The press needs to report on the results as soon as possible to stay relevant. If the results come out the next day at noon then no one is going to be watching CNN, et al, all night waiting for the results. BTW, does anyone really think it's a coincidence that elections happen in the middle of November sweeps? (it is a just a coincidence but that wouldn't help make my point, now would it?)
People named in the Futurama cartoon exist too, therefore it must be historically sound! I'd continue, but actually I think I will go watch some historically accurate Futurama episodes instead.
Of course Futurama is historically sound. It's from the future. It even says so right in the title: Futurama. That's a portmanteau of 'Future' and 'historically accurate drama'.
OLPC needs to reel in its ambitions and focus on something it can deliver as promised. These guys are starting to corner the market in low cost vaporware and pipe dreams.
Well this certainly makes it much more easier to move your nonsense-data around, but how long untill all the data is available on piratebay?
I guess that depends on how long it takes a clever virus to start looking for traces of these downloads on someone's PC and start harvesting the information. My guess is less than 60 days... but it may not be on PB first as I'm sure there are other 'markets' for this type of information.
If he files bankruptcy, and Facebook doesn't get their billion dollars, can Facebook claim the billion as a 'loss' (a la 'bad debt', 'uncollectable account', etc) and get a tax break out of it?
This is why he's a Harvard law professor and not a movie reviewer. You can't expect everyone to experience a movie in the same ways that you do. Just remember it's only a movie!
Being 33 digits, that is just strange. Dropping the first 1 to make 32 would be more fitting, but the first digit is still a 1, so unless he is into ANSI art, I doubt this is ascii encoding.
He could be using one of those new fangled 33-bit processors from a startup company. You know, "Now with more digit power than your 32-bit processors ever dreamed of! Never lose the leading digit to that pesky sign bit again!"
And of those 66% of people running XP, what proportion do you think know what a PSU, CPU, or motherboard are? What proportion do you think will just go "shit, my computer broke"?
Hint, the former is likely 1%
And that's why those of us who know will always have job opportunities.
But how can anyone trust their results if they're gathering their data and posting their results via the internet? Everybody knows you can't trust anything you find on the internet, right?
I mean think about when was the last time the US government could do dick with computers? The US government was broken into by some retard in the UK using default passwords. How can people seriously believe the US government could come out with something like this.
Considering this was done by taking advantage of a hardcoded and well published default username and password I'd say anyone could be behind it... including the US government.
I'm glad that this worm didn't cause a meltdown. I have 'Homer leaves a donut in the reactor core' in the Meltdown Pool and would hate to lose my $10 to some governmental conspiracy that isn't even playing.
I don't know what they allege that those they have arrested have done
They're probably charged with 'Breathing Iranian Air without Governmental Permission' which usually results in a sentence that prevents them from becoming repeat offenders.
Anyone making bomb threats needs to be found, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you act like a terrorist or terrorist organization then you should be treated as one.
If my original post gave the impression that I thought a bomb threat was OK I'd like to clear that up right now: Bomb threats are unacceptable and should never be tolerated.
I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.
If the US wants to "control the internet", which we do 'cuz there's Internet Money to be had, then we have the responsibility to keep the infrastructure up and running. How are we going to combat a 'cyber attack' without redundancy... I mean really, even/. has a backup site, right?
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The press needs to report on the results as soon as possible to stay relevant. If the results come out the next day at noon then no one is going to be watching CNN, et al, all night waiting for the results. BTW, does anyone really think it's a coincidence that elections happen in the middle of November sweeps? (it is a just a coincidence but that wouldn't help make my point, now would it?)
I vote we continue with Internet voting.
I'm going to beat the land rush to register "NorthKoreaIsTheBestKorea.kp" before Kim Jong-Il gets there first!
People named in the Futurama cartoon exist too, therefore it must be historically sound! I'd continue, but actually I think I will go watch some historically accurate Futurama episodes instead.
Of course Futurama is historically sound. It's from the future. It even says so right in the title: Futur ama. That's a portmanteau of 'Future' and 'historically accurate drama'.
This is horrifiyng news. What would happen to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign?
They would all get 'ribbons' and Clippy.
Microdobe might be possible
I think they meant Microbe (pronounced my-CROW-bee). If you had some of that in your coffee that'll make you puke like a pro.
OLPC needs to reel in its ambitions and focus on something it can deliver as promised. These guys are starting to corner the market in low cost vaporware and pipe dreams.
Well this certainly makes it much more easier to move your nonsense-data around, but how long untill all the data is available on piratebay?
I guess that depends on how long it takes a clever virus to start looking for traces of these downloads on someone's PC and start harvesting the information. My guess is less than 60 days ... but it may not be on PB first as I'm sure there are other 'markets' for this type of information.
An Akamai employee is using an analog dead drop? Surely he could have set up some sort of digital delivery served up by his employer, no?
If he files bankruptcy, and Facebook doesn't get their billion dollars, can Facebook claim the billion as a 'loss' (a la 'bad debt', 'uncollectable account', etc) and get a tax break out of it?
This is why he's a Harvard law professor and not a movie reviewer. You can't expect everyone to experience a movie in the same ways that you do. Just remember it's only a movie!
Being 33 digits, that is just strange. Dropping the first 1 to make 32 would be more fitting, but the first digit is still a 1, so unless he is into ANSI art, I doubt this is ascii encoding.
He could be using one of those new fangled 33-bit processors from a startup company. You know, "Now with more digit power than your 32-bit processors ever dreamed of! Never lose the leading digit to that pesky sign bit again!"
Has anyone considered that the guy is Canadian and maybe, just maybe, inserted an extra '0' in there while sounding it out?
And of those 66% of people running XP, what proportion do you think know what a PSU, CPU, or motherboard are? What proportion do you think will just go "shit, my computer broke"?
Hint, the former is likely 1%
And that's why those of us who know will always have job opportunities.
But how can anyone trust their results if they're gathering their data and posting their results via the internet? Everybody knows you can't trust anything you find on the internet, right?
I mean think about when was the last time the US government could do dick with computers? The US government was broken into by some retard in the UK using default passwords. How can people seriously believe the US government could come out with something like this.
Considering this was done by taking advantage of a hardcoded and well published default username and password I'd say anyone could be behind it ... including the US government.
Nuclear reactors are built with multiple redundancy to the point that failure is inconceivable.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I'm glad that this worm didn't cause a meltdown. I have 'Homer leaves a donut in the reactor core' in the Meltdown Pool and would hate to lose my $10 to some governmental conspiracy that isn't even playing.
I don't know what they allege that those they have arrested have done
They're probably charged with 'Breathing Iranian Air without Governmental Permission' which usually results in a sentence that prevents them from becoming repeat offenders.
I think they missed one. I don't see Dogs Playing Poker. I'm just sayin' ...
Anyone making bomb threats needs to be found, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you act like a terrorist or terrorist organization then you should be treated as one.
If my original post gave the impression that I thought a bomb threat was OK I'd like to clear that up right now: Bomb threats are unacceptable and should never be tolerated.
I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.
If the US wants to "control the internet", which we do 'cuz there's Internet Money to be had, then we have the responsibility to keep the infrastructure up and running. How are we going to combat a 'cyber attack' without redundancy ... I mean really, even /. has a backup site, right?
So it's the new craze now, trying to get news outlets to listen to you using political/racial fear mongering virus news!
It's not quite a craze yet, but it is spreading ;-)
The title is very misleading ... it should read "Iranian Gov Uses Telecom Backdoors Required By US Gov"