It might have modified the actual HTML code on her page. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I've heard of people who get to the point where they basically need to blank their page and reset it to the default one with no code on it what so ever. A lot of the code templates that people use to add backgrounds and what not to their pages are full of exploit code.
I have to kind of agree with you on this one. By playing D&D and other roleplaying games in general, I became acquainted with the types of personalities who like to completely control their worlds and impress their fantasies upon others. That was a kid. Once I grew up and played D&D with a bunch of people in their mid to late twenties, it was a completely different experience. I think the difference is that when you play a game like D&D as a kid, you're really acting out that fantasy world. The boundry between yourself and your character is slim to non-existant. As people grow older and mature, they realize the difference. Although you can occassionally come across those people who really think that they are a thief, or a warrior... or the real nut jobs who are mages or clerics.
...you could say that DnD has improved my life: mostly by subtraction.
This is what I agree with. By playing D&D, I recognized a lot of social qualities and personal traits that I didn't want to manifest in myself.
On the other hand, all of the bad aspects aside, if I hadn't hung out with the people who played roleplaying games I probably would have never gotten into computers. I never would have gotten into BBSes and MUDs. I wouldn't have been on the internet as early as I was, or gone to 2600 meetings, or gone to the first five Defcons. I wouldn't have learned to enjoy reading and writing as much as I do.
I think that just like D&D provided a system through which geeks could act out their fantasies, it also provided a medium for geeks to get together and be social and imaginative in healthy ways. All things considered, I think getting together with a bunch of your gamer friends for the weekend is a lot healthier from a social aspect than sitting in front of a computer playing some MMORPG and raiding all weekend.
The original point I was making is that not everyone has the luxury of sitting down with their users to explain every nuance of why everything is a certain way on the network. That's it. I was just pointing out that not everyone lives in the reality that you live in, or has the luxury of doing things the way you do them.
Now, you could have just accepted that and moved on, but you didn't. You took it as some sort of attack, probably because you were expecting it given that you were basically bad mouthing anyone who isn't compassionate enough (or whatever your meta reason was) to not hand hold their users through basic security practices.
From there you went on to assume that both my time management skills and my boss both suck. In reply to my reply to that, you now seem to think that I hate my job, that I don't get any recognition for what I do, and that I need to increase my skillset to find a better job. Oh ya, I also need to practice my interpersonal interactions.
Now having laid out all of your gripes one by one, I could go through and refute them, and point out how when you assume you just make an ass out of u and me, but there isn't any point. It's glaringly obvious that you're right in your own mind and everyone should just do things the way you do them. Thanks for contributing. I'll make sure that you get your nod for uber sysadmin of the year.
And you need to get out in the real world where you have more than a handful of users to deal with. You're obviously rather inexperienced when it comes to dealing with any good sized organization. In the real world, where you have more than a couple of departments and a handful of users, there are employee policies and handbooks that are given to new employees. The policies in there include IT policies, and those IT policies include password policies. The IT staff, department heads and HR have already gotten together and sorted the issue out. The password is going to meet certain complexity requirements and that is that. There isn't going to be any hand holding. There isn't going to be any explaining the rational behind the decision. If people want to access the network they are going to follow the password policy. That's the reality of corporations with multiple sites and hundreds of users spread across the country/globe. If you are working a quiant environment where you can be all lovey dovey with your users, more power to you. Just because that is your reality doesn't make people who don't have time to sit down with every user in an organization of hundreds or thousands of users bad administrators. In fact, I'd say it's just the opposite. If you have to meet with all the new users and explain to them how to come up with a good password instead of being able to just give them a document that has already been created explaining those things to them, then you're the one who needs some better time management skills.
Are most admins really that arrogant? OMG STUPID USERS THAT JUST DON"T GET IT!!! LOLZ IF ONLY THEY WERE AS SMART AS ME!!! HAHAHAHAHA
Seriously guys, get a life.
Some admins are just working in larger environments where they can't sit down with hundreds or thousands of users and hold their hand and teach them nifty memorization tricks to help them remember their sufficiently complex password.
Exactly what I was thinking. If the guy's family is being held hostage by a gunman whose intention is to kill them (which is unlikely because if they were being held hostage in the first place, he obviously wasn't planning on killing them), then the last thing you want is the cops busting in without assessing the situation and scaring the guy into doing some rash, like killing the hostages.
"THEY sent A SLAMHOUND on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.
He didn't see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel.
Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway. The Dutch surgeon liked to joke about that, how an unspecified percentage of Turner hadn't made it out of Palam International on that first flight and had to spend the night there in a shed, in a support vat."
My only consistent, reproduceable problem with Firefox 2 has been playing WoW on two seperate computers. I like to have a web browser with Thotbott open in the background to look up quests. When I had Firefox open, after about 20-30 minutes, the game would start to lag and the system would slow to a crawl. As soon as I alt-tabbed over to Firefox and killed it, the game would speed back up. I never had the same problem with IE6 or 7. Other than that one specific situation I never really had any problem with memory leaks though.
