Ok, I originally assumed you were purposely being obtuse so my answer was short, and apparently comical to someone... I'll try to explain this clearly and concisely, so that it might sink into that brain of yours:
And this matters because..
Because any self respecting nerd who isn't busy getting their panties all twisted over "OMG HAXX0RZ" could reasonably be expected to find this interesting.
Moxie Marlinspike is a rather high profile computer security researcher who has been featured on slashdot at least once before. This article is about him starting up a service that is potentially controversial (read: 'makes good news') that is relatively inovative. While cracking WPA-PSK is something the general public has been able to do for a while, this is notable because: 1) It is open to the public. 2) It is fast. 3) It seems he intends to make a modest profit off this.
In short, this is in fact "news for nerds". Maybe not news for you in particular but who really gives a shit? Slashdot isn't just about you. Slashdot has articles about new video games, that a large segment of us don't give a damn about, all the time. Nevertheless, that too is news for nerds.
If you want to bitch about slashvertisements this is hardly a prime example.
Why should it be any more illegal than tools like aircrack-ng, nmap, or for that matter, telnet? Just because something can be used by hackers doesn't mean it's illegal*.
*Unless you live in Germany. "Hacker tools" are illegal there iirc.
Also, l33t-speaking dictionary words is generally considered a pretty poor way to create passwords.
A good idea that I've heard mentioned on slashdot before is to teach your children that if they need help, it is better for them to approach an adult of their choosing, than to accept help from an adult that offers it without being asked.
Seems pretty smart to me, and probably less likely to shock overprotective parents.
This is an example of the phenomenon I like to describe as "doing the wrong thing for the right reason". Trotting out "it's for the good of the children" is a great way to make bad legislation sound good to the average joe, but it doesn't change the fact that it is still bad legislation.
Going after people who push drugs on children? That is great, nobody would be against that. A law that would make it potentially illegal to talk to children in general? That is a terrible law and any freedom respecting individual should be against that.
The US already has laws concerning "the corruption of minors" and I'm sure Canada does as well. We don't need poorly worded laws specific to the internet for acts that are already prosecutable.
I posted it because I deemed it to be somewhat ontopic. The article has Scott Rosenberg talking about how readership has been slow to rise since the removal of salon.com's paywall. My comment was meant to suggest that there are other possible reasons for poor readership statistics.
There is of course a difference between opinions, and offtopic opinions.
Nowhere did I indicate that the presense of that single article was the reason I had no interest in the website. Rather it was the complete absense of any link on their homepage that I felt compelled to click on.
That particular article I felt was a rather good example of a worthless article.
Here at slashdot we get news articles later than elsewhere because of the large ammount of background research and spellchecking the editors put into each article. You pay a price for good editing.
That seems to indicate that you can't use the business reply envelopes as labels on heavy objects and such. If I'm understanding this correctly though, you could theoretically smash up the printer first, then place it inside several of these envelopes. Pack them up nice and heavy so they cost more too.
Option 1: Don't put a return address on it. Option 2: Slap another penny stamp on it and send it out again. For the price of a quarter you can have fun like this for a while.
This just goes to show that the purpose of the two party system it to keep us bickering between each other. In reality, if only a handful on either side voted against it, then both sides are filled primarily with a bunch of freedom hating fuckwads.
Slashdot Mirror
If I have a degree in computer science and some old granny comes up to me and says "my computer got slow because it's old", do I tell her to STFU?
Hell no, at best that is a display of bad manners. Certainly not a good way to make people like me.
I'm sorry, I'm just not getting this. You're going to have to put this in the form of a car analogy.
Ok, I originally assumed you were purposely being obtuse so my answer was short, and apparently comical to someone... I'll try to explain this clearly and concisely, so that it might sink into that brain of yours:
Because any self respecting nerd who isn't busy getting their panties all twisted over "OMG HAXX0RZ" could reasonably be expected to find this interesting.
