Honestly, I haven't, and the options in the US are not much better.
What a truly pathetic state of politics the world is in.
Noone that is honest and good would last 2 days in elected office nowadays, that is if they even considered running for elected office.
Even the most good would lose in a landslide.
He said that after two days of silence, a customer service representative from Melbourne IT today informed him by telephone that the site had "been closed on the advice from the Australian Government"
People know censorship when they see it.
People do not like being censored.
I suggest if you are an Aussie and this bothers you, vote John Howard and his friends out of office.
Frost's data, along with information stolen from thousands of other victims, made its way to a Web site hosted by a Russian Internet service provider. The site is currently the home base of a network of sites designed to break into computers through a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
So why aren't the police kicking down the doors and confiscating equipment from this ISP? Are they 'protected' or 'special?'
After reading stories like this Dutch hacker arrest,I am not sure why.
Aside from that, Microsoft needs to do something like pushing out mandatory security patches for all users of Windows and/or IE.
I am not sure why they don't do this either. I guess Microsoft thinks that all these lazy suckers deserve to be hacked.
As broadband penetration increases we are spending more time on our computers.
Broad penetration, however, has been decreasing as we are spending more time on our computers.
More movies like Tron should be made
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I actually saw Tron when it came out in the theater, I thought it was great. I didn't care about any bad reviews, I enjoyed it because it was total fantasy. The effects were great (at the time) and the lightcycle bike scene was the best.
I am not sure if it would have ever been made today, but I think this exactly the kind of movie that needs to be made - sheer fantasy to escape from the realities of this world.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You put on the blue hat - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You put on the red hat - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the security-hole goes.
Name servers are specialized computers that help direct Internet traffic to its destinations.
The attacker then sent falsified requests to the compromised directory computer, which unleashed overwhelming floods of amplified data aimed wherever the attacker wanted.
Suggestion:
-Verify requests
-Verify directory computers have not been comprimised
-Disallow amplified data
-Build a new secure system for handling traffic
There was a story on TV not too long ago about the Credit Card industry giving new cards to people who had just declared bankruptcy due to their massive Credit Card debt. They were the perfect target for these unscrupulous companies, and no one was ever turned down for these cards.
After hearing this story, something like this does not surprise me.
If Money is the root of all evil, Credit Cards are the fertilizer.
This would at least provide an incentive for people to sign up and start using the internet. Then, you can show them Google, Wikipedia and Slashdot and they may never leave.
This is great, now we can sit back, watch the News and see the Robots destroying each other in real time!
'Honey, pass me a beer, the robot wars are on.'
for example, if a music video is watched more in one part of the country or a song is played more on a particular music service. That information might alert a band that they need to add tour dates in a particular area, or flag a promotion opportunity on a certain Web site....BigChampagne has clients such as movie studios, record labels and television companies.
This seems to be somewhat self-fullfilling with the power of advertising, and will help the huge corporate media to get bigger and more powerful. The indy labels, small bands, lesser-known artists will most likely not gain anything. This is great for media corps, but the 99.9% of everyone else they gain nothing, and keep hearing the same crap from the latest Pop Idol and the like.
For emotional satisfaction, it has been helping out with the war on terrorism, and educating government agents about steganography and what types of codes that Al Qaeda might (or might not) be using.
I would like to ask her if she feels that the amount of fear that people feel today about terrorism is justified? Is Elonka fearful of terrorist cells in our midst? Does she think that we are due for another attack?
It would be interesting to know what she has to say about the 'War on Terrorism.'
Slashdot Mirror
Have you seen the other options?
Honestly, I haven't, and the options in the US are not much better.
What a truly pathetic state of politics the world is in.
Noone that is honest and good would last 2 days in elected office nowadays, that is if they even considered running for elected office.
Even the most good would lose in a landslide.
Doesn't seem to be a problem in Taiwan.
Step right up, they have tons of these ready to go.
He said that after two days of silence, a customer service representative from Melbourne IT today informed him by telephone that the site had "been closed on the advice from the Australian Government"
People know censorship when they see it.
People do not like being censored.
I suggest if you are an Aussie and this bothers you, vote John Howard and his friends out of office.
Frost's data, along with information stolen from thousands of other victims, made its way to a Web site hosted by a Russian Internet service provider. The site is currently the home base of a network of sites designed to break into computers through a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
So why aren't the police kicking down the doors and confiscating equipment from this ISP? Are they 'protected' or 'special?'
After reading stories like this Dutch hacker arrest,I am not sure why.
