Lullabye_Muse - Slashdot User

Comment Sauce Must Flow (Score 1) 1839

by Lullabye_Muse on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @11:58AM (#51430943) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

I've been reading Slashdot most days, and very rarely writing and posting to it, since I was a teenager.

I don't think I would be working in IT, and at least not doing as well, if I didn't read all of the deep and wonderful insights about the future, diatribes about obscure unix commands, and why I shouldn't let a corporation bully people or other companies.

These are the kinds of things that need to let flourish, and in bringing in more people to the fold the real hook is letting people feel okay to ask questions. The ability to post as an AC here is one of the greatest features I've ever found in any forum. I've asked hundreds of stupid questions on Slashdot over the years, and the really stupid ones were almost always AC, but they always got an answer.

I don't feel that comfortable on Reddit or StackOverflow, or anywhere else on the web.

If you can keep holding onto that ability to let people ask questions, you'll always be able to have this forum, even if the colors change,

Submission + - Half of TOR Sites Compromised, Including TORMail. (twitlonger.com)

Submitted by elysiuan on Sunday August 04, 2013 @04:28PM

elysiuan writes: "The founder of Freedom Hosting has been arrested in Ireland and is awaiting extradition to USA.

In a crackdown that FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half of the onion sites in the TOR network has been compromised, including the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail"

The FBI has also embedded a 0-day Javascript attack against Firefox 17 on Freedom Hosting's server. It appears to install a tracking cookie and a payload that phones home to the FBI when the victim resumes non-TOR browsing. Interesting implications for The Silk Road and the value of Bitcoin stemming from this. The attack relies on two extremely unsafe practices when using TOR: Enabled Javascript, and using the same browser for TOR and non-TOR browsing. Any users accessing a Freedom Hosting hosted site since 8/2 with javascript enabled are potentially compromised.

Submission + - Twitter, American Express Letting People Purchase Goods via Hashtag (slashdot.org)

Submitted by

Nerval's Lobster

on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @03:15PM

Nerval's Lobster writes: "What could possibly go wrong with this? American Express has announced a partnership with Twitter, giving customers the ability to sync “eligible cards” with the social network. Tweeting special product hashtags (i.e., #uselessjunk) will purchase a product via that synced card. American Express will then send a purchase-confirmation Tweet, and the usual shipping-and-handling of the product will commence. For Twitter, the partnership also holds significant advantages. If this initial foray succeeds, it could potentially evolve into a workable e-commerce model, and thus a separate stream of revenue for the social network aside from advertising. Also, research has shown that people tend to spend more money when using credit cards as opposed to cash. It’s also quite possible that a streamlined online purchase mechanism—think any number of e-commerce Websites’ “Buy Now” buttons—could compel potential customers to buy more often and in larger amounts."

Submission + - Learn COBOL, Because It Will Outlive Us All (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by

jfruh

on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:51AM

jfruh writes: "Here's an old computer science joke: What's the difference between hardware and software? If you use hardware long enough, it breaks. If you use software long enough, it works. The truth behind that is the reason that so much decades-old COBOL code is out there still driving crucial applications and banks and other huge companies. Many attempts to replace COBOL applications flopped in the 1980s and '90s, and we're stuck with them for the foreseeable future — but the Baby Boomers who wrote all that code are now retiring en masse. So if you want a successful IT career, you should probably learn COBOL."

Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn 174

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 10, 2009 @01:09PM from the when-pets-go-bad dept.

bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."

Submission + - Documenting a network

Submitted by

Philip

on Monday May 25, 2009 @03:22PM

Philip writes: "I was appointed as a network manager to a barely functioning MS-based network three years ago. Since then, I've managed to get it up and running — even thriving — but have been guilty of being too busy with the "getting things done" side of networking to document the changes and systems that are put in place. Now I look back, I realise that there is a lot of stuff that I've done and if I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason I'm leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run and I am worried that I'm the only one that will ever know how it works. Ultimately, this won't be a good reference for me if they are forever trying to work out technical details for years to come. It's likely that I would be replaced with someone with less technical expertise (read "cheaper") and so the document needs to have all sorts of details that outside consultants could understand too (no, I don't want to be the outside consultant either...).

Are there any good templates out there for documenting networks? Has anyone done it before and have some experiences to share? What did you wish your predecessor had written down about a network that you inherited?

Thanks!"

Journal Journal: MvixUSA, Unicorn Bends to Pressure, Releases GPL Source Code

Journal by kjh1 on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:20PM

After being pressured by their user base, MvixUSA, the distributor of the Mvix MX-760HD Wireless Media Center, has obtained the source code to the firmware from the Korean manufacturer, Unicorn Network Total Solution, and made it available for download on their website. The firmware is based on the uClinux kernel. This is reminiscent of the fight that the community had to go through with GamePark Holdings, Inc. to have them

Comment Im Interested (Score 1) 18

by Lullabye_Muse on Thursday February 01, 2007 @01:13PM (#17845478) Attached to: DIRECTV® Finds Verve in INTEL® Viiv

One I really don't mind this as its a seperate section you have to click to, and slashdot is a for profit organization. But on topic now, I just got the basic HD DVR and honestly I'm loving it, and hopefully by the time my family gets hdtv they move up to the plus and we can really integrate our home network.

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