Marijuana eases the symptoms of many illnesses, both mental and physical (and can exacerbate symptoms of other illnesses). One physical illness helped by pot is MS, is a crippling disease. One such mental illness is bipolar disorder. If a person in the early stages of one of these diseases (I don't know if bipolar disorder actually has "early stages") was a pot smoker, and his reefer supply was disrupted, it would appear that the symptoms of his or her illness were marijuana withdrawal symptoms. If someone is addicted to another substance, such as alcohol or cocaine, pot will ease the symptoms of those drugs' withdrawal, and if you didn't know of the other drug use it would appear that the withdrawal symptoms of the addictive drugs were pot withdrawal.
I learned when I gave up cigarettes (if any substance should be banned it's that one, but I believe an adult should have the right to screw their life any way they please) that habituation of an activity spanning decades can be as bad as the actual addiction. This is how nicotine patches work -- they allow one to overcome the habituation before tackling the actual addiction. When you're on the patches you still crave cigarettes even though you're receiving your dose of the drug itself.
Yes, it's habit forming. So is slashdot. A habit is not an addiction. I'm habituated to biscuts abd gravy in the morning and hated it when they shut the restaurant close to work down and I'm forced to eat McDonald's biscuits and school paste, but it will have to make do. Again, pot is no more habituating than orange juice. I like rolling a doob when I get home from work, but haven't been able to find any for 3 weeks. Yeah, I miss it, but it's no big deal. I'll get more when the dry spell is over. Now, if my coffee supply dried up I'd be in serious trouble. You should take a closer look at where your "facts" come from. If the facts contradict your own experience and are funded by an organization whose agenda needs those facts to be true, you should be VERY suspicious of those facts.
In forty years of smoking it, I have yet to meet a single person whose life it's fucked up. Not one, and after smoking for forty years I've known a lot of potheads. I have known people who smoked dope with fucked up lives, but they were crazy before ever taking their first toke. I've also known people whose lives have been ruined by the war on drugs -- people who started smoking crack because they had to take drug tests for work, and pot is detectable for a month while the cheap tests employers give on;y detect cocaine for three or four days, and that drug will indeed ruin your life. But people like you (and the government) equate the two the same -- they heard the propaganda about pot and figure the propaganda about crack is equally fallacious. It's a goddamned shame what that stuff will do to a person, and to equate it with pot is worse than criminal.
If there's no way to ingest enough of something to die, than there is no lethal dose. Saying "there's a lethal dose but you can't ingest that much" is disingenuous to the extreme.
I'll agree that kids shouldn't smoke pot, which is another reason it should be legalized for adults. I'm 59 and get carded when I buy beer, nobody cards anybody for pot. In fact, selling pot to a thirteen year old is safer for the dealer than selling to me; I could be a narc, a 13 year old ican't. Nobody could stay in business just selling pot to kids, and in fact I'm all for harsh penalties for selling any psychoactive substance to minors.
Give me some sources or proof that you're not smoking crack. That's right, you can't, although asking for sources or proof that the professional blackhats don't have the data that a bunch of kids got easily suggests that you are, in fact, Either you're on crack, mentally retarded, or just trolling. This conversation is over in any case; I don't wish to continue biting your crack-ridden retarded trolls. So much for giving someone the benefit of the doubt.
Now, to quote WC Fields, go away, kid, you bother me.
If I make a journal entry, uploading it to slashdot gives them permission to post it. It does NOT give them permission to reprint it in a printed magazine or another site. This clause gives them permission to do anything they damned well please with your material.
"The usual clause" is just plain bullshit. Defending your copyright against plagiarists, or those who would take what you volunteer for free and commercialize it, is NOT being an asshat. I don't see any such disclaimer at slashdot. If I did I certainly wouldn't be posting short science fiction stories in my slashdot journal; a couple hundred more of these and I'll publish them in book form (so far there are only four).
Yet another reason not to store anything important in "the cloud".
If they were really about pointing out the security flaws of websites, then they could have simply contacted the webmasters and informed them of the flaw.
You can't be that naive. These corporations have no financial incentive to keep user data secure. How many security flaws in MS and Adobe and Macromedia software have gone unpatched after white hats informed them? Public shame and the threat of lost revenues is the only way to make corporations take YOUR data seriously.
