Pain and the illusion of pain are the same, pain is a strangely psychologically influenced phenomenon. What you mean is that it gave the impression that your hand was burning while it actually wasn't... but the pain was very real!
You forgot: 2c) Shareholders sue BP management for mismanagement that caused them to lose billions, management gets jailtime. One of the few useful perks of capitalism (although it can be argued also one of the most dangerous)...
So what? BP has massive amounts of money, as well as political connections out the ass.
Something did get done. Look at the graph of BP stock. Zoom to 1 year and notice the huge dip following april 20th. They (and their stockholders) did lose money over this...
Beside that they also (temporarily) lost political connections, to them it's all fine when it's deals in the dark, but when the spotlight is on BP no politician wants to support them.
So their irresponsibilty caused them to lose some of the two powers they care about, money and connections. It will make them think twice before fucking up on this scale ever again, they may not care about the environment or the fishermen, but they care about losing money and connections.
Sullivan said the email was "quite patently designed to mislead users of SORBS into believing that MessageLabs are the good guys and SORBS are the scum of the earth."
In my experience they are a bunch of bastards, the BOFH probably leads the SORBS team...:-)
Then again, we need them to be tough and love it when they give spammers crap. In a way they are the lone bad cowboys from the internet, fighting injustice in their own way and keeping it a little safer, but don't expect them to be polite or helpful. And when you are standing near a bad guy with a black hat when the cowboys show up, expect to be shot down in a heartbeat western style... real cowboys don't mess around discriminating bad guys from not so bad guys.
If you look at the graph you see this was coming for a long while now, the x64 version will also be fastest in a short while (presumably second to Opera - I don't know their x64 speed - but on windows Firefox x64 would be #1).
This is a great achievement from the development team who consistently improved the performance from 'quite bad' to 'competetively fast', so kudos to the developers. Please don't stop now, it seems you can still stretch performance quite a bit...
Let's see:
- Is an employee considered property, or an 'asset'?
- Can an employee be forced to do labor?
- Does an employee who does not want to do said labor walk away?
And now consider these questions knowing that the majority of people can't just quit his/her job (the ob(li)vious answer)... If 'running away' and living on the street is your only escape you are a slave by my definition.
It might have been done before and never been detected... But you are right, the security researchers would now know to check. But then again any good security researcher would only touch the malware with a 10 foot insulated pole to begin with.
So, you could call this a researcher honeypot... and apparently these guys got caught with their hand in the honey. Is it really a surprise after this tactic has been used by security researchers for over a decade?
Sure, they say it's independent, but the only reason they're allowed to carry on thinking that is because they aren't doing anything illegal enough for the Brits to make the effort to enforce their rule.
How is shooting at the royal Navy and other ships not a crime they would be forced to respond to? In fact the Brits called it an 'act of terrorism', which is sufficient reason to invade some counties nowadays... And as I recall they were taken to court in 1968, and won because Britain did not have jurisdiction.
Que evil empire that tries to eradicate them with some ingenious plot... Quick someone call Summer Glau, we might need her to go all River Tam on them.
Sadly the evil plot will most likely involve less-than-ingenious 'space terrorists' nowadays, 'pirates', 'rebels' and 'resistance' are words of the past...
What's the generational age of the technology of cold fusion?
Everyone knows it's 50 years from now! So the patent would expire 50 years from today, or tomorrow, whenever... Oh crap, don't tell Disney about this trick!
That's exactly what I realized, and I waited for years until a platform came around that was affordable (looked into Pentium-M for desktop before but the price was really high) and could play decent video while keeping the power usage low... So I recently bought an ION PC (power use generally under 20watt), works like a charm (downloads my torrents better than my previous big-ass media-box which consumed closer to 200watt, I figured I'll have the investment back in 2 years based on power alone).
My next 'TV' will probably just be a large monitor without any TV-tuner at all... As long as it has HDMI it'll do.
Funny, but sadly probably true... That is the problem when it's locked down and the server software isn't open sourced... otherwise the community would have created a great front-end for the PC with transcoding and everything (I only got as far as getting a busybox shell running on the TV, but trying to reverse engineer their proprietary software is a bit more than one man can manage). Instead of dealing with the crappy propietary software I just went back to using my open source Kiss player (which was the first networked DivX player back then), it also had problems but most was fixed by a thriving hacking community that built the coolest innovative things and continued to improve the system for a long time.
The newer generation might be be much more useful though, with 300N wifi and proper upnp you can actually use it for a while. Once you have a certain baseline in hardware support and adhere to standards you can use the device with different backends that also support that standard.
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Great quote, who is it attributed to?
Pain and the illusion of pain are the same, pain is a strangely psychologically influenced phenomenon. What you mean is that it gave the impression that your hand was burning while it actually wasn't... but the pain was very real!
Nonsense, almost everyone on Slashdot can find faults in every other person, including their 'Dear Leader'...
Wasn't that how pain works? I believe it was the prospect of death by Gom Jabbar that instills the fear in the subject.
