Yeah, but obviously they think the buisness model for most of what goes on there (in 'linux world') works. Otherwise they wouldn't give money to an 8 man start up and say 'Ok, all you have to do is make good products and then we'll help you build a company'.
However, they do care about the linux community, although perhaps not the concept of open source software. They like the idea that there is a pool of coders that they can just say 'hey we have x-cool idea that we are working on, want to help?' and if the idea is cool enough they get cheap labor. Whether or not this is the case remains to be seen.
Investing in a company with 8 people and a good idea is probaly as close to wrapping themselves in the spirit of the community which they are tring to court as Corel could possibly come.
I doubt that Redhat would have the guts to take a risk on a company like newlix, however their name could be a clue that it's not exactly the best risk in the world. Still, it's eight coders, a nice number, who probaly know each other fairly well, I think this will faciliate better coding and fostering of ideas on their part.
There is also the fact that they Don't have a finished product. This is a good thing, considering that puts them in a greater position to innovate. They are not tied to pre-existing software or the alienation ending support of a product would cause.
Assuming there aren't any more earthquakes in Taiwan, the IPC Direct deal is probaly also a good idea, despite the fact that it's probaly just a puppet for PC Chips over there. If IPC Direct can make some cheap chips, this will help out Newlix greatly.
Application hosting is bad, I hate it. I don't like the potential for other people alienating customers with Newlix's stamp on the alienation, if i'm Newlix. Bad decision.
In the end, this article says more about redherring than it does about corel or newlix. Unnamed sources, 'message board posters', Unqualified people, and generally missing the point on pourpose in an attempt to attack Corel. Sad. Real sad.
None of you were going to plonk down cash for this, so quit your griping.
The only type of linux software I'll pay for is maybe an RDBMS or something else heavyweight. An IDE? No way. Motorola made the right business decision.
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Oh please, you're just another elitest zealot, I suppose that you also think that every linux user got the Quake 3 Linux warez instead of the legit version as well, since we "don't pay for software".
Codewarrior is one of the most successful pieces of software for linux so if you think that 'none of us were going to plonk down cash for it' then you are either ill-informed or un-informed.
Well maybe it is, but it's more a knock on the tech support helpers themselves usually simply because they feel like they are in a dead in job where they have to tell people the same people over and over again with little gratification.
Anyone who thinks Illiad or anyone else is making fun of people who are specifically trying to learn how to use a computer is just pretending to think that or is genuinely stupid, espically since most of the tech support jokes in UF are really just puns about words or technical terms.
Obviously I am a "blithering..." of incorrect english if I do not spend my time spell checking and editing comments which are essentially in futility in the first place. There are grammatical errors in your reply telling me I have grammatical errors, so quite frankly you can just sod off. Since I have no desire to dick around with an AC over a correction with his comment complaining about my comment that he feels needs to be corrected, the correct format for your comment was:
You blithering [explicative], there is no such word as "hipocritism".
You also forgot a period at the end of hypocrisy. Thank you, have a nice day.
Normally I do not rush into an argument with both swords drawn; I can make an acception for the dogmatic, almost hipocritical toleration of evil that has been displayed by some Troglodytes over the past few days.
Recently, we have seen people from the same group, (linux users, a true miniature world of everything that is geek, of everyone who is informed of their field, and what is going on there.) insult the very people who would be educated, the very problem that has been stated in this discussion. I think it is obivous that if we do not stop the hipocriticism, which I personally see as the greatest evil ever to threaten linux, and soon to be spread to a wide variety of other intrests, then we will surely not be able to deal with the larger sickness of society as presented, (Powerfuly presented, i'll note) by L0pht in this interview.
Hahaha, ironic if you look at the slashdot article about newbies. The linux community has a great dislike of bandwagon hoppers yet they also have a large amount of Zealots who blindly promote the operating system to the detriment of features, other than the elitest attitude the zealots would have linux users put forth to others.
Civilization has always operated with an inner circle controlling everything. For instance a Total Democracy via Technocracy would be controlled by the media. Monarchies have an inner circle of nobility, Representative democracies have an inner circle of politicians and Pocket Filler corperations, Afganistan has the Taliban. There is not currently a method of government that has been invented to inform the uninformed, give power to the powerless, and lead the scattered in a manner that is truely their own motive. Should anyone ever devise such a method of governing then it will truly be by a intellectual giant amongst men.
