Also, it has always been possible on XP and Server 2003 domains to disable autorun in group policy.
They fixed that then? Because it never really disabled anything. You had to create a GPO to change the registries so that any file named autorun.inf couldn't be accessed. The nuclear option was the only option that worked.
Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you
From http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright
"...anything that's characterized as disconnection or this kind of thing, it's just not true. There isn't any such policy." ...
"We all know this policy exists. I didn't have to search for verification -- I didn't have to look any further than my own home." Haggis reminded Davis that, a few years earlier, his wife had been ordered to disconnect from her parents "because of something absolutely trivial they supposedly did twenty-five years ago when they resigned from the church. . . . Although it caused her terrible personal pain, my wife broke off all contact with them." Haggis continued, "To see you lie so easily, I am afraid I had to ask myself: what else are you lying about?"
Just in case the above loses some people, here's an analogy:
Hotfile is like a club owner who charges an entrance fee to get in his club where he knows that illegal drug trades are taking place, but he gives the drug traders free drinks because he knows they bring in more customers (people who pay the entrance fee). Technically, the owner's not trading drugs, but they are fostering a climate that lends to drug deals, and profiting off that climate.
TPB is like a billboard owner who puts up an electric eye (IR beam) to measure traffic flow and puts up billboards in the area, charging based on the pedestrian traffic. Who knows what the pedestrians are doing? Maybe it's illegal, maybe it's legal. That's between them and the cops. The billboard owner makes money from the advertisers.
Often the same people justifying exportation of jobs raise serious objections to the importation of oil. Its the same situation (monetarily) but somehow one action is winked at, and the other is protested in the streets.
To play devil's advocate, 'we pay money for oil and it just gets burned, but when we pay helpdesk workers in India, we get real value in return; they ask us if our computers are plugged in, and get us back to work fast.'
"here's a knife. Kill your coworkers, their children, and yourself. It's the globally ethical course of action. A whole village in southeast Asia will be enslaved^whired by your company as a result"
I've heard people say that talk radio should be forced to give equal time to left wing shows like Randy Rhodes that they give to right wing shows like Rush Limbaugh.
No, you have not heard that. You made that up.
You may have heard Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh complaining that people are saying that, but nobody is saying that.
Then pray-tell, what does the term "Fairness Doctrine" actually mean? And does your assurance that he has not heard "people" discuss this topic include non-famous people he associates with?
X? OMG, how original, exciting, and mysterious calling it "X" instead of 10. I guess it wasn't enough for MacOS 10. So I wonder if they will be able to let go of "X" when it is time for "XI"? Will version 10.1 be "X.1" or "10.1"? Or perhaps they will go redundant like Apple and call it X 10.1?
Even funnier that they call the latest Apple operating system "Mac OS Intel 10.5.6 - 10.6.4" in their pulldown menu.
Five hours since you posted, and no one has thought of the obvious?
"[Mac OS / Adobe Reader] goes to Eleven!" That's the actual version number: "goes to Eleven!" After that, you count the exclamation points. "goes to Eleven!!!!!!!" is 7 versions after OS X.
I know/. has more than 250,000 accounts, but wouldn't it be great if they could do a Mashup of the Facebook accounts and random/.ers? Commander Sarah Palin Taco.
Of course,/. might lose some traffic if some of their members actually start getting out of the basement and dating.
If Commander Taco was really Sarah Palin, I'd date her, except she's married.
If the refraction of the light prevents you from being seen, it will prevent you from seeing as well.
Key phrase: as well.
I don't need to see all that well - a pinhole-sized camera would rival most of the lower-quality videos you'd find online, while still being relatively invisble. And the sound quality should be pretty good too...
Be a code wizard. Sorcerers' guilds are always looking for new membership these days, and they're not unhappy when people talk up the craft without actually being part of the group. Any press is good press for them.
Actually, professional organizations are intended to limit damage by practitioners of fields who can cause serious harm via misuse (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers). That's not what they've become, just like unions aren't about protecting employees from unfair management anymore.
Are you hoping someone will provide you with a so-called "Obligatory XKCD Link?"
I would, but there's the danger I'd get the link right, thus meeting professional linking standards, which might get me in trouble since I don't have an XKCD linking license.
just link to goatse. Any anonymous coward can do that
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Even that reg setting isn't enough http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1988468&cid=35158612
Also, it has always been possible on XP and Server 2003 domains to disable autorun in group policy.
They fixed that then? Because it never really disabled anything. You had to create a GPO to change the registries so that any file named autorun.inf couldn't be accessed. The nuclear option was the only option that worked.
It's funny that MS disables this right after this article showed up.
I think it's funnier that MS disables it two years after this article. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/04/29/2110241/Microsoft-To-Disable-Autorun
And years after Microsoft admitted that their suggested methods of disbling autorun didn't really disable autorun at all. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1038167&cid=25850755
non-security updates don't always auto-update. This will remain an attack vector until they declare it a security update.
Its not like they need new hardware to achieve blahblah. They need only offer an arglebargle flatucaster
Translated for Joe six-pack and grandma. Expect a new line of linksys "now with ipv6!" because that was the plan all along.
Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you
From http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright
"...anything that's characterized as disconnection or this kind of thing, it's just not true. There isn't any such policy."
...