And you still never did address the fact that these data were already in the hands of people whose vocation is identity theft.
Oh, ferkrissakes, I came here to use up my last two mod points and almost every comment is ignorant, so I'm going to just make one comment and watch a movie and use those two points in the morning.
I know it's not usual for anybody to RTFA and instead just jump to conclusions thinking you know everything without having a clue, so I'm going to clue a few of you guys. This is not about contrails. Of course contrails have been known about forever. I didn't read this particular FA but I saw another FA about this earlier today, and it was damned interesting.
If it was about contrails, most of you guys would still be wrong. Contrails aren't caused by the turbines, they're caused by the air passing the wingtips of the aircraft. If you want to learn more, there's wikipedia for that.
This is about circular holes in clouds, It's about the exact OPPOSITE if contrails. The cause of contrails is well known, the cause of this particular phenomena isn't known. I find it hilarious that you guys think you know more about physics than folks who've been studying physics all their lives.
I'm not a physicist or meteorologist, but at least I know enough to know the limits of my own ignorance, so I READ. Voraciously. The more I read the more I learn, the more I learn the more I understand how ignorant I am. You guys might try reading once in a while. You're ignorant -- we're all ignorant. A physicist doesn't know shit about cosmology, and a cosmologist doesn't know shit about paleontology.
The man who thinks he knows everything cannot learn. Thus endeth the lesson, grasshopper.
All's fair in love and war. Note they weren't after money, only DOSing tools. For it to be "extortion" you have to want money. Rael black hats would have demanded cash. Also, a supposed security guy (Hijazi) using the same password on multiple sites? What was he thinking? I'm no security guru but even I know better than that!
But LulzSec denies that extortion was the motive, saying it was instead trying to see if a group of "blackhats"--industry parlance for underground or criminal hackers--could squeeze information out of a "whitehat" like Hijazi.
Like I said, I don't agree with all of these guys' methods, but I do agree with their motives.
Civil disobedience? Please don't compare these pompous idiots to human rights pioneers.
The same argument was made about the pot smokers who went to the "smoke ins" in the '70s. It is indeed civil disobedience, whether you choose to call a spade a "spade" or a "pointy shovel".
These people are exposing data of innocent users.
You don't read too good, do you? The data were already compromised. The real criminals already HAD the data, the identity theft was already happening. The only thing that was exposed was the fact that the data had been compromised and their identities were already being stolen by real blackhats, thanks to BoA and Sony's total disregard for the safety of the people who foolishly trusted them. Their slogan (which I parody in my sig), "Laughing at your security since 2011." The innocent users were laready harmed, both by the real criminals who already had the data and the corporations that had security so weak that a thirten year old could compromise it.
Is NORML a criminal organization? Have you ever heard of "civil disobediance"? That's what these kids are doing.
Google "Sony" or "Bank of America". If their sites are so obscure why are they the top listing? And how can any website belonging to a household name be obscure? Are you a global warming denier as well? You're using the same twisted logic and blindness. In fact, you sound like you're a shill for Sony, BoA, or the Arizone State Police; your arguments wouldn't sway a Down's Syndrome sufferer.
I don't doubt that they're not real hackers -- real hackers write the code, not DL it from the internet. Their technical expertise has no point in the argument, so it appears your straw man is burning.
And yeah, I'm going to sue a multibillion dollar corporation over the couple hundred bucks and an afternoon's work. Yeah, I'll really get satisfaction that way.
If someone raped your daughter and the guy got off with probation, and her boyfriand castrated the rapist, would you cheer the boyfriend or defend the rapist? I choose to cheer the boyfriend, Sony's CEO should be in prison.
LulzSec is a criminal organization. They're certainly not in it for the "lulz"
Then what, exactly, are they in it for? They're not selling the info they expose.
it leads me to believe that they're just throwing every trick in the book on the most obscure sites they could find
Are you on crack, son? Sony "obscure"? Bank of America "obscure"? WTF? And yes, they're not some uberh4xx0rz using arcane genius code to break in, and that's the whole point. What they're doing any bright twelve year old could do (and I suspect that most of them are, in fact, bright teenagers). The information they exposed was already in the hands of the real criminals, the commercial black hats. The criminals are going to do their best to not let anyone know their targets have been breached and are certainly not going public with them. The criminals are quietly breaking in, taking the info, and using it for identity theft and other frauds.
