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rather than the usual old billy borg, can we please use the following pic in the future for "bing" related stories? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c80VLgi6U98/Ry8F5zaAKdI/AAAAAAAAABs/sq8bd5DQRXE/s200/chandler.jpg

You can easily find the provider for a given number. Here is an example that works in the US.

http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2009/01/security-hole-in-sms-spam-websites.html

That website also allows you to charge arbitrary amounts of money to arbitrary phone numbers using SMS spam signup.

I may have run into this exact situation in US government websites. Also, I have found many other serious bugs in financial websites. I document some on my blog, but I am seeking advice on how to handle, and monetize my future findings.

The last time I found a large bug at a large online trading account (with a pink logo), I gave up the bug, and signed an NDA. They barely fixed the problem and they didn't listen to my other advice. When the FBI got involved... well, let's just say it is interesting what they focus their efforts on.

I'm am sure I will find these bugs in the future. How do I turn security disclosures into advice that will be heeded and consulting fees?

it's supposed to bring you to http://explaingod.blogspot.com/

I'm not sure how it looks in ie6, but in opera, and ie7 it appears to work. We'd be happy for you to join the discussion if you can

What? we don't need PhDs in high school, we need people that can teach, regardless of their degree.

"We should be paying teachers twice"
No, what teachers make is fair compensation. 50K + benefits + retirement for 9 months work is fair compensation.
We do need to get class rooms down to 15 and this means more schools and more teachers.

"and involving people of the community to come and teach about their jobs and lives. "
I always found those to be a waste of time when I was in high school.

"take them to a nursery and bring in local moms with babies."
That has the tendency to create a bonding that increases the desire of the kids to have children,. the opposite effect then they are striving for.

"Education, community, and communication are the way to understanding and peace."
Wrong. there are plenty of educated communities with ample communication that still hate. The only way to peace is integration. When families start becoming integrated with different races, the following generation are more tolerant of the race there parents are.

"I would know, I'm a veteran and with what we've already got we can basically run anyone into a meat grinder in the blink of an eye."
Logical fallacy.

That it no way explains how to 'know' this. What strategies could we deploy against Iran? how about China? China is snuggling up to all the major oil countries, what happens If we go against one of their tightest allies, Iran? Can we turn china into a meat grinder?
How do we do that and not hurt civilians.
Add to that the real world application that come out of military spending.

Hey, how about the schools use something craete with military budget:

"I would know, I'm a veteran and with what we've already got we can basically run anyone into a meat grinder in the blink of an eye."
That it no way explains how to 'know' this. What strategies could we deploy against Iran? how about China? China is snuggling up to all the major oil countries, what happens If we go against one of their tightest allies, Iran? Can we turn china into a meat grinder?
How do we do that and not hurt civilians.
Add to that the real world application that come out of military spending:

http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-obvious-and-yet-so-not-done.html

That would allow schools to have current curriculum at almost no cost. Seriously. All a school would need is a line to the internet.

Money is part of the education equation, and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot or libertarians...but I repeat myself.

they can get out and fond some other job that pays 50K for 9 months work.

"hey got a 2.6% increase last year "

That's from Cola, as determined by their contract.

"We should be applauding these teachers for finding good ways to pass around good teaching material, n"

Yes, but How do you know it's good?

""the taxpayers pay you to teach so we own all of your creative works and you can't ever make money off of them". "

It's true, the taxpayers paid for it, it shouldn't be sold. I can't imagnie the outrages I woudl face if I decided to sell the code I wrote via tax dollars to anyone who wanted it.

"I just happen to think that we should be doing everything we can to make sure our teachers succeed. "

Yes, but this isn't it. It once again favors people with money, does NOTHING to help the kids, and stifles the creation of new good teachers.

Teacher are there because society has deemed that an educated populace make a country successful; whic is correct.

Educating children is the point, not paying teachers. Paying teacher is neccesary to do the job,. and they shoudl be compensated approprietly.

The data they need to pass on needs to be centrelized:
http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-obvious-and-yet-so-not-done.html

Just to silence the "citation please" trolls who can't use google:

Energy from Thorium
Nuclear Green

Disclaimer: the second link goes to my uncle's blog. My grandfather worked on the original liquid fluoride thorium reactor at ORNL, and my uncle has advocated the technology for quite some time.

Just to silence the "citation please" trolls who can't use google:

Energy from Thorium
Nuclear Green

Disclaimer: the second link goes to my uncle's blog. My grandfather worked on the original liquid fluoride thorium reactor at ORNL, and my uncle has advocated the technology for quite some time.

