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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/522c43281d7bde218 5d2d7a523fdf2cf/index.html
http://www.billablog.com.nyud.net:8090/archives/18

Site was sluggish and can't remember if we've ever slashdotted NASA before :)

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and what the hell Torrent Too

Site was sluggish and can't remember if we've ever slashdotted NASA before :)

Long
Short

and what the hell Torrent Too

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Hmm... I'm really starting to like Coral.

I figured it out. Coral catch of the 5 Min. Real video

For a better discription, especially for newbies watch This . I cannot figure out how to Coral catch the video so try to only watch the 1 min version to save their server.

This news was also reported in the Reading Eagle/Reading Times.

In that article, it was said that the students were accessing porn sites, and HAD infact hacked the administrative network.

However, living in this area, I feel it necessary to point out that the papers around here can't handle technical articles, and and usually get the facts wrong. For all we know, they got the admin pass, and disabled the proxy (which was likely the n2h2 Bess Proxy), and all of this is being blown out of proportion.
Once more facts become clear, maybe we'll learn why the rest of the 80-100 students weren't charged.

I attended and worked IT for Conrad Weiser Area School District which is about 20 minutes away from Kutztown, where we had the BCIU come in to do a lot of work on machines. The BCIU is clueless, and security is their lowest priority. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the BCIU worked with Kutztown High to setup this network, making it all the easier for these kids.
Also, here are the nyud mirrors of the links:
FAQ
Kutztown Area Patriot Article
Laptop Initiative

This news was also reported in the Reading Eagle/Reading Times.

In that article, it was said that the students were accessing porn sites, and HAD infact hacked the administrative network.

However, living in this area, I feel it necessary to point out that the papers around here can't handle technical articles, and and usually get the facts wrong. For all we know, they got the admin pass, and disabled the proxy (which was likely the n2h2 Bess Proxy), and all of this is being blown out of proportion.
Once more facts become clear, maybe we'll learn why the rest of the 80-100 students weren't charged.

I attended and worked IT for Conrad Weiser Area School District which is about 20 minutes away from Kutztown, where we had the BCIU come in to do a lot of work on machines. The BCIU is clueless, and security is their lowest priority. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the BCIU worked with Kutztown High to setup this network, making it all the easier for these kids.
Also, here are the nyud mirrors of the links:
FAQ
Kutztown Area Patriot Article
Laptop Initiative

This news was also reported in the Reading Eagle/Reading Times.

In that article, it was said that the students were accessing porn sites, and HAD infact hacked the administrative network.

However, living in this area, I feel it necessary to point out that the papers around here can't handle technical articles, and and usually get the facts wrong. For all we know, they got the admin pass, and disabled the proxy (which was likely the n2h2 Bess Proxy), and all of this is being blown out of proportion.
Once more facts become clear, maybe we'll learn why the rest of the 80-100 students weren't charged.

I attended and worked IT for Conrad Weiser Area School District which is about 20 minutes away from Kutztown, where we had the BCIU come in to do a lot of work on machines. The BCIU is clueless, and security is their lowest priority. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the BCIU worked with Kutztown High to setup this network, making it all the easier for these kids.
Also, here are the nyud mirrors of the links:
FAQ
Kutztown Area Patriot Article
Laptop Initiative

Yes, I waited through the painful hour of downloading through coral so others could have it faster :)

http://www.nytimes.com.nyud.net:8090/auth/login?US ERID=loser1234&PASSWORD=loser123&URI=http://www.ny times.com/2005/06/24/technology/24zombie.html

Uncheck "remember me", press login.

Here's the Coral cache of the PDF, got just in time ;) :

http://www.bzpower.com.nyud.net:8090/Imaging/stori es/brickjournal1.pdf

Another excellent pre-made filter is Filterset.G . It aims to be quite complete while avoiding false positives. I've been using it for the past couple months, and can't recall the last time I noticed an ad.

http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/

Try this site for a very comprehensive (and frequently updated) adblock filterset. I haven't seen an ad in ages.

Before you install it, make sure to read the instructions.

Before you install it, make sure to read the instructions.

Just FYI, he mentioned in the +what_happened.txt file in the directory you linked to that he's having bandwidth issues an would like everyone to use the cached link at http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/ especially when linking from high bandwidth sites.

Just FYI, he mentioned in the +what_happened.txt file in the directory you linked to that he's having bandwidth issues an would like everyone to use the cached link at http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/ especially when linking from high bandwidth sites.

Coral Cached Article

Pentagon Creating Student Database
Recruiting Tool For Military Raises Privacy Concerns

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 23, 2005; A01

The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will include personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.

The data will be managed by BeNow Inc. of Wakefield, Mass., one of many marketing firms that use computers to analyze large amounts of data to target potential customers based on their personal profiles and habits.

"The purpose of the system . . . is to provide a single central facility within the Department of Defense to compile, process and distribute files of individuals who meet age and minimum school requirements for military service," according to the official notice of the program.

Privacy advocates said the plan appeared to be an effort to circumvent laws that restrict the government's right to collect or hold citizen information by turning to private firms to do the work.

Some information on high school students already is given to military recruiters in a separate program under provisions of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. Recruiters have been using the information to contact students at home, angering some parents and school districts around the country.

School systems that fail to provide that information risk losing federal funds, although individual parents or students can withhold information that would be transferred to the military by their districts. John Moriarty, president of the PTA at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, said the issue has "generated a great deal of angst" among many parents participating in an e-mail discussion group.

Under the new system, additional data will be collected from commercial data brokers, state drivers' license records and other sources, including information already held by the military.

"Using multiple sources allows the compilation of a more complete list of eligible candidates to join the military," according to written statements provided by Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke in response to questions. "This program is important because it helps bolster the effectiveness of all the services' recruiting and retention efforts."

The Pentagon's statements added that anyone can "opt out" of the system by providing detailed personal information that will be kept in a separate "suppression file." That file will be matched with the full database regularly to ensure that those who do not wish to be contacted are not, according to the Pentagon.

But privacy advocates said using database marketers for military recruitment is inappropriate.

"We support the U.S. armed forces, and understand that DoD faces serious challenges in recruiting for the military," a coalition of privacy groups wrote to the Pentagon after notice of the program was published in the Federal Register a month ago. "But . . . the collection of this information is not consistent with the Privacy Act, which was passed by Congress to reduce the government's collection of personal information on Americans."

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, West Coast director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the system "an audacious plan to target-market kids, as young as 16, for military solicitation."

He added that collecting Social Security numbers was not only unnecessary but posed a needless risk of identity fraud. Theft of Social Security numbers and other personal in

Please use the Coral CDN: http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/

See, now here is a funny thing.

I use the positively militant set of Adblock rules from here, and as a result I'm barely aware that there are ads on the internet.

But... I happen to be interested in a cheap hosting plan for myself, and the parent poster here has a nice, non-intrusive advertisement as his .sig. I clicked his link, and I'm really considering signing up.

This is how ads should be. I'm glad for google, and people like this guy, who understand the power of plain-text advertizing.

Also, in the spirit of the last two posters: Fuck Double-click. Fuck them in their stupid asses.

What I want is my Aibo controlled by a real brain, even if it is only a cockroach brain (see also, ./). Imagine, a robot that can think for itself! You could make a whole herd of them for your own insect/Aibo colony. As the technology progresses, you can move up to reptiles (gecko, iguana, etc) and finally into mammals (mice, rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, hobos). Soon enough, you'll be able to get your own Hobo Aibo.

Even in the beginning, this has a lot of potential. If we can wire up a cockroach into an Aibo, it might be our next congressbug. Who knows, maybe it could even be our next president. Unfortunately, it probably won't get elected, since it likely can't lie, scheme, cheat, take bribes, and deceive as well as the real thing.

Coral Cache of the link

Looks like the server is groaning already, so here:

http://www.thinksecret.com.nyud.net:8090/news/0506 intelmac.html

I've always fancied doing to The London Monopoly Pub Crawl.

You take the board under one arm and start at the first pub you can find in the Old Kent Road. After a pint you move onto a pub in Whitechapel Road. Pretty standard pub crawl stuff. Maybe a half would have to do though.

Loads of people have given it a go.

http://inhome.rediff.com.nyud.net:8090/money/2005/ jun/21ms.htm

Here's the Coralized link:

http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com.nyud.net:8090/inde x.php/NeoOffice/J_1.1_Announcement#Announcement_.5 Ben.5D

Though, frankly, there's not much there to read.

Greg

There are two problems with the patcher, as far as I can tell. Unfortunately, the less important of the two seems to be the one that gets the most attention.

BitTorrent, like anything else, requires open/forwarded ports in a NAT router for incoming connections. Blizzard (and helpful users) will constantly tell you to open the ports on your router/firewall if you're getting crappy download rates. This in itself is a pain, because the patcher isn't configurable, so you can only setup forwarding for one PC at a time. I'm sure it's faster to download the patch once and copy it to other PCs, but it's still annoying if you choose to download the patch with a different machine this time. Anyway, BT will still work without forwarded ports. However, you can only connect to peers that do have the proper ports forwarded/opened (neither unforwarded peer can accept incoming connections from the other), which limits the number of peers you can actually use. In theory that will hurt your download speed, but in a huge swarm like a WoW patch has, there should be plenty of working peers for you to use.

The problem that I've run into, and it seems like a lot of people are actually having, is that there is no upload control. There was one time where I actually had to use the patcher. It saturated my upload, causing all downloads to come to a halt (including the patch itself). As soon as I used a third party program to throttle the patcher's upload rate by a few KB, my download speed jumped up to over 200KB/s. This is not a BT problem specifically, as I've killed my own downloads with FTP uploads (from my machine as well as other NATed machines). Downloads simply require a bit of upload to operate properly, and BT will saturate your upload to the point of choking your download. I believe this is the problem that most people see, when they post that they've got a good cable connection, a brand new machine, and all the recommended ports forwarded.

Personally, I extract the .torrent from the patcher, and use my already-configured BT client to download the patch. I got the 50MB incremental 1.5.0 patch in 3 minutes during peak downloading times. I then got the 175MB full patch in 15 minutes. I got both patches directly from the Blizzard swarm in half the wait time for one file at Gamespy.

BitTorrent works amazingly well when configured properly. Basically as many people can download as fast as their connection will allow, and there's no server to get overloaded. However, when improperly configured, BT sucks just about as bad as anything can. BT simply requires some configuration, and some of that can't be automated. Unfortunately, the Blizzard patcher seems to compound the problem by not allowing you enough options to properly configure it, even if you do understand what you need to do.

The RvB PSA on teh topic is particularly appropriate, but I can't find a link to it right now.

If you're thinking of what I'm thinking of, it was John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at Penny Arcade, not RvB.

But Google Cache doesn't archive the images, does it?

I recommend Coralizing LiNKS.

http://www.grynx.com.nyud.net:8090/index.php/proje cts/laptop-on-the-wall-walltop/

NBC SUSTAINING Special Series Thursdays 10:30 - 11:00pm
Cold War propaganda concerning uses and threats of Atomic Energy
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Arnold Marquist
MUSIC COMPOSED and CONDUCTED by: Thomas Palouso

what a joke!

try http://impstherelentless.com.nyud.net:8090/tek9.as p?pg=chapter1_download

http://students.guildhall.smu.edu.nyud.net:8090/ec lipse/index.html

Coral Cache

http://students.guildhall.smu.edu.nyud.net:8090/ec lipse/index.html

Damn,That's evil at it's finest!The empire needs evil talent!--http://www.stardestroyer.net.nyud.net:809 0/Empire/

use coral cache.

http://www.ghiapet.homeip.net.nyud.net:8090/~jowen s/AuroraTemp/

MirrorDot: http://mirrordot.org/stories/b00dd63c5d96524552391 9b313b38ee2/index.html
Coral Cache: http://news.com.com.nyud.net:8090/Microsoft+meets+ the+hackers/2009-1002_3-5747813.html?tag=nefd.lede

Why do you need to guess what it's about when it's all there in the paper linked to by the article? I've skimmed it, gotten the gist of it, and I think their technique is quite clever. And the paper seems to give full details, so anyone can implement it.

Basically, similar coding schemes make scheduling of data in a swarm easier (so there's no choking/unchoking a la BitTorrent, data just flows) and minimize the risk of a file piece being owned by only one peer (if he leaves, downloading is over). These encoding schemes, through linear combinations of pieces using XOR, combat this (I'm generalizing here). The most attractive, I think, are Rateless and Raptor codes, which have similar performance. (Incidentally, the former was developed by Petar Maymounkov, who was actually one of the inventors of Kademlia.)

Anyway, a few months ago I read the Rateless paper, and thought "Gee, I should code this and release it under the GPL... It would be great for P2P apps!" But soon after I finished its implementation, I discovered that all the ideas authored in the Rateless paper were actually covered by patents of Digital Fountain, meaning that Petar's company, Rateless, had to develop a different, proprietary coding mechanism that is outside the patents of DF, and I can't release my code!

So, getting back to my original point, the paper says, "Network coding can be seen as an extension or generalization of the Digital Fountain approach since both the server and the end-system nodes perform information encoding." Meaning that it might not be covered by DF's patents, and thus should be welcomed by the P2P community, and not immediately disregarded blindly by prejudice. I mean, if it's a 20% improvement, why not give it a chance, huh?

- shadowmatter

Connect info

Wikipedia article

Come join anoNet / MetaNET and you can trade files the old fashioned way -- ftp without the worry of corporations monitoring you.

It doesn't take a network engineer to setup or understand how you are anonymous. And it doesn't suffer the speed problems of freenet.

--PEACE!

http://www.masswerk.at.nyud.net:8090/jsuix/

And speaking of the rise and fall of blogs...

Power has been removed from the site and will be alive for about 2.2 more seconds:
http://www.mintruth.com.nyud.net:8090/blog/index.p hp?p=218

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca.nyud.net:8090/~gmilbur n/ac/

Will someone edit the submission to replace the URL, please? Sheesh.

http://homepage.mac.com.nyud.net:8090/davecalhoun/ PhotoAlbum99.html

http://blogs.starwars.com.nyud.net:8090/ghent/15

because its a blog i thought a coral link might be useful incase of /.'ing

http://www.cits.rub.de.nyud.net:8090/MD5Collisions /

Err, wow.

AND the cached link: the cached link

If you remember from your history class, Pearl Harbor was in direct responce to the United States economic and political pressures, which were at the time, quite a misperception.

The increasing diplomatic confrontations and economic sanctions against Japan by the United States and others, compounded by Japan's undeclared war in China and the weakening of European control in Asian colonies, precipitated the war in the Pacific.

You can find this information here: http://www.mindef.gov.sg.nyud.net:8090/safti/point er/back/journals/2000/Vol26_1/5.htm and search on google for more information. Don't mistakenly call 9/11/01 anything similar to Pearl Harbor. We didn't sanction the terrorists or put any political pressure on them, but the we did to the Japanese. The terrorists or muslim extremists, or whatever you want to call them, were NOT provoked. They simply call us heathans, infidels and say we've been interfering for generations.

We have, like other countries. But you don't see those places being attacked with their own airplanes now do you?

On first blush, this seems like a "look at me!" article. But I think the author does bring up some good points on methodologies used in fighting spam on a large scale. However, one thing that isn't emphasized is how little deliverable email he gets. It looks like it averages 5-10 messages per hour.

So the next question is, how would his techniques scale to a domain that processes 3.5 million emails per day and rejects 0.25-3.0 million spam emails per day. Plus, to reduce the risk of false positives, much of the spam is actually delivered to users. All delivered email has a spam score added to the email headers for the individual user to decide their threshold for filtering.

For those of you out there who are IT for domains that handle millions of emails per day, how do you handle spam? How many servers and how much bandwidth does it require?

If you're curious, I get 100 emails per day delivered and 78.2% of that is spam. Unfortunately, I've found that I can't rely on the spam score added to the headers by the aforementioned domain. My filter (k9, Bayesian) currently has a false negative rate of 0.49% and false positive rate of 0.00%. Yeah, that means I see a single piece of spam every two days on average. In reality, I'll usually get a surge of spam where on a single day I might get two or three pieces of spam, followed by a week of nothing once the filter has adapted.

For protection on the net, especially for usenet and web forms, I use disposable email addresses (ie: spamgourmet, mailinator).