Just because what LulzSec does is breaking the law doesn't make them a "criminal organization" any more than NORML is a criminal organization.
If LulzSec is a criminal organization, than Sony became a criminal organization when they rooted thousands of internet-connected PCs with the XCP malware they deliberately put on music CDs they sold through commerical channels.
Wake up and smell the bullshit, son. If you're not an employee or stockholder of one of the organizations LulzSec h4xx0red you're a fool who's been hoodwinked by them.
If you would freely give your private information to a company that would deliberately install destructive rootkits on music CDs and remove a feature from a piece of hardware that you've already paid for, you deserve to have it exposed.
What LulzSec did to Sony is what Sony did to thousands of innocent computer users. What they did removing OtherOS is like Ford coming to your house and removing the radio from your car after you already paid for the car. Trusting Sony with your private information is like handing your car keys to someone who just got a two dollar fine for multiple counts of grand theft auto.
As to the banks, if someone went into a bank and took all the money when the bank had shut down the cameras and left all the doors and safes unlocked, would you give them a free pass? LulzSec didn't do any complex attacks that would take a security expert, any bright thirteen year old could have done it.
The information LulzSec exposed was already in the hands of the commercial black hats. Your information was already compromised. They did you a service by letting you know your information was already compromised. The bad guys here are the organizations that had no respect whatever for your info (the banks, Sony, Arizona cops). LulzSec are the good guys. You're demonizing the wrong people.
I don't know why I'm responding to an AC sitting at a -1, but the image was one I uploaded to the host, and your reading skills are sorely lacking, son. The <img> TAG was removed as well as the image itself. As to "loneliness", I was married at the time, with plenty of meatspace friends, and two daughters that loved playing Quake on our home network with me (and usually kicking my ass at the game).
Now go crawl back under your bridge, Mr. Sony executive. Or better yet, do the world a favor and shoot yourself. The world needs fewer RIAA shills.
LOL. some dimwit modded that "troll". Waste some more mod points, dipshit. Too bad they don't have the old metamoderation, you wouldn't get many more mod points.
Clicking the "no bonus" buttons even though they don't seem to work...
LOL, since everything published is now under copyright, linking to anything violates the ProtectIP act! Google and Bing are the prime examples, they're violating slashdot's copyright by linking to it!
Woosh to you, sir. The RIAA and other enemies of freedom look at LulzSec as worse than al quaida. As Mr. Leghorn says, "it's a joke, son." Peace on you, and lulz.
Sony is a member of the RIAA, after all. I applaud LulzSec's actions (most of 'em, anyway) and urge them to keep up the good work.
I was the "victim" of a group much like LulzSec before the turn of the century, and it was hilarious (to me, anyway) indeed. My site, the Springfield Fragfest, made fun of everybody (for the lulz before "lulz" was coined). I was kind of the Don Rickles of the Quake world -- I made fun of everybody, and everybody I made fun of became fans (well, almost everybody, some folks have no sense of humor). I'd have folks' pet shamblers pissing on the couch, Thresh taking speed, etc.
There was a group much like LulzSec (for all I know it might have had some of the same members) that was in the nerd news, so I posted a bit about them accompanied by a photo of a group of Down's Syndrome kids as illustration.
They broke into my host's servers and removed the <img> tag and photo... and left the text intact! I was honored as well as amused.
But, you know, the people (and I use that term loosely) LulzSec are targeting have no sense of humor whatever. Again, guys, keep up the good work, and thanks for the lulz. I hope reports of LulSec's death are greatly exaggerated.
You either educate the users or you develop the computer equivalent of a TSA screening to shield the system from idiotic users.
You're confusing ignorant with stupid. Ignorant can be fixed, but there's no cure for stupid. Part of the problem is having executable documents. Why should a user not trust a PDF or a DOC file? Buut the fact is that these stupidly (not ignorantly) designed programs can run macros. A user that opens an unknown exe is stupid, a user that opens an unknown pdf is ignorant.
