"Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News."
They actually were collecting incriminating evidence against the virus.
Hey whoever you are, don't you even dare mod me flamebait when I'm talking about Japan. I was learning Japanese a whole month here out of pure passion for the Japanese way of life (before realising that well, I can't learn it)!
I can say "Vare va denva desu" though, which I think meant "I am a telephone"...
"The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes, a new study found."
Now... if I feed it something (like, I guess sugar), would it grow though? Imagine the instructions: "mix with sugar 4:1"...
And further, if I use it to glue a broken sugar bowl, should I expect a self-replicating glue disaster?
"It's not clear how the glue actually works, however, but researchers presume some special proteins must be attached to the sugars."
Well that sounds ensuring, right guys. Reminds me of that movie, The Stuff (1985).
A bunch of scientists like our folks here, discover weird white substance on one of the Earth Poles (please save me the jokes on what you think it was). So naturally, what you think he does? He tastes it, and it's good.
So they just come with the tankers and start pumping it out and selling it as food. Turns out it eats you from the inside and turns you into a zombie.
By the way, has anyone tried to eat that glue and see what it tastes like?
And why are we not looking into the bright future of CRT monitors? How about going back and talking about the future of typewriting machines?
They're just gone, some of the top players on the market closed their PDA divisions, the smart phone IS a superset of the PDA (most in the business class have stylus, hand writing recognition, basic office apps, browser of course, scheduler etc.).
"Or course you don't want to be anally raped (okay I'm make an assumpmtion here, you might get off on it for all I know), but do you want it go through it twice?"
You really don't know how a government make a budget I guess. First, you can take more than half of it on in corruption deals, that's given.
You can take half of what's left in funding ridiculous projects like tank robocop suits and robot donkeys for the military.
Then you gotta know that when the budgeting is done, every institution HAS to claim to be as inefficient as possible so they can get more money. If they become efficient (i.e. require less money), they will report lesser expenses and will get progressively less money each year. That's bad since when they need the money they can't go back and change the budget.
Another reason it's bad is you don't get to spend on cars and luxury buildings, or how about the 500 million FBI computer system that was scrapped recently since it "kinda didn't work".
So basically government institutions and organisations are motivated by "design" to waste money in the worst ways possible way. A little percentage of that money is spent on infrastructure and salaries.
Last but not least, if IRS finds that half of US isn't paying taxes and makes them to pay, do you honestly believe that would result in taxes dropping twice? No, we'll see more corruption and more robot donkeys.
"Sorry, but I have to side with the IRS here. Everyone who isn't paying the taxes they're supposed to be deserves to be found out. People who cheat on their taxes just make the rest of us pay more."
That's the beauty of it. Let's replace taxes with something more graphical, like for example being raped analy.
If someone escapes and isn't raped analy, the rest will cheerfully hunt him down so that he can be raped analy like they are, since why should only they suffer.
All should suffer!
-----
Back to taxes, large corporation evade taxes without needing PayPal. Those who hide money in PayPal are small businesses and individuals, for most of whom paying the taxes is the difference between profit and bankrupt.
If the IRS targets PayPal cheaters, that would be since they are the easy target, not the biggest problem.
1. gotta be expensive (we don't wanna look like cheap assholes)
2. gotta make it sound like it's out of a sci-fi movie
Training donkeys to help soldiers with carrying provisions : REJECTED
A million dollar noisy and entertaining robotized donkey, looks like those big quadruped machines on Hot in Episode VI - ACCEPTED
Laser beams shooting out of airplanes, like on space ships - ACCEPTED
Light mattery to replace bullet proof vests - REJECTED
Robotized cyborg-like appendages, makes soldiers look exactly like Robocop - ACCEPTED
Machine gun that shoots of RPG-s targeted at tanks - REJECTED
Mysterious Force field repelling RPG-s - ACCEPTED
"Bundled in with this patch is a change to the behaviour of embedded controls in IE6 on Windows XP, due to the Eolas patent issue. This means that things like Flash navigation or Java widgets might not work without being clicked first to activate."
To solve the issues with Flash, check out my sig. It's free.
"It would be nice if you gave a quick description of what exactly iFolder is. From reading the article posting, the first few paragraphs of your blog, and the link in the first paragraph of your blog, I know it's written in GTK# and that it's from Novell, but I still have no idea what the hell it is and now I don't care anymore."
Dude, that's a geeks site, never EVER admit you don't know what's the article about. Just nod and agree.. just nod and agree...
"I can't remember any radioactive bombs dropped at Sofia. However, I remember there was one anti-radar missile that dropped over a family house here in Sofia, about one mile of the office i used ot work."
I think those used depleted uranium. It was disputable if it's depleted uranium is radioactive enough to harm, but yea...
