Demiansmark - Slashdot User

Comment At least... (Score 3, Interesting) 579

by Demiansmark on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:23AM (#26725157) Attached to: Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth"

it seems that the two clerks were big enough nerds to identify the weapon as a Batleth!

Unfortunately it seems that the robber was masked so they weren't able to tell if he was a swarmy Klingon.

Some great writing in the story: "The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect transported himself out of the store"

So the suspect ummm.. "left" the store? Oh wait... "transported himself", dude got beamed up!

Comment Don't think this is a big deal (Score 1) 301

by Demiansmark on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:16PM (#26331653) Attached to: Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs?

I use twitter regularly and haven't seen this much.

Regardless, this is similar to stolen accounts being used to spam the message board on Myspace. Slightly annoying yes, but not a big deal because the user generally quickly reclaims their account.

Myspace also took a number of steps to cut down on this and warn users about links to outside domains and significantly reduced the problem.

I don't think this is that big of a deal on Twitter now and if it becomes one I believe it can be effectively combated.

On a side note, it'd be nice that when you notice that you are not logged in to Slashdot after writing a comment and click the 'log in' button on the comment box that it allowed you to log in without losing your comment

Comment Crickey (Score 2, Insightful) 16

by Demiansmark on Friday September 05, 2008 @09:12AM (#24887049) Attached to: Kidstoned Chewable Valium

This must be at least 10 years old, I know it's Idle but are we just grabbing random old videos from Ebaums and throwing it up here.

Submission + - It's official: Vista copy protection 100% cracked

Submitted by

Slinky Sausage

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @03:00AM

Slinky Sausage writes: "There's been a steady stream of 'sort of' cracks for Vista coming out of the piracy groups, but a crack has been released this morning by "Pantheon" which is doesn't avoid Vista's activation — it exploits it! Apparently despite the requirements for everyone including volume licence customers to activate, Microsoft built in the capability for OEM system builders to pre-install copies of Vista without activating it over the internet. The crack works on any Acer, HP, Lenovo, Hewlett Packard or custom machine (as long as you have the BIOS of that machine available)."

Submission + - The English Jedi

Submitted by

Ethical Hacker

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @05:45PM

Ethical Hacker writes: "In 2001, 390,127 Britain's claimed to be Jedi, by religion, according (with authority) the National Office for Statistics. See http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/r ank/jedi.asp Seven people in every thousand in England and Wales gave their religion as 'Jedi' in the 2001 Census."

Submission + - Best & Worst Decisions Starting Internet Compa

Submitted by

markfletcher

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:45PM

markfletcher writes: "Today I launched a new site dedicated to helping Internet entrepreneurs, called Startupping. For the launch, I asked several successful entrepreneurs about lessons they learned starting and running Internet companies. The first set of replies includes responses from Paul Graham, John Battelle, Chris Pirillo, Ross Mayfield and Dick Costolo."

Submission + - Does not having signed an NDA give any leverage?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: For the past few months, I've worked with a startup developing a new technology that could be of interest to many different sectors when market ready. Despite the fact that the company is well funded, I have yet to be paid, and the issue will likely soon come to a head. Through a combination of circumstance and oversight, I also happen to be the only employee at the company who has not signed a non-disclosure agreement, despite having full access to the technology at hand. Does this give me any discernible leverage in getting the money that is owed to me?

Submission + - Could Sun be the dot in web 2.0

Submitted by

oxide7

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:13PM

oxide7 writes: "With the demand for computing power exploding among the distributors of media rich Internet content, some analysts believe Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) is poised for a rebound in demand following five years in the wilderness. The most notable development, one analyst contends, its UltraSPARC T1 processor, with an architecture fit for tomorrow's "Web 2.0" Internet. "The T1 appears to align Sun perfectly with the needs of mega-scale computing companies whose mission is to deliver content, which is beginning to rapidly migrate from text to video," Wolf says. "These companies are likely to turn to suppliers who can provide sophisticated systems at competitive prices rather than companies focused simply on the assembly of generic boxes.""

Submission + - Google Maps used to locate phishing victims

Submitted by Damon Hastings on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @06:35PM

Damon Hastings writes: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?n ewsID=8077

Okay, the story here is that it is once again possible to download a trojan merely by visiting a web page. All articles I've found have unfortunately focused on a single exploit of this vulnerability, and thus the articles are nearly irrelevant. The vulnerability is what matters. If it isn't patched soon, you could see millions of infections from more creative exploits in the very near future. If any hacker is able to smuggle the trojan onto even a single major website, he could net millions of victims.

Does anyone know which vulnerability is being used? Or what browser(s) are affected? Is it just Internet Explorer 6? IE7? How long has Microsoft known about this vulnerability, and when will they fix it (or have they already?) I can't find any useful articles on the net — they're all just clones of this one.

The Google maps bit is of course completely irrelevant — the ability to map IP addresses to physical locations has been widely and publicly available since before Google existed. Google has no culpability here, despite the misleading reporting done by the major news agencies.

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