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Not short on IPv4 addresses at all.

While we're at it, xtraceroute already seems to know about Japans's secret future plans.

Interesting email, about considering using their employees home IP addresses, most likely to try and get around IP blacklists. http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg02207.html Contains a list of a bunch of employees home IP addresses. Woops. Might see a few of them changing ISPs if they have any sense.

Meet the scumbags in person on 10/18 5:30PM at Harvey Mudd College!

Original Message:

FW: Career Fair Registration Approval Notice

        * To: "Iris Andrade"
        * Subject: FW: Career Fair Registration Approval Notice
        * From: "Ben Grodsky"
        * Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:45:09 -0700
        * Authentication-results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of grodsky@mediadefender.com designates 65.120.42.14 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=grodsky@mediadefender.com
        * Cc: "Rick Moreno" , "Jed Levin" , "Jay Mairs"
        * Delivered-to: mdjaym@gmail.com
        * References:
        * Thread-index: AcfwsBPBwxgG7deORRqxVv0hHhGkjQABT/FC
        * Thread-topic: Career Fair Registration Approval Notice

Iris,

Please calendar the HMC career fair for Jed and Rick for October 18 (4-9 PM).

Rick and Jed -- just keep receipts for any gas/other expenses you incur on this trip. Consider carpooling, if that makes things easier for you. That day obviously you don't need to work your normal shifts, as you'll be commuting and at the fair for the company most of the late afternoon to night.

Thanks,
Ben
From: selina_zerbel@hmc.edu [mailto:selina_zerbel@hmc.edu]
Sent: Thu 06-Sep-07 11:01
To: jobs
Subject: Career Fair Registration Approval Notice

Thank you for registering for the Harvey Mudd College Fall 2007 Career Fair. This is to confirm receipt of your form for Thursday, October 18, 2007. Please make any necessary changes to the information on this form and add the names of representative's no later than October 15th, 2007. The hours are 5:30-8:00 p.m. You do not need a parking permit. There is parking on Foothill Blvd. as well as behind the Linde Activity Center except in student parking spots. The registration table will open at 4:30 p.m. Complimentary coffee/tea/and water will be available. Sincerely, Selina Zerbel

This may be nitpicking, but I was somewhat shocked about the tone of the (paraphrased) emails.

Indeed. Take a look at this one, where they express their opinion of one guy who dared to complain about portscanning by MediaDefender.

In case someone wants to have a look, Here is a on-line mailbox with all the leaked emails

X.509 Certificate Information:
        Version: 3
        Serial Number (hex): 67e7ac06db6e85c50ce3407993fc3a9a
        Issuer: C=US,O=VeriSign\, Inc.,OU=VeriSign Trust Network,OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04,CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA
        Validity:
                Not Before: Sat Apr 28 00:00:00 UTC 2007
                Not After: Mon Apr 28 23:59:59 UTC 2008
        Subject: C=US,ST=California,L=Santa Monica,O=Miivi\, Inc.,OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Java Object Signing,CN=Miivi\, Inc.
        Subject Public Key Algorithm: RSA
                Modulus (bits 1024):
                        a8:13:76:2f:9c:0e:96:a6:e5:c1:45:82:d5:10:bf:dd
                        2d:7f:ad:f1:48:89:ed:b7:31:e4:3d:f1:90:41:ab:fd
                        c7:a0:ef:67:31:f0:ca:38:90:2f:dc:ac:e9:58:6f:aa
                        3f:40:00:fe:51:43:dc:b3:0b:d0:05:2f:c2:96:1c:d9
                        e1:81:6d:71:38:1e:0e:88:64:ad:a4:ae:65:31:14:ca
                        b3:81:b0:c4:b2:4e:ee:b1:5f:da:ac:04:a8:77:f8:c9
                        e6:30:c8:a8:32:0d:35:83:63:3e:a2:b1:90:ac:7b:d0
                        4d:74:19:78:ba:6e:62:03:cd:c7:7c:ce:39:e2:e6:17
                Exponent:
                        01:00:01
        Extensions:
                Basic Constraints (not critical):
                        Certificate Authority (CA): FALSE
                Key Usage (critical):
                        Digital signature.
                CRL Distribution points (not critical):
                        URI: http://csc3-2004-crl.verisign.com/CSC3-2004.crl
--- snipped to avoid lameness filter ---
Other Information:
        MD5 fingerprint:
                92e311a4043e0d9a4aaadd9f200b3a3b
        SHA-1 fingerprint:
                93270ff3869cf4b944ab538dda35731cbc528431
        Public Key Id:
                82713bfad9baa68c8bd7f01ec22aed4a27d5cc3b

Ive Converted the emails into HTML (With attachments)

http://jrwr.hopto.org/

I do not look like the guy in that picture at all. just visit link below and see my portraits page: http://mouyiosmachine.hopto.org:8080/assortedpics/portraits.php Going a bit offtopic... How does the web page design look? Still a work in progress. Wanna get opinions from other people.

