"Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the social insurance number, and the date of birth were swapped."
Sounds like a serious upfront data validation issue.
However, those two fields should be of a different types and the insert should fail. This belongs on http://www.thedailywtf.com/ (Now worsethanfailure.com). Its depressing how much stuff on there originates from govenment contracts.
Given that www.xcerion.com looks like it was designed by a blind 6 year old with a 0.1 megapixel camera using a wind up laptop via a satellite connection, I'm not going to hold my breath.
"Programming applications on XIOS is orders of magnitude easier to program than, say, C++ or Java." Visual Basic 6 is an order of magnitude easier to program than, say, C++ or Java. You get what you pay for.
And all good/. readers out there KNOW this is because Novell is now their bitch, leaving them in good stead to incourage use, and then bring out some kind of legal mumbo jumbo and expect everybody to own them money.
This is the part where all the privicy freaks get outraged and start hurling all-too-vague legal mumbo jumbo around the comment system.
I think this is TOTALLY reasonable, any computer using an IP that had accessed these child porn servers would have been seized and quite rightly so. I mean, if Tor servers were immune to this kind of thing, then all i'd have to do is setup my PC as an exit node and i could browse disturbing images to my hearts content, and not worry about legal action.
Another thing i'd mention is Tor is given such a whiter-than-white public image by the supporters (the privicy freaks i mentioned) that people often lose sight of its purpose, which is to make you anonymous on the internet. Now forgive me for saying it, and I accept that certain places like china ARE affected by censorship and more legit reasons for wanting privicy, but in the vast majority of countries your internet history isn't tracked and there are not govenment agents trying to read your e-mail. In places like this, there is only one reason to use Tor and be "private" which is becuase you are doing something illicit that you dont want a legal entity to find.
I'm sorry, but i will not believe that 99% of the users of Tor are checking their e-mails. Quite the opposite, I'd hazard a guess that 90% of the traffic going through Tor IS doing something questionable, and this being the end result is hardly surprising.
Inform them its illegal. The do it slightly more quietly. Luckly the RIAA can sue anybody below 18, which means we have time to breed a whole new wave of priates.
The RIAA worked for that soul! It was theirs, they have documents and laywers to prove it! Then the good lord got to it and deliberatly reaped their soul, hell, thats stealing! They're missing a trick here, they just need to sue god.
"Sorry, we've deleted all your e-mails and CGI, we didn't keep backups, if you havn't either, then you've lost all your stuff"
Then the next server came up and went down and you guys are left with:
"Well, again no backups, you really should have learnt from the last time guys!"
The only thing i'd learn is to change providers asap.
This has GOT to be a joke! Only, it isn't!
How can a business like the muic industry continually attack their customers? It is not going to work forever!
What really shocks me about this is as a guitar player, I KNOW had i not had access to tabs to learn from, i'd have never have been able to. Actions like this may someday end in a severe lack of artists to produce what the industry i trying to protect.
Ask yourself, how long would it take to 'delete' 700GB from a RAID array? Got a number in your head? Well times it by 7 (7 passes needed to overwrite the data so its not recoverable) and you've got several days on the clock (and thats with nothing else happening on the box)
So I don't believe for a second these files were deleted, its much more likly an engineer didn't get the Air Conditioning setting right and had a bonfire in a datacentre. While all the time some caring soul routinly destroying offsite backups;)
This isn't a new technology (as Microsoft would like you to believe), speech recognition has been around for well over 5 years (innovation???)
I had a copy of DragonSpeak about 3 years ago, it never made such simple mistakes (actually, i would recommend it!) and the computing world has come on leaps and since then.
To me, at the moment, Microsoft's (specifically Vista) latest dev model seems to resemble a badly organised, feature saturated, open sourced effort. Think of all those bloated applications, with thousands of features, none of which work properly, and the aim of the project (those KEY features) have been so buried and sidelined, that they are buggy as well.
Can we not persuade them to use the best of of OS and (dare i say it) the best bits of closed source to actaully come up with a product that people will be happy to upgrade to, as opposed to a usergroup who don't like the product but are forced to upgrade anyway.
No. In no way shape or form does todays world in any way resemble Orwell's nightmare. To say it does suggests two things: A) You've never read the book B) Its a slow news day.
now I'm anybody wants to reach me, i'll be at the Ministry of Love being purified.
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Sounds like a serious upfront data validation issue.
However, those two fields should be of a different types and the insert should fail. This belongs on http://www.thedailywtf.com/ (Now worsethanfailure.com). Its depressing how much stuff on there originates from govenment contracts.
He said my License was invalid. Couldn't help me. Referred me to the creation department. I'm still on hold.
Given that www.xcerion.com looks like it was designed by a blind 6 year old with a 0.1 megapixel camera using a wind up laptop via a satellite connection, I'm not going to hold my breath.
"Programming applications on XIOS is orders of magnitude easier to program than, say, C++ or Java."
Visual Basic 6 is an order of magnitude easier to program than, say, C++ or Java.
You get what you pay for.
mmmmmmm Pie.
No, they're PUNISHING you for not buying windows. There's a subtle differance.