Try this video.

in the future, we can all haz cheeseburger?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_X1IWXuEbgXI/SY_U2tV1tPI/AAAAAAAABAY/D1K3CBvtlpo/s1600-h/Hurley+I+can+haz+cheeseburger+lost.dib

I used this process for Planescape Torment

http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2009/01/planescape-torment-fully-modded.html

Worked a treat, though widescreen v2.1 is linked there it worked fine with v2.2.
I had to used the nVidia fixer near the end as I have an 8800GT.

For Baldur's Gate using the Baldur's Gate II engine I use easytutu

http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/

And for Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura I use drog black tooths unofficial patch, high resolution patch and high res town maps. iirc you have to install the official 1.0.7.4 patch before these two.

http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/

they are both under "Arcanum" -> "Unofficial"

Indeed, here is one idea for him:

More Bang For Your Donation Buck!

Oh, wait, that's not his bag either is it?

drew

Hello, This advisory had been published at the 9th of September http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/09/windows-vista7-smb20-negotiate-protocol.html, about a Kernel Crush made by specially crafted SMB packet to port 445. This advisory were published in the begining as Denial-Of-Service but soon people found that it was exploitable! Soon lots of people tried to be the first to create working exploit for the MS09-050 (SMB2). Till then, Microsoft told that un-till an update will be available you can disable SMB2 and not ports 445/139.

Also, CoreImpact had first published an remote exploit PoC to their members at the 17th of Septemeber. Which means that an exploit had been found to subscribers at 17/9!!.
So this article is basically wrong. Anyways, more researchers still tried to create public exploit for it such as http://blog.metasploit.com/2009/10/smb2-351-packets-from-trampoline.html which describes what his way of exploiting this using 351 packets to achieve jump to his code (remote code execution).

So... This article has more than a few points which are not accurate including the "The first windows 7 zero day exploit" title.
Cheers.
Zuk

The attempt to write a Python implementation in Python, PyPy, turned into a death march. The project has been underway since at least 2003 (when they had their first "sprint"), never produced a usable system, and the European Union pulled the plug on funding. But the project limps on. There's a released version. It's slower than CPython. There's supposed to be a "just in time" compiler Real Soon Now. (This is try #2 at a JIT, not counting the schemes for outputting Java bytecode and Javascript.) Six years in on a compiler project, and no product.

The PyPy project is very "agile". They have "sprints". They have "flexibility". They have nightly builds. They have mailing lists and trackers. They support multiple output back-ends. They have about 50 contributors. What they don't have is a usable product.

Meanwhile, one programmer produced Shed Skin, which compiles Python to C++, with a speed gain of 5x to 50x over CPython.

When the problem is dominated by design and architecture, "agile" doesn't help.

of agile software development.

http://www.softwarereality.com/lifecycle/xp/case_against_xp.jsp

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html

January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

"1) If there is a flaw in the software, i can tell you DNS server that I slashdot is at 80.65.228.129 or that your bank resolves to my MITM attack site.
2) I can use up all of your routers resources and then you can't lookup any sites yourself" - by RiotingPacifist (1228016) on Sunday November 15, @09:38AM (#30105686)

RP, that is why I use a custom HOSTS file & not only to blockout KNOWN "bad" adserves, maliciously coded sites or adbanners, and "botnet C&C servers" too, from reliable reputable lists but also for speed (more on that later & WHY/HOW (I use reliable lists for that, such as these HOSTS @ Wikipedia.com -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file or those from mvps.org (a good one this one))

I further populate my custom HOSTS file with up to date information in regards to all of those threats, via Spybot "Search & Destroy" updates (populates HOSTS and browser block lists), but also via sites like ZDNet's Mr. Dancho Danchev's blog -> http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/ or sites like FireEye -> http://blog.fireeye.com/ , stopbadware.org, & also SRI (just to name a few of my sources) & my HOSTS file incorporates ALL of the entries from the HOSTS files shown @ wikipedia (all duplicates removed via a Borland Delphi app I wrote to do so, and also change the default larger & SLOWER 127.0.0.1 blocking 'loopback adapter' IP address to either 0.0.0.0 (for VISTA/Windows Server 2008/Windows 7, smaller & thus faster than 127.0.0.1 default) or the smallest & fastest 0 "blocking 'IP ADDRESS'" (for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 which can STILL use it (& it was added in a service pack on Windows 2000, only on 12/09/2008 MS patch tuesday was it removed for VISTA onwards (& now all these "phunny little bugs" are showing up as FLAWS in this new NDIS6 approach via WFP as well in the firewall, which ROOTKIT.COM has stated (with code too no less on how it is done) -> http://www.rootkit.com/newsread.php?newsid=952 that it is EASIER TO UNHOOK (than was the design used in Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003))