Such is Linux's problem. The uninformed. Truly a problem with few solutions. The solution that has been taken by most people, including many posters to/., is to hide themselves and hope the newbies go away. With the current situation that has caused the newbies to become what they are, and the amazing pre-background that is not possessed by these newbies that is required with the majority of current documentation and friendly tech support, this solution is in fact a solution, it will make the newbies go away, unfortunately it will also be a great detriment to the operating system itself. I don't mean to insult this article since it's broad spectrum is relevant to many things outside of linux. However I feel it is fair, and important to point out that we see the problems pointed out by l0pht developing in a microcosm of the linux community.
My point, kind people, is that we must fix the problems in our inner circles before we can offer, or even point out; (for risk of hipocriticism) to fix societies problems in our outer circles.
Probaly because you offended a few people with moderator tokens.
Nothing personal, but justice comes in Metamoderation, not a court of law where two sides debate, there is no forum (i.e. you shouldn't paste a post about a moderation), it is either fair, or unfair, as decided by several people in meta moderation. Neat huh? It's what makes M great.:)
What needs to be done is to create two closed source programs that act as executable loaders / verifiers and communication proxies for the client and server. These would need to be produced for each platform the game runs on. Some modifications will need to be done to the open source code to allow it to (optionally) communicate with these proxies.
Two closed source programs in addition to the q1 source. They are not closing the q1 source. (First Myth Debunked) Verification programs should not be open source. Espically if you are not making any money on the program anymore (for instance if you are working on say, q3.) and you have roughly six or seven hours a month to spend on the project. (Which is why they GPL'ed it.)
This is the defination of an insane frenzy. People don't even read the stories now. Drives me crazy. So hence I remind everyone the first rule of positive posting: Read the story first (doi doi doi). The Second rule is: Put yourself in the shoes of the woozle. (Woozle; as in kill the woozle, for instance putting yourself in Carmack's shoes, or Amazons, etc.)
NOTE: If you seriously have a problem with this, NOTHING is stopping programmers from editing the source in such a way that the two closed source proggies would not be necessary, and the game could still be cheat-free.
I honestly don't see Why everyone is opposed to this bandaid fix until open source itself can fix the problem. Unless of course the code is too big and we run into whatever the law is that says, "The Bigger the code, the fewer people want to _start_ work on the monster.".
I am not xenophobic, as I said 'we' I was speaking as the intelligent voting class of the United States of America, which happens to be a minority.:P
Xenophobia is a fear of outsiders, are you aware of this? I liked the United Kingdoms House of Lords, but they have to elect people to it now which lets the bribary in.
Unfortunately they never really did get anywhere with the IBM trial, since IBM didn't have a monopoly. And they definately did not get to this point, so there was no real reason for IBM to bribe anyone. I'm going to go looking over for some prescidents like this but I doubt i'll find any, this is like the first time anything like this has ever happened, isn't it? (And by 'this' I am speaking of the operating system monopoly and the company being told that it cannot sell it's products at whatever price it chooses, kinda silly but intresting at the same time.)
If there is anyone who has a shot at fixing this mess it is him, unfortunately I don't think he can campaign against forbes and GWB for the nomination, although if GWB is the man he might get the nod for Veep, and get in from there, since GWB and John McCain are friends. Of course that strategy isn't working for Gore, heh.
In the age of the Constitutional Aristocracy, (George Mason was right, Hamilton Madison and Jay appear to have evuntally been wrong.:P) you must have money to have a place in government, if you do not have money you must have some medium that everyone listens to and respects, unfortunately to have that you must have money. In this brave new age, if you don't donate money to political campaigns you are 'shaken down' so to speak, and if you do then the people tend to be shaken down.
A New York Post story said Bill Gates donated to GWB's campaign to help him win the election then be able to have him get him off the hook. Sadly it appears GWB might be the lesser of the evils simply because hes accepted money from so many people that if he does one thing for one contributor he'll betray another.
Therefore it is a sad fact of american politics that the most effective elected officals are the ones who do nothing at all, after all you can't get them to do anything meaningful for the people except lamer laws that look like they do something but are really quite trivial. This is why we want John McCain to win, who claims he'll reform all of this, but unfortunately he'll probaly lose to GWB because he has more money and the vast majority of americans who vote don't think, and instead preform block voting techniques and vote for everyone with their political affiliation by their name, the winner of the elections is always the person who can harness the 'ethnic votes' like how Al Gore and GWB are both trying to speak in spanish every so often so they can get the Mexicans to go out and vote for them, and if you can't harness the ethnic votes your next best bet is to just unleash a huge ad campaign and create a rockstar-type fasade, (or in Bill Clintons case, hes accused of alpha male.)
