[sarcasm] I mean seriously think about it. You have to mount those cameras above a persons head in order to get a good view right? Great, now all you can recognize is that just about every Chinese person has black hair. Holy shit Watson! Brilliant! You can perhaps root out the dissidents who are bleaching their hair (those evil non-conformists!) but that's all this tech is gonna getcha [/sarcasm]
[Quote]There are devices such as certain words, punctuations or even emoticons that can help you give your message the flavor of meaning that you want it to have, provided you know how to use them correctly. [/Quote]
Allow me to demonstrate \/\/4y t|-|@|\|| u my h0|\/|13, 7h@7 w@z s0 sp07 0|\|!!111!!one!!!
if that if I get modded flamebait or troll, I can go off on a massive f'ing rant about how the mods can't figure out what the tone of my comment is. Thereby securing my place in the "I'm always right, your just don't understand me because I'm persecuted" hall of fame.
In regards to spyware MS has already taken some steps to try and stem the flow (asking about running exe files, the Spyware Removal Tool, etc), however as a consultant I find many of my clients are still infested with the stuff. From my perspective it appears that many users are affected still by these programs and that they are either unaware of how to prevent them in the first place, or how to get rid of them. Many times it is significantly faster and easier (and in some cases, safer) to just format the machine in question and start from a clean slate. Does MS feel that spyware is still a major problem, and if so, what new measures MS doing in order to combat it?
That will be the next headline. They'll get hacked, the CC #'s will be stolen and ID theft will abound. Later it will come out that it was an ambitious VP who was in on it, made out like a bandit and is still at large.
You might want to do something slightly different. Get a 1 or 2 GB version of the SanDisk Titanium stick, and then get knoppix (or something like it, hell you can even get Gentoo on a stick) onto it. Pros:
You have a great deal more control over your encryption
it will work damn near everywhere.
You won't need admin rights to the computer your working on because you won't be installing software
No data would be saved to the HD of the computer you're working on, so you won't have to worry about information leakage from that vector
You can even have a knoppix CD in case the computer you're at just can't boot from USB. Cons:
The linux stuff on the disk is going to limit (somewhat) your available space on the stick
You don't want to over-use that thing, because they do have a limited number of write cycles they can go through before they start to crap out (i.e. do NOT use a journaled FS!!!)
While you'll at least have all your ID information, what's to say you're not just a very sophisticated con artist? Just because you have a scan of your ID cards, doesn't mean that you didn't have access to GIMP or Photoshop beforehand ^_~
Someone else suggested storing it on gmail, I'd say that's a good idea to do in conjunction with this. Having that USB stick handy can be good because if all hell breaks loose, chances are you're not going to have good internet access in that area. If you have that USB stick and somehow have access to a computer and power, then you've got some options.
Honestly, something else to consider putting on that stick (if you have the space), pictures. Get your ID info on there, but for God's sake don't forge to get some pictures on there. Having lost a picture album in a move, I have a slightly better idea of how important those really are now.
Just discovered! Being a high school drop out, a drug user AND a shoplifter makes you more likely to steal MY music! In a new report commissioned by "Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics" the **AA has found that amoral people have no problem stealing music online. "It's like they just don't care about all the hard work we put into making music" a talking head from the **AA said. In unrelated news, there also seems to be a link between being amoral and being a murderer. Is there a link between being a P2P user and being a murderer?!?! Tonight at 11.
Caveat: IANAL (except on/.)
I'm not sure what the legal system in your country may look like or allow, but in the US I'm fairly certain that this would fall well under Insider Trading.
If this was allowed what would prevent the following fiasco:
BigRouter Co. realizes that there's a major bug in their product. Let's say that it allows for a person to remotly exploit the ever living shit outta their router. They know the EvilHacker is going to discover this soon, so they start speculating on their own stock, and sure as all hell they don't tell anyone about it. About the time they're ready for the news to hit, and their stock to take a massive plunge, they reap UberProfit from their own f'up. Now I know there are at least a few companies (*cough*Arthur*gag*Anderson*cough*) that would just be salivating all over themselves for such an oppertunity but let us hope that such things remain only in their fondest dreams and out of our reality.
