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"It was drowned 300 million years ago in an earthquake, its discoverers speculate" They only just found this thing and they're giving it's life story. In other news: Archaeologists found a small piece of pottery near the site, they believe it to have been a pre-historic settlement. They have managed to reconstruct their entire society.... here's an artists impression. http://www.speedygrl.com/Racer/wallpaper/flintston es.jpg

how do I enroll at www.root.edu in order to graduate and get an account there? As a self professed geek I think I would stand to make more money, and look pimped out when I'm interviewed at at Fortune 500 co leading to a billion (rips Austin Powers) ... million dollar salary.

SpeedyGrl

Complete List of Windows 95 Error Messages

WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger
WinErr: 002 No Error - Yet
WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
WinErr: 004 Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong
WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted - System confused
WinErr: 006 Malicious error - Desqview found on drive
WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened
WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB
WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!
WinErr: 00D Window closed - Do not look outside
WinErr: 00E Window open - Do not look inside
WinErr: 00F Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened
WinErr: 010 Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
WinErr: 013 Unexpected error - Huh ?
WinErr: 014 Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
WinErr: 018 Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.
WinErr: 019 User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!
WinErr: 01A Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your software. We are terribly sorry.
WinErr: 01B Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will get a penalty for that.
WinErr: 01C Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.
WinErr: 01D System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.
WinErr: 01E Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
WinErr: 020 Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost.
WinErr: 042 Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed and the virus will be activated again.
WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.
WinErr: 103 Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
WinErr: 678 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game?
WinErr: 683 Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the system to complete boot procedure.
WinErr: 625 Working Error - The system has been working perfectly for the past ten minutes
WinErr: 902 Screen Error - The system is working perfectly, I'm not lying, your monitor is wrong
WinErr: 72a Crucial Halt - Hang on, WHAT was that?
WinErr: 72b Memory Error - What? Tell me again.
WinErr: 39c Disk Error in drive a: - Although your disk is in perfect condition (I just formatted it), I don't like it any more
WinErr: 983 Hard Disk Error - The files on the hard disk were neatly arranged and fully optimised, so I had to mess them up and put a couple of hundred .TMP files all over the place
WinErr: 294 BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or your computer gets screwed
Winerr: 294b BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or I'll show your wife the JPG's you just downloaded
vroom vroom

Analogies You Probably Won't Find in Great Literature:

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

The man fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

George Bush was like Albert Einstein at this stage

ereh kcilc

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

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

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

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

Speedy's not a clone

YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY INVADED

Ok so I wouldn't use AOL if they paid me to, but one has to be concerned, especially if they're an AOL user and by chance reading here. Users are supposed to have a right to privacy, judging by this article the interviewed person should be sued for violating someone's privacy rights while hiding under TOS bs. Surely I can see he states he is doing his "job" but how much of his "job" would be to post about older women and their cats. I would not be upset if I heard about AOL suing this moron for NDA based stuff.

Sure you can moderate this down and troll it to a -3 wouldn't matter, the facts remain, I'm sure even the typical user would expect to have some form of privacy when using their ISP.

Thanks to $INSERT_DIETY_HERE for PGP, stunnel, SSL, PPTP, Outguess

stor elak javel

You should read the article... Think about the CA business really good for a second.

CA sells certificates to ensure your data is encrypted between client and server. You, yourself as a vendor can create your own certificate which costs nothing. Now... do you know entirely that the CA company is entirely secure, simply because they claim to be?

Things to think about:
Who gave the right to these companies to issue certificates, their is no governing entity to monitor these companies security policies. Are their employees trustworthy, is their network trustworthy, whats the difference between seeing a "Trust-E" certificate and "Vendor Company" certificate?

Most people aren't really keen on whats going on between SSL on the client and server side, and when was the last time those who did know check the validity of a cert or the company that issued it?

So you mean to tell me you would dish out a couple of grand because a company "says its so and xxx certificate is the definitive line on secure services?"

No thank you I would rather create, monitor, and control our own certs in house, and ensure that our information is to be used by our company solely.

who's that girl?

Certificates provide an attractive business model. They cost almost nothing to make, and if you can convince someone to buy a certificate each year for $5, that times the population of the Internet is a big yearly income. If you can convince someone to purchase a private CA and pay you a fee for every certificate he issues, you're also in good shape. It's no wonder so many companies are trying to cash in on this potential market. With that much money at stake, it is also no wonder that almost all the literature and lobbying on the subject is produced by PKI vendors. And this literature leaves some pretty basic questions unanswered: What good are certificates anyway? Are they secure? For what? In this essay, we hope to explore some of those questions.

