Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag 262
Let me just slide your card a few dozen more times ... Any Web Loco writes "Following on from this piece on /., this story in the Sydney Morning Herald tells us that the company that got hacked (exposing up to 8 million credit card numbers) was Data Processors International. Not much to the story, but we now know who it was."
Another reason to be cautious about domains with "uk" in them. An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that Nominet has looked at opening .net.uk up or killing it off and then decided it can't decide. The chair of sub-committee responsible, Clive Feather, is currently standing for re-election to Nominets Policy Advisory Board. The sub-committee he chaired had suggested shutting down net.uk entirely, which the main board rejected. His position must surely be under scrutiny by the internet community."
Interesting bugs are in the teeth of the beholder. dvdweyer writes "I myself do remember having read the whole interview with Bill Gates in Focus, a German weekly news magazine (their online service now seems to be part of MSN *yuck*). There are however resources online which provide full sources, in English, most notably RISKS in issue 17.43 (not 17.42) with a follow-up in issue 17.44."
When fan-subs just aren't what you want. May Kasahara writes "Studio Ghibli fansite Nausicaa.net now has official release dates for Region 1 DVDs of Kiki's Delivery Service , Laputa: Castle in the Sky , and Spirited Away , as well as official preview artwork of the disks and packaging. As a side note, the site now has a page up for Miyazaki's upcoming Howl's Magic Castle . See you at the video store on April 15!"
Fonts make your terminal much more useful. Russ Nelson writes "The Bitstream Vera fonts are available for trial use. Bitstream is still tweaking them, so they're under the provisional "no redistribution" license. You can download them yourself, though, and in about a month, put them in your software distribution. Kudos to X co-creator Jim Gettys for finally getting X some professional-quality fonts."
Dear Mr. Ashcroft: I hope you find this slag useful. eecue writes "Due to the recent MIT study concerning data recovery from old hard drives, we decided that the only foolproof means of data removal was complete destruction."
The Bill Gates interview, (Score:3, Funny)
8 years old.
a multiple dupe.
news for nerds, indeed.
Hard Drive Destruction (Score:3, Funny)
Drive slagging.. (Score:4, Funny)
Crash unexpectedly have you? Take that!
Turn them in to paperclips! Finally a way to come through with all those threats! HAH!
It turns out that ... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone out there hear of this new free OS called Lineux or something? I think it was written by some student in Estonia or something. Two guys down in San Jose are starting up some company based on this product called "RedHelmet" or something.... but I'm sure they'll go out of business in a year.
I tried to go to their website, but I can't get my Mosaic brower to display these new Jpeg pictures.
the part I found funny (Score:5, Funny)
So what? (Score:4, Funny)
So you can justify posting a 8-year old badly written and poorly translated article in an obscure German magazine merely because you think it's a novel way to "stick it to The Man"?
And here I thought that we'd never run out of material to generate amazingly insightful comments and unlimited nasal chuckles from the peanut gallery.
But I guess we've hit a new low.
New business model! (Score:2, Funny)
2) Keep actual slagging procedure secret
3) ???
4) Profit!
Oh wait; I guess step 2 won't work now [eecue.com].
Re:The Bill Gates interview, (Score:1, Funny)
8 years old.
a multiple dupe.
In other words, it's the perfect Slashdot story!
Drive slagging. (Score:4, Funny)
I used to just throw mine into the nearest active volcano, until I found out some volcano-diving kiddie named d4r74 was reading them anyway.
Re:the part I found funny (Score:5, Funny)
"Ooh, toxic smoke! Let's get closer so we can breathe it!
Data erasure from the latest Circuit Cellar Ink (Score:3, Funny)
Very cool magazine. Check it out at:
http://www.circuitcellar.com [circuitcellar.com]
Re:Data Wiping (Score:4, Funny)
Dodgy word "slag" (Score:3, Funny)
Is this one of those words, like fag and wank that means something horribly different depending on what side of the Atlantic you happen to be speaking?
I think we should be told.
Next article after MS one (Score:3, Funny)
Heh, just kinda reminds me of the day when the net was so innocent.
Re:hard drive destruction (Score:2, Funny)
Re:the article is from 1995 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Data Wiping (Score:2, Funny)
Re:netcraft survey says...OT (Score:5, Funny)
(Of course, I frequently hear Richard Dawson's voice in my head. Werner Klemperer, too...)
Cheers,
Jim
Re:the article is from 1995 (Score:5, Funny)
They don't even RTFA, and you want them to read user posts too?
damn.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news (Score:5, Funny)
According to Linus Torvalds, Linux is specific to the x86, and will probably never be ported to any other architecture, so it's probably not going to amount to much in the long run.
When Apple releases Copland, we'll all want to get PPCs.
Re:hard drive destruction (Score:2, Funny)
If you want to get rid of sensitive data, just put it on an unreliable hard drive to begin with and the problem will take care of itself.
Course, with how angry I was about having so many drive failures, I wouldn't mind mailing back one of their drives in the form of hardened slag.
Re:the article is from 1995 (Score:5, Funny)
-Bill
Re:Hard Drive Destroyed (Score:2, Funny)
I seem to recall a usenet post about some chap that was attending a some conference and the subject of deleting data from disks came up during conversation . One of the attendees said something like well, where I work, we just put our old drives into a hole
Everyone laughed at that, til they realised the speaker wasn't joking...
'course, that was quite a while ago now
Re:Uhm... (Score:2, Funny)
Bonus points if you pick significantly bigger and harder than you, or if you refer to his girlfriend as a slag too.
Steff
Re:Hard Drive Destroyed (Score:2, Funny)
One of the hazards of working a buzy communications center is that you get a lot of inspectors coming through to see how you operate. We always showed them how to use the degauser and let them put some media through it. Then we'd let them bust it up with the sledge hammer. They really liked that.
The sledge was really a bit gratuitious, since the degauser was powerful enough to wipe the credit cards of people sitting in the next room.
I used to have dreams where I left accidentially the degauser on over night and discovered fusion.
Re:Hard Drive Data (Score:3, Funny)
Re:the article is from 1995 (Score:3, Funny)
True. In the intervening time, he's provided us with hundreds of thousands of newer, cooler bugs than we ever had in Windows 3.1.
paperclips? (Score:4, Funny)
Why? You need help writing a letter?
Human Cremation Explosions, BioChips, and You... (Score:2, Funny)
"Silicon implants in women who had had cosmetic breast surgery were also known to have exploded during cremation."
Anyone out there want their info to go when they do? And what's more- does anybody want to think about where those smart Bio Chips [netowne.com] are gonna go, if they aren't slagged? Do you really want that around forever? (On the other hand, it would make one heck of a 'memory album' for the great-grandkids...)