Out of curiosity only, where did you get those number? Mine came from recent Netcraft stats, but maybe they have some weird statistic metric... they showed Solaris and Windows 2000 as being the leading web server OSes with Solaris having a huge lead over everyone else.
It's only a matter of time before MacOS X gains enough popularity that it's own security holes (though admittingly less serious than many of those in Windows) are mass exploited causing many Mac users some grief.
People have been saying that about Linux for 5 years now. And they can't use the excuse that it's only because Linux isn't widely used because about 15% of web servers are using it and that's plenty large enough to get a virus rolling.
My suggestion: Try to get in with the government. Many government jobs require security clearances and aren't at all shy about initiating a background check if it looks like you're the right person for the job.
I've always heard that a security clearance typically puts your resume above all others without, even if the job in question involves little in the way of sensitive information.
No, no, no! There's a good reason why these units are failing... you're not supposed to USE the thing! You may only buy one off ebay for $800, take it apart to put pictures of its guts up on the web, or post bogus mods to LiveJournal and wait for gullable Slashdot editors to stumble across it.
You may be out of luck for GBC games, but there is a rather good GB emulator (Goomba) that you can load onto a GBA flash cart with all your games. That is, unless Nintendo has done something to the DS to make it not read GBA flash carts.
This is the first time I've seen Google Scholar. After a few minutes playing around, it seems the search engine gives the author's name much higher precidence in returning results than anything else. Thus, I had to search for "warp drive" before I could make the keywords match an article's title or content.
(And believe you me, I never expected there to be so much serious research on warp theory out there. I need to try "holodeck" next.)
Please disregard and past and future complaints coming from the Parents Television Council. We're sorry. We should have been actually parenting our own children instead of asking the government and TV networks to do it for us. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused.
Sincerely, The Parents Television Council
Ah, and they helpfully passed it along to no less than all 5 FCC Commissioners! The Internet is a wonderful thing.
I know, we could distribute a program disguised as a screensaver which targets the companies' web sites in the background, generating huge traffic costs and bringing their servers to the brink of falling over!
Seriously, I don't get how exactly this stuff is news. It's getting tiresome already. I wouldn't mind if it was once a year or something "Thunderbird 2.0 is now out", but it's every week or so and its brutal (Thunderbird 1.0.1b is out!).
Well, you could always do what the rest of us do when we come across a story on the Slashdot home page that doesn't really interest us:
Scroll down a few lines and proceed to the next one.
Give it a shot, you'll be amazed how well it works.
My information (sans the actual rate, which I don't recall) came from a security officer that works in the prison. His exact words were, "You get 3 hots, a cot, and x cents an hour for your patronage."
Perhaps the problem here is that with Lycos being the single point of failure, as well as being a customer facing organisation, its position was just untenable.
Kinda like early Napster. A company with the balls stepped up and challenged the norm. They were shut down quickly, but it gave inspiration to hundreds of other projects that did more or less the same thing.
Lycos did what they were trying to do and succeeded marvelously given all the press attention they got.
There has certainly been lots of talk about building in such a system to mail clients, and perhaps having a distributed spam-attack system that way - perhaps this will be legally more tenable (they actually emailed you personally) as well as more resilient to pressure.
No, no, no, and no. I hope this feature NEVER makes it into any email client on the planet. It would be far too easy for a company to send out a batch of spam advertising their competitor to get the competitor's site shut down. At least with Lycos, the sites that were attacked were hand-verified to be actual spammers.
Anyway, it wouldn't happen because almost everyone uses Outlook.
Even with hand-edited RBLs, a joe job like this is already incredibly easy because because some of the the extreme anti-spam zealots who run them shoot first and ask questions later. They often don't check to verify if a specific message is "legitimate" spam. I can't run a mail server at home as the/24 I'm in is listed by a number of RBLs just because it's a block of DSL IPs. I could never be certain if the message that I'm going to send is actually going to reach its recipient.
Basically, the whole email system needs to be scrapped (or sufficiently rewritten) so that the identity of every single email sender and provider can be verified. At a cost, if necessary. (I already pay for my email separately from my connectivity anyway.) Those who need (quasi-)anonymous communication always have usenet or web forums. Otherwise, spam will continue to be a problem.
Well, I said that it was a small amount. But many in prison have relatively long sentences. A person getting 7 cents an hour for 30 years comes out with nearly $18,000. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Even though a short sentence won't get you much, it's absurd that prisoners get paid at all.
In Pennsylvania, they actually PAY you to go to prison. That's right, do hard time and make hard cash at the same time. It's only something like 7 cents an hour, but that can still add up after a couple years, especially when you don't have anything to spend it on.
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Out of curiosity only, where did you get those number? Mine came from recent Netcraft stats, but maybe they have some weird statistic metric... they showed Solaris and Windows 2000 as being the leading web server OSes with Solaris having a huge lead over everyone else.
It's only a matter of time before MacOS X gains enough popularity that it's own security holes (though admittingly less serious than many of those in Windows) are mass exploited causing many Mac users some grief.
People have been saying that about Linux for 5 years now. And they can't use the excuse that it's only because Linux isn't widely used because about 15% of web servers are using it and that's plenty large enough to get a virus rolling.
It looks like you have to be enrolled in a Computer Science or Engineering program in order to qualify. Tough luck for those of us in Security majors.
My suggestion: Try to get in with the government. Many government jobs require security clearances and aren't at all shy about initiating a background check if it looks like you're the right person for the job.
I've always heard that a security clearance typically puts your resume above all others without, even if the job in question involves little in the way of sensitive information.
No, no, no! There's a good reason why these units are failing... you're not supposed to USE the thing! You may only buy one off ebay for $800, take it apart to put pictures of its guts up on the web, or post bogus mods to LiveJournal and wait for gullable Slashdot editors to stumble across it.
Make encryption illegal? I don't think (or rather, I desperately hope) that people will accept such measures.
Funny, they have once before.
What, you expect people to reason?
Why don't you just wait for an emulator?
You may be out of luck for GBC games, but there is a rather good GB emulator (Goomba) that you can load onto a GBA flash cart with all your games. That is, unless Nintendo has done something to the DS to make it not read GBA flash carts.
And will ruin your DS, thereby voiding the warranty.
This is a NON-STORY and Zonk, the editor, should have some common sense beaten into him for posting it to the main page.
No, no, that'll never do. You're talking about giving the user some control over when and how they watch TV. Lunacy!
This is the first time I've seen Google Scholar. After a few minutes playing around, it seems the search engine gives the author's name much higher precidence in returning results than anything else. Thus, I had to search for "warp drive" before I could make the keywords match an article's title or content.
(And believe you me, I never expected there to be so much serious research on warp theory out there. I need to try "holodeck" next.)
No, that one was omitted, as you can plainly see.
How long before there's an ipod emulator?
(I'm only half-joking.)
NetBSD 2.0 is the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System
Er, I'd argue that as the major version number is 2, this would make it only the second major release.
I typed this up on their File an FCC Broadcast Indecency Complaint form:
Dear FCC,
Please disregard and past and future complaints coming from the Parents Television Council. We're sorry. We should have been actually parenting our own children instead of asking the government and TV networks to do it for us. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused.
Sincerely,
The Parents Television Council
Ah, and they helpfully passed it along to no less than all 5 FCC Commissioners! The Internet is a wonderful thing.
I know, we could distribute a program disguised as a screensaver which targets the companies' web sites in the background, generating huge traffic costs and bringing their servers to the brink of falling over!
Who's with me on this???
Many adverts aren't rendering correctly on firefox, including some flash/dhtml combos and some dhtml ads.
Then write your ads to be standards-compliant.
Seriously, I don't get how exactly this stuff is news. It's getting tiresome already. I wouldn't mind if it was once a year or something "Thunderbird 2.0 is now out", but it's every week or so and its brutal (Thunderbird 1.0.1b is out!).
Well, you could always do what the rest of us do when we come across a story on the Slashdot home page that doesn't really interest us:
Scroll down a few lines and proceed to the next one.
Give it a shot, you'll be amazed how well it works.
Bleh, in too much of a hurry. Append to the officer's quote: "...without having to lift a finger."
My information (sans the actual rate, which I don't recall) came from a security officer that works in the prison. His exact words were, "You get 3 hots, a cot, and x cents an hour for your patronage."
Perhaps the problem here is that with Lycos being the single point of failure, as well as being a customer facing organisation, its position was just untenable.
Kinda like early Napster. A company with the balls stepped up and challenged the norm. They were shut down quickly, but it gave inspiration to hundreds of other projects that did more or less the same thing.
Lycos did what they were trying to do and succeeded marvelously given all the press attention they got.
There has certainly been lots of talk about building in such a system to mail clients, and perhaps having a distributed spam-attack system that way - perhaps this will be legally more tenable (they actually emailed you personally) as well as more resilient to pressure.
No, no, no, and no. I hope this feature NEVER makes it into any email client on the planet. It would be far too easy for a company to send out a batch of spam advertising their competitor to get the competitor's site shut down. At least with Lycos, the sites that were attacked were hand-verified to be actual spammers.
Anyway, it wouldn't happen because almost everyone uses Outlook.
Even with hand-edited RBLs, a joe job like this is already incredibly easy because because some of the the extreme anti-spam zealots who run them shoot first and ask questions later. They often don't check to verify if a specific message is "legitimate" spam. I can't run a mail server at home as the
Basically, the whole email system needs to be scrapped (or sufficiently rewritten) so that the identity of every single email sender and provider can be verified. At a cost, if necessary. (I already pay for my email separately from my connectivity anyway.) Those who need (quasi-)anonymous communication always have usenet or web forums. Otherwise, spam will continue to be a problem.
who would get a token amount of time in a federal luxury prison like Camp Cupcake
Not federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
Well, I said that it was a small amount. But many in prison have relatively long sentences. A person getting 7 cents an hour for 30 years comes out with nearly $18,000. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Even though a short sentence won't get you much, it's absurd that prisoners get paid at all.
In Pennsylvania, they actually PAY you to go to prison. That's right, do hard time and make hard cash at the same time. It's only something like 7 cents an hour, but that can still add up after a couple years, especially when you don't have anything to spend it on.
Alright people, you can stop overreacting. They just rearranged some things, that's all.
There's a link at the top of the thread to turn on the left-hand tree frame.
Deep-linking to a single post is still very much possible.
And I highly doubt that a search-by-date feature is going to go missing for long in a 20-year archive. This is, after all, a BETA.
As per usual, Slashdot editors didn't even think it worth their time to follow a single link to see if the submitter wasn't trolling.