I think the police department in question lacks credibility as an authority on hacking because of mass corruption and Russias past in dealing with other unique threats.
Mass corruption within the Russian government is rife. The statement itself reeks of pride in criminal enterprise.
The Russians have been tough when it comes to warfare (and organized crime could be considered low-level warfare) however I think they lack finesse to deal with hackers as they have had problems dealing with 4th generational creative warriors before with the Chechens and Afghanis. I think that any bureaucracy on Earth can't deal with these guys unless they 'act' like the bad guys. The statement where this General compares software writers to crackers is pretty stupid and kinda shows that this guy might be a bumbling idiot. If he truly knew criminal hackers he would of set up a different set of real world parameters for a guide to who is 'the best', software writing is obviously a skill but I'm talking about economic, logistical and operational backing.
This brings me not my next point. This Dept K General states:
"When governments get [ISPs], law enforcement, public and private sector cooperating, then and only then will we be able to succeed in holding back this type of crime."
Whose government? Does he realise the Russian Mafiya operate without borders? They're the proverbial Hackers Sans Frontieres. Trying to get governments worldwide to cooperate on computer security would add another level of bureaucratic friction into the mix. It won't work unless, IMO, you 'act' like the bad guys and wage war against them covertly. Like Robert MacNamara said in the Doco 'The Fog of War' in order to good, we may have to engage in evil. I actually think this is what was lacking with the hunt for Bin Laden. Sometimes we need to fuck the rules. Anti-authoritarianism is one of the base behaviours of black hats. We should take a play from their book.
I know this is a technology centric website but let me say, as someone who has worked in the military with pretty high-tech gear, you guys are overestimating military technology. Some of you out there might say "But I seen military technology work all the time." Well that's nice, but I've seen how the triumvirate of scientist/engineer contractors, military officers and shitty technology can come together to make a terrible economic and time wasting mess.
I state the overestimation for a number of cynical reasons:
1. A lot of military technology doesn't get tested in warlike situations or complex terrain and when the technology is put into 'war-like' operations or complex terrain it doesn't live up to its hype. Bureaucracy also plays a part in slowing down projects and making them unrealistic.
2. Hyping the machine. This is what military officers and the contractors do. They hype up the technology to whole new bullshitting levels. The officers do it for their promotions and careers and the contractors do it for the money.
The terminator scenario won't happen for a very very long time.
"The program analyzes sentence and paragraph structure and can ascertain the flow of arguments and ideas."
So it measures structure and argument.
How's it going to measure creativity of thought? Are we going to just pump out logic machines from colleges?
Commentary - Shooting people is fun?
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"Hey shooting people is fun"
And you Americans wonder why the rest of the world thinks of you as ignorant, violent and lacking responsibility.
How the fuck did this comment get past the/. editors? Moderators this isn't a troll nor is it flamebait. I'm simply pointing out that this is a damn stupid comment to make because the context the comment was in pertains to shooting people in the real world, as in the military, not in a video game sense.
Does this mean larger more *flashier* annoying ads that I have to nuke?
Yahoo should team up with the CIA to run renditions similar to A Clockwork Orange's aversion therapy sans the classical music and replaced with super large happy smiley faces.
[Oooo, how you doin', nerd? No, not you You, the Klingon-Speaking one, (ha-ha) yeah What's your name? Timothy? Damn, that sounds sexy]
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?) Girls, what's my weakness? (Linux!) Ok then, chillin', chillin', mindin' my business (MSword) Yo,/., I looked around, and I couldn't believe this I swear, I stared, my *nix my witness The brother had it goin' on with somethin' kinda...uh Wicked, wicked (w00t) - had to kick it I'm not shy so I asked for the 1010101 Original News? No, that don't interest me See what I want is to be paid to be actin' arrogantly. Felt it in my blue chips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks (old articles) Then I flipped for a tip, make me wanna do tricks for CmdrTaco Lick him like a lollipop should be licked Came to my senses and I chilled for a bit Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do So well it's a spell, hell, makes me wanna dupe dupe dupe
Obviously/. editor Timothy hasn't gone through the procedure to free oneself from the influence of his body thetans and that's why he made the mistake.
Anyone who disagrees with this will be assimilated into my personal machiavellian dossier and will expect a knock on the door from my high powered galatic warrior attorneys.
Problem: MSN Hotmail sends Gmail to trash
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Does anyone else have the problem of hotmail sending gmail emails to the hotmail trash? I have sent numerous emails to friends with hotmail accounts and nearly ALL goto the trash. Not to sound like a part of the tin foil hat crowd but something is up with Microsoft and Google compatibility.