"The camera integration has in fact reached such a stage that any self-respecting phone would incorporate at least a megapixel camera."
That's of course not true, since there's an antire range of business phones with no camera at all (the lack of camera is even a feature in that environment), and a lot of them come with VGA camera (0.3 MP).
I still think there's enough sense left in the phone manifacturers to embed phone features depending on their target audience desires/needs, and not because of some ill conceived understanding of "self-respectness".
"I am questioning the entire range of 2-megapixel camera phones. Are they really worth it? For the most part, no"
The phone manifacturers don't try to put the embed camera as a standalone camera replacement, so why do you? Yes ok, breaking news, phone cameras are not to be used by photographers for professional work. Duh.
I am a happy owner of a K750i which is part of the review, and I actually claim the quality of the photos is pretty good compared to the majority of other phones with lesser cameras. You can even use it to make average to good quality prints for your home album, especially if you first process the image a bit to clean it up.
The 2MP camera phones are actually the first that you can use to make photos you can keep, and not just a smudge where you barely recognize someone's face on. For this, they are perfect.
And the K750i is so tiny! Not quite like the pro cameras you compare it with...
"I hate the way this whole 'naked PC' thing is painted as purely a piracy issue. We just bought 10 Workstations from HP that come with WinXP Pro and no way to buy them without despite the fact that they are intended as Linux machines and HP advertises them as fully Linux compatible."
You actually bought the machines purely for the Windows didn't you? You love Microsoft, and you love Windows, it's best to confess, you don't want something to.. you know... happen to your home machine's Automatic Updates, now do you?
NASA secretly discovers disturbing facts about the nature of the tenth planet, and decides the news is too shocking for the wide audience. A plan is created to announce the news in several manageable bites:
1. tenth planet not as big as previously thougth, it's more like a small planet, but hey it's a still a friggin 10-th planet, right!
2. tenth planet not a planet as previously thougth, it's more like a moon of Pluto.. but it's still a friggin planet, if not THE 10-th planet...
3. new moon not really a moon, turns out it's more like a really big meteor, so big, it's kinda as big as a moon, almost, but not exactly...
4. big meteor kinda smaller than big, more like, medium meteor, still there though! xena, the medium meteor!! Yei!
5. ok maybe it's not that of a medium, more like a small meteor, little warrior meteor thingy.
6. hey what did you know! that little meteor thingy noone really friggin cares about, was a smudge on the Hubble lens system! huh, sh*t happens, but it's not like we confused it to be the 10-th planet in the Solar system, I mean, cut us some slack, come on:)
7. hey watch us drink cola in zero gravity. wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble!! lol!
"Trillian doesn't have any spyware unless I missed something in a memo?"
No thank god;) But unfortunately it has a terrible record full of vulnerabilities, exploits etc. It's kinda like the IE of instant messengers. Maybe since they gotta support a lot of providers or I dunno.
But that's the sort of impression this, otherwise pretty functional and useful software, left in me.
I don't want to put the blame on anyone but when few years ago US was 'freeing' Jugoslavia flying off from bases based over here (Bulgaria), it was happening that from time to time they accidentally were dropping their radioactive bombs over houses in our capital city (I'm not kidding).
I just hope this new weapon doesn't make it too easy to destroy wrong targets when your aim is kinda off, given the power and distancees we're talking about.
Not that I blame anyone. But I don't want a hole through my house (or me).
Goodmail's service is built around one single idea: easy to pitch to CEO's of large mail providers.
The providers get paid, and they get a good excuse for charging those fees. End of story.
If Goodmail's intentions were genuine, they wouldn't charge the "businesses" for every separate mail provider, but create globally valid certificates and then discuss with mail providers of accepting them.
However who would care to accept the certificates if he doesn't get the dough (the fees)? So there, we arrive at what Goodmail did.
Can you imagine paying up completely independently to every single ISP in the world so it can accept your SSL certificate? Yea, it's THAT bad...
Slashdot Mirror
"Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News."
They actually were collecting incriminating evidence against the virus.
Hey whoever you are, don't you even dare mod me flamebait when I'm talking about Japan. I was learning Japanese a whole month here out of pure passion for the Japanese way of life (before realising that well, I can't learn it)!
I can say "Vare va denva desu" though, which I think meant "I am a telephone"...
"And here [nature.com] is the video of cell division."
Why is this outrageous video not labeled "not safe for work" or something?!
"a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division."
Eeewww!! Grosss!!
Anybody else also reminded of those "see me eat my hamburger in reverse" videos?
You gotta give the Japan people props about their notorious trains, because they're not trains, they're, I don't know, space ships.
How many G does a passenger feel as the "train" accelerates? I mean, some of them look up side down I wonder if the seats are on the roofs?
Also most of them don't actually touch the rails they fly on a magnetic fields or something, right?
