I came into this thread late so perhaps it won't be read by many. If those who do can get some relief, great.
Vgetty is your friend. I set up a maze, "If you wish to speak to so and so, press One", etc. My friends and relatives have numbers I know, so they are permitted to pass without the maze. Others are plunked into the pit. It cut my junk calls down to zero. With the maze, punch the right button and you escape.
Takes little more than a voice capable modem and time to install--assuming Caller ID.
Not contrived, as I've felt this pain. In my programming days (Fortran), I wrote many programs that I thought at the time were monumental. I stored them on seven track tape and had a tape of them sent to me for backup. I stored it in my garage along with many selected printouts of the contents. When I remembered something that I thought was choice and could be used for a current application, I attempted to retrieve that code. I took the tape to work and tried to find something that would read it. After searching for a week or so I found that we did have one remaining seven track tape setup left just for this purpose. It couldn't read the blasted thing. Dug into the printouts and found that they had been smeared due to moisture plus faded due to age. The company archives of this data had been deleted after less than 10 years. This is from work done in 1982 or so. It wasn't even 20 years from the origination until total loss. It doesn't get any better it seems.
Excellent. About time I'd say. Even false positives would be better than what has been flying (nothing). Alert the cabin first, then see if it is false.
When I was a kid, the universe was estimated at being around 2 billion years old. It seems that as I get older, so does the universe. I suspect that as our viewing methods improve, we see deeper and so our estimates become greater. Do you suppose there is no end to this?
By January 19, 2038, I hope to be comfortably retired. But for you younger folks programming, you may have a window of opportunity. Remember 1999? I was offered scads of money to reprogram some systems in a language I hadn't even learned yet, just so they could be assured of making it over the Y2K hump.
While most who frequent/. might be relatively resistant to these attacks, I'd like to think that those who create them would be made to pay for the pain they cause. Have you ever helped a friend try to recover a system? Going for the profit instead of the glory intensifies that desire to find them and at least give them a swift kick in the butt. I'm afraid that unless a major corporation is victimized, even when there is a source found in the code that identifies the villain, law enforcement simply won't have the resources to follow-up on any solid leads.
As much as I have appreciated Nikon's hardware, their support has been less than impressive. When I misplaced my user's manual for my 5700 last year, they wanted a fee for the pdf d/l for it. There have been other reported issues concerning their propriatary format and PhotoShop (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/15 24203&from=rss). One of those, "I love 'em but hate 'em", relationships.
Sorry to see your personal involvement get so disrupted. It's usually the people who 'get their hands dirty' that intimately know a system. OTOH, my baggage has been so consistently mangled while going through there that I'm glad to see something being done. Anything, even if it's wrong. I'm sure my frustration has been felt by the decision makers, for them to take such a colossal option. It was a great idea, but from your take on things it looks like it was torpedoed by the handlers themselves.
While it's interesting to see how quickly these culprits were caught, I have to be distressed over the doubt that exists within me as to whether they would have been snagged so quickly if they had not nailed a major news network.
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I came into this thread late so perhaps it won't be read by many. If those who do can get some relief, great. Vgetty is your friend. I set up a maze, "If you wish to speak to so and so, press One", etc. My friends and relatives have numbers I know, so they are permitted to pass without the maze. Others are plunked into the pit. It cut my junk calls down to zero. With the maze, punch the right button and you escape. Takes little more than a voice capable modem and time to install--assuming Caller ID.
On an old CRT monitor, 60 Hz did drive me crazy. With a flat panel, there is no flicker at 60, so not a problem.
Not contrived, as I've felt this pain. In my programming days (Fortran), I wrote many programs that I thought at the time were monumental. I stored them on seven track tape and had a tape of them sent to me for backup. I stored it in my garage along with many selected printouts of the contents. When I remembered something that I thought was choice and could be used for a current application, I attempted to retrieve that code. I took the tape to work and tried to find something that would read it. After searching for a week or so I found that we did have one remaining seven track tape setup left just for this purpose. It couldn't read the blasted thing. Dug into the printouts and found that they had been smeared due to moisture plus faded due to age. The company archives of this data had been deleted after less than 10 years. This is from work done in 1982 or so. It wasn't even 20 years from the origination until total loss. It doesn't get any better it seems.
Excellent. About time I'd say. Even false positives would be better than what has been flying (nothing). Alert the cabin first, then see if it is false.
Seems to work fine on my Linux machine, but can't get anywhere with this new look on my XP one. I'm sure it will shake out OK, on both soon.
However, wouldn't it be doubly silly to not make a connection worthy of further scrutiny?
When I was a kid, the universe was estimated at being around 2 billion years old. It seems that as I get older, so does the universe. I suspect that as our viewing methods improve, we see deeper and so our estimates become greater. Do you suppose there is no end to this?
Does it ameliorate the pain in dealing with .pdf files?
They're ignoring the geriatric crowd of moviegoers. SHAZAM! Billy Batson to Capt. Marvel--a real old Marvel hero.
By January 19, 2038, I hope to be comfortably retired. But for you younger folks programming, you may have a window of opportunity. Remember 1999? I was offered scads of money to reprogram some systems in a language I hadn't even learned yet, just so they could be assured of making it over the Y2K hump.
While most who frequent /. might be relatively resistant to these attacks, I'd like to think that those who create them would be made to pay for the pain they cause. Have you ever helped a friend try to recover a system? Going for the profit instead of the glory intensifies that desire to find them and at least give them a swift kick in the butt. I'm afraid that unless a major corporation is victimized, even when there is a source found in the code that identifies the villain, law enforcement simply won't have the resources to follow-up on any solid leads.
That was one of the finer gaming moments.
As much as I have appreciated Nikon's hardware, their support has been less than impressive. When I misplaced my user's manual for my 5700 last year, they wanted a fee for the pdf d/l for it. There have been other reported issues concerning their propriatary format and PhotoShop (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/15 24203&from=rss). One of those, "I love 'em but hate 'em", relationships.
Sorry to see your personal involvement get so disrupted. It's usually the people who 'get their hands dirty' that intimately know a system. OTOH, my baggage has been so consistently mangled while going through there that I'm glad to see something being done. Anything, even if it's wrong. I'm sure my frustration has been felt by the decision makers, for them to take such a colossal option. It was a great idea, but from your take on things it looks like it was torpedoed by the handlers themselves.
While it's interesting to see how quickly these culprits were caught, I have to be distressed over the doubt that exists within me as to whether they would have been snagged so quickly if they had not nailed a major news network.
The Sneaker Net may still be alive. Except it's now on DVDs instead of floppies. Is Blu-Ray next?