This article isn't really news. It seems that there is *always* something like this happening. Facebook is the perfect place for scams to happen. It's basically the new AOL.
You have many amateur users who don't understand the first thing about security, and you have millions of them. Millions! Make something that looks slightly "official," and you've got it made. (Remember the old antivirus popups on websites?)
We basically have a conglomerated database of targets for any exploit in a system that changes its layouts and features so frequently that no one can ever recognize that something looks a little off...
So your buddy is allowed to talk about them with people outside of the bureau (presuming you don't work for them too), but those that receive them aren't?
Yes, we were discussing policy. He can talk about policy all day long but by no means is he allowed to talk to me about specific cases.
An old buddy of mine works at the FBI. He says that these demanding letters come in all shapes and forms, are frequently quite illegitimate, and are becoming more and more widely spread.
Basically, the FBI is doing what the MAFIAA do--they know that they're the big boys with power and money and will go against you whether you're right or wrong because nearly no one will fight.
Relativist scumbag. There is an absolute when it comes to music. I can accept Phil Collins. I can accept KMFDM. I can even accept Coolio. I can't stand any of them. When it comes to trash like Eminem or Dave Matthews, I think that people like you should be hanged with a 26-loop noose. It may be x2, but it's definitely not overkill.
This isn't exactly a new idea. Even I had a similar idea that I realized years ago.
Back when I was at MIT, we had utility vehicles on campus and several keypadded gates. The men in trucks drove up to the gates and entered codes. Since I didn't want to build any hardware, I colored the keypad over with a permanent marker in similar color to the keys. I counted the audible beeps emitted by the controller. After a day or so, I went up and saw that only three keys had been depressed for the five beeps. After four tries, I had the code and could pointlessly open the gate for no reason at all at will!
Society will never find equilibrium. It's like the oscillatory nature of everything else in existence. Swing one way, swing the other, and never remain static. It's a simple model that applies to nearly everything.
According to one of my old classmates who works at HP, they've either been keeping everything really quiet, or there is no evidence. He is betting on the latter. This may just be a case of slander/libel. It does not take much for a woman to accuse a man of a crime that he did not commit and get him into heaps of trouble for it.
Happened to me in the 90s and on a much smaller scale. I was accused of groping a woman, and when the cop arrived, she couldn't even keep her story straight. The cop tried to convince her how to best make up her story in front of my face. I was arrested. When we went to court, I provided microcassette audio and a transcript of what had happened. Cop was fired, and they tried the woman for perjury. Still made my life a nightmare.
China is doing this to improve their image. Their government refuses to take human rights seriously because they would lose the great deal of control that they have over their populace. If they can look "green" instead and publicize it, they have basically traded bad human rights image for good environmentalist image while giving up far less (in their views) to get the environmentalist image. The net result is that to a body like the UN, China would look no worse than any other country. The UN would eat it up all day long. So, yes, image = money.
However...
I have been to China. Where they stand right now, even if they went full-force, it would take at least a decade to get to where Europe is. They aren't going to want to do that because their goods would cost more to produce, and that would affect their bottom line.
Yeah, my brother works for eBay, so he still knows a bunch of people at Skype. They are actually looking forward to the IPO so that they can spend some of the initial capital making some (to use his words) "much needed improvements."
Do you really think that anyone wastes time doing CREDIBLE research about (as AC called it) "a cesspool" website of stupid user-submitted links for others to look at in their spare time? Do you REALLY need research to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling on the truth of something? Do you understand that research tends to be incredibly biased and that you are probably not a man of the caliber to discern such biases?
ME. Right now. Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this. I have to pay the mortgage. I have to pay the $320 Comcast bill. Going to Mars isn't going to get me anywhere.
In order to count and house all the world's books, we, of course, are going to need a new filesystem. I propose to call it TSPFS. The fundamental unit of the said filesystem is a BLoC, representing 115M books. And of course, 640K BLoCs should be enough for anyone...
So, basically, imagine lots and lots of corporations as cars on a busy Interstate. On one hand, we have SCO which was a tanker truck filled with benzene and toxic sludge going to the nearest creak to offload, but before it got there, it had a catastrophic wreck and burned for a while. As a matter of fact, the sludge was so nasty that it has been burning for several years, and fire crews have not been able to extinguish it.
As for the zero-fatality car, let me put it this way. Since the Interstate (the world-wide work force) is still blocked with toxic sludge and fire (the recession and its causes), nothing is getting done, and Volvo isn't selling as well as it did. In order to appease shareholders temporarily and raise Volvo's stock for the next week or two, Volvo has decided to build a vehicle that not only can withstand any wreck, but since it is zero-fatality, you just can drive right through that fire and toxic sludge and be on your merry way to economic recovery.
So I have several acetate discs from a radio studio in New York. They were recordings of the very first days of America's involvement in World War II. The radio network was purchased years ago and is owned by one of the "big boys" now. (Sucks how Clear Channel owns everything...) As far as we have been able to find, I am the only person even with any record (read knowledge) of this particular recording. So I have a piece of history that hasn't been released and would be really good to have in the public domain.
So seeing that I am probably the only person that has this copyrighted material, whose rightly is it? Mine, the one guy in ten who was careful to not throw this old acetate disc of the estate? Or does it belong to that fat Clear Channel CEO who is at this very moment doing a line of coke off his secretary's &#*@?
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This article isn't really news. It seems that there is *always* something like this happening. Facebook is the perfect place for scams to happen. It's basically the new AOL.
You have many amateur users who don't understand the first thing about security, and you have millions of them. Millions! Make something that looks slightly "official," and you've got it made. (Remember the old antivirus popups on websites?)
We basically have a conglomerated database of targets for any exploit in a system that changes its layouts and features so frequently that no one can ever recognize that something looks a little off...
