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"The difficulty of taking on equipment, other than what your own network is designed for, is severe. There's almost no market for an arbitrary piece of equipment."

Apparently this guy has never heard of eBay. This is as good of a time as any, for just one company to pick up the slack and firesale prices as well as customers of some of these companies. Sure the market is grim right now but as history shows it cannot stay there, and should a company jump up and purchase the equipment and accounts, they could actually make money.

First off with the economy in a slow downturn, you'd save a heck of a lot more money buying surplus stuff from companies like these, at the fraction of a cost. Secondly you'd already have accounts from them as well, the question is whether or not DSL is actually a dead technology, and the answer is no.

Given the monopolization of the Bells over phone lines, this is the only issue truly affecting these companies. If customers aren't paying, then its the company's own fault, not the Bells.

All you need is one company to face the facts, sure the market is bullish, which also means no one is going to be spending an arm and a leg buying newer equipment and technologies for a while, so why not capitalize on whats in front of them right now. DSL isn't going anywhere, even if AT&T isn't buying any new DSL assets, who the hell said they were the definitive *anything* of DSL to begin with? So I truly believe there is money to be made as long as the company believes in long term growth as opposed to short term profits, which is one of the biggest problems that lead to most of the Venture Capital firms demise in funding. Everyone thought about making the fastest dollar, and shitty technologies messed things up for a lot of good business ideas, and companies.

Now for those customers using the services such as Covad, or any other that may have gone under or are going under, I saw a judge forced a company to pick up the slack, and what I would do is re-check some of those legally bonding contracts you signed when you purchased the service, and make sure these companies no matter what hold up to their end of the bargain or refund the difference.

Ghost in the Shell

Why the hell is it that every one of the linux zealots that read and post to slashdot BITCH AND MOAN about Microsoft products,

First off its not ALL of the Linux zealots and in fact I've noticed the majority who get caught up in that (OS name calling) mix, tend to be newer users of Linux who could barely chop up source on their own often jumping on irc channels or mailing lists with the shittiest questions.

claiming that they're the most worthless piece of shit software company on the planet? Anyone who has to reinstall a Windows OS every god damn month is just a fucking moron. Anyone who can't keep a Windows machine up for more than a day is also a damn moron.

Actually I don't think its the most worthless piece of shit OS on the market by any means, in fact I think MS has strategically placed itself on the markets for reasons like Ease of Use, familiarity, since OS's like Linux, NSD, etc., are almost impossible for Mary Joe Homemaker, and Sally Secretary to handle, however its bullshit to think anyone can keep a Windows machine up all day is a moron. E.g. there's been plenty of times I've seen Windows go bonkers for no reason especially Windows2000k with all the patches to date for the machine.

Last year when I was tinkering with codes on a DoS paper I wrote, I slightly modified my code to connect to a non open TCP port on my Windows laptop and it still crashed it for no reason. (FYI code is here) The OS did a great job of crashing from time to time when it wasn't online, no one touched it, just pooped out on its own.

Sure, you have to reboot to patch and install software, but who the hell cares?

I would care if I oversaw a network of 1,000 boxes which needed patch upgrades every week, only to be restarted. Think about it for a quick second as I outlined in the funny Microsoft Kills paper, 1,000 servers multiplied by about 3 minutes downtime, then you've got lost time spent and I don't think any administrator be it Microsoft or any other company is going to be kind enough to say "Hey don't worry I'll patch these on my own time, no need to pay me." Fuck no that shit costs money after a while.

Come on, get a damn clue and jump off that damn bandwagon.

I find it funny seeing OS wars go on when in reality 95% or more depend on Windows in some shape form or fashion, last time I checked accounting was looking for Excel files, secretaries were saving *.doc files... Sure Linux advocates have the right to moan its their choice, just sit back and get a kick out of it, I do.

Why the hell is it that every one of the linux zealots that read and post to slashdot BITCH AND MOAN about Microsoft products,

First off its not ALL of the Linux zealots and in fact I've noticed the majority who get caught up in that (OS name calling) mix, tend to be newer users of Linux who could barely chop up source on their own often jumping on irc channels or mailing lists with the shittiest questions.

claiming that they're the most worthless piece of shit software company on the planet? Anyone who has to reinstall a Windows OS every god damn month is just a fucking moron. Anyone who can't keep a Windows machine up for more than a day is also a damn moron.

Actually I don't think its the most worthless piece of shit OS on the market by any means, in fact I think MS has strategically placed itself on the markets for reasons like Ease of Use, familiarity, since OS's like Linux, NSD, etc., are almost impossible for Mary Joe Homemaker, and Sally Secretary to handle, however its bullshit to think anyone can keep a Windows machine up all day is a moron. E.g. there's been plenty of times I've seen Windows go bonkers for no reason especially Windows2000k with all the patches to date for the machine.

Last year when I was tinkering with codes on a DoS paper I wrote, I slightly modified my code to connect to a non open TCP port on my Windows laptop and it still crashed it for no reason. (FYI code is here) The OS did a great job of crashing from time to time when it wasn't online, no one touched it, just pooped out on its own.

Sure, you have to reboot to patch and install software, but who the hell cares?