This is especially galling to me; I have a book out that I encourage folks to share, but it's only in PDF form. The only people who are going to open it are ignorant of the fact that it could contain a virus, even though it doesn't.
You shouldn't have to worry about playing an MP3, but a WMV music file's DRM makes it so you can imbed a virus in it. If you take that wmv file, rename it with an MP3 extension, Windows Media Player (WiMP) will happily run it. That's why I caution folks against using WiMP or wmv files; no other media player I know of with run a wma file that's been renamed with an mp3 extension.
It's another example of Microsoft not caring about the security of their users. That's especally bad, because almost all naive computer users use Windows.
"Personal responsibility" is NOT dressing in a Burqa to keep from being raped. Personal responsibility is NOT RAPING OTHER PEOPLE. Why are you calling for ME to have "personal responsibility" but not the corporations?
Cookies have many very good uses, like not having to log into slashdot every time you visit. Stalking people is NOT one of them. And most people (non-slashdotters) wouldn't have a clue how to NOT store cookies. How about making laws keeping the goddamned sociopathic corporations from stalking you without your permission?
To hell with "do not track" and "do not call" lists, I'd like to see legislation that would make tracking and sphone spam opt-in, making it a felony with prison time for sociopathic corporations' CEOs and boards of directors who ignore the law.
County Market supermarket wants to stalk me, but at least I have to agree to it. Why is it legal for a corporation to stalk me, but a felony for a human being to?
I got phone spam on my cell phone last week; 20 calls from the same telemarketers (302-394-6964, a telemarketing outfit in Deleware). It was just an annoyance to me, as I have a flat-fee no-minutes plan, but it would have cost most people money. These scumbag asshole sociopaths belong behind bars.
For those who'd like to run Ubuntu but don't like GNOME there's kubuntu. I haven't had any issues at all with it, either on my "cobbled together out of junk parts" PC or the new Acer Aspire One. haven't had an upgrade break drivers in years.
Configuration of important things in kubuntu can be done via the GUI.
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Marijuana eases the symptoms of many illnesses, both mental and physical (and can exacerbate symptoms of other illnesses). One physical illness helped by pot is MS, is a crippling disease. One such mental illness is bipolar disorder. If a person in the early stages of one of these diseases (I don't know if bipolar disorder actually has "early stages") was a pot smoker, and his reefer supply was disrupted, it would appear that the symptoms of his or her illness were marijuana withdrawal symptoms. If someone is addicted to another substance, such as alcohol or cocaine, pot will ease the symptoms of those drugs' withdrawal, and if you didn't know of the other drug use it would appear that the withdrawal symptoms of the addictive drugs were pot withdrawal.
I learned when I gave up cigarettes (if any substance should be banned it's that one, but I believe an adult should have the right to screw their life any way they please) that habituation of an activity spanning decades can be as bad as the actual addiction. This is how nicotine patches work -- they allow one to overcome the habituation before tackling the actual addiction. When you're on the patches you still crave cigarettes even though you're receiving your dose of the drug itself.
Things aren't always as they appear to be.
Yes, it's habit forming. So is slashdot. A habit is not an addiction. I'm habituated to biscuts abd gravy in the morning and hated it when they shut the restaurant close to work down and I'm forced to eat McDonald's biscuits and school paste, but it will have to make do. Again, pot is no more habituating than orange juice. I like rolling a doob when I get home from work, but haven't been able to find any for 3 weeks. Yeah, I miss it, but it's no big deal. I'll get more when the dry spell is over. Now, if my coffee supply dried up I'd be in serious trouble. You should take a closer look at where your "facts" come from. If the facts contradict your own experience and are funded by an organization whose agenda needs those facts to be true, you should be VERY suspicious of those facts.
In forty years of smoking it, I have yet to meet a single person whose life it's fucked up. Not one, and after smoking for forty years I've known a lot of potheads. I have known people who smoked dope with fucked up lives, but they were crazy before ever taking their first toke. I've also known people whose lives have been ruined by the war on drugs -- people who started smoking crack because they had to take drug tests for work, and pot is detectable for a month while the cheap tests employers give on;y detect cocaine for three or four days, and that drug will indeed ruin your life. But people like you (and the government) equate the two the same -- they heard the propaganda about pot and figure the propaganda about crack is equally fallacious. It's a goddamned shame what that stuff will do to a person, and to equate it with pot is worse than criminal.