Normally the server that the virus connects to is *dunDunDUUUNN* another hacked box!
Flooding the poor guy who got hacked with what he's going to see as a DDoS will most likely really piss him off. Sending the ISP a short e-mail to the effect of "Box at ip blahblahblah is being used as an IRC server to remotely control a botnet" is possibly a better solution (though that just may DDoS their e-mail server as well if everyone does it).
Ahha I knew it! I've been looking for an example of negative quantum information for a while and now I've finally found it!
Having read this article I actually *FEEL* dumber.
Thanks TripMaster Monkey, for telling me. My IQ had dropped so low I almost couldn't even type this post anymore. Thank you slashdot for enriching my work experience once again ^^ Petyr Rahl
Maybe I'm stupid, but has anyone here ever zoomed all the way in on the google moon map before?
Apparently the moon really is made of cheese at high enough magnification *g* Petyr
yesterday on NPR they were going off about how it had infected ABC, CNN et al. and they had been reduced to writing their copy on typewriters. I'm sure as far as the news outlets were concerned this is the worst virus since organized religion (Snow Crash reference)
Uhmmm I have a Dell laptop, and as long as you don't get Dell's wireless mini-pci card then you're fine. Intel IPW2200 "just works" right outta the box on several distro's now. Hell even the broadcomm Gb Ethernet also "just works" automagically.
I completely agree with you on the fonts thing. I'll happily blame any number of projects for it too (though xfree86 comes to mind first).
So yes Mac OSX usually tends to just work, but their server is a figging nightmare. God help the poor people who decided to move their SQL server stuff over to a Mac OSX server. Or Apache for that matter too. Sure it runs, and when you've only got a few connections it runs well. Start scaling that up though to a couple hundred connections and watch the server just grind to a halt. You can blame the threading model that Apple implemented for that.
On Linux actually a LOT of things do in fact "just work." I'll submit that Firefox, OpenOffice, XMMS, Alsa, Gaim etc etc etc all happen to work pretty well for me outta the box. Do all the applications I just named look even remotely like eachother when I start them? Hell no, but do I care? No. The religous wars over "Everything must have a common unified theme" do nothing for me. I could care less about how something looks on Linux, I care if it works well.
As for mac being a PITA...I'm a software dev, so from my perspective Mac is one of the more painful systems to develop for. Usage wise... I can't honestly say that I like them all that much. I've got a Mac Keyboard that's hooked up to a mini mac, and it's decided that the shift key just doesn't work in some apps. In terminal, shift just plain disables the keyboard. In Firefox, it works as expected. In X it works like it should. In text edit, nope. In Sherlock (or whatever it's called now) nope. It's not the keyboard cauz I replaced it with another known working keyboard and it's the same story. I don't particularlly find Mac's easier to use. In fact if there's something specific that I want to configure that doesn't have to do with the eye-candy of the friggin thing, it's incredibly difficult to do! i.e. I have a DHCP server here doing dynamic dns updates. I want my mac to send it's hostname to the dhcp server so that the ddns here updates and people can ssh to it from another computer by name. The mac knows it's name. The DHCP config thing on the mac seems to know it's name. Funny how it never passes that info on to the dhcp server though... Linux does it ^^ Hell even windows does it.
What's this about "Missing Manual" WTF, I paid for the f'ing thing, gimme my f'ing manual!
In a smaller network situation yes I can see this working without a whole lot of difficulty. In the larger network case, as the original poster was talking about, you have to worry about the amount of network traffic that this would generate.
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[sarcasm] I mean seriously think about it. You have to mount those cameras above a persons head in order to get a good view right? Great, now all you can recognize is that just about every Chinese person has black hair. Holy shit Watson! Brilliant!