You present some good ideas. As long as we're talking about pipe dreams with the big guys joining together in unity and harmony to fight the scourage of spam, consider this. It seems like all of the email services have the option to mark a message as spam. It would be great if there was a protocol developed to exchange that information between the major providers. There would have to be a mechanism to prevent the malicious flagging of legit accounts, perhaps an algorithm to weight the frequency and time period over which the spam responses are logged.
Where would you even go to propose such a system. IETF?
I think the issue with multi-cast is that not everyone wants the same content at the same time. I'm thinking that for something like P2P or on demand TV to work, there would have to be an initial stream from a fast pipe to queue up enough of the program for the viewer to start watching it. Then the P2P protocol can kick in to provide the remainder of the content from the peers. That's pretty much how Blizzard has been pushing out their patches.
To gauge over the long term how the right assemblage of messages can most effectively manipulate your behaviour and choices, and thus in affect eliminate any real free conscious choice.
The mind is at its root free and clear. All you must do is not cloud it.
The only case where the administration could not conduct a warantless tap is if there was an entirely new terrorist organization to emerge in the next twelve months. And they could still get a wiretap, they just have to get a warrant.
And they don't even have to get a warrant until 72 hours after they first start the wiretap.
I think you're missing the point that he is trying to make. My reading of what he wrote comes across as, "I'm not worried about the government stealing my bank account information. I'm worried about the local Russian mob associated cracker." It isn't that he doesn't have anything to hide, or that the government can already see it. He's worried about those who don't currently have access to the technology gaining access to it.
If she was emotionally stable, why was she on medication? She obviously wasn't stable and that is why she was on medication. This is a bit off topic, but it seems to be more and more relevent these days. Here we have a girl without any emotional coping skills beyond her medications. She gets into an emotional situation and she can't cope, and the medication doesn't numb the pain, so she kills herself. In just about every serious campus rampage shooting that has happened in the last five years, the shooters have been "on medication." When are parents going to wake up and realize that putting their kids on medication isn't the solution to the "problem" of being socially awkward and uncomfortable dealing with their peers and society as a whole?
Although it has been impossible to get valid ESNs for the thing since the late 1990s, I'm going to miss my Oki and the old days of A/B channel analog. It isn't nearly as efficient as digital in terms of users per cell site, but I swear the voice quality was a whole lot better once you actually got a connection.... even if it took 15+ seconds to hear the first ring as the sites handed you off to BFE because all of the closest sites were already overloaded.
The point is to generate revenue by exploiting people's natural tendencies. Think of all the fines to be collected. The reconnection fees. The court fees. The jobs generated tracking torrent users. The training programs to be created to teach the fascists what they are looking for. Just like with the war on drugs, the point isn't to fix the problem. The point is to so fully integrate the "problem" into the system that it serves as a source of energy for and an excuse for the continued existence of the system itself.
See the link for the text of the letter from Congressman Reyes to the President. He sums up all of the information that those of us following the issue already know. It is a good primer if you're just learning about it. It is also a good read if you want to smile at a Congressman standing up for the American people and telling the President to go fuck himself... in a politically correct way.
I'm going to call my representative right now and tell them how pleased that I am that the House sided against the Senate and with the American people. Give your Congress-critters some positive feedback people.
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It might have modified the actual HTML code on her page. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I've heard of people who get to the point where they basically need to blank their page and reset it to the default one with no code on it what so ever. A lot of the code templates that people use to add backgrounds and what not to their pages are full of exploit code.
I wish I had a mod point. This is the first funny Soviet Russia post I've seen in a while.
This is what I agree with. By playing D&D, I recognized a lot of social qualities and personal traits that I didn't want to manifest in myself.
On the other hand, all of the bad aspects aside, if I hadn't hung out with the people who played roleplaying games I probably would have never gotten into computers. I never would have gotten into BBSes and MUDs. I wouldn't have been on the internet as early as I was, or gone to 2600 meetings, or gone to the first five Defcons. I wouldn't have learned to enjoy reading and writing as much as I do.
I think that just like D&D provided a system through which geeks could act out their fantasies, it also provided a medium for geeks to get together and be social and imaginative in healthy ways. All things considered, I think getting together with a bunch of your gamer friends for the weekend is a lot healthier from a social aspect than sitting in front of a computer playing some MMORPG and raiding all weekend.
Now, you could have just accepted that and moved on, but you didn't. You took it as some sort of attack, probably because you were expecting it given that you were basically bad mouthing anyone who isn't compassionate enough (or whatever your meta reason was) to not hand hold their users through basic security practices.
From there you went on to assume that both my time management skills and my boss both suck. In reply to my reply to that, you now seem to think that I hate my job, that I don't get any recognition for what I do, and that I need to increase my skillset to find a better job. Oh ya, I also need to practice my interpersonal interactions.
Now having laid out all of your gripes one by one, I could go through and refute them, and point out how when you assume you just make an ass out of u and me, but there isn't any point. It's glaringly obvious that you're right in your own mind and everyone should just do things the way you do them. Thanks for contributing. I'll make sure that you get your nod for uber sysadmin of the year.