I would care if I oversaw a network of 1,000 boxes which needed patch upgrades every week, only to be restarted. Think about it for a quick second as I outlined in the funny Microsoft Kills paper, 1,000 servers multiplied by about 3 minutes downtime, then you've got lost time spent and I don't think any administrator be it Microsoft or any other company is going to be kind enough to say "Hey don't worry I'll patch these on my own time, no need to pay me." Fuck no that shit costs money after a while.

Come on, get a damn clue and jump off that damn bandwagon.

I find it funny seeing OS wars go on when in reality 95% or more depend on Windows in some shape form or fashion, last time I checked accounting was looking for Excel files, secretaries were saving *.doc files... Sure Linux advocates have the right to moan its their choice, just sit back and get a kick out of it, I do.

Why the hell is it that every one of the linux zealots that read and post to slashdot BITCH AND MOAN about Microsoft products,

First off its not ALL of the Linux zealots and in fact I've noticed the majority who get caught up in that (OS name calling) mix, tend to be newer users of Linux who could barely chop up source on their own often jumping on irc channels or mailing lists with the shittiest questions.

claiming that they're the most worthless piece of shit software company on the planet? Anyone who has to reinstall a Windows OS every god damn month is just a fucking moron. Anyone who can't keep a Windows machine up for more than a day is also a damn moron.

Actually I don't think its the most worthless piece of shit OS on the market by any means, in fact I think MS has strategically placed itself on the markets for reasons like Ease of Use, familiarity, since OS's like Linux, NSD, etc., are almost impossible for Mary Joe Homemaker, and Sally Secretary to handle, however its bullshit to think anyone can keep a Windows machine up all day is a moron. E.g. there's been plenty of times I've seen Windows go bonkers for no reason especially Windows2000k with all the patches to date for the machine.

Last year when I was tinkering with codes on a DoS paper I wrote, I slightly modified my code to connect to a non open TCP port on my Windows laptop and it still crashed it for no reason. (FYI code is here) The OS did a great job of crashing from time to time when it wasn't online, no one touched it, just pooped out on its own.

Sure, you have to reboot to patch and install software, but who the hell cares?

I would care if I oversaw a network of 1,000 boxes which needed patch upgrades every week, only to be restarted. Think about it for a quick second as I outlined in the funny Microsoft Kills paper, 1,000 servers multiplied by about 3 minutes downtime, then you've got lost time spent and I don't think any administrator be it Microsoft or any other company is going to be kind enough to say "Hey don't worry I'll patch these on my own time, no need to pay me." Fuck no that shit costs money after a while.

Come on, get a damn clue and jump off that damn bandwagon.

I find it funny seeing OS wars go on when in reality 95% or more depend on Windows in some shape form or fashion, last time I checked accounting was looking for Excel files, secretaries were saving *.doc files... Sure Linux advocates have the right to moan its their choice, just sit back and get a kick out of it, I do.

Well not to be the stickler, but one can see the gripes of SGI for contacting someone about Open*L as it does resemble (namewise) their product, although I strongly disagree with them bullying someone.

Now one of the things I would consider is, if your Open*L product/business/whatever is in line for competition with SGI in any shape form or fashion, in english... IF YOUR GOING TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF IT, then SGI has every right in the world to bitch.

Think about a company called WindOS, which is similar sounding to Windows (to a non savvy tech person), now their business is making an OS... Do you think Mickeysoft wouldn't have a gripe about it?

Now if they're just typically pushing their weight around, then you could either ignore them, and let them use up tons of funding taking you through the legal system, the creat an outpour of support, if you win the sue the fsck out of them... Or you could comply with them... or....

And this is the best one... Ignore them, I do it all the time when I get threats about stupid spoofs I've done.

erocdrah

I've actually caught many people aside from the typical April fools pranks. Using obfuscated URL's I've spoofed everything from Slashdot, ABCnews, Napster, CNET, Republican National Committe, and others.

Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.

So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)

I've actually caught many people aside from the typical April fools pranks. Using obfuscated URL's I've spoofed everything from Slashdot, ABCnews, Napster, CNET, Republican National Committe, and others.

Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.

So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)

I've actually caught many people aside from the typical April fools pranks. Using obfuscated URL's I've spoofed everything from Slashdot, ABCnews, Napster, CNET, Republican National Committe, and others.

Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.

So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)

I've actually caught many people aside from the typical April fools pranks. Using obfuscated URL's I've spoofed everything from Slashdot, ABCnews, Napster, CNET, Republican National Committe, and others.

Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.

So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)

I've actually caught many people aside from the typical April fools pranks. Using obfuscated URL's I've spoofed everything from Slashdot, ABCnews, Napster, CNET, Republican National Committe, and others.

Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.

So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)

Although having two antennas in close proximity can be a problem, Siep said that most users won't actually place the two systems next to each other.

When interference does occur, it manifests itself as slower transmission rather than a broken connection. Users are already conditioned to accept this, Siep said. It's the same problem that occurs with analog modems that sometimes connect at 33 kbits/second and sometimes at 28 kbits/s, and Siep believes consumers will be willing to live with the same experience in their wireless networks.

