continue building my covert explosives factory but before i head back to it after lunch, buy a box of salt or a bottle of weed killer. terrorists: 1, magic rainbow plant: 0.
feverishly devises ever more ways to ensure they can continue to drive cars, other countries are working on ways to remove them altogether. America is a large country, sure, but thanks to piss-poor civil planning most cities from their shopping centers to their workplaces are absolutely unnavigable without some form of vehicle. I live in Phoenix, a city basically designed from the ground up to require a car, and which boasts an impressive noxious smog like we lovingly call "the brown cloud." my office is so short on parking employees have actually refused to come to work some days. we have a transit and rail system, but any hint of expanding them is demonized as socialism.
part of me wants my hero to be fresh as a lilly, defiant as a warrior monk and rigid as an arrow in the face of his accusers and the public at large; its what ive been taught makes a hero. This juxtaposition questions my definition of hero, moreso than my conviction to assanges purpose and cause. When i watched the film "Hancock" i had no problem suspending disbelief that a homeless wino could save the day and yet now, with the very same faculty as was present in the theatre i seem to doubt assange?
Thanks to the NYT for showing me "Assange." he isnt invincible, he isnt iron clad and he certainly isnt perfect. Assange is just a guy who decided truth was important, despite some very real dangers he would face. Seeing him, socks around his ankles and all, lets me conclude that i dont care much if he's incarcerated until the clothes rot from his body. WikiLeaks was my hero the entire time, i had just applied a face to it out of convenience.
summary was written by a skype executive...just because you developed a great product doesnt mean there isnt:
1. competition that is less popular but technologically superior, just waiting for an advance
2. cause to assume your success and popularity are justification for sloppy software lifecycle practices.
3. open source communities capable of reacting organically to protect their users, not your profits.
tell me more about this signal jamming burrito of which you speak. we here at darpa have spent billions of taxpayer dollars on burritos that will effectively subvert and jam microwaves....
the worst article ive ever read. source is not linked, the axes on the graph arent even fucking labeled, and the method by which the sampling was acquired was not disclosed. furthermore lets take this with a grain of salt; commtouch sells an anti spam product to large isps and service providers that costs upwards of a quarter-million dollars a year to license and run. If the metric is from their honeypots that might be OK, but if its from their appliances then i call foul.
spam isnt just from one source anymore, so you see it coming from dedicated and shared hosting accounts, pools of compromized ips and web based email accounts without decent security controls.
the grande olde race to the bottom with your favorite bureaucratic players serving their duly appointed decades of service in office to the allmighty dollar and its greased corporate hand.
The soviets managed the first satellite, the manned lunar orbit, and the first robotic probe on the moon as well as plasma engine technology, and this was all done about 30 years ago. here in the states we still shoot people into space with the firm conviction that at any moment the event can fail catastrophically for any reason, or no reason at all...and thats okay.
Being of the church of Stallman, this article feels like lip service to open source, with an apologists focus on oracle and an all-around marginalization of the GPL in favour of the BSD license and supposed adoration of Larry's new pay model for traditionally open source apps.
that having been said, ill be blagging this on my gopher site if anyone needs me.
more outline and summary of the article, its content, affected users and payload. bonus points for countermeasures to employ.
less goofy references to your fucking holidays.
sincerely,
the overworked windows administrator trying to use slashdot for an intended purpose.
so heres an american science competition hosted by the defense department (who else has funding in america) and the rules are simple:
1. no global warming...global warming is a theory, not a fact, and thusly we arent holding any competitions to fix something that may, or may not be occuring, according to american politic...er..scientists.
2. no stem cells...we firmly believe life begins at arousal and will defend this conceptualized interaction of neurons to the death, or next midterm election, whichever we see fit.
3. we're fat...seriously, and we've run out of options that involve us eating food so check out the myhealthypeople application developer competition. mostly this is just trying to improve retention and enlistment rates in the armed forces as well as reduce healthcare expenditures...for us, not you
4. the FCC Open Internet Apps challenge: okay so we know there are at least 2 open source operating systems available with hundreds of thousands of open source programs and lots of creative people already working on this shit but lets ignore that for now....we, the FCC just passed a law that makes us look like shitbags so we'd like you to tie us up to something that makes us look like a worthwhile independent institution established to protect the consumer, not some lapdog for telecommunications conglomerates
5. the NDU press holiday scavenger hunt: aaalright...who copy pasted their google calender.....