And all good /. readers out there KNOW this is because Novell is now their bitch, leaving them in good stead to incourage use, and then bring out some kind of legal mumbo jumbo and expect everybody to own them money.
That's insightful? Thats just good old fashioned misguided anarchy.
Hows did this make the "news" section?
Mailinator?
Dodgeit.com?
Mytrashmail.com?
Mailexpire.com?
Spamhole.com?
These are the ones i can think of off the top of my head. Why not write a nice article about DRM or "[Some Product] killer!"
They shut down OLGA, that was leading up to this sort of thing.
Kinda puts a new slant on "Thank you for the music"...
Yet another site falls victim to the inevitable /. effect. How predictable when the ENTIRE site is flash...
Hell has frozen over. Goodnight London.
So people are hacking into servers in order to steal people's information? Unheard of! Whatever next...
Slow news day Eds?
I am CERTAINLY not saying that. My point is i find it odd when people start making out that this was NOT the right thing to do (seize the server)
This is the part where all the privicy freaks get outraged and start hurling all-too-vague legal mumbo jumbo around the comment system.
I think this is TOTALLY reasonable, any computer using an IP that had accessed these child porn servers would have been seized and quite rightly so. I mean, if Tor servers were immune to this kind of thing, then all i'd have to do is setup my PC as an exit node and i could browse disturbing images to my hearts content, and not worry about legal action.
Another thing i'd mention is Tor is given such a whiter-than-white public image by the supporters (the privicy freaks i mentioned) that people often lose sight of its purpose, which is to make you anonymous on the internet. Now forgive me for saying it, and I accept that certain places like china ARE affected by censorship and more legit reasons for wanting privicy, but in the vast majority of countries your internet history isn't tracked and there are not govenment agents trying to read your e-mail. In places like this, there is only one reason to use Tor and be "private" which is becuase you are doing something illicit that you dont want a legal entity to find.
I'm sorry, but i will not believe that 99% of the users of Tor are checking their e-mails. Quite the opposite, I'd hazard a guess that 90% of the traffic going through Tor IS doing something questionable, and this being the end result is hardly surprising.
Ed
I thought the article was short, badly written and sounded like somebody had taken a slashdot comment and scaled up.
You gotta love the guy, no matter what is happening in the world, he stays on the bright side and takes the piss. Great song, great album, great guy.
You've gotta see some of his Celeb interview spoofs, the Eminem one is hilarious.
P.S Today my captcha is "emolish", is this some kind of gruel like food, resembling goulash, but made from emos? Cos i'm sold!
Inform them its illegal. The do it slightly more quietly. Luckly the RIAA can sue anybody below 18, which means we have time to breed a whole new wave of priates.
The RIAA worked for that soul! It was theirs, they have documents and laywers to prove it! Then the good lord got to it and deliberatly reaped their soul, hell, thats stealing! They're missing a trick here, they just need to sue god.
Well I wasn't hosted by FN, but thats just gravy!
"Sorry, we've deleted all your e-mails and CGI, we didn't keep backups, if you havn't either, then you've lost all your stuff"
Then the next server came up and went down and you guys are left with:
"Well, again no backups, you really should have learnt from the last time guys!"
The only thing i'd learn is to change providers asap.
This has GOT to be a joke! Only, it isn't!
How can a business like the muic industry continually attack their customers? It is not going to work forever!
What really shocks me about this is as a guitar player, I KNOW had i not had access to tabs to learn from, i'd have never have been able to. Actions like this may someday end in a severe lack of artists to produce what the industry i trying to protect.
Ask yourself, how long would it take to 'delete' 700GB from a RAID array? Got a number in your head? Well times it by 7 (7 passes needed to overwrite the data so its not recoverable) and you've got several days on the clock (and thats with nothing else happening on the box)
;)
So I don't believe for a second these files were deleted, its much more likly an engineer didn't get the Air Conditioning setting right and had a bonfire in a datacentre. While all the time some caring soul routinly destroying offsite backups
I'd love to know what's important enough, and requires the kind of privicy Cheyenne mountain provides, to take Norad's place.
This isn't a new technology (as Microsoft would like you to believe), speech recognition has been around for well over 5 years (innovation???)
I had a copy of DragonSpeak about 3 years ago, it never made such simple mistakes (actually, i would recommend it!) and the computing world has come on leaps and since then.
To me, at the moment, Microsoft's (specifically Vista) latest dev model seems to resemble a badly organised, feature saturated, open sourced effort. Think of all those bloated applications, with thousands of features, none of which work properly, and the aim of the project (those KEY features) have been so buried and sidelined, that they are buggy as well.
Can we not persuade them to use the best of of OS and (dare i say it) the best bits of closed source to actaully come up with a product that people will be happy to upgrade to, as opposed to a usergroup who don't like the product but are forced to upgrade anyway.
No. In no way shape or form does todays world in any way resemble Orwell's nightmare. To say it does suggests two things:
A) You've never read the book
B) Its a slow news day.
now I'm anybody wants to reach me, i'll be at the Ministry of Love being purified.
Didn't I just make that point? The fact remains, the rollout of IE7 (Featured recently on /.) is going to fuck up shit up from here til next Tuesday!