Seriously did noone catch the Euro Trip reference... that had me laughing immediately...
Still, getting lost in the mountains isn't quite getting cheated on... but getting sent to space for FOUR MINUTES!!! That would make me spin in my creamted grave...
Karma tends to go down because since I became a karma whore with a +2 moderation the slashdot mod's got bitchy (and jealous) and mod me redundant and offtopic all of a sudden. They weren't doing that for any of my posts before being said karma whore.
Anyway, well done to the spyware author... I'm sure Spyware walks a gray line, but I would draw attention to the Windows EULA (or others). For example, I only learnt the other day that when I tell windows NOT to update certain things Microsoft is informed of this just as much as when a download occurs. It is in the EULA and is thus perfectly acceptable, but I would consider it a form of spyware.
Ah the human race... we start life by having a cry when the 110th disk of a 111 disk Windows install is corrupt... we're apparantly going to end it that way too!
Pffft... Australian. I'm flat out getting my grammar correct, let alone finding the right position to put one of these... apostrophe things in the right spot...
When I signed up for my current job I was required to give my finger print to the company so that I could clock in and out every day and make my money. Being the paranoid I am, this disturbs me. What disturbs me more is that should an officer ask we are obliged to hand out said prints.
This isn't quite a background check, but I know that when they looked at my license it was run through the NSW License Database to ensure that I still actually *had* it and that my offenses weren't too bad.
IMHO, if you want a job you do what you need to do, providing the pay is right.
And to the Anonymous GP: Christ man, I wouldn't be sooking about a background check to see if your a sex offender, I'm not sending my children to a single school which hasn't been audited. And if they find out that 3 months ago you were arrested for fraud, do you think you could possibly get a job as an accountant? I understand that people reform, but as has been mentioned, I don't know that, only you and those close to you do.
I'm not likely to be a terrorist soon, but don't these people know what REDUNDANT control's are?
That said, I have no doubts that said helicopter will also take out 802.11 signals because only a really dumb team would jam only mobile signals. As far as I am concerned the only reason these plans have been "leaked" is because people would otherwise be calling their Telco going "WTF MY PHONE DROPPED OUT".
So yeah, ten points for a great idea, but try and think like a terrorist, and then how would you defend against that. I'm happy enough to bash the administration as much as the next guy (personally I think Howard [aussie PM] is a dick, but better than the alternatives), but sometimes we need to step back from the abuse and look at what we're really talking about...
At the risk of generalisation, it is more often than not age (this bloke, whilst awesome, sounds like an exception). Using my own experience:
My grandfather has always been highly interested in computers and typewriters and pretty much anything you can poke a soldering iron at. He taught me programming a few years back on a C64... he's still interested, but more and more I find that we are discussing Amstrad's and Commodores. He simply can't keep up with modern hardware. I told him I was running a machine with 2 gig of RAM and he couldn't believe me because he can't keep up.
Having a single niche, namely digital photography, is inherently easier to learn I think because the field is a lot further focused. I'm also operating in a company of near 2,000 employee's, none of which can do more than click the buttons they were told to click.
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P2P or something similar to the IronPort system of communication for Black listing IP address'?
We are geeks after all, I'm sure we can come up with something that doesn't have a single point of failure.
That said, the problem is not a single point of failure or not, the problem is that if we start stooping to a similar level then we are no better than the spammers. A fine moral path to walk (not that I walk it at all, I'm ready to help the GP with as much work as possible), but a path that is there none the less.
Kind of like when you tell a Yahoo technician to google something? Or mention a petrol bowser? Get over it... noone's deliberately slandering the italian's, if anything they're acknowledging that they were the best in a particular field. It's like calling script kiddies crackers, or even going so far as to call them "hackers". It's only offensive if you want it to be offensive. Until then, get off slashdot and let me read some real information.
On Topic: Why is this news? We've been watching worms and other "malware" fight it out for the last few years... they come up with new weapons, we come up with new protections (and some of us with hats stained gray may come up with a few new weapons too;)... same shit different day...
The cat and dog probably aren't going to go forth and tell your children about it just yet... of course in 20 or 30 years time they may be capable, but until that point...
On a more disturbing note: what happens if your prosthetic arm gets a kernel corruption and begins trying to murder people? Then it might accidentally wipe itself before you get to court so the judge has no proof it wasn't your arm.
Erm.. I mean.. THIS COULD BE REALLY BAD AND WE SHOULDN'T DO IT. *cough*
Well without thinking it out too much, all I'm thinking right now is a SETI @ ~/ style of search engine. Or maybe something like bittorrent. The whole problem I see with the internet is that, despite all our funky routing tricks, I still have to get from Australia to America to reach Microsoft.com. Bring on the distributed internets!
