What exactly can be hidden in an open protocol specification that will compromise your personally sensitive data? By design, a protocol has to be something that people can actually implement to be useful - the payloads you send via that protocol are up to you (based on your choices of which pieces of software to use, etc.)
“They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
I'm pretty sure I'd notice a keylogger on my network sending every keystroke out to elsewhere...
As for the leap from idea to typing, that technology is the sole purview of the NSA it seems...
> We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about.
Because, you know, Slashdot is easily as mainstream as NPR.
Just sayin'.
R.U. Sirius has been writing for years, and was the editor of Mondo 2000 magazine during the '90s, as well as co-author of Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook with St. Jude. So yes, it's very real (and not the first time his work has found the convergence of cyberpunk and porn, either...)
Hey, Joe - check out the pics that Tonya just put online: tonyas-pc.smithhousehold.comcast.net/pics/
Just because IPV6 is coming into play doesn't mean we suddenly jettison DNS - let's not go creating problems where they don't exist...devices have been self-registering in DNS via DHCP for a looooooong time - hell, even Microsoft OSes do it;)
So you, as the head of a multinational conglomerate that up until recently counted their unit sales in billions with a b on their signs, would modify how you sell your product based on 700 substantiated complaints?
The range I've always heard is 195-205 degrees F for the brewing temp of the filtered water, so I agree with you on that one (although I'd posit that at 205 degrees F, unless you have an extremely thorough and even source of heat, some of that water is indeed "boiling", but IANAC (I Am Not A Chemist)). And I'd bet that my 195 degree coffee, after 20-30 minutes, is indeed around 120 degrees F as well, so as long as "served" == "when I start drinking it" I guess I'm in the acceptable range.
If that's the only way they'll learn what a three-year-old can learn otherwise, then yes, that's what I'm seriously saying.
Hot coffee is hot. This shouldn't be something that requires any further explanation, disclaimers, cautionary tales, or legal proceedings. Not in any sane situation, anyway.
But it seems that my post was flamebait, so whatever. I guess I'm just a cranky bastard that thinks that common sense is a valuable commodity that happens to be scarce lately.
Normally, when purchasing coffee "to go" from a restaurant, I'm actually looking to drink it 20-30 minutes later. Boiling hot coffee remains drinkably hot a half-hour later, which suits me just fine.
And I don't care if you're a testosterone-lacking intellectual who thinks a nanny state is required to protect its members from something as simple as "hot things can burn." Smart people learn this at a pretty young age, and Darwin can and should take care of reinforcing the lesson as necessary.
The only resolution is to build out the infrastructure (bigger road) to handle more traffic at once.
I completely disagree, and will now offer you my competing resolution:
Welcome to my new Internet Packetpooling Service - just dial #622 from any (non-VoIP) phone to sign up to pool packets with other web surfers requesting the same data as you in your area. No more congested Internet traffic - well, ok, still congested, but at least you'll have three near-strangers to share the moment with as you wait for last week's episode of House to finish downloading.
Do the world a favor - reduce your carbon footprint and sign up for Packetpooling today!
In any company that's running 100,000 desktops, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that automatic patching is enabled on them - Corporate IT better damn well be reviewing those patches in a controlled environment and then rolling them out after they've been shown to conform to corporate standards and are safe in that network context.
Slashdot Mirror
...yes, because the hard drive based iPods never worked out.
Oh, wait.
What exactly can be hidden in an open protocol specification that will compromise your personally sensitive data? By design, a protocol has to be something that people can actually implement to be useful - the payloads you send via that protocol are up to you (based on your choices of which pieces of software to use, etc.)
Since Woz didn't post the video to YouTube, or in fact even make the video, not really.
That's kind of the point of pointing out the use of the phrase "quite literally" in the first place, you know.
If they're watching an idea form as I type, they'd better damned well be getting it keystroke by keystroke. And he did say "quite literally"...
My life and my family's lives are more important than whatever privacy I had on these sites.