CHILDREN UNDER 13. Please note that the ICQ API as well as the ICQ service, Software, network, system, Web site, servers, various directories and listings, various message and news boards, tools, information and databases, are NOT FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE. If it comes to ICQ Inc.'s attention through reliable means that a registered user is a child under 13 years of age, ICQ Inc. will cancel that user's account.

If you are not a citizen of the USA, then the laws of the State of Israel, excluding its conflicts-of-law rules, shall govern this Agreement.

I'm sure this might affect the actor's union one day, but News.com is reporting that Lucas is going to have an animated lead CGI character in the next Star Wars movie. As long as they leave out Jar-Jar, I'll enjoy the ride."

1: 3d characters take an extreme amount of time to generate and get right, I used to be in the graphic design field and tinked with some pretty neat programs years back like Strata Pro Studio, Form-Z, etc., and I can remember the little things like hair, motion and overall movements were difficult, and judging byt he strides in today's movies (seeing Final Fantasy commercials too), it'd be hard for a company to get it right and costly.

2: Even with the 3d generated characters, its likely bluescreens and other high tech stuff will be used to assess moves, etc., and someone will have to pose for this, which means someone is getting paid on so the 3d char isn't really free in respects to pay.

3: 3d movies, cartoons, commercials, etc., are extremely costly and time consuming, they'd end up paying more for animation artisits, modelers, renderers, hardware, software, than they'd pay an up and coming actor.

if [ -e bombdropping ];
then
mkdir /jail ; chroot /jail deran9ed
echo "it could happen to you too"
else
for i in `find /somewhere/over/the/rainbow -name deran9ed
do
wget -U spooks www.google.com/query?deran9ed
mv $i /jail
done
fi

German Federal Armed Forces banish Microsoft programs from fear of US secret services the Foreign Office and the German Federal Armed Forces safety gaps want to conclude. Instead of American software on the national computers in the future German programs will operate.

In computers, which are used in sensitive areas, no software from Microsoft is to be used anymore. After realizations of German security authorities the American espionage service NSA has encoded data all relevant source codes of the US firm and can read in such a way. In order to protect secrets, the Ministry of Defense sets Siemens and Telekom therefore on encoding techniques of the domestic companies.

The Foreign Office reset meanwhile its plan to introduce video conferences with its representations abroad. Undersecretary of state Gunter Pleuger experienced with a Telekom presentation in Berlin at the beginning of March that all satellite transmission ways for technical reasons run over the American city Denver in the Federal State Colorado.

Pleuger was too uncertain the detour via the USA. " then we can hold our conferences directly in Langley ", spoettelte a Pleuger coworker. In Langley (Virginia) the American secret service CIA resides.

Imagine, if you will, hundreds of students taking a test in a large classroom. One of them, near the back of the room, perhaps, has a little chat session running on his handheld, allowing his friend who took that test during the previous period to feed him all kinds of useful information. Hmmm.

Coming up with a dozen other ways to cheat on exams using a campus-wide wireless network is left as an exersize for the reader. Coming up with a reliable way to prevent such cheating is a great career move for anyone interested in an IT position with the school.

With the declining ratins of the X-Files within the past 2 years, this may be just a ploy by Fox in order to boost the X-Files ratings via a publicity based case of Fox vs. "X Files Fan Club" or something.

One of the things to keep in mind is any unauthorized used of X Files (copywritten) items such as logo's, graphics, etc., may be in full violation if you don't have the prior consent of the owners. Its sort of like that warning message that comes up when you play a DVD or VHS movie, which we all ignore.

Sure it sounds as petty as all heck, but there has to be a bit more for the reasoning of Fox going after a school based fan club site which is not mentioned anywhere.

SpeedyGrl Files

Outbound requests (URLs, requests for pages, FTP addresses, mail sent, etc.) are sent to the Internet through the OUTBOUND connection (phone line, ISDN, etc.) to the Internet Service Provider (ISP). The results of these requests are then returned to the router (and your network users) via the high-speed satellite link.

Helius Satellite Routers include Virtual Technician (SM) service for remote management. This suite of tools allows Helius or remote support centers to connect to, configure, diagnose, manage and remotely reboot a Helius router.

Even if local network or satellite connections are down, Helius satellite routers can be accessed for reconfiguration or restarting through a dial-in connection.

Helius Satellite Routers can be integrated into any IP environment. They work in any operating system environment including Microsoft NT, Novell NetWare, Apple Macintosh, Unix, Linux, and Solaris.

Helius satellite routers use Caldera's Linux OS kernel and are compatible with all open Linux-based Internet applications and services.

