Afghanistan was a total success, why does the UN still have 18,000 troops in the country?
The Afghani government only controls the area around Kabul, the rest of the country is in chaos, mostly controled by a dozen different warlords.
People are hungry, there are no jobs, opium production is at an all time high, the Taliban has killed nearly 1000 people in the last year.
Democracy means more then having elections.
Jesus Christ, that felt good
First off, what would Jesus do?
If the middle east can't solve their own damn problems that pose a threat to the US
You fucking piece of shit moron.
What threat did they pose?
The entire world poses a threat to the US, should we go out and fix the entire world? Is America competent enough to do that? Many of our past attempts at playing "world police" have completely failed.
When our government lies about WMD in Iraq, lies about Iraqi connections to terrorist groups, lies about Iraq's involvement in 9/11 and then invades Iraq based on those lies and kills thousands of people, how exactly does that mitigate the threat? The Bush administration has created far more problems then they could ever solve, and we're going to be paying for their mistakes for decades to come.
The fact that the suppliment was this long in coming makes me even more nervous.
Everyone and their brother have been concerned about security at Nuclear plants since (and even before) 9/11.
If a terrorist organization wanted to cause a spectacular level level of chaos and death, bombing a nuclear power plant is towards the top of the list.
This is a good indicator that the Bush Administration is incompetent, or really isn't concerned with your security. I like how they kept talking about Dirty Bombs and duct tape, but neglected these few huge glaring targets.
Perhaps they were too busy chasing ghosts in Iraq???
Dont think that a smaller company is any less prone to this type of activity, either.
Maybe not. I probably just feel more comfortable when I know what is going on and when the decision makers actually listen to me...
For the longest time, (it might still be there), there's a pallet of at least 50 sets of retail-boxed Intel Pentium Pro Overdrive upgrade kits (still shrink-wrapped) sitting in one of our meeting rooms which were purchased by some tech lead (for $200 when they were retailing for $80) and when P2's were bottoming out in price.
...
That's not limited to government. It happens at large companies all the time. My parent company paid several million dollars for some Websphere and DB2 licenses (Based on the advice from a consulting company which charged them a million dollars) in order to migrate a website from an old platform. They made this purchase BEFORE they evaluated the old platform. Now it's 6 months later, they've scrapped the whole project because they couldn't figure out how to migrate from the old to the new platform.
This sort of shit happens all the fucking time in Fortune 500 companies... the machine just keeps churning it's wheels. People that point out the errors are fired or laid off.
It's why I want to work at a small company... at least you have a better idea what is going on, and you can go out for coffee with the CEO
1.7 billion digits of pi on a CD.
And if you have trouble visualizing what Pi calculated to 1.7billion digits, the CD conveniently comes in the shape of a near-perfect circle for reference.
I would be surprised if bzip could do any better than that.
Out of curiosity--
Bzip could could only improve on that if it found some repeating data the stream, right? Any improvement beyond the 50% compression ratio would be pretty revolutionary...
The hard drop upgrade was $50 before, and it's still $50 now.
The article was probably refering to the $600 version.
The $500 model came with a 1.25GHz processer and a 40 GB drive. For $600 you got a 1.42GHz & 80GB.
The CPU upgrade was pretty small, which is probably why people didn't notice it.
Sorry to hear about Tim Choate. I loved Zathras, one of the most unique characters in Sci-fi ever!
But not too bad for Zathrus.
The foundation is an independent organization run by Bill's parents so it's them we need to thank not Bill.
d ation.
Well, you do need to thank Bill also, since he donated a substantial chunk of change to one of the foundations-which-merged-to-become-the-Gates-foun
And Gates is involved with where the money goes.
He's still a filthy billionaire, but is more generous then most other billionaires.
Truth is, just about every Nonprofit organization started with a grant from a filthy-rich person, or at least started with a grant from a Foundation which was founded by a filthy-rich person.
MS writes off a billion dollars on its 2005 taxes.
Microsoft is a different entity from the Gates Foundation. There is certainly a relationship between the two, but the relationship is limited.
MS has no need to dump old software onto the Gates Foundation-- they want people using WinXP anyways, MS offers a substantial discount to nonprofit organizations, they can already write off unsold copies of Windows 2.0 as a loss (I think...). If MS tried to dump old software onto the Gates Foundation, some watchdog groups would have a field day.
but would the author have included this statement had he been a Democrat?
Yes. The news services almost always mention the political party when they talk about a politician. I don't know why, but I see it all the time.
This is disgusting.
So are you saying that the Gates Foundation shouldn't make a $750 Million donation? What purpose would that serve? You'd end up with millions of unvaccinated children, and the Gates Foundation would end up with more money.
In that case, he's donating somewhere around .2% per year. That's not much.
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How much of your net worth do you donate every year?
Note that the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates to many causes. In 2004, the foundation donated nearly $8 billion.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants/default.h
Want an AOL CD? Go to Burger King! They make half-decent frisbees...
Ah, but who makes better frisbees? AOL or Burger King?
Uh, Google already is the default search engine.
But if you enter a faulty URL with Firefox, you don't suddently appear at a Google web page. You get an error.
With IE, you usually end up at a MSN Search Page.
The only reason to hide behind AC is to discourage people from trying to find out, not to prevent them.
I think CmdrTaco wrote about this once. Apparently the weblogs are only kept for a few days and are then deleted.
Of course, if you are really paranoid, CmdrTaco's word isn't good enough. Nor is a vague memory from a 3rd party (Me!)
You know why Slashdot number-identifis even Anonymous Cowards posts? (e.g. in your case, (#11459505))
= 11459717
Because each post is unique, and it's useful to sometimes provide a link to the individual post , like this:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137046&cid
Also, if the article number didn't exist, it really wouldn't enhance security, so what's you're point?
One of tesla's famous experiments was powering an electric motor over a distance of several miles, to a farmhouse nearby his laboratory.
WHere's the proof to this claim?
Any pictures, film, 3rd party verifiable observations, etc?
We've all seen wireless power transmission over a few feet, which is cool but it couldn't transmit power a few miles unless the machine was huge, and it would probably be hazardous to your health (See the video in one of the other threads here), and we've seen Tesla coils. But where's the proof that he transmitted power wirelessly over several miles?
Alot of things have been said about Tesla: Inventing small machines which can cause the earth to shake tremendously (like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge), wireless power transmission over a few miles, communication with aliens, or that Tesla was killed by the government and all of his worked is locked away in a secret lab...
but alot of this is pure rumor, sometimes with a few sketchy notes. Where's the proof?
Hence you are 100% correct when you say "Exteem lite does not contain spyware", and the parent is correct in saying that Exteem does.
I never said that "Exteem lite does not contain spyware".
I'm asking the authors of Exceem lite to provide proof that Exceem has spyware. They don't back up their claim or provide details, which is dissapointing.
I don't trust everything I read.
according to a new study by WestSideStory.
It's WEBSideStory , not WestSideStory
I feel pretty, oh so pretty...
Well, I say that eXeem contains a 4-leaf clover and 2 bottles of peanut oil, but that doesn't mean it's true.
The Exeem Lite faq says:
2. Does eXlite contain spyware?
eXlite was sorely made to take out the spyware from eXeem so to make it clear eXlite does not contain spyware.
Are there any details here?