This is not the first time Chinese hackers have attempted to gain access to US Government systems.
Well it's not like they're the only ones that have ever tried. When you run out of beer, life can get pretty boring, and you're so drunk, you don't know if you're attacking the US goverment servers, or Carmen Electra's server.
This will sound crazy. But, I recently saw a review for a keyboard that had little organic LCDs for each key. Now, I'm not saying thats a good idea, infact, it sounds like a huge waste of energy. However, you could do what other people are suggesting, and that is change the key map each time, and have those little screen personal protector things on it. I forget what they're called, but you can buy them for your PC, and laptop, monitor, and it will reduce the viewing angle to the person sitting immediately infront of them. Hence, you can see your keyboard, but no one else can.
Today with CO2 around 385 ppm...climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm...to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century.
That's assuming we as a race live that long. With things like North Korea, and the current situation in Iraq, I'd feel good if we made it for that long. Anyway, unless they make a miracle drug to keep everyone alive for longer, I wont be around then. So, my grandchildren are screwed.
Corporations are increasingly supportive of teleworking for reasons that range from saving money on office space to needing a backup in the event of a natural disaster or terror attack."
"If a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days, the system will curtail functionality much further by restricting users to just the Web browser for an hour at a time
As everyone at Microsoft knows, (or should have already figured out), everyone has too much of a life to spend more than an hour a day on the internet.;-)
Hitachi Maxell Ltd. has developed an optical disc that is less than 1/10 of a millimeter thick.
In a toally unrelated story, the writers and producers of the James Bond movies, Q, and Sean Connery are sueing Hitachi for stealing their idea from the next James Bond movie...
But that's the way some of us like it. Why should I have to download and compile some.tar.gz files rather than just opening up the GUI, selecting the packages I want, and install. No need to worry about dependancies or weird compile errors.
That's not true at all. I'm running Ubuntu right now because I got sick and tired of trying to compile Nvidia drivers because Mandriva didn't include them with the kernel. Now all I have to do is go to a GUI and install the files, no more compiling and pulling my hair out trying to get the stupid thing to compile against a broken kernel source, which urpmi installed. Near the end I was compiling half the stuff on my Mandriva (2006) system simply because it was newer than the repo's stuff, and more importantly, it worked.
Who cares? Frankly, 2.0 has been around for about 10 years. Which, in tech years, is a freakin long time. This is easy to remember because an MKLinux server on the network runs 2.0, which was built in 1997. I don't recall any major rootkit problems in the past decade. So, if nothing major has happened in the last ten years targeting this particular flaw, then why do we lose sleep over it now? I'm not gonna worry about it. What I am gonna worry about is the new call structure in 2.6.17 that's messed everyone up.
...An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code...
Which is why it's smart to run NoScript. A Firefox extention that blocks the execution of any scripts on a webpage without user concent. So, if you're tired of Javascript taking over your Firefox, get NoScript.
Yahoo! mail will never be on the same level as GMail. I've used Yahoo! for longer than I've used GMail (I got a gmail account fairly early in the invitation process), and I've never really liked it. One thing I didn't like was that Yahoo! Mail basically forced me to accept their Beta stuff over the tried-and-trusted old interface. There was no "I don't want this" button to choose, much like many Windows dialogs. It was very frustrating, and I didn't appriciate it at all. GMail's web interface is nicer than Hotmail's (Don't get me started on how many flaws that has) and Yahoo!'s (to many graphical ads). One advantage that GMail had over the rest of the pack is that GMail allows for free POP3 access, although because I have multiple machines, I'd prefer IMAP. Yahoo! and Hotmail both want like $20/yr for POP3 access, which I find to be outragious. They're alreayd making revenue off the ads on my page, so why don't I get POP3 for free? Better yet, make it like adsense... since I have ads in my email, I should get paid. I also dislike Yahoo! sticking large graphical ads in their Groups emails.
Yahoo! Mail rating: 5.5/10 (graphical ads, inconvient settings area, bad UI)
Hotmail rating: 3/10 (graphical ads, not easy to access others profile if you don't have MSFT MSN Messenger, spam spam spam, hard to block people, small space limit)
GMail rating: 8/10 (no IMAP access, having a bot look at all my emails)
Intel is not doing you a favor by requiring you to go to a website and download firmware for your hardware. You paid for the hardware, and Intel is thanking you by making it difficult for you to use it. Let Intel know what you think of this.
Look, I'm all for hurting intel. I jumped ship to AMD after my second intel based machine. Why? Because the intel machine was to loud. I'd invested over $300 in trying to make the machine quieter, and it's still 10 times louder than my AMD system, which I wasn't even trying to make quiet. Not all company's are onboard with open source, but cut Intel some slack. It's like telling a guy whose under a lot of stress at work that he has to support his Mother's Brother's Aunt because she exsists. I've run many flavors of linux on my intel machines, and I've never had any problems with them. SuSE, Fedora Core 2 & 3, Mandrake LE2005 & 2006, and Ubuntu all ran fine on my Intel machines. So if you're talking about the fact that nVidia drivers are a pain because they aren't open source, well then, you're shooting the messenger, to speak. Perhaps you're not at frustrated with Intel, as you are with the other system compontents that require closed source drivers. I fail to see where the beef is.
Ok, but if you don't want the aliens running away screaming, make sure they're hot! The last thing aliens need to see is some old guy talking about how great earth is. Speaking of which, how can someone recieve this broadcast?
I guess he figured that being the first man on the moon wasn't enough! He had to appear deep so that women would find him more attractive!!! I wish I had his logic.
That's one small realization for me. One giant leap for Ice Wewe.