Please don't make your project any harder to use than rpm :)
[ http://jengelh.hopto.org/linux/adm_pack.php ]
BTW, why reinvent the wheel? Just port an existing system (that is, libxyz and its xyz gui) over there.

Yes, links from high-ranking traffic increases a site's overall ranking. What I don't know, is if Google only considers the domain name or the complete URL when caculating rankings. And whatever you do, Google just hates when you use certain CMS systems, such as Mambo: my travel blog, which has been online for two years, cannot be found using any of the keywords that appear in the content. Not that I care (it was meant for my family, and it's in French...). For my company site I'm using hand-coded PHP and its ranking is much better.

Anyone who knows anything about distributing warez (or in this case, torrents) should know enough not to do it from a static domain name, much less via HTTP protocol.

Although, I'm equally amazed that archaic/old sites like FOSI are still up, after all these years.

Lack of a single vision is FOSS's greatest asset.

I agree. Saying that FOSS needs a single vision is like saying our economy needs a Central Planning Committee.

Give it time. FOSS will outpace the competition. Eventually corporations will be providing the cutting-edge apps on top of a massive base of FOSS, because centrally-managed software projects, much like economies, cannot scale effectively beyond a certain point.

Here's a more in-depth treatment of this line of thinking: http://group18.hopto.org/?p=51

FTFA:
And though Microsoft is slow to adopt the community model of development, they are headed for it, Cunningham said.

I was surprised at this, given how much MS has attacked the open-source movement in the past. After all, OSS is communism, right?

But then I realized that "the community model of development" doesn't necessarily mean open-source, it just implies a certain amount of feedback from the "community", whatever that is, to the project's decision-makers.

Everyone involved in a project within MS already has access to at least part of the source code, so it may just be a different way of managing a project in which the developers guide the process more than in the past, or it could be that they will foster development by the public, but they retain all rights to the source code, and you have to sign a NDA before you get to see it.

That way they get to maintain their position on OSS, and take reap some of the benefits of an open development process

mac torrent: http://freeworld.hopto.org/phpBB/download.php/52/a msn-0-95-final.dmg.torrent
windows torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3424441 Somebody please post linux torrents

Found a link to the Mac version torrent.

Just for completeness, I found it on this topic.

I've been working on something similar for some time, without resorting to any browser specific objects like the CANVAS tag.

mine does 3d just like how the characters in Wolf3D worked (not the walls). You put mine and his together...

http://battletech.hopto.org/mechproject/game.html

it fish-eyes badly, doesn't have collision detection yet, and a bunch of other things... but the math is way faster. Since his is raycasting, the use of CANVAS really shouldn't be neccessary, just position images across the screen and scale them horizontally, then it would have textures.

Oh, no! I cannot resist pointing out an article I have recently written: Sets and Such.

Look at section 8, "The Foundations of Numbers", to see why 1 + 1 = 2 :-D Enjoy!

And yet another perfect exchange. The ending has my sides hurting. I can see I will be spending quite a bit of time reading these.

Option 2)

And if you are really lucky (and spammed), team up two telemarketers with each other, just as we saw with skype here [hopto.org].


That is hysterical!!! You should read this exchange between two unsuspecting men. They goes go so far as to arrange a date with each other. I would love to have seen the looks on their faces when they finally figured out their dream girl isn't a girl at all. Comedy gold!!

Just feed Eliza some random input from an irc channel and pipe its output into ATT&T TTS system and then into the phone for the telemarketer.

Option 2)

And if you are really lucky (and spammed), team up two telemarketers with each other, just as we saw with skype here.

A profile is put up with a girl's name and picture, and put in "Skype me" mode. Within minutes some seedy guy will invariably try calling/chatting, and there's a little program I made running the whole time which will partner up people 2 at a time, and send messages from the first person to the second, & vice versa. This way both people think they're talking to a girl, when they find out, well, they're not normally too happy about it... It'll also accept and receive all files sent, and if someone tries to call, it'll accept the call with an answerphone message and log what the person says.