So your buddy is allowed to talk about them with people outside of the bureau (presuming you don't work for them too), but those that receive them aren't?
Yes, we were discussing policy. He can talk about policy all day long but by no means is he allowed to talk to me about specific cases.
An old buddy of mine works at the FBI. He says that these demanding letters come in all shapes and forms, are frequently quite illegitimate, and are becoming more and more widely spread.
Basically, the FBI is doing what the MAFIAA do--they know that they're the big boys with power and money and will go against you whether you're right or wrong because nearly no one will fight.
(By the way, I'm black.)
Hahaha, some negro disagreed with you and modded you troll. What a country.
Relativist scumbag. There is an absolute when it comes to music. I can accept Phil Collins. I can accept KMFDM. I can even accept Coolio. I can't stand any of them. When it comes to trash like Eminem or Dave Matthews, I think that people like you should be hanged with a 26-loop noose. It may be x2, but it's definitely not overkill.
Hey mods, eat my feces for modding me down. That's right, suck it right out of my anus. I know that you love felching.
Wow, you actually listen to DMB. Music made by yuppies for yuppies. How sad.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the, erm, slashdot mods.
She likes being choked. Believe me.
This isn't exactly a new idea. Even I had a similar idea that I realized years ago.
Back when I was at MIT, we had utility vehicles on campus and several keypadded gates. The men in trucks drove up to the gates and entered codes. Since I didn't want to build any hardware, I colored the keypad over with a permanent marker in similar color to the keys. I counted the audible beeps emitted by the controller. After a day or so, I went up and saw that only three keys had been depressed for the five beeps. After four tries, I had the code and could pointlessly open the gate for no reason at all at will!
NICE argument, man. Bravo.
Society will never find equilibrium. It's like the oscillatory nature of everything else in existence. Swing one way, swing the other, and never remain static. It's a simple model that applies to nearly everything.
According to one of my old classmates who works at HP, they've either been keeping everything really quiet, or there is no evidence. He is betting on the latter. This may just be a case of slander/libel. It does not take much for a woman to accuse a man of a crime that he did not commit and get him into heaps of trouble for it.
Happened to me in the 90s and on a much smaller scale. I was accused of groping a woman, and when the cop arrived, she couldn't even keep her story straight. The cop tried to convince her how to best make up her story in front of my face. I was arrested. When we went to court, I provided microcassette audio and a transcript of what had happened. Cop was fired, and they tried the woman for perjury. Still made my life a nightmare.
You're missing the point.
China is doing this to improve their image. Their government refuses to take human rights seriously because they would lose the great deal of control that they have over their populace. If they can look "green" instead and publicize it, they have basically traded bad human rights image for good environmentalist image while giving up far less (in their views) to get the environmentalist image. The net result is that to a body like the UN, China would look no worse than any other country. The UN would eat it up all day long. So, yes, image = money.
However...
I have been to China. Where they stand right now, even if they went full-force, it would take at least a decade to get to where Europe is. They aren't going to want to do that because their goods would cost more to produce, and that would affect their bottom line.
Yeah, my brother works for eBay, so he still knows a bunch of people at Skype. They are actually looking forward to the IPO so that they can spend some of the initial capital making some (to use his words) "much needed improvements."
We'll see how this goes!
Shut up and die.
Dear moron,
Do you really think that anyone wastes time doing CREDIBLE research about (as AC called it) "a cesspool" website of stupid user-submitted links for others to look at in their spare time? Do you REALLY need research to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling on the truth of something? Do you understand that research tends to be incredibly biased and that you are probably not a man of the caliber to discern such biases?
--TrisexualPuppy
Alas, you found me out! Since the OP is already at -1, I hereby cancel my moderation. Nice call.
ME. Right now. Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this. I have to pay the mortgage. I have to pay the $320 Comcast bill. Going to Mars isn't going to get me anywhere.
Human mentality...
In order to count and house all the world's books, we, of course, are going to need a new filesystem. I propose to call it TSPFS. The fundamental unit of the said filesystem is a BLoC, representing 115M books. And of course, 640K BLoCs should be enough for anyone...
I need a car metaphor.
So, basically, imagine lots and lots of corporations as cars on a busy Interstate. On one hand, we have SCO which was a tanker truck filled with benzene and toxic sludge going to the nearest creak to offload, but before it got there, it had a catastrophic wreck and burned for a while. As a matter of fact, the sludge was so nasty that it has been burning for several years, and fire crews have not been able to extinguish it.
As for the zero-fatality car, let me put it this way. Since the Interstate (the world-wide work force) is still blocked with toxic sludge and fire (the recession and its causes), nothing is getting done, and Volvo isn't selling as well as it did. In order to appease shareholders temporarily and raise Volvo's stock for the next week or two, Volvo has decided to build a vehicle that not only can withstand any wreck, but since it is zero-fatality, you just can drive right through that fire and toxic sludge and be on your merry way to economic recovery.
So I have several acetate discs from a radio studio in New York. They were recordings of the very first days of America's involvement in World War II. The radio network was purchased years ago and is owned by one of the "big boys" now. (Sucks how Clear Channel owns everything...) As far as we have been able to find, I am the only person even with any record (read knowledge) of this particular recording. So I have a piece of history that hasn't been released and would be really good to have in the public domain.
So seeing that I am probably the only person that has this copyrighted material, whose rightly is it? Mine, the one guy in ten who was careful to not throw this old acetate disc of the estate? Or does it belong to that fat Clear Channel CEO who is at this very moment doing a line of coke off his secretary's &#*@?
All that needs to be said here is that we are dealing with a software-driven platform.
But does she run Linux?
Yes
Interesting, but...
...wait...
...hmmmph