Do passengers have to pass a special training to ride on one of those trains?
Has it happened that a Japanese train can't take a corner and just flies off never to be seen anymore?
Anyhow, I bet they are really proud of their trains, and they have to. Good luck with hydrogen bomb ones as well!
I mean hydrogen fuel cell, sorry.
"Three cars per quarter? I don't get it."
Me neither. They didn't even mention the paint color of the cars.
"But, how do I get the top off the freaking bottle??"
It'll probably be sold dry or require you to mix it with something else to start working.
"The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes, a new study found."
Now... if I feed it something (like, I guess sugar), would it grow though? Imagine the instructions: "mix with sugar 4:1"...
And further, if I use it to glue a broken sugar bowl, should I expect a self-replicating glue disaster?
"It's not clear how the glue actually works, however, but researchers presume some special proteins must be attached to the sugars."
Well that sounds ensuring, right guys. Reminds me of that movie, The Stuff (1985).
A bunch of scientists like our folks here, discover weird white substance on one of the Earth Poles (please save me the jokes on what you think it was). So naturally, what you think he does? He tastes it, and it's good.
So they just come with the tankers and start pumping it out and selling it as food. Turns out it eats you from the inside and turns you into a zombie.
By the way, has anyone tried to eat that glue and see what it tastes like?
"1,000 people at a cost of $400 million.
$400,000 per person caught?"
And then of course the IRS is after some PayPal shmuck who hid his $400 from taxes.
And why are we not looking into the bright future of CRT monitors?
How about going back and talking about the future of typewriting machines?
They're just gone, some of the top players on the market closed their PDA divisions, the smart phone IS a superset of the PDA (most in the business class have stylus, hand writing recognition, basic office apps, browser of course, scheduler etc.).
"Or course you don't want to be anally raped (okay I'm make an assumpmtion here, you might get off on it for all I know), but do you want it go through it twice?"
You really don't know how a government make a budget I guess. First, you can take more than half of it on in corruption deals, that's given.
You can take half of what's left in funding ridiculous projects like tank robocop suits and robot donkeys for the military.
Then you gotta know that when the budgeting is done, every institution HAS to claim to be as inefficient as possible so they can get more money. If they become efficient (i.e. require less money), they will report lesser expenses and will get progressively less money each year. That's bad since when they need the money they can't go back and change the budget.
Another reason it's bad is you don't get to spend on cars and luxury buildings, or how about the 500 million FBI computer system that was scrapped recently since it "kinda didn't work".
So basically government institutions and organisations are motivated by "design" to waste money in the worst ways possible way. A little percentage of that money is spent on infrastructure and salaries.
Last but not least, if IRS finds that half of US isn't paying taxes and makes them to pay, do you honestly believe that would result in taxes dropping twice? No, we'll see more corruption and more robot donkeys.
Just don't be naive, people.
"Global Warming has become more than just a scientific issue and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some."
Oh shit, where's Quade when you need him to turn on the damn reactor!
"Sorry, but I have to side with the IRS here. Everyone who isn't paying the taxes they're supposed to be deserves to be found out. People who cheat on their taxes just make the rest of us pay more."
That's the beauty of it. Let's replace taxes with something more graphical, like for example being raped analy.
If someone escapes and isn't raped analy, the rest will cheerfully hunt him down so that he can be raped analy like they are, since why should only they suffer.
All should suffer!
-----
Back to taxes, large corporation evade taxes without needing PayPal. Those who hide money in PayPal are small businesses and individuals, for most of whom paying the taxes is the difference between profit and bankrupt.
If the IRS targets PayPal cheaters, that would be since they are the easy target, not the biggest problem.
1. gotta be expensive (we don't wanna look like cheap assholes) 2. gotta make it sound like it's out of a sci-fi movie Training donkeys to help soldiers with carrying provisions : REJECTED A million dollar noisy and entertaining robotized donkey, looks like those big quadruped machines on Hot in Episode VI - ACCEPTED Laser beams shooting out of airplanes, like on space ships - ACCEPTED Light mattery to replace bullet proof vests - REJECTED Robotized cyborg-like appendages, makes soldiers look exactly like Robocop - ACCEPTED Machine gun that shoots of RPG-s targeted at tanks - REJECTED Mysterious Force field repelling RPG-s - ACCEPTED
"Bundled in with this patch is a change to the behaviour of embedded controls in IE6 on Windows XP, due to the Eolas patent issue. This means that things like Flash navigation or Java widgets might not work without being clicked first to activate."
To solve the issues with Flash, check out my sig. It's free.
The patch in question patches not less than 10 critical patches in IE and Windows that can be used to compromise your system.