HOWEVER, to "CIRCUMVENT" THAT WHICH YOU NOTE? WELL - I use another "technique" called "hardcoding" an IP address to domainname/hostname in my HOSTS files, for my FAVORITE websites:

This allows me to FIRST bypass any remote/external DNS lookups, which also would in theory @ least, make me "proofed" vs. DNS request logs by my ISP/BSP (especially since I use external DNS servers too, beyond my hardcoded favs in my HOSTS file because I can't ping & resolve the ENTIRE internet after all), making it harder for them to track me... sure, they could do a "reverse DNS lookup" via pings &/or traceroutes & the top level domain that does nothing BUT cache reverse DNS lookups does the rest, but that is harder to do, than looking up my URL requests via a log on a DNS server))

ALSO, AS A "BONUS" in HOSTS FILES:

It speeds you up, for one thing, & a buddy of mine says it has (verbatim quote) "DOUBLED MY SPEED ONLINE, BUT I VALUE THE SECURITY PART MORE", because he used to get over 200++ viruses a week, now? Only maybe 2 a years, & he is convinced it is largely due to the HOSTS file I send him weekly (he is my "lab rat #1" due to his previous infestation rate), & if that "anecdotal evidence" is not enough? See this then, from a published security guru on a respected site for it:

====

RESURRECTING THE KILLFILE:

(by Mr. Oliver Day)

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491

PERTINENT EXCERPTS/QUOTES:

"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."

"From what I have seen in my research, major

No, one prof. demands UML, & formal consistent headers + documentations. This has carried over to my other courses, & the profs don't mind it (though they don't stress it as much as the former prof. does (which makes sense, he comes from a Fortune 100-500 corporate background (ones part of the "eishower military industrial complex" etc. et al where a lot of officers end up after the service, especially those w/ skills) & that of the US Military too).

Enough said on THAT account, here we go about YOU specifically yURINAL kLASSLESS:

LMAO - Well, well: If it isn't 'Yuri Klastalov', of the "RBN" (Russian Business Network), @ his "finest", lol!

Hey, new news "yURInal":

Please - Spare us your "KLASS"-less rants already: I know why you've put this up all over the wire about me:

http://www.bandfocus.net/Alexander%20Kowalski

(LOL, what a fool you are... is THAT the "best you've got"...? Effete & puny @ best (but, what I'd expect outta a "script kidde" like you, & those LIKE you)).

I understand though:

LMAO - You're just "ticked off" that I am one of the folks that put your INFAMOUS "botnet" & criminal enterprise in the RBN, straight outta commission, by spreading it around via "HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP" ( Folks like ZDNet's Mr. Dancho Danchev get the same, ala -> http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2009/06/from-ukrainian-blackhat-seo-gang-with.html . His "Ukrainian Fanclub", as he calls them, lol, they do as you have tried to "irk me" with, per the 1st URL I post here where you state "I should suck your sweaty cock" here -> http://www.bandfocus.net/Alexander%20Kowalski [bandfocus.net], then we wouldn't be the ones "SMITING" your botnets outta commission then, lol (AND? Please, @ least tell the truth, in your rant online in regards to myself, & replace that 'sweaty cock' of yours, with SMALL cock, & I'd believe it, lol, because it'd be far more truthful old man))

APK

P.S.=> Hehe - Hey, just so you know? People like myself & Mr. Danchev just laugh, knowing we've helped "knock the chocolate" out of online scum is all (we WIN, not YOU & your kind - just judging by the puny effete reactions those like you have when your betters get done with you... all you have are your effete retaliations, & no more botnet,/b>, lol...))... apk

Microsoft has sold about 32 million XBOX 360 consoles since launch in November 2005. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360

As for Apple hardware sales, here are some sales figures from just the last quarter: 3.05 million Macintosh computers, 10.2 million iPods, and 7.4 million iPhones. Source: http://theunofficialwindowsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/apple-releases-sales-figures-mac-sales.html

Also, Apple does not take a loss on any of its hardware, unlike the 360.

Dense Plasma Focus technology is the next best thing to what cold fusion had promised. Best of all it's real and doesn't use any questionable physics.