Disclaimer: Whilst I am a fairly decent programmer, I am nowhere near to the task of this. Do not message me with suggestions or sample code, I won't be able to help.
Back on topic: The people who aren't afraid of google are not the corporations (necessarily) or the home user, they are, quite frankly, those who aren't two things:
1. Paranoid enough to believe Google could be doing something evil [they are a corporation FFS!] 2. INFORMED If they're not informed then they can't possibly be 1.
Bring on the advertisements and the new search engine. Be glad to see it happen.
Whilst I know it supports it, could we blame the shift from:-) to:) on the MSN network? At least in part. If I type:-) it prodocues the emoticon the same as:) in Microsoft's client.
Obviously the other big ones would have something to do with it, IRC certainly plays its part.
I would like to take this moment to make note of something the man who got me into FreeBSD once said (probably others have too):
You have a server that requires rebooting. REBOOT THE FSCKING THING. No point mucking around if a reboot will solve your problem.
I'm all for uptime, as far as I'm concerned it indicates that I've got a rock solid system able to support 100+ users at any given time. OTOH: there's a memory leak in some software written to help administator my network. I'm not there at night so rebooting it daily resolves that issue (I didn't write it and haven't the time to fix it). Do I care for the crappy uptime? No. My network runs as perfectly as I can get it to because I'm willing to cycle the power on a system when its necessary.
IMHO the biggest advantage of the Unix file system is being able to roll all my updates out AND THEN force my users to restart their program. Means that I've only got a few seconds down time rather than waiting for a lot longer as they all log out and have their files patched.
A wigg, a different style of clothing and some effort can let you clean up. If your going to that much effort your not stealing candy canes from a lolly shop though...
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I wonder where "right click -> web developer -> disable javascript" fits into it... or any other method of removing javascript...
Am I hacking because I disable JavaScript by default? That seems like a bit of an outrageous claim to me.
If you were seriously worried, I'd be going a little more expensive and getting some RAID into that... just felt the addition was necessary.
Seriously did noone catch the Euro Trip reference... that had me laughing immediately...
Still, getting lost in the mountains isn't quite getting cheated on... but getting sent to space for FOUR MINUTES!!! That would make me spin in my creamted grave...
Karma tends to go down because since I became a karma whore with a +2 moderation the slashdot mod's got bitchy (and jealous) and mod me redundant and offtopic all of a sudden. They weren't doing that for any of my posts before being said karma whore.
Anyway, well done to the spyware author... I'm sure Spyware walks a gray line, but I would draw attention to the Windows EULA (or others). For example, I only learnt the other day that when I tell windows NOT to update certain things Microsoft is informed of this just as much as when a download occurs. It is in the EULA and is thus perfectly acceptable, but I would consider it a form of spyware.
Ah the human race... we start life by having a cry when the 110th disk of a 111 disk Windows install is corrupt... we're apparantly going to end it that way too!
Judging by the fact that you were modded insightful, I'd suggest that noone caught said joke.
;)
Still, we've got 30+ posts on the best way to trigger a bomb near a president, so I'm sure that something good has come from it
Soviet America makes it seem like Soviet Russia is still to blame.
WE'RE ALL M.A.D. I TELL YOU! M.A.D.
Pffft... Australian. I'm flat out getting my grammar correct, let alone finding the right position to put one of these... apostrophe things in the right spot...
;)
We are, after all, children of convicts
We're australian, go easy on us!
When I signed up for my current job I was required to give my finger print to the company so that I could clock in and out every day and make my money. Being the paranoid I am, this disturbs me. What disturbs me more is that should an officer ask we are obliged to hand out said prints.
This isn't quite a background check, but I know that when they looked at my license it was run through the NSW License Database to ensure that I still actually *had* it and that my offenses weren't too bad.
IMHO, if you want a job you do what you need to do, providing the pay is right.
And to the Anonymous GP: Christ man, I wouldn't be sooking about a background check to see if your a sex offender, I'm not sending my children to a single school which hasn't been audited. And if they find out that 3 months ago you were arrested for fraud, do you think you could possibly get a job as an accountant? I understand that people reform, but as has been mentioned, I don't know that, only you and those close to you do.
My $0.02 AU
I'm not likely to be a terrorist soon, but don't these people know what REDUNDANT control's are?
That said, I have no doubts that said helicopter will also take out 802.11 signals because only a really dumb team would jam only mobile signals. As far as I am concerned the only reason these plans have been "leaked" is because people would otherwise be calling their Telco going "WTF MY PHONE DROPPED OUT".
