better yet, just forward an entire subdomain of email addresses to your main account. Make a new email address for each time you give it out.
If you start getting spam at an address, you know who sold you out, and you can easily just turn it off (mmMmm... procmail).
Someone once had something where he could tell when someone visited his webpage by the automatically generated email address that it gave the user... Anyone have a link up?:)
We're faced with yet another problem with quantifying the qualitative.
Just how big does an orbiting mass need to be before it's considered a planet? Scientists endlessly debated whether or not pluto was indeed a planet or not when it was discovered. It had a strange elliptical orbit, and was smaller than any other planet.
As our technology progresses, we find smaller and smaller objects that orbit around our sun.
Where does this stop? Does a rock the size of a small town count as a planet? How about the size of a building? A dump truck? A basketball?
We all know that CmdrTaco made a mistake, but saying that he should be canned is going one step too far. We all mistakes eventually... hey, look how many advisories and patches are posted every day. Look at what he's done for us, and now you say he should be fired just because he forgot to change a password?
We've got to take this with a grain of salt -- ok, someone got full access to slashdot. What does this mean to us? No noticeable difference -- yet. Will this destroy the world economy? No. Will this affect anything besides making CmdrTaco work hard for the next week? No.
He's already paying the price by having to rebuild everything -- give the guy some slack.
True enough, but do remember that the weakest link defines how strong the chain is.
So what if you encrypt passwords on the server, passwords are stored in cookies on your home machine, as well as sent plaintext over miles upon miles of internet cabling before reaching slashdot.org.
If someone really wanted everyone's slashdot passwords, all they'd have to do is sniff some connection along the way.
Hackers will always hack in. There's no such thing as an invincible system. It's just a matter of time and determination (as we've seen time and time again).
Now, if we're having so much difficulty sending a probe to Mars, how do we humans ever expect to get outside our own solar system?
Although Murphy's Law does state that the further away a computer is from humans, the more likely it is to hang on a reboot. (Which explains why whenever you restart a computer over the network, it never comes back up;)
"Your computer was not properly shutdown. Press return to run scandisk on your drives."
Slashdot Mirror
Toasties!
Toasties!
Russian components, American components...
They're all made in Taiwan...
With all that joking around going on up there...
:P
No wonder space stations like Mir disintegrated.
better yet, just forward an entire subdomain of email addresses to your main account. Make a new email address for each time you give it out.
:)
If you start getting spam at an address, you know who sold you out, and you can easily just turn it off (mmMmm... procmail).
Someone once had something where he could tell when someone visited his webpage by the automatically generated email address that it gave the user... Anyone have a link up?
Pictures of Toasted AOL CDs... Wow. :)
Toasties!
We're faced with yet another problem with quantifying the qualitative.
Just how big does an orbiting mass need to be before it's considered a planet? Scientists endlessly debated whether or not pluto was indeed a planet or not when it was discovered. It had a strange elliptical orbit, and was smaller than any other planet.
As our technology progresses, we find smaller and smaller objects that orbit around our sun.
Where does this stop? Does a rock the size of a small town count as a planet? How about the size of a building? A dump truck? A basketball?
Just how big is a planet?
Well, you can find out what normal ones look like on a website about Data Destruction .
I can't help but notice a growing trend of problems, and they all seem to be Windows problems...
And Microsoft preaches on about how secure their software is.
The last time Linux was mentioned with some sort of security problem in the news was the prolin virus -- another Windows thing. How ironic.
I find it sad that humanity assumes we "own" the moon, as well as the earth, and everything else we come upon.
In the end, we'll probably wreck it like we messed up here.
You don't need 100,000 passwords.
;-)
You only need one...
Hey, CmdrTaco, what ISP do you use?
We all know that CmdrTaco made a mistake, but saying that he should be canned is going one step too far. We all mistakes eventually... hey, look how many advisories and patches are posted every day. Look at what he's done for us, and now you say he should be fired just because he forgot to change a password? We've got to take this with a grain of salt -- ok, someone got full access to slashdot. What does this mean to us? No noticeable difference -- yet. Will this destroy the world economy? No. Will this affect anything besides making CmdrTaco work hard for the next week? No. He's already paying the price by having to rebuild everything -- give the guy some slack.
True enough, but do remember that the weakest link defines how strong the chain is.
So what if you encrypt passwords on the server, passwords are stored in cookies on your home machine, as well as sent plaintext over miles upon miles of internet cabling before reaching slashdot.org.
If someone really wanted everyone's slashdot passwords, all they'd have to do is sniff some connection along the way.
Hackers will always hack in. There's no such thing as an invincible system. It's just a matter of time and determination (as we've seen time and time again).
Great, now they can make swimming pools for those astronauts...
If it's cheap and better... it won't be small.
If it's small and better... it won't be cheap!
I say forget about smaller, cheaper, better, maybe we should worry about getting it there, or we're just wasting money.
The Mars rover mission was a success, why can't we repeat it?
Although Murphy's Law does state that the further away a computer is from humans, the more likely it is to hang on a reboot. (Which explains why whenever you restart a computer over the network, it never comes back up ;)
"Your computer was not properly shutdown. Press return to run scandisk on your drives."
Better send that technician.