Now, *that* was *really* boring...

t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®

RFC 31337 you better recognize

HOW TO GET BABES -- A GUIDE FOR GEEKS

Show them your T1 lines and your modifications to the Linux kernel -- they'll be very impressed.

Grunt when they say anything to you -- remember, avoid eye contact at all costs.

Never leave your home -- any babes worthy of your attention will come knocking on your door.

Surf the net for porn, so you know what real women should look like.

Test whether they really love you; never, ever shave or shower.

Don't exercise -- the weak, pudgy mess that you are will evoke maternal feelings of sympathy.

If they talk to you, it means that they love you.

Remember, girls always prefer email to real mail.

Sitting three seats behind them on the bus is a good start.

Become a billioniare -- trade money for babes.

Write the next, killer software app -- your fame will draw them to you.

Remember, what's cool to your geek friends is cool to babes too.

Make them understand that you are more evolved than that hunky football star.

Declare that you are homosexual -- that never fails to interest them; pounce when guard is down.

Babes always go for the stronger man -- duke it out over a game of Quake.

Write a geeky web page.

Use mnemonics to aid communication e.g. Hello == main(){, Goodbye == }

Increase your "reproductive fitness" -- become the Alpha geek of your pack

The woman you're talking to on the net really is female and most likely a babe -- and remember, cybersex is as good as real sex.

chix dig us

www.w3c.org or a *.mil page or something... I think it'd be difficult to determine because there'd be no listing on major web indexes based on dates to my knowledge. I'd bank on it being an edu or gov related site.

its not this one

This incredible German made product is the part of the future of entertainment. The ability to jump 6 feet in the air and run with incredible speed while leaping and bounding allows a look never before seen in the entertainment world.

As the east coast Distributors for POWERSKIP we would like to invite inquiry about this incredible new product. They are in themselves an excellent fitness activity. They have also taken certain parts of the performance world by storm. They have a look and feel all there own. While I am tempted to brag about this product, we all know that a picture is worth a thousand words.

While tinkering recently with Outguess, I took a simple image about 28k and used a 1k text file to combine it into a new image (steganography owns). Well in certain instances depending on what I decided to embed into the image, the image would drop in size to about 7k some times, and other times it would still drop in size. Only once did it ever go over 28k which was when I embedded about 50k worth of text into the image, which still looked crisp to the naked eye.

Just thought I would share this. At one point I was thinking about making a script to lower the sizing of the many pics I have on my porn section, but I never bothered.

I also noticed there were other tricks to saving space on files but again, never got around to mentioning them, maybe some time I will who knows.

Are you kidding... While the 2.5 talks are going on, at the rate their releasing kernels, 2.7 will be out while they speak about 2.5.

They just released 2.4.3 yesterday didn't they, I can see someone fscking up and overlapping by releasing 2 kernels on the same day...

I'll stick with the BSD's thank you

Instead of releasing something every week or month or whatever, I think the developers of Linux should make it a quarterly process, and release kernels with a slew of things fixed or added. It seems everytime something comes out in the market (new USB device, new anything) they rev up a new release and fire it out.

This (in my opinion, since I'm entitled to it whether or not you mod this down) makes Linux look like such a novelty to business managers who don't understand tech, but sign purchase orders for the geeks who do buy equipment.

Explaining why the hell you have to take about *umpteen* hours in downtime upgrading kernels every so often becomes such a hassle. At least with BSD fixes are easy, and releases aren't done everytime someone *thinks* their new revision is revolutionary enough to release another current.

Just my two cents on the Lnux side of things.

csh-2.04# uname -a
FreeBSD ritalin.deficiency.org i386

movie starz

Its no surprise the Secret Service has Gone too far, but what I see happening is, they may be concerned with persons, embezzling money than using companies such as e-gold, as a means of hiding their traces.

Regardless of what the company actuall does, for those who don't keep up on privacy issues I suggest you read up on James Bell and how his "Assassination Politics" paper landed him in jail for using the same kind of anonymouse untraceable methods in theory...

As for the Secret Service using "credit card" fraud as an excuse, how come they never raid the businesses of adult sites all over the Internet? Or Amazon when someone cards them? Shady tacticts...

Its no surprise the Secret Service has Gone too far, but what I see happening is, they may be concerned with persons, embezzling money than using companies such as e-gold, as a means of hiding their traces.

Regardless of what the company actuall does, for those who don't keep up on privacy issues I suggest you read up on James Bell and how his "Assassination Politics" paper landed him in jail for using the same kind of anonymouse untraceable methods in theory...

As for the Secret Service using "credit card" fraud as an excuse, how come they never raid the businesses of adult sites all over the Internet? Or Amazon when someone cards them? Shady tacticts...

Microsoft Corporation are actually murderers.

New York, N.Y. March 30th,2001

In an independent study conducted this month by staff at AntiOffline.com, and MacroShaft.org, it was revelead that Microsoft is killing people on a daily basis, with the evidence verified by statisticians at New York University's Mike Hunt.

"Based on these estimated projections, it seems the Justice Department needs to begin a prompt investigation into this matter." states Mike.

Judging on data gathered on a one month term this is the output:

Windows users crash an estimated two times a day which requires an estimated 3 minutes to reboot. Result?