Safe, small, low cost, low maintenance and efficient. It looks like it will be small enough that it could be ran from inside a rail car or truck.

It's far ,more likely to work then blasting deuterium-tritium with lasers, but they can't get funding!

Slashdot's reported this several times.
A-Step-Closer-To-Cheap-Nuclear-Fusion

And I have posting my research in to this too.
green ideas thinktank

How so?

Where do you think the stereotype of the extremely muscular, tank-top-and-leather-wearing tough guy with a mustache came from? There's a funny (and insightful) look at Final Fight from the perspective of a gay male gamer, which is why I know the answer is "Tom of Finland".

No drug lasts for a month, that's just silly.

I've heard LSD called the drug that keeps on giving. So even if the drug itself is no longer in your system, there could be mental effects for a month after.

I can't comment on natural marijuana, but I did take synthetic THC (Marinol) during chemotherapy. I wasn't getting much effect from single-pill doses, so one night I tried two pills spaced two hours apart (which was still well within the prescribed dosage). A couple hours later I was hit with unpleasant hallucinations and distortions of time (my blog entry). My body returned to normal overnight, but my brain was well scrambled for at least a week.

So I don't think it's crazy to say some drugs could have an effect for longer than they're measurable in the bloodstream. I'd like to see more scientific studies of many drugs and legalization of those that can be used with reasonable safety. Maybe natural marijuana would have been a better treatment for my chemotherapy side effects, but unfortunately in my district it's still thoroughly illegal.

Even if it was the same version, fair use does not allow for anyone to make multiple, unauthorized copies as Psystar had done.

The only problem besides not using the same version should be failing to include discs.

Lastly since Psystar modified OS X to run on X86 computers, it is guilty of creating a derivative work without Apple's permission.

That's a bunch of crap, and if that's what the decision says then First Sale law is over, at least until it gets escalated, and it will. First Sale is critical to whole long lists of industries. Using copyright law to restrict transfer of an object is an abuse.

Of course, I'm not arguing Psystar should have been able to fail to include the OSX DVD in the box; where copyright law allows you to make copies, it requires you to transfer all copies upon sale. I'm also not arguing that they should not be required to use the same version as the DVD that goes in the box. At the same time, not allowing them to use imaging software is ridiculous by any reasonable standard. Who cares how the software gets on the box? The only issue should be whether Psystar was making allowable copies or not. Buying it and installing it onto the system is allowable, so why not installing an image which would be identical to doing that over and over again? The only reason can be to protect a monopoly. Again, I do understand that this is not what Psystar did. Unfortunately.

The simple truth is that Psystar DID have to use an image method to perform the installs, and so this should be considered a minimum necessary step towards exercising First Sale rights to do as you like with something you've purchased; but I do agree that they should have been required to use an image based on the same version of OSX that would appear in the box. First Sale law permits you to modify things you've purchased. If I am not permitted to modify Apple software, then arguably I can't even use it. And if I'm not permitted to use images to deploy OSX, then I'm certainly not even going to consider using it in the enterprise. If Psystar isn't allowed to use a custom image, then I must assume I'm not allowed to either.

"Now if only your GOD would -=> smite =- you every time you write one of these useless rants. Seriously, only rarely have I ever seen you actually contribute to a discussion. I'm surprised you didn't credit GOD with Delphi or that the devil made Microsoft require 0.0.0.0 in the HOSTS file. Please just STFU and disappear. Cordially, Yuri Klastalov - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14, @11:36AM (#30098260)

LMAO - Well, well: If it isn't 'Yuri Klastalov', of the "RBN" (Russian Business Network), @ his "finest", lol!

Hey, new news "yURInal":

Please - Spare us your "KLASS"-less rants already: I know why you've put this up all over the wire about me:

http://www.bandfocus.net/Alexander%20Kowalski

(LOL, what a fool you are... is THAT the "best you've got"...? Effete & puny @ best (but, what I'd expect outta a "script kidde" like you, & those LIKE you)).