You can perhaps root out the dissidents who are bleaching their hair (those evil non-conformists!) but that's all this tech is gonna getcha [/sarcasm]
Petyr
[Quote]There are devices such as certain words, punctuations or even emoticons that can help you give your message the flavor of meaning that you want it to have, provided you know how to use them correctly. [/Quote]
Allow me to demonstrate
\/\/4y t|-|@|\|| u my h0|\/|13, 7h@7 w@z s0 sp07 0|\|!!111!!one!!!
Petyr Rahl
if that if I get modded flamebait or troll, I can go off on a massive f'ing rant about how the mods can't figure out what the tone of my comment is. Thereby securing my place in the "I'm always right, your just don't understand me because I'm persecuted" hall of fame.
excellent
Petyr
Mr. Nash,
In regards to spyware MS has already taken some steps to try and stem the flow (asking about running exe files, the Spyware Removal Tool, etc), however as a consultant I find many of my clients are still infested with the stuff. From my perspective it appears that many users are affected still by these programs and that they are either unaware of how to prevent them in the first place, or how to get rid of them. Many times it is significantly faster and easier (and in some cases, safer) to just format the machine in question and start from a clean slate. Does MS feel that spyware is still a major problem, and if so, what new measures MS doing in order to combat it?
Regards,
Petyr Rahl
/me wonders if this is just described as "A patched undisclosed vuln. of low priority" or some such rot in the update... Petyr Rahl
because that will probably give the everpresent "them" the tip the need to block it.
Petyr Rahl
One PSP to rule them all, one slashdot to find them. One user to browse it all and in the core dump, fry them
/.'d right now but then again I'm not sure the little PSP is doing the serving at the moment.
Note that the site isn't
Petyr Rahl
That will be the next headline. They'll get hacked, the CC #'s will be stolen and ID theft will abound. Later it will come out that it was an ambitious VP who was in on it, made out like a bandit and is still at large.
Petyr
Pros:
- You have a great deal more control over your encryption
- it will work damn near everywhere.
- You won't need admin rights to the computer your working on because you won't be installing software
- No data would be saved to the HD of the computer you're working on, so you won't have to worry about information leakage from that vector
You can even have a knoppix CD in case the computer you're at just can't boot from USB.Cons:
- The linux stuff on the disk is going to limit (somewhat) your available space on the stick
- You don't want to over-use that thing, because they do have a limited number of write cycles they can go through before they start to crap out (i.e. do NOT use a journaled FS!!!)
- While you'll at least have all your ID information, what's to say you're not just a very sophisticated con artist? Just because you have a scan of your ID cards, doesn't mean that you didn't have access to GIMP or Photoshop beforehand ^_~
Someone else suggested storing it on gmail, I'd say that's a good idea to do in conjunction with this. Having that USB stick handy can be good because if all hell breaks loose, chances are you're not going to have good internet access in that area. If you have that USB stick and somehow have access to a computer and power, then you've got some options.Honestly, something else to consider putting on that stick (if you have the space), pictures. Get your ID info on there, but for God's sake don't forge to get some pictures on there. Having lost a picture album in a move, I have a slightly better idea of how important those really are now.
Regards,
Petyr Rahl
Just discovered!
Being a high school drop out, a drug user AND a shoplifter makes you more likely to steal MY music!
In a new report commissioned by "Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics" the **AA has found that amoral people have no problem stealing music online.
"It's like they just don't care about all the hard work we put into making music" a talking head from the **AA said. In unrelated news, there also seems to be a link between being amoral and being a murderer. Is there a link between being a P2P user and being a murderer?!?! Tonight at 11.
Gag me with a fork,
Petyr
Caveat: IANAL (except on /.)
I'm not sure what the legal system in your country may look like or allow, but in the US I'm fairly certain that this would fall well under Insider Trading.
If this was allowed what would prevent the following fiasco: BigRouter Co. realizes that there's a major bug in their product. Let's say that it allows for a person to remotly exploit the ever living shit outta their router.
They know the EvilHacker is going to discover this soon, so they start speculating on their own stock, and sure as all hell they don't tell anyone about it. About the time they're ready for the news to hit, and their stock to take a massive plunge, they reap UberProfit from their own f'up.