(Rough estimates)
100 million Windows users x 120 seconds == 507 years lost. 6 deaths a day are attributed to this product. This alone does not include any estimates from those users who have to reboot upon installing programs. Nor does this include time spent configuring TCP/IP reboots.

With an estimated dollar amount of about 22 million dollars lost weekly (this is a generous amount) due to these reboots, its strange that no company has gone bankrupt.

"If anyone would care to break these figures down into dramatic fashion, their would probably be global catastrophes." states Sil of AntiOffline

The difference between life and death on the workplace is no longer restricted to psychotic Postal workers, but rather a more chilling enemy known as the Blue Screen of Death.

We've yet attempted to solidly document that *actual* numbers out of fears our calculator could not reach the given amount, so we actually have given Microsoft what could be an actual death toll of 20-30 people daily.

Staff at Microsoft declined to return our e-mails repeatedly but we will continue to pursue the numbers as time goes by.

President George W. Bush today also intervened on Microsoft's behalf stating, AntiOffline's numbers are fuzzy math. Sil could not be contacted for comment.

"Windows -- When do you want to reboot today?"

who'd a thought

Personally I say a consortium should be created in order to monitor (fully monitor) patents and some of the broad circumstances in which the patents claim. Government is no good at monitoring private sector businesses and this has been proven time and time again.

Now can government be trusted to fully monitor whats going on, when some government employees who are on a time based scale of employment look forward to moving into the private sector, often taking jobs at these corporations who's patents they pass along merrily? It happened with the chemical industry.

Framework for the non profit could include, committee members who are voted into the corporation, just like a politician so there can be no form of monopolization. Patents would have to pass a rigorous full proof dissection to ensure fairness in the open market segments before being given a patent number.

This is whats happening in the justice system regarding technology based cases. Many people can scream and bitch on forums, to friends, etc., about the abuses going on in the justice system, but here is what it comes down to when dealing with the justice system.

Court
Jury of peers Highly unlikely 90% of the time the jury will be comprised of people who do not have any understanding of whats going on fully. These people are purposely selected by both lawyers, and the prosecution, depending on how they intend to fight the case. If the prosecution's job is to win by hiding facts about technology they'll option to choose as many e-illiterate jurors as they can and vice versa.

Lengthy trials
Jurors don't want to sit through boring trials such as these, and this combined with jurors that don't have a clue are a ticking timebomb set to explode in a very bad fashion. They will not look at any of the evidence, and rather they'd just wanna hurry up and go back to watching Oprah, Martha Stewart, and CBS.

Finances
Company X's resources are 1billion dollars for their legal teams while Defendant is almost dirt poor.

Companies who are bringing these patent suits should be held liable to pay for the entire trial along with damages for attempting to manipulate the legal system. Hefty fines should be imposed on them which could be used for research into the patenting system and its mechanisms.

Newflix

• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Crashstation
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Enterprise Crash Edition
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Terminally Ill Edition
  
  

• x86:
  http://download.some.0-day.warez.com/at/some/other /site
  
• Alpha:
  http://download.some.0-day.exe.files.com/else/wher e
  
  

• MacroShaft Security Bulletin: Frequently Asked Questions,

• MacroShaft article MS.Kills, How Microshit products may be actually killing its users, (Note: Read our new book "Hax0ring sluts for fun and profit.")
  
• HURT Advisory NY-69.4u, Topic: Campbells soup set to release new product,
  http://www.antioffline.com/scriptkiddiesoup.html

• October 22, 1999: Bulletin Created.

• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Crashstation
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Enterprise Crash Edition
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Terminally Ill Edition
  
  

• x86:
  http://download.some.0-day.warez.com/at/some/other /site
  
• Alpha:
  http://download.some.0-day.exe.files.com/else/wher e
  
  

• MacroShaft Security Bulletin: Frequently Asked Questions,

• MacroShaft article MS.Kills, How Microshit products may be actually killing its users, (Note: Read our new book "Hax0ring sluts for fun and profit.")
  
• HURT Advisory NY-69.4u, Topic: Campbells soup set to release new product,
  http://www.antioffline.com/scriptkiddiesoup.html

• October 22, 1999: Bulletin Created.

• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Crashstation
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Enterprise Crash Edition
  
• MacroShaft Windoze NV 4.0 Server, Terminally Ill Edition
  
  

• x86:
  http://download.some.0-day.warez.com/at/some/other /site
  
• Alpha:
  http://download.some.0-day.exe.files.com/else/wher e
  
  

• MacroShaft Security Bulletin: Frequently Asked Questions,

• MacroShaft article MS.Kills, How Microshit products may be actually killing its users, (Note: Read our new book "Hax0ring sluts for fun and profit.")
  
• HURT Advisory NY-69.4u, Topic: Campbells soup set to release new product,
  http://www.antioffline.com/scriptkiddiesoup.html

• October 22, 1999: Bulletin Created.

At this point it is clear that the sale process to which we have dedicated much effort has not yielded long term financing, or a strategic partnership that will allow NorthPoint to continue its current level of operations. As a result, the cessation of services to our customers and the complete shut down of our network is imminent. We will take the following steps: 1) effective immediately all pending orders will be held until further notice and 2) effective March 23, 2001 we will no longer accept new orders and will cease all new service installations. We urge you to take immediate action to secure alternate services for your needs.