Aside from that, Microsoft needs to do something like pushing out mandatory security patches for all users of Windows and/or IE.
I am not sure why they don't do this either. I guess Microsoft thinks that all these lazy suckers deserve to be hacked.
As broadband penetration increases we are spending more time on our computers.
Broad penetration, however, has been decreasing as we are spending more time on our computers.
I actually saw Tron when it came out in the theater, I thought it was great. I didn't care about any bad reviews, I enjoyed it because it was total fantasy. The effects were great (at the time) and the lightcycle bike scene was the best.
I am not sure if it would have ever been made today, but I think this exactly the kind of movie that needs to be made - sheer fantasy to escape from the realities of this world.
the old fish cliche -- give a man a fish and he'll eat today, teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever
2006 Update:
Give a man a fish and he'll eat today, teach a man to fish and he'll deplete the species.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You put on the blue hat - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You put on the red hat - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the security-hole goes.
Name servers are specialized computers that help direct Internet traffic to its destinations. The attacker then sent falsified requests to the compromised directory computer, which unleashed overwhelming floods of amplified data aimed wherever the attacker wanted.
Suggestion:
-Verify requests
-Verify directory computers have not been comprimised
-Disallow amplified data
-Build a new secure system for handling traffic
There was a story on TV not too long ago about the Credit Card industry giving new cards to people who had just declared bankruptcy due to their massive Credit Card debt.
They were the perfect target for these unscrupulous companies, and no one was ever turned down for these cards.
After hearing this story, something like this does not surprise me.
If Money is the root of all evil, Credit Cards are the fertilizer.
Well, there goes their boilerplate excuse about "making the web safer" for the Chinese people.
;)
Or maybe they are just doing a lot of research on triangulation plotting?
I did a few sample searches on CENSEARCHIP, here were some of the larger discrepancies and interesting results I found:
----Compare Google results between China and United States:
Censor Chinese Internet
China: About 810,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique) United States: About 7,140,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Censor Chinese
China: About 1,790,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique) United States: About 11,700,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Human Rights
China: About 879,000,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique) United States: About 878,000,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Jack Daniel's
China: About 1,800,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique) United States: About 68,700,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
xxx
China: About 108,000,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique) United States: About 107,000,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
8 hours a day for reading personal email and blogging should be enough for most people.
HA! Try again, 14 hours a day is the new norm.
Wired News is running a story about a new approach to crossover working and gaming turning your coding into a MUD-style adventure.
Go North
Find Door
Open Door
Leave Work
Find Home
Go Home
Find Bed
Go to Sleep
END
Did I win?
This would at least provide an incentive for people to sign up and start using the internet.
Then, you can show them Google, Wikipedia and Slashdot and they may never leave.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oi d=145402&cm_keycode=85
A bigger, yet cheaper option for anyone that is willing to do a mail-in rebate and doesn't need to put it in their pocket.
One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition.
Sadly it has been affected, now they are calling this new merger 'AlienatedWare', and furthermore, all tech support is done by 'aliens.'
This is great, now we can sit back, watch the News and see the Robots destroying each other in real time!
'Honey, pass me a beer, the robot wars are on.'
I swear it's on sale! $9.99 a case, just check the RFID tag!
I'll take 10 please.
Elonka, thanks for writing, I will have to check out your blog some time. Good luck on your future endeavors! :)
How difficult would it have been to change this to "A great"?
As difficult as it would be for some to not harp on a simple typo?
Whatever happened to 1st Amendment rights? Should people be afraid of what they write?
They need to contact http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
So all this time Linux was the predecessor to LCARS?
COOL!
for example, if a music video is watched more in one part of the country or a song is played more on a particular music service. That information might alert a band that they need to add tour dates in a particular area, or flag a promotion opportunity on a certain Web site....BigChampagne has clients such as movie studios, record labels and television companies.
This seems to be somewhat self-fullfilling with the power of advertising, and will help the huge corporate media to get bigger and more powerful. The indy labels, small bands, lesser-known artists will most likely not gain anything. This is great for media corps, but the 99.9% of everyone else they gain nothing, and keep hearing the same crap from the latest Pop Idol and the like.
For emotional satisfaction, it has been helping out with the war on terrorism, and educating government agents about steganography and what types of codes that Al Qaeda might (or might not) be using.
I would like to ask her if she feels that the amount of fear that people feel today about terrorism is justified? Is Elonka fearful of terrorist cells in our midst? Does she think that we are due for another attack?
It would be interesting to know what she has to say about the 'War on Terrorism.'