Say, what the HECK were you brits thinking when you got rid of the house of lords one redeeming factor? Oh well, welcome to the world of constitutional aristocracy!
I really like special guests as long as they don't.... well, suck.
Chris DiBona was a good guest, but everyone else I don't remember their names for the life of me, and I have the GiS episodes running on infinate loop one after another, so that can't be a good sign..
I'm suprised you didn't lie and say you were at ALS.. I wonder what the sound effect for that would be....
*annoying fan valleygirl sound* *burning* *The annoying peach sound on GA Lotto Commercials*
I actually saw CmdrTaco getting a coke at the coke machine by the bathrooms and then taking the most logical route, back to the booth. For some reason that was the highlight of ALS for me. It's probaly because the show's little booth walls remind me of a labrats maze. I'm probaly going to have dreams now of being stuck in a maze and being accosted by Linux-mag people, damn you, Freud.
The strongest quality of the show is being accessable to people who might not read/. on a regular basis or just being able to hear a hot news topic and get the general, light hearted gist of the story.
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I guess if you want to avoid getting sued or being able to prove that x-person sent it then it would be fine, but couldn't I just set my systems clock back?
And even then, can't I just cut and paste the message to another file if I want to save it? Perhaps it's semi-useful for encrypting messages between two parties and keeping other people from reading it, but... bleh, it just seems fishy. I honestly don't understand why, if that was the case, the reciever couldn't just use the DELETE key on his keyboard.
It just wouldn't happen that way. The bank networks are closed off, and even if they weren't contengencies are far too easy to have for such a thing. As for disrupting communications, they have two choices, 1) blow up radio tower, thing that broadcasts to satilletes, etc. 2) break into the building and hax0r it.
I'll just go for 1, it's cruder but alot more effective. 2) could just be fixed with a simple contengency but it's far too surgical. To knock down the network you have to knock out the maintainers, otherwise you'll have a rather negligable effect, if Pakistan shut down India's banking network it would hurt them just as much as it hurt India simply because of how close they are geographically, even if they don't trade with each other, there are middle men in 3rd party countries to the conflict that would be hurt causing a ripple down effect of damage. As for bringing down communications there are just so many sources of it that although it would be possible to damage, the damage would need to be physical, not via the 'net.
Basically knocking down communications or banking infastructure wouldnt' be done over the internet.
It was bad, I hope you didn't have to pay him a Kill Fee (a percentage of what the aurthor would normally have been paid, if the article is 'killed', usually very hard to get.)
It's kind of odd that you're looking to slashdot for this sort of thing about cyber terrorism, I mean theres really not that much of a story behind it and quite frankly I don't see how theres a story here at all, it's like the "cyberwar" between Pakistan and India, it has an effect but it's negligable if one side does anything.
The key is to not let people know who you are from the start.
Maybe if you follow my urls read my sigs track everything i've ever posted for a few years, then you'll find someone who has my name in an IRC Log, other than that, good luck, and even if you did find it, I have a very common name:)
For the first time I actually have some respect for NS, although he did remove his postings they are, essentially, a private discussion between him and the other members of 'the well'.
Essentially what the story attatched to this article and most stories in question about just about anything (See: Jesse Ventura, convient part about that is that it's in playboy so they can make it out however they want and theres a chance no one 'respectable' in the media will find out) media related, they tend to take exerpts in a manner that 'shades the truth' also known as 'spin'. Now, if this is an archive from 1989 to 1999, you can be damn well sure that whatever he says will not be taken in context.
He kind of has to in order to protect himself otherwise he'll just be a martyr to the mainstream media, god I hate them right now, can you tell? I can see this becomming an exerpt one day on MSNBC.
I gotta give him one thing though, he certainly doesn't have a mainstream taste for women. Which is a good thing because if this keeps up we wont have to look at the glorified hungry who eat nothing all day and are just skeletons with skin tacked on. (See: Ally McBeal) I don't like breaking skin when I tap someone on the sholder, you know? ^_^
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I don't have a wife or a girlfriend well color me surprised
And I know all of the things you're going to say
makes them no less true
I think I've figured out about how old you are... it's about six.