...says the anonymous coward? Am I missing some Soviet Russia joke here?
“They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
I'm pretty sure I'd notice a keylogger on my network sending every keystroke out to elsewhere... As for the leap from idea to typing, that technology is the sole purview of the NSA it seems...
Facebook, but if the question is "Who runs a site in PHP using CGI mode that is worth exploiting?" then it gets harder to answer.
> We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about. Because, you know, Slashdot is easily as mainstream as NPR. Just sayin'.
R.U. Sirius has been writing for years, and was the editor of Mondo 2000 magazine during the '90s, as well as co-author of Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook with St. Jude. So yes, it's very real (and not the first time his work has found the convergence of cyberpunk and porn, either...)
Isn't a benevolent dictator, by definition, one who *isn't* bad?
Who's going to manage that? The OS?
Meet my good friend DNS:
;)
Hey, Joe - check out the pics that Tonya just put online: tonyas-pc.smithhousehold.comcast.net/pics/
Just because IPV6 is coming into play doesn't mean we suddenly jettison DNS - let's not go creating problems where they don't exist...devices have been self-registering in DNS via DHCP for a looooooong time - hell, even Microsoft OSes do it
Citation needed
Godwin invoked - ignore all comments below this.
"That many complaints"?
So you, as the head of a multinational conglomerate that up until recently counted their unit sales in billions with a b on their signs, would modify how you sell your product based on 700 substantiated complaints?
Good day, sir.
The range I've always heard is 195-205 degrees F for the brewing temp of the filtered water, so I agree with you on that one (although I'd posit that at 205 degrees F, unless you have an extremely thorough and even source of heat, some of that water is indeed "boiling", but IANAC (I Am Not A Chemist)). And I'd bet that my 195 degree coffee, after 20-30 minutes, is indeed around 120 degrees F as well, so as long as "served" == "when I start drinking it" I guess I'm in the acceptable range.
If that's the only way they'll learn what a three-year-old can learn otherwise, then yes, that's what I'm seriously saying. Hot coffee is hot. This shouldn't be something that requires any further explanation, disclaimers, cautionary tales, or legal proceedings. Not in any sane situation, anyway. But it seems that my post was flamebait, so whatever. I guess I'm just a cranky bastard that thinks that common sense is a valuable commodity that happens to be scarce lately.
Normally, when purchasing coffee "to go" from a restaurant, I'm actually looking to drink it 20-30 minutes later. Boiling hot coffee remains drinkably hot a half-hour later, which suits me just fine. And I don't care if you're a testosterone-lacking intellectual who thinks a nanny state is required to protect its members from something as simple as "hot things can burn." Smart people learn this at a pretty young age, and Darwin can and should take care of reinforcing the lesson as necessary.
Mod +1 Insightful, not Flamebait, you insensitive mod!
The only resolution is to build out the infrastructure (bigger road) to handle more traffic at once.
I completely disagree, and will now offer you my competing resolution:
Welcome to my new Internet Packetpooling Service - just dial #622 from any (non-VoIP) phone to sign up to pool packets with other web surfers requesting the same data as you in your area. No more congested Internet traffic - well, ok, still congested, but at least you'll have three near-strangers to share the moment with as you wait for last week's episode of House to finish downloading.
Do the world a favor - reduce your carbon footprint and sign up for Packetpooling today!
Er...think of the children?
In any company that's running 100,000 desktops, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that automatic patching is enabled on them - Corporate IT better damn well be reviewing those patches in a controlled environment and then rolling them out after they've been shown to conform to corporate standards and are safe in that network context.
Oh, you think that's funny? Now the status on my page is 'rejected'!
...and now that I look at my page, it shows the submission as "pending".
Actually, I was the submitter - I added it to my journal page to try the new (or new to me) "submit this journal entry" feature.
;)
Seems that the feature might still need a touch of work...
Google video URLs are also blocked I guess. Isnt this antitrust?
The Coke machine at my office won't sell me a Pepsi, either.
The anti-competitive bastards!