"We all know this policy exists. I didn't have to search for verification -- I didn't have to look any further than my own home." Haggis reminded Davis that, a few years earlier, his wife had been ordered to disconnect from her parents "because of something absolutely trivial they supposedly did twenty-five years ago when they resigned from the church. . . . Although it caused her terrible personal pain, my wife broke off all contact with them." Haggis continued, "To see you lie so easily, I am afraid I had to ask myself: what else are you lying about?"
Also http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133561256/the-church-of-scientology-fact-checked
Just in case the above loses some people, here's an analogy:
Hotfile is like a club owner who charges an entrance fee to get in his club where he knows that illegal drug trades are taking place, but he gives the drug traders free drinks because he knows they bring in more customers (people who pay the entrance fee). Technically, the owner's not trading drugs, but they are fostering a climate that lends to drug deals, and profiting off that climate.
TPB is like a billboard owner who puts up an electric eye (IR beam) to measure traffic flow and puts up billboards in the area, charging based on the pedestrian traffic. Who knows what the pedestrians are doing? Maybe it's illegal, maybe it's legal. That's between them and the cops. The billboard owner makes money from the advertisers.
Yeah, but Nimnby, the son of Nimby and home owners' associations doesn't like solar on rooftops.
In a related story, I heard on the subway that vaccines cause autism!
Just yesterday on slashdot, I read that vaccines killed Bill Gates!
Often the same people justifying exportation of jobs raise serious objections to the importation of oil. Its the same situation (monetarily) but somehow one action is winked at, and the other is protested in the streets.
To play devil's advocate, 'we pay money for oil and it just gets burned, but when we pay helpdesk workers in India, we get real value in return; they ask us if our computers are plugged in, and get us back to work fast.'
"here's a knife. Kill your coworkers, their children, and yourself. It's the globally ethical course of action. A whole village in southeast Asia will be enslaved^whired by your company as a result"
when she said Julian Assange should be treated in the same way the US treats terrorists, she didn't imply use violence to quell speech?
I'm reasonably certain that classified documents don't fall under protected speech.
I've heard people say that talk radio should be forced to give equal time to left wing shows like Randy Rhodes that they give to right wing shows like Rush Limbaugh.
No, you have not heard that. You made that up.
You may have heard Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh complaining that people are saying that, but nobody is saying that.
Then pray-tell, what does the term "Fairness Doctrine" actually mean? And does your assurance that he has not heard "people" discuss this topic include non-famous people he associates with?
Fad schmad. People still play these games. The market is saturated. Everybody who was gonna buy a set of Rock Band instruments has already done so.
But they can still make a killing selling replacement drum set pedals.
X? OMG, how original, exciting, and mysterious calling it "X" instead of 10. I guess it wasn't enough for MacOS 10. So I wonder if they will be able to let go of "X" when it is time for "XI"? Will version 10.1 be "X.1" or "10.1"? Or perhaps they will go redundant like Apple and call it X 10.1?
Even funnier that they call the latest Apple operating system "Mac OS Intel 10.5.6 - 10.6.4" in their pulldown menu.
Five hours since you posted, and no one has thought of the obvious?
"[Mac OS / Adobe Reader] goes to Eleven!" That's the actual version number: "goes to Eleven!" After that, you count the exclamation points. "goes to Eleven!!!!!!!" is 7 versions after OS X.
I know /. has more than 250,000 accounts, but wouldn't it be great if they could do a Mashup of the Facebook accounts and random /.ers? Commander Sarah Palin Taco.
/. might lose some traffic if some of their members actually start getting out of the basement and dating.
Of course,
If Commander Taco was really Sarah Palin, I'd date her, except she's married.
...but who needs sight when you have hands?
tortured to death under bush
Snoo-snoo? Sign me up!
Given this is a news for nerds site, what's your problem with the usage of frak?
It's from that hip, wanna-be Battlestar Galactica, which was just a space drama with references to the original space opera.
If the refraction of the light prevents you from being seen, it will prevent you from seeing as well.
Key phrase: as well.
I don't need to see all that well - a pinhole-sized camera would rival most of the lower-quality videos you'd find online, while still being relatively invisble. And the sound quality should be pretty good too...
"as well" == "also" == "too"
Be a code wizard. Sorcerers' guilds are always looking for new membership these days, and they're not unhappy when people talk up the craft without actually being part of the group. Any press is good press for them.
Actually, professional organizations are intended to limit damage by practitioners of fields who can cause serious harm via misuse (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers). That's not what they've become, just like unions aren't about protecting employees from unfair management anymore.
No, it's a crime to practice Engineering without a license. As a licensed Engineer, I support the complaint.
You'll probably smile with glee when they drag software engineers off to the gas chambers. The Computer Scientist didn't "practice Engineering". He gathered some data, and sent an analysis of that data to the Engineer in charge. The Engineer in charge was the one too stupid to realize that gathering data and analyzing are not the sole province of the Supreme, Mighty, All Hallowed Engineering Caste.
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/sites/drupalblogs.newsobserver.com/files/docs/dcoxAnalysis%20of%20Traffic%20Signal%20Warrants%20for%20Selected%20Intersections%20of%20Falls%20of%20Neuse%20Road.pdf
is jklacy@dot.state.nc.us
What am I supposed to do with it? I can't send him suggestion; I'm a computer science grad.
Are you hoping someone will provide you with a so-called "Obligatory XKCD Link?"
I would, but there's the danger I'd get the link right, thus meeting professional linking standards, which might get me in trouble since I don't have an XKCD linking license.
just link to goatse. Any anonymous coward can do that