Moxie Marlinspike is a rather high profile computer security researcher who has been featured on slashdot at least once before. This article is about him starting up a service that is potentially controversial (read: 'makes good news') that is relatively inovative. While cracking WPA-PSK is something the general public has been able to do for a while, this is notable because: 1) It is open to the public. 2) It is fast. 3) It seems he intends to make a modest profit off this.
In short, this is in fact "news for nerds". Maybe not news for you in particular but who really gives a shit? Slashdot isn't just about you. Slashdot has articles about new video games, that a large segment of us don't give a damn about, all the time. Nevertheless, that too is news for nerds.
If you want to bitch about slashvertisements this is hardly a prime example.
Why should it be any more illegal than tools like aircrack-ng, nmap, or for that matter, telnet? Just because something can be used by hackers doesn't mean it's illegal*.
*Unless you live in Germany. "Hacker tools" are illegal there iirc.
Also, l33t-speaking dictionary words is generally considered a pretty poor way to create passwords.
Because this is news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Dumbass.
A good idea that I've heard mentioned on slashdot before is to teach your children that if they need help, it is better for them to approach an adult of their choosing, than to accept help from an adult that offers it without being asked.
Seems pretty smart to me, and probably less likely to shock overprotective parents.
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at this. Can people really be so self-unaware?
Oh, arn't you so high and mighty to be above childish insults.
Suck my balls TimHun... oh hold on a second, someone is knocking at my door...
This is an example of the phenomenon I like to describe as "doing the wrong thing for the right reason". Trotting out "it's for the good of the children" is a great way to make bad legislation sound good to the average joe, but it doesn't change the fact that it is still bad legislation.
Going after people who push drugs on children? That is great, nobody would be against that. A law that would make it potentially illegal to talk to children in general? That is a terrible law and any freedom respecting individual should be against that.
The US already has laws concerning "the corruption of minors" and I'm sure Canada does as well. We don't need poorly worded laws specific to the internet for acts that are already prosecutable.
"I go to their homepage only to see headlines such as "do women need affordable botox?""
Reading comprehension.
I posted it because I deemed it to be somewhat ontopic. The article has Scott Rosenberg talking about how readership has been slow to rise since the removal of salon.com's paywall. My comment was meant to suggest that there are other possible reasons for poor readership statistics.
There is of course a difference between opinions, and offtopic opinions.
Nowhere did I indicate that the presense of that single article was the reason I had no interest in the website. Rather it was the complete absense of any link on their homepage that I felt compelled to click on.
That particular article I felt was a rather good example of a worthless article.
Yeah, god forbid I say I don't want to read a website that runs stories I'm not interested in.
I go to their homepage only to see headlines such as "do women need affordable botox?". Yeah, I think I'll still avoid salon.com.
Here at slashdot we get news articles later than elsewhere because of the large ammount of background research and spellchecking the editors put into each article. You pay a price for good editing.
That seems to indicate that you can't use the business reply envelopes as labels on heavy objects and such. If I'm understanding this correctly though, you could theoretically smash up the printer first, then place it inside several of these envelopes. Pack them up nice and heavy so they cost more too.
Option 1: Don't put a return address on it.
Option 2: Slap another penny stamp on it and send it out again. For the price of a quarter you can have fun like this for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due
I really hope Mozilla won't be getting money from this. If anything, they should be contributing...
You are correct, it's not funny at all. The issue here is I did not have enough coffee today.
disregard that, I suck cocks.
confirmed, mod parent up. There is definetly some funny business going on here.
You really think that letting a computer sit turned on but idling doesn't use less power than having that computer's CPU pegged to 100% running SETI?
Really?
This just goes to show that the purpose of the two party system it to keep us bickering between each other. In reality, if only a handful on either side voted against it, then both sides are filled primarily with a bunch of freedom hating fuckwads.
And this is different from any other sort of eye witness accounts how exactly?