You forgot: 2c) Shareholders sue BP management for mismanagement that caused them to lose billions, management gets jailtime. One of the few useful perks of capitalism (although it can be argued also one of the most dangerous)...
Hence my conclusion that on *Windows* Firefox x64 would be #1. ;)
So what? BP has massive amounts of money, as well as political connections out the ass.
Something did get done. Look at the graph of BP stock. Zoom to 1 year and notice the huge dip following april 20th. They (and their stockholders) did lose money over this...
Beside that they also (temporarily) lost political connections, to them it's all fine when it's deals in the dark, but when the spotlight is on BP no politician wants to support them.
So their irresponsibilty caused them to lose some of the two powers they care about, money and connections. It will make them think twice before fucking up on this scale ever again, they may not care about the environment or the fishermen, but they care about losing money and connections.
Sullivan said the email was "quite patently designed to mislead users of SORBS into believing that MessageLabs are the good guys and SORBS are the scum of the earth."
In my experience they are a bunch of bastards, the BOFH probably leads the SORBS team... :-)
Then again, we need them to be tough and love it when they give spammers crap. In a way they are the lone bad cowboys from the internet, fighting injustice in their own way and keeping it a little safer, but don't expect them to be polite or helpful. And when you are standing near a bad guy with a black hat when the cowboys show up, expect to be shot down in a heartbeat western style... real cowboys don't mess around discriminating bad guys from not so bad guys.
If you look at the graph you see this was coming for a long while now, the x64 version will also be fastest in a short while (presumably second to Opera - I don't know their x64 speed - but on windows Firefox x64 would be #1).
This is a great achievement from the development team who consistently improved the performance from 'quite bad' to 'competetively fast', so kudos to the developers. Please don't stop now, it seems you can still stretch performance quite a bit...
Let's see:
- Is an employee considered property, or an 'asset'?
- Can an employee be forced to do labor?
- Does an employee who does not want to do said labor walk away?
And now consider these questions knowing that the majority of people can't just quit his/her job (the ob(li)vious answer)... If 'running away' and living on the street is your only escape you are a slave by my definition.
You got Christmas confused with Valentine, apparently.
Just like the automobile destroyed the oil industry... Seriously who makes this shit up?
Isolated VMs can have an isolated uplink too... No need to expose any systems or data.
It might have been done before and never been detected... But you are right, the security researchers would now know to check. But then again any good security researcher would only touch the malware with a 10 foot insulated pole to begin with.
How would you know? Maybe they just did a better job and still have those researchers fooled.
So, you could call this a researcher honeypot... and apparently these guys got caught with their hand in the honey. Is it really a surprise after this tactic has been used by security researchers for over a decade?
La Forge is king!
Sure, they say it's independent, but the only reason they're allowed to carry on thinking that is because they aren't doing anything illegal enough for the Brits to make the effort to enforce their rule.
How is shooting at the royal Navy and other ships not a crime they would be forced to respond to? In fact the Brits called it an 'act of terrorism', which is sufficient reason to invade some counties nowadays... And as I recall they were taken to court in 1968, and won because Britain did not have jurisdiction.
Que evil empire that tries to eradicate them with some ingenious plot... Quick someone call Summer Glau, we might need her to go all River Tam on them.
Sadly the evil plot will most likely involve less-than-ingenious 'space terrorists' nowadays, 'pirates', 'rebels' and 'resistance' are words of the past...
You forgot to include some Dinosaurs in there, remember this is news for nerds!
What's the generational age of the technology of cold fusion?
Everyone knows it's 50 years from now! So the patent would expire 50 years from today, or tomorrow, whenever... Oh crap, don't tell Disney about this trick!
They figured everybody loves Double D's, so they said: "Fuck everything we're doing six D's".
Yeah, this sounds more like unspoofable stupidity...
That's exactly what I realized, and I waited for years until a platform came around that was affordable (looked into Pentium-M for desktop before but the price was really high) and could play decent video while keeping the power usage low... So I recently bought an ION PC (power use generally under 20watt), works like a charm (downloads my torrents better than my previous big-ass media-box which consumed closer to 200watt, I figured I'll have the investment back in 2 years based on power alone).
My next 'TV' will probably just be a large monitor without any TV-tuner at all... As long as it has HDMI it'll do.
Funny, but sadly probably true... That is the problem when it's locked down and the server software isn't open sourced... otherwise the community would have created a great front-end for the PC with transcoding and everything (I only got as far as getting a busybox shell running on the TV, but trying to reverse engineer their proprietary software is a bit more than one man can manage). Instead of dealing with the crappy propietary software I just went back to using my open source Kiss player (which was the first networked DivX player back then), it also had problems but most was fixed by a thriving hacking community that built the coolest innovative things and continued to improve the system for a long time.
The newer generation might be be much more useful though, with 300N wifi and proper upnp you can actually use it for a while. Once you have a certain baseline in hardware support and adhere to standards you can use the device with different backends that also support that standard.