I understand though:

LMAO - You're just "ticked off" that I am one of the folks that put your INFAMOUS "botnet" & criminal enterprise in the RBN, straight outta commission, by spreading it around via "HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP" ( http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2009/06/from-ukrainian-blackhat-seo-gang-with.html as you have tried to "irk me" with, per the 1st URL I post here where you state "I should suck your sweaty cock" here -> http://www.bandfocus.net/Alexander%20Kowalski, then we wouldn't be the ones "SMITING" your botnets outta commission then, lol (AND? Please, @ least tell the truth, in your rant online in regards to myself, & replace that 'sweaty cock' of yours, with SMALL cock, & I'd believe it, lol, because it'd be far more truthful old man))

APK

P.S.=> Hehe - Hey, just so you know? People like myself & Mr. Danchev just laugh, knowing we've helped "knock the chocolate" out of online scum is all (we WIN, not YOU & your kind - just judging by the puny effete reactions those like you have when your betters get done with you... all you have are your effete retaliations, & no more botnet, lol...))... apk

here's a link to a blog by someone on the mars rover team, Mars and Me

i've been following it for a while now - it's truly fascinating

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I found a nice free tool for this called PINS 4 by Mirek Wojtowicz. I Wrote about it here http://opensourceitdad.blogspot.com/

I keep the program and the data file on my PC and the thumbdrive. Its easy to use, Ctrl-F find the URL, CTRL-H launch the default browser, CTRL-Y paste the login ID and PW into the web page.

The only thing I wish it would do that it doesn't is to know which sites need IE so I can have Ctrl-H launch the browser needed for the site.

It will be interesting how Bing presents Wolfram Alpha and whether it removes the inherent design flaws in it. There is an insightful but long article about the problems here - wolfram alpha and hubristic user interfaces. Two good quotes from which are:

Hype also generates funding because it generates exaggerated sales projections. For instance:

        "What Wolfram Alpha will do," Wolfram says, "is let people make use of the achievements of science and engineering on an everyday basis, much as the Web and search engines have let billions of people become reference librarians, so to speak."
        [...]
        It could do things the average person might want (such as generating customized nutrition labels) as well as things only geeks would care about (such as generating truth tables for Boolean algebraic equations).

Generating customized nutrition labels! The average person! I just laughed so hard, I needed a complete change of clothing.

Dr. Wolfram, may I mention a word to you? That word is MySpace. If there is any such person as this average person, she has a MySpace account. Does she generate customized nutrition labels? On a regular basis, or just occasionally? In what other similar activities does she engage - monitoring the population of Burma? Graphing the lifecycle of stars? Charting Korean copper consumption since the 1960s? Perhaps you should feed MySpace into your giant electronic brain, and see what comes out.

and

Google is not a control interface; WA is. When you use WA, you know which of these tools you wish to select. You know that when you type "two cups of flour and two eggs" (which now works) you are looking for a Nutrition Facts label. It is only Stephen Wolfram's giant electronic brain which has to run ten million lines of code to figure this out. Inside your own brain, it is written on glowing letters across your forehead.

So the giant electronic brain is doing an enormous amount of work to discern information which the user knows and can enter easily: which tool she wants to use.

When the giant electronic brain succeeds in this task, it has saved the user from having to manually select and indicate her actual data-visualization application of choice. This has perhaps saved her some time. How much? Um, not very much.

When the giant electronic brain fails in this task, you type in Grandma's fried-chicken recipe and get a beautiful 3-D animation of a bird-flu epidemic. (Or, more likely, "Wolfram Alpha wasn't sure what to do with your input." Thanks, Wolfram Alpha!) How do you get from this to your Nutrition Facts? Rearrange some words, try again, bang your head on the desk, give up. What we're looking at here is a classic, old-school, big steaming lump of UI catastrophe. ....

The task of "guess the application I want to use" is actually not even in the domain of artificial intelligence. AI is normally defined by the human standard. To work properly as a control interface, Wolfram's guessing algorithm actually requires divine intelligence. It is not sufficient for it to just think. It must actually read the user's mind. God can do this, but software can't.

Frankly, I prefer living in an industrialized country

So do I, I especially wouldn't want to spend thousands never mind millions of dollars to research something only to be slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit.

Every industrialized nation in the world has implemented a public-disclosure-in-exchange for-a-time-limited-monopoly system to specifically encourage innovation which trade secrets otherwise stifle.

Which copyrights do, no need for patents. As it is now a number of economic studies have concluded patents may stifle innovation. Study finds patent systems may discourage innovation. Patent systems may discourage innovation. Patents Don't Promote Innovation: Study.

Falcon

Well, people actually do, but only if it's worth it:

Indepedent movie Nasty Old People:
  -> Financed by a bank loan
  -> Freely distributed via bittorrent at TPB
  -> Released October 10
  -> 16 day later (October 26), they had paid 25% of the loan, all with donations

http://nastyoldpeople.blogspot.com/

The USA's founding fathers are hardly homogeneous bunch of people, which almost makes "what the founding fathers meant" almost a moot point, especially if you simply refer to one or two people.
For the moment, let's disregard that and have a look at your quotes.

