Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
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Hacker Pwns Police Cruiser and Lives to Tell the Tale
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#22This is always good for a laugh: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Live+View... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aview%2Fview.sh... Never turned up anything as fun as a policecar though.
Every time I feel like I've got a grasp on just how insecure things are on the Internet, it's like someone hits me over the head with slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick.
No kidding? I've been dying for a good Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Tell me how?
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#23Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
...when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
The Register is sort of an IT tabloid, so one could expect them to be on the leading edge of using IT slang in headlines and articles.
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#24"The ability for civilians to secretly spy on officers responding to calls could have serious consequences for their safety." These are public employees performing a public duty. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, maybe a SWAT raid or something, the public should have access to this data to ensure that public employees are serving the public good. At the bare minimum it should be available within hours of it…
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I detect a note of disparagement toward our civil servants who have signed up for a job that puts them in harm's way. Maybe, as a military veteran, I'm over-sensitive/biased, but the tone is unnecessary to your point. That said, I totally agree, and the thought occurred to me, too, while reading tfa that these recordings should be publicly available if not broadcast in real time.
Publicly available, yes, but real time? Really?
hey skip, looks like a cruiser is on its way to you, yeah about 5 minutes away, burn the evidence.
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#25The router manufacturer's website looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it: http://utility.com/
Shame shame for not preloading their mouseover images too.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I detect a note of disparagement toward our civil servants who have signed up for a job that puts them in harm's way. Maybe, as a military veteran, I'm over-sensitive/biased, but the tone is unnecessary to your point. That said, I totally agree, and the thought occurred to me, too, while reading tfa that these recordings should be publicly available if not broadcast in real time.
Publicly available, yes, but real time? Really? hey skip, looks like a cruiser is on its way to you, yeah about 5 minutes away, burn the evidence.
I thought of that, too, and yeah, you'd probably need a kill-switch for situations like that, but a panopticon for uniformed police strikes me as a great way to let everyone watch the watchmen, a badly needed check on an easily abusable authority. Maybe you're right, though, I guess real-time isn't really necessary.
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#27Title seems a bit disingenuous; a professional pen tester getting a live feed from a camera on a police car does not constitute a "hacker pwning a police cruiser", and whether he would live to tell the tale doesn't appear to have been in doubt. If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?
> If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?
If you want to get a lot of points on HN, then I guess that's what you should do. Alternatively, here are some other ideas:
* Why a startup is like X/X for startups
* Why founders should X
* XDD - X Driven Development
Here's an example:
* Brushing your teeth, for startups
* Why founders should brush their teeth
* TDD - Toothpaste Driven Development
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#28Title seems a bit disingenuous; a professional pen tester getting a live feed from a camera on a police car does not constitute a "hacker pwning a police cruiser", and whether he would live to tell the tale doesn't appear to have been in doubt. If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?
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#29"The ability for civilians to secretly spy on officers responding to calls could have serious consequences for their safety." These are public employees performing a public duty. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, maybe a SWAT raid or something, the public should have access to this data to ensure that public employees are serving the public good. At the bare minimum it should be available within hours of it…
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I detect a note of disparagement toward our civil servants who have signed up for a job that puts them in harm's way. Maybe, as a military veteran, I'm over-sensitive/biased, but the tone is unnecessary to your point. That said, I totally agree, and the thought occurred to me, too, while reading tfa that these recordings should be publicly available if not broadcast in real time.
You're certainly not mistaken, I'm not a believer in that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori stuff.
I'd be pretty pissed off too if I was a military vet. The recruiters tell a bunch of lies to young idealistic kids who've been put through 13 years of indoctrination from a system designed to train them to be soliders and factory workers. Then the recruiter comes and tells them they can be a hero to their country and maybe get to attend college. When the kid gets back with their legs blown off no one gives a shit because they were sent off to fight a war that no one but civil servants believe in.
All this so that a defense contractor has an excuse to sell weapons.
It's frankly disgusting. I'm sorry if our system suckered anyone into a raw deal, I had nothing to do with it's establishment. Upon a plain reading of the constitution one who was going to serve in the military would believe that they could only be deployed by consent of congress which is not what happens in practice.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every time I feel like I've got a grasp on just how insecure things are on the Internet, it's like someone hits me over the head with slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick.
To be fair, 90% of them are just webcams of tourist destinations, they're probably linked from travel agency homepages. Google has to get to them somehow. Sometimes though, you get one of someones office. Just very occasionally, you hit one with the controls to move the thing around, and you can make it wave at people and watch them freak out.
It's that other 10% ...