I'm old enough to be your daddy O sexless wonder.
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I think the fact that you are up at 2:32 am EST mocking people on slashdot is very indictive of just how many relationships you have, stud.
Good luck with the ladies.
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Yeah, but obviously they think the buisness model for most of what goes on there (in 'linux world') works. Otherwise they wouldn't give money to an 8 man start up and say 'Ok, all you have to do is make good products and then we'll help you build a company'.
However, they do care about the linux community, although perhaps not the concept of open source software. They like the idea that there is a pool of coders that they can just say 'hey we have x-cool idea that we are working on, want to help?' and if the idea is cool enough they get cheap labor. Whether or not this is the case remains to be seen.
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Investing in a company with 8 people and a good idea is probaly as close to wrapping themselves in the spirit of the community which they are tring to court as Corel could possibly come.
I doubt that Redhat would have the guts to take a risk on a company like newlix, however their name could be a clue that it's not exactly the best risk in the world. Still, it's eight coders, a nice number, who probaly know each other fairly well, I think this will faciliate better coding and fostering of ideas on their part.
There is also the fact that they Don't have a finished product. This is a good thing, considering that puts them in a greater position to innovate. They are not tied to pre-existing software or the alienation ending support of a product would cause.
Assuming there aren't any more earthquakes in Taiwan, the IPC Direct deal is probaly also a good idea, despite the fact that it's probaly just a puppet for PC Chips over there. If IPC Direct can make some cheap chips, this will help out Newlix greatly.
Application hosting is bad, I hate it. I don't like the potential for other people alienating customers with Newlix's stamp on the alienation, if i'm Newlix. Bad decision.
In the end, this article says more about redherring than it does about corel or newlix. Unnamed sources, 'message board posters', Unqualified people, and generally missing the point on pourpose in an attempt to attack Corel. Sad. Real sad.
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Oh please, you're just another elitest zealot, I suppose that you also think that every linux user got the Quake 3 Linux warez instead of the legit version as well, since we "don't pay for software".
Codewarrior is one of the most successful pieces of software for linux so if you think that 'none of us were going to plonk down cash for it' then you are either ill-informed or un-informed.
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Well maybe it is, but it's more a knock on the tech support helpers themselves usually simply because they feel like they are in a dead in job where they have to tell people the same people over and over again with little gratification.
Anyone who thinks Illiad or anyone else is making fun of people who are specifically trying to learn how to use a computer is just pretending to think that or is genuinely stupid, espically since most of the tech support jokes in UF are really just puns about words or technical terms.
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Obviously I am a "blithering ..." of incorrect english if I do not spend my time spell checking and editing comments which are essentially in futility in the first place. There are grammatical errors in your reply telling me I have grammatical errors, so quite frankly you can just sod off. Since I have no desire to dick around with an AC over a correction with his comment complaining about my comment that he feels needs to be corrected, the correct format for your comment was:
You blithering [explicative], there is no such word as "hipocritism".
You also forgot a period at the end of hypocrisy. Thank you, have a nice day.
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Normally I do not rush into an argument with both swords drawn; I can make an acception for the dogmatic, almost hipocritical toleration of evil that has been displayed by some Troglodytes over the past few days.
Recently, we have seen people from the same group, (linux users, a true miniature world of everything that is geek, of everyone who is informed of their field, and what is going on there.) insult the very people who would be educated, the very problem that has been stated in this discussion. I think it is obivous that if we do not stop the hipocriticism, which I personally see as the greatest evil ever to threaten linux, and soon to be spread to a wide variety of other intrests, then we will surely not be able to deal with the larger sickness of society as presented, (Powerfuly presented, i'll note) by L0pht in this interview.
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Hahaha, ironic if you look at the slashdot article about newbies. The linux community has a great dislike of bandwagon hoppers yet they also have a large amount of Zealots who blindly promote the operating system to the detriment of features, other than the elitest attitude the zealots would have linux users put forth to others.
/., is to hide themselves and hope the newbies go away. With the current situation that has caused the newbies to become what they are, and the amazing pre-background that is not possessed by these newbies that is required with the majority of current documentation and friendly tech support, this solution is in fact a solution, it will make the newbies go away, unfortunately it will also be a great detriment to the operating system itself. I don't mean to insult this article since it's broad spectrum is relevant to many things outside of linux. However I feel it is fair, and important to point out that we see the problems pointed out by l0pht developing in a microcosm of the linux community.