No let's not disregard the Founding Fathers. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't be enjoying your life as it is. They fought an overbearing and tyrannical government and wanted to make sure the government of the new nation would not become overbearing and tyrannical itself. And that was a homogeneous desire. There's no way around it. If they didn't believe it the then they would not have fought for independence. Instead they would have joined the Loyalists.

What they fought for was not a moot point no matter what you think.

The spending and taxing clause, however, is a fairly specific clause, it states how the Congress may attain money, and for what reasons.

And where is health or medical care mentioned? Hint, nowhere. And as I already said you can't use "General Welfare" either. If you don't like it try to amend the Constitution. I bet you and those like you don't try because you fear the people will not consent to it. So instead you use back doors and "vague phrases", which when written had specific meanings.

Guess what Nanncy Pelosy said when asked "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Her answer was "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Just goes to show what she thinks of the USA Constitution. it's TP to her. And unlike you she never even mentions "General Welfare". I wonder why, perhaps because she knows it won't work.

But he is actually one of the people, which were for a more limiting meaning of the law. For a different point of view, may I refer to Alexander Hamilton

Yes let's look at what Hamilton said. His writings, including the Federalist Paper, showed he had a narrow view of the phrase General Welfare. In Federalist 83 he wrote "This specification of particulars [the 18 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8] evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd as well as useless if a general authority was intended." In the Federalist Paper 78 he writes "No legislative act ... contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Of course Alexander Hamilton wasn't consistent in his approach to government. In the Federalist Papers and other early writings Hamilton advocates a small and limited federal government but once he became president he sought to expand his power.

Of course even if Hamilton had been for an expansive General Welfare clause all along that's still your one Founder pro expansive versus my two Founders pro limited government. As the page The General Welfare Clause: The Two Most Abused Words in the Constitution.

Falcon

More than likley it will be cheaper here in the US. Based on pricing differences between regions for Microsoft Points, it's looking like about $55-$60. Those poor Europeans get hosed on conversion all the time. Blizzard and Valve are doing it with thier game stores treating dollars and euros as the same or closer in value than they really are.

Rootkit Hunter [sourceforge.net]

Ubuntu users:

sudo apt-get install rkhunter
sudo rkhunter -c

Any warnings about stuff in /dev is likely normal.

Does anyone have more information on the Hong Kong and Netherlands roles in this case? I blogged a summary of charges, including some of the SQL Statements the baddies were using to monitor, change limits on, and monitor "their" cards from the indictment here: CyberCrime & Doing Time. The part I'm trying to find more data on comes from this bit from the FBI Press Release: Cooperation between the Hong Kong Police Force and the FBI also led to a parallel investigation, resulting in the identification and arrest of two individuals who were responsible for withdrawing RBS WorldPay funds from ATM terminals in Hong Kong. The Netherlands Police Agency National Crime Squad High Tech Crime Unit and the Netherlands National Prosecutor’s Office provided key assistance in the investigation. Does anyone know what the Netherlands Police Agency contributed to the case? Does anyone have information on possible related arrests in Hong Kong? Thanks! GarWarner

Maybe, maybe not. http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/10/evil-maid-goes-after-truecrypt.html

Do as I say, not as I do! :
Da15,naId!
This and other security practices at my blog . Hope you find it useful here!

"So give your conspiracy theories a rest and please report some real news"

Except many conspiracies are in fact TRUE, just because a fringe group believes in strange things related to people working together "conspiring", does not mean they do not exist.

http://conspiraciesthatweretrue.blogspot.com/2007/01/list-of-proven-conspiracies-from.html

I had a similiar, if less technical reaction. Murdoch is fishing for some sort of exclusive deal.

Unfortunately, it seems like most people get their opinions from SNL skits and Jon Stewart.

http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ - bullshit ranting, including a post saying that saying "occupied east philistine" is biased.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html - Daily mail, nuf said
the times article is not as bad but:

Singled out is the coverage of Bob Geldof’s Live 8 concert and the Make Poverty History campaign. The report says there was no rounded debate of the issues.

Debate on what?
I think the best line in an article attack the BBC was:

its coverage of conventional politics is judged to be fair and impartial

The wikipedia article is just a catalogue of criticisms from the daily mail and it's ilk.

It's much more effective to check facts than just be exposed to both sets of lies.