I think the reason Google isn't releasing the data is because it would open up a new wound for them. The last thing they want is people in other countries thinking that Google not only collects private data on them, but will release it at the drop of a hat to aviod a long and complicated law suit. They're trying to protect their intregity with this move. I think its a good thing, in this day and age, we don't need more companys like Verizon, Bellsouth, and AT&T giving away our personal information to the government. If we haven't done any thing illegal that they're trying to persue, then our personal information shouldn't be released without our prior knowledge and concent.
The next thing you know they'll be sites charging people to break their online gambling addiction.
"Stop loosing money to onlinegambling sites today! We'll show you how! All you need is your credit card [to verify your age, of course] and your time."
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Well it's not like they're the only ones that have ever tried. When you run out of beer, life can get pretty boring, and you're so drunk, you don't know if you're attacking the US goverment servers, or Carmen Electra's server.
This will sound crazy. But, I recently saw a review for a keyboard that had little organic LCDs for each key. Now, I'm not saying thats a good idea, infact, it sounds like a huge waste of energy. However, you could do what other people are suggesting, and that is change the key map each time, and have those little screen personal protector things on it. I forget what they're called, but you can buy them for your PC, and laptop, monitor, and it will reduce the viewing angle to the person sitting immediately infront of them. Hence, you can see your keyboard, but no one else can.
That's assuming we as a race live that long. With things like North Korea, and the current situation in Iraq, I'd feel good if we made it for that long. Anyway, unless they make a miracle drug to keep everyone alive for longer, I wont be around then. So, my grandchildren are screwed.
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
BOO!
Now get back to work!
Ahhhhh! Refreshing...
Great! Now I can finally catch up on some Zzz's buring class without the prof knowing!
OSS software and support is so expensive because it's a niche market.
As everyone at Microsoft knows, (or should have already figured out), everyone has too much of a life to spend more than an hour a day on the internet. ;-)
In a toally unrelated story, the writers and producers of the James Bond movies, Q, and Sean Connery are sueing Hitachi for stealing their idea from the next James Bond movie...
No! Next thing they'll be doing the throttling my Norwegian p0rn!
Wait, an even better deal just came up! I'll sell you the link to some open source office tools for $10!
Just like those Ebay auctions for information on places you can buy an Xbox from for $50.
No, they wont attack it. The plane that they've 'borrowed' (for jihad) will unexplicably be pulled towards the magnet. Duh, I wonder why...
But that's the way some of us like it. Why should I have to download and compile some .tar.gz files rather than just opening up the GUI, selecting the packages I want, and install. No need to worry about dependancies or weird compile errors.
That's not true at all. I'm running Ubuntu right now because I got sick and tired of trying to compile Nvidia drivers because Mandriva didn't include them with the kernel. Now all I have to do is go to a GUI and install the files, no more compiling and pulling my hair out trying to get the stupid thing to compile against a broken kernel source, which urpmi installed. Near the end I was compiling half the stuff on my Mandriva (2006) system simply because it was newer than the repo's stuff, and more importantly, it worked.
This only works on Intel macs, which means that everyone else with a PPC mac is screwed.
Who cares? Frankly, 2.0 has been around for about 10 years. Which, in tech years, is a freakin long time. This is easy to remember because an MKLinux server on the network runs 2.0, which was built in 1997. I don't recall any major rootkit problems in the past decade. So, if nothing major has happened in the last ten years targeting this particular flaw, then why do we lose sleep over it now? I'm not gonna worry about it. What I am gonna worry about is the new call structure in 2.6.17 that's messed everyone up.
Score: 5, Informative
Now I have to go check my boobs...
Which is why it's smart to run NoScript. A Firefox extention that blocks the execution of any scripts on a webpage without user concent. So, if you're tired of Javascript taking over your Firefox, get NoScript.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
Yahoo! Mail rating: 5.5/10 (graphical ads, inconvient settings area, bad UI)
Hotmail rating: 3/10 (graphical ads, not easy to access others profile if you don't have MSFT MSN Messenger, spam spam spam, hard to block people, small space limit)
GMail rating: 8/10 (no IMAP access, having a bot look at all my emails)
Look, I'm all for hurting intel. I jumped ship to AMD after my second intel based machine. Why? Because the intel machine was to loud. I'd invested over $300 in trying to make the machine quieter, and it's still 10 times louder than my AMD system, which I wasn't even trying to make quiet. Not all company's are onboard with open source, but cut Intel some slack. It's like telling a guy whose under a lot of stress at work that he has to support his Mother's Brother's Aunt because she exsists. I've run many flavors of linux on my intel machines, and I've never had any problems with them. SuSE, Fedora Core 2 & 3, Mandrake LE2005 & 2006, and Ubuntu all ran fine on my Intel machines. So if you're talking about the fact that nVidia drivers are a pain because they aren't open source, well then, you're shooting the messenger, to speak. Perhaps you're not at frustrated with Intel, as you are with the other system compontents that require closed source drivers. I fail to see where the beef is.
Ok, but if you don't want the aliens running away screaming, make sure they're hot! The last thing aliens need to see is some old guy talking about how great earth is. Speaking of which, how can someone recieve this broadcast?
That's one small realization for me. One giant leap for Ice Wewe.
I think the reason Google isn't releasing the data is because it would open up a new wound for them. The last thing they want is people in other countries thinking that Google not only collects private data on them, but will release it at the drop of a hat to aviod a long and complicated law suit. They're trying to protect their intregity with this move. I think its a good thing, in this day and age, we don't need more companys like Verizon, Bellsouth, and AT&T giving away our personal information to the government. If we haven't done any thing illegal that they're trying to persue, then our personal information shouldn't be released without our prior knowledge and concent.
"Stop loosing money to onlinegambling sites today! We'll show you how! All you need is your credit card [to verify your age, of course] and your time."