On GSLV
Dr Kasturirangan said ISRO would initially launch its own communication satellites by using the GSLV with indigenously developed cryogenic engines. It would save India more than $20m per launch. Arianespace, one of the major international space players, charges up to $70m for a satellite launch.

At this rate, they can afford to crash a few more before it'd be like paying someone else to launch a rocket. NASA had its ups and down when it took off and finally they were able to get someone on the moon. (using hollywood style technology). Hey at least India has the director of the 6th Sense to whip up the effects.

On Canada Correction, correction! The name of the country is not "Kanada,"

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOOT
"http://www.mirrentry.com posted videos (finally) but it doesn't seem to be the footage from the planes rather captured from a video camera on the ground." Knave trickery, but just as well, since none are available in a Linux-friendly format right now :(

Mir's descent was fast as hell and even the captured footage of it looks like a streak of fire nothing glamorous. However if you need some kicks, and we all know APRIL FOOLS is just a tick tock away.... Check out the "Hidden Casualties of Mir" -- what the governments won't tell you ...

Stupid News

When I was a buddhist my friends, and parents were angry at me. When I was buddha, no one was upset at all. -- unknown zen master

I'm never in a rush to get to where I'm going, sooner or later, I'm bound to get there. -- sil @ antioffline (myself biatch!)

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. -- Analogies you probably won't find in Great Literature

When I was a buddhist my friends, and parents were angry at me. When I was buddha, no one was upset at all. -- unknown zen master

I'm never in a rush to get to where I'm going, sooner or later, I'm bound to get there. -- sil @ antioffline (myself biatch!)

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. -- Analogies you probably won't find in Great Literature

Supercomputer stalwart Cray announced a deal to use new Sun Microsystems servers in a design the company will begin selling later this year.

Part 1: A School Day

7:20am: Elite hax0r wakes up to prepare for another challenging day of 7th grade.
7:25: Elite hax0r signs onto AOL (computer is never turned off)
7:30: Elite hax0r checks new mail for elite hacking progs and warez
7:40: After 10 minutes of chatting in with the folks in leet, elite hax0r's mom takes the telephone off the hook.
7:55: m0m and elite hax0r are having an argument about wasted time online.
8:00: elite hax0r's dad drops him off at Mitnick Middle School
8:05: elite hax0r enters typing class. this is his elite hacking playground, and he loves to confuse the teacher by pressing num lock, and shouting '3y3 hax0red j00!!!'
9:00: typing class is over, and elite hax0r travels to his history class. No 'puters here, so, he strategically places his copy of 2600 inside his history book and memorizes the 'how to steal stuff' article.
9:30: history teacher catches elite hax0r with the clandestine 2600 and takes it away from him. elite hax0r begins a heart-wrenching speel about freedom of speech, and his right as a citizen of this country to read his elite 2600 whenever he pleases. he compares this atrocity to the unjust imprisonment of hax0rs everywhere, and takes comfort in his martyrdom. leet is definitely hearing about this tonight.
10:05: elite hax0r goes to english.
10:50: elite hax0r goes to lunch period. here, he sits with his class in the cafeteria and takes his usual spot near the lunchlady's cashregister so he can write down people's lunch numbers. This comes in handy, as they could possibly use their lunch number as their AOL password. And if not, its always really leet to have even the most insignificant 1nph0z.
11:25: elite hax0r goes to pre algebra. today, he makes the kid in the desk next to him ph33r when he types 1134 on the calculator and holds it upside down. he wonders if this is similar to hacking an LED sign like in 2600..?
12:15: elite hax0r goes to science class where he learns about the reproductive system. elite hax0r excuses himself from class where he performs a quick wetware hack.
1:30: elite hax0r gathers his books and stands in front of the school
1:35: elite hax0r is picked up by the small yellow bus with the power lift on the back.
2:00: elite hax0r is dropped off at home, and he rushes inside to sign on and check his mail.
2:30: after 30 minutes online, elite hax0r is forced to sign off and take a nap. Ms. Hax0r cant have her baby getting cranky.
4:45: elite hax0r wakes up, and begins writing his manifesto, which he plans to present to his history teacher tomorrow.
4:47: elite hax0r gets tired of writing and feels like going outside. he and his little brother ride their bikes around in circles in the carport.
5:15: Ms. Hax0r calls the children inside for dinner.
6:00: hax0r children finish dinner, and elite hax0r asks for permission to get online and hack some stuff.
6:05: elite hax0r battles AOL's perpetual busy signal; its probably just a ploy by AOL to block him from coming online, in ph33r he might hax0r their network.
7:05: elite hax0r continues to hax0r away at AOL's "busy signal"
7:30: finally, elite hax0r crax0rs the busy signal and sneaks his way inside. He checks his mail for leet progs and tries to enter pr 'leet'. But, in another attempt by AOL to bring him down, the room is full (its really just their $3cur1ty 3xp3rt$ trying to keep him out).
7:40: elite hax0r finally busts into 'leet' in 137 tries. he chats with his homies.
8:00: elite hax0r is still chatting with the leets, when Ms. Hax0r picks up the fux0ring telephone and signs him offline.
8:35: after 20 minutes of crax0ring the "busy signal", in an angered retalliation attempt, elite hax0r steals mom's credit cards and scrolls them in 'leet' and 'phreak'.
9:00: elite hax0r finally finishes scrolling, and takes some time to work on his webpage; http://members.aol.com/Leethax0r/index.html. Here, he posts his new hax0r's manifesto, and lists $houtoutZ to his homies in 'leet' and 'punt', and his main chix0r Annie.
10:00: after an hour of figuring out how to use the AOL webpage software, he grows tired of all this brain work, and signs offline.
10:25: leet hax0r brushes his teeth,puts on his kevin mitnick pajamas, and goes to sleep.
11:00: leet hax0r dreams that he is Dade Murphy, and that he is having wild sex0r with Acid Burn, while hacking the FBI's Main Gibson.