>>>good example of how an independent, publicly funded news organisation can work.

Yes. But think of all the stories you DON'T see on the BBC because they conveniently don't discuss them. There are many, many of them, and it's become rather well-known that the BBC is pro-European Union biased. http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1942948.ece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

I'd rather watch both sides of an argument (FOX and MSNBC) rather than assume I can trust a single source.

The first sign for me that someone is selling bullshit is when they try to act like this is some never before seen problem, when in fact there is a good four decades of research of database optimization.

Your point is valid, but I think there is more to it. And the problems these solutions try to solve are quite old too. For example:

Ever tried to design a database, but got the requirement that you should be able to reconstruct the modification history? It boils down to not deleting (ever), and 'deleted' flag fields and other uglyness. A multi-version relational database would be nice, you actually don't need modification/delete operations in this scenario, just 'updates' that add to the previous status. CouchDB does append operations.

In some cases you may not need a complete SQL database, just key->value relations, but have them scaling very well. http://project-voldemort.com/ states: "It is basically just a big, distributed, persistent, fault-tolerant hash table." Then they state that they provide horizontal scalability, which MySQL doesn't (OTOH, we should really look at Oracle for these things).

And you can't really say MapReduce/Hadoop is pointless.

The biggest problem we face is post-scarcity technologies of abundance wielded by scarcity-obsessed people, because things like biotech, robotech, infotech, nanotech, nucleartech, and so on make terrible, if ironic, weapons. It is ironic to use military robots to fight over economic issues the robots make obsolete. It is ironic to use nuclear missiles built with advanced materials to fight over oil supplies that nuclear power or solar energy make unimportant. It even takes more electricity to produce a gallon of gasoline than an electric car takes to go the same distance, if you really want some deep irony -- we'd use less electricity if we switched to electric cars. So, as an example of post-scarcity thinking, considering that and safety issues, our society would save money and have lower taxes if everyone got a free-to-the user safe luxury electric car.
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/09eb7f4c973349f2?hl=en

From Post-scarcity Princeton:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html
"""
* Some comments on the PU Economics department and related research directions from a post-scarcity perspective

The PU economics department, of course, should be abolished as part of this transition. :-)

OK, that will never happen, so it should be at least "strongly admonished" for past misbehavior. :-(

What misbehavior? Essentially, the PU Economics department has taken part in a global effort to build an economic "psychofrakulator". How does a psychofrakulator work? Consider a paraphrase of something Doc Heller says in the movie Mystery Men:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/quotes

Dr. Heller: It's a psychofrakulator. They used to say it couldn't be built. The equations were so complex that most of the scientists that worked on it wound up in the insane asylum [in Chicago]. ... It creates a cloud of [dollar denomiated] radically-fluctuating free-deviant chaotrons which penetrate the synaptic relays [via television]. It's concatenated with a synchronous transport switch [of values from long term seven generation life-affirming love of caring to short-term immediate profit and immediate gratification suicidal death-affirming love of money] that creates a virtual tributary [back to large corporations]. It's focused onto a biobolic reflector [of the elite controlled mass media] and what happens is that [economic] hallucinations become reality and the [global] brain [and global ecosystem] is literally fried from within.

Or in other words:
"Screwed: What 30 Years of Conservative Economics Feels Like"
http://granby01033.blogspot.com/2008/04/screwed-what-30-years-of-conservative.html
Or:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-autistic_economics
And:
"Obituary: Conservative Economic Policy"
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/10/19/obituary_conservative_economic/

Conservative economic policy is dead. It committed suicide. Its allegiance to market solutions, tax cuts and spending cuts, supply-side nonsense, manipulative and corrosive ties to industry and the rich, have left it wholly unable to cope with the challenges we face. Its terribly limited toolbox simply cannot address the economic insecurities and opportunities generated by today's global, interconnected, polluted, insecure, dyna

If you still want small and fast (and are on Windows) then you should be looking at Kmeleon or Kmeleon CCF ME instead. Both are made using the gecko engine, but are then stripped down to make them both lightning fast.

I would recommend standard Kemelon if you are running an older machine with 128Mb or less of RAM, as its footprint is tiny and it'll run on anything Win95 on up, and CCF ME if you have over 128Mb or need a portable browser as it comes with a nicer UI and built in ABP, as well as playing quite nicely with flash drives. Just unzip and go.