I think this could work if it were like a documentary and not a movie. I think it could be a new trend for the movie industry if it were created. Documentary's filled with actors to create the background story of the world.
Of course the money is directed at the slack-jawed masses not the foaming fan boys so why would the movie industry care about setting up a background story?
Whoah slow down there people I think when Microsoft mean 'Patches' I think they mean their new cyber buddy aka 'Rambo-Clippy' but with new and improved PTBSD (Post Traumatic Blue Screen Disorder). Patches is gonna open up a whole lotta online whoop-ass on hackers and other terrorists.
'Patches' is a mean son'ova' gun who uses rattle snakes as condoms and pisses napalm. I for one am glad to have this online hero on our side.
Geo-strategic support. Australia is the English-speaking outpost in the Asia region. It is also a glittering strategic prize in the Asian and Pacific area. It's all about resources, warfare and logistics to the area.
Technology is not a substitute for people and American culture is becoming so enamoured with technology to the point of forgetting what matters- family, values, and human contact.
Of course who's to say in the far future that we'll have robots that imitate humans so well that some robots are more emphatic and caring than some people that walk the earth.
Lawyers are supposed to be good at spinning up some sort of story or analogy to let people understand complex things.
Let me help our future Leesburg juror's with an analogy of my own: spammers are the equivalent to military electronic warfare jammers. They try to stop our productivity with enmasse information directly beamed into our communications infrastructure.
Forgive me fellow slashdotters but in former soviet russia the russian military had a rule that any attack against its communications infrastructure was the equivalent of a nuclear attack and therefore they went to higher defcon-equivalent. In an information age, spammers are attacking our communications infrastructure and we should be cracking down on them as hard as possible as well.
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First image is of the author being like a monkey with a screwdriver fiddling around in the back of a television.
/. editor lowering a goat into the Velociraptor pen that is /..
The second image brings up a dastardly
I think the police department in question lacks credibility as an authority on hacking because of mass corruption and Russias past in dealing with other unique threats.
Mass corruption within the Russian government is rife. The statement itself reeks of pride in criminal enterprise.
The Russians have been tough when it comes to warfare (and organized crime could be considered low-level warfare) however I think they lack finesse to deal with hackers as they have had problems dealing with 4th generational creative warriors before with the Chechens and Afghanis. I think that any bureaucracy on Earth can't deal with these guys unless they 'act' like the bad guys. The statement where this General compares software writers to crackers is pretty stupid and kinda shows that this guy might be a bumbling idiot. If he truly knew criminal hackers he would of set up a different set of real world parameters for a guide to who is 'the best', software writing is obviously a skill but I'm talking about economic, logistical and operational backing.
This brings me not my next point. This Dept K General states:
"When governments get [ISPs], law enforcement, public and private sector cooperating, then and only then will we be able to succeed in holding back this type of crime."
Whose government? Does he realise the Russian Mafiya operate without borders? They're the proverbial Hackers Sans Frontieres. Trying to get governments worldwide to cooperate on computer security would add another level of bureaucratic friction into the mix. It won't work unless, IMO, you 'act' like the bad guys and wage war against them covertly. Like Robert MacNamara said in the Doco 'The Fog of War' in order to good, we may have to engage in evil. I actually think this is what was lacking with the hunt for Bin Laden. Sometimes we need to fuck the rules. Anti-authoritarianism is one of the base behaviours of black hats. We should take a play from their book.
I know this is a technology centric website but let me say, as someone who has worked in the military with pretty high-tech gear, you guys are overestimating military technology. Some of you out there might say "But I seen military technology work all the time." Well that's nice, but I've seen how the triumvirate of scientist/engineer contractors, military officers and shitty technology can come together to make a terrible economic and time wasting mess.
I state the overestimation for a number of cynical reasons:
1. A lot of military technology doesn't get tested in warlike situations or complex terrain and when the technology is put into 'war-like' operations or complex terrain it doesn't live up to its hype. Bureaucracy also plays a part in slowing down projects and making them unrealistic.
2. Hyping the machine. This is what military officers and the contractors do. They hype up the technology to whole new bullshitting levels. The officers do it for their promotions and careers and the contractors do it for the money.
The terminator scenario won't happen for a very very long time.
Whoah, back off people he's just applied a +4 magical dupe shield. Now we can't use our 4th level 'Cry of dupe' scroll.
I can't believe the program can measure the absolutely complexity and dense empty prose of sociology. Bravo good man!
"The program analyzes sentence and paragraph structure and can ascertain the flow of arguments and ideas."
So it measures structure and argument.
