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Comment Re:Dial up can still access gmail (Score 1) 334

There used to be a series of commands you could send to a C64 to get the motor to do some fairly unnatural moves(such as slam down the write head and then eject, if I remember rightly. Its been a *long* time).

I don't think any of the C64 disk drives had a soft eject function. They either had the little spinny lever or the lip that you'd push in and up.

Comment There was no hack (Score 5, Informative) 37

by MobyDisk (#47931551) Attached to: eBay Redirect Attack Puts Buyers' Credentials At Risk

The article is completely overblowing this, borderling lying. Ebay was not hacked. The BBC should be ashamed and take the article down:

EBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site designed to steal their credentials.

But the image caption says the truth:

A listing for an iPhone 5S contained code that resulted in users being sent to a scam site

Those are *completely* different issues. A link is not a hack! The article goes on to make up more garbage:

He [the security researcher] said that the technique used was known as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. It involved the attackers placing malicious Javascript code within product listing pages.

Posting a link is not an XSS attack. And a link is not the same as Javascript.

The article says "a security researcher" but they never say the persons name or credentials. I bet there was no researcher. It sounds more like a friend of one of the reporters saw this scam link, Googled some search terms and came-up with "XSS" then suddenly became a security researcher.

Comment Do Geeks actually watch this show? (Score 3, Insightful) 106

by MobyDisk (#47929197) Attached to: Interviews: David Saltzberg Answers Your Questions About The Big Bang Theory

I've only seen a few episodes of TBBT, but I didn't get that there was anything geeky about it. Do geeks actually watch the show?

The first episode has a hot girl meet a couple of nerdy guys who predictable run into her burly ex-boyfriend. In the next episode, said hot chick finds some reason to take a shower in their apartment, and hilarity ensues. It seemed more fanservice than geekdom. There characters were just "Revenge of the Nerds" style over-the-top archetypes of geeks. This is probably typical of sitcoms since realistic people just aren't as funny as exaggerations.

This interview was the first time I had heard of the series as being for geeks or by geeks. It is good that some mainstream writers take their material seriously.

Comment Re:Protect us against cyber-threats? (Score 1) 103

Convert to Islam or die.

This is not, nor has it ever been a central tenet of Islam. This cannot be viewed in political or historical isolation.

"Convert to Christianity under Papal authority or die by red-hot poker" was a governing principal of church and state - at the center of Europe's most powerful empire, for nearly 200 years. It was never the message of Jesus, regardless of your belief in Christianity. But scripture and political expropriation of pseudo-theology made that it seem so.

I hope someday you have a daughter who marries a an African Muslim. You might be forced to reconsider many of the things that you "know" so assuredly.

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