Anyone who has been in the military or a related field can contest to this. I've had fun in the past confusing the hell out of people by telling them that something is classified unclassified, but to me this is just a really old joke. It is accurate though so I would have given it informative if I had mod points left.
...but couldn't the space be saved for something a lil more meaningful?
Your right! By posting this story they now won't have space for the article on the **AA saying "Screw it you can have all the songs/movies you want for free!"
I would like to see a worm that goes around and patches servers for a change. It can be done.
Welchia attempted to patch the DCOM RPC vulnerability that Blaster feed on and remove Blaster if present. It was called the "good samaritan worm". The problem was, as the AC pointed out, the network traffic Welchia generated DoSed any network that it "aided". Other "helpful" viruses have existed, but usually had the same unfriendly welcome for the same reason.
The point is they stole passwords. And we all know people use the same password for everything. So know they have both their MSN username (which relates directly to their hotmail account) and password. How many websites use your email for your login name? So they have access to those accounts too.
How many websites email their password to your account? All those passwords are compromised (not that they are any different than the first one). They probably got the persons IP too. Now they can skip the brute force approach and log in directly to put the keylogger on your computer. The best thing is that they know the majority of the people who use MSN know almost as little about computers as an AOL user.
You're funny! How often do screeners at airports go by that list? I have had clippers confiscated. I have had locks that I went out and purchased solely because they were TSA Accepted clipped. I even unlocked them before handing them to the screener! They just liked clipping locks!! And don't even try to fill out a Claim form. After many inquiries into the status of the claim I learned it was an exercise in futility.
As for this scanner they have been talking about it for years. The two main points are that to protect privacy the Department of Homeland Security has put several steps in place. The screeners will be in a separate room where they never see the person they are X-Raying. And the silhouettes some people have mentioned that display the basic outline of a sex-neutral figure with any items displayed over this.
The computer performs the job of picking out the difference between a weapon tapped to your privates and your actual privates. With the version the DHS has purchased you cannot see nipples or anything else that is FUD. The backscatter X-Ray has been available for years. Perfecting these safeguards and attempting to educate the public (looks like they failed here) on them is what took so long. Are these perfect for privacy? No, but not nearly as bad as the FUD flying around/. today. I would rather we didn't need any security at the airports, but in this world that would be suicide.
This has been covered by every news orginization and science magazine a half dozen times. The only thing news worthy about it is the fact that it is finally going to be used.
PS WTF? When did the type this image crap get added to Slashdot? And why can they add that, but not a damn spellchecker?
This reminds me of a book I read years ago. I believe it was Red Dwarf IIRC. An advertising agency spent years and trillions of dollars sending a ship out to explode stars with pinpoint timeing. When the light from the various supernovas all reached earth at once it spelled out Coca~Cola in the night sky. Once hyperspace is perfected we will need to update these laws before some unethical company tries anything that stupid. Us Americans just might be stupid enough to try.
Actually I worked helpdesk in a company that used only Dells. We were strictly forbidden to use the term laptop to the customers. The reason we were given was Dell had been sued for this very reason and we didn't want to be held liable if another idiot burned himself.
I second that! Mod parent up! The war spending got a 100% vote because no one would dare vote against it. That is the exact reason this unrelated amendment was added to this particular bill. It was a surefire way to get it in under the wire.
This type of mixing of legislation needs to be banned. Make each piece of legislation small, simple and individual from all others. No bill should have umpteen ammendments. Unless it directly and immeadiatly affects the bill it should be seperate.
The F-117 is a first generation stealth plane with a primary tactical (local) role. Its armament hard points are internal so while it is capable of carrying missiles doing so would not affect the stealth signature (except the short period the bomb bay opened to fire). It is primarily used as a short range bomber as it is not truly stable enough for heavy maneuvering and can only carry two missiles and no guns. With only two bomb hard points it is also used for precision targets.
The B2 is a second generation stealth plane and has primarily a strategic role. The B-2 is strictly a bomber and is used as a long range bomber. Several reasons exist for the F-117 being preferred over the B-2. One is the 2.2 Billion dollar price tag per plane. In addition only 21 (if more than the official number have been built no conflict to date has warranted bringing them out of hiding) B-2s have ever been built and they are all based out of Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. While the B-2 has the advantage of almost 10 times the range, improved stealth and being able to carry 40,000lbs of bombs the price tag and rarity keep it from being used nearly as often as the F-117. With the massive bomb payload it is most effective at blanket bombing, though precision bombing can be done by reducing the payload to smart bombs.
