1. Infect Linux server of some guy with a blog. 2. Guy blogs about how he dealt with said infection. 3. Blog posting gets linked to on Slashdot. 4. Millions of computers attempt to access the blog, hence bringing down the server.
Don't you see? We've a socially engineered botnet!
(And please, for the love of all that is sacred and funny, don't reply to this and add steps for "???" and "Profit". It's just tired and completely not funny. And the clever little variation on that theme you're thinking about posting right now isn't funny either.)
How is this a news item? "The U.S. trade deficit, which has been enormous for the past several years, once again failed to magically disappear for no reason." In other news, crime, cancer, and car accidents are also failing to suddenly blip out of existence.
I did make a glaringly obvious spelling error, but it was no mistake. I thought that making a blatant spelling error while correcting a minor comma placement issue was rather funny. I wanted to get into the fun since someone had already made a humorous misspelling of "grammar" as "grammer." (That was funny whether or not it was intentional.)
I tried to give away my shtick by placing a dangling modifier in my previous comment. However, I don't think you noticed it, so it was to know a vale.
The comma there is optional, depending on the desired emphasis.
The comma was as much required in your previous statement as it is misplaced in this statement. Having corrected your commas twice now, perhaps this discussion can be concluded?
Voyager is fantastic, but I wish we would put our efforts towards even better deep space probes. Something traveling 100 to 1000 times as fast, with a much more powerful radioactive power source, could provide us with amazing data and views from deep space.
If we could invent something really fast, we could point it towards Proxima Centauri and eventually get some fly-by photos and data.
I know this is not easy, but there are ideas on how to do this that are worth exploring, and yet I don't think much serious effort is being made.
Hey, slow networking is a small price to pay for Secure Computing. At least Vista users can sleep well knowing their computers are safe. Safe from what, noone can say, but they're safe dangit!
The 60% number is pretty useless really. They need to state clearly the actual, real-world power output improvement to be expected by applying this coating to modern photocells. Is it 50%, or 0.02%, or what?
I think that by the time this format contest is over, consumers will have become accustomed to just renting movies. So long as there are two formats, the smart thing to do is either to stick with DVD, or to pick a format and just rent discs. Renting really makes more sense for most movies anyway, and when people realize this they won't go back to the "Own it on DVD today!" and "Build your movie collection!" mindset.
Of course, when the numbers show that movie sales are down, the companies can always just blame it on piracy.
That's a great notion. I wonder how many people have actually gotten out of a ticket with that defense?
I travel to Chicago occasionally, and the interstate speed limit drops from 65 to 55 as I approach the city. However, traffic actually speeds up. The 85 percentile seems to be about 15-20 over. At that speed I still get passed by several cars.
The trouble is that if the speed limit was raised to 70, many people would take that as a reason to go even faster. Personally, I know that there is a big jump in penalty at 20 over, so I'll often just try to go about 15-18 over. I wouldn't speed that much if I didn't think it was reasonably safe, but I think even 75 is probably too slow.
I've thought about this too. It seems like a great idea. The funny thing is, I doubt it would be much different than what we have now. For any given CD, there are almost certainly more purchased copies of that CD in existence than there are people listening to that CD at any specific point in time. Even with all the file sharing, there are enough licenses to cover the behavior, if you look at it like a big network of people borrowing each other's CDs.
The worst possible things that could happen for widespread adoption of a universal login system are:
1. Competition between different standards. 2. Companies with profit motives pushing their own solutions.
It's like the whole HD-DVD vs BluRay issue. End users don't want to deal with choosing one or the other. It would be better for everyone if we could all just come together around one completely open standard.
The standard with the most momentum seems to be OpenID. I hope that a few years from now, I'll be using it for most of my web logins.
recently one police officer got killed at a tank stop
I'm not familiar with this. At a tank stop, does the officer drive the tank, or is the officer attempting to stop a tank? If it's the latter, a tank on the highway should actually be pretty easy to track, even without using a computerized monitoring system.
1) If you are crusading for a cause that is good and moral, it is something to be proud of.
2) None of these details about medical science have much effect on the parent's main points.
3) Just because science can't solve every problem doesn't mean it can't do good. Scientists who worked to defeat polio were doing a good and moral thing. The world is a better place, and many children's lives were saved, because of that work. The fact that the world still contains evil, and that some of the children who were saved grew up to be criminals, doesn't take away from the goodness of what was accomplished.
Agreed. Over and over I've seen the argument on/. that the common consumer can't understand or doesn't care about DRM issues. But here we see an example that the message is actually getting through and the debate is becoming mainstream.
You wouldn't give artists a crappy deal... You wouldn't make them sign their rights away forever... You wouldn't sue your customers... You wouldn't pay for legislation... You wouldn't grossly exaggerate the effects of music copying... You wouldn't compromise the fair use rights of your customers... You wouldn't illegally pay to put your songs on the radio... You wouldn't promote awful music just as a grab for money... You wouldn't do more harm than good to musicians and music consumers...
The real reason this is good news is that it is a sign that 750GB drives should start dropping in price soon. 500GB drives offer a much better GB/$ ratio than 750GB drives at the moment.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, I see, it's a clever DOS attack:
1. Infect Linux server of some guy with a blog.
2. Guy blogs about how he dealt with said infection.
3. Blog posting gets linked to on Slashdot.
4. Millions of computers attempt to access the blog, hence bringing down the server.
Don't you see? We've a socially engineered botnet!