If there's no way to ingest enough of something to die, than there is no lethal dose. Saying "there's a lethal dose but you can't ingest that much" is disingenuous to the extreme.
I'll agree that kids shouldn't smoke pot, which is another reason it should be legalized for adults. I'm 59 and get carded when I buy beer, nobody cards anybody for pot. In fact, selling pot to a thirteen year old is safer for the dealer than selling to me; I could be a narc, a 13 year old ican't. Nobody could stay in business just selling pot to kids, and in fact I'm all for harsh penalties for selling any psychoactive substance to minors.
Sources? Proof?
Give me some sources or proof that you're not smoking crack. That's right, you can't, although asking for sources or proof that the professional blackhats don't have the data that a bunch of kids got easily suggests that you are, in fact, Either you're on crack, mentally retarded, or just trolling. This conversation is over in any case; I don't wish to continue biting your crack-ridden retarded trolls. So much for giving someone the benefit of the doubt.
Now, to quote WC Fields, go away, kid, you bother me.
If I make a journal entry, uploading it to slashdot gives them permission to post it. It does NOT give them permission to reprint it in a printed magazine or another site. This clause gives them permission to do anything they damned well please with your material.
"The usual clause" is just plain bullshit. Defending your copyright against plagiarists, or those who would take what you volunteer for free and commercialize it, is NOT being an asshat. I don't see any such disclaimer at slashdot. If I did I certainly wouldn't be posting short science fiction stories in my slashdot journal; a couple hundred more of these and I'll publish them in book form (so far there are only four).
Yet another reason not to store anything important in "the cloud".
If they were really about pointing out the security flaws of websites, then they could have simply contacted the webmasters and informed them of the flaw.
You can't be that naive. These corporations have no financial incentive to keep user data secure. How many security flaws in MS and Adobe and Macromedia software have gone unpatched after white hats informed them? Public shame and the threat of lost revenues is the only way to make corporations take YOUR data seriously.
And you still never did address the fact that these data were already in the hands of people whose vocation is identity theft.
Oh, ferkrissakes, I came here to use up my last two mod points and almost every comment is ignorant, so I'm going to just make one comment and watch a movie and use those two points in the morning.
I know it's not usual for anybody to RTFA and instead just jump to conclusions thinking you know everything without having a clue, so I'm going to clue a few of you guys. This is not about contrails. Of course contrails have been known about forever. I didn't read this particular FA but I saw another FA about this earlier today, and it was damned interesting.
If it was about contrails, most of you guys would still be wrong. Contrails aren't caused by the turbines, they're caused by the air passing the wingtips of the aircraft. If you want to learn more, there's wikipedia for that.
This is about circular holes in clouds, It's about the exact OPPOSITE if contrails. The cause of contrails is well known, the cause of this particular phenomena isn't known. I find it hilarious that you guys think you know more about physics than folks who've been studying physics all their lives.
I'm not a physicist or meteorologist, but at least I know enough to know the limits of my own ignorance, so I READ. Voraciously. The more I read the more I learn, the more I learn the more I understand how ignorant I am. You guys might try reading once in a while. You're ignorant -- we're all ignorant. A physicist doesn't know shit about cosmology, and a cosmologist doesn't know shit about paleontology.
The man who thinks he knows everything cannot learn. Thus endeth the lesson, grasshopper.
All's fair in love and war. Note they weren't after money, only DOSing tools. For it to be "extortion" you have to want money. Rael black hats would have demanded cash. Also, a supposed security guy (Hijazi) using the same password on multiple sites? What was he thinking? I'm no security guru but even I know better than that!
Like I said, I don't agree with all of these guys' methods, but I do agree with their motives.
Civil disobedience? Please don't compare these pompous idiots to human rights pioneers.
The same argument was made about the pot smokers who went to the "smoke ins" in the '70s. It is indeed civil disobedience, whether you choose to call a spade a "spade" or a "pointy shovel".
These people are exposing data of innocent users.
