...how many times you can repurpose content and not lower its value. The monkey money thing was from their column in the New York Times Magazine (and most of the first book was just expanded from the original article in said magazine).
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I went through with FireFox and had the same problem. Then I fired up IE and saw there was a "next" button that hadn't appeared before. The browser requirements were listed on one of the first pages, but I pretty much ignored them until I had a problem.
I did log in, and didn't have any problems (though it won't let you get all the way through with FireFox. If you put in your account number (a little risk I admit, if you don't trust it), they bring up your name (unsupplied by you). So, were it a scam, they already have the database info.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980.
Maybe for a blank tape. I remember VHS tapes being way more than that when they first came out (around $60, and that's in 1980 dollars). The fact that they were so expensive is, I believe, what spawned the whole Video Rental industry in the first place. It wasn't until a few years later that VHS tapes were "priced for sale" instead of for rental.
Of course I also remember putting "Don't step near" signs on computers that were burning CDs to try to minimize problems.
I know that Google seems to have "strategies" instead of "strategy." But if you look at Gmail, Maps, etc., these are web based apps that have the bells and whistles usually reserved for desktop apps. So, if they can provide an OS to run them on, you quickly have a completely MS-free web-box. The dumb-web-terminal never quite took off, but now that web apps are richer, maybe some version of it will rise again.
...sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network...
Also from TFA:
...the Iowa court was told the defendants "falsely and illegally" represented that their e-mails originated from the CIS domain...
Was the illegal act the fact that the emails went through the network or that the spam had cis.net in the return address?
In other words was the issue that the spam was tying up CIS' network, or that the spammer was making them look bad by pretending to be one of their users?
I remember Wil Wheaton posting on/. a while ago asking for someone to change an incorrect fact on his bio, because he didn't want to violate the policy.
Or Matthew Broderick logging in from home to change his number of absences in a certain other movie. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/
That Matthew Broderick was quite the hax0r in his day.
I really no very little about Jack Thompson, but I was curious what he wrote. While I don't agree with much of anything he seems to stand for, I was able to find what I think is the original text he posted at http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=9201&cb =0.1497723.
From that text:
...I'll write a check for $10,000 to the favorite charity of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc's chairman, Paul Eibeler - a man Bernard Goldberg ranks as #43 in his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - if any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006...
While Hellfish seems awfully creative, I don't know if they qualify as a video game "company" and they don't seem to be "selling" the module (and as an even more minor point, it's not 2006).
This is pretty cool, but as someone else noted, a lot of accounts means a lot of fobs. The CEO of Sxip did an entertaining presentation on these types of issues. One piece that would be relevant is the idea of separating the credentialing from the site.
On Screenshot 1 the song being played on WMP is listed as Teenage Wasteland by The Who. The song, of course, is actually called "Baba O'Riley"
So, perhaps in addtion to leaking the screenshots, Chris123NT (if that is his real name) is also an evil P2P file sharer?
Another semi-interesting program your robots game is RoboCode http://robocode.sourceforge.net/. It's a web game where you code your robots in Java and set them loose on each other. It's more about teaching Java (and programming in general) then about AI though.
I agree that this is an issue, but saying this is a vulnerability in the browser seems a little odd.
It feels a little like saying that your email program displaying phishing emails is a vulnerability in the email program.
I'm not saying that this isn't something that could be addressed by a change to the browsers, but the headline (and TFA) make it sound like the code in the browsers is faulty.
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And if the guy invested $10k of his own money on good faith that it would help the campaign
The way I read it he wanted some amount of the money that the campaign paid to MySpace to be part of the whole "Impact" thing. But I could be wrong.
...how many times you can repurpose content and not lower its value. The monkey money thing was from their column in the New York Times Magazine (and most of the first book was just expanded from the original article in said magazine).
I went through with FireFox and had the same problem. Then I fired up IE and saw there was a "next" button that hadn't appeared before. The browser requirements were listed on one of the first pages, but I pretty much ignored them until I had a problem.
I did log in, and didn't have any problems (though it won't let you get all the way through with FireFox. If you put in your account number (a little risk I admit, if you don't trust it), they bring up your name (unsupplied by you). So, were it a scam, they already have the database info.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980.
Maybe for a blank tape. I remember VHS tapes being way more than that when they first came out (around $60, and that's in 1980 dollars). The fact that they were so expensive is, I believe, what spawned the whole Video Rental industry in the first place. It wasn't until a few years later that VHS tapes were "priced for sale" instead of for rental.
Of course I also remember putting "Don't step near" signs on computers that were burning CDs to try to minimize problems.
From TFA: GBuy will feature an icon posted alongside the paid-search ads of merchants
People who buy ads on Google will definitely pay a little extra for the GBuy service, so that people feel more confident about clicking their ads.
Remeber the michelangelo virus?
...or Y2K?
I know that Google seems to have "strategies" instead of "strategy." But if you look at Gmail, Maps, etc., these are web based apps that have the bells and whistles usually reserved for desktop apps. So, if they can provide an OS to run them on, you quickly have a completely MS-free web-box. The dumb-web-terminal never quite took off, but now that web apps are richer, maybe some version of it will rise again.
Warhammer...best RPG...ever (at least when I played it 15 or so years ago).
From TFA:
...sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network...
...the Iowa court was told the defendants "falsely and illegally" represented that their e-mails originated from the CIS domain...
Also from TFA:
Was the illegal act the fact that the emails went through the network or that the spam had cis.net in the return address?
In other words was the issue that the spam was tying up CIS' network, or that the spammer was making them look bad by pretending to be one of their users?
Any thoughts?
I remember Wil Wheaton posting on /. a while ago asking for someone to change an incorrect fact on his bio, because he didn't want to violate the policy.
Or Matthew Broderick logging in from home to change his number of absences in a certain other movie.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/
That Matthew Broderick was quite the hax0r in his day.
The next day, I am still unable to post from home. I have to ssh into work and use lynx to post a comment.
Shh...Now the trolls'll know how to post.
Passport is one of the things mentioned in the presentation (including how Identity 2.0 is different).
From that text: While Hellfish seems awfully creative, I don't know if they qualify as a video game "company" and they don't seem to be "selling" the module (and as an even more minor point, it's not 2006).
This is pretty cool, but as someone else noted, a lot of accounts means a lot of fobs. The CEO of Sxip did an entertaining presentation on these types of issues. One piece that would be relevant is the idea of separating the credentialing from the site.
http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
On Screenshot 1 the song being played on WMP is listed as Teenage Wasteland by The Who. The song, of course, is actually called "Baba O'Riley" So, perhaps in addtion to leaking the screenshots, Chris123NT (if that is his real name) is also an evil P2P file sharer?
Another semi-interesting program your robots game is RoboCode http://robocode.sourceforge.net/. It's a web game where you code your robots in Java and set them loose on each other. It's more about teaching Java (and programming in general) then about AI though.
I agree that this is an issue, but saying this is a vulnerability in the browser seems a little odd. It feels a little like saying that your email program displaying phishing emails is a vulnerability in the email program. I'm not saying that this isn't something that could be addressed by a change to the browsers, but the headline (and TFA) make it sound like the code in the browsers is faulty.
From TFA:
An ACA spokesperson told ZDNet Australia Mansfield had received several warnings before it raided his company premises in April.
Of course they all went into his spam folder.