At the moment, there is no direct relationship between us and Sierra. They know that we exist, and we suppose that they still exist by the time you read this, but that's about it. We have asked for SCI specs, but they assured us that they did not have any documentation pertaining SCI available. On the bright side, they haven't tried to sue us, either.

Cost nothing in their own budgets

Create more exposure for their companies

Could create revenue next time around for new games

Open a new market other gaming companies don't have. (Linux, BSD's)

Its a bit odd to see that most gaming companies are still on the MS bandwagon, when significant articles, studies, polls, show that Linux and BSD's have gained ground within the past few years. I'm sure if there were more games available there would be a bigger boom of *nix users.

Anyone from a gaming company here care to comment?

Where in the world is my wife

The way the numbers are generated, you would need the person's password to have a number generated, which means that if you broke into someone's email, pc, etc., to gather information on em, chances are you could figure out their password and then generate the number.

Its a bad idea for credit card companies to go the route of having a user generate a random number based on a password, as history shows us people are simple, and will often rely on choosing simple passwords.

Again, a simple fix for this would be to have the credit card company pre-determine a block of numbers via mail or fax to the person, then afterwards have the person verify them when they intend to use them by phone if possible where caller ID can be used to ensure its the correct person.

Upon verifying the information, the credit card co., can then activate the numbers for use.

Just my two cents.

Where in the world is my wife

CIA director George Tenet said individuals such as Osama bin Laden - the man alleged to have been behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa - are using the internet to cloak communications within their organisations. "You recruit people on internet sites and you use encryption," Tenet said. "You move your operational planning and judgements over internet sites' use of encryption. You raise money."

Bin Laden inspires particular alarm in the US. National Security Agency chief Mike Hayden says his own organisation is "behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution", which bin Laden is able to exploit. Hayden blamed this gap for the US's failure to prevent the 1998 embassy attacks, which killed 224 people.

Newer Stealth Arrangements

Never See Anything

Next Superpower Agency

New Snooping Applications

Nothing's Secret Anymore

while($information =~ /[a-z]['")]*[.!?]+['")]*\s/g) {
$conspiracy++;
}

print "Your $information is filled with $conspiracy theories\n";

Where in the world is SpeedyGrl

This amazing piece of technology, which I tested while huddled against the elements at a train station in New Jersey, is made largely of paper.

As a result, it's incredibly cheap. You'll be able to buy one for maybe 10 bucks, and it will come with 60 minutes of air time. When that time runs out, you can throw it away, or just punch a button to add another 60 minutes of time.

Basically, this is a calling card with a telephone built in. And the technological advances it's based on--22 patents have been awarded to its developers--are going to have a dramatic impact on many things we take for granted.

The phone, conceived by Randice-Lisa Altschul, relies on a technique that allows a standard electronic circuit to be literally printed on material using magnetic ink.

she's already got worldwide orders for 100 million of the devices and three factories standing by as soon as she receives approval for the device from the Federal Communications Commission. It's a fairly routine assessment guaranteeing things such as the device won't unduly interfere with other technology.

For instance, these phones are pretty much untraceable, like a call from a pay phone. That's great if you're concerned about privacy but bad if you're worried that bad guys will use stuff such as this to make it harder for law enforcement to catch them.

I'm Slashdotter... (sung to Eminem's I'm Slim Shady) sil@dont.hate.me.because.im.secksi.com

May I have your attention please
may I have your attention please

will the real slash dotter please stand up
I repeat will the real slashdotter please stand up

we're gonna have a problem here

Ya'll act like you never seen a geeky person before
jaws all on the floor
like Richard Stevens just burst in the door
and started writing some sockets books some more
the day's worse then before
throwing computer furniture (ahhhhh)

It's the return of the
"awww wait, no wait, you're kidding,
he didn't code in perl what I think he did - did he?"
and cmndrtaco said...
nothing you idiots, cmndrtaco's dead
he's locked in my basement

feminist women love slashdotter
tricka tricka tricka trolling blotters,
"I'm sick of him, lookit him coding around
using his you know what flippin' to you know who"

"yeah, but he's so brute though"

yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
but no worse than what's goin on in your parents bedroom (eheheheh)
sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose
but cant, but it's cool for hemos to post some dead news

My packets and my scripts, my packets and my scripts
and if I'm lucky, I might ppp over Linux
and that's the message that we deliver to unix kids
and expect them not to know what a x terminal is

of course they're gonna know what x86 is
by the time they hit 4th grade
they got the Linux running on x86, dont they?

we ain't nothing but mammals
well, some of us crash terminals
running xfree with the wrong servers will

but if we can crash x terminals and servers too
then there's no reason to run xfree on that server fool

but if you feel like I feel, I got the antedote
geeks stop writing code, sing the chorus and it goes

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

micheal and hemos don't got a cuss in their posts to get up mod'ed
well I do so fuck them and fuck you too
you think I give a damn, my posting's funny
half of you critics can't even stomach me, calling me a dummy

"but dotter what if your mod'd 5 wouldn't it be weird"
why so you guys can just cry becuase you fear
so you can post some porn of some britner spears
shit Mr. Moderator better switch me chairs

so I can post next to goatse.cx thers nothing worse
and hear trollers argue over who got to post first
little bitch, mod me down to something under 3
"yeah, he's a geek, but I think he's married to Speedy, hee hee"

I should download an audio on MP3
and show the world how you code in Microsoft VB
I'm sick of you little script kiddie boy groups
all you do is annoy me so I have been sent here to destroy you

and there's a million of us just like me
who code like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me, walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing, but not quite me

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

I'm like a head trip to listen to
cause I'm only givin you things
you joke about with your friends inside you livin' room

the only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of ya'll and I aint gotta be false or sugar coated at all

I just get on slashdot and spit it
and whether you like to admit it (riiip)
I just shit it better than 90% of you posters out can
then you wonder how can
geeks eat up these posts' like hostess
it's funny cause at the rate I'm going when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person on slashdot posting shit thats dirty

coding code hardcore religiously posting while I'm working
and I'm working but this fscking code just isn't working
in every single geek theres a slashdotter just lurking
he could be coding rewording code up from from dot com king, spittin out some trollings
or in the parking lot, circling, screamin I dont give a fuck
with his windows down and his system up

so will slashdotter please stand up
and put 1 of those fingers on each hand up
and be proud to be using Plan9 and outta control
and 1 more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

I'm Slahshdotter, yes, I'm the real Dotter
all you other Slashdotter are just posting blotters
so won't the real Slashdotter please stand up - please stand up - please stand up

Right now I'm working on vi vi vi (Bye Bye Bye NSync rip), Mrs Jackson -- Outkast (only to be sung by JessJackson) and some other ones... stay tuned ;)

some sexy chick from back in the days

I wouldnt say its a server concern I would use it as a wake up call to those who don't know much about security.

It wouldn't matter much even if you didn't have anything worthwhile on the machine should it be compromised however it can be leveraged as a gateway to attack other machines which can leave you in a bind if you were unaware that your machine is being used as an attack station.

annoyance psychologically with the rest of the world ... ?

Personally I think if your involved somehow on the net you should take any kind of precaution regarding security regardless if your running any services, using credit cards, etc., the more you know the easier it'd be to avoid having someone do anything to your machine in a case of not knowing or not giving a shit.

SpeedyGrl.com

Personally if I were in your situation I would go ever to a couple of job sites and search for companies willing to sponsor H1 visa's. Pages such as Hotjobs, Dice, Monster, all have options for foreigners to break into corporations via sponsorships.

Speedygrl has a comprehensive listing of job search engines and companies.

I've never dealt with looking for positions in other countries but soon I will be asking the same question when I get close to moving to Sweden, so I'm curious to these answers as well.

Hope that helped a bit.

Redhat spoofed

Long live cryptography!

Most of the issues mentioned involving hidden messages in various formats such as jpg's and audio files are not new news however I feel any information published is good to know from an educational perspective as well as a model for those paranoid types who are concerned with big brother based programs such as Echelon and Carnivore.

Applied Cryptography offered some nice information as did Information Security Management Handbook but for relevance as to the extent of big brother watching, some should go to the NSA's website and read up on their archives including Venona, and the Enigma machines to get a grasp of how deep government goes in to get their information and how you can address minimal measures on your own to avoid having your information snooped.

Last September I also wrote a quickie document on Circumventing Carnivore that mentions some of these methods to pass information off without it getting caught up on a steriod induced governmental sniffer. Sure it may not be Harvard type material but it should create interest to anyone not too familiar with encryption, ciphertext, algorithms, a simple how to.

As for the title disappearing crypto I hardly doubt it is disappearing in fact with all the hype surrounding PKI's, and the media's ever mentioning of `[H]ackers* I can see many more books, FAQ's, and companies rushing to release more information on crypto from all levels be it beginners to mathematicians based levels.

/me bounces to fatbrain to place an order with info obtained from creditcard.com crackers (of course I'm kidding)

Sexy Unix Chick