Now I know there are at least a few companies (*cough*Arthur*gag*Anderson*cough*) that would just be salivating all over themselves for such an oppertunity but let us hope that such things remain only in their fondest dreams and out of our reality.
I'll take bad ideas for $100 Alex
Normally the server that the virus connects to is *dunDunDUUUNN* another hacked box!
Flooding the poor guy who got hacked with what he's going to see as a DDoS will most likely really piss him off. Sending the ISP a short e-mail to the effect of "Box at ip blahblahblah is being used as an IRC server to remotely control a botnet" is possibly a better solution (though that just may DDoS their e-mail server as well if everyone does it).
Petyr
Ahha I knew it! I've been looking for an example of negative quantum information for a while and now I've finally found it!
Having read this article I actually *FEEL* dumber. Thanks TripMaster Monkey, for telling me. My IQ had dropped so low I almost couldn't even type this post anymore. Thank you slashdot for enriching my work experience once again ^^
Petyr Rahl
Maybe I'm stupid, but has anyone here ever zoomed all the way in on the google moon map before?
Apparently the moon really is made of cheese at high enough magnification *g*
Petyr
yesterday on NPR they were going off about how it had infected ABC, CNN et al. and they had been reduced to writing their copy on typewriters.
I'm sure as far as the news outlets were concerned this is the worst virus since organized religion (Snow Crash reference)
Petyr Rahl
What distros is MS running in their lab?
Uhmmm I have a Dell laptop, and as long as you don't get Dell's wireless mini-pci card then you're fine. Intel IPW2200 "just works" right outta the box on several distro's now. Hell even the broadcomm Gb Ethernet also "just works" automagically.
I completely agree with you on the fonts thing. I'll happily blame any number of projects for it too (though xfree86 comes to mind first).
So yes Mac OSX usually tends to just work, but their server is a figging nightmare. God help the poor people who decided to move their SQL server stuff over to a Mac OSX server. Or Apache for that matter too. Sure it runs, and when you've only got a few connections it runs well. Start scaling that up though to a couple hundred connections and watch the server just grind to a halt. You can blame the threading model that Apple implemented for that.
On Linux actually a LOT of things do in fact "just work." I'll submit that Firefox, OpenOffice, XMMS, Alsa, Gaim etc etc etc all happen to work pretty well for me outta the box. Do all the applications I just named look even remotely like eachother when I start them? Hell no, but do I care? No. The religous wars over "Everything must have a common unified theme" do nothing for me. I could care less about how something looks on Linux, I care if it works well.
As for mac being a PITA...I'm a software dev, so from my perspective Mac is one of the more painful systems to develop for. Usage wise... I can't honestly say that I like them all that much. I've got a Mac Keyboard that's hooked up to a mini mac, and it's decided that the shift key just doesn't work in some apps. In terminal, shift just plain disables the keyboard. In Firefox, it works as expected. In X it works like it should. In text edit, nope. In Sherlock (or whatever it's called now) nope. It's not the keyboard cauz I replaced it with another known working keyboard and it's the same story. I don't particularlly find Mac's easier to use. In fact if there's something specific that I want to configure that doesn't have to do with the eye-candy of the friggin thing, it's incredibly difficult to do! i.e. I have a DHCP server here doing dynamic dns updates. I want my mac to send it's hostname to the dhcp server so that the ddns here updates and people can ssh to it from another computer by name. The mac knows it's name. The DHCP config thing on the mac seems to know it's name. Funny how it never passes that info on to the dhcp server though... Linux does it ^^
Hell even windows does it.
What's this about "Missing Manual" WTF, I paid for the f'ing thing, gimme my f'ing manual!
This slashdot rant brought to you by,
Petyr Rahl
In a smaller network situation yes I can see this working without a whole lot of difficulty. In the larger network case, as the original poster was talking about, you have to worry about the amount of network traffic that this would generate.
Regards,
Petyr Rahl