Look at the crowd of people on that lawn over there! -- More --

..when they hear their phone ring?

Confusion++?

I do the same thing as the author in the article. To confirm this you need to change the email address you received the spam from at the same time you notify the company.

e.g.

thecompany@yourdomain.com localaccount

becomes

#thecompany@yourdomain.com localaccount
thecompany2@yourdomain.com localaccount

If 'thecompany2' address gets spam they're still compromised. Repeat until fixed or you lose trust in 'thecompany'.

Interesting 'law'.

I have my own guideline where if the headline is of the form:

{start of sentence} may {end of sentence}

I no longer bother reading the article.

I just wish there was a better way to deliver remote UIs than AJAX (or "metric butt-ton of RDP connections"). It's a crude and slow hack (although a practical one) to use HTML for dynamic content. Even server side scripts are bit of a bubble gum or an afterthought at least.

There should be a dedicated protocol to deliver UI elements. Maybe there some day will be when this all just gets too messy.

Maybe that day was in the past?

I've ascended a couple of times in Nethack. I'm still too 'scared' to play dwarf fortress...

Incidentally, if your dungeon crawling tastes included dungeon master, eye of the beholder and the like, there's a newly published games called Legend of Grimrock done in the same vein which I'm currently playing and very much enjoying. Although not free, it's cheap and seems to be fairly well balanced.

Surveys have recently shown that 67% of people would install the new version of iTrojan without checking how or why it's different from the current iTrojan. Furthermore 43% of users said they were such Apple fans that they would likely install the new version of iTrojan without even being aware that they would do so.

I can imagine it though - Joe was last seen heading towards the mountains through the forest. He appeared to be carrying 12 pick axes, 6 shovels and a sword of some sort many years ago. Occasional sightings have been reported of a blocky figure occasionally appearing from the ground to chop down and even punch trees and attacking the local boars? The few photo's that have tried to capture this stranger have always ended up too low in resolution to be used for identification. On a couple of occasional brave investigators did make their way in to the places the blocky figure was last seen, but never returned. Search drones flying over to find out what happened have never been able to locate them or any evidence other than some strange new small craters of unexplained origin.

The last possible reference to Sasquatchewan Joe (as he is now known) was in the Weekly World News which claims to have a source which has seen him riding a saddled pig off a cliff.

Maybe he's English. Now we'll see whether he has the time to say something more.

Indeed. Did anyone bother to even read the article first?

I clicked the article because the Slashdot headline mentioned FreeBSD on the desktop. The article doesn't even _contain_ the word desktop, and there's only a passing reference to 'workstations' made by the author "that my workstations run Linux, my servers run FreeBSD".

I've come to the conclusion that Slashdot's primary reason for existence now is for simply testing your powers of observation.

1983 called and Chistopher Walken wants a word with you.