How's it going to measure creativity of thought? Are we going to just pump out logic machines from colleges?
"Hey shooting people is fun"
/. editors? Moderators this isn't a troll nor is it flamebait. I'm simply pointing out that this is a damn stupid comment to make because the context the comment was in pertains to shooting people in the real world, as in the military, not in a video game sense.
And you Americans wonder why the rest of the world thinks of you as ignorant, violent and lacking responsibility.
How the fuck did this comment get past the
April 1st should just be renamed "Day of the Troll."
George Bush patents the 'internets', the lesser cousin of the internet, news at 11.
Hotmail is like Bret Maverick . A bumbling idiot on a boat ride.
Google is like Doc Holiday .. Knows what the opponents are thinking, skillful, fast and deadly.
Yahoo is like Gambit. Weird, flashy and should obtain a new get-up.
Does this mean larger more *flashier* annoying ads that I have to nuke? Yahoo should team up with the CIA to run renditions similar to A Clockwork Orange's aversion therapy sans the classical music and replaced with super large happy smiley faces.
Hey, yeah - I wanna Dupe, baby
/., I looked around, and I couldn't believe this
[Oooo, how you doin', nerd?
No, not you
You, the Klingon-Speaking one, (ha-ha) yeah
What's your name? Timothy?
Damn, that sounds sexy]
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?)
Girls, what's my weakness? (Linux!)
Ok then, chillin', chillin', mindin' my business (MSword)
Yo,
I swear, I stared, my *nix my witness
The brother had it goin' on with somethin' kinda...uh
Wicked, wicked (w00t) - had to kick it
I'm not shy so I asked for the 1010101
Original News? No, that don't interest me
See what I want is to be paid to be actin' arrogantly.
Felt it in my blue chips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks (old articles)
Then I flipped for a tip, make me wanna do tricks for CmdrTaco
Lick him like a lollipop should be licked
Came to my senses and I chilled for a bit
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
So well it's a spell, hell, makes me wanna dupe dupe dupe
Dupe shoop ba-doop
Dupe ba-doop
Dupe ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop
Dupe ba-doop
Dupe ba-doop
Dupe ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop
"An SP being someone that all scientologists should dissasociate them selves from because they are eeeeviilll"
Like a microsoft SP?
Obviously /. editor Timothy hasn't gone through the procedure to free oneself from the influence of his body thetans and that's why he made the mistake.
Anyone who disagrees with this will be assimilated into my personal machiavellian dossier and will expect a knock on the door from my high powered galatic warrior attorneys.
Does anyone else have the problem of hotmail sending gmail emails to the hotmail trash? I have sent numerous emails to friends with hotmail accounts and nearly ALL goto the trash. Not to sound like a part of the tin foil hat crowd but something is up with Microsoft and Google compatibility.
"The Silmarillion is not a good movie story."
I think this could work if it were like a documentary and not a movie. I think it could be a new trend for the movie industry if it were created. Documentary's filled with actors to create the background story of the world.
Of course the money is directed at the slack-jawed masses not the foaming fan boys so why would the movie industry care about setting up a background story?
Whoah slow down there people I think when Microsoft mean 'Patches' I think they mean their new cyber buddy aka 'Rambo-Clippy' but with new and improved PTBSD (Post Traumatic Blue Screen Disorder). Patches is gonna open up a whole lotta online whoop-ass on hackers and other terrorists.
'Patches' is a mean son'ova' gun who uses rattle snakes as condoms and pisses napalm. I for one am glad to have this online hero on our side.
Geo-strategic support. Australia is the English-speaking outpost in the Asia region. It is also a glittering strategic prize in the Asian and Pacific area. It's all about resources, warfare and logistics to the area.
"A spectre is haunting slashdot - the spectre of spyware." Cowboy Marx
The parent poster makes a damn good point.
Technology is not a substitute for people and American culture is becoming so enamoured with technology to the point of forgetting what matters- family, values, and human contact.
Of course who's to say in the far future that we'll have robots that imitate humans so well that some robots are more emphatic and caring than some people that walk the earth.
Lawyers are supposed to be good at spinning up some sort of story or analogy to let people understand complex things.
Let me help our future Leesburg juror's with an analogy of my own: spammers are the equivalent to military electronic warfare jammers. They try to stop our productivity with enmasse information directly beamed into our communications infrastructure.
Forgive me fellow slashdotters but in former soviet russia the russian military had a rule that any attack against its communications infrastructure was the equivalent of a nuclear attack and therefore they went to higher defcon-equivalent. In an information age, spammers are attacking our communications infrastructure and we should be cracking down on them as hard as possible as well.