The F/A-22 is a supersonic fighter craft with ground attack capabilities as well. The F/A-22 has a 480 round Gatling gun and multiple internal and external hard points capable of carrying missiles and bombs simultaneously. The plane is highly maneuverable due to the long refinement of its computerized flight control system. The plane also utilizes an AN/APG-77 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar that changes frequencies more than 1,000 times a second along with other techniques to make it almost undetectable. As other have mentioned stealth planes frequently mix cold air into the exhaust prior to expelling it to prevent IR detection. The plane is an excellent air superiority machine; I would guess this was the plane used in the episode you referred to.
As to why the US was patrolling its airspace with stealth fighters, well it advanced the plot, or you could go ask a tin hat. For why the pilot couldn't maneuver or use countermeasures it advanced the plot. And I know I skipped the F-35 which is also a capable Air to Air stealth platform, but it will not be in production for another 3 years.
When you can perform evasive maneuvers with a commercial airliner, let me know.Not that I watch 24 either, but we are not talking about your typical commercial airliner here. Or your typical commercial pilot. Give me a freaking break!
I never paid that much attention to BO. I really should keep up with older tools since they still pop up here and there, but my network has not had a problem with BO in a long time. I'll take your word on it though. Like I said I was shooting from the hip on that one. Then again with as much control of a machine as BO gives someone then just kiss everything goodbye anyways, you no longer own your box.
Having access to install a couple hundred kb of command line data is much easier than full packet sniffing and recording/retransmitting video of mouse movement. Just thinking on the fly here I'm sure the mouse movement is changed to a digitized x,y axis at some point and that could be intercepted as well. They would have to know your screen size and maybe some other details as well to skip the video feed. Never put much thought into it, but it is much easier to write and trick someone into installing a small keylogging trojan than the large multiprogram file that would be. For one of the large orginized (Russian mob backed) teams this could only be a matter of time though if they tried that method.
Years ago I read an article claiming that this was Lucas' original concept for the lightsaber minus the red ball. The field holding the wire was the cause of the glow, but not truely the cutting edge. The article went on to claim he dumbed it down to the current version, because that is what "everyone assumed it was". I can no longer find the article or prove this in any way however.
Most people I wouldn't even bother responding to such a statement. I respect your posts enough so I will though. You must crawl before you can walk and walk before you can run. I know they didn't make it to orbit, but they have achieved what no private corporation has. They have proven the first step possible and have a platform to be scaled up. They may still fail for full orbit, but they have earned the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe its time to take bids from some of the new areospace startups instead of handing it off to old entrenched Boeing.
From TFA: Another announced team is t/Space, a consortium including such groups as Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and Red Whittaker[1] (http://www.redteamracing.org/) of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Some news reports in mid-March 2005, stemming from an interview with New Scientist have reported that t/Space intends to withdraw from the competition, citing a high paperwork burden; however, no announcement of a withdrawal has yet been made by t/Space.
However, as of May 3, it seems that only Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman did submit a bid.
Looks like the startups tried but said, screw it your bureaucracy sucks. We will just do it ourselves again.
That will definatly solve the problem. Outsourcing to India is a great idea. They would never steal our money over there.
If your going to post something like this you should really make your meaning clear. Are you being sarcastic and mean that the outsourcing is NOT the answer? Or as the fact you posted AC implies you are serious? If you had used your name I would have immeadiatly taken this for sarcasm as mine was, but since you are signed AC it makes you seem as if you are serious and an idiot.
So they only go after the big fish? I'm sorry as many P2P users as are out their I find it hard to believe that 10,000 and still counting of them are the big fish. I know P2P has some big numbers, but enough in the US alone so that a small minority equals 10,000? You will have to show me some numbers please.
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Anyone who has been in the military or a related field can contest to this. I've had fun in the past confusing the hell out of people by telling them that something is classified unclassified, but to me this is just a really old joke. It is accurate though so I would have given it informative if I had mod points left.
Yet another Dupe!
The game is content complete, stable, and bugs counts are dropping daily at a satisfactory rate.
If this is the case then the game must have already been on store shelves and be on the fourth or fifth patch.
...but couldn't the space be saved for something a lil more meaningful?