That is one of the nice things about FOSS to me, in that if you don't like a piece of software for one reason or another odds are somebody has made a nice fork to fix the very thing you hate. Just look at how many things are built on top of gecko-Firefox,SeaMonkey,Flock,Songbird,Kmeleon/CCF ME, I think there are a few others but I can't remember them off the top of me head. So happy BDay FF, and as someone who remembers when it was Netscape(suck) VS IE(crap) it sure is nice to have lots of choices. Thanks.

If land animals had the same class of parasites, they would definitely be quarantined and killed, not served to humans. Nobody would tolerate wormy meat, especially with parasites that are harmful to humans.

We tolerate it with fish because "it's different", but we're seeing that, more and more, it's not so different - interspecies barriers get breached as we change the environs, and fish farming definitely changes their environment.

If they're not robots, what can possibly explain this:

Verizon doesn't know Dollars from Cents

Here's the background: I have a Verizon unlimited data plan in the U.S. and recently crossed the border to Canada. Prior to crossing the border I called customer service to find out what rates I'd be paying for voice and data. The data rate I was quoted was ".002 cents per kilobyte." I was surprised at the rate so I confirmed it with the representative I spoke to, and she confirmed it "point zero zero two cents per kilobyte." I asked her to note that in my account.

The stupidity just goes on, and on, and on ...

Yes, calorie restriction *works*, but everyone who promotes it is putting a million issues into the bubble of dietary restriction. Why are some competitive eaters so darn thin?

Sonya Thomas *lost* weight eating tons of food, she's tiny!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas

I'd reference more, but I won't spend too much time on this. Yes, overeating in many cases will cause you to gain weight. Ever noticed why some people can eat 1k Calories per day and never have their weight change, even with lots of exercise? It's because their metabolism slows down to that rate. Diabetics of a certain kind (I think type 1, but I don't recall exactly) can't gain weight no matter what, strictly because they've got little ability with insulin.

You can lose weight restricting calories, but all you do in the long run is put up hormonal and physiological red flags saying that the body is in starvation mode. There have been studies with prison subjects being force fed 10,000 Calories a day of I think mostly fructose. They gained weight, (no wonder, since it was mostly fructose) but many peaked around 4 pounds, even after weeks! This should be a weight gain of 2lbs a day, even if their basal rate burns 3k Calories. Something's up.

Some people can eat themselves over and lose weight without exercise, while feeling a huge desire to exercise but fighting it. Some people gain weight with a few green peas. Why? It's far more complex than I can answer here, or even know myself. I will say that the body, when eating good healthy food, will have it's metabolism "unlocked" at a certain point. For some people, it takes eating a lot. They gain weight initially, have a number of health problems taken away, plateau, and then lose weight super easily. Some need thyroid supplementation. Some people don't gain weight at all. In the end, you feel better, you have tons of energy, and can eat as much butter and mashed potatoes as you've ever seen, without gaining weight. Now, that doesn't work for everyone. Some people will have gluten intolerance, hiatal hernia, and so much in the way. Just, Calories in - Calories out = Weight change is a nice formula for you /.'ers, but it's downright stupid. It may work 70% of the time, but it's not meant to be that way, and it's missing 99.99% of the picture.

The best answers I've seen to this are on http://180degreehealth.blogspot.com/ , where I learned about most of this. I had suspected it for a while myself, but this guy really puts it into perspective.

Thoughts?

This certainly isn't the first Cyber War attack. I've written about some of these attacks in my blog, http://security-risk.blogspot.com/. Here's an extract:

        * In 2004, Thomas C. Reed, an Air Force secretary in the Reagan administration, wrote that the United States had successfully inserted a software Trojan horse into computing equipment that the Soviet Union had bought from Canadian suppliers. Used to control a Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, the doctored software failed, leading to a spectacular explosion in 1982.

        * Crypto AG, a Swiss maker of cryptographic equipment, was the subject of intense international speculation during the 1980s when, after the Reagan administration took diplomatic actions in Iran and Libya, it was widely reported in the European press that the National Security Agency had access to a hardware back door in the company’s encryption machines that made it possible to read electronic messages transmitted by many governments.

        * According to a former federal prosecutor, who declined to be identified because of his involvement in the operation, during the early ’80s the Justice Department, with the assistance of an American intelligence agency, also modified the hardware of a Digital Equipment Corporation computer to ensure that the machine — being shipped through Canada to Russia — would work erratically and could be disabled remotely.

And watch out for evil maids installing malware that subverts your encryption and sends/stores everything unencrypted.
And don't tell me that ain't easy with Linux.
That's right, you can never leave your computer unlocked unattended. Realistic?