"It would be nice if you gave a quick description of what exactly iFolder is. From reading the article posting, the first few paragraphs of your blog, and the link in the first paragraph of your blog, I know it's written in GTK# and that it's from Novell, but I still have no idea what the hell it is and now I don't care anymore." Dude, that's a geeks site, never EVER admit you don't know what's the article about. Just nod and agree.. just nod and agree...
"I can't remember any radioactive bombs dropped at Sofia. However, I remember there was one anti-radar missile that dropped over a family house here in Sofia, about one mile of the office i used ot work."
I think those used depleted uranium. It was disputable if it's depleted uranium is radioactive enough to harm, but yea...
"The camera integration has in fact reached such a stage that any self-respecting phone would incorporate at least a megapixel camera."
That's of course not true, since there's an antire range of business phones with no camera at all (the lack of camera is even a feature in that environment), and a lot of them come with VGA camera (0.3 MP).
I still think there's enough sense left in the phone manifacturers to embed phone features depending on their target audience desires/needs, and not because of some ill conceived understanding of "self-respectness".
"I am questioning the entire range of 2-megapixel camera phones. Are they really worth it? For the most part, no"
The phone manifacturers don't try to put the embed camera as a standalone camera replacement, so why do you? Yes ok, breaking news, phone cameras are not to be used by photographers for professional work. Duh.
I am a happy owner of a K750i which is part of the review, and I actually claim the quality of the photos is pretty good compared to the majority of other phones with lesser cameras. You can even use it to make average to good quality prints for your home album, especially if you first process the image a bit to clean it up.
The 2MP camera phones are actually the first that you can use to make photos you can keep, and not just a smudge where you barely recognize someone's face on. For this, they are perfect.
And the K750i is so tiny! Not quite like the pro cameras you compare it with...
"I hate the way this whole 'naked PC' thing is painted as purely a piracy issue. We just bought 10 Workstations from HP that come with WinXP Pro and no way to buy them without despite the fact that they are intended as Linux machines and HP advertises them as fully Linux compatible."
You actually bought the machines purely for the Windows didn't you? You love Microsoft, and you love Windows, it's best to confess, you don't want something to.. you know... happen to your home machine's Automatic Updates, now do you?
- B.G.
NASA secretly discovers disturbing facts about the nature of the tenth planet, and decides the news is too shocking for the wide audience. A plan is created to announce the news in several manageable bites:
:)
1. tenth planet not as big as previously thougth, it's more like a small planet, but hey it's a still a friggin 10-th planet, right!
2. tenth planet not a planet as previously thougth, it's more like a moon of Pluto.. but it's still a friggin planet, if not THE 10-th planet...
3. new moon not really a moon, turns out it's more like a really big meteor, so big, it's kinda as big as a moon, almost, but not exactly...
4. big meteor kinda smaller than big, more like, medium meteor, still there though! xena, the medium meteor!! Yei!
5. ok maybe it's not that of a medium, more like a small meteor, little warrior meteor thingy.
6. hey what did you know! that little meteor thingy noone really friggin cares about, was a smudge on the Hubble lens system! huh, sh*t happens, but it's not like we confused it to be the 10-th planet in the Solar system, I mean, cut us some slack, come on
7. hey watch us drink cola in zero gravity. wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble!! lol!
"Trillian doesn't have any spyware unless I missed something in a memo?"
;) But unfortunately it has a terrible record full of vulnerabilities, exploits etc. It's kinda like the IE of instant messengers. Maybe since they gotta support a lot of providers or I dunno.
No thank god
But that's the sort of impression this, otherwise pretty functional and useful software, left in me.
"AVG... Ad-aware:... Spybot Search and Destroy:... Hijack This!:... Spywareblaster:"
Hm.. anyone see a pattern here?
"Firefox"
Firefox! Yei! But then what do we need all those spy/ad-aware/antivirus apps for?
"Trillian:"
Oooh... that's why...
I don't want to put the blame on anyone but when few years ago US was 'freeing' Jugoslavia flying off from bases based over here (Bulgaria), it was happening that from time to time they accidentally were dropping their radioactive bombs over houses in our capital city (I'm not kidding).
I just hope this new weapon doesn't make it too easy to destroy wrong targets when your aim is kinda off, given the power and distancees we're talking about.
Not that I blame anyone. But I don't want a hole through my house (or me).
Goodmail's service is built around one single idea: easy to pitch to CEO's of large mail providers.
The providers get paid, and they get a good excuse for charging those fees. End of story.
If Goodmail's intentions were genuine, they wouldn't charge the "businesses" for every separate mail provider, but create globally valid certificates and then discuss with mail providers of accepting them.
However who would care to accept the certificates if he doesn't get the dough (the fees)? So there, we arrive at what Goodmail did.
Can you imagine paying up completely independently to every single ISP in the world so it can accept your SSL certificate? Yea, it's THAT bad...