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I am aware of such a workaround, but it does not refute my argument, it is simply a special case - "the Russian Federation has friendlier^ citizenship procedures for one who was born on the territory of the Soviet Union". At that point you become Russian, and .ru is your new home.

^http://www.newsru.com/russia/17oct2003/grazhdanstvorf.html

* I've heard it in various discussions, but found no official document that formally describes the procedure. In fact, if I dig around, I find out that theory is different from practice:
http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2007/06/11/20070611140011877.html
http://www.ppl.nnov.ru/?doc=956

I don't know whether this is the norm, or the cases above are just exceptions. Perhaps this is different from country to country (and you are a resident of a state which gets special treatment when it comes to such matters).

The second point is that the 'hack' you described does not resolve the problem entirely.
Some people don't need Russian citizenship. Why would I need it if I was born in Uzbekistan, and then moved to Kazakhstan? (make it Ukraine -> Moldova, or vice-versa; or pick any other couple)

IANAL

everybody switch to lynx.

The only safety is vigilence

KFG

Many VoIP phones, in particular 802.11b/g handsets, have serious software vulnerabilities out-of-the-box ranging from hardcoded credentials, remote debugging access left in from development, vulnerable applications (like embedded webservers), and other issues. My personal research and evaluations on these VoIP wifi phones have documented several of these vulnerabilities across multiple vendors' phones, take a look here: http://www.security.nnov.ru/source12976.html Crypto is a start, but if attackers can simply telnet to a open port on the phone and conduct low-level debugging, make calls, etc...well, that's a problem. Thanks, Shawn Merdinger, Independent Security Researcher

it's the heat caused by the fission. A meltdown is dangerous because it generates heat, and if the heat comes in contact with stuff that burns, it makes fire, smoke, explosions & spreads radiation.

Water (esp. in oceanic quantities), prevents the heat from building up (we're also talking about a small reactor with a small core in this case). If the core was well above the water, then you might get a steam explosion when it hits. However, in this case, the core is just above the bottom of the ship.

Regarding the waste issue, it seems a real stinky fish to me, if there is human civilization in 10,000 years, even if the rate of technological advance slows down dramatically, it seems to me it will still be less of a problem than the one we're causing by burning all the coal and oil.

I don't think the radioactivity of coal is at all a red herring. Rather it points out that we make choices in our energy policy, and blocking modern nuclear plants from being built leads to other, much more destructive* (if less dramatically so) technologies being used.

Coal is a dirty, stupid, primitive way to generate power, and nuclear power is the only current technology with the energy density to replace it.

* between explosions in coal mines, black lung, radiation, mercury, and nitrogen oxides, coal has certainly killed far more people per megawatt year than nuclear.

The $200,000 figure is too good to be true, unless
  these are retired icebreakers (that's what this reactor was designed for.) If they are retired icebreakers, then yeah, these may cost $200,000, but you won't be able to build new ones for that.

The reactor was proposed for a desalinisation project which would generat 1.4m gallons of water per day at a cost of .43 per gallon. How do you reconcile a price of $619,000 per day with $200,000 up front costs? Maybe they learned something from inkjet manufacturers.

Or just get your Cedega fix from some Russkie and be on your way.... http://www.uic.nnov.ru/~gaav10/winex4/

Next?

Pirating?

You mean like this - http://www.uic.nnov.ru/~gaav10/winex4/?

Man... is that guy gonna get screwed by TG or what ;-).

Cowabunga!

Is this guy gonna get hosed by Transgaming or what - http://www.uic.nnov.ru/~gaav10/winex4/

# dig bl.spamcop.net ANY
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> bl.spamcop.net ANY
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45125
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 8

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bl.spamcop.net. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns9.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns7.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns10.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns11.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns6.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns8.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns5.spamcop.net.
bl.spamcop.net. 172800 IN NS blns4.spamcop.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
blns9.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 208.39.222.166
blns7.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 216.234.115.20
blns10.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 206.67.234.112
blns11.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 209.92.188.201
blns6.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 209.198.142.146
blns8.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 66.6.205.130
blns5.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 198.145.240.35
blns4.spamcop.net. 172800 IN A 194.109.6.147

;; Query time: 3617 msec

Just after Blaster started clearing up, Microsoft released MS03-039 which is essentially the SAME vulnerability as was -026. They blew it. They didn't fix the problem with the -026 patch, so admin's now had to re-patch all their machines.

Well, here we go again - only this time the exploit code precedes the MS anouncement and corresponding patch. Yes kids, the hacking underworld has perfected the exploit code for MS03-039 and in doing so uncovered yet another hole in the RPC/DCOM service for which there is NO PATCH AVAILABLE!!! (As of 11 Oct, 2003 0100)

And for those of you who think that this is just FUD... here's the exploit soucre code. Simply compile under Linux, then change your shorts.

Network admins: May I suggest you take your sleeping bag and pillow and put it in your car - theres going to be a lot of late nights at the office coming up.

With the exploit code so freely available, link 1, link 2, I wouldn't be too surprised to see mutations out. It was released nearly a month ago.

I feel kind of irresponsible today. There's a great security related site at http://www.security.nnov.ru/.

In a proper simulation, there is no way out.

But if the simulation runs on Microsoft Windows, we have the way out in more ways than one. In addition to the Unisys/Microsoft ad I just linked to, it's possible to escape Windows protection through shatter exploits.

I found a program that claims to be the gobble exploit for mpg123 at http://www.security.nnov.ru/files/jinglebellz.c

Rob Malda ASCDC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Here.

Here.

Here.

Rob Malda ASCDC Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Here.

Here.

Here.

"It was reported in vuln-dev list on May, 20 2000 by SMILER in same time with SMTP buffer overflow in Lotus. I wonder why it's not patched yet."

There is a note to that effect on www.security.nnov.ru.

It's two years since the report, so one might expect a fix in Lotus any time now.