But the record profits won't come from the Slashdot community, and that's really all you can do. Therecord profits will come from people who have no idea what a rootkit is or even remember anything before iTunes and DVD players. What you're trying to do is save those people from themselves, and they don't want to be saved.
You could only protect sociey effectively by locking up even minor criminals for life.
Part of the idea of the prison system is that the punishment reforms people. When you go out and do a crime, then get thrown in prison for a couple years, the idea is that on release you say to yourself "I sure don't want to sit in prison again. I'll turn over a new leaf and stop doing crime".
This Raphael guy is a HORRIBLE comedian. Most of his "witty" responses to the warnings are just stupid. From TFA:
" 'Seen on a TV manual: "Do not pour liquids into your television set.'
Uh, hello? I'm pretty thirsty after eating that iPod, and it'd be rude not to share."
Third link: completely valid, and a non-issue. Suicide should be a right.
Preach it, brother!
Even if a person is dirt-poor and has no posessions to his/her name, they still own their life, and I too believe no government should be able to tell them that they cannot have control of ending it.
I've also seen "modder" used in a lot of hobbyist literature - this includes software modding like the original Counter-Strike and hardware modding like cutting blowholes into a standard aluminum case and adding water colling.
You save yourself well in your last sentence. It is unreasonable to expect that Google as a legal business will attempt to block investigations by any legal authority to investigate your use of their services, unless somewhere in their privacy agreement they explicitly agree to do so. If you're doing something illegal online, it's on you to cover yourself. After all, anyone who assists you is aiding a criminal (at least in the US).
It's interesting to me that people are going crazy in response to this article about how they demand RSA tokens and retina scans and shit, and you come along and say "I wish there was an app (which may or may not be secure) that you'd locally store usernames/passwords in (while everyone is screaming about how bad an idea it is) and then upload them to mint.com (a process which can be intercepted)". I'm not knocking what you're saying; I'm not a security nazi and I've never used mint.com or even know what it is. It's just interesting to me that one of these uber-security people hasn't exploded just from reading your post.
Can you give me at least one example of a turned hacker receiving death threats from former compatriots? You make it sound like they were all hip-deep in organized crime, and all hitmen they used to chill with can smell the fed on them when they come walking into the brothel they hang out in. A lot of these guys choose to live mostly online, that's where the basement-dweller sterotype came from.
Did you read where the OP stated his level of skill with IT? He's a guy who was voted "pretty smart" so he gets the job of being IT guy; he's ungodly fortunate that he knows just how little he knows and goes to someone more experienced for advice.
As for the Mac server, OP didn't say he advocated for the purchase of Mac stuff; it's just what the business has and it's what he has to work with. If the company grows big enough that they need REAL IT support, hopefully OP will throw his hand up at the next meeting and say "I'm really not qualified to do this". At that point, the company will have a real IT guy who can reinvent the wheel. Until then, the dozen people with their Mac server and their google-fu black belt are puttering along happily.
"Good enough is good enough, but perfect is a pain in the ass and often not worth the effort anyway".
Specifically, I was browsing/v/ and a new thread popped up: "GUISE SONY HACKED AGAIN FREE COUPONS AND USER INFORMATION! xD xD xD. HERE'S A LINK TO THE USER INFO!!!1!" I'm pretty certain it got spammed on multiple boards.
The thread continued with people using the information they got from the link to log into peoples' Facebooks and G-mails posting private photos and e-mails of sensitive nature. Now I'm not surprised Anonymous (the collective of 4chan users) immediately picked up this ball and took off at a sprint, but I am surprised that Lulz Sec had the gall to put that user information out there like that. I don't have any Sony accounts and I haven't had any kind of personal threat from any of this, but i am disgusted that millions of users are now getting face-fucked by the bottom crust of the internet. If you're going to attack Sony, then attack Sony: they could've downloaded and posted the 3.5 million music coupon codes or something. But these Sony users are largely innocent bystanders; it's not necessary to throw them under the bus like this.
This is interesting. By adding new units, Blizzard just destroyed the multiplayer scene. Will different games be able to play each other (my copy of WoL versus a HoTS copy)? If not, will multiplayer split into the WoL, HoTS and whatever-the-protoss-one-is-called scenes? This is gonna get pretty interesting to watch.
On another note, I'm not sure if I'll be getting this or the next game. I bought WoL on my personal love of James Raynor, and while he didn't disappoint me as a character in SC2, the overall story is fully fucked over. I liked 3 factions all with their own interests, vying for supremacy, but now it seems to be turning into a generic "Good versus Evil" thing and following Warcraft into fluff hell.
Veteran here. That needs to be set up and maintained by someone familiar with the technology, which probably means more government contractors (MILIT4RY-1NDUSTR14L C0MPL3X!!!1!). Soldiers are too dumb to be able to use that stuff. We have one password to get into a non-secure system and the wait time at the help desk to reset your password is never shorter than an hour. You think more than 1 in 500 soldiers even knows what Linux is? Soldiers =/= technical people. Guys in the Signal Corps are little better.