(And please, for the love of all that is sacred and funny, don't reply to this and add steps for "???" and "Profit". It's just tired and completely not funny. And the clever little variation on that theme you're thinking about posting right now isn't funny either.)
How is this a news item? "The U.S. trade deficit, which has been enormous for the past several years, once again failed to magically disappear for no reason." In other news, crime, cancer, and car accidents are also failing to suddenly blip out of existence.
I did make a glaringly obvious spelling error, but it was no mistake. I thought that making a blatant spelling error while correcting a minor comma placement issue was rather funny. I wanted to get into the fun since someone had already made a humorous misspelling of "grammar" as "grammer." (That was funny whether or not it was intentional.)
I tried to give away my shtick by placing a dangling modifier in my previous comment. However, I don't think you noticed it, so it was to know a vale.
The comma was as much required in your previous statement as it is misplaced in this statement. Having corrected your commas twice now, perhaps this discussion can be concluded?
Voyager is fantastic, but I wish we would put our efforts towards even better deep space probes. Something traveling 100 to 1000 times as fast, with a much more powerful radioactive power source, could provide us with amazing data and views from deep space.
If we could invent something really fast, we could point it towards Proxima Centauri and eventually get some fly-by photos and data.
I know this is not easy, but there are ideas on how to do this that are worth exploring, and yet I don't think much serious effort is being made.
Hey, slow networking is a small price to pay for Secure Computing. At least Vista users can sleep well knowing their computers are safe. Safe from what, noone can say, but they're safe dangit!
The 60% number is pretty useless really. They need to state clearly the actual, real-world power output improvement to be expected by applying this coating to modern photocells. Is it 50%, or 0.02%, or what?
How will AMD compete with this? They need to do something sexy.
I've got it: A 69 core processor! Call it the Amsterdam Sexxxxxxxtreme 69.
I think that by the time this format contest is over, consumers will have become accustomed to just renting movies. So long as there are two formats, the smart thing to do is either to stick with DVD, or to pick a format and just rent discs. Renting really makes more sense for most movies anyway, and when people realize this they won't go back to the "Own it on DVD today!" and "Build your movie collection!" mindset.
Of course, when the numbers show that movie sales are down, the companies can always just blame it on piracy.
Actually, police now believe that it was a murder/suicide. Quite a mess.
That's a great notion. I wonder how many people have actually gotten out of a ticket with that defense?
I travel to Chicago occasionally, and the interstate speed limit drops from 65 to 55 as I approach the city. However, traffic actually speeds up. The 85 percentile seems to be about 15-20 over. At that speed I still get passed by several cars.
The trouble is that if the speed limit was raised to 70, many people would take that as a reason to go even faster. Personally, I know that there is a big jump in penalty at 20 over, so I'll often just try to go about 15-18 over. I wouldn't speed that much if I didn't think it was reasonably safe, but I think even 75 is probably too slow.
Your sentance needs a comma.
You're not one of the foolish people who believe that the correct spelling is "grammer," are you?
I've thought about this too. It seems like a great idea. The funny thing is, I doubt it would be much different than what we have now. For any given CD, there are almost certainly more purchased copies of that CD in existence than there are people listening to that CD at any specific point in time. Even with all the file sharing, there are enough licenses to cover the behavior, if you look at it like a big network of people borrowing each other's CDs.
The worst possible things that could happen for widespread adoption of a universal login system are:
1. Competition between different standards.
2. Companies with profit motives pushing their own solutions.
It's like the whole HD-DVD vs BluRay issue. End users don't want to deal with choosing one or the other. It would be better for everyone if we could all just come together around one completely open standard.
The standard with the most momentum seems to be OpenID. I hope that a few years from now, I'll be using it for most of my web logins.
I'm not familiar with this. At a tank stop, does the officer drive the tank, or is the officer attempting to stop a tank? If it's the latter, a tank on the highway should actually be pretty easy to track, even without using a computerized monitoring system.
TMI man, TMI. Ew! Ick!
Yes, for that benchmark we have to look to PETA.
;)
1) If you are crusading for a cause that is good and moral, it is something to be proud of.
2) None of these details about medical science have much effect on the parent's main points.
3) Just because science can't solve every problem doesn't mean it can't do good. Scientists who worked to defeat polio were doing a good and moral thing. The world is a better place, and many children's lives were saved, because of that work. The fact that the world still contains evil, and that some of the children who were saved grew up to be criminals, doesn't take away from the goodness of what was accomplished.
Agreed. Over and over I've seen the argument on /. that the common consumer can't understand or doesn't care about DRM issues. But here we see an example that the message is actually getting through and the debate is becoming mainstream.
Yes, they are eight year olds. My point was that for once, someone really is thinking of the kids, and in a very positive sense.
You wouldn't give artists a crappy deal...
You wouldn't make them sign their rights away forever...
You wouldn't sue your customers...
You wouldn't pay for legislation...
You wouldn't grossly exaggerate the effects of music copying...
You wouldn't compromise the fair use rights of your customers...
You wouldn't illegally pay to put your songs on the radio...
You wouldn't promote awful music just as a grab for money...
You wouldn't do more harm than good to musicians and music consumers...
So why would you pay up?
This is all well and good, but won't someone PLEASE think of the... oh! Nevermind.
Here's another good URL to report.
i s%2019;&version=65;
Warning: NSFW!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genes
The real reason this is good news is that it is a sign that 750GB drives should start dropping in price soon. 500GB drives offer a much better GB/$ ratio than 750GB drives at the moment.
Easy, just keep the servers loaded up with illegal mp3s!