Stupid News

11:03 a.m. Open up one of my new Yahoo accounts through an untraceable NetZero account.

Uh... And how do you suppose your gonna dial into it?

I use www.anonymizer.com to go to the Yahoo account because I'm paranoid. Hell if anyone's going to get my IP (Internet address). Screw the Feds, they are lazy they won't trace me back that far.

Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...

Plus I got *67 on, they'll need subpoenas to, and a ton of tracing to even get close to me. By then I'll have a new number. Hell, I go through telephone lines about one every 2-3 months.

Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record

If I'm super paranoid, I skip Anonymizer and hack me a Wingate. Then the Feds will trace back to one of the lamers' home computers not mine ;) LOL! Basically if I use a Wingate they can't track me at all! I should use gates more often ;( Hell I'm getting almost as lazy as a Fed. Ha!

Boy is this moron sure dumb

Seems to me like the only thing he "hacked" was some dumb ass reported who was an ass enough to get conned into thinking this e-tard was anyone special or had any talent other than bullshitting.

The media is going ballistic on "hacker" cases these past few months, and I'm starting to think they should be held accountable for promoting this activity, especially when you pay someone to do this (basically).

The media has totally bastardized hacking and those in the computer security field like the hackers at companies like @stake, Neohapsis.com, etc, end up getting bad reputations from morons like this. Its a shame to think people actually pay mind to idiots like this often casting dark shadows on to those that "hack" for just cause, such as fixing issues, e.g., Rain Forest Puppy, DugSong, obecian, etc..

Stupid news

11:03 a.m. Open up one of my new Yahoo accounts through an untraceable NetZero account.

Uh... And how do you suppose your gonna dial into it?

I use www.anonymizer.com to go to the Yahoo account because I'm paranoid. Hell if anyone's going to get my IP (Internet address). Screw the Feds, they are lazy they won't trace me back that far.

Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...

Plus I got *67 on, they'll need subpoenas to, and a ton of tracing to even get close to me. By then I'll have a new number. Hell, I go through telephone lines about one every 2-3 months.

Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record

If I'm super paranoid, I skip Anonymizer and hack me a Wingate. Then the Feds will trace back to one of the lamers' home computers not mine ;) LOL! Basically if I use a Wingate they can't track me at all! I should use gates more often ;( Hell I'm getting almost as lazy as a Fed. Ha!

Boy is this moron sure dumb

Seems to me like the only thing he "hacked" was some dumb ass reported who was an ass enough to get conned into thinking this e-tard was anyone special or had any talent other than bullshitting.

The media is going ballistic on "hacker" cases these past few months, and I'm starting to think they should be held accountable for promoting this activity, especially when you pay someone to do this (basically).

The media has totally bastardized hacking and those in the computer security field like the hackers at companies like @stake, Neohapsis.com, etc, end up getting bad reputations from morons like this. Its a shame to think people actually pay mind to idiots like this often casting dark shadows on to those that "hack" for just cause, such as fixing issues, e.g., Rain Forest Puppy, DugSong, obecian, etc..

Stupid news

11:03 a.m. Open up one of my new Yahoo accounts through an untraceable NetZero account.

Uh... And how do you suppose your gonna dial into it?

I use www.anonymizer.com to go to the Yahoo account because I'm paranoid. Hell if anyone's going to get my IP (Internet address). Screw the Feds, they are lazy they won't trace me back that far.

Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...

Plus I got *67 on, they'll need subpoenas to, and a ton of tracing to even get close to me. By then I'll have a new number. Hell, I go through telephone lines about one every 2-3 months.

Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record

If I'm super paranoid, I skip Anonymizer and hack me a Wingate. Then the Feds will trace back to one of the lamers' home computers not mine ;) LOL! Basically if I use a Wingate they can't track me at all! I should use gates more often ;( Hell I'm getting almost as lazy as a Fed. Ha!

Boy is this moron sure dumb

Seems to me like the only thing he "hacked" was some dumb ass reported who was an ass enough to get conned into thinking this e-tard was anyone special or had any talent other than bullshitting.

The media is going ballistic on "hacker" cases these past few months, and I'm starting to think they should be held accountable for promoting this activity, especially when you pay someone to do this (basically).

The media has totally bastardized hacking and those in the computer security field like the hackers at companies like @stake, Neohapsis.com, etc, end up getting bad reputations from morons like this. Its a shame to think people actually pay mind to idiots like this often casting dark shadows on to those that "hack" for just cause, such as fixing issues, e.g., Rain Forest Puppy, DugSong, obecian, etc..