Civilization has always operated with an inner circle controlling everything. For instance a Total Democracy via Technocracy would be controlled by the media. Monarchies have an inner circle of nobility, Representative democracies have an inner circle of politicians and Pocket Filler corperations, Afganistan has the Taliban. There is not currently a method of government that has been invented to inform the uninformed, give power to the powerless, and lead the scattered in a manner that is truely their own motive. Should anyone ever devise such a method of governing then it will truly be by a intellectual giant amongst men.
Such is Linux's problem. The uninformed. Truly a problem with few solutions. The solution that has been taken by most people, including many posters to
My point, kind people, is that we must fix the problems in our inner circles before we can offer, or even point out; (for risk of hipocriticism) to fix societies problems in our outer circles.
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Probaly because you offended a few people with moderator tokens.
:)
Nothing personal, but justice comes in Metamoderation, not a court of law where two sides debate, there is no forum (i.e. you shouldn't paste a post about a moderation), it is either fair, or unfair, as decided by several people in meta moderation. Neat huh? It's what makes M great.
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Two closed source programs in addition to the q1 source. They are not closing the q1 source. (First Myth Debunked) Verification programs should not be open source. Espically if you are not making any money on the program anymore (for instance if you are working on say, q3.) and you have roughly six or seven hours a month to spend on the project. (Which is why they GPL'ed it.)
This is the defination of an insane frenzy. People don't even read the stories now. Drives me crazy. So hence I remind everyone the first rule of positive posting: Read the story first (doi doi doi). The Second rule is: Put yourself in the shoes of the woozle. (Woozle; as in kill the woozle, for instance putting yourself in Carmack's shoes, or Amazons, etc.)
NOTE: If you seriously have a problem with this, NOTHING is stopping programmers from editing the source in such a way that the two closed source proggies would not be necessary, and the game could still be cheat-free.
I honestly don't see Why everyone is opposed to this bandaid fix until open source itself can fix the problem. Unless of course the code is too big and we run into whatever the law is that says, "The Bigger the code, the fewer people want to _start_ work on the monster.".
Frustrated.
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I am not xenophobic, as I said 'we' I was speaking as the intelligent voting class of the United States of America, which happens to be a minority. :P
Xenophobia is a fear of outsiders, are you aware of this? I liked the United Kingdoms House of Lords, but they have to elect people to it now which lets the bribary in.
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Unfortunately they never really did get anywhere with the IBM trial, since IBM didn't have a monopoly. And they definately did not get to this point, so there was no real reason for IBM to bribe anyone. I'm going to go looking over for some prescidents like this but I doubt i'll find any, this is like the first time anything like this has ever happened, isn't it? (And by 'this' I am speaking of the operating system monopoly and the company being told that it cannot sell it's products at whatever price it chooses, kinda silly but intresting at the same time.)
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And in turn the perfect opp. for a -1 score.
People who complain about Score:2's and Score:1's should be shot.
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If there is anyone who has a shot at fixing this mess it is him, unfortunately I don't think he can campaign against forbes and GWB for the nomination, although if GWB is the man he might get the nod for Veep, and get in from there, since GWB and John McCain are friends. Of course that strategy isn't working for Gore, heh.
Still, vote John McCain.
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In the age of the Constitutional Aristocracy, (George Mason was right, Hamilton Madison and Jay appear to have evuntally been wrong. :P) you must have money to have a place in government, if you do not have money you must have some medium that everyone listens to and respects, unfortunately to have that you must have money. In this brave new age, if you don't donate money to political campaigns you are 'shaken down' so to speak, and if you do then the people tend to be shaken down.
A New York Post story said Bill Gates donated to GWB's campaign to help him win the election then be able to have him get him off the hook. Sadly it appears GWB might be the lesser of the evils simply because hes accepted money from so many people that if he does one thing for one contributor he'll betray another.
Therefore it is a sad fact of american politics that the most effective elected officals are the ones who do nothing at all, after all you can't get them to do anything meaningful for the people except lamer laws that look like they do something but are really quite trivial. This is why we want John McCain to win, who claims he'll reform all of this, but unfortunately he'll probaly lose to GWB because he has more money and the vast majority of americans who vote don't think, and instead preform block voting techniques and vote for everyone with their political affiliation by their name, the winner of the elections is always the person who can harness the 'ethnic votes' like how Al Gore and GWB are both trying to speak in spanish every so often so they can get the Mexicans to go out and vote for them, and if you can't harness the ethnic votes your next best bet is to just unleash a huge ad campaign and create a rockstar-type fasade, (or in Bill Clintons case, hes accused of alpha male.)