You don't read too good, do you? The data were already compromised. The real criminals already HAD the data, the identity theft was already happening. The only thing that was exposed was the fact that the data had been compromised and their identities were already being stolen by real blackhats, thanks to BoA and Sony's total disregard for the safety of the people who foolishly trusted them. Their slogan (which I parody in my sig), "Laughing at your security since 2011." The innocent users were laready harmed, both by the real criminals who already had the data and the corporations that had security so weak that a thirten year old could compromise it.
Is NORML a criminal organization? Have you ever heard of "civil disobediance"? That's what these kids are doing.
Google "Sony" or "Bank of America". If their sites are so obscure why are they the top listing? And how can any website belonging to a household name be obscure? Are you a global warming denier as well? You're using the same twisted logic and blindness. In fact, you sound like you're a shill for Sony, BoA, or the Arizone State Police; your arguments wouldn't sway a Down's Syndrome sufferer.
I don't doubt that they're not real hackers -- real hackers write the code, not DL it from the internet. Their technical expertise has no point in the argument, so it appears your straw man is burning.
And yeah, I'm going to sue a multibillion dollar corporation over the couple hundred bucks and an afternoon's work. Yeah, I'll really get satisfaction that way.
If someone raped your daughter and the guy got off with probation, and her boyfriand castrated the rapist, would you cheer the boyfriend or defend the rapist? I choose to cheer the boyfriend, Sony's CEO should be in prison.
LulzSec is a criminal organization. They're certainly not in it for the "lulz"
Then what, exactly, are they in it for? They're not selling the info they expose.
it leads me to believe that they're just throwing every trick in the book on the most obscure sites they could find
Are you on crack, son? Sony "obscure"? Bank of America "obscure"? WTF? And yes, they're not some uberh4xx0rz using arcane genius code to break in, and that's the whole point. What they're doing any bright twelve year old could do (and I suspect that most of them are, in fact, bright teenagers). The information they exposed was already in the hands of the real criminals, the commercial black hats. The criminals are going to do their best to not let anyone know their targets have been breached and are certainly not going public with them. The criminals are quietly breaking in, taking the info, and using it for identity theft and other frauds.
Just because what LulzSec does is breaking the law doesn't make them a "criminal organization" any more than NORML is a criminal organization.
If LulzSec is a criminal organization, than Sony became a criminal organization when they rooted thousands of internet-connected PCs with the XCP malware they deliberately put on music CDs they sold through commerical channels.
Wake up and smell the bullshit, son. If you're not an employee or stockholder of one of the organizations LulzSec h4xx0red you're a fool who's been hoodwinked by them.
If you would freely give your private information to a company that would deliberately install destructive rootkits on music CDs and remove a feature from a piece of hardware that you've already paid for, you deserve to have it exposed.
What LulzSec did to Sony is what Sony did to thousands of innocent computer users. What they did removing OtherOS is like Ford coming to your house and removing the radio from your car after you already paid for the car. Trusting Sony with your private information is like handing your car keys to someone who just got a two dollar fine for multiple counts of grand theft auto.
As to the banks, if someone went into a bank and took all the money when the bank had shut down the cameras and left all the doors and safes unlocked, would you give them a free pass? LulzSec didn't do any complex attacks that would take a security expert, any bright thirteen year old could have done it.
The information LulzSec exposed was already in the hands of the commercial black hats. Your information was already compromised. They did you a service by letting you know your information was already compromised. The bad guys here are the organizations that had no respect whatever for your info (the banks, Sony, Arizona cops). LulzSec are the good guys. You're demonizing the wrong people.
Sometimes it's the same thing. That's why "funny" is karma-neutral.
I don't know why I'm responding to an AC sitting at a -1, but the image was one I uploaded to the host, and your reading skills are sorely lacking, son. The <img> TAG was removed as well as the image itself. As to "loneliness", I was married at the time, with plenty of meatspace friends, and two daughters that loved playing Quake on our home network with me (and usually kicking my ass at the game).
Now go crawl back under your bridge, Mr. Sony executive. Or better yet, do the world a favor and shoot yourself. The world needs fewer RIAA shills.
LOL. some dimwit modded that "troll". Waste some more mod points, dipshit. Too bad they don't have the old metamoderation, you wouldn't get many more mod points.