Stupid news

11:03 a.m. Open up one of my new Yahoo accounts through an untraceable NetZero account.

Uh... And how do you suppose your gonna dial into it?

I use www.anonymizer.com to go to the Yahoo account because I'm paranoid. Hell if anyone's going to get my IP (Internet address). Screw the Feds, they are lazy they won't trace me back that far.

Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...

Plus I got *67 on, they'll need subpoenas to, and a ton of tracing to even get close to me. By then I'll have a new number. Hell, I go through telephone lines about one every 2-3 months.

Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record

If I'm super paranoid, I skip Anonymizer and hack me a Wingate. Then the Feds will trace back to one of the lamers' home computers not mine ;) LOL! Basically if I use a Wingate they can't track me at all! I should use gates more often ;( Hell I'm getting almost as lazy as a Fed. Ha!

Boy is this moron sure dumb

Seems to me like the only thing he "hacked" was some dumb ass reported who was an ass enough to get conned into thinking this e-tard was anyone special or had any talent other than bullshitting.

The media is going ballistic on "hacker" cases these past few months, and I'm starting to think they should be held accountable for promoting this activity, especially when you pay someone to do this (basically).

The media has totally bastardized hacking and those in the computer security field like the hackers at companies like @stake, Neohapsis.com, etc, end up getting bad reputations from morons like this. Its a shame to think people actually pay mind to idiots like this often casting dark shadows on to those that "hack" for just cause, such as fixing issues, e.g., Rain Forest Puppy, DugSong, obecian, etc..

Stupid news

libfaim was blocked for a couple of days then as well, and thanks to adam's insight and hard work we got back on.

The article started nicely but then it went in to a flurry of Akamai marketing BS.

Sure Akamai does some neat stuff, but so does a company called Edgix, which does it via satellite to an ISP bypassing the need to go through hops upon hops of information. What I found neat about Edgix' technology was (although this post sounds like a marketing ploy) they sell their caching servers which poll the most sought after websites' content then cache it hourly, daily, whatever. Then when someone looks something up, it pulls it directly off of the ISP's server which means faster content delivery.

But you don't see me interviewing their staff in attempts for them to flood an article while masquerading as an interview do you?

Not only that but it does this on a satellite based mechanism which means if Globix, UUNet, Exodus, Level3 all blow up, you'll still get a cached slashdot without routes being broken, and a slew of timeout errors.

Well... At least I got to see where he went to school though, such an informative interview.

Toy truck thieves still at large

Holography also have other uses; they enable radiologists to interact with the data that have been collected by scanners and they may facilitate the production of "what if' images which some surgeons have found useful in surgical planning. Programs have concentrated on the parts of the body and the kinds of conditions (i.e., tumors, trauma, and vascular abnormalities) that are commonly examined with CT and MR scanners.

Studies were designed to determine if the digital holography systems would allow diagnosis of conditions that are extremely difficult or impossible to detect with existing technology; provide for more accurate and comprehensive diagnosis and understanding of conditions that are difficult characterize fully with existing technology; increase the radiologist's confidence in the diagnosis made; reduce the time required to arrive at a diagnosis; facilitate communication of relevant information; improve surgical planning; and allow for more fully informed patient consent to treatment.

Sure its a cheesy website but it has some pretty useful information on the subject.

privacy 101

I can see it now:

FBI officials have arrested Paul "Paulie Packets" Pastarelli for running one of the biggest internet packet bookie rings in history.

The FBI alleges Paulie Packets took bets on networking information from listeners of Internet sports sites with an ingenious plot to make money.

Taking bets on dropped packets, fragmented packets, DF bits set on a packet, Paulie Packets earned himself a spot on Americas Most Wanted for being such a dangerous criminal.

Officials at the FBI arrested the 12 year old after he hacked into everything you can think of in order to pull of the crime of the century, and investigators are concerned that Paulie's actions may be rubbing off on his junior high school classmates.

more to come ...

Goodbye Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, welcome neck injuries, back injuries, headaches.

anonyminity

The trend is toward pay for listing. Will the free, searchable web fade away?"

Its not a trend, its companies attempting to keep afloat in whats becoming a bull market. Its amazing to see how companies like google stay in business when they show little methods of collecting any kind of revenue. E.g., the only means of Google obtaining revenue is what? Charging for a company for a copy of its search engine? Why would a company pay for a search engine when the market if overflooded with them?

Ad based revenue, we all know where those click me businesses are going.

We also know most of the "web rings" never went anywhere, but for a search company to think people would pay for finding something on the net, they'd be shit out of luck, maybe corporations may do this, but I'd just make my own search engine (freely distributed) post it somewhere and let the whole "submit your site for free" revolution take place again.

Privacy Info

Operating systems such as z/OS fall in place where others aren't neccessarily useful. The OS is geared mainly (or it seems) for high powered computing, something along the lines like a huge mainframe, which OS' like Linux, or the BSD's cannot be trusted to support.

Not to start a flamewar of any kind but there isn't a company I can think of who would dish out cash for some huge mainframe-like computer solely to let one of their geeks toy with, and install anything other than something proven (or semi-proven via marketing.)