Your right! By posting this story they now won't have space for the article on the **AA saying "Screw it you can have all the songs/movies you want for free!"
I would like to see a worm that goes around and patches servers for a change. It can be done.
Welchia attempted to patch the DCOM RPC vulnerability that Blaster feed on and remove Blaster if present. It was called the "good samaritan worm". The problem was, as the AC pointed out, the network traffic Welchia generated DoSed any network that it "aided". Other "helpful" viruses have existed, but usually had the same unfriendly welcome for the same reason.
The point is they stole passwords. And we all know people use the same password for everything. So know they have both their MSN username (which relates directly to their hotmail account) and password. How many websites use your email for your login name? So they have access to those accounts too.
How many websites email their password to your account? All those passwords are compromised (not that they are any different than the first one). They probably got the persons IP too. Now they can skip the brute force approach and log in directly to put the keylogger on your computer. The best thing is that they know the majority of the people who use MSN know almost as little about computers as an AOL user.
You're funny! How often do screeners at airports go by that list? I have had clippers confiscated. I have had locks that I went out and purchased solely because they were TSA Accepted clipped. I even unlocked them before handing them to the screener! They just liked clipping locks!! And don't even try to fill out a Claim form. After many inquiries into the status of the claim I learned it was an exercise in futility.
/. today. I would rather we didn't need any security at the airports, but in this world that would be suicide.
As for this scanner they have been talking about it for years. The two main points are that to protect privacy the Department of Homeland Security has put several steps in place. The screeners will be in a separate room where they never see the person they are X-Raying. And the silhouettes some people have mentioned that display the basic outline of a sex-neutral figure with any items displayed over this.
The computer performs the job of picking out the difference between a weapon tapped to your privates and your actual privates. With the version the DHS has purchased you cannot see nipples or anything else that is FUD. The backscatter X-Ray has been available for years. Perfecting these safeguards and attempting to educate the public (looks like they failed here) on them is what took so long. Are these perfect for privacy? No, but not nearly as bad as the FUD flying around
This has been covered by every news orginization and science magazine a half dozen times. The only thing news worthy about it is the fact that it is finally going to be used.
PS WTF? When did the type this image crap get added to Slashdot? And why can they add that, but not a damn spellchecker?
This reminds me of a book I read years ago. I believe it was Red Dwarf IIRC. An advertising agency spent years and trillions of dollars sending a ship out to explode stars with pinpoint timeing. When the light from the various supernovas all reached earth at once it spelled out Coca~Cola in the night sky. Once hyperspace is perfected we will need to update these laws before some unethical company tries anything that stupid. Us Americans just might be stupid enough to try.
Actually I worked helpdesk in a company that used only Dells. We were strictly forbidden to use the term laptop to the customers. The reason we were given was Dell had been sued for this very reason and we didn't want to be held liable if another idiot burned himself.
"I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"But you found the source, didn't you?"
I think thats what you were going for?
I second that! Mod parent up! The war spending got a 100% vote because no one would dare vote against it. That is the exact reason this unrelated amendment was added to this particular bill. It was a surefire way to get it in under the wire.
This type of mixing of legislation needs to be banned. Make each piece of legislation small, simple and individual from all others. No bill should have umpteen ammendments. Unless it directly and immeadiatly affects the bill it should be seperate.
The F-117 is a first generation stealth plane with a primary tactical (local) role. Its armament hard points are internal so while it is capable of carrying missiles doing so would not affect the stealth signature (except the short period the bomb bay opened to fire). It is primarily used as a short range bomber as it is not truly stable enough for heavy maneuvering and can only carry two missiles and no guns. With only two bomb hard points it is also used for precision targets.
The B2 is a second generation stealth plane and has primarily a strategic role. The B-2 is strictly a bomber and is used as a long range bomber. Several reasons exist for the F-117 being preferred over the B-2. One is the 2.2 Billion dollar price tag per plane. In addition only 21 (if more than the official number have been built no conflict to date has warranted bringing them out of hiding) B-2s have ever been built and they are all based out of Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. While the B-2 has the advantage of almost 10 times the range, improved stealth and being able to carry 40,000lbs of bombs the price tag and rarity keep it from being used nearly as often as the F-117. With the massive bomb payload it is most effective at blanket bombing, though precision bombing can be done by reducing the payload to smart bombs.