So yeah, ten points for a great idea, but try and think like a terrorist, and then how would you defend against that. I'm happy enough to bash the administration as much as the next guy (personally I think Howard [aussie PM] is a dick, but better than the alternatives), but sometimes we need to step back from the abuse and look at what we're really talking about...
My $0.02 AU
Getting some is getting some isn't it?
At the risk of generalisation, it is more often than not age (this bloke, whilst awesome, sounds like an exception). Using my own experience:
My grandfather has always been highly interested in computers and typewriters and pretty much anything you can poke a soldering iron at. He taught me programming a few years back on a C64... he's still interested, but more and more I find that we are discussing Amstrad's and Commodores. He simply can't keep up with modern hardware. I told him I was running a machine with 2 gig of RAM and he couldn't believe me because he can't keep up.
Having a single niche, namely digital photography, is inherently easier to learn I think because the field is a lot further focused. I'm also operating in a company of near 2,000 employee's, none of which can do more than click the buttons they were told to click.
My $0.02 AU
P2P or something similar to the IronPort system of communication for Black listing IP address'?
We are geeks after all, I'm sure we can come up with something that doesn't have a single point of failure.
That said, the problem is not a single point of failure or not, the problem is that if we start stooping to a similar level then we are no better than the spammers. A fine moral path to walk (not that I walk it at all, I'm ready to help the GP with as much work as possible), but a path that is there none the less.
Which way did you say?
Kind of like when you tell a Yahoo technician to google something? Or mention a petrol bowser? Get over it... noone's deliberately slandering the italian's, if anything they're acknowledging that they were the best in a particular field. It's like calling script kiddies crackers, or even going so far as to call them "hackers". It's only offensive if you want it to be offensive. Until then, get off slashdot and let me read some real information.
;)... same shit different day...
On Topic: Why is this news? We've been watching worms and other "malware" fight it out for the last few years... they come up with new weapons, we come up with new protections (and some of us with hats stained gray may come up with a few new weapons too
The cat and dog probably aren't going to go forth and tell your children about it just yet... of course in 20 or 30 years time they may be capable, but until that point...
On a more disturbing note: what happens if your prosthetic arm gets a kernel corruption and begins trying to murder people? Then it might accidentally wipe itself before you get to court so the judge has no proof it wasn't your arm.
Erm.. I mean.. THIS COULD BE REALLY BAD AND WE SHOULDN'T DO IT. *cough*
;)
Well without thinking it out too much, all I'm thinking right now is a SETI @ ~/ style of search engine. Or maybe something like bittorrent. The whole problem I see with the internet is that, despite all our funky routing tricks, I still have to get from Australia to America to reach Microsoft.com. Bring on the distributed internets!
Disclaimer: Whilst I am a fairly decent programmer, I am nowhere near to the task of this. Do not message me with suggestions or sample code, I won't be able to help.
Back on topic: The people who aren't afraid of google are not the corporations (necessarily) or the home user, they are, quite frankly, those who aren't two things:
1. Paranoid enough to believe Google could be doing something evil [they are a corporation FFS!]
2. INFORMED If they're not informed then they can't possibly be 1.
Bring on the advertisements and the new search engine. Be glad to see it happen.
Whilst I know it supports it, could we blame the shift from :-) to :) on the MSN network? At least in part. If I type :-) it prodocues the emoticon the same as :) in Microsoft's client.
Obviously the other big ones would have something to do with it, IRC certainly plays its part.
I would like to take this moment to make note of something the man who got me into FreeBSD once said (probably others have too):
You have a server that requires rebooting. REBOOT THE FSCKING THING. No point mucking around if a reboot will solve your problem.
I'm all for uptime, as far as I'm concerned it indicates that I've got a rock solid system able to support 100+ users at any given time. OTOH: there's a memory leak in some software written to help administator my network. I'm not there at night so rebooting it daily resolves that issue (I didn't write it and haven't the time to fix it). Do I care for the crappy uptime? No. My network runs as perfectly as I can get it to because I'm willing to cycle the power on a system when its necessary.
IMHO the biggest advantage of the Unix file system is being able to roll all my updates out AND THEN force my users to restart their program. Means that I've only got a few seconds down time rather than waiting for a lot longer as they all log out and have their files patched.
My $0.02 AU
What?! I don't mistype my queries!
Next your telling me I should log in as a user other than [sa|root|administrator] every day. pffft...
That's the last black metal music I'll ever listen to then... if my heart beat that fast it would probably kill me...
Slashdot V: A new hope
;)
Slashdot VI: Death of the AC
We were all thinking it... I'm just saying it
You got a missus? She wear makeup?
A wigg, a different style of clothing and some effort can let you clean up. If your going to that much effort your not stealing candy canes from a lolly shop though...