Sure it may be biased on the geek level to discriminate against other Unixes but the fact remains money talks, and the companies using this OS and the servers they run on would be insane to let it happen at this point especially when Linux in my opinion is in such a disarray of distro's. there are no standards on many things, etc.

Take a look at Motorola, they're power computing comes in the form of QNX, ChorusOS, Onea OSE, Integrity, ThreadX, for many high powered stuff. Are these less of an OS than Linux or any other open source based OS out there because its not "geek chic?" Hell no.

AntiSpam Info

An international powerhouse computer to track the DNA mapping databases in one powerful machine. This would help scientists, and their companies to focus solely on those matters as opposed to wondering whether current technology would support them to fullest extent. It may also be networked in order to help assist them in mapping, cataloging information, sorting, etc.

Space Race... Scientists, astronomers, etc., could have a super computer assist them in fully mapping, catalogging the universe, its planets, stars, etc.

An international powerhouse computer to track the DNA mapping databases in one powerful machine. This would help scientists, and their companies to focus solely on those matters as opposed to wondering whether current technology would support them to fullest extent. It may also be networked in order to help assist them in mapping, cataloging information, sorting, etc.

Space Race... Scientists, astronomers, etc., could have a super computer assist them in fully mapping, catalogging the universe, its planets, stars, etc.

But instead, the ``Bluetooth'' demonstration at the world's biggest computer and electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100 transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for visitors with palmtop computers.

Bluetooth is seriously hobbled by a lack of standardized code, which means that devices of different brands often can't communicate with each other - a big flaw for a technology hailed as the next step in computer interconnectivity.

So far, consumer demand for Bluetooth has been anemic due to the technical problems and the high prices

The recent case of "space cell phones" shows how controversy can touch upon many aspects of a new communication paradigm. On one hand, we have enthusiastic "early adopters" who represent the tide of new ideas and schematics into the communication technology field. On the other hand, we have the more experienced, but possibly flawed, viewpoint of the current communication leaders.

Who is correct? At this point, it's difficult to tell. Some detractors would argue that this technology presents an undue intrusion into existing social models.

Perhaps glitches in this untested process may condemn cell phones to a footnote in our history.

RubberMaid + Windows = Trash
Windows - Rubbermaid = Trash

Electro Magnetic Pulse

Cloning may reduce genetic variability, Producing many clones runs the risk of creating a population that is entirely the same. This population would be susceptible to the same diseases, and one disease could devastate the entire population. One can easily picture humans being wiped out be a single virus, however, less drastic, but more probable events could occur from a lack of genetic diversity. For example, if a large percentage of an nation's cattle are identical clones, a virus, such as a particular strain of mad cow disease, could effect the entire population. The result could be catastrophic food shortages in that nation.

Cloning may cause people to settle for the best existing animals, not allowing for improvement of the species. In this way, cloning could potentially interfere with natural evolution.

Cloning is currently an expensive process. Cloning requires large amounts of money and biological expertise. Ian Wilmut and his associates required 277 tries before producing Dolly. A new cloning technique has recently been developed which is far more reliable. However, even this technique has 2-3% success rate.

There is a risk of disease transfer between transgenic animals and the animal from which the transgenes were derived. If an animal producing drugs in its milk becomes infected by a virus, the animal may transmit the virus to a patient using the drug.

Any research into human cloning would eventually need to be tested on human. The ability to clone humans may lead to the genetic tailoring of offspring. The heart of the cloning debate is concerned with the genetic manipulation of a human embryo before it begins development. It is conceivable that scientists could alter a baby's genetic code to give the individual a certain color of eyes or genetic resistance to certain diseases. This is viewed as inappropriate tampering with "Mother Nature" by many ethicists.

Because clones are derived from an existing adult cell, it has older genes. Will the clone's life expectancy be shorter because of this? Despite this concern, so far, all clones have appeared to be perfectly normal creatures.

A "genetic screening test" could be used to eliminate zygotes of a particular gender, without requiring a later abortion.

Cloning might be used to create a "perfect human," or one with above normal strength and sub-normal intelligence, a genetic underclass. Also, if cloning is perfected in humans, there would be no genetic need for men.

Cloning might have a detrimental effect on familial relationships. A child born from an adult DNA cloning of his father could be considered a delayed identical twin of one of his parents. It is unknown as to how a human might react if he or she knew he or she was an exact duplicate of an older individual.

Here's some good reading material on cloning I thought I should share from bookmarks. I know I should've posted them before but caffiene deficiency will do that.

D.N.Army: the Implications of Human Cloning on Future Military Forces
Bioethics of Cloning
HumanCloning.org

I have a shitload more so if anyone wants any email me for em. (you surely can find my email address now can you)

Well I know it has little to do with Dolly, but many people have taken the wrong views and assumptions of what cloning really is.

Speedy's not a clone

The clones that have been produced, they say, often have problems severe enough - developmental delays, heart defects, lung problems and malfunctioning immune systems - to give pause to anyone thinking of cloning a human being. In one example that seems like science fiction come true, some cloned mice that appeared normal suddenly, as young adults, grew grotesquely fat.