.6. augmented reality photo contest: so not really anything as ass-crackingly earth shattering and life changing as our last big invention, the internet, but hey everyone loves photoshop...oh and you'd better have a licensed copy.
7. veterans health wireless challenge thats right, we're openly soliciting as a challenge a project related to a healthcare system so broken, it should be criminal
8. 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards:oh, did we mention no stem cells? yeah, no stem cells...i mean dupont and dow corning cant make plastic tron figurines and happymeal prizes out of them, and theres a mighty big gap where BPA will....uh...i mean its...a great challenge!
9. Digital Manufacturing Analysis, Correlation and Estimation (DMACE) Challenge seriously okay, this one was just left over from some gin soaked napkin at a GOP convention packed with lobbyists...soooo...this is the science of figuring out how much, oh, say, a line of talking tron figurines will cost this year...you know...if you had to guess...
you recently submitted a payment to sdf.lonestar.org for your MetaARPA sustaining membership. This site has been identified as a Hacking siteand as such has been blacklisted from our payment processing system. Furthermore your donation to OpenBSD has also been declined for processing as the openBSD project sponsors known hacking activity and said bad things about our unquestionably patrio-tastic freedom war against terror.
in summation your cards with us have also been cancelled as you've been identified without a magnetic ribbon on any vehicles registered in your name, and are obviously not supporting the troops.
please consider purchasing a copy of jeff dunhams 'achmed the terrorist' comedy DVD, as well as anything sufficiently xenophobic, bigoted and patriotic from the Country music top 10/50/100 charts. Once clad only in a sweat-stained american flag and nourished only by fast food, can we consider reactivating any of your perpetual debt engines.
regardless of how awed the media is in the wake of the stuxnet worm, things like this only work once, and only under certain conditions. In any functional nuclear program there exists a very strict information systems security policy to prevent exactly this type of malicious activity from occuring. I also wouldnt be surprised if the "two years" assertion is an overstatement to placate the middle east.
Iran will likely switch from windows controllers for their Siemens PLC's to hardened linux or BSD, taking a page from chinese internet security experts and refusing to trust western code that cannot be independently evaluated. and if we remember the cold war, irans woes feel like washingtons foreign policy from the cold war being flexed all over again
most corporate "fax servers" are integrated into technology like copiers, with a limited hard disk capacity of around 60 gigs. fill the disk with wikileaks documents or high resolution graphics (think screencaps of the entire collateral murder video) and the fax machine effectively shuts down until someone can find an op to clear the disk on the copier/multifunction device. add multifactor authentication required to access faxes in corporate environments like visa, and this attack works well to slow down or stop the days faxes entirely.
sysops in most companies also do not know much about the fax/copier other than toner requirements...so its been my experience personally you'll need to fetch a gray-haired woman from the switchboard or an exec assistant to log into the copier and show you what to do. Fax interfaces on these systems are notoriously painful to navigate, requiring hours of either point and click deletion or button punching to get results.
after the break, including is the portmanteau the poor mans article summary? can pigs really fly? and a man who claims to see the face of Richard Stallman in his gillette shaving razor every morning! all this and kim with the weather.
from the wrong side, once again. The FBI would have done better had they simply concluded that 1/3rd of the worlds spam comes from
computers running unpatched and compromised Microsoft Windows operating systems and programs. Capitalism prevails again, and we dont blame corporations at fault for the mistakes and problems we see.
this is somewhat like saying 1/3rd of all funeral coffins come from one man who designed a flyer especially for people who smoke cigarettes.
all this russian gent has done is set to make a profit off our own stupidity.
as useful as PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards. a great idea with loads of rules to keep things on the right track, but no real punishment
for repeat offenders or major breeches. in short: just another meeting on my calendar.