I've sen this line of reasoning once or twice in this entire discussion:
-Party A says "Hackers were wrong and should be punished"
-Party B responds "Nuh uh, (some kind of moral or politically motivated reasoning stating how it wasn't that bad)
-Party A responds "Oh yeah, well then let us do it to you since it's not so bad."
-Party B responds "Good luck. All my shit is locked down tighter than a lock factory."
So to all you guys who say that the hack is right and just and the hackers shouldn't face any kind of prosecution, until you put your information on this thread so the well-intentioned population of Slashdot can mess with your stuff (all for the lulz of course, nothing serious), you don't have an argument because apperantly the severity of being hacked is enough that you have 7 proxies, 4 million character password encryption and all your servers are disconnected from the internet sitting in the Fortress of Solitude.
That's the most entertaining part for me: Video games like this can't really instill soldier skills and they can't prepare you for the ridiculous noise and confusion of any battlefield. I speak as a veteran: you can play as much Call of Duty as you want, but you won't be ready the first time you get knocked on your ass from the pressure wave of an explosion.
Doesn't matter to me what's going on with this. If the chinese are not using this as a training tool, then they can have their video games; Call of Duty sucks anyway. If they ARE using it as a training tool, the more fool them.
I usually read through the first couple comments for Slashdot stories, because I generally like the arguments that are made. I read through the first couple for this article because I'm interested in the brewing war between Windows and ChromeOS, and this whole topic is a disgusting shitstorm: fights about nationalism, racist crap, petty name-calling....what the fuck?
I know I'm not making it any better, but I was just so surprised I had to comment on it.
The Yahoo! article cited in the Slashdot post that's cited by this post starts off the first paragraph or two talking about the "Geeks make successful adults" idea, then veers off and becomes an observation on the ideas of social conformity telling stories of teacher cliques in schools, peer pressure and social hierarchies; I had to read it twice just to figure out what the point of the article was.
I can understand the desire to take a good look at it and check.
I sort of agree with this, but I think that there is at least one or two people in the Federal Election Comission or SOMEWHERE that would make sure that he was able to be President before he got elected POTUS. Don't forget, he was also a Senator for a couple years and someone is trying to tell me he slipped through the cracks time and time again? I would be absolutely astonished if his Republican opponent at any of those times failed to overlook his ineligibility to hold those offices.
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"First they came for the non-tech-savvy, but I simply laughed, because I knew a way around the censorship..."
I wonder who their writer is. It's certainly a well-spoken person, what with the grand nature of this farewell announcement.
But the record profits won't come from the Slashdot community, and that's really all you can do. Therecord profits will come from people who have no idea what a rootkit is or even remember anything before iTunes and DVD players. What you're trying to do is save those people from themselves, and they don't want to be saved.
Your symptoms sound a lot like me. Guess I'm Aspergeric (or whatever), who knew?
You could only protect sociey effectively by locking up even minor criminals for life.
Part of the idea of the prison system is that the punishment reforms people. When you go out and do a crime, then get thrown in prison for a couple years, the idea is that on release you say to yourself "I sure don't want to sit in prison again. I'll turn over a new leaf and stop doing crime".
This Raphael guy is a HORRIBLE comedian. Most of his "witty" responses to the warnings are just stupid. From TFA: " 'Seen on a TV manual: "Do not pour liquids into your television set.' Uh, hello? I'm pretty thirsty after eating that iPod, and it'd be rude not to share."
Third link: completely valid, and a non-issue. Suicide should be a right.
Preach it, brother! Even if a person is dirt-poor and has no posessions to his/her name, they still own their life, and I too believe no government should be able to tell them that they cannot have control of ending it.
Japan's constitution has guaranteed privacy of communications. I am awed.
The point is that the National Security Agency was not assigned to look for Bin Laden at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
I've also seen "modder" used in a lot of hobbyist literature - this includes software modding like the original Counter-Strike and hardware modding like cutting blowholes into a standard aluminum case and adding water colling.
You mean Canada invading the US? I'm all for it; it's been a minute since we had a war on American soil.
You save yourself well in your last sentence. It is unreasonable to expect that Google as a legal business will attempt to block investigations by any legal authority to investigate your use of their services, unless somewhere in their privacy agreement they explicitly agree to do so. If you're doing something illegal online, it's on you to cover yourself. After all, anyone who assists you is aiding a criminal (at least in the US).
It's interesting to me that people are going crazy in response to this article about how they demand RSA tokens and retina scans and shit, and you come along and say "I wish there was an app (which may or may not be secure) that you'd locally store usernames/passwords in (while everyone is screaming about how bad an idea it is) and then upload them to mint.com (a process which can be intercepted)". I'm not knocking what you're saying; I'm not a security nazi and I've never used mint.com or even know what it is. It's just interesting to me that one of these uber-security people hasn't exploded just from reading your post.
Can you give me at least one example of a turned hacker receiving death threats from former compatriots? You make it sound like they were all hip-deep in organized crime, and all hitmen they used to chill with can smell the fed on them when they come walking into the brothel they hang out in. A lot of these guys choose to live mostly online, that's where the basement-dweller sterotype came from.