Sure, here you go.

HousingMaps
Google/Yahoo Traffic Maps
Traffic Monitor
Cheap Gas
Chicago Crime Map
Earthquake Viewer
Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X

can't wait to see what's next :)))

HousingMaps
Google/Yahoo Traffic Maps
Traffic Monitor
Cheap Gas
Chicago Crime Map
Earthquake Viewer
Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X

can't wait to see what's next :)))

How about...

HousingMaps: Craigslist apartment listings plotted on Google Maps.
Found City: A community-generated map of interesting places in New York City.
Google Sightseeing: A blog that shows "the best tourist spots in the world via Google Maps' satellite imagery."
Cheap Gas: Find cheap gas prices, powered by gasbuddy and Google Maps.
GoogleTraffic:

Think of the advertising revenue that these sites are getting, and that they are the first sites that are taking advantage of this technology. Real-estate agents can give you a map of all the open houses with locations that could be given to clients. Gas prices? Well, you could map out pricing on your website with all your station locations with current prices. Your imagination is the only limitation...

"veer stuuck!"

That was cool but this is better:

http://headphet.hopto.org/index.shtml

Look at this article... http://mikz.hopto.org/mikz.php

Look at this article... http://mikz.hopto.org/mikz.php

I've made those changes. I couldn't find the "counting numbers" bit. Hmm. The divisors bit was mainly in the "What" section I see - I must have forgotten to change those when I changed the rest.

Anyway, I've credited you as pilkul on my maths page, http://jax.hopto.org/maths/. Is that what you would like to be known as?

Thank you again for taking the time to read this.

Not really anything to do with this specifically, but this story does have something to do with primes so I will bring it up. I wrote something about prime numbers which might interest a few Slashdot readers.

Prime Numbers

On pdf form for a limited time...
pdf of the above doc

And no single sign on system? What like? M$ passport? You're asking everyone to trust in that, and everyone is saying no, maybe its something people don't want, you know, a monopoly.

What I know about servers is little, and linux even less, but i tried M$ server 2003 as I thought it would be easier for me to set up, well yes true, keeping it up however was pointless, a linux box however is much nicer, I don't know anything in linux (I struggle to remember how to change the root password at times) but KDE suffices for a simple webserver and doesn't nearly explode every 5 mins as it auto updates its self with virii or crashes due to dodgy CGI support or similar.

The other key part of social categorization is that there is a *feedback loop* based on tag popularity that reinforces common tags - the more people who use a tag, the more prominence it gets in the system, encouraging people to use the common term. Flickr [flickr.com] and 43things [43things.com] use bigger type to show tag popularity.

You can't prove causation in an indirect experiment, however, you'd be reasonable sure that Sun causes sunburn after experiencing the blisters. In real life we make causal inferences all the time without being able to "prove" them, and science does too.

Here's what Stephen Hawking had to say about it:

"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory"

So the relevant question is not whether they prove causation, but whether they support it. Whether or not observation supports a theory is a subjective judgement. Seeing the people sunburned after being in the Sun doesn't prove that Sun causes sunburn, but it supports the notion.

Yaroslav
Artificial Intelligence in Python http://yaroslav.hopto.org/pubwiki/index.php/ai-pyt hon

I've "mistankely" hit a HD with a big hammer.

One I got the hammer it realy started to look like a big nail. ;-)

As a well known figure in local politics in the Maine region, I am posting this anonymously. But I will still register my protest as the casual eroding of personal freedoms by the Bush administration.
As this site clearly shows, there are not only several breaches of basic civil liberties being planned as an extention to this, but there have been many conclusive links between Microsoft and the US establishment regarding the possible DRM applications of biometric data, especially involving the development of Palladium.
If you wish to petition your local senetor about this disgrace, you can find contact details for your representatives in any and all of the 50 states here.

Many consider the idea to be a nuisance at best, dangerous at worst.
One was even reported as saying "wireless communication is the tool of Lucifer"

Read all about it here

Another good review can be found here

site has been slashdotted, here is a working mirror

resizing frames often left artefacts on the image

I found no way to line up all these popup windows in a sane way [..] with a lot of kludges and work involved, tho.