Slashdot Mirror
continue building my covert explosives factory but before i head back to it after lunch, buy a box of salt or a bottle of weed killer. terrorists: 1, magic rainbow plant: 0.
feverishly devises ever more ways to ensure they can continue to drive cars, other countries are working on ways to remove them altogether. America is a large country, sure, but thanks to piss-poor civil planning most cities from their shopping centers to their workplaces are absolutely unnavigable without some form of vehicle. I live in Phoenix, a city basically designed from the ground up to require a car, and which boasts an impressive noxious smog like we lovingly call "the brown cloud." my office is so short on parking employees have actually refused to come to work some days. we have a transit and rail system, but any hint of expanding them is demonized as socialism.
part of me wants my hero to be fresh as a lilly, defiant as a warrior monk and rigid as an arrow in the face of his accusers and the public at large; its what ive been taught makes a hero. This juxtaposition questions my definition of hero, moreso than my conviction to assanges purpose and cause. When i watched the film "Hancock" i had no problem suspending disbelief that a homeless wino could save the day and yet now, with the very same faculty as was present in the theatre i seem to doubt assange?
Thanks to the NYT for showing me "Assange." he isnt invincible, he isnt iron clad and he certainly isnt perfect. Assange is just a guy who decided truth was important, despite some very real dangers he would face. Seeing him, socks around his ankles and all, lets me conclude that i dont care much if he's incarcerated until the clothes rot from his body. WikiLeaks was my hero the entire time, i had just applied a face to it out of convenience.
let me spell it out: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
summary was written by a skype executive...just because you developed a great product doesnt mean there isnt:
1. competition that is less popular but technologically superior, just waiting for an advance
2. cause to assume your success and popularity are justification for sloppy software lifecycle practices.
3. open source communities capable of reacting organically to protect their users, not your profits.
i wrote a script to unlock the original content in the book!
s/slave/nigger/g
Watson: What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One's a sick duck and I can't remember how it ends, but your mother's a whore.
tell me more about this signal jamming burrito of which you speak. we here at darpa have spent billions of taxpayer dollars on burritos that will effectively subvert and jam microwaves....
the worst article ive ever read. source is not linked, the axes on the graph arent even fucking labeled, and the method by which the sampling was acquired was not disclosed. furthermore lets take this with a grain of salt; commtouch sells an anti spam product to large isps and service providers that costs upwards of a quarter-million dollars a year to license and run. If the metric is from their honeypots that might be OK, but if its from their appliances then i call foul.
spam isnt just from one source anymore, so you see it coming from dedicated and shared hosting accounts, pools of compromized ips and web based email accounts without decent security controls.
the steve jobs reality distortion field came from the turtle neck, did you?
the grande olde race to the bottom with your favorite bureaucratic players serving their duly appointed decades of service in office to the allmighty dollar and its greased corporate hand.
The soviets managed the first satellite, the manned lunar orbit, and the first robotic probe on the moon as well as plasma engine technology, and this was all done about 30 years ago. here in the states we still shoot people into space with the firm conviction that at any moment the event can fail catastrophically for any reason, or no reason at all...and thats okay.
despite the best efforts of neoconservatives, the fact still remains: reality has a well known liberal bias.
Being of the church of Stallman, this article feels like lip service to open source, with an apologists focus on oracle and an all-around marginalization of the GPL in favour of the BSD license and supposed adoration of Larry's new pay model for traditionally open source apps.
that having been said, ill be blagging this on my gopher site if anyone needs me.
more outline and summary of the article, its content, affected users and payload. bonus points for countermeasures to employ.
less goofy references to your fucking holidays.
sincerely,
the overworked windows administrator trying to use slashdot for an intended purpose.
so heres an american science competition hosted by the defense department (who else has funding in america) and the rules are simple:
.6. augmented reality photo contest: so not really anything as ass-crackingly earth shattering and life changing as our last big invention, the internet, but hey everyone loves photoshop...oh and you'd better have a licensed copy.
....uh...i mean its...a great challenge!
1. no global warming...global warming is a theory, not a fact, and thusly we arent holding any competitions to fix something that may, or may not be occuring, according to american politic...er..scientists.
2. no stem cells...we firmly believe life begins at arousal and will defend this conceptualized interaction of neurons to the death, or next midterm election, whichever we see fit.