The F/A-22 is a supersonic fighter craft with ground attack capabilities as well. The F/A-22 has a 480 round Gatling gun and multiple internal and external hard points capable of carrying missiles and bombs simultaneously. The plane is highly maneuverable due to the long refinement of its computerized flight control system. The plane also utilizes an AN/APG-77 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar that changes frequencies more than 1,000 times a second along with other techniques to make it almost undetectable. As other have mentioned stealth planes frequently mix cold air into the exhaust prior to expelling it to prevent IR detection. The plane is an excellent air superiority machine; I would guess this was the plane used in the episode you referred to.
As to why the US was patrolling its airspace with stealth fighters, well it advanced the plot, or you could go ask a tin hat. For why the pilot couldn't maneuver or use countermeasures it advanced the plot. And I know I skipped the F-35 which is also a capable Air to Air stealth platform, but it will not be in production for another 3 years.
When you can perform evasive maneuvers with a commercial airliner, let me know.Not that I watch 24 either, but we are not talking about your typical commercial airliner here. Or your typical commercial pilot. Give me a freaking break!
I never paid that much attention to BO. I really should keep up with older tools since they still pop up here and there, but my network has not had a problem with BO in a long time. I'll take your word on it though. Like I said I was shooting from the hip on that one. Then again with as much control of a machine as BO gives someone then just kiss everything goodbye anyways, you no longer own your box.
Having access to install a couple hundred kb of command line data is much easier than full packet sniffing and recording/retransmitting video of mouse movement. Just thinking on the fly here I'm sure the mouse movement is changed to a digitized x,y axis at some point and that could be intercepted as well. They would have to know your screen size and maybe some other details as well to skip the video feed. Never put much thought into it, but it is much easier to write and trick someone into installing a small keylogging trojan than the large multiprogram file that would be. For one of the large orginized (Russian mob backed) teams this could only be a matter of time though if they tried that method.
I can definately see the Army using some form of MMOFPS ala Americas Army. Add in Games That Shoot Back and you have one heck of a training device!
Years ago I read an article claiming that this was Lucas' original concept for the lightsaber minus the red ball. The field holding the wire was the cause of the glow, but not truely the cutting edge. The article went on to claim he dumbed it down to the current version, because that is what "everyone assumed it was". I can no longer find the article or prove this in any way however.
This little thing called television. They throw it around all the time. I unfortunatly hear it at least once a month still.
Most people I wouldn't even bother responding to such a statement. I respect your posts enough so I will though. You must crawl before you can walk and walk before you can run. I know they didn't make it to orbit, but they have achieved what no private corporation has. They have proven the first step possible and have a platform to be scaled up. They may still fail for full orbit, but they have earned the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe its time to take bids from some of the new areospace startups instead of handing it off to old entrenched Boeing.
From TFA: Another announced team is t/Space, a consortium including such groups as Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and Red Whittaker[1] (http://www.redteamracing.org/) of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Some news reports in mid-March 2005, stemming from an interview with New Scientist have reported that t/Space intends to withdraw from the competition, citing a high paperwork burden; however, no announcement of a withdrawal has yet been made by t/Space.
However, as of May 3, it seems that only Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman did submit a bid.
Looks like the startups tried but said, screw it your bureaucracy sucks. We will just do it ourselves again.
How about a GPL Merit Badge?
Great idea! It would of course have the GNU Head as the picture. Maybe more appropriate would be a Copyleft symbol so as to include all open projects.
How about the not typing in 133t merit badge. That would be a good lesson for them to learn.
And the towels - they didn't explain the thing about the towels! At all!
One of my coworkers was completly confused by the towel scenes. Enough to ask about what the point of them was. That is a bad sign for any movie.
That will definatly solve the problem. Outsourcing to India is a great idea. They would never steal our money over there.
If your going to post something like this you should really make your meaning clear. Are you being sarcastic and mean that the outsourcing is NOT the answer? Or as the fact you posted AC implies you are serious? If you had used your name I would have immeadiatly taken this for sarcasm as mine was, but since you are signed AC it makes you seem as if you are serious and an idiot.
So they only go after the big fish? I'm sorry as many P2P users as are out their I find it hard to believe that 10,000 and still counting of them are the big fish. I know P2P has some big numbers, but enough in the US alone so that a small minority equals 10,000? You will have to show me some numbers please.