-- GIMP
winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
target = "gimp-tools",
}

winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
role = "gimp-startup",
target = "gimp-image",
}

winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
role = "gimp-image-window",
target = "gimp-image",
}

winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
role = "gimp-message",
target = "gimp-image",
}

winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
role = "gimp-toolbox",
target = "gimp-main",
}

winprop {
class = "Gimp-1.3",
role = "progress",
target = "gimp-main",
}
-- /GIMP

Or get a WM without such silly things at all. Best way to run the Gimp, but YMMV.

Actualy Ion can be the cure for the too-many-windows-are-poping-up problem, Gimp work much better in Ion with a few kludges than in a conventional WM. This only works when the dialogs and other windows that tend to pop up don't vary too much in their size. For anything else there is FloatWS.

There are good media players out there, you just need to know what to look for and where.

Media Player Classic (MPC) is a shining example of a solid, simple player with a good feature set.

Since you're probably interested in being able to play most video formats, you'll want to download Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative to save you the hassle of installing the invasive Quicktime and Real players. Both QT and Real alternative are codecs rather than full blown players, and allow you to view their respective video formats in MPC.

Top it off with the DivX and XviD codecs, and you should be able to play pretty much anything under the sun with the exception of DVDs.

Unfortunatly I don't know of a free codec that can play DVDs, thanks to the RIAA's work on DeCSS. If you have a registered DVD decoder package, you'll probably be able to use MPC with it's supplied codec.

You can now play all your videos in a single place without sacraficing your privacy.

I hope that helps.

Try IP-Cop, This is a GPLed fork of Smoothwall, fully featured, extremely small footprint. If you install the RPM version, then you can add libs and programs onto the install. Checking out the Forums shows quite a number of addons, mods etc. that can be installed to give more flexability (edonkey/MTA/ftp servers/samba/squid/proxies/filters/additional ID) etc.)

That's got to be some spin -- An anonymous reader points to Eric Hellweg's Tech Investor on CNN, which suggests that the backlash which triggered Intuit's copy-protection reversal may have cost the company $100 million.

Can I use my Go Phone there?
An anonymous reader writes ""In a follow-up to the Slashdot article 'CDMA vs GSM in Post-war Iraq,' The Reg has a story about how MCI has won the contract to rebuild the mobile phone system with GSM. This is a good thing for the people of Iraq that GSM is being used, GSM is the world standard and several U.S. companies (AT&T for one) are switching to GSM."

Adding Money to Insult.
Neophytus writes "Remember the 'Star Wars Kid' that waxy.org found a couple of weeks ago? Well after over a million downloads the guy has been found. His name is Ghyslain, a 15-year-old tenth grader living in Quebec. Jish contacted him and got a brief, but interesting, interview."

No unlimited copy privileges in jail.
the-dude-man writes "As reported here A 19-year-old pleaded guilty to costing DirectTV for leaking information about the secrets of DirectTV's most advanced anti-piracy technology to hacker websites. As part of the plea deal, Serebryany admitted to copying and distributing 800 megabytes of scanned documents from DirecTV, costing the company $68,000 in investigatory costs. Both sides stipulated to sentencing factors that carry six months to a year in prison under federal guidelines -- assuming no prior convictions. The sentencing court can depart from the guidelines only if the judge finds that the proposed sentence doesn't adequately reflect the facts of the case. According to court records affidavit, Serebryany's adventures began when he found himself with access to some of DirecTV's most coveted technological secrets while working for his uncle at a document imaging company at the office of a Los Angeles law firm, Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue. The firm was representing the satellite TV company in a lawsuit against NDS, the makers of the smart cards DirecTV uses to control access to its signal."

For every 11 discontented customers, there's one of these happy oddballs!
RedWingsSuck writes "A few weeks ago, I asked /. users what they thought about the

I'm sorry to say that I've yet to find a really satisfactory and impartial comparison, much less, one that is up to date. I've had to do all of my own testing to figure out what settings do, and how codecs compare. Mainly xvid, divx4/5, sbc, and ffvfw. As I stated earlier, I've found xvid in it's latest incarnations(Koepi and Umaniac's versions are easy to find, and work great, in my experience) are the best, and the doom9 xvid forum is a great place to give feedback to, and get information from, the creators of this robust and customizeable codec.

This is probably the closest thing I could find to an impartial comparison, displaying unpostprocessed, and postprocessed images from many different codecs. Unfortunately, when I tried the link, it didn't respond, hopefully it will be back up.

Hope it helps.

51. Prior to this time, IBM had not developed any expertise to run UNIX on an Intel chip and instead was confined to its Power PC chip.