Say, what the HECK were you brits thinking when you got rid of the house of lords one redeeming factor? Oh well, welcome to the world of constitutional aristocracy!
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You're right, it makes no sense.
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I really like special guests as long as they don't.... well, suck.
/. on a regular basis or just being able to hear a hot news topic and get the general, light hearted gist of the story.
Chris DiBona was a good guest, but everyone else I don't remember their names for the life of me, and I have the GiS episodes running on infinate loop one after another, so that can't be a good sign..
I'm suprised you didn't lie and say you were at ALS.. I wonder what the sound effect for that would be....
*annoying fan valleygirl sound*
*burning*
*The annoying peach sound on GA Lotto Commercials*
I actually saw CmdrTaco getting a coke at the coke machine by the bathrooms and then taking the most logical route, back to the booth. For some reason that was the highlight of ALS for me. It's probaly because the show's little booth walls remind me of a labrats maze. I'm probaly going to have dreams now of being stuck in a maze and being accosted by Linux-mag people, damn you, Freud.
The strongest quality of the show is being accessable to people who might not read
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I had to read this so don't scorn me
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Heheh.
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I guess if you want to avoid getting sued or being able to prove that x-person sent it then it would be fine, but couldn't I just set my systems clock back?
And even then, can't I just cut and paste the message to another file if I want to save it? Perhaps it's semi-useful for encrypting messages between two parties and keeping other people from reading it, but... bleh, it just seems fishy. I honestly don't understand why, if that was the case, the reciever couldn't just use the DELETE key on his keyboard.
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It just wouldn't happen that way. The bank networks are closed off, and even if they weren't contengencies are far too easy to have for such a thing. As for disrupting communications, they have two choices, 1) blow up radio tower, thing that broadcasts to satilletes, etc. 2) break into the building and hax0r it.
I'll just go for 1, it's cruder but alot more effective. 2) could just be fixed with a simple contengency but it's far too surgical. To knock down the network you have to knock out the maintainers, otherwise you'll have a rather negligable effect, if Pakistan shut down India's banking network it would hurt them just as much as it hurt India simply because of how close they are geographically, even if they don't trade with each other, there are middle men in 3rd party countries to the conflict that would be hurt causing a ripple down effect of damage. As for bringing down communications there are just so many sources of it that although it would be possible to damage, the damage would need to be physical, not via the 'net.
Basically knocking down communications or banking infastructure wouldnt' be done over the internet.
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It was bad, I hope you didn't have to pay him a Kill Fee (a percentage of what the aurthor would normally have been paid, if the article is 'killed', usually very hard to get.)
It's kind of odd that you're looking to slashdot for this sort of thing about cyber terrorism, I mean theres really not that much of a story behind it and quite frankly I don't see how theres a story here at all, it's like the "cyberwar" between Pakistan and India, it has an effect but it's negligable if one side does anything.
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Cut
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Not useful.
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I have.
:)
The key is to not let people know who you are from the start.
Maybe if you follow my urls read my sigs track everything i've ever posted for a few years, then you'll find someone who has my name in an IRC Log, other than that, good luck, and even if you did find it, I have a very common name
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For the first time I actually have some respect for NS, although he did remove his postings they are, essentially, a private discussion between him and the other members of 'the well'.
Essentially what the story attatched to this article and most stories in question about just about anything (See: Jesse Ventura, convient part about that is that it's in playboy so they can make it out however they want and theres a chance no one 'respectable' in the media will find out) media related, they tend to take exerpts in a manner that 'shades the truth' also known as 'spin'. Now, if this is an archive from 1989 to 1999, you can be damn well sure that whatever he says will not be taken in context.
He kind of has to in order to protect himself otherwise he'll just be a martyr to the mainstream media, god I hate them right now, can you tell? I can see this becomming an exerpt one day on MSNBC.
I gotta give him one thing though, he certainly doesn't have a mainstream taste for women. Which is a good thing because if this keeps up we wont have to look at the glorified hungry who eat nothing all day and are just skeletons with skin tacked on. (See: Ally McBeal) I don't like breaking skin when I tap someone on the sholder, you know? ^_^
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