3. we're fat...seriously, and we've run out of options that involve us eating food so check out the myhealthypeople application developer competition. mostly this is just trying to improve retention and enlistment rates in the armed forces as well as reduce healthcare expenditures...for us, not you
4. the FCC Open Internet Apps challenge: okay so we know there are at least 2 open source operating systems available with hundreds of thousands of open source programs and lots of creative people already working on this shit but lets ignore that for now....we, the FCC just passed a law that makes us look like shitbags so we'd like you to tie us up to something that makes us look like a worthwhile independent institution established to protect the consumer, not some lapdog for telecommunications conglomerates
5. the NDU press holiday scavenger hunt: aaalright...who copy pasted their google calender.....
7. veterans health wireless challenge thats right, we're openly soliciting as a challenge a project related to a healthcare system so broken, it should be criminal
8. 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards:oh, did we mention no stem cells? yeah, no stem cells...i mean dupont and dow corning cant make plastic tron figurines and happymeal prizes out of them, and theres a mighty big gap where BPA will
9. Digital Manufacturing Analysis, Correlation and Estimation (DMACE) Challenge seriously okay, this one was just left over from some gin soaked napkin at a GOP convention packed with lobbyists...soooo...this is the science of figuring out how much, oh, say, a line of talking tron figurines will cost this year...you know...if you had to guess...
you recently submitted a payment to sdf.lonestar.org for your MetaARPA sustaining membership. This site has been identified as a Hacking siteand as such has been blacklisted from our payment processing system. Furthermore your donation to OpenBSD has also been declined for processing as the openBSD project sponsors known hacking activity and said bad things about our unquestionably patrio-tastic freedom war against terror.
in summation your cards with us have also been cancelled as you've been identified without a magnetic ribbon on any vehicles registered in your name, and are obviously not supporting the troops.
please consider purchasing a copy of jeff dunhams 'achmed the terrorist' comedy DVD, as well as anything sufficiently xenophobic, bigoted and patriotic from the Country music top 10/50/100 charts. Once clad only in a sweat-stained american flag and nourished only by fast food, can we consider reactivating any of your perpetual debt engines.
regards,
Master of Cards.
fox news, its target demographics, or their metrics constitute news for nerds or stuff that really matters...
regardless of how awed the media is in the wake of the stuxnet worm, things like this only work once, and only under certain conditions. In any functional nuclear program there exists a very strict information systems security policy to prevent exactly this type of malicious activity from occuring. I also wouldnt be surprised if the "two years" assertion is an overstatement to placate the middle east.
Iran will likely switch from windows controllers for their Siemens PLC's to hardened linux or BSD, taking a page from chinese internet security experts and refusing to trust western code that cannot be independently evaluated. and if we remember the cold war, irans woes feel like washingtons foreign policy from the cold war being flexed all over again
the lengths to which McDonalds fanatics will go to secure another years appearance of the dreaded "McRib" sandwitch has stooped to a new low.
most corporate "fax servers" are integrated into technology like copiers, with a limited hard disk capacity of around 60 gigs. fill the disk with wikileaks documents or high resolution graphics (think screencaps of the entire collateral murder video) and the fax machine effectively shuts down until someone can find an op to clear the disk on the copier/multifunction device. add multifactor authentication required to access faxes in corporate environments like visa, and this attack works well to slow down or stop the days faxes entirely.
sysops in most companies also do not know much about the fax/copier other than toner requirements...so its been my experience personally you'll need to fetch a gray-haired woman from the switchboard or an exec assistant to log into the copier and show you what to do. Fax interfaces on these systems are notoriously painful to navigate, requiring hours of either point and click deletion or button punching to get results.
20 minutes and a normalizing filter from the music shop, i can notice the difference now.
"Runaway ham capsule explodes through floorboards of local church, injuring 6"
after the break, including is the portmanteau the poor mans article summary? can pigs really fly? and a man who claims to see the face of Richard Stallman in his gillette shaving razor every morning! all this and kim with the weather.
from the wrong side, once again. The FBI would have done better had they simply concluded that 1/3rd of the worlds spam comes from computers running unpatched and compromised Microsoft Windows operating systems and programs. Capitalism prevails again, and we dont blame corporations at fault for the mistakes and problems we see.
this is somewhat like saying 1/3rd of all funeral coffins come from one man who designed a flyer especially for people who smoke cigarettes.
all this russian gent has done is set to make a profit off our own stupidity.
as useful as PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards. a great idea with loads of rules to keep things on the right track, but no real punishment for repeat offenders or major breeches. in short: just another meeting on my calendar.