Cash... free software? Where do I sign up?
And you need to get out in the real world where you have more than a handful of users to deal with. You're obviously rather inexperienced when it comes to dealing with any good sized organization. In the real world, where you have more than a couple of departments and a handful of users, there are employee policies and handbooks that are given to new employees. The policies in there include IT policies, and those IT policies include password policies. The IT staff, department heads and HR have already gotten together and sorted the issue out. The password is going to meet certain complexity requirements and that is that. There isn't going to be any hand holding. There isn't going to be any explaining the rational behind the decision. If people want to access the network they are going to follow the password policy. That's the reality of corporations with multiple sites and hundreds of users spread across the country/globe. If you are working a quiant environment where you can be all lovey dovey with your users, more power to you. Just because that is your reality doesn't make people who don't have time to sit down with every user in an organization of hundreds or thousands of users bad administrators. In fact, I'd say it's just the opposite. If you have to meet with all the new users and explain to them how to come up with a good password instead of being able to just give them a document that has already been created explaining those things to them, then you're the one who needs some better time management skills.
Some admins are just working in larger environments where they can't sit down with hundreds or thousands of users and hold their hand and teach them nifty memorization tricks to help them remember their sufficiently complex password.
Exactly what I was thinking. If the guy's family is being held hostage by a gunman whose intention is to kill them (which is unlikely because if they were being held hostage in the first place, he obviously wasn't planning on killing them), then the last thing you want is the cops busting in without assessing the situation and scaring the guy into doing some rash, like killing the hostages.
"THEY sent A SLAMHOUND on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT. He didn't see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel.
Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway. The Dutch surgeon liked to joke about that, how an unspecified percentage of Turner hadn't made it out of Palam International on that first flight and had to spend the night there in a shed, in a support vat."
My only consistent, reproduceable problem with Firefox 2 has been playing WoW on two seperate computers. I like to have a web browser with Thotbott open in the background to look up quests. When I had Firefox open, after about 20-30 minutes, the game would start to lag and the system would slow to a crawl. As soon as I alt-tabbed over to Firefox and killed it, the game would speed back up. I never had the same problem with IE6 or 7. Other than that one specific situation I never really had any problem with memory leaks though.
Where would you even go to propose such a system. IETF?
I think the issue with multi-cast is that not everyone wants the same content at the same time. I'm thinking that for something like P2P or on demand TV to work, there would have to be an initial stream from a fast pipe to queue up enough of the program for the viewer to start watching it. Then the P2P protocol can kick in to provide the remainder of the content from the peers. That's pretty much how Blizzard has been pushing out their patches.
No you don't. I downloaded it just fine.
What are board cops? Lifeguards? Pigs who hassle skaters?
The mind is at its root free and clear. All you must do is not cloud it.
And they don't even have to get a warrant until 72 hours after they first start the wiretap.
I think you're missing the point that he is trying to make. My reading of what he wrote comes across as, "I'm not worried about the government stealing my bank account information. I'm worried about the local Russian mob associated cracker." It isn't that he doesn't have anything to hide, or that the government can already see it. He's worried about those who don't currently have access to the technology gaining access to it.
Take out the broadcast and gateway addresses.
If she was emotionally stable, why was she on medication? She obviously wasn't stable and that is why she was on medication. This is a bit off topic, but it seems to be more and more relevent these days. Here we have a girl without any emotional coping skills beyond her medications. She gets into an emotional situation and she can't cope, and the medication doesn't numb the pain, so she kills herself. In just about every serious campus rampage shooting that has happened in the last five years, the shooters have been "on medication." When are parents going to wake up and realize that putting their kids on medication isn't the solution to the "problem" of being socially awkward and uncomfortable dealing with their peers and society as a whole?
Although it has been impossible to get valid ESNs for the thing since the late 1990s, I'm going to miss my Oki and the old days of A/B channel analog. It isn't nearly as efficient as digital in terms of users per cell site, but I swear the voice quality was a whole lot better once you actually got a connection.... even if it took 15+ seconds to hear the first ring as the sites handed you off to BFE because all of the closest sites were already overloaded.
The point is to generate revenue by exploiting people's natural tendencies. Think of all the fines to be collected. The reconnection fees. The court fees. The jobs generated tracking torrent users. The training programs to be created to teach the fascists what they are looking for. Just like with the war on drugs, the point isn't to fix the problem. The point is to so fully integrate the "problem" into the system that it serves as a source of energy for and an excuse for the continued existence of the system itself.
See the link for the text of the letter from Congressman Reyes to the President. He sums up all of the information that those of us following the issue already know. It is a good primer if you're just learning about it. It is also a good read if you want to smile at a Congressman standing up for the American people and telling the President to go fuck himself... in a politically correct way.
I'm going to call my representative right now and tell them how pleased that I am that the House sided against the Senate and with the American people. Give your Congress-critters some positive feedback people.
And a reason I don't browse at -1. I completely agree with you on the cyberpunk factor.
Oh... so it's like a really expensive work-leash or an oversized, vastly overpriced Blackberry then?