Did you read where the OP stated his level of skill with IT? He's a guy who was voted "pretty smart" so he gets the job of being IT guy; he's ungodly fortunate that he knows just how little he knows and goes to someone more experienced for advice. As for the Mac server, OP didn't say he advocated for the purchase of Mac stuff; it's just what the business has and it's what he has to work with. If the company grows big enough that they need REAL IT support, hopefully OP will throw his hand up at the next meeting and say "I'm really not qualified to do this". At that point, the company will have a real IT guy who can reinvent the wheel. Until then, the dozen people with their Mac server and their google-fu black belt are puttering along happily. "Good enough is good enough, but perfect is a pain in the ass and often not worth the effort anyway".
Specifically, I was browsing /v/ and a new thread popped up: "GUISE SONY HACKED AGAIN FREE COUPONS AND USER INFORMATION! xD xD xD. HERE'S A LINK TO THE USER INFO!!!1!" I'm pretty certain it got spammed on multiple boards.
The thread continued with people using the information they got from the link to log into peoples' Facebooks and G-mails posting private photos and e-mails of sensitive nature. Now I'm not surprised Anonymous (the collective of 4chan users) immediately picked up this ball and took off at a sprint, but I am surprised that Lulz Sec had the gall to put that user information out there like that. I don't have any Sony accounts and I haven't had any kind of personal threat from any of this, but i am disgusted that millions of users are now getting face-fucked by the bottom crust of the internet. If you're going to attack Sony, then attack Sony: they could've downloaded and posted the 3.5 million music coupon codes or something. But these Sony users are largely innocent bystanders; it's not necessary to throw them under the bus like this.
This is interesting. By adding new units, Blizzard just destroyed the multiplayer scene. Will different games be able to play each other (my copy of WoL versus a HoTS copy)? If not, will multiplayer split into the WoL, HoTS and whatever-the-protoss-one-is-called scenes? This is gonna get pretty interesting to watch. On another note, I'm not sure if I'll be getting this or the next game. I bought WoL on my personal love of James Raynor, and while he didn't disappoint me as a character in SC2, the overall story is fully fucked over. I liked 3 factions all with their own interests, vying for supremacy, but now it seems to be turning into a generic "Good versus Evil" thing and following Warcraft into fluff hell.
Veteran here. That needs to be set up and maintained by someone familiar with the technology, which probably means more government contractors (MILIT4RY-1NDUSTR14L C0MPL3X!!!1!). Soldiers are too dumb to be able to use that stuff. We have one password to get into a non-secure system and the wait time at the help desk to reset your password is never shorter than an hour. You think more than 1 in 500 soldiers even knows what Linux is? Soldiers =/= technical people. Guys in the Signal Corps are little better.
I've sen this line of reasoning once or twice in this entire discussion: -Party A says "Hackers were wrong and should be punished" -Party B responds "Nuh uh, (some kind of moral or politically motivated reasoning stating how it wasn't that bad) -Party A responds "Oh yeah, well then let us do it to you since it's not so bad." -Party B responds "Good luck. All my shit is locked down tighter than a lock factory." So to all you guys who say that the hack is right and just and the hackers shouldn't face any kind of prosecution, until you put your information on this thread so the well-intentioned population of Slashdot can mess with your stuff (all for the lulz of course, nothing serious), you don't have an argument because apperantly the severity of being hacked is enough that you have 7 proxies, 4 million character password encryption and all your servers are disconnected from the internet sitting in the Fortress of Solitude.
That's the most entertaining part for me: Video games like this can't really instill soldier skills and they can't prepare you for the ridiculous noise and confusion of any battlefield. I speak as a veteran: you can play as much Call of Duty as you want, but you won't be ready the first time you get knocked on your ass from the pressure wave of an explosion. Doesn't matter to me what's going on with this. If the chinese are not using this as a training tool, then they can have their video games; Call of Duty sucks anyway. If they ARE using it as a training tool, the more fool them.
I usually read through the first couple comments for Slashdot stories, because I generally like the arguments that are made. I read through the first couple for this article because I'm interested in the brewing war between Windows and ChromeOS, and this whole topic is a disgusting shitstorm: fights about nationalism, racist crap, petty name-calling....what the fuck? I know I'm not making it any better, but I was just so surprised I had to comment on it.
So people can be (or at least feel) molested over the internet now?
The Yahoo! article cited in the Slashdot post that's cited by this post starts off the first paragraph or two talking about the "Geeks make successful adults" idea, then veers off and becomes an observation on the ideas of social conformity telling stories of teacher cliques in schools, peer pressure and social hierarchies; I had to read it twice just to figure out what the point of the article was.
I can understand the desire to take a good look at it and check.
I sort of agree with this, but I think that there is at least one or two people in the Federal Election Comission or SOMEWHERE that would make sure that he was able to be President before he got elected POTUS. Don't forget, he was also a Senator for a couple years and someone is trying to tell me he slipped through the cracks time and time again? I would be absolutely astonished if his Republican opponent at any of those times failed to overlook his ineligibility to hold those offices.
To anyone interested, this exact article was in an issue of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly).