Google's search engine is a huge and complex system. It's easier to just stuff keywords than to manipulate the whole system to give them better ranking. It's more complex than we might think it is.
Grandparent's point is *not* that people are biased on this issue because they hate Microsoft (maybe a little). Grandparent's point is that people are biased because they *like* Google.
Just because it's not in the top five doesn't mean they didn't cheat. They tried to cheat, but it wasn't very successful. In fact, top ten in pretty succesful in my terms.
Did you even READ TFA? Google gives different pages for users and its own search engine. The user's pages are NOT stuffed with keywords, while the ones for its search engine are. This is OBVIOUSLY keyword stuffing and cloaking.
Of course not. You can do whatever you want with your computer once you bought it. And you can do almost whatever you want with FOSS software. Of course, you can't do some things with proprietary software, like reverse engineering. But still, just exploiting a vulnerability on *your* machine with proprietary software is not illegal. And if you give permission to someone else, they can do this too. Your question is like asking whether it's illegal to hire a locksmith to break the lock on the door of *your own* house.
Of course this is a challenge and of course there many others out there. Whoever modded me as troll needs look around the internet more. Just google for "hacking challenge". There are a shit load of these on the net.
So, this is just another hacking challenge. Like the hundreds of others out there (many/most of which are on Linux). What qualifies this to make it to slashdot?
Bullshit. Being an Indian, I can tell you that Lashkar-e-Toiba is a Pakistani terrorist group, FUNDED by Pakistan and TRAINDED by ISI, the intelligence service of Pakistan. The terrorists are trying everything - from asking Kashmir to be a state of pakistan to making Kashmir an independent state. Once it becomes independent, the Kashmiri people will themselves "ask" to be merged with Pakistan and Pakistan will "reluctantly" "accept" the offer. Either that, or Kashmir will be an independent state only for name sake; in reality it will be in control of Pakistan. Just look at how Pakistan is controlling it right now. Don't believe everything General Musharraf says. In fact, don't believe ANYTHING he says. If you know the truth, you'll realise that every word Musharraf says is actually just blackmailing India (or extortion or threatening, if you want to be a language nazi).
It's controversial because some idiots can't tell the difference between an enabled-by-default feature on the default browser on a monopoly OS and a disabled-by-default feature on an optional additional program.
They're not saying CDs do use magnetism. They're saying CDs *CAN* use magnetism (which is possible). Read that sentence again. Now, who modded parent as insightful?
Parent is not informative. It's not an actually cold-war press release. It's just a sarcastic one by parent. And proof to my theory that slashdot mods are idiots. BTW, I consider parent to be troll.
Er, you're forgetting the millions of websites whose purpose it is to be connected to the internet. And have port 80 open, which will make them vulnerable. And a lot of production servers which need to be connected the internet for some reason. And careless admins.
It only needs one open port for the attack to work. A lot of machines have open ports for many reasons, like p2p. And servers, by definition, have open ports. The editor is either negligent or just simply stupid to say that just a firewall will protect your box.
It doesn't need the firewall to be disabled. It just needs an open port. Many machines have some ports open for things like p2p. The summary should either not mention this at all or mention this in its entirity. Just saying that the firewall needs to be disabled is misleading (at least for some/most people).
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Google's search engine is a huge and complex system. It's easier to just stuff keywords than to manipulate the whole system to give them better ranking. It's more complex than we might think it is.
Grandparent's point is *not* that people are biased on this issue because they hate Microsoft (maybe a little). Grandparent's point is that people are biased because they *like* Google.
It's not free. They display ads. They earn money, you know, they don't eat earthworms.
Nice try. TFA displays the titles in bold italic text. And it completely explains the issue.
Just because it's not in the top five doesn't mean they didn't cheat. They tried to cheat, but it wasn't very successful. In fact, top ten in pretty succesful in my terms.
Did you even READ TFA? Google gives different pages for users and its own search engine. The user's pages are NOT stuffed with keywords, while the ones for its search engine are. This is OBVIOUSLY keyword stuffing and cloaking.
Of course not. You can do whatever you want with your computer once you bought it. And you can do almost whatever you want with FOSS software. Of course, you can't do some things with proprietary software, like reverse engineering. But still, just exploiting a vulnerability on *your* machine with proprietary software is not illegal. And if you give permission to someone else, they can do this too. Your question is like asking whether it's illegal to hire a locksmith to break the lock on the door of *your own* house.
Of course this is a challenge and of course there many others out there. Whoever modded me as troll needs look around the internet more. Just google for "hacking challenge". There are a shit load of these on the net.
So, this is just another hacking challenge. Like the hundreds of others out there (many/most of which are on Linux). What qualifies this to make it to slashdot?
Being an Indian I can tell you that Lashkar-e-Toiba is a Pakistani terrorist group. Read my other comment here.
Bullshit. Being an Indian, I can tell you that Lashkar-e-Toiba is a Pakistani terrorist group, FUNDED by Pakistan and TRAINDED by ISI, the intelligence service of Pakistan. The terrorists are trying everything - from asking Kashmir to be a state of pakistan to making Kashmir an independent state. Once it becomes independent, the Kashmiri people will themselves "ask" to be merged with Pakistan and Pakistan will "reluctantly" "accept" the offer. Either that, or Kashmir will be an independent state only for name sake; in reality it will be in control of Pakistan. Just look at how Pakistan is controlling it right now. Don't believe everything General Musharraf says. In fact, don't believe ANYTHING he says. If you know the truth, you'll realise that every word Musharraf says is actually just blackmailing India (or extortion or threatening, if you want to be a language nazi).
Mozilla is based on Netscape. Firefox is based on Mozilla. Therefore Firefox is based on Netscape.
Kinda like, I love you, you love your teenage daughter, therefore I love your teenage daughter.
It's controversial because some idiots can't tell the difference between an enabled-by-default feature on the default browser on a monopoly OS and a disabled-by-default feature on an optional additional program.
They're not saying CDs do use magnetism. They're saying CDs *CAN* use magnetism (which is possible). Read that sentence again. Now, who modded parent as insightful?
Parent is not informative. It's not an actually cold-war press release. It's just a sarcastic one by parent. And proof to my theory that slashdot mods are idiots. BTW, I consider parent to be troll.
Er, you're forgetting the millions of websites whose purpose it is to be connected to the internet. And have port 80 open, which will make them vulnerable. And a lot of production servers which need to be connected the internet for some reason. And careless admins.
It only needs one open port for the attack to work. A lot of machines have open ports for many reasons, like p2p. And servers, by definition, have open ports. The editor is either negligent or just simply stupid to say that just a firewall will protect your box.
And therefore most servers running windows 2003(or windows xp) WILL be vulnerable. (sorry, forgot to mention that in the parent)
It doesn't need the firewall to be disabled. It just needs an open port. Many machines have some ports open for things like p2p. The summary should either not mention this at all or mention this in its entirity. Just saying that the firewall needs to be disabled is misleading (at least for some/most people).
And including the most important curve - the straight line.
Great. Thanks for spoiling it for us by telling us the ending.
Not product. Invention. Technology. Anything but product.
Well said.
Network enabled bear? Stuffed bear? Toy bear? Teddy bear? Anything?
Then how do you expect mirrordot to get the original story? Mirrordot get the links through slashdot when slashdot posts the story.