Posts by foo_bar_baz

@Liam Johnson

Thanks for the answer!

And to whoever gave my message a thumbs down: why? Enquiring minds are forbidden on a tech/sci site?

@OCD AC

It's curious how language develops organically, not from a linguist's rulebook or an advertising agency's plans. What's the sense in "pineapple"? Perhaps the origins of the phrase predate Microsoft?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food#Origin_and_alternatives

That was really hard.

You're probably right

It's probably mostly malware using Opera in its User-Agent header.

Getting me coat ...

What do you expect

... if you live up to your user name? :P

An eye for an eye ...

Oh, and let's just forget about due process etc. Bring back the Spanish Inquisition I say!

Another day

Another astroturfing sockpuppet.

Oh yeah

This made me snort.

Please read the article

... and take off your HP glasses for a moment.

It's clear the US was putting (some of the) people in Guantanamo for the purpose of extracting information from them, not because they were enemy combatants or terror suspects. See the case of taxi driver and the reporter.

There is no defense for that. It looks to me like Obama wanted to close Guantanamo to prevent the PR disaster it has become as much as for humanitarian reasons.

Clarification

Robert Heffernan said, quote:

1) "more like stealing electricity from the water utility"

2) "have greener credentials by plugging a regular radio into the grid electricity supply!"

The fact is, in the reservoir scenario:

1) Installing this radio does not incur additional cost on the water utility.

2) Installing this radio does not incur additional cost on the user, while plugging a regular radio into the grid does.

It may not be perfectly efficient, but *the net electricity consumption is less* than using an ordinary radio. Ergo, it's more "eco" than an ordinary mains powered radio.

Et tu, heyrick

No results found for "zombie babies ate my dingo"

Poor show, what.

@Howard: Yes there is, it's called ordinary language and common logic

Since we've moved to the nitpicking realm, I'd say "known" does not mean "universally known". A British Froobology expert could say "I have discovered 113 Froobies and my guess is that Cuban and Chinese know of similar quantities, so the number of known Froobies is probably in the hundreds." He can't know if the Cubans and Chinese have discovered as many, or whether they are disctinct from his. He does know Cubans and Chinese are good at Froobology but they just don't share their findings.

I see what you're saying, too many wishy-washies in the sentence, and in the area of malware "known" does in practice equate with "universally known".

@Vic

I was not making those assertions. The original article was.

*My* point was towards another poster, whose arguments were totally off the mark. I was hoping to get properly reasoned refutations of the original article. You provided those, including citations. So a sincere thank you for that.

Here's a brilliant idea for you

Read. Think. Don't post.

* Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad

http://it.slashdot.org/story/06/06/24/1420251/Malware-Installed-by-LiveJournal-Ad

* Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malicious Ads

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/major-ad-networks-found-serving-malicious-ads-121210

* Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/11/14/1352221/Google-Text-Ads-For-Known-Malware-Sites

* Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick

* Malware Rising - Attacks Increasing Through Malicious Online Advertising

http://www.securityweek.com/malware-rising-attacks-increasing-through-malicious-online-advertising

etc.

Yes, it's always religion

Or whatever your favourite scapegoat happens to be. Politicians, government, people from country X, people not from country X, whatever. I thought freedom and democracy are the cause of all evil.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/quotes?qt=qt0475805

You went wrong the moment you said "good people" and "evil people". You'd probably make a good fundamentalist religious type, since things are so clear cut. In fact, one could conclude you're probably just the type of prescriptive know-better "good guy" who ends up causing bad things because you "know better".

Totally feasible

Any "it's her father/brother/uncle" comments are narrow minded, sexist, agist, bigoted, etc.

However, we're dealing with Anonymous here - see Rules of the Internet.

nah, the employees

just wanted to get spaced

Besserwisser fail

What do you think Mac and Linux virus scanners are used for? Detecting Windows malware.

BSD count?

http://m0n0.ch/wall/

http://www.pfsense.org/

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/oreilly2000/

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Firewalls-OpenBSD-PF-2nd/dp/8391665119

"becuz"

They could have played the same games on the XBox 360, but chose to pay more for a PS3 because of this feature. How hard is this to understand? Do I have to make a car analogy?

Having any inkling of military procurement

The translation of manuals and "adapting" the aircraft would have made the Rafale 5 times as expensive.

Hello again, Elmer

So I should trust your "guess" over a security expert?

You've got "a little" experience with FireWire and you "would guess that said laptops had Firewire networking enabled". Well, guess what. You should read:

http://simonhunt.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/firewire-attacks-revisited/

Look at "Defending against this attack." Is there a point saying "disable Firewire networking"? I don't see one.