Clicking the "no bonus" buttons even though they don't seem to work...
LOL, since everything published is now under copyright, linking to anything violates the ProtectIP act! Google and Bing are the prime examples, they're violating slashdot's copyright by linking to it!
Woosh to you, sir. The RIAA and other enemies of freedom look at LulzSec as worse than al quaida. As Mr. Leghorn says, "it's a joke, son." Peace on you, and lulz.
Sony is a member of the RIAA, after all. I applaud LulzSec's actions (most of 'em, anyway) and urge them to keep up the good work.
I was the "victim" of a group much like LulzSec before the turn of the century, and it was hilarious (to me, anyway) indeed. My site, the Springfield Fragfest, made fun of everybody (for the lulz before "lulz" was coined). I was kind of the Don Rickles of the Quake world -- I made fun of everybody, and everybody I made fun of became fans (well, almost everybody, some folks have no sense of humor). I'd have folks' pet shamblers pissing on the couch, Thresh taking speed, etc.
There was a group much like LulzSec (for all I know it might have had some of the same members) that was in the nerd news, so I posted a bit about them accompanied by a photo of a group of Down's Syndrome kids as illustration.
They broke into my host's servers and removed the <img> tag and photo... and left the text intact! I was honored as well as amused.
But, you know, the people (and I use that term loosely) LulzSec are targeting have no sense of humor whatever. Again, guys, keep up the good work, and thanks for the lulz. I hope reports of LulSec's death are greatly exaggerated.
You either educate the users or you develop the computer equivalent of a TSA screening to shield the system from idiotic users.
You're confusing ignorant with stupid. Ignorant can be fixed, but there's no cure for stupid. Part of the problem is having executable documents. Why should a user not trust a PDF or a DOC file? Buut the fact is that these stupidly (not ignorantly) designed programs can run macros. A user that opens an unknown exe is stupid, a user that opens an unknown pdf is ignorant.
This is especially galling to me; I have a book out that I encourage folks to share, but it's only in PDF form. The only people who are going to open it are ignorant of the fact that it could contain a virus, even though it doesn't.
You shouldn't have to worry about playing an MP3, but a WMV music file's DRM makes it so you can imbed a virus in it. If you take that wmv file, rename it with an MP3 extension, Windows Media Player (WiMP) will happily run it. That's why I caution folks against using WiMP or wmv files; no other media player I know of with run a wma file that's been renamed with an mp3 extension.
It's another example of Microsoft not caring about the security of their users. That's especally bad, because almost all naive computer users use Windows.
I wish I hadn't posted in this thread or I'd have modded you and fuzzyfuzzyfungus "funny". Got a chuckle out of both of you, thanks!
Are you badanalogyguy's new account? Walmart can only use the money I spend ONCE. Once they spend it, it's gone forever.
I'll send you an email when I get home. I understand the spam/sociopath problems you must have.
"Personal responsibility" is NOT dressing in a Burqa to keep from being raped. Personal responsibility is NOT RAPING OTHER PEOPLE. Why are you calling for ME to have "personal responsibility" but not the corporations?
Cookies have many very good uses, like not having to log into slashdot every time you visit. Stalking people is NOT one of them. And most people (non-slashdotters) wouldn't have a clue how to NOT store cookies. How about making laws keeping the goddamned sociopathic corporations from stalking you without your permission?
To hell with "do not track" and "do not call" lists, I'd like to see legislation that would make tracking and sphone spam opt-in, making it a felony with prison time for sociopathic corporations' CEOs and boards of directors who ignore the law.
County Market supermarket wants to stalk me, but at least I have to agree to it. Why is it legal for a corporation to stalk me, but a felony for a human being to?
I got phone spam on my cell phone last week; 20 calls from the same telemarketers (302-394-6964, a telemarketing outfit in Deleware). It was just an annoyance to me, as I have a flat-fee no-minutes plan, but it would have cost most people money. These scumbag asshole sociopaths belong behind bars.
For those who'd like to run Ubuntu but don't like GNOME there's kubuntu. I haven't had any issues at all with it, either on my "cobbled together out of junk parts" PC or the new Acer Aspire One. haven't had an upgrade break drivers in years.
Configuration of important things in kubuntu can be done via the GUI.